NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The University of Pennsylvania men's tennis team fell to Arkansas, 4-2, on Saturday in a neutral-site match at Yale.
Freshman
Vojtech Vales earned the Quakers' lone singles win in the sixth position, defeating Eric Padgham (6-3, 6-3). The doubles pairings of Graziani/Sandler and Bharadwaj/Vales added wins to their resumes as Penn took two out of three doubles matches for the first point of the day.
Tomorrow's match against Yale has been postponed due to inclement weather as the team looks to bounce back next Friday at Liberty.
RESULTS:
Doubles:
#8 Graziani/Sandler (P) def. #36 Smillie/Vrba (A) - 6-4
S.Bharadwaj/Vales (P) def. #67 Weintraub/Padgham (A) - 7-5
Kopilevich/Boland (A) vs. Rutter/P.Bharadwaj (P) - 6-5 abandoned
Singles:
#18 Jakub Vrba (A) def. #41
Manfredi Graziani (P) - 7-6, 3-6, 6-2
Lukas Palovic (A) vs.
Luka Butera (P) - 7-6, 4-5 abandoned
Gabriel Elicha Navas (A) def.
Shaurya Bharadwaj (P) - 6-4, 6-4
Ben Weintraub (A) def.
Aaron Sandler (P) - 6-2, 4-6, 6-4
Dmitry Kopilevich (A) def.
Matthew Rutter (P) - 6-3, 7-6
Vojtech Vales (P) def. Eric Padgham (A) - 6-3, 6-3
Order of finish:
Doubles: 1,2*
Singles: 3,6,5,1,4*
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