ITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell men's tennis heads to Philadelphia, PA to compete in the ECAC Indoor Championships at Penn.
The Big Red will travel to Philadelphia, PA from Friday, Feb. 14 through Sunday, February 16 where it will compete in multiple matches in hopes of earning the ECAC Indoor Championship title.
Match opponents and times will be announced later in the week leading up to the event.
LAST TIME OUT: MEN'S TENNIS GOES 2-0 ON SUNDAY AGAINST PURDUE AND QUINNIPIAC
Cornell men's tennis defeated Purdue and Quinnipiac on Sunday afternoon in a double-match day. The Big Red moved to 5-2 overall on the season with the two wins.
CORNELL VS. PURDUE
Singles play proved to be the difference maker for Cornell on Sunday afternoon as the Big Red defeated Purdue 5-2 and moved to 4-2 overall on the season.
The match began with doubles play. Aleksa Krivokapic and Juan David Velasquez opened the day by defeating Rushil Khosla and Eric Verdes 6-2. Maj Premzl and Henrik Villangerthen defeated Radu Papoe and Rodrigo Fernandes 6-3. The final doubles match went unfinished resulting in Purdue earning the doubles play point and going up 1-0 heading into singles play.
Purdue opened the singles play with a victory for Premzl who defeated Aman Sharma 6-1, 6-1 to put the Boilermakers up 2-0. Cornell came back and won the remaining five singles matches to take the win 5-2 over Purdue. Felipe Pinzon defeated Nour Fathalla 6-2, 6-4, Adit Sinha defeated Velasquez 6-4, 6-3, Fernandes defeated Stefan Simeunovic in three sets 6-1, 3-6, 6-0, Papoe defeated Krivokapic in three sets 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 and Nathan Mao defeated Villanger in three sets 6(4)-7, 6-4, 6-3.
CORNELL VS. QUINNIPIAC
The Big Red began by going 2-0 in doubles play. Mao and Sinha defeated Elias Hoxha and Finn Burridge 6-2, Khosla and Verdes defeated Daniel Velek and James Lorenzetti 6-2 and the third match went unfinished earning Cornell the doubles point and a 1-0 lead heading into singles play.
In singles play, Cornell won five of the six matches. Sinha defeated Velek 6-4, 6-2, Mao defeated Carlos Braun-Simo 6-1, 6-2, Pinzon defeated Burridge 6-3, 6-4, Verdes defeated Hoxha 6-1, 6-2, Khosla defeated Lorenzetti 6-2, 6-2 and Maxwell Moadel fell to Alex Yang 1-6, 3-6.
After singles play, the Big Red won the match 6-1
The Big Red are currently on a four-game winning streak and are 5-2 on the season heading into the ECAC Indoor Championships. Cornell will begin ECAC tournament play on Friday, Feb. 14.
