PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's tennis team swept the Naval Academy Friday afternoon, 7-0, from the Hecht Tennis Center.

The Penn men took all three doubles matches convincingly, including a 6-0 win at No. 2 from the freshmen team of Manfredi Graziani and Kian Vakili. The No. 1 team of Edoardo Graziani and Zachery Lim and the No. 3 team of Aditya Gupta and Harsh Parikh each won 6-3.

In singles play, the younger Graziani double-bageled his opponent at No. 4, ending his day without dropping a single game. Gupta and Parikh followed with straight-set wins at No. 2 and No. 3, dropping just three games between them, to officially clinch the match for the Quakers.
Vakili and Lim, both playing singles for the first time this Spring, won 6-2, 6-1 at No. 5 and No. 6, respectively.

In the final match of the day, the elder Graziani dropped the opening set but, as he did against #40 Matisse Bobichon of VCU last Sunday, the #48-ranked player in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) rankings stormed back with a 6-4 second-set win, then came out the victor in a close third-set tiebreaker to finish off the sweep for Penn.

Up Next
Penn heads to University Park on Sunday for an 11 a.m. match with Penn State.

DOUBLES
1 – E. Graziani/Lim (P) def. Sasha Panyan/Aniketh Ayinala (Navy)  6-3
2 – M. Graziani/Vakili (P) def. Matthew McNair/Nathan Nguyen (Navy)  6-0
3 – Gupta/Parikh (P) def. Eric Liu/Andres Ballesteros (Navy)  6-3

SINGLES
1 –#48 E. Graziani (P) def. Sasha Panyan (Navy)  1-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5)
2 – Gupta (P) def. Nathan Nguyen (Navy)  6-1, 6-0
3 – Parikh (P) def. Aniketh Ayinala (Navy)  6-1, 6-1
4 – M. Graziani (P) def. Matthew McNair (Navy)  6-0, 6-0
5 – Vakili (P) def. Eric Liu (Navy)  6-2, 6-1
6 – Lim (P) def. Andres Ballesteros (Navy)  6-2, 6-1
 
Order of finish: Doubles (2, 3, 1); Singles (4, 3, 2, 5, 6, 1)