THE BASICS:
 
- Score: No. 28 MIT 5, NYU 4
 
- Records: MIT (15-3), NYU (3-7)
 
- Location: Cambridge, Mass. (DuPont Tennis Courts)
 
- The Lead: In the first meeting between both programs since the 2014-15 season, the nationally ranked No. 28 MIT men's tennis team defeated NYU, 5-4, on Friday night.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED:
 
- Senior Kailas Kahler (Pawtucket, R.I.) and first-year Adam Sun (Glendale, Ariz.) cruised to an 8-1 victory over Cooper Smith and Zachary Freier in the No. 3 doubles position and then seniors Joseph Li (Naperville, Ill.) and Sundeep Chakladar (Redondo Beach, Calif.) outlasted Louis Frowein and Jingyuan Chen, 8-6, in the No. 2 spot. NYU picked up its first point of the match when Boren Zheng and Alexander Lee defeated graduate student Daniel Papacica (Carmel, Calif.) and first-year Grant Gallagher (Irvine, Calif.), 8-5.
 
- The Engineers rattled off victories in the No. 6, No. 5, and No. 4 singles positions to clinch the match. First-year Shrish Choudhary (Fremont, Calif.) topped Freier, 6-2, 6-0, while Sun followed with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Devan Sabapathy. First-year Siddharth Marathe (Pune, India) won the decisive match as he defeated Rumaish Khastgir, 6-2, 6-3.
 
- The Violets took the top three spots of the singles ladder, resulting in the 5-4 final score. Frowein battled junior Ryan Xiao (Cary, N.C.) for a 6-4, 7-5 victory In the No. 3 slot while Zheng bested Kahler, 4-6, 6-4, 10-7 in the No. 1 position. Chen closed out the match with a 3-6, 6-4, 10-7 win over Papacica.
 
UP NEXT:
 
- Both teams return to action on Saturday, April 20. MIT will play new NEWMAC foe Salve Regina University at 6:00 p.m. at the International Tennis Hall of Fame while NYU will host SUNY Oneonta at 5:00 p.m.
 
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