Men’s Tennis | March 10, 2024
PALO ALTO, Calif. – USC men’s tennis (5-7) drops its second-straight match, as it was swept in a non-conference dual against Stanford (7-4) on Sunday, Mar. 10 at the Taube Family Tennis Center.
The Trojans couldn’t find any sort of momentum in this dual, as they dropped all eight matches (including two doubles) that finished. The formally ranked doubles team of graduate transfer’s Niroop Vallabhaneni and Samuel Rubell reconvened in their first dual match for the doubles pair. While they didn’t finish, they were ahead and were on track to be the lone winner for USC.
The Trojans return to action next week as they host TCU and Texas in a doubleheader weekend as the Longhorns come to town for a 5 p.m. match on Friday, Mar. 15, and the Horn frogs head to Los Angeles for a 1 p.m. dual on Sunday, Mar. 17 at Marks Tennis Stadium.
#41 Stanford 4, #32 USC 1
Sunday, March 10, 2024 | Taube Family Tennis Center (Palo Alto, Calif.)
DOUBLES
(1) Nico Godsick/Max Basing (STAN) def. Peter Makk/Lodewijk Weststrate (USC) 6-2
(2) Niroop Vallabhaneni/Samuel Rubell (USC) vs. Nishesh Basavareddy/Samir Banerjee (STAN) 4-3 UNF
(3) Aryan Chaudhardy/Harsh Parikh (STAN) def. Volodymyr Iakubenko/Karl Lee (USC) 6-0
Order of Finish: 3, 1
Stanford wins the Doubles Point
SINGLES
(1) #31 Nishesh Basavareddy (STAN) vs. #50 Peter Makk (USC) 6-0, 6-4
(2) Samir Banerjee (STAN) vs. #102 Lodewijk Weststrate (USC) 7-6 (7), 6-4
(3) Max Basing (STAN) vs. Volodymyr Iakubenko (USC) 6-4, 4-5 UNF
(4) Karl Lee (USC) vs. Kyle Kang (STAN) 6-2, 3-6, 4-4
(5) Nico Godsick (STAN) vs. Samuel Rubell (USC) 7-6 (3), 3-2 UNF
(6) Neel Rajesh (STAN) vs. Niroop Vallabhaneni (USC) 6-0, 6-3
Order of Finish: 6, 1, 2
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