Ohio State
ITA Sectional Championship
Doubles Leads the Way This Weekend in Fort Worth and Madison
11/9/2024 8:12:00 PM | Men's Tennis
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State men’s tennis was spread over to events this weekend and its doubles teams led the way. Bryce Nakashima and Will Jansen earned a spot in the NCAA Championship later this month with a third-place finish at the ITA Central Sectional in Fort Worth while Nikita Filin and Brandon Carpico finished runner-up at the Big Ten Singles & Doubles Championship in Madison, Wis.
Will Jansen and Bryce Nakashima drop their semifinal match but finish 3rd overall at the ITA Central Sectional and earn a spot in the NCAA Championship later this month #GoBucks pic.twitter.com/ucFR8VK9I9
— Ohio State M Tennis (@OhioStateMTEN) November 9, 2024
Nakashima and Jansen won a three-set match in the opening round and then knocked off the Texas pair of Pierre-Yves Bailly and Sebastian Gorzny 6-3, 6-4 to reach the semifinals. They would fall in the semifinals on Saturday but earned the third qualifying spot after a withdraw in third-place match. They will join Aidan Kim, who earned a singles spot in the NCAA Championship with his run to the semifinals at the season-opening All-American Championship in September.
Jack Anthrop and Preston Stearns lost in the opening round to the top-seeded team, but bounced back to win three matches, including two on Saturday, to win the consolation bracket. They beat TCU’s Duncan Chan and Kaj Quirijns 8-7(2) in the final match.
In singles, Anthrop and Stearns each won their first-round matches, but both lost in the round of 16. After losing in the opening round, Chris Li won his first two consolation round matches before falling in the semifinals to LC Alvarez Valdes of Oklahoma.
Nikita Filin and Brandon Carpico finish runner-up at the Big Ten Doubles Championship, capping a solid weekend in Madison #GoBucks pic.twitter.com/0XwZOhOnQP
— Ohio State M Tennis (@OhioStateMTEN) November 10, 2024
At the Big Ten Singles & Doubles Championships, hosted by Wisconsin, freshman Nikita Filin won a pair of singles matches to reach the round of 16 before losing to Wisconsin’s Michael Minasyan. Filin joined Carpico to roll through the first two rounds of the doubles draw. They then beat Minasyan and Collin Beduhn 6-4 in the semifinals on Saturday morning but dropped a hard-fought 7-5 match in the championship to Michigan’s Will Cooksey and Alex Cairo.
This was another good doubles performance for Carpico, who won the Milwaukee doubles title in October with Alex Fuchs and then joined Stearns to win the Fighting Irish Mini Duals last weekend in South Bend, Ind.
JP Day and Reece Yakubov also competed in Madison this weekend. Day bounced back with a couple of consolation singles victories and the pair also picked up a doubles win.
