A thrilling first doubles match highlighted the opening match of the spring season for the Muhlenberg men's tennis team.

Playing against defending Centennial Conference champion Swarthmore, currently ranked 13th in Division III, the Mules' top team of freshmen Sebastian Meyer and Syver-August Meyer engaged in a back-and-forth match against the top duo for the Garnet. Down 7-4, the Muhlenberg duo won the next three games to force a tiebreaker, but Swarthmore ran off all seven points in the breaker.

The Garnet won all the other matches for a 9-0 victory.

doubles
Aamish Pal and Andres Fente (S) def. Sebastian Meyer and Syver-August Meyer, 8-7 (7-0)
Phil Rehwinkel and Aadhi Raja (S) def. Owen Dyer and Matt Miller, 8-1
Rishi Verma and Kevin Jiang (S) def. Harrison Neff and William Rose, 8-3

singles
Pal (S) def. S-A Meyer, 6-1, 6-0
Fente (S) def. Dyer, 6-2, 6-1
Verma (S) def. Miller, 6-1, 6-0
Rehwinkel (S) def. Neff, 8-1
Raja (S) def. Rose, 8-1
Jiang (S) def. Josh Simon, 8-0