SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Skidmore College men's tennis team lost for the first time in nine matches as it came up short to 10^th-ranked Kenyon College, 5-2, on Friday at the McCaffery-Wagman Tennis and Wellness Center.

• Skidmore, ranked 24^th, was behind the doubles point entering the day as the match was picked up from spring break.
• Ege Topbas and Radin Sadeghi were winners in singles. Topbas closed out Juozas Cioladis 6-5, 7-6 (7-3) to, at the time, keep the match alive.
• Sadeghi rounded out the day with a 10-6 win in the third-set super tiebreak over Sree Kondaveeti. Sadeghi bounced back after dropping the first set, 6-4, with a sweep of the second set.
• Moments earlier, Kyle Lundberg fell in a long, competitive 13-11 third-set tiebreak against Alejandro Gonzalez.
• Nika Mori also went the distance at sixth singles against Styl Papamichael, but dropped a 2-6, 6-2, 6-2 decision.
• Back in March, before the match was suspended, Sadeghi and Mahen Bitkuri earned a 6-4 win at third doubles over the Gonzalez/Gonzalez pair.

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The Thoroughbreds will host No. 23 NYU next Saturday, April 18, at 1 p.m. at the McCaffery-Wagman Tennis and Wellness Center.