HARRISON, N.Y.—The No. 63 ranked Columbia Women’s Tennis team will conclude its regular season this weekend when it hosts No. 63 Penn for Senior Night and travels to No. 49 Princeton for a Sunday match. First-serve for the Penn match is at 6:30 p.m. ET, while the Princeton match is scheduled for 1 p.m.
Spectators for the event are limited to those on a pass list. If you would like to attend the match, please contact Columbia Head Coach Ilene Weintraub at ijw2@columbia.edu by 5 p.m. ET on Friday. Westchester LifeTime is located at 1 Westchester Park Drive, West Harrison, N.Y. 10604.
Columbia (12-10 overall, 2-3 Ivy League) will honor its five seniors on Friday night. Those five seniors include Yekaterina Alferova, Akanksha Bhan, Jennifer Kerr, Melissa Sakar and Caitie Sullivan.
In the latest ITATennis national rankings, Columbia comes in this week at No. 56. Columbia, No. 49 Princeton, No. 62 Yale, No. 63 Penn, and No. 73 Harvard are the five Ivy League teams currently listed in the national rankings. Columbia’s Akanksha Bhan is ranked No. 112 in the ITATennis singles ratings.
Seven Lions have over 10 wins including Jennifer Kerr (team-high 16 wins), Melissa Sakar (15 wins), Anna Zhang (14 wins), Bhan and Michelle Xu (12 wins apiece), Julia Haynes (11 wins), and Clarine Lerby (10 wins). Kerr and Amineni have teamed for a team-high nine doubles wins, while Zhang and Winta Tewolde have won six.
Penn enters the weekend with a 14-8 overall record and 4-1 Ivy League record. The Quakers have won four matches in a row and are tied atop the Ivy League standings with Princeton with identical 4-1 records. Amanda Chan and Sabine Rutlauka are ranked as the No. 81 doubles team nationally.
Princeton enters the weekend at 9-10 overall and 4-1 in Ivy League play. Three Tigers are nationally ranked in the ITA singles rankings including Daria Frayman, who is No. 3 nationally in singles with a 21-7 record, Victoria Hu, who is No. 47 in singles with a 21-12 record, and Brianna Shvets, who checks in ranked No. 78 with a 15-10 record. Frayman and Grace Joyce are ranked No. 89 in doubles. The Lions are on a three-match win streak.
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