{"id":126343,"date":"2026-02-28T23:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/126343\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T23:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:19:07","slug":"mens-tennis-sweeps-south-florida-on-saturday-7-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/126343\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Tennis Sweeps South Florida on Saturday, 7-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 PHILADELPHIA \u2013 The University of Pennsylvania men&#8217;s tennis team swept South Florida on Saturday at the Hecht Tennis Center, 7-0, improving to 8-3 on the year.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n#6 <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/manfredi-graziani\/24835\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24835\" target=\"_blank\">Manfredi Graziani<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/aaron-sandler\/24837\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24837\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Sandler<\/a> downed #45 Hugo Car and Ettore Danesi in the first spot of doubles.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/parashar-bharadwaj\/24829\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24829\" target=\"_blank\">Parashar Bharadwaj<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/matthew-rutter\/24836\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24836\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Rutter<\/a> secured another doubles victory as the Red and Blue took a 1-0 lead heading into singles.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nGraziani added a singles win as well, defeating #124 Hugo Car for his fourth singles win of the season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/justin-chung\/24833\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24833\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Chung<\/a> bageled his opponent in the first set and won 6-3 in the second as he secured the first doubles win of the afternoon for Penn.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/luka-butera\/24831\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24831\" target=\"_blank\">Luka Butera<\/a> had an impressive win over #82 Elijah Cham in the second position, winning in two sets.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/matthew-rutter\/24836\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24836\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Rutter<\/a> defeated his opponent in the fifth spot, making it 5-0 Quakers.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n#121 <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/shaurya-bharadwaj\/24830\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24830\" target=\"_blank\">Shaurya Bharadwaj<\/a> outlasted Stepan Mruzek after falling behind in the first set, taking the next two for the win.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFreshman <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/vojtech-vales\/24863\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24863\" target=\"_blank\">Vojtech Vales<\/a> completed the seven match sweep for the Quakers as he recorded his seventh singles win in his first season donning the Red and Blue.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nRESULTS<br \/>\nDOUBLES:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t#6 <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> (P) def. #45 Hugo Car\/ Ettore Danesi (USF) &#8211; 6-4&#13;<br \/>\n\tJames Newton\/ Francisco Llanes (USF) def. <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\/shaurya-bharadwaj\/24830\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24830\" target=\"_blank\">Shaurya Bharadwaj<\/a> (P) &#8211; 6-3&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/parashar-bharadwaj\/24829\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24829\" target=\"_blank\">Parashar Bharadwaj<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/matthew-rutter\/24836\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24836\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Rutter<\/a> (P) def. Stepan Mruzek\/ Guglielmo Verdese (USF) &#8211; 6-4&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nSINGLES:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t#45 <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/manfredi-graziani\/24835\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24835\" target=\"_blank\">Manfredi Graziani<\/a> (P) def. #124 Hugo Car (USF) &#8211; 7-5, 6-3&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/luka-butera\/24831\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24831\" target=\"_blank\">Luka Butera<\/a> (P) def. #82 Elijah Cham (USF) &#8211; 6-3, 6-4&#13;<br \/>\n\t#121 <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/shaurya-bharadwaj\/24830\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24830\" target=\"_blank\">Shaurya Bharadwaj<\/a> (P) def. Stepan Mruzek (USF) &#8211; 2-6, 6-4, 6-3&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/justin-chung\/24833\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24833\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Chung<\/a> (P) def. Guglielmo Verdese (USF) &#8211; 6-0, 6-3&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/matthew-rutter\/24836\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24836\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Rutter<\/a> (P) def. James Newtown (USF) &#8211; 6-4, 6-4&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/vojtech-vales\/24863\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24863\" target=\"_blank\">Vojtech Vales<\/a> (P) def. Francisco Llanes (USF) &#8211; 5-7, 7-6, 10-7&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nOrder of Finish:<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nDoubles: 2,1,3*<br \/>\nSingles: 4,1,2*,5,3,6<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUp Next<br \/>\nThe Quakers are back in action tomorrow as they host Florida Atlantic\u00a0at 1 p.m. at the Hecht Tennis Center.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>#FightOnPenn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; PHILADELPHIA \u2013 The University of Pennsylvania men&#8217;s tennis team swept South Florida on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-126343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","10":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}