Men's tennis battles No. 9 Sagehens in dual loss

Saturday, February 18

Claremont, CA

3:00 PM

UC Santa Cruz Athletics

Pomona-Pitzer

Varade secured a huge win in a three-set marathon

2/18/2023 6:32:00 PM | Men's Tennis

CLAREMONT - UC Santa Cruz got some extra tennis in their 8-1 loss to ninth-ranked Pomona-Pitzer on Saturday.
The Sagehens swept the doubles matches, which didn't finish until the duo of Eshaan Lumba and Matthew Feng survived Sam Hall and Andre Mardirossian 8-7 on a tiebreaker. Lumba and Feng entered the Spring as the eighth-ranked doubles pair in the country.

In singles play, the Banana Slugs took four of the six matches to a tiebreaker or third set. Hall and his Pomona counterpart Kush Patel battled for over 90 minutes before Patel edged Hall on a tiebreaker. The match finished with Praneet Varade securing UC Santa Cruz a point at No. 4 after his match with Ethan Lee went two hours.

UC Santa Cruz finishes the roadtrip on Monday against Occidental College.

Singles
1	Hayden Snyder (PP) def. Lucas Chen 6-2, 6-3
2	Mukund Madabhushi (PP) def. Andre Mardirossian 7-5, 7-6
3	Kush Patel (PP) def. Sam Hall 2-6, 7-6, 7-5
4	Praneet Varade (UCSC) def. Ethan Lee 6-3, 3-6, 7-6
5	Matthew Feng (PP) def Andrew Tjoa 7-5, 6-4
6	Neil Chulani (PP) def. Ryan Lam 7-6, 3-6, 10-2
	Order of finish: 1,5,2,3,6,4
Doubles
1	Madabhushi/Snyder (PP) def. Tjoa/Chen (UCSC) 8-4
2	M. Feng/Lumba (PP) def. Mardirossian /Hall (UCSC) 8-7
3	Kelley/Patel (PP) def. Varade/Lam (UCSC) 8-3
	Order of finish: 3,1,2