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| Nick Cary lost just three games in his #4 singles win |
AMHERST - Earning one of the program's biggest victories in years, the Tufts men's tennis team won 7-2 at Amherst College today in a NESCAC match. It's Tufts' first victory over Amherst since the 2003-04 season.
Amherst, the NCAA champion as recently as 2014 and also in 2011, has been a NESCAC powerhouse for many years. Today the Jumbos were the better team, winning two out of three in doubles and five of six in singles on the road.
The #17 Jumbos improved to 6-2 overall and 2-0 in NESCAC with the win, which is the first since the Tufts men defeated Amherst 6-1 on March 29, 2004. Amherst, ranked eighth in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association poll this week, dropped to 10-4 overall and 2-1 in the league.
Tufts came out of doubles with a 2-1 lead. Nik Telkedzhiev and Griffin Brockman went extra to win at #2 9-7. Jumbos Jay Glickman and Zain Ali played well in an 8-3 victory on the third court against the nation's #10 pair Ben Fife and Zach Bessette. Amherst's Aaron Revzin and Michael Solimano, the #5 ranked doubles duo in the country, took an 8-6 win over Nick Cary and Rohan Gupte in the #1 match.
Four Jumbos won in three sets during the singles matches to help secure the victory. Down a set after losing 7-5, Glickman won 7-5 and 6-1 at #2 over Solimano. Gupte took a 6-1 win in the third set for a #3 victory. Jacobson was also down a set before rallying for 6-1 and 6-4 win on the fifth singles court. Ali won a third-set tie-break in sixth singles.
Cary breezed to a 6-2, 6-1 win on the fourth singles court against Rezin. In the #1 match, Amherst's Anton Zyko won 6-4, 6-2 over Telkedzhiev.
The match was the first in a week since head coach Karl Gregor's Jumbos returned home from their spring break trip to California. They are off four days now until playing at Connecticut College next Thursday.
Amherst will travel to play at Skidmore College tomorrow.
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