ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. – The University of Chicago men's tennis team lost its third-place match to Carnegie Mellon University 5-4 at the University Athletic Association (UAA) Championship on Saturday.

The No. 5-ranked Maroons dropped to 15-5. The No. 8-ranked Tartans improved to 16-6.

UChicago was No. 2 seed in the eight-team conference tournament while Carnegie Mellon was the No. 5 seed.

The Maroons went up 2-1 after doubles with a big comeback at the No. 3 position by sophomore Luke Tsai and junior Max Hawkins, who won 9-7. Freshman Charlie Pei and sophomore Peter Leung handily took their No. 2 doubles match 8-3.

In singles play, Tsai nearly shut out his opponent at No. 6 by scores of 6-1, 6-0. Junior Sven Kranz also came through with a 6-0, 7-5 win at No. 4. However, Carnegie Mellon took the other four matches to earn the one-point team victory.

Carnegie Mellon 5, UChicago 4
Singles
1. Abhishek Alla (CMU) def. Nicolas Chua (UC) 6-3, 6-2
2. Daniel Levine (CMU) def. David Liu (UC) 6-4, 2-6, 6-1
3. Chaz Downing (CMU) def. Charlie Pei (UC) 6-4, 6-4
4. Sven Kranz (UC) def. Kenny Zheng (CMU) 6-0, 7-5
5. Vayum Arora (CMU) def. Peter Leung (UC) 7-5, 6-2
6. Luke Tsai (UC) def. Kunal Wadwani (CMU) 6-1, 6-0
Doubles
1. Vayum Arora/Daniel Levine (CMU) def. Nicolas Chua/David Liu (UC) 8-6
2. Charlie Pei/Peter Leung (UC) def. Jeffrey Chen/Kenny Zheng (CMU) 8-3
3. Luke Tsai/Max Hawkins (UC) def. Abhishek Alla/Yuvraj Kumar (CMU) 9-7