Score: No. 36 Cornell 4, No. 41 VCU 1
Location: Richmond, Va. (Thalhimer Tennis Center)
Records: VCU 7-9 (1-0 Atlantic 10) , Cornell 12-4

The Short Story: VCU took on another top-forty opponent back home at Thalhimer Tennis Center. After dropping the doubles point, the Rams fell short in singles and lost 4-1

Opening Serve

• Cornell won the doubles point on courts three and one
• Freshman Hamza El Amine and sophomore Romain Gales led in their match on court two which ended unfinished
• Singles play began with another Cornell victory on court six
• Gales, who cracked back into the national rankings at 120 this past week, took his match on court four to make it 2-1 Cornell.
• The Big Red took another match on court three to put them up 3-1
• Mathis Bondaz came back in the second set of his match in tiebreaker sets, but couldn't finish before Cornell clinched on court five.

Singles Results

1. #92 Mathis Bondaz (VCU) vs. #13 Radu Papoe (COR) 0-6, 7-6 (12-10), unfinished 
2. Oscar Pinto Sansano (VCU) vs. #63 Adit Sinha (COR) 6-7 (5-7), 4-5, unfinished 
3. Petar Teodorovic (COR) def. #86 Matisse Bobichon (VCU) 6-2, 7-5 
4. #120 Romain Gales (VCU) def. Bradley Paliska (COR) 6-3, 6-4 
5. Eric Verdes (COR) def. Hamza El Amine (VCU) 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 
6. Nathan Mao (COR) def. German Samofalov (VCU) 6-2, 6-4 Doubles competition 

Doubles Results

1. Adit Sinha/Nathan Mao (COR) def. #45 Oscar Pinto Sansano/German Samofalov (VCU) 6-4 
2. Hamza El Amine/Romain Gales (VCUMEN) vs. Eric Verdes/Petar Teodorovic (COR) 4-3, unfinished 
3. Radu Papoe/Samuel Paquette (COR) def. Matisse Bobichon/Tristan Piombo (VCU) 6-2

Order of finish: Doubles 3,1; Singles 6,4,3,5

Up next: The Rams finish their weekend homestand against No. 70 Charlotte at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 24th.