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Maroon men's tennis edged by CMU 5-4 in UAA third-place match

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

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Players Mentioned

Nicolas Chua

Nicolas Chua

5' 9"
Sophomore
Max Hawkins

Max Hawkins

5' 7"
Junior
Sven Kranz

Sven Kranz

6' 2"
Junior
Peter Leung

Peter Leung

6' 0"
Sophomore
David Liu

David Liu

5' 11"
Sophomore
Charlie Pei

Charlie Pei

Freshman
Luke Tsai

Luke Tsai

5' 10"
Sophomore

Players Mentioned

Nicolas Chua

Nicolas Chua

5' 9"
Sophomore
Max Hawkins

Max Hawkins

5' 7"
Junior
Sven Kranz

Sven Kranz

6' 2"
Junior
Peter Leung

Peter Leung

6' 0"
Sophomore
David Liu

David Liu

5' 11"
Sophomore
Charlie Pei

Charlie Pei

Freshman
Luke Tsai

Luke Tsai

5' 10"
Sophomore