PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The University of Pennsylvania men's tennis team blanked Brown, 7-0, on Sunday, picking up its seventh victory in its last eight matches while improving to 4-1 in Ivy League play.
Zachery Lim and
Harsh Parikh started the day with a dominant 6-1 doubles win at No. 2. After Bruno leveled the match at No. 1,
Manfredi Graziani and
Aditya Gupta clinched the early point, taking their match at No. 3 by a 6-3 score.
Parikh opened singles play with his second victory of the weekend, dominating a second-set tiebreaker to close out his straight-set win. (Manfredi) Graziani followed with a 6-2, 6-3 win, putting the Quakers up 3-0.
Gupta clinched the match midway through the singles rotation and (Edoardo) Graziani made it 5-0 with a three-set win, the lone match of the day to go three.
Lim, playing just his fifth singles match of the Spring, bageled his opponent in the first game in another commanding victory, and
Baylor Sai closed out the day (and weekend) for the Red and Blue with a 6-3, 6-2 victory.
Up Next
The Quakers will wrap the regular season at home next Saturday and Sunday with a pair of 1:00 p.m. first serves against #15 Harvard and Dartmouth, respectively.
DOUBLES
- Noah Hernandez/Chun Lam (B) def. Edoardo Graziani/Kevin Zhu (P) – 6-4
- Lim/Parikh (P) def. Niraj Komatineni/Matthew Mu (B) – 6-1
- M. Graziani/Gupta (P) def. Zander Bravo/Sam Feldman (B) – 6-3
SINGLES
- E. Graziani (P) def. Niraj Komatineni (B) – 6-2, 3-6, 6-3
- Gupta (P) def. Roger Chou (B) — 7-5, 6-3
- Parikh (P) def. Noah Hernandez (B) – 6-1, 7-6 (2)
- M. Graziani (P) def. Matthew Mu (B) – 6-2, 6-3
- Sai (P) def. Alex Koong (B) – 6-3, 6-2
- Lim (P) def. Zander Bravo (B) – 6-0, 6-3
Order of finish: Doubles (2, 1, 3); Singles (3, 4, 2*, 1, 6, 5)
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