BOARDMAN, Ohio. (March 25, 2023) – In a matchup featuring two top-30 teams, the No. 10 nationally-ranked Denison University men's tennis team swept No. 27 Carnegie Mellon University for a 9-0 victory in neutral-court action in Boardman, Ohio.
 
Notable Results:
Doubles

• Andy Mackler and Zachary Portnoy got it started with an 8-2 win over Jonathan Nottingham and Jaden D'Abreo at No. 3 doubles.
• Jack Bulger and Marc-Lennart Harms won 8-3 over Matthew Poh and Nicholas Wernink at No. 1 doubles.
• Lastly, Camden French and Ethan Green had to fight hard to earn an 8-6 win over Derek Wong and Akshay Joshi at No. 2 doubles.

Singles

• Portnoy won 6-4, 6-0 over Joshi at No. 4 singles to make it 4-0.
• Bulger won 6-0, 7-5 over Wernink at No. 1 singles to clinch the match.
• Kael Shah won 6-2, 6-2 over William Wang at No. 2 singles.
• Jacob Patterson and Green both needed a second-set tiebreaker to earn their respective wins as Patterson won 6-1, 7-6 (8-6) over Poh at No. 3 singles while Green was victorious 7-5, 7-6 (10-8) over Chaitanya Irkar in the six spot.
• At No. 5 singles, Andreas Chapides earned a third-set super tiebreaker victory, winning 6-1, 3-6, 1-0 (10-5) over Sebastien Lhuillier.

 
Records:

• Denison improves to 13-2 overall while Carnegie Mellon falls to 5-6.
• During their Florida trip, the Tartans fell 6-3 to Denison's next opponent, No. 23 Kenyon College, back on March 8 and also fell 7-2 to No. 8 North Carolina Wesleyan University, but were most recently coming off a 5-4 victory over No. 19 Southwestern University before the matchup with the Big Red.

 
Next Up: The Big Red will face a big matchup against No. 23 Kenyon College in what will also be Denison's first North Coast Athletic Conference match of the season. The Big Red and the Owls will square off starting at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, March 29, in Granville, Ohio.