NORTHFIELD, Minn. – The No. 2 seeded Carleton College men's tennis team dispatched No. 3 seed Macalester College, 5-0, in the semifinals of the MIAC Playoffs. Ozzie Viswanathan (Sr./Lincolnshire, Ill./Adlai E. Stevenson) played a role in two of the Knights' five team points.
 
Carleton (18-3) fended off an early challenge in doubles and earned a 3-0 lead.
 
Tarm Rojanasoonthon (So./Bangkok, Thailand/Chulalongkorn) and Tate Fuller (So./Seattle, Wash./Lakeside) claimed an 8-4 victory at the No. 1 spot, while Viswanathan and Leslie secured an 8-6 result at the second slot.
 
Yuv Kataria (Jr./Kolkata, India/Weil Academy & College Prep) and Aniketh Vipparla (Jr./Cary, N.C./Green Hope) trailed 7-4 at No. 3 doubles but rallied to force the tiebreaker, which the Carleton duo won by a 7-3 tally.
 
Once play moved to singles, it became a race to see where the final two Carleton points would come from as team matches are only played to decision during the postseason.
 
At No. 4 singles, Viswanathan was the first to wrap up a result, posting a dominating 6-1, 6-0 triumph. Cooper Kline (Fy./Los Angeles, Calif./The Buckley School) followed soon after with his 6-2, 6-2 victory at the sixth slot.
 
The other four matches were left unfinished, including No. 1 singles where Rojanasoonthon won the first set and No. 2 singles where Fuller led 5-1 in the second set at the second slot.
 
Up Next for the Knights
Carleton advances to the finals of the conference tournament and will travel to St. Peter, Minn. for a 1:00 p.m. match on Saturday, April 29 against nationally-ranked No. 13 Gustavus Adolphus College.
 
This will be the 13th time since 2007 that the Knights and Gusties—the only two teams to ever win the MIAC Playoffs—will match up in the finals.