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LATHAM, N.Y. - The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) women's tennis team played its first dual match of the season and the Engineers dropped a close contest to Oneonta, 5-4, at Tri City Fitness. While the Engineers fall to 0-1, the Red Dragons improve to 6-0.

RPI, which had a match rained out last week, jumped out to a 1-0 lead with a win by Nisha Rajamohan and Andrea Valencia at No. 2 doubles, but the Red Dragons captured the other two heading into singles. 

Valencia tied things up with a straight sets win at No. 4 and freshman Sanjana Surapeneni put the home team in front 3-2 with a win at No. 5. However, Oneonta won two of the final three matches, including a third set tiebreaker at No. 6, for the victory. 

DOUBLES
1. Alyssa Brault & Julieta Eulau (ONE) def. Sonya Khudyakov & Brenda Peng: 9-7
2. Nisha Rajamohan & Andrea Valencia (RPI) def. Olivia Fraser & Mya Lipscomb: 8-4
3. Madeline Carswell & Alexandra Dratch (ONE) def. Tess Lubin & Elly Klages: 9-8 (4)

SINGLES
1. Eulau (ONE) def. Khudyakov: 1-6, 2-3 (retired)
2. Lubin (RPI) def. Breault: 6-4, 6-3
3. Lipscomb (ONE) def. Junjia Lyu: 7-6, 6-2 
4. Valencia (RPI) def. Fraser: 6-2, 6-3
5. Sanjana Surapeneni (RPI) def. Dratch: 6-4, 3-6, 1-0 (5)
6. Carswell (ONE) def. Jolee McCluskey: 7-6 (4), 4-6, 0-1 (8)

ORDER OF FINISH
2, 3, 1 ... 4, 1, 5, 3, 2, 6

RPI returns to the courts this weekend at the ITA Regional Tournament hosted by William Smith College.