NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale men's tennis team will take a bunch of positive momentum into the start of Ivy League play. The Bulldogs blanked St. John's 4-0, their third straight victory, at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center.
 
Yale (10-5) won the doubles point thanks to victories from Theo Dean and Aidan Reilly and Eric Li and Michael Sun.
 
In singles, Vignesh Gogineni, Li and Walker Oberg were straight set winners.
 
The Bulldogs meet Harvard in their Ivy opener next Friday at Cullman-Heyman.
 
Yale 4, St. John's 0
 
Doubles
1. Vignesh Gogineni/Renaud Lefevre (Yale) vs. Diogo Marques/Axel Vila Antuna (St. John's) 6-6 DNF
2. Theo Dean/Aidan Reilly def. Giuseppe De Camelis (St. John's) 6-3
3. Eric Li/Michael Sun (Yale) def. Nishant Dabas/Carl Gustavson (St. John's) 7-5
 
Singles
1. Diogo Marques (St. John's) vs. Theo Dean (Yale) 1-6, 7-5, 3-1 DNF
2. Vignesh Gogineni (Yale) def. Sergio Molina (St. John's) 6-3, 6-2
3. Michael Sun (Yale) vs. Carl Gustavson (St. John's) 7-5, 4-3 DNF
4. Aidan Reilly (Yale) vs. Nishant Dabas (St. John's) 6-4, 5-3 DNF
5. Eric Li (Yale) def. Giuseppe De Camelis (St. John's) 6-4, 6-4
6. Walker Oberg (Yale) def. Ryota Kaneda (St. John's) 6-3, 6-2