NEW YORK—No. 44 ranked Columbia concludes its season this weekend when it hosts Dartmouth on Saturday and Harvard on Sunday at Dick Savitt Tennis Center. Both matches begin at Noon ET.
 
Columbia (13-4, 2-3 Ivy League) enters the weekend ranked No. 44 in the nation and one of two ranked Ivy League teams. Princeton is the other. Columbia is currently in fifth place in the Ivy League standings. Updated season statistics are located at this link.
 
Sunday's match marks Senior Day and the final home match for 2019 senior co-captains Sarah Hu and Andrea Kevakian.
 
Because of a number of technical issues, Columbia will not be able to provide live video streaming of the women's tennis matches this weekend. While we continue to work toward a solution, the location and physical infrastructure of the Dick Savitt Tennis Center provides significant challenges to configure an alternative streaming service for the remainder of the season.
 
SCOUTING DARTMOUTH
 
Dartmouth enters the final weekend of the regular season with a 3-16 overall dual match record and 0-5 Ivy League record. Chuyang Guan (14-9) and Nina Paripovic (9-13) are the team's top two singles winners.
 
SCOUTING HARVARD
 
With a 16-6 overall record and 4-1 Ivy League record, Harvard enters the following weekend of regular season play in second place in the Ivy League standings. Harvard has won eight of its last nine matches. Jenna Friedel is on an 11-match win streak at No. 2 singles and 14-1 overall in the spring. Irene Lu has also won six straight singles matches.
 
COLUMBIA GAME NOTES
 
*No. 44 ranked Columbia hosts Harvard for its final regular season women's tennis match on Sunday at Dick Savitt Tennis Center. First-serve is at noon.
 
*Prior to Sunday's match, Columbia will honor its two seniors in a Senior Day ceremony: Sarah Hu (Economics major) and Andrea Kevakian (Political Science major).
 
*Columbia's two co-captains have helped guide the Lions to a 43-37 all-time dual match record and an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2016. Hu has accumulated a 38-31 career singles record. This year she is 12-5, including a 4-2 record at No. 6 singles. A two-year team captain, Kevakian owns a 72-33 career singles record, 42-22 dual match record and 30-11 tournament record. She is also 47-37 all-time in doubles competition. This year, she is 14-4 overall and 5-2 at No. 5 singles and previously put together an eight-match win streak. Along with her doubles partner Christie Wan, Kevakian has put together a 14-8 record on the year and earned a berth into the prestigious Riviera ITA All-American Championships.
 
*Seven Lions have won 10 or more singles matches: Akanksha Bhan (18-6), Christie Wan (15-6), Jennifer Kerr (16-12), Andrea Kevakian (14-4), Melissa Sakar (18-9), Yekaterina Alferova (11-7) and Sarah Hu (12-5). In doubles, Bhan and Paulina Ferrari are 14-6, Wan and Kevakian are 14-8 and Kerr and Hu have an 11-5 record. Overall, Columbia is 136-61 in singles matches and 58-31 in doubles matches.
 
*According to tennisrecruiting.net, Columbia welcomed the nation's No. 12 ranked incoming 2018 recruiting class in September. The four newcomers include first-years Melissa Sakar, Akanksha Bhan, Yekaterina Alferova and Caitie Sullivan. All four were ranked among the nation's top-100 players in the 2018 tennisrecruiting.net class: Sakar (No. 18), Bhan (No. 28), Alferova (No. 35) and Sullivan (No. 75).
 
*Head Coach Ilene Weintraub, CC '02 is in her 12th season at the helm of the Columbia women's tennis program. The winningest coach in school history, Weintraub guided the Lions to their first Ivy League Championship in 2013, led the program to a top-40 national ranking in 2016, captured three ECAC Championships (2014, 2016, 2019) and has recruited three national top-15 recruiting classes (No. 6 in 2015, No. 10 in 2017 and No. 12 in 2018) and four national top-20 recruiting classes in the last five years to Columbia. She was named the ITA Northeast Region Coach of the Year in both 2014 and 2016. Weintraub is joined by first-year assistant coach AJ Nelson and volunteer assistant coach Carlos Carrera.