PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – The Yale men's tennis team fell to the No. 4 Penn Quakers by a score of 4-3 on Friday afternoon to open competition at the ECAC Championship.

After losing the doubles point, the Bulldogs rallied with three wins in singles to knot the score up at 3-3, but Penn ultimately clinched the victory at the No. 4 position.
 
Doubles

• Aaron Sandler / Sanjeev Chundu (Penn) vs. Vignesh Gogineni / Edward Liao (Yale) 5-4 unfinished
• Tal Goodman / Parashar Bharadwaj (Penn) def. Renaud Lefevre / Krish Gupta (Yale) 6-4
• Manfredi Graziani / Shaurya Bharadwaj (Penn) def. Jason Shuler / Jim Ji (Yale) 6-2

Singles

• Gogineni (Yale) def. Graziani (Penn) 7-5, 6-2
• Chundu (Penn) def. Ji (Yale) 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
• Goodman (Penn) def. Shuler (Yale) 6-1, 7-5
• Bharadwaj (Penn) def. Eric Li (Yale) 5-7, 6-4, 6-2
• Liao (Yale) def. Justin Chung (Penn) 6-4, 6-3
• Gupta (Yale) def. Matthew Rutter (Penn) 6-3, 6-4

 
Looking Ahead
The Bulldogs will face No. 8 Brown on day two of the championships on Saturday, Feb. 15 at 9 a.m.