SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Skidmore College men's tennis team opened Liberty League play with a 5-2 win over visiting Hobart College at the McCaffery-Wagman Tennis and Wellness Center on Saturday.

• Skidmore, ranked 35^th nationally, is 5-3 overall.
• Hobart is 6-2.
• Kyle Lundberg, Ege Topbas, and Radin Sadeghi all won twice for the Thoroughbreds, who swept doubles and then went 4-2 in singles play.
• Sadeghi and Mahen Bitkuri got the team off to a hot start with a 6-2 decision over Ranadive/Martinez-Barelles in third doubles.
• Then, Lundberg and Topbas topped Kousaridis/Reid, 7-5, to clinch the point.
• Nika Mori and Fletcher King won for good measure in a 7-3 tiebreak.
• In singles, Sadeghi worked back from a slow start for a 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 win over Reid in the No. 5 spot.
• At first singles, Yuval Goodman stepped in for a 6-4, 6-4 win over Nick Fischer.
• Lundber also worked a quick straight-set 6-2, 6-3 win over Kousaridis.
• Topbas got through a challenge from Michael Georgelis in the second set, but prevailed 6-3, 7-6 (7-4).
• The win avenged the last two years in which the Statesmen claimed regular season decisions. Skidmore had won 22 in a row before that.

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The Thoroughbreds are back home to host RIT Sunday morning at 10 a.m.