The Basics
• Score: #20 Johns Hopkins-9, Gettysburg-0
• Records: JHU (14-1, 4-1 CC) • GC (8-8, 1-6 CC)
• Location: Baltimore, MD • JHU Tennis Courts
• The Short Story: The 20th-ranked Johns Hopkins men's tennis team lost a total of just 14 games as the Blue Jays cruised to a 9-0 win over the Gettysburg Bullets Thursday afternoon in Centennial Conference action.
 
How it Happened
• Hopkins jumped out to a 3-0 lead with a doubles sweep. Sophomores Daniel Ardila and Thomas Yu earned a quick 8-0 win over Alex Kagan and Michael Zayneh at first. Sophomore Marco Azar and senior Ryan Hellinger then beat Alec Shaik and Hayden Strittmatter 8-1 at third. Junior Andrew Tran and Brian Wang closed out doubles with an 8-3 defeat of Michael Fellman and Matt Rau at second.
• Junior Alexander Kernagis quickly pushed the Blue Jays to a 4-0 lead in the match as he shutout Rau at fourth singles. Wang then clinched the win when he beat Zayneh by the same score at third. Yu then defeated Kagan 6-1, 6-1 at first to make it 6-0 Hopkins.
• Sophomore Karan Belday followed with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Jeffrey Seybolt at sixth. Sophomore Nick Charanjiva beat Strittmatter 6-1, 6-0 at fifth and Ardila wrapped up the shutout with a 6-0, 6-4 win over Fellman at second.
 
What it Means
• Hopkins improves to 58-17 all-time against Gettysburg and has won 24 straight over the Bullets.
• Yu now has 22 singles wins on the season, two shy of the school single-season record. With 21 doubles wins, Yu is just the fourth player in program history with 20 singles wins and 20 doubles wins in the same season.
 
Up Next
• Hopkins is right back in action on Friday, April 29 with a pair of split squad matches. JHU will host Franklin & Marshall and will also travel to Carlisle, PA to take on Dickinson.
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