CHICAGO – Locked in a tight battle for the second-straight day, No. 17 Stanford men's tennis dropped a match to No. 11 Tennessee, 4-3, on Saturday afternoon.
The Volunteers picked up the doubles point with wins in the top two positions to take an early 1-0 win. The Cardinal has split the doubles point over its first two matchups at the ITA Indoor Championships.
Stanford rallied to take a 3-1 lead, winning singles matches in straight sets by Max Basing, Neel Rajesh and Samir Banerjee. Basing and Banerjee took out ranked opponents, while Rajesh picked up a clean 6-0 win in his final set. The Volunteers fought back with wins in the first and fourth positions to tie the match at 3-3.
Aryan Chaudhary pulled back a crucial second set tiebreaker in the fifth position, 8-6, but fell in the third set, 6-3, to clinch the result.
Stanford wraps up ITA competition on Sunday, Feb. 19 against Wake Forest or Illinois.
#11 Tennessee 4, #17 Stanford 3
DOUBLES
1) No. 7 Harper/Monday (TENN) d. Basavareddy/Fery (STAN), 6-1
2) No. 34 Hudd/Mitsui (TENN) d. Banerjee/Rajesh (STAN), 6-2
3) Chaudhary/Kolasinski (STAN) v. Bicknell/Diaz (TENN), 3-4 uf
Order of Finish: 1, 2
SINGLES
1) No. 18 Johannus Monday (TENN) d. No. 43 Arthur Fery (STAN), 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-3
2) No. 4 Max Basing (STAN) d. No. 79 Blaise Bicknell (TENN), 6-4, 6-3
3) Samir Banerjee (STAN) d. No. 56 Shunsuke Mitsui (TENN), 6-3, 7-6 (5)
4) No. 116 Emile Hudd (TENN) d. No. 2 Nishesh Basavareddy (STAN), 7-6 (2), 6-4
5) No. 74 Aryan Chaudhary (STAN) v. Angel Diaz (TENN)
6) Neel Rajesh (STAN) d. Tomas Rodriguez (TENN), 7-5, 6-0
Order of Finish: 2, 6, 3, 4, 1, 5