NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Sophomore Nikita Bortnichek and freshman Raz Katz picked up a doubles win, but William & Mary men's tennis suffered a 4-0 setback at Yale on Friday night at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center. 

How It Happened 
- After a Yale win at No. 1 doubles, Bortnichek and Katz pulled the Tribe (3-2) even with a win on line two. The Tribe tandem won its second in a row, topping Renaud Lefevre and Krish Gupta, 6-1. The duo is 2-1 on the year at No. 2. 
- The Bulldogs took a 1-0 with a victory at No. 3. 
- Yale (6-3) won the opening set at all six singles positions and pulled out the team triumph behind straight-sets victories at No. 1, No. 3, and No. 4. 
- At No. 5 and No. 6, Bortnichek and Katz bounced back from dropping the first set to take break advantages in the second set.  After Aidan Reilly won a close opening set, 6-4, Katz jumped out to a 3-1 lead in the second on line six when the match was abandoned with the team result decided. At No. 5, Bortnichek took a 4-2 lead over Krish Gupta when the match was abandoned. 
- After dropping the first set, 6-3, to Zhengqing Ji, freshman Gur Trakhtenberg led 4-3 in the second at No. 2 when the match was abandoned. 

Up Next 
The Tribe wraps up its Ivy League road trip at Brown on Sunday, Feb. 23, at 10 a.m. 

Yale 4, W&M 0 
Singles 
No. 1 - #75 Vignesh Gogineni (Yale) def Oliver Hague (W&M) - 6-2, 6-0
No. 2 - Zhengqing Ji (Yale) vs. Gur Trakhtenberg (W&M) - DNF, 6-3, 3-4 
No. 3 - Jason Schuler (Yale) def. Sean Joseph (W&M) - 6-1, 6-1
No. 4 - Edward Liao (Yale) def. Albert Hansen (W&M) - 6-3, 6-1 
No. 5 - Krish Gupta (Yale) vs. Nikita Bortnichek (W&M) - DNF, 6-2, 2-4 
No. 6 - Aidan Reilly (Yale) vs. Raz Katz (W&M) - DNF, 6-4, 3-1
Finishing Order: 1, 3, 4*

Doubles 
No. 1 - #82 Liao/Gogineni (Yale) def. Hague/Trakhtenberg (W&M) - 6-1 
No. 2 - Bortnichek/Katz (W&M) def. Lefevre/Gupta (Yale) - 6-1 
No. 3 - Ji/Shuler (Yale) def. Hansen/Joseph (W&M) - 6-3 
Finishing Order: 1, 2, 3*