Tennis News
fall/ 2013
MESSAGE FROM THE ASSOCIATION
December 2013 Dear Alumni and Friends of Yale Tennis,
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nother challenging fall of competition is behind us and we have much to celebrate! The coaches will fill you in on the successes of our teams on the courts, and we will bring you up to date on our fundraising accomplishments and challenges. Also included are upcoming events and ways to get involved. Our association is for all of us, please get involved and let us hear from you!
WOMEN’S 2013ͳ14 TEAM
Last year our fundraising goal was $92,000. We were able to raise $82,000. This year our goal is $95,000. We need each of you to help in anyway possible to reach that goal so the players can continue to have the support they need commensurate with the high standards of Yale. The Association plays a crucial role to the overall success of the program. The money we raise enables our teams to travel to participate in the best competition, equip our players with gear, and recruit the top talent. In addition, past fundraising has made us the top collegiate indoor facility, most likely in the country. We have video streaming of matches now, so no matter where you are, you can log on, and watch the team compete at home. There are multiple ways to show your support, outlined below: Write a check payable to Yale University and mail it to Yale Tennis Association, P.O. Box 1844, New Haven, CT 06508-1844. Visit giving. yale.edu to pay by credit card and be sure to select Athletics and Tennis in the drop down menu. You can also donate stocks and securities, transfer credit card points, make a planned gift, and give through your reunion. Visit our association page for more information! All gifts count towards reunion giving. Yale Tennis was an integral part of each of our experiences at Yale, and undoubtedly the lessons learned have done a lot to prepare and propel us in our lives since graduating. Now is the time to do what each of us can to give back and ensure the same is true for the current and future program. Thank you in advance for your support.
Go Bulldogs! Lisa Finke and Bill Sibold Association Presidents PICTURED ABOVE: KYLE DAWSON , CAPTAIN
TENNIS /FALL, 2013
MEN’S SEASON RECAP
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fter last year’s spectacular season led by four seniors, the men’s tennis team has begun the re-building process. Four freshmen look to make their impact on the young Eli squad.
Alex Hagermoser from Hindsdale, IL had a strong start to his college career going 14-6 this fall. At the biggest event of the fall, the USTA/ITA Northeast Regional Championships held at Yale’s Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center, Alex won two 3-setters to make it through qualifying, and then stunned Sam Fife (#3 for Brown last season) in the opening round. Alex also reached the semi-finals of the Connecticut State Championships before falling to teammate Tyler Lu in a third set super-breaker. At the inaugural Ivy Plus tournament at Yale (all of the Ivy League schools plus teams invited from both inside and outside the Northeast Region) Tyler Lu (Irvine, CA) defeated two Harvard foes including Alex Steinroeder who played #4 for the Crimson last season to win the “B” division. Lu was seeded among the top 16 at the Northeast Regionals, but was upset in the second round. Tyler rebounded quickly to win both the singles and the doubles at the Connecticut State Championships. Photos Photiades, (Nicosia, Cyprus) also made his presence known at the Ivy Plus knocking off two starters from last year’s Dartmouth squad. In October, Photos teamed with Tyler Lu to become the first freshmen duo to
claim the Connecticut State Championships doubles title. Rounding out the freshmen contingent is James Ratchford (Atlanta, GA), the younger brother of senior Tommy Ratchford. Tommy helped James get his college career off on the right foot as they won their opening doubles match of the season at the Princeton/Farnsworth Invitational. The returning players have also done their part in the re-building process. Sophomore Jason Brown steadily improved throughout the fall season. He played well in a main draw loss at the Northeast Regional, and then lost in a three-setter to Tyler Lu in the quarter-finals of the Connecticut State Championships. Martin Svenning ‘16 is the highest returning player on the team. Last year he went 5-2 in the #4 position in Ivy League play. This fall Martin has been hampered by both a strained leg muscle and an illness that sidelined him for over a week, but he should be back to full strength this spring. Junior Daniel Faierman, playing the best tennis of his career this fall, made it through qualifying of the Northeast Regionals, and then won two more matches in the main draw including a win over a top 16 seed in the second round. This fall, Zach Krumholz ’15 also played some of his best tennis. His efforts culminated with an appearance in the final of the Connecticut State Championships where he was edged by teammate Tyler Lu 6-4, 6-4. Matt Saiontz, who played #3 doubles with Martin Svenning last season, had shoulder surgery and will not be able to compete until the second half of the spring season. Senior Patrick Chase overcame a slow start this fall to finish strong reaching the semi-finals of the Connecticut State Championships. The Bulldogs will be looking to Patrick to make a strong contribution this spring in the doubles line-up. Patrick played in the #2 doubles slot with John Huang for the past couple of years, and is the highest returning doubles player on the squad. Tommy Ratchford ’14 had his best fall performance at the Connecticut State Championships reaching the quarter-finals of the doubles partnering with Jason Brown before being dropped in a tightly contested match by teammates and eventual champions Lu/Photiades. Senior Captain Kyle Dawson was having a solid fall season, but reinjured a ligament in his foot, an injury that plagued him last spring. As captain, Kyle and his fellow seniors are playing a crucial role in creating a strong work ethic among the team. The players are determined to out-work the other Ivy’s in order for the re-building process to be successful for the Ivy PICTURED ABOVE: PATRICK CHASE , TOP: TOMMY RATCHFORD League season in April.
