PHILADELPHIA – In an all-Philadelphia battle pitting the University of Pennsylvania men's tennis team's 19-match home win streak against Temple's 16-match win streak, it was the Quakers who came out victorious in a back-and-forth 4-3 affair Wednesday afternoon from Hamlin Tennis Center.

The Owls, carrying the nation's longest winning streak coming in, took a 1-0 lead with doubles wins at No. 2 and No. 3.

Penn got on the board with a dominant 6-1, 6-1 win from Harsh Parikh, playing at No. 3 singles for just the third time this Spring. After Temple went back in front 2-1, Baylor Sai picked up a 6-2, 6-2 victory at No. 6. Edoardo Graziani followed Sai with a three-set win at No. 1, putting the Quakers in front for the first time in the match.

After Temple leveled things at 3-all, Manfredi Graziani took a straight-set battle at No. 4 – just his third time playing in that spot this Spring --, clinching Penn's first 4-3 victory of the season.

Up Next
Penn will look to ride the momentum of Wednesday's win into the start of Ivy League play on Saturday, when they hit the road for a 2:00 first serve with Princeton.
 
Results
DOUBLES
1 – Thibault Frumholz/Leo Raquin (T) def. E. Graziani/Kevin Zhu (P) – 6-3
2 – Gregoire Barety/Marin Delmas (T) def. Zachery Lim/Parikh (P) – 6-4
3 – Manfredi Graziani/Aditya Gupta (P) vs.  Hussein El Tawil/Louis Gorregues (T) – 5-5 DNF

SINGLES
1 – E. Graziani (P) def. Marin Delmas (T) – 6-1, 3-6, 6-1
2 – Leo Raquin (T) def. Gupta (P) – 6-2, 6-3
3 – Parikh (P) def. Gregoire Barety (T) – 6-1, 6-1
4 – M. Graziani (P) def. Louis Gorregues (T) – 6-4, 7-6 (5)
5 – Thibault Frumholz (T) def. Zachery Lim (P) – 6-4, 7-5
6 – Sai (P) def. Hussein El Tawil (T) – 6-2, 6-2
 
Order of finish: Doubles (1, 2); Singles (3, 2, 6, 1, 5, 4*)
* Clinching match