NEW HAVEN, CONN. – The University of Pennsylvania men's tennis team took down No. 26 Yale in New Haven on Wednesday, 4-1.
 
The Quakers took two out of three doubles matches as #6 Manfredi Graziani and Aaron Sandler took down Vignesh Gogieni and Edward Liao in the one spot, 6-4.
 
Justin Chung and Matthew Rutter started off singles with a pair of wins for the Red and Blue as they took a 3-0 lead.
 
But Edward Liao of Yale would not let his Bulldogs get swept as he took down Luka Butera in the two spot for their first point.
 
Freshman phenom Vojtech Vales followed with his seventh singles win of the year, taking down Varun Verma for the match clinching win for the Quakers.
 
RESULTS
DOUBLES:

1. #6 Manfredi Graziani/Aaron Sandler (P) def. #88 Vignesh Gogineni/Edward Liao (Y) - 6-4
2. Vojtech Vales/Shaurya Bharadwaj (P) def. Jason Shuler/Dylan Tsoi (Y) - 6-1
3. Eric Li/Ethan Chung (Y) Parashar Bharadwaj/Matthew Rutter (P) - 4-3, abandoned

 
SINGLES:

1. #45 Manfredi Graziani (P) v. #35 Vignesh Gogineni (Y) - 3-6, 7-5, 2-1 DNF
2. Edward Liao (Y) def. Luka Butera (P) - 6-2, 7-5 
3. #121 Shaurya Bharadwaj (P) v. Ji Zhengqing (Y) - 7-5, 2-6, 1-1 DNF
4. Justin Chung (P) def. Ethan Chung (Y) - 6-3, 6-3
5. Matthew Rutter (P) def. Eric Li (Y) - 7-5, 6-1
6. Vojtech Vales (P) def. Varun Verma (Y) - 7-6, 6-3

 
 
Up Next
The Quakers will return home to Philadelphia to host South Florida on Saturday and Florida Atlantic on Sunday at the Hecht Tennis Center.