Spartans to Head to ITAs with 8-0 Record after Wins over Lake Forest & Rochester

Spartans to Head to ITAs with 8-0 Record after Wins over Lake Forest & Rochester

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The Case Western Reserve University men's tennis team, ranked fifth in Division III, continued its strong start to the season on Saturday, besting Lake Forest College 7-0 in Oberlin, Ohio, in the morning and the University of Rochester 7-0 at the Mayfield Village Racquet Club at night.

The Spartans will head into next weekend's ITA Indoor National Championship with an 8-0 record. Lake Forest fell to 0-2 with the loss, while Rochester dropped to 2-1.

Stats and Standouts

  • CWRU went 12-0 in singles matches and 6-0 in doubles contests on Saturday.

  • Senior JT Bilski and junior Santiago Salazar Garza each won a pair of singles matches during the day with eight other players earning a singles victory on Saturday.

  • The Spartans' doubles combinations of sophomores Leon Chen and Jon Totorica, junior Trey Lambright and graduate student Bryce Ware, and seniors Rohan Bhat and Anmay Devaraj each went 2-0 over the two matches.

#5 CWRU def. Lake Forest 7-0

  • Doubles

  1. Leon Chen & Jon Totorica (CWRU) def. Felipe Moraes & Rodrigo Cunha (LAKE FOREST), 6-3
  2. Trey Lambright & Bryce Ware (CWRU) def. Bernardo Aguiar & George Ciuca (LAKE FOREST), 6-1
  3. Rohan Bhat & Anmay Devaraj (CWRU) def. Joao Espindola & Tim Pasea (LAKE FOREST), 6-2 *

  • Singles

  1. Santiago Salazar Garza (CWRU) def. Felipe Moraes (LAKE FOREST), 6-0, 6-3 *
  2. Josh Davydov (CWRU) def. Bernardo Aguiar (LAKE FOREST), 6-4, 6-1
  3. JT Bilski (CWRU) def. Rodrigo Cunha (LAKE FOREST), 6-4, 6-3
  4. Shay Gupta (CWRU) def. Zeke Bisharat (LAKE FOREST), 6-4, 6-1
  5. Bryce Ware (CWRU) def. Tim Pasea (LAKE FOREST), 6-0, 6-1
  6. Rowan Matorin (CWRU) def. Alex Chin (LAKE FOREST), 6-1, 1-0, ret.

  • Order of Finish: Doubles (2,3,1); Singles (6,5,1,2,3,4) | * indicates clinching win

#5 CWRU def. Rochester 7-0

  • Doubles

  1. Trey Lambright & Bryce Ware (CWRU) def. Ethan Samora & Tony Xu (UR), 6-0 *
  2. Leon Chen & Jon Totorica (CWRU) def. Rahul Ravi & Alan Wang (UR), 6-0
  3. Rohan Bhat & Anmay Devaraj (CWRU) def. Surya Rajamani & Liam Rieger (UR), 6-3

  • Singles

  1. Matthew Plunkett (CWRU) def. Kavin Shukla (UR), 6-3, 6-1
  2. Santiago Salazar Garza (CWRU) def. Andy Liu (UR), 6-3, 6-1
  3. Ansh Shah (CWRU) def. Rahul Ravi (UR), 6-4, 6-0
  4. Rohan Bhat (CWRU) def. Tony Xu (UR), 6-1, 6-2
  5. Konrad Kwiatkowski (CWRU) def. Alan Wang (UR), 6-0, 6-2
  6. JT Bilski (CWRU) def. Ethan Samora (UR), 6-1, 6-0 *

  • Order of Finish: Doubles (2,1,3); Singles (1,5,6,4,3,2) | * indicates clinching win

Clinch Count

The following are the Spartans' 2026 leaders in doubles-point and match-clinching wins:

  • Doubles: Totorica/ Chen (3), Bhat/ Devaraj (2), Salazar Garza/ Shiffer (1), McRae/ Ngo (1), Ware/ Lambright (1)

  • Match: Bilski (3), Devaraj (2), Salazar Garza (2), Bhat (1), Jacob (1)

Spartan Notes

  • Bilski and Salazar Garza each improved to a team-best 5-0 in singles matches this spring.

  • Totorica and Chen improved to 7-0 together this spring and 13-2 overall, including the fall. Lambright and Ware are 10-1 together this year.

  • The Spartans have won each of their eight matches this spring by a 7-0 score. CWRU has gone 48-0 in singles matches and 22-2 in doubles contests so far this spring.

  • Including the fall, CWRU improved to 168-52 (.764) in singles play and 68-29 (.701) in doubles action as a team this season following Saturday's action.