CANTON, N.Y. – The Union College men's tennis team kicked off its 2025-26 season with day-one action at the St. Lawrence University Fall Classic on Saturday.
 
Sophomore Jesus Sosa earned one win for Union in the "A" Singles flight, defeating RIT's Alec Turcotte by an 8-6 score before falling to Jacob Linares of Hobart by an 8-5 margin in the quarterfinals. He was joined in the bracket by sophomore Arhan Gupta, who came up short to second-seeded Yu Tanimoto of RIT, 8-1. Gupta did rebound for an 8-5 win in his first consolation match.
 
Junior Daniel Saxe and first-year Simon Philip both dropped first-round matches to Ithaca College opponents in the "B" Singles bracket, with Philip succumbing 8-3 to Sam Lopez-Cardenas and Saxe falling 8-2 to Luis Crespo.
 
Junior Shreyas Kode came a tiebreaker short of a win in his "C" singles match with Rochester's Ethan Samora, falling 7-1 in the breaker. Sophomore Vivaan Gupta ran into second-seeded Carlos Hernandez of Ithaca in the bottom half of the bracket, falling by an 8-4 score.
 
In the "D" singles bracket, first-year Riichi Nagatake came up just short in a tiebreaker to RIT's Luke Weber, 8-7 (7-5), while senior Christian Crowder was knocked off by second-seeded Joseph Xia of Rochester, 8-1.
 
All four Union doubles entries fell in first-round action as well. In the "A" bracket, A. Gupta and Sosa were beaten 8-2 by top-seeded Tarun Korwar and Anson Anderson of Hamilton, while V. Gupta and Philip were blanked by Ithaca's Ivan Kisic and Emiliano Pedrero. Nagatake and Saxe came a few points short in an 8-7 (7-3) loss to Sonny Mo and Jackson Murray of SLU, and Kode and Crowder dropped an 8-2 decision to RIT's Gabe Escobar and Luke Weber.
 
The Garnet Chargers will return to the court tomorrow for the second and final day of the SLU Fall Classic beginning at 8:30 a.m.