NEW YORK – The University of Pennsylvania women's tennis team cruised through its opening round ECAC Tournament match over seventh-seeded Dartmouth on Friday evening.

The Quakers once more earned the doubles point once more with victories at Nos. 1 and 2. Iuliia Bryzgalova and Marija Curnic, a top-40 doubles team in the country, won 6-3 and freshmen Amanda Chan and Sonia Tartakovsky earned a 6-4 victory to seal the point.

In singles, Bryzgalova, who recently moved up to No. 11 in the country – the highest ranking of a player in program history – won while only losing a pair of games. Needing two more courts to earn the win, Curnic came through at No. 3 with a 6-3, 6-4 win and then Clarise Huang finished off the Big Green with a three-set thriller, closing it out at No. 6 6-2, 2-6, 7-5.

Penn advances to the ECAC semifinal to play Yale on Saturday at 5 p.m.

Results
Doubles:
1. Bryzgalova/Curnic (Penn) def. Conard/Chiu (Dartmouth), 6-3
2. Chan/Tortakovsky (Penn) def. Lyn/McCann (Dartmouth), 6-4
3. Zhu/Xie (Penn) vs. Hess/Okpara (Dartmouth), 4-4, DNF
Order of finish: 1,2

Singles:
1. Iuliia Bryzgalova (Penn) def. Conard (Dartmouth), 6-2, 6-0
2. Lyn (Dartmouth) vs. Ashely Zhu (Penn), 6-2, 4-6, 4-2, DNF
3. Marija Curnic (Penn) def. Cable (Dartmouth), 6-3, 6-4
4. Sonia Tartakovsky (Penn) vs. Hess (Dartmouth), 7-6(2), 4-4, DNF
5. Okpara (Dartmouth) def. Amanda Chan (Penn), 6-1, 6-0
6. Clarise Huang (Penn) def. Guan (Dartmouth), 6-2, 2-6, 7-5
Order of finish: 1,5,3,6

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