{"id":628269,"date":"2026-04-24T17:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/628269\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T17:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:11:10","slug":"mens-tennis-ends-regular-season-against-dartmouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/628269\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Tennis Ends Regular Season Against Dartmouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     CAMBRIDGE, Mass. \u2013 Harvard men&#8217;s tennis (13-12, 3-3 Ivy) will conclude its 2025-26 regular season this weekend against Dartmouth (15-10, 3-3 Ivy). The Crimson will take on the Big Green on Sunday, April 26 at 1:00 p.m. ET in Cambridge.<\/p>\n<p>The Last Time Out<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe Crimson dropped two ranked road battles last weekend to No. 27 Columbia and No. 31 Cornell.&#13;<br \/>\n\tAgainst the Lions, the Crimson battled through doubles with each match going to a tiebreak. Then in singles, <a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/nathan-blokhin\/30305\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"30305\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Blokhin<\/a> recorded a ranked win over No. 90 Sachin Palta (Columbia) and <a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/masato-perera\/30302\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"30302\" target=\"_blank\">Masato Perera<\/a> defeated Abhishek Thorat (Columbia), 6-2, 6-4.&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe following day, Blokhin completed an undefeated weekend, dropping Petar Teodorovic (Cornell) in a three-set battle (6-2, 4-6, 6-2).&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/mitchell-lee\/30297\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"30297\" target=\"_blank\">Mitchell Lee<\/a> also grabbed a point for the Crimson against the Big Red, defeating Aman Sharma (Cornell), 7-6 (6), 6-4.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Individual Notes<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tHeading into the final weekend of the Ivy League season, the Crimson remains inside the top 50 in the ITA Division I Men&#8217;s Team Rankings, checking in at No. 47.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/nathan-blokhin\/30305\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"30305\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Blokhin<\/a> is having a dominant first-year with the Crimson, leading the team in singles wins with a record of 24-7. In the dual season alone, Blokhin is 16-3 while playing primarily at the No. 3 spot.&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe first-year player currently ranks No. 102 in the nation in the ITA singles poll.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/rohan-murali\/30300\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"30300\" target=\"_blank\">Rohan Murali<\/a> is having a breakout season for the Crimson and has accumulated 20 singles wins and 21 doubles wins.&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe junior moved into the No. 1 singles spot midway through the season and currently ranks No. 56 in the nation.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/masato-perera\/30302\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"30302\" target=\"_blank\">Masato Perera<\/a> (16), <a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/mitchell-lee\/30297\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"30297\" target=\"_blank\">Mitchell Lee<\/a> (13), and <a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/benjamin-privara\/30303\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"30303\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Privara<\/a> (11) have all surpassed double-digit singles wins this season.&#13;<br \/>\n\tIn doubles, Murali and <a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/kolos-kincses\/30306\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"30306\" target=\"_blank\">Kolos Kincses<\/a> have accumulated 20 wins as a duo including a record of 15-5 in the dual season.&#13;<br \/>\n\tKincses has the most doubles wins of any Harvard player this season with an overall record of 24-9.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>For the Foes<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe Big Green is 15-10 this season and 3-3 in Ivy League play.&#13;<br \/>\n\tDartmouth started its Ivy League season strong with a pair of wins over Penn and Princeton in the first weekend.&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe Big Green has been 1-3 since its first weekend but has accumulated its most conference wins since 2018-19.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Next Up<br \/>\nThe Crimson will await its fate in the NCAA Tournament with the selection show on Monday, April 27 at 4:00 p.m. ET.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; CAMBRIDGE, Mass. \u2013 Harvard men&#8217;s tennis (13-12, 3-3 Ivy) will conclude its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-628269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}