Hoegstedt Prevails in Matchup of Top 10 Regionally Ranked Players in Singles

CHESTERTOWN, Md. – Host Washington College, ranked 14th in the Atlantic South region, won two of three matches in doubles, but visiting #20 Johns Hopkins, ranked fourth in the region, responded with wins in five of the six singles matches to come away with a 6-3 win on Tuesday afternoon in Centennial Conference men's tennis action at Schottland Tennis Center. 

#20 Johns Hopkins 6 Washington College 3

Doubles
- The Blue Jays picked up a win in the first match to finish at No. 3 as Thomas Yu and Marco Azer downed Brady Burns and Ryohei Kawai, 8-3.
- In No. 2 doubles, Landon Strober and Koby Bonta tied the match at 1-1 as they prevailed 8-5 over the Blue Jays' Vishnu Joshi and Alexander Kernagis.
- Karl Hoegstedt and Andrew Smith, ranked 11th in the region in doubles, topped Johns Hopkins' duo of Daniel Ardila and Rohan Reddy, 8-5, at No. 1 doubles to give WC a 2-1 advantage.

Singles
- Washington's lone win came at No. 1 singles in the last match to finish as Hoegstedt, ranked 10th in the region, bested Yu, ranked second in the region, with a come-from-behind, 4-6, 6-0, 1-0 (10-8) win in a matchup between top ten players in the Atlantic South Region.
- Joshi, ranked 14th in the region in singles, tied the match at 2-2 with a 6-3, 6-0 win over Kawai at No. 2.
- Ardila topped Burns, 6-1, 6-1, at No. 5 singles to give the Blue Jays a 3-2 lead.
- The next match to finish was at No. 6 as Azer won 6-3, 6-2 over Aaradith Ravichandran.
- Brian Wang secured the win for Johns Hopkins at No. 4 as he topped Bonta, 6-1, 6-2.
- Andrew Tran bested Strober, 7-6 (7-3), 6-2 at No. 3 in the fifth singles contest to conclude.

Notes
- Washington is now 8-5 overall and 3-1 in the Centennial, while #20 Johns Hopkins is 9-1 overall and 1-1 in the conference.

Quote From Acting Head Coach Michael Herman
"I am proud of the way we fought today. Doubles was very encouraging for me. We gave ourselves a chance to win the match but our singles overall was not as sharp as it needed to be.  Big picture for us is that we are going to take the positives, and improve at whatever we were missing today. We have to keep getting better."

Up Next
4/16 @ Gettysburg – 1:00 p.m. (Centennial Conference Match)