Box Score PHILADELPHIA, PA --- Cornell men's tennis earned third place at the ECAC Indoor Championships on Sunday as it defeated Penn 4-1 in the third place championship match. The Big Red improved its record to 7-3 with the win.
The match began with doubles play where the Big Red went 2-1.
Radu Papoe and
Nathan Mao defeated Parashar Bharadwaj and Tal Goodman in a tight battle 7-6(6) and
Jack McCarthy and
Adit Sinha defeated Manfredi Graziani and Shaurya Bhardwaj 7-5. Aaron Sandler and Sanjeev Chundu earned the lone doubles win for the Quakers as they defeated
Rushil Khosla and
Eric Verdes 6-3.
With Cornell ahead of Penn 1-0, singles play began. The Big Red went 3-1 in singles play with two matches going unfinished. McCarthy defeated Chundu 7-6, 6-4,
Adit Sinha defeated Goodman 6-1, 6-3 and
Nathan Mao defeated Justin Chung 6-3, 6-1.
S. Bharadwaj earned Penn its lone singles win defeating
Rodrigo Fernandes 6-4, 6-1.
Cornell will be back in action on Sunday, Feb. 23 at 11:00 a.m. against Michigan State at the Reis Tennis Center.