ITA Central Sectional – Fort Worth, Texas
Singles
November 7, 2024
32 Isaac Becroft (Oklahoma State) def. Chris Li (Ohio State) 6-4, 6-2
32 Jack Anthrop (Ohio State) def. Togan Tokac (Texas A&M) 6-4, 2-6, 6-0
32 Tiago Pires (Texas A&M) def. Will Jansen (Ohio State) 6-4, 6-4
32 Preston Stearns (Ohio State) def. Alessio Basile (Oklahoma State) 7-6 (7-2), 6-2
32 Trevor Svajda (SMU) def. Bryce Nakashima (Ohio State) 6-3, 6-1
November 8, 2024
16 O. Brostrom Poulsen (Baylor) def. Jack Anthrop (Ohio State) 6-3, 6-2
16 Aristotelis Thanos (Michigan State) def. Preston Stearns (Ohio State) 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (7-2), 6-4
C16 Chris Li (Ohio State) def. Michael Kouame (Memphis) 6-3, 7-5
C16 Pablo Alemany (Memphis) def. Will Jansen (Ohio State) 6-1, 2-6, 12-10
C16 Bryce Nakashima (Ohio State) def. Bruno Nhavene (Oklahoma) 6-2, 6-0
November 9, 2024
CQF Chris Li (Ohio State) def. Max Sheldon (Michigan State) 6-2, 6-1
CQF Bjorn Swenson (Michigan) def. Bryce Nakashima (Ohio State) 7-5, 4-6, 10-
CSF LC Alvarez Valdes (Oklahoma) def. Chris Li (Ohio State) 6-3, 6-3
Doubles
November 7, 2024
16 Bryce Nakashima/Will Jansen (Ohio State) def. Kristof Minarik/Alejandro Jacome (Wichita State) 6-3, 4-6, 10-5
16 Lui Maxted/Pedro Vives (TCU) def. Jack Anthrop/Preston Stearns (Ohio State) 6-3, 6-3
November 8, 2024
QF Bryce Nakashima/Will Jansen (Ohio State) def. Pierre-Yves Bailly/Sebastian Gorzny (Texas) 6-3, 6-4
CQF Jack Anthrop/Preston Stearns (Ohio State) def. Calvin Mueller/Anton Shepp (Nebraska) 8-2
November 9, 2024
SF A. de la Bassetiere/Kabeer Kapasi (Rice) def. Bryce Nakashima/Will Jansen (Ohio State) 7-6 (7-4), 6-2
CSF Jack Anthrop/Preston Stearns (Ohio State) def. Alessio Basile/Isaac Becroft (Oklahoma State) 8-6
CF Jack Anthrop/Preston Stearns (Ohio State) def. Duncan Chan/Kaj Quirijns (TCU) 8-7 (7-2)
Big Ten Singles and Doubles Championship – Madison, Wis.
Singles
November 8, 2024
64 Carter Pate (Northwestern) def. Reece Yakubov (Ohio State) 6-4, 7-6 (7-3)
64 Nikita Filin (Ohio State) def. Owen Megaregee (Northwestern) 6-1, 6-1
64 Edouard Aubert (Wisconsin) def. JP Day (Ohio State) 6-3, 6-1
32 Nikita Filin (Ohio State) def. Henrik Villanger (Purdue) 6-3, 6-4
C1 JP Day (Ohio State) def. Matteo Antonescu (Indiana) 2-6, 6-4, 10-6
C1 Reece Yakubov (Ohio State) def. Karan Raghavendra (Indiana) 6-3, 6-2
November 9, 2024
16 Michael Minasyan (Wisconsin) def. Nikita Filin (Ohio State) 6-2, 7-6 (7-5)
C2 JP Day (Ohio State) def. Sachiv Kumar (Wisconsin) 7-6 (10-8), 7-5
C2 Colson Wells (Nebraska) def. Reece Yakubov (Ohio State) 6-3, 6-1
Doubles
November 7, 2024
32 Nikolay Sysoev/Henry Bilicic (Nebraska) def. Reece Yakubov/JP Day (Ohio State) 6-3
16 Nikita Filin/Brandon Carpico (Ohio State) def. Roni Hietaranta/Colson Wells (Nebraska) 6-3
C1 Reece Yakubov/JP Day (Ohio State) def. Lucas Coriaty/Max Bengtsson (Northwestern) 6-0
November 8, 2024
QF Nikita Filin/Brandon Carpico (Ohio State) def. Matthew Fullerton/Patrik Meszaros (Wisconsin) 6-2
C2 Nour Fathalla/Juan David Velasquez (Purdue) def. Reece Yakubov/JP Day (Ohio State) 7-6 (6-3)
November 9, 2024
SF Nikita Filin/Brandon Carpico (Ohio State) def. Collin Beduhn/Michael Minasyan (Wisconsin) 6-4
F Will Cooksey/Alex Cairo (Michigan) def. Nikita Filin/Brandon Carpico (Ohio State) 7-5
