Box Score ANNAPOLIS, MD – The Johns Hopkins men's tennis team opened the fall portion of its schedule this past weekend at Navy's annual Joe Hunt Invitational.
SINGLES
Adam Stavrakas won his opening match against Deniz Okyay (GMU) 6-1, 6-4 on Friday. He then won in three sets over Alexander Fragasso (CU) 6-2, 4-6, 1-0 (2). He dropped his third match of the weekend, 6-4, 6-1 to Luke Tollenaar (UD).
Dylan Blenkiron fell in his first match to Ekansh Kumar (GMU) 6-1, 6-3. He then beat Adam Patry (GWU) 7-6 (3), 6-3 and lost in his third match to Adam Bojkovic (UD) 6-3, 6-3.
Chakor Rajendra fell in three sets in a tight first match 7-5, 6-7 (5), 0-1 (6). He then lost 6-2, 6-4 to Heath Paul Waters (CU) but closed out his singles matches with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Mario Beckles (UD).
Allan Xu beat Adria Franco Regue (GMU) 6-1, 7-5 and then lost just one game in his win over Juan Francisco Munoz (CU). He wrapped up the weekend with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Pere Prat Turro (UD).
Austin He dropped his first match 6-2, 6-1 to Joshua Vargas (GMU). He then won 6-2, 6-4 over Arush Gupta (CU). He retired in his third match versus Mikolaj Kowal (CU).
Cole Langer fell 6-4, 6-0 to Shaharyar Saeed (GMU) in his first match. He then lost to Charlie Ruffell (CU) 6-2, 6-1.
Danny Greene won 6-2, 6-1 over Lee Fiorello (USNA) in his first match and then beat Kowal 6-4, 6-3.
Gabe Xu lost in three sets 6-4, 1-6, 1-0 (8) to Aaron Gu (USNA).
Mukundh Boopathi opened with come from behind wins over Edgar Vilain (GM) and Vladimir Guyot-Sionnest (CU). He then lost 6-3, 6-4 to Matteus Froberg Dahlin (UD).
Jacob Jiang dropped his match in three 6-3, 2-6, 1-0 (13) to Finn Logue (ISU).
Andy Zhu lost his first match to Nicholas Novitski (GMU) in three and then rallied to win 3-6, 6-3, 1-0 (8) over Tim Vargas (CU).
DOUBLES
Stavrakas paired with Blenkiron for a 6-2 win over Delaware's Federico Garbero and Torro and then beat Okyay and Saeed, 6-4. The pair lost to Navy's Charlie Spencer and George Cutone 6-4. Stavrakas and Blenkiron rebounded with a 6-0 win over Navy's Lachlan Buckingham and Louis Anderson.
Boopathi paired with
Brian Yi in a 6-2 loss to Beckles and Tollenaar. They then fell in a tight one, 7-6 (3), to Regue and Zacharov. Boopathi and Langer lost a close 7-5 match to Anderson and Buckingham and then rebounded with a 6-4 win over Cutone and Spencer.
Greene and
Gabe Xu did not lose a game in their win over Fiorello and Aaron Gu. They followed with a 6-4 win over Garcia and Jacobs. Greene then paired with
Andy Zhu in a 6-3 loss to Navy's Tommy Kim and Reed Smith. Rajendra and He fell to Bojkovic and Froberg Dahlin 6-4 and then fell 6-3 to Kumar and Vilain.
Langer and Zhu paired to beat Delaware's John Gentek and Tian Hao Hou, 6-2. They then won 6-1 over Novitski and Saeed. Rajendra and
Allan Xu won 6-2 over Kim and Smith. The duo then beat Jones and Garcia 7-6 (3). Jiang and
Allan Xu won a close match to Vargas and Novitski, 7-5, and then won 6-1 over Neira and Prabhu.
Hopkins returns to action at the UMW Kickoff September 19-20 in Fredericksburg, VA.
