FREDERICKSBURG, VA – Juniors James and Thomas Yu won the 2022 ITA Southeast Doubles Championship on Sunday while Thomas Yu also won his second straight singles championship. In addition, freshmen Pranav Gadiraju and Allen Gong won the B1 doubles draw.
 
Thomas Yu earns his second All-America honors in singles and his first in doubles. James Yu earns All-America honors for the first time. The brothers also earn a berth in the ITA Cup, scheduled for, October 13-16 in Rome, GA.
 
The top seed in the championship draw, the Yus had a first-round bye and then beat Keith Orr and Dominick Suwak (Shenandoah), 8-0, in the round of 32. They then beat ninth-seeded Jorge Figueroa and Shori Nishizoe (Averett), 8-4, to advance to the quarterfinals. The Yu brothers beat fifth-seeded Peter Leese and Rishi Charan Shankar (Mary Washington) 8-4 to move on to the semifinals. They then beat their teammates, ninth-seeded Mason Liu and George Jiang, 8-6. The Yus completed their run to the title with an 8-5 win over ninth-seeded Evan Erb and Evan Brady (Washington & Lee).
 
Liu and Jiang had a first-round bye and then beat Alexander Kagan and Michael Fellman (Gettysburg) 8-6. The pair beat Timmy Lau and Andrew He (Stevens) 8-3 to advance to the quarterfinals. Liu and Jiang then defeated fourth-seeded Alec Strause and Vincent Troung (Christopher Newport), 8-6, before falling in the semifinals to the Yu brothers.   
 
Juniors Daniel Ardila and Rohan Reddy were seeded third in the draw and also had a first-round bye. The duo defeated Jason Edmonds and Max Beckwith (Haverford), 8-4, in the round of 32. Ardila and Reddy then beat Jhayden Pappas and Russell Willenborg (Salisbury) 8-2. Their run ended in the quarterfinals to Erb and Brady, 8-4.
 
Graduate student Joe DeMarco and sophomore Marco Azar, also seeded ninth, had a bye in the first round. The pair then beat Aashutush and Vivekraj Harinarayan 8-6. In the round of 16, DeMarco and Azar defeated fifth-seeded Matthew Poh and Derek Wong (Carnegie Mellon), 8-6, to advance to the quarterfinals. The duo then upset second-seeded Andrew Watson and Nick Spera (Mary Washington), 8-7 (6). They lost in the semifinals to Erb and Brady, 8-6.  
 
In the championship singles draw, Thomas Yu was the top-seeded and opened with a 6-2, 6-0 win over Jonathan Nottingham (Carnegie Mellon). He then beat Aiden Kim (Haverford) 6-1, 6-0 and Brady, seeded ninth, 6-1, 6-2. In the quarterfinals, Yu defeated ninth-seeded Poh 6-2, 6-2. He followed that with a 7-5, 6-2 win over third-seeded Charan Shankar to advance to the title match. Yu then won his second title of the afternoon, and third of his career, with a hard-fought 6-4, 3-6, 1-0 (8) win over ninth-seeded Matthew Melnikov (Swarthmore).
 
DeMarco, seeded ninth, opened with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Gianluca Beaujon (Salisbury). He then rallied to defeat Josiah Myers-Lipton 6-7 (3), 6-2, 1-0 (7). He lost in the round of 16 to Erb, 1-6, 6-2, 1-0 (9). James Yu, seeded fourth, beat He 6-4, 6-0 in the first round. He then beat Vincent Truong (Christopher Newport) 6-3, 6-3. His run ended in the round of 16 to Melnikov 7-5, 6-2.
 
Liu beat ninth-seeded Will Kistler (Washington & Lee) 6-2, 6-1 in the first round. He then defeated Stefan Johnson (Haverford) 6-4, 7-5. In the round of 16, Liu came from behind to beat fifth-seeded Watson 3-6, 603, 1-0 (4). He upset second-seeded Karl Hoegstedt (Washington College) 6-4, 6-4 to advance to the semifinals. Liu then lost to Melnikov 6-2, 7-5. Azar lost his opening-round match to fifth-seeded Figueroa 6-3, 6-2.
 
In the Blue 1 doubles draw, Gadiraju and Gong opened with an 8-2 win over Levi Veleanu and Garrick Adams (Dickinson) in the round of 16. They then defeated Drew Campbell and Ryan Meyer (Mary Washington) 8-6. In the semifinals, Gadiraju and Gong beat Aron Bursztyn and Gavin Reagle (Salisbury) 8-0. The pair then won the final by an 8-3 score over Martinho Goncalves and Rufus Nurminen (Averett).
 
In the Blue 1 singles draw, senior Andrew Tran beat Akshay Joshi (Carnegie Mellon) 8-2. He then lost in the quarterfinals to Lalith Suresh (Swarthmore) 8-3. Jiang beat Lau 9-8 (3) in the first round before falling to Hellman Zhao (Swarthmore) 8-7 (7).
 
Thomas Yu now ranks 19^th in program history with 42 career singles wins and 25^th with 39 career doubles wins. His 81 total wins are also tied for 20^th in JHU history.
 
Notes: The Yu brothers bring home the seventh ITA Southeast Doubles Championship and first since 2016 • Thomas Yu is just the second Blue Jay to win both the singles and doubles championship in the same year (Mike Buxbaum 2014) • This was the first time JHU had three doubles teams in the semifinals of the championship draw • Thomas Yu now has three ITA regional titles, two singles and one doubles.