SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) men's tennis team turned in a busy weekend of action at the ITA Northeast Regional, competing across both main and secondary draws in singles and doubles competition against a strong regional field.
In main draw singles,
Gustave Viennet and
Quoc-Uy Vo each advanced into the Round of 16 with multiple match victories. Viennet opened his run with a 7-6 (7-1), 6-3 win over Michael Georgelis and followed it up with a hard-fought three-set triumph over Rochester's Rahul Ravi (6-4, 2-6, 10-6), before falling to Ithaca's Ivan Kisic (6-3, 6-0) in the third round.
Vo defeated Juan Mendoza (Baruch) 6-2, 3-6, 10-4, then edged Vassar's Nolan Kubiak in another three-set battle (6-2, 2-6, 11-9). He went on to defeat Nathan Chan (TCNJ) in straight sets (6-3, 6-1) to reach the quarterfinals, where his run ended with a 6-3, 6-2 loss to Hamilton's Tarun Korwar, the eventual singles champion.
Elsewhere in main draw play,
Tasmay Shah earned a convincing 6-1, 6-1 opening round victory over Aidan Twamley of TCNJ before narrowly falling to Eugene Lee (Vassar) in a pair of tight sets, 7-5, 7-5.
Sid Srinivasan and
Tsubasa Okada both dropped first round matches, Srinivasan to Hobart's Jacob Linares (6-2, 6-0) and Okada in a closely contested 7-5, 4-6, 10-7 decision to Hamilton's Ansen Anderson.
In the B draw,
Aiden Atri advanced to the quarterfinals after rallying to defeat Bruce Lunder (Skidmore) 4-6, 6-3, 10-8, before falling in a third-set superbreaker to Rochester's Tony Xu (6-3, 3-6, 10-3).
Debarshi Sen exited in the first round, falling to Union's Vivian Gupta, 6-1, 6-1.
On the doubles court, RPI produced several competitive pairings. Viennet and Vo opened with an 8-6 win over Hamilton's Anderson and Korwar before being eliminated by Skidmore's Yuval Goodman and Harrison Gradin, 8-1, in the quarterfinals. Shah and Okada rolled through Bard's Oh and Borshchev, 8-0, but were narrowly edged 8-6 by Hamilton's Katelevsky and Chavez in their next match.
In B draw doubles, the tandem of Atri and
Cade Collingwood notched an 8-4 victory over Rochester's Xia and Swartz before dropping a tight quarterfinal match, 8-6, to Hamilton's Moeller and Fernandez Lecaroz.
Debarshi Sen teamed with
Felix Puyplat for a strong run, taking down Hobart's Martinez and Staunton 8-2 and TCNJ's D'Souza and Schuster 8-3 to reach the semifinals, where their tournament came to a close in an 8-4 loss to Rochester's Ravi and Chu.
