The Basics
• Location: Baltimore, MD • McClure Tennis Center
• The Short Story: The Johns Hopkins men's tennis team sent four teams to nearby Loyola for the Greyhounds Men's Tennis Classic. Three of those teams are still alive on the championship side of the bracket after day one.
 
How it Happened
• The invitational will be played as a Points of the Compass draw. At the end of each round, the winners continue their competition in the same direction, while the losers move to a traditional consolation bracket and then to satellite brackets that ensure each team will play four matches. The teams will play an eight-game pro-set doubles match, and the individuals will then face each other in best-of-three formats with the third set played as a super-tiebreaker.
• Juniors Robby Simon and Jack Hogan beat Prabh Bal and Sergui Medesan, 2-1, in the opening round. The Blue Jay pair beat the pair from Coppin State, 7-5, in the doubles match. Simon defeated Bal 6-0, 6-1 while Medesan beat Hogan 1-6, 6-2, 1-0 (3) in singles.
• Junior Eric Yoo and sophomore Naevin Anukornchaikul won 3-0 over Adria Aguila Guerrero and Nicolas Verdu of Harford Community College. The JHU duo took the doubles point with a 6-0 win. In singles, Yoo earned a 6-2, 6-1 win over Guerrero and Anukornchaikul defeated Verdu 7-6 (0), 6-2.
• Junior Aaron Wang and sophomore Eric Burrer dropped their first-round matchup to Nate Ferro and Grant Williford of Loyola, 2-1. The Greyhounds grabbed the doubles point with a 7-5 win. Ferro took a three-setter over Wang (6-3, 4-6, 1-0 (7)) while Burrer beat Williford 7-6 (5), 6-1 in singles.
• Sophomore Brian Wang and junior Alex Matisse had a first-round bye.
 
Up Next
• The Greyhounds Classic continues on Saturday, October 5.