The third-ranked Case Western Reserve University men's tennis team won two of its three matches on Thursday afternoon, besting Piedmont College 6-1 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Florida, while besting 36th-ranked Southwestern University 7-0 and falling to 15th-ranked WashU 4-3 in Georgetown, Texas.

The Spartans ended the day with a 17-4 overall record. CWRU handed Southwestern its first loss of the campaign, as the Pirates fell to 6-1 for the year, while Piedmont dropped to 5-6. WashU improved to 4-4 with the win.

CWRU also played an exhibition match against 35th-ranked Skidmore College in Altamonte Springs, Florida, winning 4-3.
#36 Southwestern 6-0; Qi #43

Stats and Standouts

• The Spartans finished the day with a 19-5 record in singles matches and a 4-8 record in doubles play.

• Sophomores Jon Totorica and Rowan Matorin each went 2-0 in singles play during the matches in Texas, while sophomore Rohit Jain and first-year Xander Jhaveri were both 2-0 in singles matches in Florida on Thursday.

• Junior Santiago Salazar Garza bested Southwestern's Nathan Qi, ranked 43rd in Division III, at no. 1 singles to improve to a team-best 18-5 in singles matches this season.

#15 WashU def. #3 CWRU, 4-3

• Doubles

1. Fox, Colin/Sieben, Jeremy (WASHU) def. Lambright, Trey/Ware, Bryce (CWRU) 7-6 (8-6)
2. Kuo, Eric/Scruggs, Colin (WASHU) def. Totorica, Jon/Chen, Leon (CWRU) 6-4
3. Koval, Drew/Tam, Nathan (WASHU) def. Bhat, Rohan/Devaraj, Anmay (CWRU) 7-6 (7-3)

• Singles

1. Kuo, Eric (WASHU) def. Salazar Garza, Sant. (CWRU) 6-4, 6-3
2. Plunkett, Matthew (CWRU) def. Scruggs, Colin (WASHU) 2-6, 6-4, 6-4
3. Sieben, Jeremy (WASHU) def. Devaraj, Anmay (CWR-M) 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 *
4. Totorica, Jon (CWRU) def. Fagan, Case (WASHU) 6-3, 7-6 (7-4)
5. Mahajan, Avi (WASHU) def. Bhat, Rohan (CWRU) 6-3, 6-3
6. Matorin, Rowan (CWRU) def. Merce, Coleman (WASHU) 6-3, 6-3

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

#3 CWRU def. #36 Southwestern, 7-0

• Doubles

1. Snyman, Joseph/Langford,Christopher (SU) def. Lambright, Trey/Ware, Bryce (CWR-M) 7-5
2. Salazar Garza, Sant./Shiffer, Derek (CWR-M) def. Ellis, Ashton/Sosebee, Landon (SU) 6-2
3. Bhat, Rohan/Chen, Leon (CWR-M) def. Clemente, Bernie/Herrera, Sebastian (SU) 6-3

• Singles

1. Salazar Garza, Sant. (CWRU) def. Qi, Nathan (SU) 6-2, 6-1
2. Totorica, Jon (CWRU) def. Arens, Porter (SU) 6-4, 6-2 *
3. Ware, Bryce (CWRU) def. Ellis, Ashton (SU) 6-4, 6-2
4. Matorin, Rowan (CWRU) def. Clemente, Bernie (SU) 6-4, 6-3
5. Shiffer, Derek (CWRU) def. Alvarez, Nolan (SU) 6-2, 6-1
6. Davydov, Josh (CWRU) def. Vo, Hai (SU) 6-1, 6-3

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

#3 CWRU def. Piedmont, 6-1

• Doubles

1. Dunn, Leyton/McElveen, Caleb (PC) def. Jacob, Ethan/Kwiatkowski, Konrad (CWRU) 7-5 *
2. Kavali, Rohan/Rodriguez, Horacio (PC) def. Ngo, Glen/Saylor, Luke (CWRU) 6-3
3. Ramani, Nikhil/Fernandez, Ben (CWRU) def. Latipov, Amir/Sherman, Brent (PC) 6-0

• Singles

1. Kwiatkowski, Konrad (CWRU) def. Dunn, Leyton (PC) 6-4, 6-3
2. Jain, Rohit (CWRU) def. Kavali, Rohan (PC) 6-1, 6-2
3. Jhaveri, Xander (CWRU) def. McElveen, Caleb (PC) 6-1, 6-2 *
4. Gupta, Shay (CWRU) def. Latipov, Amir (PC) 6-3, 6-1
5. Ngo, Glen (CWRU) def. Sherman, Brent (PC) 6-0, 6-1
6. Fernandez, Ben (CWRU) def. Soto, Allan (PC) 6-1, 6-0

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

#3 CWRU def. #35 Skidmore, 4-3 (Exhibition)

• Doubles

1. Jain, Rohit/Saylor, Luke (CWRU) def. King, Fletcher/Mori, Nika (SKID) 7-5
2. Gradin, Harrison/Lundberg, Kyle (SKID) def. McRae, Marko/Gupta Shay (CWRU) 6-2
3. Sadeghi, Radin/Bitkuri, Mahen (SKID) def. Bilski, JT/Jacob, Ethan (CWRU) 6-4

• Singles

1. Lundberg, Kyle (SKID) def. Bilski, JT (CWRU) 1-6, 6-2, 1-0 (10-7)
2. Jain, Rohit (CWRU) def. King, Fletcher (SKID) 6-0, 6-2
3. Sadeghi, Radin (SKID) def. Ramani, Nikhil (CWRU) 6-3, 6-3
4. Saylor, Luke (CWRU) def. Bitkuri, Mahen (SKID) 6-3, 6-3
5. Jhaveri, Luke (CWRU) def. Mori, Nika (SKID) 6-4, 4-6, 1-0 (11-9)
6. Jacob, Ethan (CWRU) def. Gradin, Harrison (SKID) 6-2, 6-3

Clinch Count

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

• Doubles: Rohan Bhat/ Anmay Devaraj (5), Jon Totorica/ Leon Chen (4), Bryce Ware/ Trey Lambright (2), Santiago Salazar Garza/ Derek Shiffer (1), Marko McRae/ Glen Ngo (1), Rohit Jain/ Rowan Matorin (1), Rohit Jain/ Luke Saylor (1), Shay Gupta/ Marko McRae (1)

• Singles: JT Bilski (3), Anmay Devaraj (3), Rohan Bhat (2), Santiago Salazar Garza (2), Benjamin Fernandez (2), Ethan Jacob (1), Rohit Jain (1), Xander Jhaveri (1), Rowan Matorin (1), Jon Totorica (1)

Spartan Notes

• With his two wins on Thursday, Jain improved to 11-0 this season in singles matches.

• Including the fall, CWRU stands at 208-79 (.725) in singles play and 83-47 (.638) in doubles action as a team this season. The Spartans have a combined .786 (99-27) winning percentage in singles matches, and a .714 (45-18) doubles winning percentage in dual matches.

• CWRU now stands at 7-9 all-time against WashU. Despite the loss on Thursday, the Spartans have won five of the last seven meetings with the Bears.

• The Spartans stand at 2-0 all-time against Piedmont.

• Thursday was the second meeting all-time between CWRU and Southwestern, with the Spartans improving to 2-0 in the matchup.

• CWRU has won the doubles point in 18 of its 21 matches overall this spring.

Up Next

The Spartans will conclude their spring break trip on Friday, facing West Chester University of Pennsylvania at 8:30 a.m. in Altamonte Springs and ninth-ranked Swarthmore College at 11:00 a.m. ET in Georgetown.