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Chakor Sankaran Rajendra sent an email to former Johns Hopkins head coach Chuck Willenborg at the start of his recruiting process. Willenborg informed Sankaran Rajendra he would no longer be coaching the Blue Jays, but would pass along his information to the new coach.

Once Coach Brendan Kincaid was hired to run the Division III program, he reached out to Sankaran Rajendra and they arranged for him to visit the campus in Baltimore, Maryland. Sankaran Rajendra returned for a match during the season, which “sealed the deal” for him.

Chakor Sankaran Rajendra Has Committed to Johns Hopkins
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The four-star senior from Ann Arbor, Michigan committed to Johns Hopkins.

“It’s a great school. It’s one of the best there is. It just seemed like the best fit in terms of my education and tennis-wise,” Sankaran Rajendra said. “Coach Kincaid is really motivated and I felt like he would bring out the best in me as a player and a person.”

Sankaran Rajendra considered a mix of Division I and Division III programs as options for college. In the end, he said “It just made the most sense for me to go to a school like Johns Hopkins” because of where his ranking stood and what his academic aspirations were.