WELLESLEY, Mass.—No. 3 Tufts University got wins at both singles and doubles from four different players on the way to defeating No. 25 Babson College, 7-0, in non-conference men's tennis action on Sunday night inside the Longfellow Tennis Club.
 
Babson, which suffered its first loss of the season, is now 5-1 overall. Tufts, which reached the NCAA quarterfinals last season, opens the spring at 1-0.
 
The Beavers suffered a pair of close losses in doubles as the Jumbos won all three matches to earn the first point of the contest. Senior Brady Anderson (Rochester, N.Y.) and first-year Sebastian Mendoza (Weston, Fla.) suffered a 6-2 setback at number two, senior Ole Lepsoe (Oslo, Norway) and junior Alexander Merson (Palisades Park, N.J.) dropped a 6-4 decision at number one to Division III's top-ranked pairing of Sacha Maes (New York, N.Y.) and Alex Ganchev (Plovdiv, Bulgaria), and the Tufts' duo of Andrej Djokic (Brcko, Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Nico Tremblay (Darwin, Australia) rallied for a 7-5 victory over Babson senior Wesley Zhang (Staten Island, N.Y.) and first-year Edward Wang (Burr Ridge, Ill.) at number three.
 
Despite a couple of close battles, the Green and White dropped all six matches in straight sets. Anderson suffered a 6-4, 6-4 setback to Javier Gonzalez (Valencia, Spain) at number two, Djokic edged Merson 6-4, 7-5 at number four and Medoza lost a first-set tiebreaker and fell 7-6, 6-3 to Maes at number five.
 
Lepsoe lost to Vuk Vuksanovic (Bar, Montenegro) 6-1, 6-2 at number one, Wang was beaten 6-1, 6-0 by Garv Bahl (Dubai, UAE) at number three and sophomore Louis Bourn (Geneva, Switzerland) fell to Stavros Mastrogamvrakis (Athens, Greece) 6-1, 6-1 at number six.
 
Babson returns to action on March 16 when it takes on No. 5 Middlebury in Claremont, Calif., while Tufts travels to Cambridge to face No. 23 MIT next Saturday.