{"id":184113,"date":"2025-10-02T03:33:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/184113\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:33:16","slug":"mens-tennis-begins-liberty-league-play-with-sweep-at-bard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/184113\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Tennis Begins Liberty League Play with Sweep at Bard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Intercollegiate_Tennis_Association_logo.png\" alt=\"ITA Northeast Regional | hosted by Skidmore College\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Match:<\/p>\n<p>at ITA Northeast Regional | hosted by Skidmore College<\/p>\n<p>10\/3\/2025 | <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Oct. 03 (Fri) &#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Intercollegiate_Tennis_Association_logo.png\" alt=\"ITA Northeast Regional | hosted by Skidmore College\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        at\u00a0ITA Northeast Regional | hosted by Skidmore College&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/rpiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/opponent-history\/ita-northeast-regional-hosted-by-skidmore-college\/541\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. \u2013 The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) men&#8217;s tennis team swept\u00a0Bard College this afternoon at the Stevenson Athletic Center.<\/p>\n<p>RPI secured commanding victories across all three doubles courts to claim the opening point. At the top spot, <a href=\"https:\/\/rpiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/quoc-uy-vo\/19053\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19053\" target=\"_blank\">Quoc-Uy Vo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/rpiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/gustave-viennet\/19957\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19957\" target=\"_blank\">Gustave Viennet<\/a> pocketed a 6\u20133 win over Bard&#8217;s Nicholas Oh and Ivan Borshchev. The No. 2 pair of <a href=\"https:\/\/rpiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/aiden-atri\/19954\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19954\" target=\"_blank\">Aiden Atri<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/rpiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/felix-puyplat\/19956\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19956\" target=\"_blank\">Felix Puyplat<\/a> were flawless in a 6\u20130 shutout of Thanasis Kostikas and Blake Kendall, while <a href=\"https:\/\/rpiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/cade-collingwood\/19955\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19955\" target=\"_blank\">Cade Collingwood<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/rpiathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/debarshi-sen\/19051\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19051\" target=\"_blank\">Debarshi Sen<\/a> matched the feat on Court 3, blanking Ciaran Chamberlain and Peter Trimble, 6\u20130.<\/p>\n<p>The Engineers did not drop a match in singles play, as RPI took all six courts in straight sets or match tiebreakers. Vo cruised on Court 1, defeating Kostikas 6\u20131, 6\u20130. Viennet continued his stellar day with a 6\u20130, 6\u20131 decision at the No. 3 position, and Puyplat followed suit at No. 4 with a 6\u20130, 6\u20130 win.<\/p>\n<p>Atri and Collingwood were also dominant on Courts 5 and 6, winning 6\u20130, 6\u20130 and 6\u20130, 6\u20131, respectively. The only match that went the distance came on Court 2, where Sen battled back after dropping the opening set to Oh. After taking the second set 6\u20134, Sen edged out his opponent in the match tiebreaker, 10\u20137, to complete the sweep for the Engineers.<\/p>\n<p>RPI returns to action this weekend when it travels to Saratoga Springs for the ITA Northeast Regional Championships. The three-day tournament begins Friday and runs through Sunday at host Skidmore.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Match: at ITA Northeast Regional | hosted by Skidmore College 10\/3\/2025 | &#13; Oct.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-184113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}