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Tasmay Shah
Perry Laskaris '07
Tasmay Shah
0
Skidmore SKD (6-12)
5
Winner RPI RPI (16-1)
Skidmore SKD
(6-12)
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Final
5
RPI RPI
(16-1)
Winner

Match Recap: Men's Tennis | | Brett Bosley, Senior Athletic Communications Specialist

No. 22 Men's Tennis Advances to Championship Match

Engineers Top Skidmore to Advance to Sunday's Championship

ITHACA, N.Y. - Thanks to a clean sweep in doubles play, the No. 22 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) men's tennis team advanced to their sixth straight Liberty League Championship match with a 5-0 win over Skidmore in the semifinal match on Saturday. The win also makes it 14 straight victories for the Engineerrs as well.

Aiden Drover-Mattinen and Andy Zhu teamed up for an 8-1 win at No. 1 singles before the other two groups battled for victory. Joel McCandless and Tsubi Okada took an 8-5 victory before Bryce Burnham and Jonathan McMillan gutted out an 8-7 (4) win at No. 3 doubles.

With the 3-0 lead, RPI needed just two points in singles to clinch the match, and got just that from Tasmay Shah and Okada. Shah came through at No. 6 singles with a 6-2, 6-0 win to get match point before Okada collected a 7-5, 6-2 win to take the match. All other matchups went unfinshed.

RPI will meet Vassar College for the Liberty League Championship on Sunday morning at 9 a.m. from the Reis Tennis Center in Ithaca.
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