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Ohio State Invitational
Ohio State Invitational Recap
1/15/2021 5:57:00 PM | Men's Tennis
Four days of tennis inside the new Ty Tucker Tennis Center proved to be a great opening to the season for No. 3 Ohio State. Playing singles and doubles matches only against No. Michigan and Illinois, the Buckeyes posted a total of 35 victories on the weekend.
Sophomores Cannon Kingsley and Robert Cash were each 6-0 in singles action while senior John McNally was 5-0. See below for complete recaps of each day.
January 18
The singles portion of the day couldn't have gone too much better for the Buckeyes. They won five of six matches. Kingsley punctuated a perfect weekend with an 8-0 win over No. 15 Alex Brown. John McNally topped No. 113 Zeke Clark 8-2 to finish the weekend 5-0 and Robert Cash finished-off Kweisi Kenyatte 7-4 in a tiebreaker to also finish undefeated on the weekend.
Freshman JJ Tracy and redshirt-freshman JJ Mercer put a nice finish on their weekend of matches with an 8-2 victory for Tracy and an 8-3 win for Mercer.
In doubles, Kingsley and Kyle Seelig won their third match of the year with a 6-4 win over Kenyatte and Hunter Heck. Mercer and Cash teamed-up for their second win, defeating Alex Petrov and Nic Meister 6-3.
January 17
Cannon Kingsley remained undefeated on the weekend with a win over teammate Kyle Seelig. Seelig then responded with a nice 8-6 win over No. 15 Alex Brown of Illinois. Robert Cash also stayed perfect on the young season with his 8-2 win over Lucas Horve. Freshman JJ Tracy picked up a win over Illinois' Vic Budic while fellow Buckeye JJ Mercer capped the day with another 8-6 win over Budic.
The teams will wrap up competition with both singles and doubles match on Monday.
January 16
Cannon Kingsley continued his dominant play, winning a pair of matches on Saturday. He topped No. 83 Connor Johnston 8-1 in the morning and then beat Nick Beaty 8-5 in the afternoon.
McNally went 2-0 for a second consecutive day. In his first singles match, he again fought out of an early hole to top Ondrej Styler 8-7(2). He was down 6-3 and won three consecutive games to even the match and then won 7-2 in a set tiebreaker. The Cincinnati, native then bested teammate Jacob Wareti 8-1 in his second match.
Robert Cash stayed perfect through two days with wins over Harrison Brown (8-3) and Johnston (8-1). JJ Tracy played just one singles match on Saturday and made the most of it as he battled and ultimately beat No. 14 Andrew Fenty 8-5.
In doubles, the Buckeyes went 2-1. The No. 51 ranked team of Kingsley and Seelig rolled Michigan's Beaty and Brown 6-0 and the No. 4 team of McNally and Cash beat Michgan's Styler and Johnston 6-3. Mercer and Tracy had their hands full with the veteran team of Fenty and Siimar, who are ranked No. 2 in the country. The Buckeye duo played well but ultimately fell 6-3.
January 15
It was a solid opening day for the Buckeyes. Cannon Kingsley, last year's national Freshman of the Year, went 2-0 in singles play with two dominating wins. He downed No. 14 Andrew Fenty of Michigan 8-3 and then beat Michigan's No. 28 Ondrej Styler 8-4.
Senior John McNally also went 2-0 with two wins over ranked foes but his matches were a little more dramatic. He came back from down 0-2 against Connor Johnston to win 8-5 and then fell behind Fenty 4-0 before rallying to win 8-6.
Kyle Seelig lost a tough first singles match 8-7 (10-8) to Styler but stormed back against Johnston, rolling 8-0. Sophomore Robert Cash and redshirt-freshman JJ Mercer joined McNally and Kingsley with a pair of wins. For Mercer, the wins were his first as a Buckeye.
Jacob Wareti split his two matches on Friday while JJ Tracy made his Buckeye debut, playing a pair of singles matches and a doubles match.
The teams finished the day with doubles and the Buckeyes got wins from the teams of Kingsley and Seelig as well as Tracy and Mercer.
