Defending Champion Wake Forest Upset by Baylor, Ohio State Wins Another 4-3 Battle to Reach ITA Men's D-I Team Indoor Semifinals; Johnson Advances to M15 Sunrise Final; Preston Wins Third Straight ITF J300 in Peru

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Dallas TX--

There will be a new champion Tuesday at the ITA Men's Division I Team Indoor Championships, after No. 5 seed Baylor used its home crowd advantage and some clutch play during two third-set tiebreakers in the deciding matches to earn a 4-3 victory over defending champion and No. 1 seed Wake Forest in Waco. 

Moments after Baylor's Luc Koenig defeated Charlie Robertson 1-6, 7-5, 7-6(3) at line 5, Devin Badenhorst got the better of India's recent Davis Cup hero DK Suresh at No. 1 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(5) to reach their first Indoor semifinal since 2022 Monday at the Styslinger-Altec Tennis Complex in Dallas.

Also heading north on Sunday's travel day will be Texas, who ended TCU's streak of four consecutive Team Indoor finals with another 4-3 decision. With heavy rain in Texas most of the day Saturday, only five of the six courts at Baylor were used in the match, so No. 6 singles was early in the second set when the score reached 3-all. Longhorn Oliver Ojakaar, playing his first singles match of the season, defeated Roger Pascual 6-3, 7-6(5) to return Texas to the semifinals for the second consecutive year.

Here in Dallas, No. 1 seed Ohio State continued their Houdini act, dropping the doubles point to No. 4 Stanford and digging themselves a 3-1 hole. But the Buckeyes, with a new look to their lineup after their 4-3 win over SMU Friday, rebounded with four singles points from the top two spots and the bottom two spots.

Stanford's Samir Banerjee was unable to play today after retiring with a back injury in the Cardinal's 4-3 win over Arizona State, so everyone had to move up a spot in the lineup. That put freshman Mark Krupkin into the No. 6 spot, and, as at Baylor, there was a court taken out of commission due to dampness during the doubles point, so that match went on last.

Head coach Ty Tucker pulled Preston Stearns and Loren Byers from his lineup, after Stearns lost at line 2 and Byers at line 5 in the SMU match. Aidan Kim remained at 1, but the rest of the Buckeyes moved up a spot and Brandon Carpico, a doubles regular in the Ohio State lineup, made his major match debut at line 6.

"We think Banerjee not going to be playing, so they've got a guy coming in at 6, and Carpico has a good skill set to return serves, a great doubles player," Tucker said about his lineup strategy. "And Nikita (Filin) had beaten Godsick at the All-Americans, played a three-set war there, and so obviously we liked that, thought (Godsick) would be moving up, and the person behind Nikita would be Carpico."

After Stanford took the doubles point with wins at line 3 and line 1, with line 2 unfinished, the singles started with little advantage to either team.  Ohio State's Jack Anthrop, the hero of the win over SMU, drew his team even with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Alex Chang at line 2, but Stanford retook the lead with Jagger Leach's 7-6(4), 6-3 win over Bryce Nakashima at line 3.

At line 4, Alex Bernard, who did not play Friday, had a set point/deciding point at 5-4 in the first, but Alex Razeghi won that point and the next two games, and made it 3-1 Stanford with a 7-5, 7-5 win at line 4.  

By that time, Aidan Kim had earned a third set in his match with Hudson Rivera at line 1, and Godsick had forced a third set against Filin at line 5. 

Carpico had taken the court and had built a 6-2, 4-1 lead over Krupkin, and Kim earned an early break in the third against Rivera. The Buckeyes had no margin for error however, and with Filin and Godsick even throughout that match took on extra significance. Filin held for 6-5, Carpico was on the brink of closing out Krupkin and Kim was up 5-3 in the third with a deciding point, but Rivera saved it. Godsick went down 0-40 serving at 5-6 and Filin pounced, earning the win as Kim was ready to serve for the match.

The junior from Michigan made five straight first serves, but Rivera kept the pressure on, hitting a backhand pass for 30-15 and getting a netcord volley opportunity. Kim then drilled an ace for 40-30, and finally missed a first serve. The second was short in the box on the far sideline, with Rivera calling it out. Kim challenged the call and the Electronic Line Calling replay showed it good, giving Kim a second serve ace and the Buckeyes a spot in Monday's semifinal.

"That's all Ty preaches," Kim said of getting his first serves in during that critical game. "On that second serve, I didn't really feel like I went for it. I got a little bit more lucky to hit it closer to the line and thank god it was in."

Tucker said he was looking forward to the day off after two consecutive emotional matches.

