NEW YORK – The tenth-ranked Columbia men's tennis team posted a 7-0 victory over Delaware on Saturday afternoon inside the Philip and Cheryl Milstein Family Tennis Center.
Columbia extends their win streak to four straight and improves to 9-3 overall this season. The Lions have now earned three straight 7-0 victories with wins over No. 46 Tulsa, No. 67 Penn State and Delaware.
Columbia cruised through doubles with wins in the one and two matches to secure the doubles point. The 36
th-ranked duo of
Michael Zheng and
Nicolas Kotzen posted a 6-2 win over Piotr Siekanowicz and Euan Mackenzie in the No. 1 spot for the first doubles win.
Max Westphal and
Sachin Palta clinched the doubles point for the Lions with a 6-1 win against Karol Malirz and Tobey Lock in the No. 2 spot.
The Lions didn't let up heading into singles, as Columbia captured the first four victories in straight sets. No. 1 Zheng opened the scoring in the top singles match, cruising to a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Malirz. Westphal, Palta, and
Thanaphat Boosarawongse followed suit, earning wins in the three, four and five positions to clinch the TEAM victory for the Lions. Westphal bested Lock 6-1, 6-2, while Palta defeated Alex Gluck 6-3, 6-0. Boosarawongse got past Aristotelis Bezianis, 6-2, 6-2.
Kotzen and
Hugo Hashimoto each battled back after losing the first set to force a 10-point third set tiebreaker in lieu of playing the entire third set. Kotzen rallied to defeat Siekanowicz in the No. 2 singles 5-7, 6-3, 1-0 (10-8), while Hashimoto prevailed to earn a 4-6, 6-4, 1-0 (10-3) victory over Mackenzie in the No. 4 spot to help the Lions preserve the 7-0 shutout.
RESULTS
#10 Columbia 7, Delaware 0
Doubles
1. #36
Michael Zheng/
Nicolas Kotzen (COL) def. Piotr Siekanowicz/Euan Mackenzie (DEL) 6-2
2.
Max Westphal/
Sachin Palta (COL) def. Karol Malirz/Tobey Lock (DEL) 6-1
3.
Hugo Hashimoto/
Jayden Templeman (COL) vs. Alex Gluck/Mason Robins (DEL) 5-2 (unfinished)
Singles
1. #1
Michael Zheng (COL) def. Karol Malirz (DEL) 6-1, 6-1
2. #30
Nicolas Kotzen (COL) def. Piotr Siekanowicz (DEL) 5-7, 6-3, 1-0 (10-8)
3.
Max Westphal (COL) def. Tobey Lock (DEL) 6-1, 6-2
4. #51
Hugo Hashimoto (COL) def. Euan Mackenzie (DEL) 4-6, 6-4, 1-0 (10-3)
5.
Thanaphat Boosarawongse (COL) def. Aristotelis Bezianis (DEL) 6-2, 6-2
6.
Sachin Palta (COL) def. Alex Gluck (DEL) 6-3, 6-0
Order of finish: Doubles (2,1); Singles (1,3,5,6,2,4)
UP NEXT
Columbia heads to California for its next two matches. The Lions will play at San Diego on Monday, March 17 before finishing the trip at Pepperdine on Friday, March 21.
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