The Case Western Reserve University men's tennis team, ranked sixth in Division III, will play for the University Athletic Association Championship on Saturday after besting fifth-ranked Carnegie Mellon University 4-1 in the semifinals of the tournament on Friday at Sanlando Park in Altamonte Springs, Florida.

The Spartans, seeded third in the draw, will enter Saturday's championship match having won three straight, and stand at 26-7 overall. The Tartans, seeded second, dropped to 14-4 following the loss.

Up Next

The Spartans will face the top-ranked University of Chicago in the championship match at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday in Sanlando Park. This will be the second meeting of the season between the two teams, after the Maroons claimed a 5-2 win over CWRU on April 11.

Stats and Standouts

• CWRU took the first doubles match of the day with a 6-3 win at no. 3 doubles from seniors Rohan Bhat and Anmay Devaraj. However, the Tartans claimed a win at no. 1 doubles, shifting the attention to the second match.

• At no. 2 doubles, junior Santiago Salazar Garza and sophomore Rowan Matorin went to a tiebreaker against Akshay Joshi and Ian Miller, and trailed 4-1, before rallying off four-straight points to take a 5-4 lead. After the Tartans evened the score at 5-5, the Spartans' pair scored the final two to claimed a 7-6 (5) victory and give CWRU the doubles point.

• Graduate student Bryce Ware opened singles play with a straight-set win in the sixth match to extend the Spartans' lead to 2-0, and a straight-set win at no. 4 singles from graduate student Ansh Shah put CWRU a victory away from clinching.

• The Tartans claimed a win at no. 1 singles to set the score at 3-1, but Devaraj was able to write the Spartans' ticket to the conference championship match with a straight-set win in the third singles match.

• When play was stopped, 27th-ranked Matthew Plunkett (no. 2 singles) and Matorin (no. 5 singles) each held a lead.

Individual Results

• Doubles

1. Brendan Hendrata/Alex Feies (CMU) def. Lambright, Trey/Ware, Bryce (CWRU) 6-4
2. Salazar Garza, Sant./Matorin, Rowan (CWRU) def. Akshay Joshi/Ian Miller (CMU) 7-6 (7-5) *
3. Bhat, Rohan/Devaraj, Anmay (CWRU) def. Raghav Jangbahadur/Takeshi Koey (CMU) 6-3

• Singles

1. Alex Feies (CMU) def. Salazar Garza, Sant. (CWRU) 7-5, 6-2
2. Raghav Jangbahadur (CMU) vs. Plunkett, Matthew (CWRU) 6-2, 6-7 (11-13), 2-3, unfinished
3. Devaraj, Anmay (CWRU) def. Takeshi Koey (CMU) 7-5, 7-5
4. Shah, Ansh (CWRU) def. Brendan Hendrata (CMU) 6-4, 6-2
5. Ian Miller (CMU) vs. Matorin, Rowan (CWRU) 1-6, 6-4, 2-4, unfinished
6. Ware, Bryce (CWRU) def. Michael Larionov (CMU) 6-2, 6-3

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

Clinch Tracker

• Doubles

  • Bryce Ware/ Trey Lambright (5), Rohan Bhat/ Anmay Devaraj (5), Jon Totorica/ Leon Chen (4), 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), Anmay Devaraj/ Bryce Ware (1), Santiago Salazar Garza/ Rowan Matorin (1)

• Singles

  • Anmay Devaraj (6), 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), Glen Ngo (1), Nikhil Ramani (1), Ansh Shah (1)

Spartan Notes

• This is both the fifth consecutive year and the fifth time in program history that CWRU will play for the UAA Championship. The Spartans won the UAA Championship in both 2023 and 2025.

• CWRU improved to 8-6 against nationally-ranked teams this season.

• Friday's win was the Spartans' 10th consecutive victory against the Tartans, including a 5-2 win at the Mayfield Village Racquet Club last Saturday.

• Devaraj also clinched the Spartans' win over the Tartans last weekend. It was his team-leading sixth clinching victory of the season.

• CWRU players now stand at 253-100 (.717) in singles matches this year, including a 144-48 (.750) mark in singles play during dual matches. The Spartans are 108-58 (.650) in doubles matches with a 70-29 (.707) record during dual matches.