DAVIS , Calif — Senior Zac Rodd continued his string of strong play on Tuesday afternoon, winning at No. 1 singles as the Garnet fell to Division I opponent UC-Davis 6-1. It is Rodd’s second win over a Division I opponent this season. Rodd flourished in northern California on Tuesday as the rest of his [...]
SANTA CRUZ , Calif — Swarthmore faced a Division III opponent for the first time in 2006 on Monday afternoon, yet the defending national champion and current top-ranked UC-Santa Cruz provided little relief for the Garnet. The Banana Slugs (5-2, 3-1 Div. III) rolled past Swarthmore (0-5, 0-1 Div. III) by a score of 6-1. [...]
MOREAGA, Calif — Swarthmore began its grueling 2006 California swing with a 7-0 defeat at the hands of Division I opponent Saint Mary’s on Saturday afternoon. The lone Garnet (0-4) victory came at No. 3 doubles. Sam Sidhu ’07 and Kevin Shaughnessy took down Thomas Dawson-Roberts and Dan Anderson in dramatic fashion, 9-8 (7-5). [...]
Swarthmore faced its third consecutive Division I opponent in as many matches on Wednesday afternoon, falling 5-2 to the visiting Leopards from Lafayette College in the Michael Mullan Tennis Center. Senior Brian Park claimed victory in both his singles and doubles matches by outlasting the Leopard opponents. Park and doubles’ partner Zac Rodd ’06, ranked [...]
Swarthmore (0-2 overall) hosted Division I St. Joseph’s (Pa.) Sunday afternoon, falling 6-1 at the Michael Mullan Tennis Center. Despite the overall loss, it was a day of triumph for Jonathan Reiss ’07, ranked seventh in the Atlantic South region, claiming victories in his singles’ and doubles’ match. At No. 2 doubles, Reiss and Jonathan [...]
The Garnet (0-1 overall) hosted Division I Colgate Raiders (NY) Saturday afternoon and lost 5-2 in the Michael Mullan Tennis Center. Swarthmore’s No. 1 singles player Zach Rodd ’06, ranked fourth in the region, defeated Colgate’s Chris Innes in two straight sets. Rodd exhausted Innes in the first set, winning 7-5. By the second set [...]
Swarthmore men’s tennis has been ranked 16th in the country and fourth in the Atlantic South region, according to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Rankings. The ITA fall rankings list the top 30 Division-III teams in the nation and the top handful of teams in each region. The University of California-Santa Cruz leads the national rankings, [...]
Zac Rodd ’06 knocked off three seeded opponents, including top-seeded Paul Bristow of Mary Washington, on his way to the finals of the Wilson ITA Southeast Regional Men’s Tennis Championships this past weekend in Fredericksburg, Va. Rodd fell in the championship to Washington (Md.) junior Arturo Solis 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 on October 3. Rodd, seeded [...]
Garnet senior Zach Rodd defeated Michael Klimchak from the College of New Jersey 6-3, 6-0 in the No.1 singles’ final, and then paired with Brian Park ’06 to defeat Klimchak and partner Roger Mosteller 8-2 in the doubles’ final at the Swarthmore Invite on Sunday afternoon. J. J. England ’09 was the only other Garnet [...]