PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's tennis team wrapped the ITA Regional Championships from the Hecht Tennis Centers on Tuesday.
The doubles team of juniors
Kevin Zhu and
Edoardo Graziani won three matches during their run to the semifinals. In the semis, the duo took the first set off a team from Cornell who had not dropped a set in their first three matches of the event; Zhu/Graziani eventually fell in three sets.
The teams of
Aditya Gupta/
Harsh Parikh and
Jason Hildebrandt/
Zach Smith both won Round of 64 matches before falling in the Round of 32.
On the singles side, Graziani picked up three wins, all against players from Ivy League schools, reaching the quarterfinal round before falling to Daniel Milavsky of Harvard.
Elsewhere, Parikh advanced to the Round of 32 before dropping a three-set match to Harvard's Ronan Jachuck.
Baylor Sai won two qualifier matches to reach the main draw before bowing out in the Round of 64.
The Quakers are back on the court the weekend of November 5-7 for the Liberty Fall Hidden Duals from Lynchburg, Va.
PENN RESULTS
SINGLES
Aditya Gupta
(Round of 64) lost to David Lins (Harvard) 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
Harsh Parikh
(Round of 64) def. Udayan Bhakar (St. John's) 6-1, 6-2
(Round of 32) lost to Ronan Jachuck (Harvard) 7-5, 1-6, 7-6 (2)
Baylor Sai
(Qualifiers) def. Anshumat Srivastava (Binghamton) 6-2, 6-2
(Qualifiers) def. Medhi Dhouib (FDU) 6-1, 6-4
(Round of 128) lost to El Kholti (NJIT) 1-6, 7-6, 2-0 Def
Jason Hildebrandt
(Round of 64) lost to Teodors Pukse (FDU) 6-4, 0-1, Ret. Injury
Edoardo Graziani
(Round of 64) def. Anders Gibbons (Dartmouth) 6-2, 6-2
(Round of 32) def. Austen Huang (Columbia) 6-3, 6-1
(Round of 16) def. Ben Gollin (Columbia) 6-3, 6-2
(Quarterfinals) lost to Daniel Milavsky (Harvard) 6-3, 6-2
Kevin Zhu
(Round of 128) lost to Alan Jesudason (Drexel) 6-4, 6-4
Zachery Lim
(Round of 64) lost to Max Westphal (Columbia)
DOUBLES
Zhu/Graziani
(Round of 32) def. Dhouib/Trainauskas (FDU) 8-6
(Round of 16) def. Winegar/Finkelstein (Columbia) 8-7
(Quarterfinals) def. Barki/Bosancic (Princeton) 8-7, 7-6
(Semifinals) lost to Ayeni/Melnic (Cornell) 1-6, 6-2, 10-7
Parikh/Gupta
(Round of 64) def. Van Noord/Penman (Monmouth) 8-6
(Round of 32) lost to De Camelis/Gustavson (St. John's) 8-6
Hildebrandt/Smith
(Round of 64) def. Oberg/Reilly (Yale) 8-7
(Round of 32) lost to Elliott/Beckham (Lehigh) Injury
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