NEW YORK – Michigan State tennis freshman Ozan Baris and partner Nishesh Basavareddy captured the doubles title at the US Open Junior Championships Saturday, defeating Switzerland’s Dylan Dietrich and Bolivia’s Juan Carlos Prado Angelo, 6-1, 6-1.
Entering as the No. 8 seed, the pair began play on Wednesday, Sept. 7, topping Peru’s Gianluca Ballotta and the United States’ Jonah Braswell in straight sets, 6-1, 6-3. Baris and Basavareddy advanced to face Great Britain’s William Jansen and Patrick Brady, completing a comeback win in a super tiebreaker, 5-7, 7-5, 1-0 (6) on Thursday afternoon for a trip to the quarterfinals.
The pair upset No. 3 seed Martin Landaluce and Pedro Rodenas, 6-3, 7-6, in the quarterfinals before upsetting Peru’s No. 2 seed Gonzalo Bueno and Ignacio Buse of Peru, 6-0, 7-6, in the semifinals.
Baris and Basavareddy defeated Dietrich and Prado Angelo in straight sets on Friday afternoon for the victory. The pair becomes the first American doubles team to win the title since Elliot Spizzirri and Tyler Zink in 2019.
Both tabbed blue-chip recruits in the 2022 class, Baris and Basavareddy enter the 2022-23 season as two of the NCAA’s top newcomers. Basavareddy will play for Stanford beginning this fall.
Michigan State men’s tennis begins fall tournament play at next week’s Wildcat Invitational in Lexington, Ky. The three-day tournament runs from Friday, Sept. 16 to Sunday, Sept. 18.
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