Michigan
Ivy Plus
Brown, Siimar Team to Capture Doubles at Ivy Plus
9/22/2019 9:12:00 PM | Men's Tennis
Site: Princeton, N.J. (Lenz Tennis Center)
Event: Farnsworth-Ivy Plus
Result: No Team Scoring
Next U-M Event: Sat-Sun., Oct. 5-13 -- at ITA All-American Championships (Tulsa, Okla.)
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Harrison Brown and Kristofer Siimar of the University of Michigan men's tennis team won the Forbes Draw doubles title at the Farnsworth-Ivy Plus played this past weekend (Sept. 20-22) at Lenz Tennis Center.
Brown and Siimar teamed up Friday (Sept. 20) to defeat the teams of Denton Ho and Eero Vasa (Cornell), 8-3, and Will Peters and Karl Poling (Princeton), 8-5. On Sunday (Sept. 22), the U-M pair battled to an 8-5 victory over Villhelm Fridell and Valdemar Holm of Buffalo in the final to cap off their weekend.
Brown also had success in singles, as he won his first two matches in the Pagoda Draw before falling to Penn's Aditya Gupta, 7-6(6), 6-3 in the semifinals. Siimar and Ryan Fu each finished the event with two singles wins.
The Wolverines next will travel to Oklahoma in two weeks for the ITA All-American Championships, which will take place Oct. 5-13 at the University of Tulsa.
Singles
Kristofer Siimar (Cordish Draw)
Round of 16 (Sept. 20) -- l. Niraj Komatineni (Brown), 7-5, 6-3
Consolation (Sept. 21) -- l. Nevin Arimilli (Texas), 7-5, 6-3
Consolation (Sept. 21) -- d. Juan Jose Bianchi (SMU), 6-2, 6-2
Consolation (Sept. 22) -- d. Alp Sentay (Penn State), 6-0, 6-4
Ryan Fu (Lenz Draw)
Round of 16 (Sept. 20) -- l. Harsh Parikh (Pennsylvania), 7-5, 6-3
Consolation (Sept. 21) -- d. Gabriel Nemeth (Penn State), 3-6, 7-5, 11-9
Consolation (Sept. 21) -- d. Eero Vasa (Cornell), 7-5, 1-6, 10-1
Consolation (Sept. 22) -- vs. Kevin Zhu (Pennsylvania), walkover for Zhu
Teddy Oosterbaan (Nassau Draw)
Round of 16 (Sept. 20) -- l. Finbar Talcott (William & Mary), 6-1, 6-3
Consolation (Sept. 21) -- l. Roberto Rosales (SMU), 6-4, 6-4
Consolation (Sept. 21) -- l. Carson Gates (Michigan State), 6-2, 7-6(1)
Consolation (Sept. 22) -- vs. Christos Antonopoulos (PSU), walkover for Oosterbaan
Consolation (Sept. 22) -- l. Stephen Madonia (Miami, Fla.), 6-1, 7-5
Harrison Brown (Pagoda Draw)
Round of 16 (Sept. 20) -- d. Matthew Mu (Brown), 6-3, 6-6, retired
Quarterfinals (Sept. 21) -- d. Ryan Cheng (Yale), 7-6(6), 6-4
Semifinals (Sept. 21) -- l. Aditya Gupta (Pennsylvania), 7-6(6), 6-3
Consolation (Sept. 22) -- l. Davey Roberts (Princeton), 6-4, 6-4
Doubles
Ryan Fu/Teddy Oosterbaan (Farnsworth Draw)
Quarterfinals (Sept. 20) -- l. Harris Walker/Robertas Wrzesinski (Harvard), 8-5
Consolation (Sept. 20) -- d. William Grattan Smith/Tatsuki Shimamoto (Miami, Fla.), 8-6
Consolation (Sept. 22) -- l. Payam Ahmadi/Andrew Redding (Indiana), 8-7(3)
Harrison Brown/Kristofer Siimar (Forbes Draw)
Quarterfinals (Sept. 20) -- d. Denton Ho/Eero Vasa (Cornell), 8-3
Semifinals (Sept. 20) -- d. Will Peters/Karl Poling (Princeton), 8-5
Final (Sept. 22) -- d. Villhelm Fridell/Valdemar Holm (Buffalo), 8-5
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