Big Green Play Well on Day One of Home Invite

Friday, October 19

Hanover, N.H.

1:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth Invitational

Big Green Play Well on Day One of Home Invite Image

Senior Roko Glasnovic

Photo by: Doug Austin

Big Green Play Well on Day One of Home Invite

10/19/2018 7:48:00 PM | Men's Tennis

By: Charlotte Brackett

HANOVER, N.H. – The Big Green men's tennis team opened play on day one of the two-day Dartmouth Invitational on Friday, welcoming Buffalo, Boston University, Brown, Harvard and Yale to the Boss Tennis Center, winning six of their eight matches.

In singles, freshman Sid Chari defeated Buffalo's Valdemar Holm, 6-2, 6-4 in the A1 flight, while sophomore Casey Ross dropped two close sets to his opponent from BU. In the A2 flight, sophomore John Speicher and senior Roko Glasnovic were both victorious, defeating players from Buffalo and BU.

The Big Green went 2-0 in the remaining two singles flights; sophomore Gilbert Jaeger had a 6-2, 6-3 win over Brown's Teddy Van Eck, and freshman Sacha Pritzker took down Jonah Murphy of Buffalo, 7-6, 6-3.

In doubles action, Speicher paired up with freshman Pierce Widdecombe to take down a duo from Brown, 8-7, while Pritzker and Chari fell to their Buffalo opponents by the same score.

Dartmouth will return to the court for day two on Saturday morning.

Flight A1
Chari (Dartmouth) def. Holm (Buffalo), 6-2, 6-4
Lu (BU) def. Ross (Dartmouth), 7-6, 6-4

Flight A2
Speicher (Dartmouth) def. Frisk (Buffalo), 7-6, 6-4
Glasnovic (Dartmouth) def. Stehling (BU), 6-0, 6-2

Flight B
Jaeger (Dartmouth) def Van Eck (Brown), 6-2, 6-3

Flight C
Pritzker (Dartmouth) def. Murphy (Buffalo), 7-6, 6-3

Flight A Doubles
Speicher/Widdecombe (Dartmouth) def. Tan/Litsky (Brown), 8-7

Flight B Doubles
Johnson/Frisk (Buffalo) def. Pritzker/Chari (Dartmouth), 8-7