Tulsa Ends East Coast Trip With 4-1 Setback to No. 20 Princeton

Sunday, March 2

Princeton, N.J.

11:00 a.m.

Tulsa

Princeton

Photo by: Alina Lebedeva

Tulsa Ends East Coast Trip With 4-1 Setback to No. 20 Princeton

3/2/2025 2:18:00 PM | Men's Tennis

PRINCETON, N.J. — The Tulsa men's tennis team faced its second consecutive Ivy League school this weekend, falling 4-1 at No. 20 Princeton Sunday afternoon. The setback puts the Golden Hurricane at 7-9 on the season.

It took only two matches to determine a doubles winner as Princeton cruised to 6-2 and 6-3 wins in the second and third positions to claim the opening score. Sophomore Alex Okonkwo and junior Timothy Carlsson Seger left their match unfinished up 5-4 in the No. 1 spot.

Princeton knocked out a win at the six-spot in just over an hour and followed with straight-set victories in the second and fourth positions to clinch the team win. Okonkwo finished his match in the No. 1 slot just as the Tigers were wrapping up in the Nos. 2 and 4 courts. He went up against the nation's 26^th-ranked player in Paul Inchauspe and came out on top in two sets, 6-1, 7-6. It goes down as Okonkwo's highest-ranked win in his two seasons at TU.

The Tulsa men will return home to the Michael D. Case Tennis Center to host Oklahoma State (4-8) on Wednesday, March 5, at 6 p.m. The match will stream on ESPN+.

Singles
1. Alex Okonkwo (Tulsa) def. #26 Paul Inchauspe (PU) 6-1, 7-6
2. #51 Top Nidunjianzan (PU) def. Luis Felipe Miguel (Tulsa) 6-4, 7-5
3. Timothy Carlsson Seger (Tulsa) vs. Ellis Short (PU) 3-6, 4-4, unfinished
4. Evan Wen (PU) def. Reiya Komagata (Tulsa) 6-4, 6-4
5. Nikola Puntaric (Tulsa) vs. Aleksandar Mitric (PU) 7-6, 0-0, unfinished
6. Milan Markovits (PU) def. Gus Tettamble (Tulsa) 6-3, 6-1

Doubles
1. Okonkwo/Seger (Tulsa) vs. #45 Inchauspe/Astreinidis (PU) 5-4, unfinished
2. Short/Nidunjianzan (PU) def. Tettamble/Miguel (Tulsa) 6-2
3. Wen/Mitric (PU) def. Pellegrini Jestin (Tulsa) 6-3

Order of finish: Doubles (2,3); Singles (6,4,2,1)