Boys tennis: Section 1 doubles teams will play for the NYSPHSAA title
The Section 1 tennis team has had a successful NYSPHSAA tournament to this point.
Three of the four doubles teams advance to Sunday's finals at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows.
It will be an all Section 1 doubles final on Sunday beginning at 8:15 a.m.
Current Section 1 champion Elijah Johnson and Nicholas Peng of Edgemont will play Jason Wei and Matthew Wallis of Horace Greeley for the state championship.
"It's pretty cool," Johnson told the NYSPHSAA twitter Friday about being at the tournament. "Lots of us come here to watch the US Open and watch some of the greatest players. We hoped we could play here one day and it's happening now."
To advance, Peng and Johnson defeated Greeley's other doubles tandem Adam Fink and Benjamin Singer4-6, 6-3, 6-4. Wallis and Wei defeated the Ward Melville duo of Gabe Bursztyn Shashank Pennabodi in straight sets 7-5, 6-4.
The Byram Hills duo of Jesse Goldstein and Mihar Kumar in the fifth place match against the Friends Academy duo of Alistair Wright and Russell Notaris.
In singles, current Section 1 champion Callum Markowitz, Bronxville's Patrick Kenny, and Mamaroneck's Maxim Kalinin advanced to Sunday's final day of competition.
Kalinin will play Markowitz for fifth-place. Kenny will play Jericho's Ajar Sher for 7th place. Both matches will start at 8:15 a.m.
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This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: Boys tennis: Two Section 1 doubles teams to play for a state title.
