ATLANTA, Ga. - The Rhodes College men's tennis team did battle with top-ranked Emory on Saturday afternoon, dropping a tough 8-1 match to the Eagles on the road in Atlanta. 

Rhodes began the day by dropping the doubles point, 3-0, despite great efforts by sophomore Sean Hogan and freshman Andrew Morton at court 2 and freshmen Phil Lauture and Ritwik Chatterjee at court 3 with both teams falling 8-4.

Emory continued to play well at singles competition, clinching the match. Chatterjee salvaged a point for the Lynx at No. 3 singles as he picked up a huge 6-4, 6-4 win to improve to 14-1 in singles action.

The Lynx fall to 12-3 overall and will turn their attention to conference play as they prepare to welcome in Millsaps next Saturday at 10 AM.