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No. 29 Men's Tennis Clinches First With Win

4/12/2022 7:05:00 PM

Box Score SCHENECTADY, N.Y. - The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) men's tennis team won all three doubles matches by a combined score of 24-5 and the No. 29 Engineers won five singles matches in defeating Union College 8-1 in a Liberty League contest on Tuesday afternoon. With the win, RPI improves to 10-2 overall and 6-0 in the conference, clinching first place in the regular season standings. The Dutchmen drop to 4-8 and 2-3.

Rensselaer's No. 2 doubles squad of Igor Visnevskij and Max Safanov gave the visitors the lead with an 8-1 win. Eddie Wu and Suhas Krishnan made it 2-0 with an 8-2 victory at No. 2 and Aiden Drover-Mattinen and Peter Lohrbach closed doubles with an 8-2 win of their own. 

Drover-Mattinen (No. 1), Visnevskij (No. 3) and Krishnan (No. 5) each went on to capture their singles matches in straight sets. Emilio Van Cotthem and Abraham Yohannes also earned wins, at No. 2 and No. 4, respectively.

The Engineers are right back on the court on Wednesday when they visit Bard College for a conference match.
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