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St. John’s Falls to Princeton in the Opening Round of the NCAA Tournament
5/3/2025 1:26:00 PM | Men's Tennis
The Johnnies finish 2025 25-3, the best record in program history
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. – The St. John's men's tennis team fell to Princeton in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday in Charlottesville, Va., 4-0.
The Tigers squeaked out two matches in doubles play to take the team points before sweeping the first three contests in singles action, advancing to the second round at the Virginia Tennis Courts at the Boar's Head Sports Center.
Paul Inchauspe and Filippos Astreinidis defeated Max Amling and Armando Sotelo at No. 1 doubles, 6-4, in the first result of doubles play. The Johnnies rallied from down 2-0 to take a 3-2 lead after five games, but the Tigers went on a 4-1 run to close the contest.
After Danilo Raicevic and Carl Gustavsson took a 1-0 lead in the second-flight match, Ellis Short and Fnu Nidunjianzan took the next three points and a 3-1 lead. After Princeton went ahead 4-2, St. John's picked up a much-needed hold to make it 4-3, Tigers. Short finished off the next game to reestablish the two-score lead for Princeton, 5-3. Raicevic and Gustavsson rallied to knot the match at 5-5 before the Tigers won the final two games, taking the match, 7-5, and clinching the team point.
On the No. 3 court, Adam Groves and Ryota Kaneda split the first 12 games against Meecah Bigun and Aleksandar Mitric, before the match was ultimately deemed unfinished with the Johnnies leading the tiebreaker, 3-1.
Short took down Ignacio Vinas in straight sets on the No. 3 solo court, 6-0, 6-1 in the first singles match to finish, giving the Tigers a 2-0 lead. Princeton pushed its lead to 3-0 on the top singles position when Inchauspe played to a 6-3, 6-2 decision against Amling.
Kaneda led the first frame against Mitric, 3-2, but the Tigers rallied in the set to win, 6-4, and a 5-2 decision in the second set finished off the sweep for Princeton. The loss was just the second of the season for Kaneda, who finishes 2025 with an 18-2 solo mark and 36 wins overall.
Leonardo Mileikowsky trailed Evan Wen, 5-3, on the No. 3 singles court, but the All-BIG EAST Second-Teamer rallied to win four straight games to take the first set, 7-5. Wen recovered to take stanza 2, 6-3. The match was unfinished in the third.
With the opening frame on the fifth position tied at 4-4, Raicevic broke away from Milan Markovits to win the opening frame, 6-4, but dropped the next one, 7-5.
After dropping the opening set to Nidunjianzan at No. 2 singles, Gustavsson convincingly took the second frame, 6-3, leading wire-to-wire. The four-time All-BIG EAST selection led the third set, 5-2, before the match was retired.
St. John's finishes the winningest season in program history at 25-3, with all three losses coming against NCAA Tournament participants.
Team Stats
#1 Doubles Match
#2 Doubles Match
#3 Doubles Match
Order of Finish:
1,2
#1 Singles Match
#2 Singles Match
#3 Singles Match
#4 Singles Match
#5 Singles Match
#6 Singles Match
Order of Finish:
3,1,6
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