No. 15 Men's Tennis vs. No. 19 Brandeis
Thursday, April 16 | 3:30 p.m. 
Babson Tennis Courts | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
• Babson is 7-20 against Brandeis in a series that goes back to 1995. 
• The Beavers have won three in a row over the Judges the last three years after snapping a 16-match losing skid that lasted from 2004-2022.
• The Green and White's win at home in 2024 snapped a eight-match losing streak in Babson Park, where the Beavers are 3-9 all-time against the Judges.

LAST MEETING
• Senior Alexander Merson and sophomore Sebastian Mendoza produced victories in both singles and doubles as No. 11 Babson defeated No. 36 Brandeis, 5-2, on April 15, 2025 at the Cordish Tennis Center in Waltham.
• Wesley Zhang '25 and junior Mattias Harrell also recorded singles wins for the Beavers, and Ole Lepsoe '25 and Brady Anderson '25 were on winning doubles teams for the Green and White.
• Dylan Walters M'25 and sophomore Daniel Shemesh registered singles triumphs for the Judges, and junior Huasen Dong and sophomore Benjamin Kotzen were winners at number three doubles.

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
• No. 15 Babson (14-4, 6-0 NEWMAC) has won three straight and six of its last seven, including back-to-back conference victories on Tuesday vs. No. 26 MIT and Wednesday at Coast Guard, both by 5-2 scores.
• Senior Martin Mejia, junior Louis Bourn, and sophomore Mason Nguyen won matches in both singles and doubles in the victory over Coast Guard and sophomore Edward Wang did the same in the triumph over MIT. Graduate student Ryan Patrick also produced a singles win vs. Coast Guard and Merson, first-years Sourish Gadhi and Max Lidman prevailed in singles against MIT.
• Senior Alexander Merson (16-2) leads the team in singles wins, including 8-1 at number one. Wang (13-6) and Zlobinsky (13-5) are both 10-4 in dual matches, Wang in the top two flights and Zlobinsky in five different spots in the lineup. Gadhi (12-5), first-year Dylan O'Connell-DeCerchio (12-3) and Mendoza (11-9) all have double-digit singles victories this year.
• Merson and Zlobinsky are 8-4 in all matches and 5-3 at number one doubles, Wang and Mendoza (22-6) have gone 7-2 this spring at number two and nine different pairings have accounted for the team's 10 victories at number three doubles, which includes Bourn and Lidman winning twice. 

SCOUTING THE JUDGES
• No. 19 Brandeis (10-4, 0-0 UAA) has won its last three matches including a 6-1 verdict over Rochester last Saturday in Waltham in a match that will help determine seeding for the 2026 University Athletic Association tournament.
• After taking the first point of the match by sweeping doubles and losing just four games in total, the Judges secured the victory with five singles wins, including four in straight sets. Junior Pierce Garbett took the match at number two, first-year Oliver Lorenz won at number four, Dong clinched the team victory at number three just before Shemesh finished his win at number one. Sophomore Aidan Wang-Fan closed out the win with the day's longest match in a third-set super-tiebreaker at number five.
• Lorenz (17-4) and Shemesh (17-4) are tied for the most singles wins on the team, including Shemsh's 10-3 dual match record at number one. Dong (13-7) and Garbett (13-7) are tied for third-most singles wins, including Garbett's 9-4 mark at number two. First-year Muaz Malik (11-8) and Wang-Fan (11-8) are tied for fifth on the team in singles wins.
• Dong and Malik are 7-5 at number three doubles, Shemesh and Lorenz are 4-5 at number one and Wang-Fan and Garbett are 4-4 at number two.

SAME FACES, NEW PLACES
• Babson is happy to welcome back Brandeis head coach Alan Dubrovsky, who is in his first season with the Judges after serving three years as the Beavers' associate head coach for both men and women.
• Dubrovsky helped both Babson teams reach Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) national rankings and make NCAA Tournament appearances while coaching numerous All-Americans and earning the 2025 ITA Division III National Assistant Coach of the Year honors in the process.
• Merson will also take the court against his former team as he played for the Judges in 2022-23 before transferring to Babson in 2024.

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. 

NATIONALLY RANKED FOES
• The match against No. 19 Brandeis is the ninth match this spring for Babson against teams that are in the ITA Top 30 Team Rankings.
• The Beavers are 4-4 thus far with wins over No. 20 Rensselaer, No. 27 NYU, No. 2 Chicago and No. 26 MIT, two losses to No. 3/5 Tufts and one each to No. 7 Bowdoin and No. 20 Amherst.

MOVING UP THE CHARTS
• Wang and Mendoza have won 22 doubles matches this season, which is the most by a pairing in single-season program history.
• Merson's 16 singles wins this spring is tied for sixth on the program's single-season list,
• Wang (77), Mendoza (74) and Merson (71) all rank between seventh and 12th in Babson's career combined victories.

NUMBERS TO KNOW
• Babson owns a 15-match winning streak against NEWMAC foes that dates back to the start of last season. 
• The Beavers are 12-1 on the year when claiming the doubles point. 
• The Green and White have won 18 straight matches at the Babson Tennis Courts dating back to April 22, 2023. 

UP NEXT
• The Beavers will wrap up the regular season on Saturday when they host Springfield at 10:30 a.m., and can clinch their second straight NEWMAC regular season title with a victory.