POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. – The Manhattanville University men's tennis team officially opened the spring semester on Saturday afternoon, making the trip up I-84 to Vassar to take on the Brewers. The Valiants dropped the match 7-0, falling to 1-4 on the 2025-26 campaign.

Thomas Jouanneau (Luneville, France/Lycee Arago) and Elouan Charretteur (Fontainebleau, France/Lycée International Francois Premier 1er) teamed up in the top flight, falling 3-6 to the tandem of Fernando Bauermeister and Nolan Kubiak. Sami Badre-Hume (Brooklyn, N.Y./Bay Ridge Prep) and Derwin Guzman (Bronx, N.Y./Frederick Douglass Academy) faced a similar fate in No. 2s against Pedro Cattaruzzi and Junchen Jia, while Nicholas Gervasi (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia/Epsom College) and John Curtin (Brewster, N.Y./Brewster) were felled by Shrey Choudhary and Sanjay Rajkumar, 1-6.

Charretteur and Badre-Hume had the strongest showings in singles action. The former fell 3-6, 2-6 to Bauermeister in the No. 2 flight, while the latter sent the opening set against Jonas Santos in No. 4s to an extra game, falling 5-7 before dropping the second, 0-6.

Jouanneau fell to Eugene Lee 1-6, 0-6 on the show court, while Guzman was dispatched by Jia 2-6, 0-6 on the No. 3 court. Gervasi and Curtin were blanked 0-6, 0-6 by Maximus Martin and Alfonso Infante in the No. 5 and 6 showings.

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The Valiants are next scheduled to return to action in a month when spring play fully takes off, hosting UMass Boston on Mar. 18 at 3 p.m.

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