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TENNIS /FALL, 2013
WOMEN’S SEASON RECAP
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he 2014 Yale Women’s Tennis Team is comprised of eight players, all of whom showed great progress and improvement throughout the course of the fall season. The first team tournament of the year was a home event, the Yale Invitational, which included seven other teams from around the country in a hidden dual match format. Purdue, Penn State, Iowa, Virginia Tech, Boston College, Dartmouth, Brown and Yale all competed over the course of the three day event in singles and doubles. The Bulldogs had all eight players compete in various singles positions and doubles combinations. In the first day of competition Yale swept Virginia Tech in singles and battled Purdue to a 2-2 draw in doubles. The following day the Bulldogs split singles with Purdue at four matches a piece and the doubles with Virginia Tech 2-2. On the last day, Yale defeated BC in singles 5-3 and Dartmouth in doubles 3-1. Individually, Annie Sullivan was selected to compete in the Qualifying draw of the ITA All-American Championships in Los Angeles, one of the four “Grand Slams” of college tennis. She went 1-2 in singles earning a 6-0, 6-0 win over the #88 player in the nation from the University of Illinois.
ANNIE SULLIVAN ‘14, CAPTAIN
The Bulldogs sent six singles players and three doubles teams to the USTA/ITA Northeast Regionals at Harvard in October. Caroline Lynch fell in the Qualifying rounds in singles, but all five other Bulldogs were directly accepted in the Main Draw. Hanna Yu and Ree Ree Li fell in the second round of singles and Madeleine Hamilton and Sherry Li reached the round of 32. Annie Sullivan was the sole Bulldog to reach the Quaterfinals where she fell in three sets to the eventual champion. In doubles, Sullivan and Hamilton teamed up with success and reached the semi-finals, but were taken down by the eventual champions. The fall season wrapped up in Chicago at another team dual tournament hosted by Northwestern. On the first day, Northwestern defeated Yale 7-1 in singles and split the doubles 2-2. Yale’s win came from Hanna Yu at the #4 position in 3-6, 6-4, 6-4. The following day Yale split the doubles again with DePaul 2-2 and defeated the Demons in singles 4-2. Annie Sullivan won at the #2 position 6-0, 6-0 and Hanna Yu won her match at #4 6-2, 6-3. On the last day of competition, Yale played Oklahoma and won two of the four matches in doubles and went 1-4 in singles. ReeRee Li defeated her opponent at the #1 singles position 6-1, 6-7, 6-3. The team will resume practice on January 15th and begins the spring competition on January 17th when Yale will host the Bulldog Classic with Cornell, St. John’s and Boston College.
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Be sure to check the schedule and try to come out to a match this spring. We may be playing in your home town!
