PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's tennis team swept William & Mary Sunday afternoon, 7-0, from the Hecht Tennis Center, highlighted by four straight-set wins in singles play..

Harsh Parikh and Kevin Zhu posted a dominant 6-0 win in the first doubles match of the day to go final. After William and Mary leveled things with a win at No. 3, Mandredi Graziani and Aditya Gupta picked up a tiebreak victory, earning the early point for the Red and Blue.

Gupta rode the doubles momentum into his singles match, giving Penn a 2-0 lead with a commanding straight-set win, dropping a single game across the two sets. Harsh Parikh followed Gupta's win with a straight-set victory of his own, dropping just two games in his match.

Needing one more victory to clinch the match, (Manfredi) Graziani did just that, claiming the team's third straight-set win of the day. Baylor Sai later made it four straight-set wins and 5-0 Penn.

After winning the first set of his match 6-1, then dropping the second 4-6, Zhu closed out his match at No. 1 in style, taking it 6-0.

The final match of the day came down to a 10-point super tiebreaker after Vakili split the first two sets of his match 6-3, 3-6. Vakili took the tiebreaker 10-6, closing out the sweep for the Quakers, who have not dropped a point in two home matches this season.

Up Next
Penn heads to San Diego next weekend for a 2:00 p.m. match with Pepperdine (local time), 5:00 on the east coast.

DOUBLES
1 – M. Graziani/Gupta (P) def. George Davis/Joseph Brailovsky (W&M)  7-6 (4)
2 – Parikh/Zhu (P) def. Joseph Duo/Sean Joseph (W&M) 6-0
3 – Alexander Karman/Joseph Pellerito (W&M) def. Lim/Sai (P)  6-3

SINGLES
1 – Zhu (P) def. George Davis (W&M)  6-1, 4-6, 6-0
2 – Gupta (P) def. Joseph Brailovsky (W&M)  6-1, 6-0
3 – Parikh (P) def. Andres Silva (W&M)  6-1, 6-1
4 – M. Graziani (P) def. Bill Duo (W&M)  6-3, 6-3
5 – Sai (P) def. Sean Joseph (W&M)  7-5, 6-3
6 – Vakili (P) def. Daniel Pellerito (W&M)  6-3, 3-6 (10-6)
 
Order of finish: Doubles (2, 3, 1); Singles (2, 3, 4*, 5, 6, 1)
* Clinching match