WINTER PARK, Fla. -- The Bates men's tennis team hung with NCAA Division II opponent Rollins College in multiple matches in a 7-0 loss Tuesday afternoon to start the spring season. 

At No. 3 doubles, junior captain Cameron Kania (Middlefield, Conn.) and first-year Paul Zhou (Beijing, China) took their match down to the wire in a loss to the Rollins duo of Charlie Putrino and Moritz Stenzer. The Bates pair ended up falling 7-6 in a 9-7 tiebreaker.

Sophomore Alexander Gujarathi (Plymouth, Mass.) and sophomore Matthew Danielson (St. Petersburg, Fla.) hung with Denis Golubev and Andrea Brignacca in a 6-3 loss.

Junior captain Nick Forester (Falmouth, Maine) turned in the most impressive performance in singles play, falling in three sets at No. 3. He won the first set against Charlie Putrino 6-4 but Putrino flipped the script and won the second set by the same score. In the third set tiebreaker, Putrino won 10-6 to secure the win over Forester.

The other five Bates singles players fell in straight sets, although sophomore Nikesh Desai (Hopkinton, Mass.) made Rollins' Moritz Stenzer work hard for his second set win as Desai fell 6-1, 7-5.

The Bobcats (0-1) return to action Wednesday when they visit Eastern Florida State for an 11am match.