After earning their first win of the season against Fairfield University last weekend, the Fordham men’s tennis team fell to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Binghamton University in consecutive days.

Traveling to the Naimoli Tennis Center on Friday to take on NJIT, the Rams were riding the momentum of their first win of the new season. This momentum was cut short, however, losing 1-6 collectively as a team. Despite the overall team loss, the Rams were glad to secure the doubles point thanks to juniors Toi Kobayashi and Nicholas Kanazirev combining to win 6-3. The freshmen duo comprising of Dhillon Virdee-Oakley and Sampras Rakotondrainibe came out on top 6-4.

Facing a quick turnaround, the Rams headed to the Life Time Tennis Center in Harrison, N.Y. where they fell to a Binghamton team that had started off 0-8 to begin the season. After splitting the singles matches three a piece, all attention turned to the doubles courts with the deciding match being played out by graduate student Quinn Fender and junior Giorgio Soemarno who faced Binghamton senior Michael Pawlowicz and freshman James McPherson. Despite a valiant effort, it wasn’t enough for the Rams, as they fell 2-6 in the deciding doubles match, losing 3-4 as a team.

Fordham won’t retake the courts until next Saturday, Feb. 18, where they’ll face a tough opponent in a Monmouth University team that is 4-1 so far on the season.