Saturday, March 7
Santa Cruz, Ca.
3:00 PM
UC Santa Cruz Athletics
2
vs
5
Sewanee
Banana Slugs Fall to No. 21 Sewanee on Saturday Afternoon
3/7/2026 8:40:00 PM | Men's Tennis
SANTA CRUZ, Ca. - The UC Santa Cruz men's tennis team fell to No. 21 Sewanee 5-2 at their home opener on Saturday afternoon. Losing the doubles point and clinching Benjamin Wang and Rocco Melendez No. 1 doubles match at 4-4. Benjamin Wang and Caden Wong fought hard, forcing and winning the third set match at the No. 1 and No. 4 spots. The Banana Slugs will next host Occidental on March 9th at 11:00am.Â
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UC Santa Cruz 2, Sewanee 5
Doubles:
Singles:
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UC Santa Cruz 2, Sewanee 5
Doubles:
- Peter Liang and Gavin Sontag fell 6-2 at No. 2 before Spencer Hidas and Caden Wong battled a close 6-4 on court three.
- The Banana Slugs and Tigers went unfinished at No. 1 doubles with Benjamin Wang and Rocco Melendez ending in 4-4.
Singles:
- Rocco Melendez dropped back to back 6-1 sets with Hari Raghavan finishing shortly after, falling in his No. 5 match at 6-3, 6-2.
- Peter Liang lost in the No. 6 spot, dropping the match 6-1, 6-2.
- In the No. 2 spot, Gavin Sontag dropped back to back 6-3 sets.
- Caden Wong forced a third set in the No. 4 match, winning the match after an unfinished third set (Sewanee Ret.) 1-6, 6-3, 0-0.
- In the No. 1 spot, Benjamin Wang prevailed forcing a third set. Wang fell 7-5 in set one before storming back to take set two 6-1. They played a tiebreaker for the third set with Wang coming away with the 10-8 win to clinch his match.
Team Stats
#1 Doubles Match
1
Andre-Remi Jakobi/ Samuel Schroerlucke [3vyn5j1osqj6ct64]
4
4
#2 Doubles Match
#3 Doubles Match
Order of Finish:
1,3
#1 Singles Match
123
Andre-Remi Jakobi / 0 [3vyn5j1osqj6ct64]
710
561
#2 Singles Match
123
Henry Hyden / 0 [3vyn5j1osqj6ct64]
660
330
#3 Singles Match
123
Samuel Schroerlucke / 0 [3vyn5j1osqj6ct64]
660
110
#4 Singles Match
123
Lucas Wrigley / 0 [3vyn5j1osqj6ct64]
660
130
#5 Singles Match
123
Max Verellen / 0 [3vyn5j1osqj6ct64]
660
320
#6 Singles Match
123
Drew Rukavina / 0 [3vyn5j1osqj6ct64]
660
120
Order of Finish:
5,6,2,4,1
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