WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. (May 6, 2023) – The Stevens Institute of Technology men's tennis team lost to #5 Williams College by a score of 5-0 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday morning. The match was hosted by Williams College at the Hunt Tennis Center. The match lasted two hours and 17 minutes.

Stevens finishes the season with a record of 15-7. After beating Salem State yesterday, the Ducks won a NCAA Tournament game for the second season in a row. The 15 wins is the most for the program since the 2018-19 campaign.

Stevens lost all three doubles matches as they fell behind to an early 3-0 deficit. Sophomore Olof Persson and junior Aashi Kulakarni lost a close 8-6 match on line one against Nicholas Chen and Jason Shuler. Sophomore Vivek Harinarayn and first-year Max-William Kanz lost to Andrew Chong and Matthew Kandel 8-4 on line two. Junior Andrew He and sophomore Troy Zhang fell 8-2 on line three against Shawn Berdia and Simon Volkema.

Since the teams play first to five, the Ephs needed just two wins in singles play to advance. On line one, Kulakarni fell to Kandel by a score of 6-2, 6-2. The Ephs then clinched the match as Harinarayan lost to Schuler 6-3, 6-4 on the second line. Stevens possessed just one lead in the four other singles matches that would be declared unfinished. Kanz held a lead over Volekma 6-3, 5-4 on the fourth line. On the third line, He was trailing Berdia 6-2, 5-5. On line five, Sophomore Sebastian Wroe trailed Chong 6-4, 3-2. Sophomore Matt Luzzi trailed Karan Amin 6-2, 3-4 on the fourth line to wrap up the unfinished matches.