Six players from the men’s tennis team will be competing at
Princeton/Farnsworth Invitational this weekend, playing at the Lenz Tennis
Center starting on Friday and continuing until Sunday.

Temple will be among 14 universities that will be competing at the host
school in six singles flights and two doubles flight; Binghamton, Bucknell,
Buffalo, Columbia, Cornell, Fairleigh Dickinson (FDU), Georgetown,
Monmouth, Penn, St. John’s, Yale, New York Institute of Technology (NYIT),
and host team, Princeton. Singles matches will begin in the round of 16,
while doubles draw will start in the round of 32.

Doubles action will get underway with Kristian Marquart and Hernan Vasconez
pairing up against FDU’s Arnaud Valentin and Arvis Berzins in the Orange
round of 32 at 8:30 a.m. on Friday. The pair of Hicham Belkssir and Sam
Rundle will also be squaring off against Buffalo’s Sergio Arevallilia and
Jonathan Hannestad at 8:30 a.m. in the opening round of the Black flight.
Santiago Canete and Nicolas Paulus received a bye and will wait for
their match against either Buffalo or Bucknell at 9:45 a.m.

Both Marquart and Paulus will begin to compete in the Pagoda singles flight
at 10:45 a.m. Marquart will face Penn’s Jemery Court, while Paulus will
take on Jonathan Carcone of the host team.

In the Cordish singles flight, Vasconez received a bye in the round of 16
and will later play either FDU or St. John’s Vaisk Munshaw at 1:30 p.m.
Rundle will face Monmouth’s Brant Switzler in the opening round of the
Jadwin flight at 12:30 p.m. and Belkssir will take on James Ratchfold of
Yale at 1 p.m. in the Jersey flight round of 16.

If weather permits, the matches will be played outdoors. However, in
any event of rain the matches will be moved at the Jadwin Gymnasium.

This will be the 45th year Princeton will be hosting this tournament,
now named in honor of the life of the accomplished Princeton alumnus,
Ted Farnsworth.