Men’s Tennis Closes Play at Ivy Plus Tournament

Friday, September 21

Princeton, NJ/New Haven, CT

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Brown University

Ivy Plus

Men’s Tennis Closes Play at Ivy Plus Tournament

9/23/2018 6:28:00 PM | Men's Tennis

Results

PRINCETON, N.J. - The Brown men's tennis team opened the fall season over the weekend, competing at the Ivy Plus Invitational at the Cordish Family Pavilion and Lenz Tennis Center. Part of the tournament was also played at Yale's Cullman-Hetman Tennis Center.

In addition to Brown, Alabama, Buffalo, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Illinois, LSU, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Penn, Princeton, St. John's, Texas, Tulsa, Wisconsin and Yale competed in the invitational.

Several matches were not played on Sunday due to rain in the area which forced matches inside to a limited number of courts. Brown was among the teams that did not play its singles matches on the final day.

Freshman Roger Chou (Austin, Texas) won his first collegiate singles match in the Lenz Division on Friday with a 6-2, 6-1 victory but fell in his second match to the eventual champion, Rafael Wagner of LSU.

Senior Charles Tan (Austin, Texas) (6-2, 6-4, Cordish) and sophomore Ching Lam (Sai Kung, Hong Kong) (6-3, 4-6, 10-8, Nassau) each posted wins in their respective divisions on Saturday.

Sophomore Ben Collier (Darien, Conn.) bounced back from his first set loss and took his match in the Pagoda Division, 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4 on Friday. Junior Peter Litsky (St. Petersburg, Fla.) also took a victory in the opening day, claiming his match 6-2, 6-1. After both falling in their next match, Collier came back to advance to the finals in the Blue Draw with a 6-3, 7-6 (4) victory. Litsky advanced with Collier to the championship match of the draw by default.

Freshman Robert Siniakowicz (West Windsor, N.J.) advanced in the Jadwin Division on Friday after a default. After a narrow second match defeat (7-6 (4), 5-7, 7-6 (5)), Siniakowicz battled to win his Saturday match, 6-1, 2-6, 11-9 and reached the championship match of the Blue Draw.

For doubles play, Litsky and Lam dropped their first match in the Silver Division but came back to win their second, 8-5. The duo won their championship on Sunday, defeating St. John's, 6-4. Siniakowicz and Chou lost their first match in the Gold Division but bounced back in match two, winning 8-6. The team reached the championship match but lost, 6-2.

At Yale, the second site of the tournament, sophomore Teddy van Eck (Rye, N.Y.) and freshman Alan Arocho (Norridge, Ill.) teamed up for an 8-6 win in doubles in their first match before being edged, 8-7 (3) in their second match of the day. Van Eck also posted a 6-3, 6-3 win in singles for the opening day.

Van Eck and Arocho picked up two wins in doubles on Saturday, winning their first match 8-7 (4) and their second, 8-4. Van Eck picked up the lone win in singles for the day, coming back to defeat his opponent 4-6, 6-4, 6-4. He battled in his match on Sunday but ultimately fell, 7-6 (4), 6-2.

The Bears will next host the Brown Invitational Friday, Sept. 28 through Sunday, Sept. 30.