PRINCETON, N.J. — Sophomore Rethin Pranav Senthil Kumar reached the singles quarterfinals of the Ivy League Invitational Automatic Qualifier on Saturday with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Columbia's Shaan Patel at Princeton.

The singles and doubles champions each earn the Ivy League's automatic bid to the ITA Conference Masters Championships, Nov. 5-8 at the Rome Tennis Center in Rome, Ga. The tournament runs through Monday, Oct. 26.

Senthil Kumar, the No. 2 seed, has dropped eight games in four sets at the event. He opened Friday with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Harvard's David Wu. Saturday's win puts him two rounds past his exit at last year's qualifier, where he fell in the round of 32.

Senior Felipe Pinzon fell 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-4 to Penn's third-seeded Shaurya Bharadwaj in the round of 16. After dropping a first-set tiebreak, Pinzon took the second set to force a third. It matches his finish at last year's qualifier, where he also exited in the round of 16.

In the consolation bracket, junior Rushil Khosla fell 6-4, 6-1 to Columbia's Andrew Kotzen. Sophomore Jack Casciato lost 6-1, 6-3 to Columbia's Charlie Valentine.

Pinzon and Casciato lost an 8-7 decision for the second straight day. Brown's Elliot Wasserman and Gautam Venkatraman beat them in the consolation quarterfinals, winning the tiebreak 9-7. Khosla and Senthil Kumar withdrew from their consolation quarterfinal against Harvard's David Wu and Zachary Cohen.

Senthil Kumar faces Penn's Vojtech Vales in the quarterfinals on Sunday, Oct. 25. The match will be streamed on IvyLeague.tv.