FREDERICKSBURG, VA. (February 22, 2020) – The Stevens Institute of Technology men's tennis team put their skills to test against No. 25 Johns Hopkins University. Stevens could not overcome an early deficit and fell to John Hopkins 8-1 in their second-round match at the Mary Washington Invitational. The Ducks dropped to 0-2 on the season while the Blue Jays secured their first dual match victory of the year.

Hopkins got on the board first by taking the third doubles flight, Alex Kernagis and Andrew Tran bested sophomore Eloi Pradier and junior Gabriel Sifuentes 8-3. Junior Keegan Morris and freshman Philip Szudlarski were close to evening the team score but could not prevail against Vishnu Joshi partnered with Vik Vasan. Joshi and Vasan eked out at 8-6 win over Morris and Szudlarski in the second doubles flight. Sophomore Marc Feliu and junior Mark Kanevsky competed well in the first doubles flight against Joe Cartledge and Austin Gu, the flight came down to a tiebreaker. Feliu and Kanevsky fell in the tiebreaker to Cartledge and Gu, Hopkins took a 3-0 lead heading into the singles competition. This narrow defeat showed Feliu and Kanevsky are right there with some of the best doubles players in the country, Joe Cartledge and Austin are both All-Americans. 

Keegan Morris was the lone point scorer for the Ducks thanks to a gritty straight set win over Austin Gu in the No. 2 singles flight, 7-6, 6-3. Mark Kanevsky competed well but fell in straight sets to Aaron Carey 4-6, 4-6 in the fourth singles flight. Philip Szudlarski dropped the first set of his singles flight 3-6 but posted a second set win in the tiebreaker to force a winner take all third set. Szudlarski would end up losing in the third set 10-5 to Joe Cartledge. The Blue Jays would control the rest of the singles competition and win the nationally ranked match-up with the Ducks.

Up Next: Stevens will wrap up play at the Mary Washington Invitational on Sunday. The Ducks will take on the host school, No. 15 University of Mary Washington, at 1:00 PM. 

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