Two qualifications are among the last four to compete for the title on the ATP Challenger 75 in Columbus Ohio: Stanford senior Samir Banerjee and Daniel Masur van Germany.
ATP No. 529 Masur, 30, has a career-high ATP ranking of 176 and made a challenger semi-final for the last time more than a year ago. He defeated the University of Virginia Second-year Rafael Jodar 6-1, 7-5 in the quarterfinals today.
Banerjee, who turns 22 in two weeks, only needed 51 minutes to place a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Tyler Zink (Georgia, Oklahoma State) to claim his first quarter-final victory of the challenger.
Banerjee, currently 441 in the ATP ranking, plays no. 7 Seed Martin Damm, who eliminated the last Buckeye in the field with a 7-5, 4-6, 7-5 victory over No. 3 Seed James Trotter by Japan.
Masur will be confronted with 2024 NCAA Fall champion Michael Zheng, with the Columbia Senior Die Alfredo Perez (Florida) 6-2, 3-6, 6-3.
The double semi -final results and the order of Saturday:
Columbus Challenger – Columbus, Oh, United States
$ 100,000
14 – September 21, 2025
HANDERSOBBLES – Semi -final
[2] George Goldhoff (US) / Theodore Wineegar (US) D Benjamin Kittay (US) / Joshua Sheehy (US) 46 63 15-13
Patrick Harper (Aus)/Johannus Monday (GBR) D SAI Kartek Reddy Ganta (IND)/Ryuki Matsuda (JPN) 62 61
Saturday
Court 1 – Begin 11:00
Dubbels Final – Patrick Harper (AUS) / Johannus Monday (GBR) VS [2] George Goldhoff (US) / Theodore Wineegar (US)
Michael Zheng (US) VS [Q] Daniel Masur (Ger)
[7] [Alt] Martin Damm (US) USA [Q] Samir Banerjee (US)
By the M15 in Fayetteville ArkansasTop seeds Andrew Fenty (Michigan) lost in today’s quarterfinals to no. 5 Seed Rafael Perot (Texas A&M) of France 6-4, 6-1, as a result of which no. Seed Keegan Smith (UCLA) as the only American in the semi-final lays behind. Smith defeated Texas A&M Junior Kholo Montsi from South Africa, a qualification, 6-37-6 (4).
Qualification Alex Kotzen (Columbia, Tennessee) came to the short end of a three-hour match and 47 minutes with Oklahoma senior and no. 4 Seed Luis Alvarez of Mexico 1-6, 7-6 (6), 7-5. Alvarez will come across Perot in the semi -final.
Qualification Sebastian Eriksson from Sweden, a second-year student in Texas, is due to the semi-final after beating TCU-Tweede year student Albert Pedrico van Spain, the no. 8 seed, 6-4, 6-2.
The double final was played tonight, with Braden Shick (NC State) and James Hopper (Case Western, Virginia) who won their first title as a team. The No. 3 seeds defeated ungusted Alan Magadan (UTSA, Texas A&M) from Mexico and Ioan Alexandru Chirita (Baylor) 6-2, 3-6, 11-9 in the final.
Prevention starts on Saturday for both Gentlemen And women In Tulsa and Cary, respectively for the 20 places in the qualifying stretching on the ITA All-American Championships. The men and women now have the same draws and schedules, with the 160 pre-qualifying fields, qualifying fields with 64 players and 64 players main table fields.
The link to the pre -qualifying draw for women is here. The pre -qualifying draw for men is here. Dubbels pre -qualifying draws, with 32 teams that compete for eight -qualifying places, are also available on the links above.
The Makes headA men’s event with a team from Europe against a team from all other parts of the world started today in San Francisco. Two Americans in the team, Reilly Opelka and Alex Michelsen were in action today, and both lost, where Opelka lost to the Casper Ruud van Norway 6-4, 7-6 (4) and Michelsen fell to Czech Jakub Mensik 6-1, 6-7 (3), 10-8. The third singles match tonight contains Flavio Cobolli from Italy against Joao Fonseca of Brazil, followed a double match between Michelsen and Taylor Fritz and Mensik and Spain Carlos Alcaraz. Each match is worth one point today, but two points per victory are awarded on Saturday and three points per victory are awarded on Sunday, the last day of the competition.
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