Monday, May 20
Orlando, Fla.
3 p.m.
Columbia University
vs
NCAA Singles & Doubles Championships
Photo by: Greg Bartram
Columbia Trio Readied for NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships
5/19/2019 8:12:00 PM | Men's Tennis
Victor Pham, Jack Lin and William Matheson will compete in Orlando, May 20-25, at the USTA National Campus
ORLANDO, Fla. — Three members of the Columbia men's tennis team are set to compete in the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships in Orlando, Florida this week. The event is set to run from May 20-25 at the USTA National Campus.
Senior Victor Pham and sophomore Jack Lin will take part in the 64-person singles championship, while Lin and senior William Matheson will take on the 32-team doubles field.
Action begins Monday at 3 p.m. ET with No. 22 Lin facing off against Notre Dame's No. 35 Alex Lebedev. The match will mark the second meeting between the pair this season, as the two squared off on Feb. 16 in Chicago in the ITA Indoor Team Championships with Lin winning 6-3, 7-6 (6) at No. 1 singles. Lin owns a 25-8 record in singles this year, while Lebedev is 15-10 on the year.
Pham, ranked No. 37 nationally, will kick off the tournament at 4 p.m. against Georgia Tech's No. 27 Carlos Divar, with the match being nationally broadcast on Tennis Channel. The two met last January at Georgia Tech's 2018 MLK Invitational where Divar earned a 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 victory. Pham went 17-4 in singles in 2019 including a perfect 7-0 mark in Ivy League contests to earn Ivy League Player of the Year honors for the second-straight season. Divar went 14-6 in singles this season playing mainly on the top court to earn First Team All-ACC honors.
The doubles tournament is set to begin Tuesday with No. 30 Matheson/Lin set to take on Tennessee's 6th-ranked Timo Stodder/Preston Touliatos. The match time has not yet been determined. Lin and Matheson won the ITA Northeast Regional doubles title in the fall to claim the No. 1 overall seed in the Fall National Championship. The Columbia duo enters the tournament with a 19-9 record, having earned All-Ivy first team accolades.
Stodder and Touliatos enter the competition with a 5-8 seed, having recorded a 21-7 overall record in 2019.
For the latest on the Columbia men's tennis, follow @ColumbiaMTennis on Twitter and Instagram, and on the web at GoColumbiaLions.com.
Senior Victor Pham and sophomore Jack Lin will take part in the 64-person singles championship, while Lin and senior William Matheson will take on the 32-team doubles field.
Action begins Monday at 3 p.m. ET with No. 22 Lin facing off against Notre Dame's No. 35 Alex Lebedev. The match will mark the second meeting between the pair this season, as the two squared off on Feb. 16 in Chicago in the ITA Indoor Team Championships with Lin winning 6-3, 7-6 (6) at No. 1 singles. Lin owns a 25-8 record in singles this year, while Lebedev is 15-10 on the year.
Pham, ranked No. 37 nationally, will kick off the tournament at 4 p.m. against Georgia Tech's No. 27 Carlos Divar, with the match being nationally broadcast on Tennis Channel. The two met last January at Georgia Tech's 2018 MLK Invitational where Divar earned a 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 victory. Pham went 17-4 in singles in 2019 including a perfect 7-0 mark in Ivy League contests to earn Ivy League Player of the Year honors for the second-straight season. Divar went 14-6 in singles this season playing mainly on the top court to earn First Team All-ACC honors.
The doubles tournament is set to begin Tuesday with No. 30 Matheson/Lin set to take on Tennessee's 6th-ranked Timo Stodder/Preston Touliatos. The match time has not yet been determined. Lin and Matheson won the ITA Northeast Regional doubles title in the fall to claim the No. 1 overall seed in the Fall National Championship. The Columbia duo enters the tournament with a 19-9 record, having earned All-Ivy first team accolades.
Stodder and Touliatos enter the competition with a 5-8 seed, having recorded a 21-7 overall record in 2019.
For the latest on the Columbia men's tennis, follow @ColumbiaMTennis on Twitter and Instagram, and on the web at GoColumbiaLions.com.
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