Pottish Unveils Men's Tennis Fall Slate

QUEENS, N.Y.- St. John's men's tennis Head Coach Dillon Pottish has announced the six-event fall schedule for the Red Storm.

The Johnnies will start off at the Hofstra Invite on Sept. 24., which will mark this first time since 2019 the event has been held.

The following week, those who qualify will venture to Tulsa, Okla. to compete at the ITA All-American Championships. The nation's top Division I players will faceoff at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center from Oct. 1-9. In last year's tournament, four Johnnies- Udayan Bhakar, Ignacio Garcia, Axel Vila Antuna and Yaron Guberman tallied five combined victories.

On Oct. 7-9, St. John's will travel to Philadelphia for the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's Northeast Regionals to take on opponents from across the region at UPenn. The top finishers at the three-day event will advance to the ITA Super Regionals two weeks later from Oct. 21-24 at Harvard. Last year, Vila Antuna and Garcia carved their way through the doubles bracket and advanced into the semifinal round.

In between the two ITA regional tournaments, the Red Storm will participate in the Army Invite on Oct. 15-16, in West Point, N.Y.

The fall season will conclude with another trip to the City of Brotherly Love, to partake in the Drexel Invite. The hidden dual competition will occur on Nov. 4-5.

The Johnnies are coming off a 2021 campaign where they made their third-straight BIG EAST Championship match appearance and posted a dual-match record of 17-6. Pottish is set to return a pair of all-conference selections in Vila Antuna (First Team) and Carl Gustavsson (Second Team) to his squad.

St. John's University Athletics

Players Mentioned

Udayan Bhakar

Ignacio Garcia

Yaron Guberman

Carl Gustavsson

Axel Vila Antuna

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