The men’s tennis team will be playing downtown this weekend at the Drexel Invitational.

The Owls and the Dragons will be the only teams there. There were originally going to be more teams competing, but they all dropped out, so Temple and Drexel will scrimmage each other to prepare for next weekend’s ITA Regional Championship in Charlottesville, Va.

Coach Steve Mauro says that Drexel has improved from last year and will be a good warm up for the ITAs.

The two Philadelphia squads will begin on Friday morning with doubles play, with singles play directly following and extending into Saturday. Mauro said that he has not decided on the doubles pairings yet, but they will likely be different than the pairings at the Penn Invitational.

Those pairings were senior Kacper Rams and sophomore Kristian Marquart, sophomore Hernan Vasconez and freshman Nicolas Paulus, and freshman Hicham Belkssir and freshman Maros Januvka.

-Evan Cross