The Case Western Reserve University men’s tennis team continued its fall 2024 season this past weekend, competing at two tournaments: the Youngstown State University (YSU) Invitational in Youngstown, Ohio, and the John Carroll Invitational in University Heights, Ohio.

Starting with the YSU Invitational, CWRU players showed solid results across both doubles and singles matches while competing against Division I players from Duquesne University, Le Moyne College and host Youngstown State University. The doubles team of fourth-years Casey Hishinuma and Ajay Mahenthiran posted a dominant 4-0 showing across their four matches, claiming the doubles draw title in the championship match against Duquesne’s Arnau Anton Garcia and Uvan Patel with a score of 8-7 (7-0). Meanwhile, the pair of fourth-year Ansh Shah and third-year Anmay Devaraj went 2-1, losing in the semifinal match 8-7 (7-4) to Anton Garcia and Patel.

Meanwhile, CWRU players also performed well in the singles matches at YSU. Second-years George Kosseifi and Santiago Salazar Garza made it to the finals of the “B” singles draw, with Kosseifi defeating Salazar Garza 8-5. Similarly, first-year Rowan Matorin and third-year Rohan Bhat reached the finals of the “C” draw, with Matorin emerging victorious with a 6-3, 6-2 win. The “A” draw saw Shah reach the finals, though he suffered a 7-5, 6-0 loss to Onder Balci of YSU. Also within the “A” draw, Mahenthiran reached the semifinals before being eliminated with a 6-1, 6-4 loss against “A” draw winner Balci. Overall, the Spartans went 18-7 in singles matches and 9-4 in doubles matches at YSU.

CWRU players also showed momentum at the John Carroll Invitational on Sunday—perhaps to an even stronger extent than at YSU. CWRU players went undefeated in singles matches, going 14-0 against competition from Division III host John Carroll. These strong showings were paralleled in the doubles matches, with the Spartans going 7-1 across the seven double matches. The lone loss came from a match between two CWRU pairings: First-years Konrad Kwiatkowski and Luke Saylor defeated first-year Rohit Jain, who was playing on his own, 6-3.

Next weekend, the Spartans will be playing at two tournaments. Mahenthiran, Hishinuma, Shah, Devaraj, Kosseifi and Salazar Garza will be playing at the ITA Fall Regional Championship at Washington University in St. Louis, while the rest of the team will be heading to Toledo, Ohio, to compete in the Everybody vs. Cancer Invitational.