ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. – The No. 10 Washington University in St. Louis men's tennis team bounced back on Friday with a 4-0 win over No. 62 Rochester in the consolation semifinals of the 2026 UAA Championships.
The Bears got off to a hot start by claiming the first two doubles matches to be completed. Senior
Colin Scruggs and first-year
Spencer Yamamoto raced out to a quick 6-2 win over Surya Rajamani and Haocheng Liu at number three doubles. Not far behind them was the No. 8-ranked team of senior
Colin Fox and first-year
Jeremy Sieben, who clinched the doubles point for WashU with a 6-3 win over Alan Wang and Ethan Samora at the top spot.
The number two doubles match between junior
Nathan Tam and
Drew Koval against Aiden Swart and Joshua Chu went unfinished, with Tam and Koval leading 5-2.
Across the board for singles, every Bear won their first set. However, it was sophomore
Avi Mahajan who finished his match first with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Samora at number four singles. No. 20 Scruggs put WashU within one singles win of the victory with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Liu at the top spot.
Sieben would clinch the win for the Bears with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Wang at number two singles.
When the matches were stopped, Fox was leading Swart 6-4, 2-1 at number three, while Koval was up 6-2, 5-2 over Tony Xu at number five and Tam had a 7-5, 2-1 advantage at number six over Chu.
WashU will play the winner of No. 20 Brandeis and No. 25 NYU in the 5th-place match on Saturday, Apr. 25 at 8:30 a.m. ET.
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