Women's Tennis Rolls Columbia to Advance to ECAC Championship

Saturday, February 11

Hanover, N.H.

5 p.m.

Brown University

Columbia

Photo by: Doug Austin

Women's Tennis Rolls Columbia to Advance to ECAC Championship

2/11/2023 9:44:00 PM | Women's Tennis

ECAC Bracket

HANOVER, N.H. – Seventh-seeded Brown women's tennis kept rolling Saturday with a 4-1 victory over sixth-seeded Columbia in the ECAC semifinal round to advance to the championship on Sunday.

The Bears improve to 5-1 on the year, while the Lions drop to 2-4.

Second and third doubles got the job done for the first point of the match. Junior Nora Lee and freshman Vivian Miller took a 6-3 win, while freshman Phoebe Peus and sophomore Hofflander took a 6-2 decision.

"We started out really strong in doubles, setting the tone for the rest of the match," said Head Coach Lucie Schmidhauser. "Lindsey and Phoebe executed so well at line three with Nora and Vivian clinching the doubles point with excellent execution of aggressive doubles play."

Senior Britany Lau (6-3, 6-1), Peus (6-3, 6-4) and junior Ali Benedetto (6-4, 6-1) took convincing wins for the final result of 4-1.

"In singles, Britany came out strong playing with absolute fearlessness to give us a 2-0 lead early into the match. Phoebe competed with great clarity and closed out her singles match with an aggressive all-court game. Ali clinched the match with another gritty and tactically savvy performance, relentlessly coming to the net and putting pressure on her opponent. Columbia is a team that always competes extremely hard and I was happy to see our team stepping up to the challenge of being in charge of their own court and executing their gameplans. It was a true team effort and I'm excited to see how we battle tomorrow."

DOUBLES RESULTS
Ahlstrom/Lau (Brown) vs. Wang/Zhang (CU) 4-4 unfinished
Lee/Miller (Brown) def. Keita/Rimonini (CU) 6-3
Peus/Hofflander (Brown) def. Tewolde/Xu 6-2

SINGLES RESULTS
Britany Lau (Brown) def. Zhang (CU) 6-3, 6-1
Vivian Miller (Brown) vs. Haynes (CU) 7-5, 2-3 unfinished
Phoebe Peus (Brown) def. Rimondini (CU) 6-3, 6-4
Ali Benedetto (Brown) def. Wang (CU) 6-4, 6-1
Tewolde (CU) def. Addison Ahlstrom (Brown) 6-4, 6-3
Olivia Mariotti (Brown) vs. Lerby (CU) 4-6, 3-4 unfinished

UP NEXT
Brown takes on top-seeded Princeton for the ECAC Championship on Sunday at 2 p.m. The Tigers earned their way to the final by defeating No. 8 Dartmouth (4-3) and No. 4 Harvard (4-0).

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