BATON ROUGE, La. – Alabama A&M (1-2, 1-1 SWAC) cracked the seal on the win column for 2021 as they swept Mississippi Valley State (0-1, 0-1 SWAC) in NCAA Division I men's tennis match on Saturday, February 27.
 
The Bulldogs would deliver a dominant performance right from the start as they claimed the doubles point with a pair of 6-0 matches.
 
Those would come from junior Panji Setiawan (South Jakarta, Indonesia) and junior Rodrigo Arana Rios (Playa Del Carmen, Mexico) in a victory over Charles Robinson and Kristopher Bond at No. 1 and from redshirt-senior Gjorgji Popovski (Skopje, Macedonia) and junior Cheng Yang Chang (Koahsiung, Taiwan) over Harrington Stutson and Philemon King.
 
It wouldn't take long in singles action as Setiawan posted an impressive 6-0, 6-0 decision over Richmond at No. 5 and Popovski did the same against Bond at the No. 2 spot. Not far behind to close it out was Arana Rios with another straight set 6-0, 6-0 performance against Robinson to seal the 4-0 sweep.
 
The Bulldogs are next in action against Southern Miss on Sunday, February 28. First serve is set for 9 a.m.
 
ALABAMA A&M 4, MISSISSIPPI VALLEY STATE 0
Doubles
No. 1 Panji Setiawan/Rodrigo Arana Rios def. Charles Robinson/Kristopher Bond 6-0
No. 2 Gjorgji Popovski/Cheng Yang Chang def. Harrington Stutson/Philemon King 6-0
No. 3 Fermin Ruiz Crespo/Natiphat Mulada vs. Antonio Kemp, Jr./Akim Richmond 5-0 (UF)
 
Singles
No. 1 Rodrigo Arana Rios def. Charles Robinson 6-0, 6-0
No. 2 Gjorgji Popovski def. Kristopher Bond 6-0, 6-0
No. 3 Fermin Ruiz Crespo vs. Harrington Stutson 6-0, 5-0 (UF)
No. 4 Natiphat Mulada vs. Philemon King 6-0, 5-0 (UF)
No. 5 Panji Setiawan vs. Akim Richmond 6-0, 6-0
No. 6 German Ruiz Crespo vs. Antonio Kemp 6-0, 3-0 (UF)