Singles
Jan. 15
#11 John McNally (Ohio State) def. #83 Connor Johnston (Michigan) 8-5
#5 Cannon Kingsley (Ohio State) def. #14 Andrew Fenty (Michigan) 8-3
Robert Cash (Ohio State) def. Nick Beaty (Michigan) 8-4
Nic Meister (Illinois) def. Jacob Wareti (Ohio State) 8-3
#28 Ondrej Styler (Michigan) def. #25 Kyle Seelig (Ohio State) 8-7 (10-8)
Mattias Siimar (Michigan) def. JJ Tracy (Ohio State) 8-6
JJ Mercer (Ohio State) def. Harrison Brown (Michigan) 8-6
#11 John McNally (Ohio State) def. #14 Andrew Fenty (Michigan) 8-6
#25 Kyle Seelig (Ohio State) def. #83 Connor Johnston (Michigan) 8-0
Nick Beaty (Michigan) def. JJ Tracy (Ohio State) 8-6
Robert Cash (Ohio State) def. Mattias Siimar (Michigan) 8-5
#5 Cannon Kingsley (Ohio State) def. #28 Ondrej Styler (Michigan) 8-4
JJ Mercer (Ohio State) def. Ryan Fu (Michigan) 8-6
Jacob Wareti (Ohio State) def. Harrison Brown (Michigan) 8-6
Jan. 16
#11 John McNally (Ohio State) def. #28 Ondrej Styler (Michigan) 8-7 (7-2)
#5 Cannon Kingsley (Ohio State) def. #83 Connor Johnston (Michigan) 8-1
#25 Kyle Seelig (Ohio State) def. #14 Andrew Fenty (Michigan) 8-7 (10-8)
Nick Beaty (Michigan) def. JJ Mercer (Ohio State) 8-2
Nic Meister (Illinois) def. Ryan Fu (Michigan) 8-1
Robert Cash (Ohio State) def. Harrison Brown (Michigan) 8-3
#11 John McNally (Ohio State) def. Jacob Wareti (Ohio State) 8-1
#5 Cannon Kingsley (Ohio State) def. Nick Beaty (Michigan) 8-5
Mattias Siimar (Michigan) def. #25 Kyle Seelig (Ohio State) 8-2
JJ Tracy (Ohio State) def. #14 Andrew Fenty (Michigan) 8-5
Robert Cash (Ohio State) def. #83 Connor Johnston (Michigan) 8-1
Nic Meister (Illinois) def. JJ Mercer (Ohio State) 8-7 (7-2)
Jan. 17
#5 Cannon Kingsley (Ohio State) def. #25 Kyle Seelig (Ohio State) 8-0
#14 Andrew Fenty (Michigan) def. Mattias Siimar (Michigan) 8-4
Nick Beaty (Michigan) def. Nic Meister (Illinois) 8-3
#25 Kyle Seelig (Ohio State) def. #15 Alex Brown (Illinois) 8-6
Alex Petrov (Illinois) def. JJ Mercer (Ohio State) 8-7 (7-4)
Robert Cash (Ohio State) def. Lucas Horve (Illinois) 8-2
JJ Tracy (Ohio State) def. Vuk Budic (Illinois) 8-5
Nic Meister (Illinois) def. Lancelot Carnello (Ohio State) 8-6
#112 Zeke Clark (Illinois) def. Mattias Siimar (Michigan) 8-5
#28 Ondrej Styler (Michigan) def. Kweisi Kenyatte (Illinois) 8-1
Hunter Heck (Illinois) def. Connor Johnston (Michigan) 8-6
JJ Mercer (Ohio State) def. Vuk Budic (Illinois) 8-6
Alex Petrov (Illinois) def. Jacob Wareti (Ohio State) 8-4
Zeke Clark (Illinois) def. Alex Brown (Illinois) 8-0
Hunter Heck (Illinois) def. Kweisi Kenyatte (Illinois) 8-5
Jan. 18
#5 Cannon Kingsley (Ohio State) def. #15 Alex Brown (Illinois) 8-0
#11 John McNally (Ohio State) vs. #112 Zeke Clark (Illinois) 8-2
Hunter Heck (Illinois) def. #25 Kyle Seelig (Ohio State) 8-3
Robert Cash (Ohio State) def. Kweisi Kenyatte (Illinois) 8-7(4)
JJ Tracy (Ohio State) def. Alex Petrov (Illinois) 8-2
JJ Mercer (Ohio State) def. Lucas Horve (Illinois) 8-3
Vic Budic (Illinois) def. Jacob Wareti (Ohio State) 7-5
Doubles
Jan. 15
#2 Mattias Siimar/Andrew Fenty (Michigan) def. #4 John McNally/Robert Cash (Ohio State) 6-2
JJ Tracy/JJ Mercer (Ohio State) def. Nick Beaty/Harrison Brown (Michigan) 6-3
#51 Cannon Kingsley/Kyle Seelig (Ohio State) def. Ondrej Styler/Connor Johnston (Michigan) 6-2
Jan. 16
#4 John McNally/Robert Cash (Ohio State) def. Ondrej Styler/Connor Johnston (Michigan) 6-3
#2 Mattias Siimar/Andrew Fenty (Michigan) def. JJ Mercer/JJ Tracy (Ohio State) 6-3
#51 Cannon Kingsley/Kyle Seelig (Ohio State) vs. Harrison Brown/Nick Beaty (Michigan) 6-0
Jan. 17
#2 Andrew Fenty/Mattias Siimar, Michigan def. #51 Cannon Kingsley/Kyle Seelig, Ohio State 6-2
Robert Cash/JJ Mercer, Ohio State def. Ondrej Styler/Connor Johnston, Michigan 6-3
Jan. 18
Cannon Kingsley/Kyle Seelig (Ohio State) def. Hunter Heck/Kweisi Kenyatte (Illinois) 6-4
Robert Cash/JJ Mercer (Ohio State) def. Alex Petrov/Nic Meister (Illinois) 6-3
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