MEN’S 2013-14 SCHEDULE DATE
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TIME
Event/SITE
Jan 18 Jan 19 Feb 2 Feb 8
Sat Sun Sun SAT
March 2 March 15, 16 March 19 March 21 March 22 March 29 March 30
SUN SAT-SUN WED FRI SAT SAT SUN
April 5 April 6 April 12 April 13 April 18 April 20 April 26
SAT SUN SAT SUN FRI SUN SAT
10:00 AM 10:00 AM TBA Noon 4:00 PM Noon All-Day 2:00 PM 10:00 AM 10:00 AM 2:00 PM Noon 4:00 PM 2:00 PM 2:00 PM 2:00 PM 2:00 PM 2:00 PM 2:00 PM 2:00 PM
Davidson/Blacksburg, VA Virginia Tech/Blacksburg, VA East Tennessee St./New Haven Georgetown/New Haven Fairfield/New Haven Old Dominion/New Haven FDU, Marist, Stony Brook/New Haven UNC Wilmington/Wilmington, NC Binghamton/Wilmington, NC Central Florida/Wilmington, NC ST. John’s/New Haven Fordham/New Haven Bryant/New Haven Princeton/Princeton, NJ PENN/Philadelphia, PA Cornell/New Haven Columbia/New Haven Dartmouth/New Haven Harvard/Cambridge, MA Brown/Providence, RI
WOMEN’S 2013-14 SCHEDULE DATE
TIME
Event/SITE
Jan. 17-19 Jan. 25 Jan. 26 Feb. 6-9 Feb. 16 Feb. 21-23
All Day 3:00pm 10am or 2pm All Day TBD TBD
March 9 March 14 March 15 March 29 March 30 April 4 April 5 April 12 April 13 April 18 April 20 April 26
12:00pm TBD 12:00pm 11:00am 11:00am 2:00pm 2:00pm 12:00pm 12:00pm 2:00pm 12:00pm 12:00pm
Yale Classic/New Haven, CT (Boston College, Cornell, St. John’s) Tulsa/Ann Arbor, MI Michigan or Virginia Tech/Ann Arbor, MI ITA NaƟonal Team Indoors/CharloƩesville, VA Boston University/New Haven, CT Blue Gray Invite/Montgomery, AL (Alabama, Auburn, Illinois, Oklahoma St., Rice, Texas Tech, Virginia) Texas/AusƟn, TX Arizona State/Tempe, AZ BYU/Tempe, AZ Rice/Williamsburg, VA William & Mary/Williamsburg, VA Princeton/New Haven, CT Penn/New Haven, CT Cornell/Ithaca, NY Columbia/New York, NY Dartmouth/Hanover, NH Harvard/New Haven, CT Brown/New Haven, CT
YALE ATHLETICS COMPLIANCE CORNER As a supporter of Yale athle cs, you may employ current Yale student-athletes provided: • The student-athlete is paid the going rate for similar experience; • The student-athlete is compensated for work actually performed; and • The student-athlete does not receive any preferen al treatment due to his/her status as a Yale student-athlete. Please contact the Yale Compliance Office (203.436.8309) if you have any ques ons or concerns. Can I pick up a student-athlete and bring him/her to work each day? You may give a student-athlete a ride to or from work only if you provide the same ride to every employee in the same posi on. It is not permissible to provide special treatment to a student-athlete. The student-athlete I employ played a great game this week, can I take him/ her out to lunch to celebrate? No. You may not provide a complimentary meal to a student-athlete because of his/her status as a student-athlete. Unless the same benefit is extended to all employees under similar circumstances, you cannot take the student-athlete out for lunch.
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The student-athlete’s team is doing really well this year and ge ng a lot of posi ve publicity. I have a big promo on coming up to sell one of my products. Can I create an adver sement, in print and/or on the radio, emphasizing that Yale student-athletes use and recommend my product? Can I use their names, pictures, or likenesses? It is not permissible for student-athletes to par cipate in any promo onal ac vi es on behalf of a commercial en ty. You cannot use a student-athlete’s picture to promote a commercial product. Therefore, student-athletes may not be used to promote your product because of their status or success. I am sponsoring a fundraiser at my restaurant for cancer research. When someone purchases a meal, all of the proceeds go toward cancer research. On the day of the event, can the student-athlete that works for me wear his/ her Yale uniform and invite teammates to work as part of the fes vi es? They are very recognizable and I want as many people to donate me and money to this cause as possible. No. Student-Athletes may not par cipate in any promo onal ac vi es for a commercial enterprise, even if it is for charitable purposes. The employee’s status as an Yale student-athlete cannot be used to promote this event, even though it is for a charitable cause.