The men’s tennis team opened this season up with two 7-0 victories over Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne and Youngstown State a year after losing 7-0 in their first match last season,.

In the IPFW meet, the Panther’s won all six singles matches for six points and two of the three doubles matches for one point.

Eastern also beat Youngstown State 7-0, winning all singles and doubles matches.

Head coach John Blackburn said it is exciting to come away with the sweep at the start of the season because it shows the potential the team has to be successful.

Senior Chuck Levaque said his matches weren’t too difficult and he was glad he could start the season off without a big struggle.

Senior Brandon Lenfert and junior Sean Bush weren’t that lucky.

In the IPFW matches Lenfert said that his match was tough and Sean Bush’s match was even more difficult.

Bush played IPFW’s Arturo Salgado three sets and played to a tiebreaker in each set. He won the first set 7-6 (4) and lost the second 6-7 (5). Then Bush won the final tie- breaker in the third set 11-9.

The women also won both of their matches this weekend beating IPFW 5-2 and Oakland 6-1.

While the men (2-0) had one meet on Friday and one on Saturday, both of the women’s meets were held on Friday.

Senior Madina Mambetova said after having played the IPFW match she was tired in the Oakland match.

“I couldn’t concentrate at the beginning but I got into it and stayed mentally strong,” Mambetova said.

Mambetova defeated Oakland’s Amanda Scheer in straight sets 6-4 and 6-2.

The women, who didn’t get the point for the doubles matches last week, won both doubles points this weekend.

The Panthers (2-1) won all three IPFW doubles matches and two of the three Oakland matches.

“That one point is so important and we have been focusing a lot on that in practice,” said junior Sandra Sasidharan.

Eastern has been mixing up the teams to try to find the right pairs because many matches come down to that one point, Sasidharan said.

“Last year, a lot of our losses were 3-4, so if we had got the doubles points in some of those matches it would have been different,” Sasidharan said.

Blackburn said the IPFW matches were close and the women did a good job playing tight and not making mistakes.

“We had never played IPFW, so we had no idea how they played or what to expect,” Sasidharan said. “My IPFW match was aggressive but I was able to make rallies and be consistent.”