| Box Score 2 CANTON, N.Y. – The Union College men's tennis team kicked off its 2025-26 season with at St. Lawrence University Fall Classic, held at the Sammis Tennis Courts on Saturday and Sunday.
 
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 over SLU's Jake David 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, and first-year Alain Uzelac fell by an 8-5 margin to Hobart's Tyler Snyder.
 
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.

Union earned a pair of consolation doubles wins on Sunday's second day, including Gupta and Sosa rebounding for an 8-0 sweep of Rochester's Surya Rajamani and Alan Wang.
 
Union will kick off dual match play on Wednesday with the team's Liberty League opener at Bard College beginning at 4 p.m.