Texas Hands Top Seed Ohio State First Loss to Reach Men's Team Indoor Semifinals; Quevedo Falls in ITF J300 Final in Peru; Boitan Faces Langmo for Second Straight $15K Title in Florida

The four quarterfinals today at the ITA Division I Men's Team Indoor Championships demonstrated just how unpredictable the top level of the college game can be with two 4-0 victories and two thrillers that ended 4-3.

The late quarterfinal match at the XS Tennis Village in Chicago, which ran nearly four hours, saw No. 8 seed Texas avenge their 4-0 loss less than two weeks ago to top seed and undefeated Ohio State. The Longhorns dropped a tight doubles point, but went on to claim four singles matches, with Pierre-Yves Bailly defeating Cannon Kingsley 6-7(4), 7-6(2), 6-2 at line 2 to complete the upset.

Kingsley, who was coming off an ankle injury that had kept him out of several matches coming into the Team Indoor, including the match in Columbus against Texas, served for the match at both 5-4 and 6-5 in the second set. But Bailly found a more aggressive mindset in those two games, and Kingsley's first serve wasn't there when he needed it. In the third set, Kingsley went down a break in the first game, and when he lost his second service game to give Bailly a 3-0 lead, most of the tension and noise that surrounds a last match on dissipated quickly. Obviously not at his best physically, Kingsley could not put any pressure on Bailly and the sophomore from Belgium cruised to the finish line.

Texas will face a well-rested Michigan team that dominated reigning NCAA champion Virginia, with the fourth-seeded Wolverines giving the fifth-seeded Cavaliers no chance for a comeback. That match is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Central time Sunday.

No. 2 seed Kentucky scraped by No. 7 seed Southern California 4-3, with Joshua Lapadat clinching for the Wildcats with 3-6, 6-2, 6-1 win over Wojciech Marek at line 3.

Kentucky will face defending champion and No. 3 seed TCU, who beat No. 11 seed Georgia 5-0. That match is scheduled for noon Central. 

Cracked Racquets will be providing its CrossCourt coverage of the semifinals, with commentary by Mike Cation and Alex Gruskin, at the Cracked Racquets YouTube Channel.

Division I Men's Team Indoor Championships
Quarterfinals, February 18, 2023

TCU[3] 5, Georgia[11] 0

1. Ethan Quinn and Trent Bryde(UGA) d. Jake Fearnley and Luc Fomba(TCU) 7-6(3)
2. Sander Jong and Jack Pinnington Jones(TCU) d. Teodor Giusca and Philip Henning(UGA) 7-5
3. Sebastian Gorzny and Pedro Vives Marcos(TCU) d. Blake Croyder and Britton Johnston(UGA) 7-5

