Princeton, N.J. – Penn State finished day one at the Farnsworth-Ivy Tournament in Princeton, N.J. The four players that traveled to the contest all competed in doubles and singles play.
DOUBLES
Christos Antonopoulos/Chikaya Sato were defeated in the first round of their doubles flight by Nevin Arimilli/Evin Mcdonald of Texas, 8-6.
Gabriel Nemeth/Alp Senay lost a tough match to Junin Barki/Thomas Bosancic of Princeton, 8-7 (3). The pair then went on to lose to SMU's Juan Jose Bianchi/Jan-simon Vrbsky, 8-6. The pair ended their day with a walkover win against Jack Lin/Austen Huang of Columbia.
SINGLES
Starting off in singles competition, Nemeth was defeated by Will Peters of Princeton, 6-1, 4-6, 6-4. He will face Big Ten foe, Michigan's Ryan Fu next.
Antonopoulos suffered a loss at the hands of Yale's Michael Sun 1-6, 6-2, 6-4. Next up, he will face Giles Hussey of Tennessee.
Sato was defeated by Tennessee's Mason Meier, 6-3, 6-4, in his first singles outing for the Blue and White. The freshman will face Daniel Pellerito of William & Mary next.
Sentay defeated Peter Conklin of Dartmouth in the first singles match of his junior season, 4-6, 6-0, 6-3.
"You have to acknowledge as a coach that the guys played hard and could have won some of the matches that went into three sets," head coach Jeff Zinn said. "We talked about not dwelling so much on today but looking forward to the matches tomorrow and staying positive and getting better in pressure situations. We will see how that mentality works in the matches tomorrow."
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