Renaud Lefevre won in singles and teamed up partner
Luke Neal to win a doubles match as main draws got under way at ITA Northeast Regionals at the University of Pennsylvania.
Aidan Reilly also won his first-round singles match.
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In singles, Lefevre beat Fordham's Juan Paredes 6-0, 6-3. In doubles, Lefevre and Neal beat a team from Fairfield 8-3.
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Reilly won his singles match over Long Island's Alessandro D'Anna 6-2, 6-3.
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Shervin Dehmoubed was forced to retire due to injury in his singles match.
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In the consolation singles bracket,
Walker Oberg, Neal and
Arnav Dhingra were each victorious.
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In doubles, the team of
Michael Sun and
Theo Dean rallied from a 7-1 deficit, saving several match points, to tie the score at 7-7 before dropping the tiebreaker.
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The duo of Oberg and Reilly also lost their match in a tiebreaker.
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Play continues on Saturday.
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Results:
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Doubles Main Draw
Lefevre/Neal (Yale) def Gore/Morkel (Fairfield) 8-3
Smith/Hildebrandt (Penn) def Oberg/Reilly (Yale) 8-7 (4)
Garcia/Antuna (St John's) def Sun/Dean (Yale) 8-7 (7)
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Singles Main draw
Lefevre (Yale) def Juan Paredes (Fordham) 6-0, 6-3
Reilly (Yale) def Alessandro DAnna (Long Island) 6-2, 6-3
Nathan Mao (Cornell) def Dehmoubed (Yale) 6-2, 4-6, 3-3. (ret)
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Consolation Singles Â
Oberg def Sam Feldman ( Brown)Â 6-1, 6-1
Neal def Grant Pertile (Bryant) 6-2, 3-6, 10-7
Dhingra def Massam (Monmouth) 3-6, 6-3, 11-9
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