The Binghamton men’s tennis team failed to pick up a single match point as it fell 7-0 Sunday afternoon against No. 24 Cornell at the Reis Tennis Center. The Bearcats (4-5) have now dropped two straight matches.
While Binghamton has fared well against unranked teams this season, compiling a 4-1 record, the Bearcats are 0-4 against ranked teams.
BU freshman Sid Hazarika lost his second singles match of the season, 6-2, 0-6, 6-4, in a close three-set contest against Big Red sophomore Alex Sidney.
“I don’t know if he got a little bit nervous at the end there, or the other guy picked up his game a little bit,” Binghamton head coach Adam Cohen said. “It’s definitely a match I thought that he could win, and he knows that.”
Three other singles matches went to three sets, but the Bearcats could not come up with a victory. Sophomore Robin Lesage won the first set of his match 6-4, but Big Red junior Venkat Iyer stormed back to win the final two sets, 6-2, 6-0.
Sophomore Ismael Dinia lost his match to Big Red sophomore Quoc-Daniel Nguyen, 6-3, 3-6, 6-0, while Cornell sophomore Kyle Berman narrowly evaded Binghamton freshman Eliott Hureau, 6-4, 0-6, 6-4.
“We were there with these guys, but didn’t get the result,” Cohen said.
Binghamton is scheduled to face Temple at 6 p.m. on March 9 at TU Pavilion.