On Friday April 14, the Ducks hosted NYU at the Stevens Tennis Courts for a Mental Health Awareness Match. This non-conference win increased their winning streak to seven games as well as 10-6 overall record.
At first doubles, junior Aashi Kulakarni and sophomore Olof Persson started off the Ducks with an 8-2 win against NYU’s Alex Yang and Zachary Freier. Following suit at second doubles, sophomore Vivek Harinarayan, who was also named the MAC Player of the Week, along with Max-William Kanz had a strong-fought 8-7 (7-4) win against NYU’s Alexander Lee and Boren Zheng. The Ducks finished out the doubles matches with a 2-1 lead to start them off in the singles matches.
Of the singles matches, the Ducks won four of six. At first singles, Kulakarni defeated NYU’s Yang, a player who is ranked 13th in the region, with set scores of 1-6, 6-4, and 6-1. First-year Timothy Lau played fifth singles and won the Duck’s sixth and winning point from winning both sets 6-3. Sophomore Sebastian Wroe added another win against NYU’s Shrey Arora with set scores 6-3 and 6-2.
At the following match on Sunday April 16, the Ducks traveled to Lycoming College and finished the day with a 9-0 sweep. This improved their overall record to 11-6, their conference record to 6-0, and their winning streak to eight matches.
Each of the three doubles flights resulted in 8-0 shutouts. In first doubles was Kulakarni and Persson who won against Lycoming’s Nathan Redell and Luke Leach. At second doubles, Harinarayan and Kanz defeated Lycoming’s Jason Anderson and Connor Albaugh. At third doubles, Lau and sophomore Matt Luzzi defeated Lycoming’s Matthew Baldridge and Mohamed Ebeid.
In addition to this straight sweep in regard to the doubles matches, the Ducks won all six singles matches, including five shutouts. At first singles, Harinarayan defeated Lycoming’s Nathan Redell with set scores 6-0 and 6-1. The remaining five singles matches were 6-0 shoutouts in both sets. Kanz won at second singles, Lau won at third, sophomore Sebastian Wroe won at fourth singles, Luzzi at fifth, and Persson at sixth.
The Ducks finished out the regular season with a conference match at home against DeSales University on April 19.
