SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The Bobby Bayliss Hidden Dual tournament wrapped up Sunday afternoon inside the Eck Tennis Pavilion due to the rain. After three days of competition against some top competition in the country, the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish men’s tennis team walked away with thirteen wins.
Sebastian Dominko, a freshman from Maribor, Slovenia, competing in his first-ever collegiate tournament made an immediate impact in a Notre Dame uniform. He went 3-0 in singles play and took out two top-20 ranked players in the country without dropping a set. On Friday, he won his first collegiate singles match against #10 ranked Alex Kotzen of Columbia 6-4, 6-4. He followed up on Saturday with a 6-3, 7-5 win over Enzo Aguiard of Alabama before taking out #17 ranked Ondrej Styler of Michigan 6-3, 6-2 to end the weekend.
Two Irish doubles teams won two of their three matches this weekend. Senior Matthew Halpin paired with freshman Evan Lee to pick up wins over Alabama and Michigan at the #2 doubles slot. Senior Connor Fu partnered with sophomore Yu Zhang to get their two wins at the #3 position against Columbia on day one and then Michigan on the final day.
Sophomore Jameson Corsillo picked up an opening day win against Alex Zederebauer of Michigan in straight sets and tallied another win against his teammate Evan Lee in a three set battle on day two. He concluded the weekend with a close loss in a tightly contested three setter to Patorn Hanchaikul of Michigan.
Other singles winners on the weekend included Brian Bilsey and Zhang while the team of Bilsey and Noah Becker also picked up a doubles win.
Next Up:
This coming weekend, the Notre Dame men’s team will split up and head in different directions for two events. Five players for the Irish will head to Tulsa for the ITA All-American Championships. Zhang, Dominko, Matthew Che and Connor Fu will begin their campaigns in the pre-qualifying draw while Aditya Vashistha was selected into the qualifying draw.
Six other players will head north to East Lansing where they will compete in the Drobac-Beeman Invitiational. Braeden Ho, Halpin, Bilsey, Corsillo, Lee and Becker will compete in a mini-dual format tournament where they and a teammate will play one doubles and one singles against another pair. The team that wins two of the three matches will advance in the tournament.
All-Tournament Team:
Sebastian Dominko, Notre Dame
Andrew Fenty, Michigan
Roan Jones, Alabama
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