{"id":267794,"date":"2025-11-07T13:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/267794\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T13:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:06:09","slug":"mens-tennis-off-to-perfect-start-at-ita-sectionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/267794\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Tennis Off To Perfect Start at ITA Sectionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 PHILADELPHIA- The University of Pennsylvania men&#8217;s tennis team is off to a perfect start at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Sectionals tournament in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Senior <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/manfredi-graziani\/24835\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24835\" target=\"_blank\">Manfredi Graziani<\/a> got the day off on the right foot, cruising past Constantinos Djakouris of UNC, 6-1, 6-1. The duo of <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/shaurya-bharadwaj\/24830\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24830\" target=\"_blank\">Shaurya Bharadwaj<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/vojtech-vales\/24863\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24863\" target=\"_blank\">Vojtech Vales<\/a> followed with an upset win over the second-seeded Andrade da Silva\/Barbier Gazeu of South Carolina, 7-5, 6-4. Graziani then returned later to pair with junior <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/aaron-sandler\/24837\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24837\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Sandler<\/a>, where the two defeated Charlotte&#8217;s team of Dreycopp\/Prata, 6-4, 2-6, 10-5.<\/p>\n<p>Graziani will take on Paul Barbier Gazeu (South Carolina) today at 10 a.m. The team of S. Bharadwaj\/Vales will set their sights on UNC&#8217;s Mangiapane\/Wright before Graziani and Sandler square off against Bryant&#8217;s Machado\/Baquero combo.<\/p>\n<p>RESULTS<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSingles<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n#117 <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/manfredi-graziani\/24835\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24835\" target=\"_blank\">Manfredi Graziani<\/a> (Penn) def. Constantinos Djakouris (UNC), 6-1, 6-1<\/p>\n<p>Doubles<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/shaurya-bharadwaj\/24830\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24830\" target=\"_blank\">Shaurya Bharadwaj<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/vojtech-vales\/24863\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24863\" target=\"_blank\">Vojtech Vales<\/a> (Penn) def. Lucas Andrade da Silva\/Paul Barbier Gazeu (South Carolina), 7-5, 6-4.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/manfredi-graziani\/24835\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24835\" target=\"_blank\">Manfredi Graziani<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/aaron-sandler\/24837\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24837\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Sandler<\/a> (Penn) def. Ivan Dreycopp\/Vasco Prata (Charlotte), 6-4, 2-6, 10-5&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; PHILADELPHIA- The University of Pennsylvania men&#8217;s tennis team is off to a perfect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-267794","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\/267794","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=267794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}