The 29th ranked UW-Whitewater men's tennis team topped number thirty University of Chicago, 6-3, and Carroll University, 9-0, Saturday at Four Lakes Athletic Club in Elkhorn, Wisconsin.  The Warhawks, ranked 29th in the country and fifth in the region by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, improve to 9-11 with the wins.  Chicago, 30th in the nation and sixth in the region, falls to 11-2 and Carroll falls to 8-6.

Chicago results
Carroll results
 
In the match against Chicago, Ben Shklyar (Deerfield, IL/Deerfield) and Mitch Osborne (Crystal Lake, IL/Central) paired up to defeat Deepak Sabada and Krishna Ravella 8-6 at one doubles, and Byron Balkin (Madison/Memorial) and Andrew Bayliss (Sheboygan/North) topped Neil Karandikar and Ankur Bhargava 8-3 at two doubles to give UW-W a 2-1 lead coming out of doubles play.
 
The Warhawks won the matches at three through six singles to go on to win the match.  Bayliss won a three set thriller over Gordon Zhang in the closest match of the day.

It was a bit smoother sailing against Carroll as only one match, Byron Balkin (Madison/Memorial) at one singles, went to a tiebreaker.  In fact, besides one singles, the Warhawks lost just 8 games in singles play.

Doubles was slightly closer, but the Pioneers never posed a real threat at any flight.

The Warhawks will travel to Decorah, Iowa on Sunday to play Luther College in a match beginning at 2 pm.  UW-W's next home matches are on April 14 when they host Lake Forest College and the University of Dubuque in matches beginning at 9:30 am and 3:30 pm, respectively.


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