CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard men's tennis saw two duos and a pair of singles players advance to the fourth day of the ITA New England Regionals after competition wrapped up this afternoon. 

The duos of Melchior Delloye and Mitchell Lee and James MacDonald and Valdemar Pape advanced to the round of 16 after dropping their opponents 8-2 and 8-3, respectively. 

In singles Benjamin Privara and Rohan Murali collected a pair of wins today to advance to the quarterfinals of the regionals main draws.  First, Privara dropped Alex Finkelstein (Brown) 7-6 (7), 6-3 before recording a convincing 6-4, 6-1 win over Petar Teodorovic (Cornell).

Murali also registered two straight set victories, defeating both Cheng Tang (Buffalo) and Aman Sharma (Cornell) to cruise to the final eight.

Harvard recorded two additional victories on the day with Masato Perera and Valdemar Pape each advancing to the round of 16 after dominant straight set wins. 

Results

Doubles
[7] Melchior Delloye/Mitchell Lee (Harvard) def. Alexander Koong/Toby Luo (Brown), 8-2
[9-16] James MacDonald/Valdemar Pape (Harvard) def. Josh Israel/Benito Vlassis (Colgate), 8-3
Daniils Snaiders/Cheng Tang (Buffalo) def. [9-16] Rohan Murali/Elisha Thornton (Harvard), 8-7 (3)
Krish Gupta/Dylan Tsoi (Yale) def. [2] No. 84 Masato Perera/Benjamin Privara (Harvard), 8-6
 
Singles Round of 32
[9-16] Masato Perera (Harvard) def. Zihao Yuan (Dartmouth), 6-3, 6-1
[4] No. 68 Benjamin Privara (Harvard) def. Alex Finkelstein (Brown), 7-6 (7), 6-3
Valdemar Pape (Harvard) def. Theodoris Mitsakos (Buffalo), 6-3, 6-2
[5] Rohan Murali (Harvard) def. Cheng Tang (Buffalo), 6-4, 6-1
[9-16] Carlos Guerrero Alvarez (Dartmouth) def. Marc Ktiri (Harvard), 6-7 (3), 7-6 (4), 6-2
Jack McCarthy (Cornell) def. [9-16] Melchior Delloye (Harvard), 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-2
[2] Vignesh Gogineni (Yale) def. Mitchell Lee (Harvard), 6-4, 6-1
 
Singles Round of 16
[1] Radu Papoe (Cornell) def. [9-16] Masato Perera (Harvard), 7-5, 7-5
[4] No. 68 Benjamin Privara (Harvard) def. [9-16] Petar Teodorovic (Cornell), 6-4, 6-1
Krish Gupta (Yale) def. Valdemar Pape (Harvard), 6-3, 7-6 (3)
[5] Rohan Murali (Harvard) def. [9-16] Aman Sharma (Cornell), 7-5, 6-2
 
Singles Consolation Draw
Ronin Lotlikar (Binghamton) def. Elisha Thornton (Harvard), 6-2, 3-6, 10-6
James MacDonald (Harvard) def. [9-16] Filipe Costa (Binghamton), 4-6, 6-3, 10-5

Next Up

The remaining Crimson players will return to action tomorrow morning beginning with the round of 16 doubles matches kicking off at 10:30 a.m. ET from Beren Tennis Center.