The Basics
• Score: #6 Johns Hopkins-6, Chapman-3
• Records: JHU (3-0) • CU (4-5)
• Location: Orange, CA • Anderson Tennis Center
• The Short Story: The sixth-ranked Johns Hopkins men's tennis team kicked off its California trip with a 6-3 win at Chapman Sunday afternoon.
 
How it Happened
• Hopkins took a 2-1 lead after doubles and then won four of six singles matches to take the win.
• Freshman Marco Azar and sophomore Rohan Reddy lost just one game as they beat Andy Hess and Julien Sanseverino at third doubles. Graduate student Vishnu Joshi and junior Alexander Kernagis then beat Josh Blinder and Kameron DeHart, 8-4, at second. The Panthers cut the Blue Jays' lead in half when Caleb Wilkins and Mac Caldwell edged sophomores James and Thomas Yu, 8-7 (4) at first.
• Joshi didn't lose a game in his win at second singles over Blinder to put JHU up 3-1. Junior Andrew Tran dropped just two games as he beat Mason Marks 6-2, 6-0 at sixth. Reddy earned a 6-1, 6-2 win over DeHart at third singles.
• Hess grabbed a point for Chapman with a 6-4, 6-3 win over senior Brian Wang at fifth. James Yu rallied for a win at fourth over Danny Marsh. He dropped the first set, 6-4, but won the second 6-4 and then took a third-set tiebreaker 1-0 (4). Wilkins picked up another point for the Panthers with a 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 win at first over Thomas Yu.
 
What it Means
• Sunday's match was the first-ever meeting between Hopkins and Chapman.
• Joshi moved into a tie for 13^th in school history with 47 career singles wins and is now tied for 22^nd with 44 career doubles wins. He now needs just nine wins to become the 15^th player in program history with 100 combined wins.
 
Up Next
• Hopkins returns to action on Monday, March 21 with a pair of matches against ranked opponents. Hopkins will take on 31^st-ranked UC Santa Cruz at 10:00 am PST and then 32^nd-ranked Cal Lutheran at 3:00 pm PST in Thousand Oaks, CA.
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