A busy boys tennis season would start to reach its crucial points this Thursday when the four Section III class tournaments take place – Class A and C-1 at SUNY-Cortland, Class B and C-2 at Utica Parkway Courts.
Before that, though, Fayetteville-Manlius and Jamesville-DeWitt had chances to finish undefeated.
F-M had a non-league match against Cazenovia last Monday, which featured a thrilling singles battle between Riley Ma and Lakers star Nate Romig. Ma lost the first set 6-4 and was two games from defeat before he pulled out the second set 7-5, and went on to take the third set 6-3.
None of the other matches was as close as the Hornets shut out the Lakers 7-0. Taran Judge beat Fabian Grimm 6-0, 6-1, with Tom Miro just as dominant in a 6-1, 6-1 romp over Mason Stehle to complete the doubles sweep.
Leading the doubles charged, Vince Sorrentino and James DeSorbo beat Nick Bama and Orson Sproule 6-1, 6-3. Luke Qi and Jeremy Zhang handled Teddy Coughlin and Liam Flannery 6-1, 6-0, with Ravi Dhawan and Vince Grasso stopping Brady Flannery and Tim Kempton 6-1, 6-3. Richard Wang and Rohan Dhawan rolled to a 6-0, 6-1 win over Andrew Peterson and Hunter Marshall.
Back in league play, F-M rolled past Auburn 7-0 on Tuesday, the highlight Judge’s 6-1, 6-0 singles win over Scott Minnoe. Miller beat Jack Farrington 6-4, 6-3 and Zhang, taking a turn in singles, got a 6-2, 6-0 win over Dan Clark. Between them, the doubles teams of Sorrentinto-DeSorbo, Grasso-Ravi Dhawan, Nolan Chiles-Aaron Castanza and Dilan Judge-Joel Fafrella dropped just seven games in eight combined sets.
Against Cicero-North Syracuse on Wednesday afternoon, F-M won again by a 7-0 margin. Vincentino and DeSorbo endured a close first set in their 6-4, 6-0 win over Karin Inthirakot and Mitch Eager, while in singles only Miller faced any second-set stress, but he still beat Justin Kegebein 6-1, 7-5.
This string of four matches in four days concluded Thursday with F-M taking out West Genesee 7-0 in a match rescheduled from a May 6 rainout. Only one of the doubles matches went to three sets, but Wang and Rohan Dhawan won it, getting past Chris Upwood and Alex Argiro 6-3, 1-6, 6-1.
The singles showdown between Judge and the Wildcats’ Connor McGuigan saw Judge prevail in straight set 6-1, 7-5, while Miller handled James Plunkett 6-3, 6-1 and Miro shut out Erik Shanahan 6-0, 6-0. DeSorbo paired with Ma to beat Pat Copeland and Jimmy Harter 6-0, 6-0 as Grasso and Ravi Dhawan topped Stefan Atanasov and Nate Bentley by those same scores. Fafrella and Dilan Judge beat John Northrop and Bryce Hale 6-0, 6-3.
J-D began its work last week with yet another shutout, 7-0, over Cortland, though this included a three-set singles battle where Tyler Glowaki had to come from behind to defet the Purple Tigers’ Garrett Reagan 3-6, 6-2, 6-1.
Elsewhere in singles play, Tyler Lux beat Ruvim Kostiv 6-2, 6-4, while Harshal Nanavati blanked Gavin Tabel 6-0, 6-0 and Ethan DellaPosta had a 6-3, 6-2 win over Cooper Swartout. In the two contested doubles matches, the teams of Robert Dotterer-Peter Hatton and David Benaroch-Somil Aggarwal each won in two sets.
A day later, J-D handled Homer 7-0 to make it 11 wins in as many matches. Dhruv Thota got through a 6-1, 7-6 (8-6) singles match with Matt Pelowski as Dotterer, Hatton and Nanavati all won their singles matches in straight sets. In doubles, the teams of Aggarwal-DellaPosta and Glowaki-Tyler Lux won, as did Ishan Gajra and Alex Tso, who swept past Nate Potter and Ethan Landry 6-1, 6-1.
This unbeaten mark concluded Friday with a 7-0 shutout over Mexico where Dotterer, Hatton, Glowaki and DellaPosta dropped just seven games in eight combined sets of singles play, with the doubles teams of Tso-Gajra, Benaroch-Lux and Aggarwal-Nanavati also winning in straight sets.
During a 5-0 win over Cazenovia, Glowaki lost a first-set tie-breaker, but still beat Fabian Grimm 6-7 (7-3), 6-3, 6-3. Tso topped Orson Sproule 6-3, 6-3 and Gajra beat Nick Bama 6-1, 6-3, with Dotterer and Hatton handling Nate Romig and Mason Stehle 6-3, 6-4 and Lux and Benaroch taking a 6-1, 6-1 decision over Tim Kempton and Brady Flannery.
