Men's Tennis Starts UAAs With Upset Win

April 21 - (ATLANTA, Ga.) – Carnegie Mellon's men's tennis team opened the University Athletic Association Tournament with a 5-2 upset win over the third seeded and nationally ranked (29th) University of Chicago. The Tartans entered the tournament as the number six seed and move on to play Washington University of St. Louis, seeded second and a round one winner over Brandeis University, at 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Washington is also ranked in the nation, entering the tournament at number eight.

Doubles
No. 1 Ward Bortz/Vivek Venkataraman (UC) defeated Yiran Liu/Jordan Koslosky (CMU) 8-4
No. 2 Andrew Clearfield/Stephen Kuhn (CMU) defeated Joseph Tchan/Bharath Sithian (UC) 8-3
No. 3 Sasha Deriy/Alex Winney (UC) defeated Carl Yang/Dan Munoz (CMU) 8-4

Singles
No. 1 Yiran Liu (CMU) defeated Ward Bortz (UC) 6-3, 4-6, 7-5
No. 2 Andrew Clearfield (CMU) defeated Sasha Deriy (UC) 6-3, 6-3
No. 3 Vivek Venkataraman (UC) defeated Stephen Kuhn (CMU)6-2, 6-3
No. 4 Carl Yang (CMU) defeated Joe Tchan (UC) 6-4, 7-6 (8-6)
No. 5 Jordan Koslosky (CMU) defeated Bharath Sithian (UC) 6-3, 6-0
No. 6 Anthony Robinson (CMU) defeated Connor Farrell (UC) 6-3, 6-2