UC Santa Cruz opened their Spring season with an entertaining 5-4 home win over Menlo College on Sunday afternoon.
The Banana Slugs opened with a 3-0 sweep in doubles, topped with Andrew Tjoa and Lucas Chen winning 8-7 at No. 1.
However, Menlo's seasoned International student-athletes captured the first two singles matches. Sam Hall won at No. 3 singles in a tie-breaker to make it 4-2. However, the Oaks took the next two singles matches to tie the overall dual at 4-4.

The dual match came down to Praneet Varade at No. 6 singles, but he defeated the Oaks' Erkin Tootoonchi 6-2, 6-0 to give UC Santa Cruz the win. 
The Banana Slugs take a three-match roadtrip next weekend, beginning Friday the 17th at 16th-ranked Caltech.
 

Singles
1	Luis Hochenauer (MC) def. Lucas Chen 7-5, 6-2
2	Saar Rogovski (MC) def. Andre Mardirossian 7-5, 6-3
3	Sam Hall (UCSC) def. David Mulas Zelenskaya 3-6, 6-3, 1-0
4	Angel Roldan (MC) def. Andrew Tjoa 6-0, 6-3
5	Ruben Russwurm (MC) def. Ryan Lam 6-2, 6-2
6	Praneet Varade (UCSC) def. Erkin Tootoonchi 6-2, 6-0
Doubles
1	Tjoa/Chen (UCSC) def.Hochenauer/ Mulas Zelenskaya 8-7 (7-2)
2	Mardirossian /Hall (UCSC) def. Roldan/Rogovski
3	Varade/Lam (UCSC) def. Tootoonchi/Rezaeinezhad