CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The No. 30 MIT men's tennis team earned a 7-0 NEWMAC win over Clark and followed with a 5-2 win over Colby in Saturday action in the J.B. Carr Tennis Bubble.
THE BASICS:
- Scores:
- MIT 7, Clark 0
- MIT 5, Colby 2
- Records: MIT 3-2 Overall (1-0 NEWMAC), Clark 9-2 Overall (0-1 NEWMAC), Colby 2-2 Overall
HOW IT HAPPENED vs. CLARK:
- The Engineers won their NEWMAC opener handily as they did not drop a set to the visiting Cougars.
- Adam Sun and Grant Gallagher defeated Edward Shepherd and Grahm Russo 6-4 in No. 1 doubles.
- Shrish Choudhary and SangHyuk Im took down Aris Kirkorian and Ziad Tabbara 6-1 in No. 2 doubles, and Nicholas Liu and Jeremy Yu earned a 6-3 in No. 3 doubles over Sai Chanda and Benjamin Liu.
- Hunter Liao defeated Sheperd, 6-2, 6-2 in the one position while Hunter Li followed with a 6-0, 6-0 win over Tabbara in No. 2.
- Siddharth Marathe took a 6-4, 6-2 win in No. 3 singles while Im defeated Russo, 6-3, 7-5 in the fourth position.
- Rushil Patel took down Liu in No. 5 singles, 6-4, 6-2, and Henry Feldman earned a 6-2, 6-2 win in the sixth position.
HOW IT HAPPENED vs. COLBY:
- MIT grabbed the doubles point as Li and Liao took a 6-1 win in No. 2 doubles followed by a 6-2 win by Choudhary and Im in No. 3 doubles. Colby got a win in No. 1 doubles.
- Marathe got the first singles win with a 6-1, 6-1 win in the fourth position over Marco Ziets-Segura and Liao made it a 3-0 MIT lead with a 7-5, 6-1 win in No. 2 singles over Bilal Asim.
- Jason Daly got Colby on the board with a 7-5, 6-4 win in the top singles court. Rhys Spanos got the second Mules point with a 7-6 (7-1) - 7-6 (7-5) win over Choudhary in No. 3 singles.
- In No. 5 singles, Li took a 6-1, 6-2 win over Matthew Jeong for the clinching point for MIT.
- Gallagher wrapeped up the day with a 6-1, 6-2 win in six singles.
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