Men's Tennis | 3/26/2022 7:30:00 PM

Box Score LATHAM, N.Y. - Suhas Krishnan and Eddie Wu combined for an 8-1 win at No. 3 doubles and the No. 27 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) men's tennis team won each of the six singles matches in straight sets to defeat St. Lawrence University 9-0 in a Liberty League match at Tri-City Fitness. RPI improves to 5-2 overall and 2-0 in the conference, while the Saints fall to 5-5 and 1-2.

Following a sweep of the doubles, which featured a win in a tiebreak by Igor Visnevskij and Max Safanov at No. 2, the Engineers dropped a total of only 18 games in singles. They had only one game lost at No. 1 and No. 2 and just two games lost at No. 4.

RENSSELAER 9, ST. LAWRENCE 0
March 26, 2022 at Tri-City Fitness

1. Aiden Drover-Mattinen & Peter Lohrbach (RPI) def. Ben Moolman & Nathan Turtledove: 8-6
2. Igor Visnevskij & Max Safanov (RPI) def. Adam Heibronner & Broderick Pinto: 8-7 (6)
3. Suhas Krishnan & Eddie Wu (RPI) def. Nico Haet & John Hill-Edgar: 8-1

1. Drover-Mattinen (RPI) def. Turtledove: 6-0, 6-1
2. Emilio Van Cotthem (RPI) def. Mooman: 6-1, 6-0
3. Visnevskij (RPI) def. Haet: 7-6, 6-0
4. Abraham Yohannes (RPI) def. Edvin Strandberg: 6-1, 6-1
5. Krishnan (RPI) def. Heilbronner: 6-3, 6-2
6. Lohrbach (RPI) def. Pinto: 6-1, 6-2

Rensselaer is back in action on Sunday when it faces MIT at 2pm at Tri-City Fitness. St. Lawrence is idle until April 2 when it travels to Bard for a league match.