THE BASICS:

- Location: Brunswick, Maine (Pickard Tennis Courts)

- The Lead: The MIT men's tennis team opened the 2021 fall season at the ITA New England Regional Championships, hosted by Bowdoin College.

HOW IT HAPPENED IN SINGLES ACTION:

- Junior Daniel Papacica (Carmel, Calif.)  advanced to the round of 32 with a three-set win over Zach Lieb of Wesleyan. After dropping the first set, Papacica won the next two (0-6, 7-5, 6-3), but fell to No. 9 seed Sujit Chepuri of Amherst in straight sets in the round of 32.

- Junior Richter Jordaan (Denver, Colo.) fell in his first-round match to No. 9 Peter Anker of Wesleyan, 6-3, 6-2 while junior Derek Shen (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) was also defeated in his first match by Harris Foulkes of Amherst.

A LOOK INSIDE THE DOUBLES BRACKET:

- Papacica and Shen took the court in doubles and fell to David Vilys and Joe Mairs of Middlebury in a tightly contested match that the Panthers won 8-7 (4)

- The Engineers played another close doubles match as first-years Carl-Herman Grant (Oslo, Norway) and Daniel Antov (Austin, Texas) dropped their second-round match, 8-7 (6) to Zachary Hilty and Neel Epstein of Middlebury.
 
- The team of first-years Ryan Xiao (Cary, N.C.) and Wayne Nelms (Baltimore, Md.) fell in their round of 64 match to Pieter Breuker and Geoffrey Golan of Bowdoin.

UP NEXT:

- The Engineers continue their fall season as they will host the MIT Invitational from Friday, October 8 to Saturday, October 9.

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