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Match Recap: Men's Tennis | | Jill Guise - Assistant Director of Athletic Communications

Johns Hopkins Tops Morgan State and Dickinson

BALTIMORE, MD – The eighth-ranked Johns Hopkins men's tennis team picked up a pair of road wins on Wednesday at Morgan State and Dickinson. The Blue Jays beat the Bears, 6-1, and shutout the Red Devils, 9-0, to improve to 14-3 overall and 5-1 in the Centennial Conference.
 
Hopkins won all three doubles matches to take the first point of the match. James and Thomas Yu beat Makkijha Brown and Martial Kawunde, 6-4, at first doubles. Daniel Ardila and Jonathan Zhang defeated Niles Rachel and Rhajzon Rankins, 7-5, at second. And at third, Marco Azar and George Jiang won 7-6 (5) over Mikeal Carpenter and Bertin Karenzi.
 
The Blue Jays and Bears split a pair of three-setters at first and second singles, with the remaining four singles matches decided in straight sets. Carpenter earned Morgan State's only point of the match with a 6-7 (4), 6-3, 1-0 (3) win over Thomas Yu at first. Zhang rallied to beat Rankins 3-6, 6-2, 1-0 (6) at second. Mason Liu beat Rachel 7-6 (0), 6-2 at third and Ardila won 6-2, 6-2 over Brown at third. James Yu defeated Karenzi 6-3, 6-1 at fifth and Azar did not drop a game as he beat Kawunde at sixth.
 
Meanwhile in Carlisle, the Blue Jays shutout the host Red Devils. Pranav Gadiraju and Allen Gong didn't lose a game in their win over Garrick Adams and Will Lewis at first doubles. Nick Charanjiva and Zahari Stoimenov then beat Thomas Griffin and Levi Veleanu 8-2 at second. Karan Belday and Andrew Tran wrapped up doubles with an 8-5 win over Florian Anderson and DJ Finnell.
 
Gadiraju lost only game as he beat Veleanu 6-1, 6-0 at third singles to put JHU up 4-0. Tran then clinched the victory with a 6-0, 6-2 win at second over Griffin. Charanjiva followed with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Spencer Goodman at sixth. Stoimenov then defeated Lewis 6-1, 6-2 at fourth and Hopkins led 7-0. Belday beat Anderson 6-1, 6-4 at fifth and Gong closed out the match with a 7-5, 6-1 win over Adams at first.
Hopkins is back in action on Saturday, April 15 with a pair of home matches. JHU hosts Muhlenberg (11 am) and Christopher Newport (2 pm) at the JHU Tennis Courts.
 
Notes: Thomas Yu moved into a tie for 12th place in JHU history with 54 career doubles wins • James Yu is now tied for 23rd with 44 career doubles wins • James Yu also ranks 23rd with 73 total wins (29 singles, 44 doubles).
 
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