Men's Tennis Defeated at Navy to Conclude Regular Season

Saturday, April 20

Annapolis, Md.

1:00 PM

Army West Point

Navy

Men's Tennis Defeated at Navy to Conclude Regular Season

April 21, 2024 | Men's Tennis

ANNAPOLIS, MD - Army West Point men's tennis (12-14, 4-2 Patriot League) fell by a score of 4-1 to Navy (26-14, 5-2 Patriot League) in the annual Star Match as part of the Army-Navy Star Series presented by USAA.

The match concluded the regular season slate for the Black Knights, who will wait their seed ahead of the Patriot League Championships held from April 25-28 at West Point.

After dropping the doubles point, the Black Knights were unable to make up the ground on the singles court, with Samuel Haikal's straight set win on court three accounting for the lone point for Army.

Army 1, Navy 4
Doubles
1. Vishnu Bodavula/Jake Huarte (ARMY) DNF vs. Luke Garner/Sasha Panyan (NAVY): 4-3
2. Aniketh Ayinala/J.J Etterbeek (NAVY) def. Marcus Sebastian/Alan Ton (ARMY) 6-1
3. Herrick Legaspi/Nathan Nguyen (NAVY) def. Samuel Haikal/Michael Rooney(ARMY) 6-2
Singles
1. Sasha Panyan (NAVY) def. Jake Huarte (ARMY) 0-6, 6-4, 6-2
2. Daniel Zhou (ARMY) DNF vs. Herrick Legaspi (NAVY): 7-5, 3-6, 1-0
3. Samuel Haikal (ARMY) def. Luke Garner (NAVY): 6-1, 6-3
4. Vishnu Bodavula (ARMY) DNF vs. Steve Nguyen (NAVY): 6-4, 3-6, 1-0
5. J.J. Etterbeek (NAVY) def. Alan Ton (ARMY): 6-2, 6-2
6. Aniketh Ayinala (NAVY) def. Marcus Sebastian: (ARMY) 6-4, 7-5

Army will await its opponent in a Patriot League quarterfinal matchup slated for Friday, April 26th at a time to be determined.