No. 9 Men's Tennis vs. Emerson | Friday, April 3 | 11:45 a.m. | Babson Tennis Courts | Babson Park, Mass. 
at Wheaton | Friday, April 3 | 3:30 p.m. | Clark Tennis Courts | Norton, Mass. 
at Haverford | Saturday, April 4 | 2 p.m. | Bettye Marshall and Noram B. Bramall Tennis Courts | Haverford, Pa.

WHAT TO KNOW
•    After having Tuesday's match versus No. 28 MIT postponed due to rain, the Babson men's tennis team will return to action for the first time since March 21 with a pair of NEWMAC matches on Friday and a trip to Haverford on Saturday. 

SERIES HISTORY
vs. Emerson
•    Babson is 14-0 all-time against the Lions in a series that dates back to 2008.
•    The Beavers have blanked Emerson eight times over the last 11 matches between the teams. 
•    Alexander Weber '25, junior Mattias Harrell and sophomore Edward Wang all recorded victories in both singles and doubles to help the Green and White defeat the Lions, 6-1, on October 18, 2024, in Babson Park. 

vs. Wheaton
•    Babson is 25-10 all-time against the Lyons in a series that dates back to 1996.
•    The Beavers have won 14 consecutive matches and 17 of the last 19 contests versus Wheaton since 2008.
•    Senior Martin Mejia and Brady Anderson '25, Ole Lepsoe '25 and Wesley Zhang '25 posted wins in both singles and doubles as the Green and White dropped just one game in double and claimed all six singles matches in straight sets on the way to defeating Wheaton, 7-0, on April 6, 2025, in Babson Park. 

vs. Haverford
•    First meeting

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS
•    No. 9 Babson (8-3, 1-0 NEWMAC) has dropped back-to-back matches to top-10 foes after concluding the Stag-Hen Invitational with a 7-0 loss to seventh-ranked Bowdoin back on March 21. 
•    Both Wang and sophomore Sebastian Mendoza rallied force a third set in losses at number two and three singles, respectively, after the Beavers dropped two of the three doubles matches to the Polar Bears in tiebreakers. 
•    Senior Alexander Merson is 13-2 in all matches and 5-1 at number one singles, Wang is 10-5 overall with a 4-3 mark at number two, and both first-year Maxim Zlobinsky (9-4) and Mendoza (8-6) have recorded six victories in dual-match play. 
•    Merson and Zlobinsky is 6-2 in all matches and 3-1 at number one doubles, Wang and Mendoza (18-6) have gone 3-2 at number two this spring, and the duo of junior Louis Bourn and first-year Max Lidman is 2-1 at number three. 

SCOUTING EMERSON
•    The Lions (7-6, 2-1 NEWMAC) have won two straight matches and are coming off a 6-1 victory over Coast Guard on Sunday afternoon. 
•    Filippo Nocchi at number one, Connor Leung at number two and Adam Alireza at number three all rallied for three-set victories in singles as five different players recorded wins in both singles and doubles for the Lions. 
•    Nocchi is 10-3 at number one singles, Leung is 9-3 at number two, Alireza (8-3) has won five consecutive matches at number three and Tai Finestone is 10-5 overall with five wins at number four singles. 
•    Nocchi and Leung are 10-3 at number one doubles, Finestone and Cameron McAllister are 5-2 at number two and the duo of Alireza and Ciaden Riebold are 8-2 in all matches and 5-0 at number three doubles. 

SCOUTING WHEATON
•    The Lyons (6-3, 0-1 NEWMAC) dropped its conference opener 4-3 at Springfield to snap a four-match winning streak last Saturday against Springfield. 
•    Jaime Galligo and Landon Wyshner were 6-3 winners at number one doubles and also recorded victories at first and third singles, respectively, for Wheaton, which also got a three-set triumph from Paul Berteaux at number four singles in the loss to the Pride. 
•    Galligo is 6-2 at number one singles, Wysher is a perfect 8-0 at number two, Berteaux (7-1) is riding a five-match winning streak in all matches and Jake Murray (6-2) is 3-1 this spring at number five. 
•    Galligo and Wyshner have won four straight matches to improve to 7-3 at number one doubles, while Berteaux and Pablo Munoz are 3-4 with wins in both the second and third doubles slots. 

SCOUTING HAVERFORD
•    The Fords (6-8) had swept its last three matches before suffering a 5-2 loss at TCNJ on Wednesday afternoon. 
•    Caden Hsia and Lucio Kombo won 6-3 at number three doubles, while Niki Lavu and Robbie Vazquez recorded straight-set victories at first and third singles, respectively for the Haverford, which is 0-6 on the year against nationally-ranked foes. 
•    Lavu is 3-0 at number one singles and 9-2 on the year in all matches, Teo Bortan (6-5) owns victories at second through fifth singles, and Hsia and Stefan Johnson have both won four times in dual match play this season.
•    Vazquez and Marko Arboldea are 3-6 at number one doubles, Bortan and Johnson are 2-5 at number two and six different pairings have recorded a win at number three doubles. 

BEAVERS SWEEP NEWMAC WEEKLY HONORS
•    After defeating Whitman and Colorado College to being the trip before upsetting No. 2 Chicago in the opening round of the Stag-Hen Invitational back on 20, Babson swept last week's conference accolades. 
•    Mendoza was tabbed as the NEWMAC Player of the Week after going 2-2 at number three singles, which includes rallying for a 5-7, 6-2, 7-6 victory over Alexander Ekstrand to secure the clinching point in the Beavers' 4-3 triumph over Chicago. 
•    Merson and Zlobinsky went 3-1 at number one doubles including a 6-1 win over Chicago's pairing of Jack Wong and Robert Zhang and a 7-5 victory over Alex Ganchev and Sacha Maes of fifth-ranked Tufts in the Stag-Hen Tournament semifinals. 

MOVING UP THE CHARTS
•    Wang's 34 singles wins are tied for 10th on the Beavers' all-time list with Wesley Zhang '25, and his 36 doubles victories are also tied for 11th in program history with Saif Rahim '16 and Ben Roque '18.
•    Mendoza's 38 doubles wins currently rank ninth on Babson's career list, while Wang (70) and Merson (66) rank 11th and 13th, respectively, on the program's all-time combined wins chart. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    The Beavers have won 10 consecutive matches against NEWMAC foes going back to the start of last season. 
•    Babson is 3-3 versus top-30 teams this spring and has gone 11-6 against top-40 foes over the last two years. 
•    The Green and White is 6-1 this season when claiming the doubles point with the lone loss coming against fifth-ranked Tufts in the semifinals of the Stag-Hen Invitational back on March 21. 

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers will host No. 28 MIT on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m.