The Case Western Reserve University men's tennis team, ranked fifth in Division III, suffered a 4-1 loss to fourth-ranked Denison University on Friday afternoon at the Aspen Racquet Club in Wooster, Ohio.

The loss ended a three-match winning streak for the Spartans and dropped the team to 22-6 for the season, while Denison picked up its 11th consecutive win to improve to 16-2 overall.

Stats and Standouts

• The Spartans dropped the doubles point despite a win in the first match from graduate student Bryce Ware and junior Trey Lambright, ranked third in the Central Region, who bested the region's top-ranked duo in Ethan Green and Kael Shah.

• Ware also picked up a straight-set win at no. 6 singles, 6-1, 6-2, over Anthony Payiavlas to even the score at 1-1.

• Denison went on to win the third, first, and second singles matches to clinch the team victory. The fourth and fifth singles matches were left unfinished.

Individual Results

• Doubles

1. Lambright, Trey/Ware, Bryce (CWRU) def. Green, Ethan/Shah, Kael (DENISON) 6-4
2. Chapides, Andreas/Meyers, Nicholas (DENISON) def. Chen, Leon/Salazar Garza, Sant. (CWRU) 6-4 *
3. Patterson, Jacob/Huang, Wesley (DENISON) def. Bhat, Rohan/Devaraj, Anmay (CWRU) 6-2

• Singles

1. Shah, Kael (DENISON) def. Salazar Garza, Sant. (CWRU) 6-1, 6-3
2. Green, Ethan (DENISON) def. Devaraj, Anmay (CWRU) 7-5, 7-5 *
3. Chapides, Andreas (DENISON) def. Totorica, Jon (CWRU) 6-1, 6-3
4. Bilski, JT (CWRU) vs. Patterson, Jacob (DENISON) 0-6, 6-4, 0-5, unfinished
5. Matorin, Rowan (CWRU) vs. Meyers, Nicholas (DENISON) 6-7, 6-6, unfinished
6. Ware, Bryce (CWRU) def. Payiavlas, Anthony (DENISON) 6-1, 6-2

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

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 (3), 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), Konrad Kwiatkowski/ Shay Gupta (1), Trey Lambright/ Justin Prochnow (1)

• Singles: Anmay Devaraj (4), JT Bilski (3), Rohan Bhat (2), Rowan Matorin (2), Santiago Salazar Garza (2), Benjamin Fernandez (2), Ethan Jacob (1), Rohit Jain (1), Xander Jhaveri (1), Konrad Kwiatkowski (1), Nikhil Ramani (1)

Spartan Notes

• Ware improved to 8-4 in singles matches this season following Friday's win, including a 5-1 singles mark in the spring. He and Lambright improved to 17-6 together in doubles matches with a 12-5 mark in dual contests.

• The Big Red entered the match as the second-ranked team in the Central Region, while the Spartans were the region's third-ranked team.

• This was just the fifth time in 28 matches this season that the Spartans have dropped the doubles point.

• Including the fall, CWRU stands at 235-92 (.719) in singles play and 98-53 (.649) in doubles action as a team this season following Friday's action. The Spartans have a combined .759 (126-40) winning percentage in singles matches, and a .714 (60-24) doubles winning percentage in dual matches.

Up Next

The Spartans will be back in action tomorrow with a pair of matches scheduled to be played outdoors on the Carlton Courts in Cleveland. CWRU will host Baldwin Wallace for 'Senior Day' at 10:00 a.m., followed by a 2:00 p.m. contest against third-ranked University of Chicago.