Spring Break
TENNIS: Mixed results for men, but women's woes continue
by Mike Prada
Editor in Chief
Sports | 3/13/07
Posted online at 10:58 PM EST on 3/12/07
/ Last updated at 12:37 PM EST on 3/12/07
Both tennis teams saw changes at the top of their lineups this weekend, and while the strategy worked in one match for the men, it failed in both matchups for the women.
After 2005 University Athletic Association Player of the Year Sam Jonas '07 and Mike Vulfovich '07 switched places on the singles ladder, the men's team split two matches Saturday, defeating Connecticut College 9-0 Sunday before falling to No. 2 Middlebury College 9-0.
On the women's side, the return of Colleen Donnelly '08 to the No. 1 singles spot wasn't enough to avoid an 8-1 loss to New York University Saturday and a 9-0 loss to No. 9 Middlebury College Sunday.
The men are now 1-3 in the spring season, while the women, with a five-game losing streak dating back to the fall season, are now 0-2 on the spring.
A week after missing the team's opening match against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Vulfovich, who traditionally plays No. 2 singles for the men, switched places with Jonas, who has been a mainstay at No. 1 singles since his breakout 2005 University Athletic Association Player of the Year campaign. Coach Ben Lamanna said the switch was not permanent.
"It's nothing to Sam's detriment. We just like to switch it up every once in a while to keep people motivated," he said.
Against Connecticut College, Vulfovich managed to come back and defeat Camels sophomore David Kellogg 6-7, 6-1 (11-9).
After leading throughout the first set, Vulfovich lost in a tiebreaker, but rebounded to win the second set and close out Kellogg with an inside-out forehand return in the third-set tiebreaker.
"There was no way that [Kellogg] was going to be able to keep up the level of play he was playing at, so I was confident that if I kept playing my game, he would break down," Vulfovich said.
The men's team won all three doubles matches prior to Vulfovich's victory. Jonas and Vulfovich defeated Kellogg and junior Ted McAusher in No. 1 doubles 8-2 Scott Schulman '09 and Alex Neystat '10 vanquished seniors Ned Minevitz and Ben Sherman in No. 2 doubles 9-8 (0), and Jordan Bieber '07 and Adam Sher '07 beat senior Andrew Meyer and sophomore Andrew?Watts in No. 3 doubles 8-3.
After 2005 University Athletic Association Player of the Year Sam Jonas '07 and Mike Vulfovich '07 switched places on the singles ladder, the men's team split two matches Saturday, defeating Connecticut College 9-0 Sunday before falling to No. 2 Middlebury College 9-0.
On the women's side, the return of Colleen Donnelly '08 to the No. 1 singles spot wasn't enough to avoid an 8-1 loss to New York University Saturday and a 9-0 loss to No. 9 Middlebury College Sunday.
The men are now 1-3 in the spring season, while the women, with a five-game losing streak dating back to the fall season, are now 0-2 on the spring.
A week after missing the team's opening match against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Vulfovich, who traditionally plays No. 2 singles for the men, switched places with Jonas, who has been a mainstay at No. 1 singles since his breakout 2005 University Athletic Association Player of the Year campaign. Coach Ben Lamanna said the switch was not permanent.
"It's nothing to Sam's detriment. We just like to switch it up every once in a while to keep people motivated," he said.
Against Connecticut College, Vulfovich managed to come back and defeat Camels sophomore David Kellogg 6-7, 6-1 (11-9).
After leading throughout the first set, Vulfovich lost in a tiebreaker, but rebounded to win the second set and close out Kellogg with an inside-out forehand return in the third-set tiebreaker.
"There was no way that [Kellogg] was going to be able to keep up the level of play he was playing at, so I was confident that if I kept playing my game, he would break down," Vulfovich said.
The men's team won all three doubles matches prior to Vulfovich's victory. Jonas and Vulfovich defeated Kellogg and junior Ted McAusher in No. 1 doubles 8-2 Scott Schulman '09 and Alex Neystat '10 vanquished seniors Ned Minevitz and Ben Sherman in No. 2 doubles 9-8 (0), and Jordan Bieber '07 and Adam Sher '07 beat senior Andrew Meyer and sophomore Andrew?Watts in No. 3 doubles 8-3.
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