"It's my favorite day," Tucker said. "I go back to the days of the (NCAA) Sweet 16 when you'd play a match and have a day off. These are the best days: you have tomorrow off and tonight everybody feels pretty good and you go out to dinner and you don't have the stress and you're not watching tape," said Tucker, who then corrected himself. "Of course we'll watch some tape, but it's nice to know we've got a little bit of time, and it's enjoyable. It's so much fun, gosh. If they sold that at 7-11, I'd buy lots of cans of that."

The only quarterfinal match that didn't end in a 4-3 score was next, with No. 2 seed Virginia beating No. 3 seed Mississippi State 4-1, but in no sense was the match routine.

Virginia lost the doubles point, as did every other quarterfinal winner, with Dylan Dietrich and Stiles Brockett losing five straight games after leading 5-2 to drop the deciding set to Benito Sanchez Martinez and Petar Jovanovic after Mississippi State won at 2 and Virginia at 3.

Virginia took that disappointment to heart and took all six first sets in singles, but Mississippi State was not about to concede, even if it meant needing to split sets on four courts to get an improbable win. The got three splits, with Benito Sanchez Martinez going from 6-4, 5-0 down to Dietrich at line 1, to winning eight straight games to keep his team alive.

Stiles Brockett got a quick 6-1, 6-0 win over Roberto Ferrer at line 5 to get the Cavaliers back even, but their next point was a long time coming.

Keegan Rice did close out Petar Jovanovic 6-3, 7-6(1) to make it 2-1, but Virginia's Jangjun Kim couldn't convert a match point in the second set tiebreaker sending that to a third set.

At line 3, Mississippi State's Mario Martinez Serrano served for the second set against Andres Santamarta at 5-4, but lost that game to love and Santamarta won the next two games to make it 3-1. 

Virginia's Mans Dahlberg had gotten an early break in his third set with Michal Novansky at line 6 and held onto it throughout. Novansky saved a match point serving at 3-5, but Dahlberg, a senior from Sweden, closed out the match with no drama in the next game.

"I started out great, but the guy raised his level quite a bit in the second set," said 2025 NCAA doubles champion Dahlberg, the only member of Virginia's 2023 NCAA team championship still competing for the Cavaliers. "He started playing way more aggressively. I just hung in there in third set, playing physical and I ended up taking it."

A week ago, Virginia lost 4-0 to the Buckeyes in Columbus, but Dahlberg is ready for the rematch.

"They won't have the entire city of Columbus behind them, everybody being super loud," Dahlberg said. "Regardless, it will be a great match, they're a great indoor tennis team and we're all super excited to play them again, and hopefully get revenge."

Head coach Andres Pedroso agreed.

"The courts are slower here and they won't have however many fans, I heard they had like 800, roaring for their team," Pedroso said. "It was fun, it was an awesome environment, but this will be a different environment, I hope it will be a different result. We'll do our best."

Monday's semifinals are scheduled for 3:30 pm and 6:30 pm Central time, with free live streaming at the Cracked Racquets YouTube channel. The final consolation matches will be on Sunday's schedule; live scoring for those matches is available here.

ITA Men's Division I Team Indoor Championships

Quarterfinals, February 14, 2026

SMU site:

Ohio State[1] d. Stanford[4] 4-3

Doubles:

1. Alex Razeghi and Alex Chang(STAN) d. Alex Bernard and Alex Okonkwo(OSU) 7-6(5)

2. Nico Godsick and Jagger Leach(STAN) v Brandon Carpico and Nikita Filin(OSU) 5-6, unf

3. Mark Krupkin and Hudson Rivera(STAN) d. Aidan Kim and Bryce Nakashima(OSU) 6-3

Order of finish: 3, 1

Singles:

1. Aidan Kim(OSU) d. Hudson Rivera(STAN) 5-7, 6-2, 6-4

2. Jack Anthrop(OSU) d. Alex Chang(STAN) 6-4, 6-4 

3. Jagger Leach(STAN) d. Bryce Nakashima(OSU) 7-6(4), 6-3

4. Alex Razeghi(STAN) d. Alex Bernard(OSU) 7-5, 7-5

5. Nikita Filin(OSU) d. Nico Godsick(STAN)  6-3, 1-6, 7-5

6.  Brandon Carpico(OSU) d. Mark Krupkin(STAN) 6-2, 6-2

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

Virginia[2] d. Mississippi State[3] 4-1

Doubles

1. Benito Sanchez Martinez and Petar Jovanovic(MSU) d. Stiles Brockett and Dylan Dietrich(UVA) 7-5

2. Mans Dahlberg and Jangjun Kim(UVA) d. Mario Martinez Serrano and Michal Novansky(MSU) 6-3

3. Andres Santamarta and Keegan Rice(UVA) d. Bryan Hernandez Cortes and Raphael Vaksmann(MSU) 7-5

Order of finish: 2, 3, 1

Singles:

