From Case Western Reserve University Athletics
The Case Western Reserve University men's tennis team swept all three doubles matches, and claimed wins in five of the six singles contests on Saturday night, as the sixth-ranked Spartans defeated New York University 8-1 at the Cleveland Racquet Club in Pepper Pike, Ohio.
The win raised the Spartans' overall record to 12-5 for the season, including a 9-2 record against NCAA Division III competition. NYU dropped to 2-5 for the year with the loss.
The Spartans jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the match with victories at each of the three doubles matches. In the first match, seniors CJ Krimbill and Louis Stuerke improved to 17-5 on the season with an 8-0 win over NYU's Sammy Aronson and Benedict Teoh. Junior James Fojtasek and Phil Gruber won their 11th-straight match and improved to 14-1 overall this year with an 8-2 win at second doubles over Sidd Thangirala and Shrikar Kundur, and freshmen John Benedetto and David Zakhodin rounded out the doubles sweep with an 8-3 win over Matt DeMichiel and Yanik Parsch at third doubles.
In singles play, Krimbill bested Thangirala 6-2, 6-1 in the first match, while Fojtasek added a 6-2, 6-1 win over Teoh at second singles. The Spartans picked up straight-set victories in the fifth and sixth singles matches, with junior Kevin Dong besting Parsch 6-2, 6-4, and junior Joshua Dughi defeating Aronson 6-0, 7-5, respectively. At fourth singles, Stuerke added a three-set win, 6-2, 4-6, 10-8, over Jiri Honajzer.
NYU would salvage a point at third singles, where DeMichiel picked up a three-set win, 0-6, 6-2, 6-4, over freshman Robert Stroup.