It was a tight battle throughout, but the University of Rochester men's tennis team dropped a 6-3 decision to Stevens Institute of Technology on Saturday afternoon at the Goergen Athletic Center.
 
The loss drops UR to 5-9 on the year, while Stevens picks up its second win of the year and is now 2-6.
 
The match opened with the Ducks taking a 2-1 lead after doubles play.  Sahaj Somani and Mattias Hartveit earned the opening point for UR, winning 8-4 at #3 over William Persson and David Schulz.
 
Stevens then scored wins at #1 from Kyle Henry and Mark Kanevsky and at #2 from Danny Polk and Bryan Szayna.  Henry and Kanevsky topped Masaru Fujimaki and Tanmay Thakkar 8-6, while the Polk-Szayna combo defeated Yifan Shen and Jun Yuminaga in a nailbiting 8-7 match.
 
In singles, UR's Shen opened with a 6-2, 6-3 win at #3, defeating Henry to even the overall match score 2-2.  Polk then gave Stevens the slim lead again with a 6-3, 6-4 win at #2 over Yuminaga.
 
Stevens then earned a win from Kanevsky over Thakkar at #4, taking a two point lead overall, up 4-2.
 
Peter Huang lost at #5 to Szayna 6-0, 6-2, surrendering the fifth point of the match to the Ducks.

That happened while the final two matches of the day were going to three sets.  At #1, Fujimaki won 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 over Persson, while Gabriel Sifuentes topped Somani 7-6, 2-6, 10-2 at #6.
 
The Yellowjackets next match will be in two weeks when UR takes on St. Lawrence University on the road on April 7th.