No. 11 Men's Tennis vs. No. 26 MIT | Tuesday, April 14 | 3 p.m. | Babson Tennis Courts | Babson Park, Mass. 
at Coast Guard | Wednesday, April 15 | 3:30 p.m. | Roland Hall Tennis Courts | New London, Conn. 

WHAT TO KNOW
•    The 11th-ranked Babson men's tennis team begins the final week of the regular season with back-to-back NEWMAC matches. 
•    The Beavers host 26th-ranked MIT on Tuesday in a match that will determine the top seed in the upcoming conference tournament before traveling to Coast Guard on Wednesday. 

SERIES HISTORY
vs. MIT
•    Babson owns just five wins in 64 all-time matches against MIT in a series that dates back to the 1983-84 campaign. 
•    The Beavers won both matchups between the teams last season, including defeating the Engineers for the first time in postseason history. 
•    Babson and MIT have split their last six matches since 2023 with the home team winning each of the last five. 

vs. Coast Guard
•    Babson is 26-7 against the Bears dating back to 2001.
•    The Beavers have won 18 of their last 19 matches versus Coast Guard with the only loss over the last 13 seasons coming in New London, Conn., in 2022.
•    The Green and White has won five matches in a row against the Bears over the last three seasons. 

LAST MEETING VS. MIT
•    Wesley Zhang '25 and sophomore Edward Wang recorded wins in both singles and doubles to help top-seeded Babson defeat second-seeded MIT, 4-1, in the NEWMAC Tournament final on April 28, 2025, in Babson Park. 
•    The duo combined for a 6-2 victory at number three doubles and both won in straight sets in singles with Zhang, the NEWMAC Tournament Most Outstanding Player, earning the clinching point with a 7-5, 6-4 triumph over Shrish Choudhary at number five. 
•    Sophomore Sebastian Mendoza also recorded a straight-set triumph at number six singles for the Green and White, while Kailas Kahler won 6-3, 6-2 at number one singles for the Engineers. 

LAST MEETING VS. COAST GUARD
•    Ole Lepsoe '25, Alexander Weber '25, and juniors Louis Bourn and Mattias Harrell all won in both singles and doubles as the Beavers cruised past the Bears 7-0 on April 1, 2025, in Babson Park. 
•    Babson dropped just four games across three doubles contests and won five of six singles matches in straight sets in addition to Lepsoe rallying for a 4-6, 6-3, 10-7 triumph over Ben Bonetto at number. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    No. 11 Babson (12-4, 4-0 NEWMAC) has won four of its last five matches after dispatching Clark, 6-1, on Saturday afternoon. 
•    Bourn, Mendoza and first-year Max Lidman were all victorious in both singles and doubles for the Beavers, who breezed through doubles and recorded five straight-set wins in singles. 
•    Senior Alexander Merson is 15-2 in all matches and 7-1 at number one singles, first-year Maxim Zlobinsky is 13-4 overall and 8-2 at first through four singles, and Wang (12-6) and Mendoza (11-7) are 5-4 at second and third singles, respectively. 
•    Merson and Zlobinsky are 8-3 overall and 5-2 at number one doubles, Mendoza and Wang are 21-6 in all matches and 6-2 at number two, and eight different duos have recorded at least one victory at number three doubles. 

SCOUTING THE ENGINEERS
•    No. 26 MIT (9-5, 4-0 NEWMAC) has won three of its last four matches and is coming off a 6-1 victory over Coast Guard on Saturday. 
•    Jeremy Yu and Nicholas Liu combined for a win at third doubles and followed it up with straight-set victories at number five and six singles as the Engineers remained unbeaten in league play. 
•    Hunter Liao is 12-4 in all matches and 5-2 this spring at number one singles, Tyler Li is 13-3 overall and 5-0 at number four singles, and Siddharth Marathe is 6-2 in dual-match singles play this spring. 
•    Adam Sun and Grant Gallagher are 8-9 overall and 6-7 at number one doubles, Li and Liao are 14-7 in all matches and 8-4 at number two, and the duo of Rushil Patel and Sanghyuk Im are 4-2 at number three doubles. 

SCOUTING THE BEARS
•    Coast Guard (2-7, 1-4 NEWMAC) has dropped back-to-back matches after suffering a 7-0 loss to No. 38 Vassar on Sunday afternoon. 
•    The closest match of the day came at number five singles where Konnor Eslinger forced a first-set tiebreaker before dropping a 7-6 (7-1), 6-0 decision. 
•    Ben Bonetto is 4-6 this spring at number one singles, while he and Brendan Love have gone 5-4 at number one doubles. 
•    The Bears enter the final week of the regular season needing wins over both Babson and Wheaton to claim a spot in upcoming NEWMAC Tournament. 

WANG AND MENDOZA REPEAT AS NEWMAC DOUBLES TEAM OF THE WEEK
•    Thanks to a 6-2 win over George Chaidemenos and Rex Harrison at number two in Friday's 4-3 loss at 20th-ranked Amherst, Babson's duo of Wang and Mendoza earned their second consecutive conference doubles team of the week honor on Monday. 
•    Mendoza's 24 doubles wins have already surpassed the Beavers' single-season record of 22 set by Merson last season, while Wang equaled the mark with Friday's win. 

DOWN TO THE WIRE
•    Entering the final week of the regular season, Babson, MIT and Springfield are all unbeaten in NEWMAC play and have secured a spot in next week's five-team conference tournament. 
•    The Beavers are seeking their second consecutive regular season conference title and third since 2023, MIT claimed its last regular season title in 2024 and Springfield must beat both Babson and the Engineers to capture its first regular season crown. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    Babson owns a 13-match winning streak against NEWMAC foes that dates back to the start of last season. 
•    The Beavers are 10-1 on the year when claiming the doubles point. 
•    The Green and White have won 17 straight matches at the Babson Tennis Courts dating back to April 22, 2023. 

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers are back at home on Thursday to host 25th-ranked Brandeis.