{"id":202115,"date":"2026-04-18T22:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202115\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:56:12","slug":"mens-tennis-falls-to-no-27-columbia-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202115\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Tennis Falls to No. 27 Columbia in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">NEW YORK, N.Y. \u2013 Harvard men&#8217;s tennis (13-11, 3-2 Ivy) fell to No. 27 Columbia, 4-2, in Ivy League action on Saturday afternoon in New York City.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The doubles point was tightly contested, with all three matches decided in tiebreaks. Columbia secured the point with wins on courts one and three. Harvard&#8217;s lone doubles victory came from <a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/melchior-delloye\/30294\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"30294\" target=\"_blank\">Melchior Delloye<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/nathan-blokhin\/30305\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"30305\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Blokhin<\/a>, who defeated Sachin Palta and Ena (Columbia), 7-6(6).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In singles, Columbia earned three victories to seal the match. Harvard picked up two singles wins from <a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/nathan-blokhin\/30305\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"30305\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Blokhin<\/a>, who defeated Sachin Palta, 6-3, 6-4, and <a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/masato-perera\/30302\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"30302\" target=\"_blank\">Masato Perera<\/a>, who topped Abhishek Thorat, 6-2, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Results<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nColumbia \u2013 4, Harvard \u2013 2<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Doubles<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMichael Zheng\/Nicolas Kotzen (Columbia) def. <a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/rohan-murali\/30300\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"30300\" target=\"_blank\">Rohan Murali<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/kolos-kincses\/30306\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"30306\" target=\"_blank\">Kolos Kincses<\/a> (Harvard), 7-6(3)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/melchior-delloye\/30294\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"30294\" target=\"_blank\">Melchior Delloye<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/nathan-blokhin\/30305\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"30305\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Blokhin<\/a> (Harvard) def. Sachin Palta\/Ena (Columbia), 7-6(6)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThanaphat Boosarawongse\/Abhishek Thorat (Columbia) def. <a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/james-macdonald\/30298\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"30298\" target=\"_blank\">James MacDonald<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/masato-perera\/30302\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"30302\" target=\"_blank\">Masato Perera<\/a> (Harvard), 7-6(2)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nOrder of finish: 1, 2, 3<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Singles<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMichael Zheng (Columbia) def. <a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/rohan-murali\/30300\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"30300\" target=\"_blank\">Rohan Murali<\/a> (Harvard), 7-6(5), 6-4<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nNicolas Kotzen (Columbia) def. Benji Privara (Harvard), 7-6(3), 7-6(5)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/nathan-blokhin\/30305\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"30305\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Blokhin<\/a> (Harvard) def. Sachin Palta (Columbia), 6-3, 6-4<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThanaphat Boosarawongse (Columbia) def. <a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/melchior-delloye\/30294\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"30294\" target=\"_blank\">Melchior Delloye<\/a> (Harvard), 6-1, 6-2<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/masato-perera\/30302\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"30302\" target=\"_blank\">Masato Perera<\/a> (Harvard) def. Abhishek Thorat (Columbia), 6-2, 6-4<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/mitchell-lee\/30297\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"30297\" target=\"_blank\">Mitchell Lee<\/a> (Harvard) vs. Aditya Govila (Columbia), 6-2, 6-7(6), 0-1 DNF<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nOrder of finish: 4, 5, 3, 1, 2<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">NEXT UP<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nHarvard travels to Ithaca tomorrow to take on No. 31 Cornell.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; NEW YORK, N.Y. \u2013 Harvard men&#8217;s tennis (13-11, 3-2 Ivy) fell to No. 27&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-202115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}