The Case Western Reserve University men's tennis team, ranked seventh in Division III, bounced back from a loss last weekend to defeat 11th-ranked Kenyon College 5-2 at the Medical Mutual Tennis Center in Cleveland on Friday afternoon.

The Spartans improved to 20-5 overall with the win, while Kenyon saw a seven-match winning streak come to a close, dropping to 16-2 overall.

Stats and Standouts

• CWRU swept doubles play with wins from 17th-ranked graduate student Bryce Ware and junior Trey Lambright at no. 1 doubles, junior Santiago Salazar Garza and sophomore Leon Chen at no. 2 doubles, and seniors Rohan Bhat and Anmay Devaraj at no. 3 doubles. Salazar Garza and Chen clinched the doubles point for the Spartans with their victory.

• Wins from graduate student Ansh Shah at no. 4 singles and sophomore Rowan Matorin at no. 6 singles gave CWRU a 3-1 lead.

• After Kenyon picked up a win at no. 3 singles, sophomore Jon Totorica (ranked 36th in DIII) clinched the match for the Spartans with a victory at no. 5 singles.

• Once the match was decided, the Owls picked up  a win at no. 2 singles before junior Santiago Salazar Garza bested Alejandro Gonzalez, ranked 21st in Division III, in the no. 1 singles match.

Individual Results

• Doubles

1. Ware, Bryce/Lambright, Trey (CWRU) def. Cioladis, Juozas/Llamas Castellanos (KENYON) 6-3
2. Salazar Garza, Sant./Chen, Leon (CWRU) def. Pocasanre Kreling, P/Kedar Dixit, Jay (KENYON) 7-5
3. Devaraj, Anmay/Bhat, Rohan (CWRU) def. Gonzalez, Alejandro/Gonzalez, Eliezer (KENYON) 7-6 (7-3)

• Singles

1. Salazar Garza, Sant. (CWRU) def. Gonzalez, Alejandro (KENYON) 6-7 (5-7), 6-1, 1-0 (10-8)
2. Llamas Castellanos (KENYON) def. Plunkett, Matthew (CWRU) 7-5, 6-2
3. Pocasanre Kreling, P (KENYON) def. Devaraj, Anmay (CWRU) 6-3, 6-2
4. Shah, Ansh (CWRU) def. Cioladis, Juozas (KENYON) 6-2, 6-1
5. Totorica, Jon (CWRU) def. Kedar Dixit, Jay (KENYON) 7-5, 7-5
6. Matorin, Rowan (CWRU) def. Papamichael, S. (KENYON) 6-3, 6-2

Order of Finish: Doubles (1,2,3); Singles (4,6,3,5,2,1) | * 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), Santiago Salazar Garza/ Leon Chen (1)

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

Spartan Notes

• The Spartans improved to 5-4 against nationally-ranked Division III teams this season following Friday's win.

• Shah's win over Juozas Cioladis marked the first loss for the Kenyon player in a dual match this season.

• Friday's match marked the eighth time this season that the Spartans have swept the doubles matches in a dual contest. CWRU has won the doubles point in 21 of its 25 matches this season. The Spartans are 18-3 when winning the doubles point.

• CWRU has now won seven consecutive matches against Kenyon dating back to the 2020 campaign.

• Including the fall, CWRU stands at 221-88 (.715) in singles play and 91-51 (.641) in doubles action as a team this season following Friday's action. The Spartans have a combined .757 (112-36) winning percentage in singles matches, and a .707 (53-22) doubles winning percentage in dual matches.

• Matorin has now won nine consecutive singles matches, improving to 9-0 in the spring and 14-4 overall.

• CWRU improved to 4-1 in home matches this season

Up Next

The Spartans continue play this weekend with a doubleheader against the Rochester Institute of Technology starting at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 4 at the Medical Mutual Tennis Center in Cleveland.