CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Six different players won a pair of matches and the Babson College men's tennis team won seven of eight doubles matches to conclude the MIT Invitational on Sunday afternoon inside the JB Carr Tennis Bubble.
First-years
Saje Menon (Mineola, N.Y.) and
Lucas Velasco (Miami Beach, Fla.) opened the day with an 8-3 victory to help the Beavers sweep all four matches against Colby and then were 8-6 winners over Hunter Liao and Grant Gallagher of MIT in the afternoon session. Sophomores
Sourish Gadhi (Morganville, N.J.) and
Rishi Batlanki (Monroe Township, N.J.) also went unbeaten on the day an 8-3 victory over the Mules and an 8-6 triumph of Tyler Li and Kaden Chen of the Engineers.
Junior
Sebastian Mendoza (Weston, Fla.) recorded back-to-back victories for the Green and White, pairing with classmate
Louis Bourn (Geneva, Switzerland) for an 8-2 win over Coly and then partnered with first-year
Andre Ziskind (Hilton Head Island, S.C.) to beat Adam Sun and Shrish Choudhary of MIT in the afternoon, 8-3. Ziskind also teamed up with junior
Mason Nguyen (El Dorado Hills, Calif.) for an 8-5 triumph in the victory over Colby.
The lone loss of the day came in the afternoon session against MIT as Gary Jiang and Sanghyuk Im edged Nguyen and first-year
Eric Gunawan (Jakarta, Indonesia), 8-6.
Babson is back in action next Saturday when it opens NEWMAC play at Salve Regina in addition to competing at the Boston University Invite.