The fifth-ranked Case Western Reserve University men's tennis team opened play at the ITA Indoor National Championship in St. Peter, Minnesota, on Friday morning with a 5-2 win over 11th-ranked Johns Hopkins University.

The Spartans continued their undefeated spring, improving to 9-0 on the season, and will face fourth-ranked Claremont-Mudd-Scripps in the semifinals on Saturday. Johns Hopkins, which opened its campaign on Friday, will take on eighth-ranked Swarthmore in the consolation match.

Stats and Standouts

• The Spartans entered the tournament as the third-seeded team, while the Blue Jays were seeded sixth.

• CWRU took the doubles point behind a win from seniors Anmay Devaraj and Rohan Bhat at third doubles and the clinching win in a tiebreaker at no. 2 doubles from sophomores Jon Totorica and Leon Chen.

• The Spartans quickly clinched the match with singles wins from junior Santiago Salazar Garza in the first match, Bhat in the sixth match, and Totorica in the fifth match. Adding a singles win was graduate student Ansh Shah, who secured a victory in the fourth singles contest.

Individual Results

• Doubles

• Gong, Allen/Rajendra, Chakor (JHU) def. Ware, Bryce/Lambright, Trey (CWR-M) 7-5

• Chen, Leon/Totorica, Jon (CWR-M) def. Yi, Brian/Blenkiron, Dylan (JHU) 7-6 (8-6) *

• Bhat, Rohan/Devaraj, Anmay (CWR-M) def. Boopathi, Mukundh/Kim, Joshua (JHU) 6-3

• Singles

1. Salazar Garza, Sant. (CWR-M) def. Rajendra, Chakor (JHU) 6-3, 6-0

2. Gong, Allen (JHU) def. Plunkett, Matthew (CWR-M) 6-7 (2-7), 6-2, 11-9

3. Blenkiron, Dylan (JHU) def. Devaraj, Anmay (CWR-M) 6-4, 6-2

4. Shah, Ansh (CWR-M) def. Boopathi, Mukundh (JHU) 7-6 (7-1), 6-3

5. Totorica, Jon (CWR-M) def. Yi, Brian (JHU) 6-3, 6-4 *

6. Bhat, Rohan (CWR-M) def. Kim, Joshua (JHU) 6-4, 6-0

• Order of Finish: Doubles (3,1,2); Singles (1,6,5,4,3,2) | * indicates clinching win

Clinch Count

The following are the Spartans' 2026 leaders in doubles-point and match-clinching wins:

• Doubles: Totorica/ Chen (4), Bhat/ Devaraj (2), Salazar Garza/ Shiffer (1), McRae/ Ngo (1), Ware/ Lambright (1)

• Match: Bilski (3), Devaraj (2), Salazar Garza (2), Bhat (1), Jacob (1), Totorica (2)

Spartan Notes

• This marked the fifth consecutive year the Spartans have advanced to the semifinals of the ITA Indoor Championship. CWRU went on to reach the championship in two of the previous years.

• Bhat and Devaraj's doubles win came against the 10th-ranked pairing in Division III.

• Totorica began the match ranked 36th in DIII, while the pairing of graduate student Bryce Ware and junior Trey Lambright was ranked 17th.

• The Spartans have won their nine matches this spring by a combined  61-2 score. CWRU has gone 52-2 in singles matches and 24-3 in doubles contests so far this spring.

• Including the fall, CWRU stands at 172-52 (.761) in singles play and 70-30 (.700) in doubles action as a team this season following Friday's action.

Up Next

The Spartans will continue play at the ITA Indoor National Championship on Saturday in the semifinal match against second-seeded and fourth-ranked Claremont-Mudd-Scripps at 10:00 a.m. ET. Fans can follow the action with live results and live video.