CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Cornell men's tennis won six of its seven singles openers and four of its five doubles matches Friday on the second day of the 2026 ITA Division I Men's New England Regional Championship at Harvard.

Junior Rodrigo Fernandes, the tournament's top singles seed and No. 16 nationally, opened with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Yale's Krish Gupta. Senior Eric Verdes, the ninth seed, dropped just two games in a 6-1, 6-1 win over Binghamton's Filipe Costa.

Freshman Cezar Papoe, seeded fourth and ranked No. 100 nationally, lost the second set to Bryant's Manveer Boparai before closing out the match with a 6-0 third set. Junior Rushil Khosla also needed three sets, recovering from a first-set loss to beat Dartmouth's Adrian Treacy, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2.

Fifth-seeded sophomore Rethin Pranav Senthil Kumar beat Boston College's Carlos Braun Simo, 6-2, 6-4. Eighth-seeded freshman David Cristian Carteputreda added a 6-3, 6-3 win over Sacred Heart's Tomasz Garbacs, a day after he and freshman Greg Bernadsky won their doubles opener in his collegiate debut.

Senior Felipe Pinzon, the 11th seed, fell 6-4, 6-4 to Brown's Justin Lin.

In doubles, Verdes and Fernandes, the top seed and No. 57 nationally, opened with an 8-0 shutout of Marist's Gregor Heinemann and Fateh Singh. Second-seeded Khosla and Senthil Kumar, ranked No. 67, beat Quinnipiac's Milan Radojicic and Prithvi Sudhakar, 8-1.

Bernadsky and Carteputreda upset 10th-seeded Calvin Wang and Dillon Beckles of Dartmouth, 8-6. Pinzon and Papoe, the seventh seed, edged Colgate's Wittman Bulger and Wesley Nichols, 8-7 (3), in Papoe's first doubles match for the Big Red.

Sophomores Jack Casciato and Nathan Gold fell 8-0 to host Harvard's third-seeded Rohan Murali and Kolos Kincses, who are ranked No. 74 nationally. Gold's singles play at the regional is complete, as each player in the qualifying consolation bracket is guaranteed two matches.

Saturday is a full day for the Big Red, with the doubles round of 32 in the morning followed by two rounds of singles. Verdes and Fernandes face Quinnipiac's Elias Hoxha and Finn Burridge, Bernadsky and Carteputreda meet Colgate's Parker McGowan and Tim Vargas, Pinzon and Papoe take on Siena's Mateja Stefanovic and Mars Argun, and Khosla and Senthil Kumar draw Merrimack's Arjun Bhatia and Bjorn Hedegaard-Friis.

In the singles round of 32, Fernandes faces Harvard's David Wu, Verdes meets Brown's James Lian and Carteputreda takes on Dartmouth's Leo Pade. Khosla draws seventh-seeded Edward Liao of Yale, Papoe meets Yale's Magnus Weng and Senthil Kumar faces Harvard's Zachary Cohen. The round of 16 follows later in the day.

ITA Division I Men's New England Regional Championship

Friday, Oct. 9 – Results
Doubles – Round of 64
[1] #57 Eric Verdes/Rodrigo Fernandes (Cornell) def. Gregor Heinemann/Fateh Singh (Marist), 8-0
[3] #74 Rohan Murali/Kolos Kincses (Harvard) def. Jack Casciato/Nathan Gold (Cornell), 8-0
Greg Bernadsky/David Cristian Carteputreda (Cornell) def. [10] Calvin Wang/Dillon Beckles (Dartmouth), 8-6
[7] Felipe Pinzon/Cezar Papoe (Cornell) def. Wittman Bulger/Wesley Nichols (Colgate), 8-7 (3)
[2] #67 Rushil Khosla/Rethin Pranav Senthil Kumar (Cornell) def. Milan Radojicic/Prithvi Sudhakar (Quinnipiac), 8-1

Singles – Round of 64
[1] #16 Rodrigo Fernandes (Cornell) def. Krish Gupta (Yale), 6-2, 6-2
[9] Eric Verdes (Cornell) def. Filipe Costa (Binghamton), 6-1, 6-1
[8] David Cristian Carteputreda (Cornell) def. Tomasz Garbacs (Sacred Heart), 6-3, 6-3
Rushil Khosla (Cornell) def. Adrian Treacy (Dartmouth), 5-7, 6-4, 6-2
[4] #100 Cezar Papoe (Cornell) def. Manveer Boparai (Bryant), 6-4, 2-6, 6-0
[5] Rethin Pranav Senthil Kumar (Cornell) def. Carlos Braun Simo (Boston College), 6-2, 6-4
Justin Lin (Brown) def. [11] Felipe Pinzon (Cornell), 6-4, 6-4

Singles – Consolation Round of 32-Q
[11] Felipe Pinzon (Cornell) def. Tej Bhagra (Brown), walkover

Saturday, Oct. 10 – Schedule
All times are tentative and subject to change.
Doubles – Round of 32
9 a.m. – [1] #57 Eric Verdes/Rodrigo Fernandes (Cornell) vs. Elias Hoxha/Finn Burridge (Quinnipiac)
9 a.m. – Greg Bernadsky/David Cristian Carteputreda (Cornell) vs. Parker McGowan/Tim Vargas (Colgate)
9 a.m. – [7] Felipe Pinzon/Cezar Papoe (Cornell) vs. Mateja Stefanovic/Mars Argun (Siena)
10 a.m. – [2] #67 Rushil Khosla/Rethin Pranav Senthil Kumar (Cornell) vs. Arjun Bhatia/Bjorn Hedegaard-Friis (Merrimack)

Singles – Round of 32
10 a.m. – [1] #16 Rodrigo Fernandes (Cornell) vs. David Wu (Harvard)
10 a.m. – [9] Eric Verdes (Cornell) vs. James Lian (Brown)
10 a.m. – [8] David Cristian Carteputreda (Cornell) vs. Leo Pade (Dartmouth)
11:30 a.m. – Rushil Khosla (Cornell) vs. [7] Edward Liao (Yale)
11:30 a.m. – [4] #100 Cezar Papoe (Cornell) vs. Magnus Weng (Yale)
11:30 a.m. – [5] Rethin Pranav Senthil Kumar (Cornell) vs. Zachary Cohen (Harvard)

Singles – Round of 16
1 p.m. – Fernandes/Wu winner vs. [16] Robert Yang (Brown)/Bruno Loch Varella (Siena) winner
1 p.m. – Verdes/Lian winner vs. [3] #44 Nathan Blokhin (Harvard)/Gautam S Venkatraman (Brown) winner
1 p.m. – Carteputreda/Pade winner vs. [10] Mitchell Lee (Harvard)/Lucas Kimelman (Brown) winner
2:30 p.m. – Khosla/Liao winner vs. Bryan Assi (Yale)/[12] Kolos Kincses (Harvard) winner
2:30 p.m. – Papoe/Weng winner vs. Kornel Halmos (Dartmouth)/Mathis Salvestre (Buffalo) winner
2:30 p.m. – Senthil Kumar/Cohen winner vs. William Zhang (Yale)/[15] Dillon Beckles (Dartmouth) winner