The Basics
• Score: Johns Hopkins-5, Williams-4
• Records: JHU (11-0) • WC (8-2)
• Location: Chattanooga, TN • Champions Club
• The Short Story: The Johns Hopkins men's tennis team accomplished a pair of firsts on Monday afternoon. For the first time in program history, the Blue Jays came back from a 4-0 deficit and won an NCAA Quarterfinal match. Hopkins rallied to defeat Williams, 5-4, to advance to the NCAA Semifinals.
 
How it Happened
• The Ephs swept the doubles matches to take a seemingly commanding 3-0 lead heading into singles. Chase Cohen and Austin Barr grabbed the first point of the match when they beat freshmen Arjun Asokumar and Daniel Ardila, 8-5, at second doubles. Noah Reich and Karan Amin then won 8-6 over senior Vishnu Joshi and sophomore Alexander Kernagis at third. Calvin Chung and Arturo Karn completed the sweep with a close 8-7 (7) win over freshmen James and Thomas Yu at first.
• Williams pushed its lead to 4-0 in the match when Cohen defeated James Yu 6-2, 6-0 at fourth singles. And that's when the comeback began. Sophomore Andrew Tran handed Amin a 6-4, 6-0 loss at sixth singles to get Hopkins on the board. Thomas Yu then earned the first of four three-set wins for the Blue Jays. After dropping his first set 6-4, Yu lost just one game en route to a 4-6, 6-0, 6-1 win at third over Chung to make it a 4-2 match.
• Asokumar followed with a 6-4, 1-6, 6-1 win at second over Barr and the Ephs' lead was down to just one. Joshi then beat Karn 6-2, 3-6, 6-0 at first and just like that, the match was tied at four, and all eyes turned to court number five. Ardila had taken the first set over Reich, 6-3. But the Eph senior battled back to win the second set 6-1 and was up 5-1 in the third. Ardila wasn't going down without a fight however. He fought back to force a tiebreak, which he won 7-3 to send the Blue Jays to the NCAA Semifinals for the first time in program history
 
What it Means
• Hopkins beat Williams for the first time in just the second-ever meeting between the two schools.
• This is Hopkins' fifth trip to the NCAA Quarterfinals and its first-ever win. The Blue Jays are now 21-14 all-time in the NCAA Tournament.
 
Up Next
• Hopkins will face Emory in the national semifinals on Tuesday, May 25 at 2:00 pm. This will be the 10^th meeting between the two and the second in the NCAAs.