Women's Tennis to Host Brown, Yale This Weekend
4/18/2018 1:52:00 PM | Women's Tennis
Columbia enters weekend matchups with Brown, Yale on three-match home win streak.
NEW YORK—Riding a three-match home win streak, the Columbia women's tennis team concludes its 2017-18 season this weekend when it hosts Brown on Saturday and Yale on Sunday at Dick Savitt Tennis Center. First-serve for both matches is at 1 p.m. ET. Fans can watch a live feed of each court on the Ivy League Digital Network at this link. Match programs are available for Brown and Yale.
Sunday's match marks Senior Day for Columbia's lone senior and team co-captain Adi Milstein. A 2017 All-Ivy League Second Team selection in doubles and ITA Scholar-Athlete award winner, Milstein enters her final weekend as a collegiate tennis player with a 30-31 career singles record and 45-38 career doubles record. This year, she has totaled a 12-6 singles record while playing primarily at No. 6 singles and a 20-10 doubles record with partner Christie Wan. The duo earned a national ranking earlier in the season. Over her four-year career, Milstein has served two years as a team captain (junior and senior years). A political science major who is enrolled at Columbia College, Milstein is a Boca Raton, Fla. native.
Columbia (10-8, 2-3 Ivy League) has won three straight home matches. The Lions are looking to get back to their winning ways after dropping three close Ivy League matches.
On the year, junior Andrea Kevakian leads the Lions with a 21-7 singles record. First-year Jennifer Kerr (19-8) has won six of her last seven matches, sophomore Ali Pollack is 16-10, junior Sarah Hu is 15-13, Milstein is 12-6 and first-year Christie Wan owns a 9-18 record at No. 1 singles. Sophomore Renee Ren (8-3) and first-year Sarah Rahman (7-9) have both contributed in singles. For updated Columbia statistics, click this link.
As of late, the Lions have been strong at doubles. Milstein and Wan are 20-10 overall on the year and previously earned a national ranking. Kerr and Hu have teamed at No. 2 doubles for a 5-4 overall record and Kevakian and Ren are now 8-3 at No. 3 doubles. Kevakian and first-year Paulina Ferrari have seen action at No. 3 doubles in each of the last two matches.
Brown enters its Saturday match with a 10-11 overall and 3-2 Ivy League record. The Bears have claimed three of their last five matches, including a 4-3 loss to Princeton, 5-2 win over Penn and 6-1 win vs. Dartmouth.
Yale enters the final weekend with a 6-16 overall and 0-5 Ivy League record. The Bulldogs play at Cornell on Saturday.
COLUMBIA MATCH NOTES
*Columbia (10-8, 2-3 Ivy League) plays its final two matches this weekend in Brown (Saturday) and Yale (Sunday). Both home matches begin at 1 p.m. The Lions have won three consecutive matches at Dick Savitt Tennis Center.
*Senior Adi Milstein plays her final home match today. A 2017 All-Ivy League Second Team selection in doubles and ITA Scholar-Athlete Award winner, Milstein entered the weekend with a 30-31 career singles record and 45-38 career doubles record. This year, she has totaled a 12-6 singles record and 20-10 doubles record with partner Christie Wan. Congratulations to Adi on a fine four-year collegiate tennis career!
*According to tennisrecruiting.net, Columbia welcomed the nation's No. 10 ranked incoming 2017 recruiting class in September. The four newcomers include first-years Paulina Ferrari, Jennifer Kerr, Sarah Rahman and Christie Wan. All four were ranked among the nation's top-100 players in the 2017 recruiting class: Wan (No. 15), Kerr (No. 20), Ferrari (No. 62) and Rahman (No. 71). It ranks as Columbia's second-highest recruiting class in school history and its third top-25 recruiting class in four years.
*Head Coach Ilene Weintraub, CC '02 is in her 11th season at the helm of the Columbia women's tennis program. The winningest coach in school history with 108 victories, Weintraub guided the Lions to their first Ivy League Championship in 2013, captured two ECAC Championships (2014 and 2016) and has recruited two national top-10 recruiting classes to Columbia (No. 6 in 2015 and No. 10 in 2017). She was named the ITA Northeast Region Coach of the Year in both 2014 and 2016.
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