The only remaining top 8 seed in the men’s draw is No. 8 Ozan Baris of Michigan State, who reached the finals last November in Waco. In that final he faced Michael Zheng of Columbia and lost 6-2, 4-6, 6-2; tomorrow will be a rematch of that championship match after Baris defeated UNLV’s Ilia Snitari 6-4, 7-6(5) and defeated unseeded Zheng Romain Gales of Clemson 6-3, 6-2.
The winner of that quarterfinal will play the winner of the match between Luca Pow of Wake Forest and Paul Inchauspe of Princeton, a 9-16 seed. Pow, playing on lines 5 and 6 for the 2025 NCAA team champions, knocked out No. 7 seed Dylan Dietrich of Virginia 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, while Inchauspe earned his first straightforward win with a 6-2, 6-4 decision over Will Jansen of Georgia.
In the top half, Petar Jovanovic of Mississippi State, a 9-16 seed, defeated Keegan Rice of Virginia, who had defeated top seed Jay Friend of Arizona in Wednesday’s second round. Jovanovic will face SMU’s Trevor Svajda, who earned his first straight-set victory this week, beating No. 6 seed Kenta Miyoshi of Illinois 6-2, 6-4.
In the only quarterfinal with two unseeded players, Michigan’s Max Dahlin will face North Carolina’s Martin Borisiouk. Dahlin, a redshirt freshman who has not lost a match in his college career in singles or doubles, defeated No. 4 seed Matt Forbes of Michigan State 7-5, 1-6, 7-6 (3). Borisiouk, who was initially seeded 9-16 but had that taken away from him when Kentucky’s Jack Loutit stepped in as an alternate and took that seed, continued to hold the key to beating Wake Forest’s DK Suresh. Borisiouk, the first NC State player to reach the NCAA quarterfinals since John Sadri in 1978, is now 3-0 against Suresh this year after a convincing 6-4, 6-1 victory today.
Only seven rounds of 16 matches were played today in the women’s draw, with Michigan’s Lily Jones giving an injury walkover to Mississippi’s Emily Welker. Welker will face No. 4 seed Savannah Dada-Mascoll of Appalachian State, who came from behind 3-0 in the third set to defeat Emma Charney of Southern Cal 6-4, 4-6, 6-3. Dada-Mascoll, a senior from UK, is making history for her school with every win, as the program has never had an NCAA participant, let alone an All-American or an NCAA quarterfinalist.
Charney’s younger sister Piper, the No. 3 seed from Michigan, lost to Carolina Gomez Alonzo of Arkansas 6-2, 6-2. Gomez Alonzo will play Southern Cal’s Jana Hossam Salah in one of two completely unseeded quarterfinals after Hossam Salah defeated North Carolina State’s Mia Slama 6-4, 6-0.
The other completely unseeded quarterfinal will feature Berta Passola Folch of Cal and Kyota Kubo of Kansas. Passola Folch defeated North Carolina State’s Gabriella Broadfoot 6-4, 6-3 and Kubo breezed past Duke’s Irina Balus 6-4, 6-1. The winner of that match will play against the winner of the Dada-Mascoll-Welker quarter-final.
In the only matchup between two seeds, No. 2 Carmen Herea of Texas faces Reese Brantmeier of North Carolina, a 9-16 seed. Herea bounced back from a first-set loss to 9-16 seed Luciana Perry of Ohio State, just as she had done in the semifinals of the ITA All-American Championships in September, to post a 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 victory. Brantmeier dropped the second set for the third straight match, but defeated Auburn’s Ava Esposito 6-2, 3-6, 6-1.
All eight singles quarterfinals are scheduled for 10am, which is frustrating for those of us who want to watch more tennis during the day. With only Brantmeier and Dahlin still playing in both singles and doubles, there was the option of playing four of the quarterfinals later in the day, which would be much more fan-friendly than this choice. All doubles matches are scheduled for 1 or 2 p.m., so it’s likely there will be no tennis at all for fans who want to watch NCAA tennis after work on Friday.
