From Carnegie Mellon University Athletics

The Carnegie Mellon University men's tennis team had three players compete at the 2015 NCAA Division III Men's Tennis Singles and Doubles Championships on Thursday, May 21 at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, Ohio. Senior Christian Heaney-Secord (Westwood, Mass./Westwood) and junior Abhishek Alla (Hyderabad, India/IMG Pendleton School) both earned All-America honors for their play.

Alla posted a 6-3, 6-4 first-round win against Colton Malesovas from Whitman College before winning 7-6(11-9), 7-6(7-4) against eighth-seeded Andrew Yaraghi of Amherst College to advance to the quarterfinals. Alla's quarterfinal match will put him against Warren Wood of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, seeded first, on Friday, May 22 at 10:00 a.m.

Heaney-Secord won his first-round match in three sets against Dan Carpenter of Trinity College in Connecticut, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. His round of 16 match put him against Skyler Butts a junior for Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. Although Heaney-Secord battled for a 7-6(7-5) first-set win, Butts was able to take the second set 7-5 before winning the third 6-1.

In the doubles championship, Heaney-Secord and fellow senior Will Duncan (Newbury Park, Calif./Newbury Park) paired against Palmer Campbell and Peter Heidrich of Middlebury College in the round of 16. The duo from Middlebury came out on top after a tightly contested three-set match. Campbell and Heidrich won the opening set 6-3 before Heaney-Secord and Duncan forced a third with their own 6-3 win in the second set. The third set went to Middlebury by the same 6-3 score.