CAMBRIDGE, MA (March 2, 2024) - The No. 3 ranked Tufts University men's tennis team opened their spring season today with a 6-3 win over MIT. The match was played at the J.B. Carr Tennis Bubble on the campus of MIT.
The match started with doubles action, the Jumbos (1-0) breezed through MIT sweeping doubles and won the third, fourth, and sixth singles match which was enough to secure the victory for the Jumbos.
First up in doubles action was junior
Derin Acaroglu and junior
Vuk Vuksanovic who faced off against Daniel Papacica and Grant Gallagher. The Jumbos tandem was successful as they won 8-5. Up next,
Javier Gonzalez and senior
Mauricio Gutierrez won their doubles match in a tiebreak 8
7 -6
5 against
Kailas Kahler and Adam Sun. The last doubles of the day was senior
Corey Marley and sophomore
Sacha Maes, as they won their match 8-5 against Sundeep Chakladar and Shrish Choudhary at No. 3.
The Jumbos dropped the first two singles matches of the day. Vuksanovic was bested in a tie-breaker by the Engineer's Kailas Kahler in a 7-6 (6), 1-6, 7-5 match. In the second singles match with the score now 3-1 in Jumbo's favor, Gonzalez was bested by Daniel Papacica 7-6 (4),6-1.
With the Engineers within one point of the Jumbo's, Arcaroglu came up with a massive win 6-3, 6,4 in the third singles match over Ryan Xiao. Junior
Lachie Macintosh secured the winning point for the Jumbo's at the fourth singles match by defeating Shrish Choudhary 2-6, 6-1, and 6-3.
At the fifth singles match sophomore
Andrej Djokic was bested by Adam Sun 4-6, 3-6. With the match already won for the Jumbo's first year
Garv Bahl added an insurance win at the last singles spot for the Jumbos defeating Siddharth Marathe 6-3, 2-6, and 10-7.
The Jumbos will stay in action tomorrow as they face off against Babson College at 5 p.m. The match will be played at the Bass River Tennis Club in Beverly Mass.
--JUMBOS--
