{"id":417416,"date":"2026-01-18T13:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T13:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/417416\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T13:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T13:29:13","slug":"mens-tennis-hosts-navy-in-season-opening-double-header","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/417416\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Tennis Hosts Navy in Season Opening Double Header"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA \u2013\u00a0The University of Pennsylvania men&#8217;s tennis team will begin the 2026 spring season against Navy in a double header at the Hamlin Tennis Center on Sunday, Jan. 18. The Quakers look to follow up a successful 2024-25 campaign as they tied with Princeton for the most wins in the Ivy League (21). The team also ranked as high as No. 28 in the ITA national team rankings last year. This will be Head Coach Rich\u00a0Bonfligio&#8217;s\u00a0fourth year at the helm of the program.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Quaker\u00a0Notemeal\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0The Quakers are coming off a stellar fall season, highlighted by senior <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/manfredi-graziani\/24835\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24835\" target=\"_blank\">Manfredi Graziani<\/a> and junior <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/aaron-sandler\/24837\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24837\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Sandler&#8217;s<\/a> run to the\u00a0Intercollegiate Tennis Association\u00a0(ITA) All-American consolation finals and\u00a0NCAA\u00a0Doubles\u00a0Final Four.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>* The duo\u00a0were\u00a0ranked as the #8 overall doubles team in the ITA fall rankings. Graziani was also ranked as the #41 singles player in the same release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>* Freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/vojtech-vales\/24863\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24863\" target=\"_blank\">Vojtech Vales<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/adam-bain\/24861\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24861\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Bain<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/nischal-spurling\/24862\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24862\" target=\"_blank\">Nischal Spurling<\/a>\u00a0put together strong fall seasons and will look to build on that\u00a0moving\u00a0forward. Vales went 7-5 in his first semester at Penn, while Bain and Spurling were similar\u00a0with\u00a06-4 and 8-5 records, respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>* Sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/shaurya-bharadwaj\/24830\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24830\" target=\"_blank\">Shaurya Bharadwaj<\/a> will aim to build on his Ivy Masters finals run this spring. Newly named captain <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/matthew-rutter\/24836\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24836\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Rutter<\/a> will do the same after a semifinal appearance in the Ivy Masters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n#FightOnPenn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; PHILADELPHIA \u2013\u00a0The University of Pennsylvania men&#8217;s tennis team will begin the 2026 spring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-417416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417416","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=417416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}