PASADENA, Calif. – The Caltech men's tennis team won its third consecutive match Thursday in a convincing 6-1 defeat of the Whitman College Blues.

The Beavers set the stage for a successful day by picking up 6-4 wins in the first and third doubles matchups. Sophomores Tejas Ram (Allen, Texas / Allen) and Constantin Cedillo-Vayson de Pradenne (Paris / Lycée Jean de La Fontaine) struck first on Court 3, extending the pair's undefeated streak to four sets.

Moments later, junior Andrew Zabelo (Florham Park, N.J. / Newark Academy) and sophomore Eric He (Martinsville, N.J. / Bridgewater Raritan) finished off their opponents on Court 1, each picking up their fourth total doubles wins and their second as doubles partners this season.

First-year Kenneth Chan (Hinsdale, Ill. / Pine Crest) kept Caltech's momentum up with the first singles victory of the day, heating up after a 6-4 first set to blank his opponent 6-0 in their second set.

Ram and Cedillo-Vayson de Pradenne worked off their impressive doubles win with singles wins of their own. Ram won the first set 6-3 and wouldn't let his match go to a third set, defeating his opponent 6-4 in the second. Cedillo-Vayson de Pradenne took down his opponent in straight sets, 7-5 and 6-2, to clinch the match victory for the Beavers.

The other doubles duo of He and Zabelo finished off their days with victories in singles as well. He won his 10-point tiebreaker after trading 6-3 sets with his opponent, improving his singles record to 4-2 on the season and notching his third consecutive win. Zabelo similarly split the first two sets, winning the first 6-4 before dropping the second 7-5. In the super breaker, Zabelo defeated his opponent 10-3 to improve to 4-0 in the singles season.

"The score might be deceiving; Whitman gave us a great test today and we met the challenge well," Head Coach Adam Clark said. "We came out with a lot of focus today, and as a result kept our foot on the gas from the beginning. Proud of these guys and the way they fought."

With the win, Caltech as a team now sits at 5-1 through their first six matches of the season and will turn their attention to #33 Grinnell College who will travel to Pasadena to face the Beavers on Friday afternoon at 4 p.m.

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