VILLANOVA, Pa. – Men's Tennis collected an outstanding 13 wins on day two and finished with 19 total victories over the weekend in the two-day Villanova Invitational.
The Villanova Invitational posed a great challenge for the Raiders to compete against some of the best. Among the teams competing in the weekend invitational included Colgate, Villanova, Bucknell, Lehigh, Lafayette, and St. Joseph's. The Invitational was set to be a three-day weekend but was caught short due to rain on Sunday.
The format of the Invitational is like no other, with a Blue Draw and a White Draw each featuring a 16-team bracket. Each matchup consists of a doubles match and two singles matches in a best-of-three-format. The team that wins two of the three matches advances in the bracket.
Ben Graham and
Aidan Chung were fantastic in their pairings, battling all the way through to the championship round in the White Draw. The duo defeated groups from Lehigh and Villanova.
Freshman
Max Litton was phenomenal in singles matches, going a perfect 3-0, while senior captains
Mason Caldwell and
Dean Vlassis went undefeated in doubles play.
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
Aidan Lee over Brunetti (Villanova) 6-3, 6-1
Max Litton over Robinson (Villanova) 9-8 (7-5)
Max Litton over Brunetti (Villanova) 8-6
Aiden Chung over Choi (Villanova) 6-2, 5-7, (6-4) ret.
Mike Thomas over Mcdonald (Bucknell) 8-6
Mikey Weitz over Nazaroff (Lehigh) 8-4
John Fazli over Missry (Lehigh) 8-3
FROM THE SOURCE
Head Coach Bobby Pennington
"We played a ton of tennis in a two-day window with each guy getting in a ton of singles and doubles reps against high-quality competition. We definitely had better results than past years and three freshmen really showed out.
"Highlights of the weekend were senior captains
Dean Vlassis and
Mason Caldwell going 3-0 in doubles, freshman
Max Litton going 3-0 in singles, beating the Villanova No.1, and lastly the team of sophomore
Ben Graham and freshman Aiden Chung making it all the way to the finals."
UP NEXT
The Raiders take a quick break before gearing up for a short bus ride to Binghamton for a three-day Invitational Sept. 23-25.