Order of finish: 3, 1, 2 

Singles

1. Jake Fearnley(TCU) d. Ethan Quinn(UGA) 7-6(1), 6-3

2. Luc Fomba(TCU) v Philip Henning(UGA) 6-4, 4-6, 4-3, unfinished

3. Jack Pinnington Jones(TCU) d. Trent Bryde(UGA) 7-5, 7-5

4. Sander Jong(TCU) d. Blake Croyder(UGA) 6-4, 6-3

5. Sebastian Gorzny(TCU) d. Teodor Giusca(UGA) 7-6(5), 6-4

6. Lui Maxted(TCU) v Miguel Perez Pena(UGA) 6-7(6), 5-4, unfinished

Order of finish: 4, 1, 3/5

Kentucky[2] 4, Southern California[7] 3

Doubles

1. Taha Baadi and Alafia Ayeni(UK) d. Bradley Frye and Stefan Dostanic(USC) 6-4

2. Wojciech Marek and Lodewijk Weststrate(USC) v Joshua Lapadat and JJ Mercer(UK) 4-4, unfinished

3. Liam Draxl and Jaden Weekes(UK) d. Ryan Colby and Peter Makk(USC) 6-3

Order of finish: 3, 1

Singles

1. Stefan Dostanic(USC) d. Liam Draxl(UK) 6-3, 6-4

2. Peter Makk(USC) d. Alafia Ayeni (UK) 4-6, 6-1, 6-4

3. Joshua Lapadat(UK) d. Wojciech Marek(USC) 3-6, 6-2, 6-1

4. Taha Baadi(UK) d. Bradley Frye(USC) 7-5, 6-3

5. Charlelie Cosnet(UK) d. Ryan Colby(USC) 6-3, 2-6, 6-4

6. Lodewijk Weststrate(USC) d. JJ Mercer(UK) 7-5, 6-4

Order of finish: 4, 1, 6, 2, 5, 3

Michigan[4] 4,  Virginia[5] 0

Doubles

1. Andrew Fenty and Gavin Young(MICH) v Chris Rodesch and Ryan Goetz(UVA) 5-3, unfinished

2. Patrick Maloney and Ondrej Styler(MICH) d. Inaki Montes and Will Woodall(UVA) 6-3 

3. Will Cooksey and Nino Ehrenschnedier(MICH) d. Alex Kiefer and Jeffrey von der Schulenburg(UVA) 6-3

Order of finish: 2, 3

Singles

1. Andrew Fenty(MICH) d. Inaki Montes(UVA) 6-0, 6-1

2. Chris Rodesch(UVA) v Patrick Maloney(MICH) 6-3, 5-5, unfinished

3. Ondrej Styler(MICH) d. Jeffrey von der Schulenburg(UVA) 6-3, 6-4

4. Ryan Goetz(UVA) v Gavin Young(MICH) 6-4, 4-5, unfinished

5. Jacob Bickersteth(MICH) v Alex Kiefer(UVA) 7-6(4), 2-2, unfinished

6.  Will Cooksey(MICH) d. Mans Dahlberg(UVA) 6-4, 6-3

Order of finish: 1, 3, 6

Texas[8] 4, Ohio State[1] 3 

Doubles

1. Andrew Lutschaunig and James Trotter(OSU) d. Eliot Spizzirri and Cleeve Harper(TEX) 6-4

2. Justin Boulais and Robert Cash(OSU) d. Piere-Yves Bailly and Siem Woldeab(TEX) 7-6(2)

3. Chih Chi Huang and Micah Braswell(TEX) d. JJ Tracy and Cannon Kingsley(OSU) 6-2 

Order of finish: 3, 1, 2

Singles

1. Eliot Spizzirri(TEX) d. Justin Boulais(OSU)  4-6, 6-2, 6-0 

2. Pierre-Yves Bailly(TEX) d. Cannon Kingsley(OSU) 6-7(4), 7-6(2), 6-2

3. Micah Braswell(TEX) d. JJ Tracy(OSU) 3-6, 6-1, 7-5

4. James Trotter(OSU) d. Siem Woldeab(TEX) 6-2, 7-6(3)

5. Robert Cash(OSU) d. Cleeve Harper(TEX) 5-7, 6-2, 6-3

6. Nevin Arimilli(TEX) d. Andrew Lutschaunig(OSU) 6-4, 6-1

Order of finish: 4, 6, 1, 3, 5, 2

Kaitlin Quevedo came up short today in the final of the ITF J300 in Lima Peru, with the top seed losing to her doubles partner, Lucciana Perez Alarcon of Peru, the No. 2 seed 7-5, 6-4. Perez Alarcon, who beat top seed Iva Jovic in the J300 singles final last week in Colombia, partnered with Quevedo to take the doubles title Friday, with the top seeds defeating No. 2 seeds Mia Slama and Japan's Wakana Sonobe 5-7, 6-3, 10-7 in the final. No. 3 seed Slama had pushed Perez Alarcon in the singles semifinals before dropping a 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 decision; Quevedo defeated No. 6 seed Alexia Harmon 6-0, 6-0 in her semifinal.

The boys singles title went to unseeded Pedro Rodrigues of Brazil, who beat unseeded Nicolas Oliveira, also of Brazil, 6-4, 6-4 in the final.  Luca Miremont of Argentina and Benjamin Torrealba of Chile won the boys doubles title, beating Rodrigues and Oliveira 1-6, 6-3, 10-6 in Friday's final.

The run of 18-year-old wild card Aidan Kim came to an end today in the semifinals of the men's $15,000 USTA Pro Circuit tournament in Weston Florida. Kim gave former Baylor All-American Adrian Boitan his toughest match of the week, but fell 7-6(3), 4-6, 6-2 to the 23-year-old from Romania in two hours and 29 minutes. The unseeded Boitan, who won the title last week at the Palm Coast Florida $15K, will face No. 3 seed Christian Langmo(Miami), who beat unseeded Federico Agustin Gomez of Argentina 5-7, 6-4, 6-3.

Wild cards Bruno Kuzuhara and Vasil Kirkov won the doubles titles, beating the unseeded Czech team of Jiri Jenicek and Daniel Paty 6-2, 6-3 in today's final.(They also had to play their semifinal today after play was suspended yesterday). It's the third ITF World Tennis Tour men's title for the 18-year-old Kuzuhara and the fifth for the 23-year-old Kirkov. Kuzuhara and Kirkov defeated Kim and partner Kyle Kang 6-7(6), 6-2, 21-19 in the first round.

Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula won the doubles title at the WTA 500 in Doha Qatar, the seventh WTA doubles title for the 18-year-old Gauff and the sixth for Pegula. The top seeds defeated No. 2 seed Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia and Lyudmyla Kichenok of Ukraine 6-4, 2-6, 10-7 in the final. Pegula lost in the singles final today to Iga Swiatek of Poland 6-3, 6-0.

At the ATP 250 Delray Beach Open, top seed Taylor Fritz defeated Mackenzie McDonald 6-3, 7-6(6) tonight to reach Sunday's final, where he'll play No. 4 seed Miomir Kecmanovic of Serbia. Kecmanovic beat Radu Albot of Moldova 7-6(8), 3-6, 6-2 in the afternoon's semifinal.

Former North Carolina star Rinky Hijikata, who won the Australian Open doubles title with Jason Kubler last month, is into the Delray Beach doubles final, with former TCU standout Reese Stalder. This is the first doubles action for Hijikata since his title in Melbourne; he won a Challenger title in his home country in singles before traveling to the US for this tournament. Hijikata and Stalder, who are unseeded, will face No. 2 seeds Jean-Julien Rojer(UCLA) of the Netherlands and Marcelo Arevalo of El Salvador in Sunday's final.