LEBANON, N.J. – The Union College men's tennis team remained unbeaten on the 2025-26 season and continued its best start since 2018-19 with a 4-3 victory over The College of New Jersey on Saturday afternoon at the Courtside Racquet Club.
Junior
Daniel Saxe and first-year
Simon Philip were dual winners for Union (4-0) on the day, as the Garnet Chargers gutted out a win and handed TCNJ (3-1) its first loss of the season.
The Garnet Chargers started the day by eking out the doubles point with wins at the bottom-two flights. After TCNJ took first doubles by a 6-1 margin, Saxe and sophomore
Vivaan Gupta defeated Sidd Arudi and Logan Knasiak by a 6-2 score at third doubles to even the score before Philip and junior
Solen Bellemare clinched the point with a 7-5 second-doubles win.
Saxe kept Union in the lead with a hard-fought win at second singles, coming back to defeat Harrison Maitland-Carter in a supertiebreaker, 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), (11-9). The junior broke serve at 4-5 in the second set to stay alive and ultimately forced a tiebreaker, and then fought off a match point at 8-9 in the supertiebreaker before earning the final three points to secure the win.
Philip put the Garnet Chargers one point away from a victory with a 6-2, 7-5 win over Faris Shehata at fifth singles, and sophomore
Arhan Gupta clinched the win with a 6-4, 4-6, (10-3) supertiebreaker triumph over Aidan Twamley at the fourth flight.
Union will look to remain undefeated tomorrow, when the Garnet Chargers face a difficult test against ITA #27 New York University at 1 p.m. in the Bronx.