1. Dylan Dietrich(UVA) v Benito Sanchez Martinez(MSU) 5-4, 5-7, 3-3, unf

2. Keegan Rice(UVA) d. Petar Jovanovic(MSU) 6-3, 7-6(1)

3.  Andres Santamarta(UVA) d. Mario Martinez(MSU) 6-4, 7-5

4. Jangjun Kim(UVA) v Raphael Vaksmann(MSU) 6-4, 6-7(7), 1-1, unf

5. Stiles Brockett(UVA) d. Roberto Ferrer(MSU) 6-1, 6-0

6. Mans Dahlberg(UVA) d. Michal Novansky(MSU) 6-2, 4-6, 6-4

Order of finish: 5, 2, 3, 6

Baylor site:

Texas[3] d. TCU[2] 4-3

Doubles:

1. Oliver Bonding and Cooper Woestendick(TCU) d. Abel Forger and Kalin Ivanovski(TEX) 6-3

2. Duncan Chan and Cosme Rolland de Ravel(TCU) d. Sebastian Gorzny and Lucas Marionneau(TEX) 6-3

3. Albert Pedrico and Filip Apltauer(TCU) v Sebastian Eriksson and Oliver Ojakaar(TEX) 5-4, unf

Order of finish: 1, 2

Singles:

1. Sebastian Gorzny(TEX) d. Duncan Chan(TCU) 7-6(2), 6-4

2. Kalin Ivanovski(TEX) d. Cosme Rolland de Ravel(TCU) 6-7(6) 6-1, 6-2 

3. Cooper Woestendick(TCU) d. Abel Forger(TEX) 6-7(3), 6-2. 7-5

4. Sebastian Eriksson(TEX) d. Oliver Bonding(TCU) 6-4, 6-7(2). 6-4

5. Albert Pedrico(TCU) d. Jonah Braswell(TEX) 6-2, 6-2

6. Oliver Ojakaar(TEX) d. Roger Pascual(TCU) 6-3, 7-6(5)

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

Baylor[5] d. Wake Forest[1] 4-3

Doubles:

1. Andrew Delgado and DK Suresh(WAKE) d. Connor Van Schalkwyk and Luc Koeing(BAY) 6-3

2. Alexandru Chirita and Zsombor Velcz(BAY) d. Aryan Shah and Kacper Szymkowiak(WAKE) 6-3 

3. Luca Pow and Charlie Robertson(WAKE) d. Blake Anderson and Devin Badenhorst 6-4

Order of finish: 1, 2, 3

Singles:

1. Devin Badenhorst(BAY) d. DK Suresh(WAKE) 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(5)

2. Zsombor Velcz(BAY) d. Aryan Shah(WAKE) 6-3, 7-6(3)

3. Connor Van Schalkwyk(BAY) d. Luca Pow(WAKE) 6-4, 6-4

4. Mees Rottgering(WAKE) d. Alexandru Chirita(BAY) 6-4, 6-4

5. Luc Koenig(BAY) d. Charlie Robertson(WAKE) 1-6, 7-5, 7-6(3)

6. Joaquin Guilleme(WAKE) d. Louis Bowden(BAY) 6-4, 7-5

Order of finish:

4, 2, 3, 6, 5, 1

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Andy Johnson is through to the final of the USTA Pro Circuit M15 in Sunrise Florida after defeating No. 4 seed Bruno Kuzuhara 6-2, 6-4. The 16-year-old from Southern California will play unseeded 22-year-old Dragos Nicolae Cazacu of Romania in the final. Cazacu beat No. 7 seed Ignacio Monzon of Argentina 6-1, 6-4.

Stefan Dostanic, who was the Most Outstanding Player of last year's Men's Team Indoor while at Wake Forest, is through to his first ATP Challenger final at the 50 in Baton Rouge Louisiana. Dostanic, a qualifier, defeated No. 2 seed Andres Andrade(Florida) of Ecuador 4-6, 6-2, 7-5 in today's semifinals. Dostanic will play top seed Alexis Galarneau(NC State) of Canada, who beat Andre Ilagan(Hawaii) 6-3, 6-2.

Alafia Ayeni(Cornell, Kentucky) and Keegan Smith(UCLA) won the doubles title in Baton Rouge, beating wild cards Ron Hohmann(LSU, Michigan State) and Andres Martin(Georgia Tech) 5-7, 6-3, 10-7 in the final.

Fifteen-year-old Janae Preston won her third consecutive ITF J300 title today in Peru, with the No. 3 seed beating No. 5 seed Lani Chang 6-1, 6-2 in the final. Preston, who won in Costa Rica and Ecuador on hard courts and this week on clay, has not lost a set in her last two title runs. 

No. 2 seed Mathys Domenc defeated No. 6 seed Benjamin Azar 6-1, 6-1 in the boys final.