The Columbia women’s tennis team captured the 2016 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division I Women’s Indoor Tennis Championship on Sunday, knocking off Harvard 4-2 in the final. The Lions had to pull double-duty on Sunday after a power-outage on Saturday night postponed its semifinal match against Dartmouth until Sunday morning. The match resumed with…
The New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) men’s tennis team earned the top spot in the East Coast Conference (ECC) preseason poll. The three-time defending conference champions were named the favorite by the poll of the conference’s coaches. The Bears earned all six first place votes in the polling, and carry a 14-match winning streak…
The St. John’s women’s tennis team won its second straight match to open up 2016, beating Fairfield 7-0 at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Friday afternoon. Playing in its first home match under new head coach Lauren Leo, the Red Storm made quick work of Fairfield. It started by winning all three…
Following its kickoff weekend that saw a number of schools from across the country qualify for the ITA National Team Indoor Championships in February, the Oracle/ITA collegiate rankings have been updated. The Columbia men, having advanced to the nationals, moved up one spot in the rankings from 16th to 15th. Virginia, Oklahoma and TCU continue…
For the second straight year, the Columbia men’s tennis team will play at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Division I National Indoor Championships after the Lions came from behind to beat Stanford 4-3 at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Monday afternoon. Stanford won two of the three doubles matches to claim the doubles…
The Columbia Men’s tennis team defeated 22nd ranked Minnesota 4-0 on Sunday to advance to the ITA Kickoff Weekend championship match on Monday afternoon. The 16th ranked Lions earned the match’s doubles point by winning two of the three doubles contests. In singles, Victor Pham defeated Felix Corwin 6-3, 6-2 at second singles, Mike Vermeer…
The Columbia women’s tennis team headed south to play 66th ranked Maryland as a part of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s (ITA) Kick-Off Weekend, and swept all of the matches, beating the Terrapins 7-0 on Friday. The Lions won two of the three doubles matches to capture the doubles point, and the singles play did its…
To open up the 2016 season, the St. John’s men’s tennis team headed down to Florida for a week-long road trip to take on four different schools from the state, winning three of the four contests to begin its campaign. The Red Storm were in Florida for 12 days, first training at Crandon Park in…
Some of the area’s top players finished off 2015 competing at the USTA National Men’s Open, Women’s Open and Mixed Open Indoor Championships at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. The tournament’s finals were played on New Year’s Eve, as players and spectators closed out 2015 with some high-quality…
Tulane's Dominik Koepfer capped off a brilliantly-played 2015 fall college tennis season in style on Sunday at the 2015 USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships. Competing at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center and in front of a worldwide audience tuning in on ESPN3, Koepfer, the numer three seed in the tourney, tamed hard-hitting Andre Goransson of Cal in straight…