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Match Recap: Men's Tennis | | Stevens Athletic Communications

No. 44 Men’s Tennis Falls to No. 5 Emory in the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament

Ducks drop first-ever meeting with nationally-ranked Eagles to close season

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (May 11, 2024) – The Stevens Institute of Technology men's tennis team saw its 2023-24 season end with a 5-0 setback to No. 5 Emory University Saturday in the second round of the 2024 NCAA Division III Championship on the Outdoor Tennis Courts on the campus of No. 28 Washington and Lee University.

Stevens finishes its 2023-24 season with a 14-7 record. Excluding the two COVID-impacted seasons, the Ducks have won at least 14 matches each season since 2017-18. The fifth-ranked Eagles improved to 17-5 and advanced to face the winner of the match between the hosting Generals and No. 13 Sewanee. The Saturday morning contest marked the first-ever meeting between the sides. 

Emory was able to secure victories in all three doubles flights to take an early lead. No. 10 Dean Kamenev and Nolan Shah topped senior Aashi Kulakarni and junior Sebastian Wroe 8-3. The first-year tandem of Max-William Kanz and Samvid Andhare fell to Christian Liew and Justin Waldman via an 8-6 score on line three and junior Vivek Harinarayan and junior Olof Persson dropped an incredibly hard-fought 8-7 decision to No. 19 Brandon Cohen and Ryan Glanville after the Emory duo earned a 10-8 outcome in the tiebreaker. 

The Eagles were able to close out the match with singles flight victories on lines one and five. Eighth-ranked Kamenev topped Kulakarni 6-1, 6-1 in the first flight, while 49th-ranked Liew downed Andhare 6-3, 6-1 in the fifth flight to close out the match. Harinarayan was ahead of the regionally-ranked Shah 1-0 in a first set tiebreaker on line and Kanz was up a set on Glanville in the fifth position at the time of the stoppage.

The Rundown 
DOUBLES
No. 19 Brandon Cohen/Ryan Glanville (EU) def. Vivek Harinaryan/Olof Persson (SIT), 8-7 (10-8)
No. 10 Dean Kamenev/Nolan Shah (EU) def. Aashi Kulakarni/Sebastian Wroe (SIT), 8-3
Christian Liew/Justin Waldman (EU) def. Samvid Andhare/Max-William Kanz (SIT), 8-6

SINGLES
No. 8 Dean Kamenev (EU) led Aashi Kulakarni (SIT), 6-1, 6-1
Vivek Harinarayan (SIT) led Nolan Shah (EU), 6-6 (1-0), unfinished
Max-William Kanz (SIT) led Ryan Glanville (EU), 7-6 (7-4), 0-1, unfinished
Justin Waldman (EU) led Andrew He (SIT), 6-0, 5-2, unfinished
No. 49 Christian Liew (EU) def. Samvid Andhare (SIT), 6-3, 6-1
Emilio Van Cotthem (EU) led Olof Persson (SIT), 6-4, 4-0, unfinished

Top Performers
  • Kanz finished an impressive debut campaign with a 21-4 record in singles competition, leading the team in wins. Among his 21 singles flight wins, Kanz was undefeated in matches contested on lines one, two and five.
  • He was second on the team in singles wins with 16, while Wroe, Persson and first-years Tristan Wroe and Johnny Haase also had winning records in singles competition.
  • Harinarayan had the highest win total in doubles matches, finishing with 17 wins. Persson was second with 14, while Andhare, Kanz and Sebastian Wroe each had 13.

For the Opponents
  • Liew's victory was his team-leading 20th of the season.
  • Kamenev and Shah's victory improved Emory's top-10 doubles squad's record to 23-5.

Around the NCAA Tournament – Second Round
  • No. 2 UChicago vs. No. 12 Washington (St. Louis) – 2 p.m. start
  • No. 1 Claremont-Mudd Scripps vs. No. 16 Redlands – 1 p.m. start
  • No. 11 Denison vs. No. 32 Grinnell – 1 p.m. start
  • No. 14 Wisconsin-Whitewater vs. No. 18 Gustavus Adolphus – 1 p.m. start
  • No. 6 Tufts vs. No. 29 Christopher Newport – 1 p.m. start
  • No. 13 Sewanee vs. No. 28 Washington & Lee – 2 p.m. start
  • No. 10 Trinity (Tx.) vs. No. 25 MIT – 2 p.m. start
  • No. 9 Williams vs. No. 21 RPI – 2 p.m. start
  • No. 15 Johns Hopkins vs. No. 17 Mary Washington 2 p.m. start
  • No. 4 Bowdoin vs. Nichols – 10 a.m. start
  • No. 8 Swarthmore 5, No. 20 N.C. Wesleyan 2
  • No. 7 Middlebury 5, Allegheny 0 
  • No. 3 Case Western Reserve 5, Illinois Institute of Technology 0

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