Last weekend, Men’s Tennis attended the Haverford/Swarthmore Invitational. The first day, Saturday, September 23, saw three singles wins against NYU. Junior Sebastian Wroe secured a 6-0, 6-4 victory, which was Stevens’ first of the day. This was followed by winning performances from sophomore Max William-Kanz and junior Matt Luzzi, finishing 7-5, 6-2, and 6-4, 3-6 (11-9) respectively.
The next day, Sunday, September 24, two doubles teams, comprised of junior Aashi Kulakarni and junior Olof Persson, as well as junior Vivek Harinarayan and Wroe, won the Ducks two out of three of their matches against Franklin & Marshall College (F&M). The same day, singles saw further success against F&M with Harinarayan winning 7-5, 6-1, and first-year Samvid Andhare going 6-0, 6-2. Both Wroe and Kanz saw their second singles victories of the weekend with respective scores of 6-4, 6-2, and 6-0, 6-0.
The same weekend, first-year Alix Dry and sophomore Stephanie Untermeyer competed at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s (ITA’s) DIII Women’s Southeast Regional Championships for the Women’s Tennis team. On Saturday, Dry and Untermeyer picked up a win in doubles against Washington and Lee University of 8-5. This win was the first the program has earned at this championship draw for the region. In their singles matches, Dry beat a member of Swarthmore College’s team 6-4, although later withdrew following her defeat by Johns Hopkins 1-6, 6-3. Untermeyer also played Washington and Lee where she faced a loss of 0-6, 3-6.
From Friday, September 29, to Sunday, October 1, Men’s Tennis will be participating in the ITA Atlantic South Region Championship in Fredericksburg, Virginia, which will close out their fall season. Women’s Tennis will end on Saturday, September 30, where they will face Stockton University on home courts.
