Slugs Sweep Poets in Friday Afternoon Contest

Friday, February 21

Whittier, CA

12:00 PM

UC Santa Cruz Athletics

Whittier

2/21/2025 9:06:00 PM | Men's Tennis

WHITTIER, Ca. – The UC Santa Cruz men's tennis team earned a convincing 7-0 sweep over the Whittier Poets on Friday afternoon. The Banana Slugs will be back in action tomorrow with a match against Caltech at 2:00 p.m.

How It Happened
The Banana Slugs fought hard to sweep doubles with Benjamin Wang and Rocco Melendez winning 6-4 at No. 1 while Radin Sadeghi and Mayur Nookala earned a 7-5 victory at No. 2 doubles. Andrew Tjoa and Arjun Tandon also earned a 7-5 victory at No. 3 doubles to finish the sweep of the doubles matches.

The Banana Slugs on dropped one set in the singles matches with Hari Raghavan dropping the opening set of No. 3 singles before bouncing back to take two tightly contested sets 7-5 and 10-7 to pick up the win. The Slugs soared to victories in the remaining five matches with Radin Sadeghi and Andrew Tjoa highlighting the efforts with 6-1, 6-2 and 6-0, 6-3 wins respectively.