Box Score ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, FL – Sophomore Tanmay Thakkar picked up the University of Rochester men's tennis teams lone point in an 8-1 loss to 14th-ranked Brandeis University in the consolation semifinals at the UAA Tennis Championships on Friday afternoon.
 
Thakkar was a straight set winning at 4th singles, winning 6-1, 6-3 over Zach Cihlar.  UR's Yifan Shen, playing at #3 singles, took his opponent, Tyler Ng, to three sets, but ultimately fell 6-7, 6-0, 6-1.
 
The four other remaining singles matches went in straight sets in favor of the Judges (14-4).  Rochester meanwhile, falls to 7-13 on the season.
 
In doubles, Brandeis got off to a 3-0 start, winning all three points.  Rochester's #2 doubles team of Damani Eubanks and Peter Huang were the toughest out, losing 8-6 to Jackson Kogan and Ng.
 
At #1, the 9th-ranked duo of David Aizenberg and Anupreeth Coramutla won 8-2 over Shen and Masaru Fujimaki.  That was coupled with an 8-3 win at #3 doubles from Brandeis' Nikhil Das and Rajan Vohra over Mattias Hartveit and Sahaj Somani.
 
Rounding out singles action was Fujimaki falling at #1 to Aizenberg (7-5, 6-0) and Jun Yuminaga dropping a decision to Kogan at #2 (6-1, 6-1).
 
At #5, Huang lost to Benjamin Wolfe (6-3, 6-2) while Somani was dropped by Ethan Saal (6-2, 6-4).
 
In the final round of play at the UAA Championships, Rochester will play NYU for 7th place at 9 am.  Brandeis will play for 5th against Case Western Reserve University.