CLAREMONT, Calif. -
Matthew Robinson and
Warren Pham provided the doubles point with a tiebreaker win at No. 3 and then provided straight-set singles wins as the top-ranked Claremont-Mudd-Scripps men's tennis team earned a 5-2 win over No. 3 Tufts on Sunday at the Biszantz Family Tennis Center.
With the win, CMS moves to 11-2 on the year, including 11 wins in a row since falling to a pair of Division II teams (Concordia and Point Loma) on opening day. Tufts suffers its first loss of the year as it drops to 6-1.
Robinson provided the clinch with a 7-6, 6-2 win at No. 3 singles, taking the tiebreaker 8-6 in the first set and then controlling the second. He and Pham had a 7-6 win at No. 3 doubles, pulling ahead 3-0 at the start of the tiebreaker and then holding off a comeback effort from the Jumbos for a 7-3 win.
Brandon Vu and
Caleb Settles earned a 7-5 win at No. 2 doubles, coming up with a break at 6-5 to level the doubles score at a match apiece.
Pham was the first to finish in singles, as he took a 6-3, 6-3 win at No. 2, and then
Advik Mareedu came back from down 5-3 in the second set to earn a 6-3, 7-6 win at No. 1 (7-4 in the tiebreaker) to improve to 20-0 in singles this season and put the Stags up 3-0.
After Robinson's win provided the clinch, Tufts won three-set matches at No. 5 and No. 6, before
Josh Kim earned a three-set win at No. 4 (6-2, 6-7, 6-4) for the final point of the match.
CMS will be back in action on Tuesday for another big NESCAC showdown with Middlebury at 5 p.m.