The doubles draws haven’t been immune to all of this week’s upsets, with the top seeds and ITA All-American champions in the women’s draw losing in the first round yesterday and the top seeds and ITA All-American champions in the men’s draw losing in the second round today.
Benito Sanchez Martinez and Petar Jovanovic of Mississippi State lost to Mans Dahlberg and Dylan Dietrich of Virginia 6-3, 7-6(3), leaving just one seeded team in the top half of the draw. Below are the results of today’s second round of doubles, with all winners earning All-American status. Results are shown in draw order, with draws available by clicking on the links.
WOMEN:
Leena Friedman and Orly Oglivy, Yale d. Charlotte Kempenaers-Pocz and Gianna Oboniye, Mississippi State 6-4, 3-6, 10-6
Daniela Borruel and Lily Fairclough, Southern California d. Stanislava Shulzhenko and Maria de la Paz Alberto, Iowa State 7-6(2), 7-6(5)
Mei Kajuru and Susanna Maltby[3]North Carolina d. Andrea Nova and Emily Welker, Mississippi 7-5, 4-6, 10-5
Victoria Osuigwe and Gabriella Broadfoot, NC State d. Melody Collard and Vivian Yang[5-8]Virginia 6-4, 6-4
Annabelle Xu and Martina Genis Salas[5-8]Virginia d. Krisha Mahendran and Jana Hossam Salah, Southern Cal 6-3, 2-6, 10-4
Sophia Webster and Celia-Belle Mohr[4]Vanderbilt d. Liv Hovde and Shavit Kimchi, Duke 1-6, 6-3, 10-8
Reese Branmeier and Alanis Hamilton, North Carolina d. Grace Levelston and Kendall Kovick, BYU 6-3, 7-6(6)
Roisin Gilheany and Gloria Nahum[2]Oklahoma d. Anet Koskel and Carolina Gomez Alonso, Arkansas 6-0, 6-3
GENTLEMEN:
Mans Dahlberg and Dylan Dietrich, Virginia d. Benito Sánchez Martinez and Petar Jovanovic[1]Mississippi State 6-3, 7-6(3)
Aidan Kim and Bryce Nakashima[5-8] d, Karim Al-Amin and Onrej Horak, Middle Tennessee State 6-3, 4-6, 13-11
Tanapatt Nirundorn and Henry Jefferson, Florida, d. Isac Stromberg and Kai Milburn[3]Mississippi 6-3, 6-3
Max Stenzer and Sean Daryabeigi, South Carolina d. Ian Mayew and Kase Schinnerer, North Carolina 7-6(2), 6-4
Nikita Filin and Brandon Carpico, State of Ohio, d. Alex Chang and Alex Razeghi, Stanford 6-4, 6-4
Max Dahlin and Bjorn Swenson[4]Michigan d. Spencer Johnson and Emon van Loben Sels, UCLA 7-5, 4-6, 10-7
Aaron Sandler and Manfredi Graziani, Penn d. Cosme Rolland De Ravel and Albert Pedrico, TCU 6-4, 6-4
Andrew Delgado and DK Suresh[2]Wake Forest d. Zsombor Velcz and Connor Henry Van Schalkwyk, Baylor 7-6(5), 6-2
Reddy and Navneet Raghuram advanced to the doubles semi-finals with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Jack Dermeniyan and Mexico’s Valentino Arjona.
No. No. 4 seed Annika Penickova lost to No. 6 seed Renee Alame of Australia 6-2, 4-6, 6-2. Top seed Alena Kovackova of the Czech Republic was defeated today by No. 8 seed Maia Burcescu of Romania.
Eighteen-year-old Akasha Urhobo, the No. 5 seed, defeated Lara Smejkal (Florida Atlantic) of Slovenia 6-0, 6-4 and will face former Tennessee All-American Sofia Cabezas of Venezuela in the quarterfinals.
Other Americans advancing to the quarterfinals are No. 2 seed Victoria Hu (Princeton), who will play Kylie Collins (Texas, LSU, Oklahoma State), and No. 8 seed Rasheeda McAdoo (Georgia Tech), who will face No. 3 seed Francesca Pace of Italy.
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