State boys tennis: Rochester's Garland-Sutter, SHG's Harvey, Aleman bow out in 5th consolation round

PALATINE — Two singles players and one doubles team from the area ended their tournament run at the Illinois High School Association Class 2A-1A boys state tennis finals in the Chicago suburbs on Friday.

Rochester senior Paxton Garland-Sutter and the doubles team of Luke Harvey and Evan Aleman of Sacred Heart-Griffin lost in the fifth round of the consolation bracket in 1A and Springfield High senior Noah Williams was defeated in the consolation's fourth round in 2A.

The unseeded Garland-Sutter started Friday with a 4-6, 6-4, (10-4) upset win over 9-16 seed Yash Kaushik of Chicago Payton. Garland-Sutter was then beaten by Jacob Kim of Crystal Lake Prairie Ridge 6-1, 6-0 in his final match.

Harvey and Aleman — the Class 1A Sacred Heart-Griffin Sectional champs — knocked out Liam Kerbel and Alex Jenkin of Sycamore 6-2, 6-2 before ending the tournament with a 6-3, 6-4 loss to Jordan Beck and Eli Woodrome of Mascoutah.

Williams, the Central State Eight Conference singles champion and a second-place finisher at the O'Fallon Sectional, fell to unseeded Kabir Motwani of Hoffman Estates Conant 7-6, (4), 6-4.

Williams, playing as a 9-16 singles seed, reached the third round in the championship bracket on Thursday, but succumbed 7-5, 7-5 in a tough loss to No. 2 seed Andrew Spurck of Palatine Fremd.

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Williams lost just one game in his first two matches, beating Alex Sternowski of St. Charles East 6-0, 6-0 and then swept past West Aurora’s Josh Hartman 6-1, 6-0.

Harvey and Aleman needed a third-set tiebreaker to get out of the first round. They clipped Andrew Bollis and Daniel Santoy of LaSalle-Peru 6-1, 3-6, (10-5) in their first match.

The Cyclones' pair then defeated a familiar foe in Chase Boester and Yajath Narra of Normal U-High 7-6 (8), 6-1 in Round 2. Harvey and Aleman had beaten Boester and Narra in the semifinals of the Central State Eight Conference tournament on May 11, en route to a second-place finish.

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Harvey and Aleman battled, but lost their third-round match 6-4, 0-6, 6-4 to 3-4 seed Maurice Neuman and Adam Tang of Chicago University.

Garland-Sutter finished Thursday with a 3-1 record to advance to Friday's consolation’s fourth round at Wheeling.

Garland-Sutter won his first-round match 6-0, 6-0 over Beecher’s Zack Johnson, but 5-8 seed Ryan Nelson of LaGrange Park Nazareth Academy collected a 6-3, 6-1 win over Garland-Sutter.

Garland-Sutter produced two wins in the consolation bracket to stay alive. He defeated Lemont’s Ethan Bator 6-3, 6-1 and recorded a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Jordan Abbott of Glen Ellyn Glenbard South.

The Springfield doubles team of Krish Khurana and James Oh ended their Class 2A tournament on Thursday with a 2-2 mark.

The unseeded Khurana and Oh faced an early tough draw and were beaten by 5-8 seed Alex Dolipschi and Eli Stein of Oak Park River Forest 6-3, 6-1 in the first round.

The Springfield tandem bounced back with two wins in the consolation draw with a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Bloomington’s Abhi Kumar and Hayden King before recording a 6-2, 6-3 triumph over Luke Hogan and Zach Graham of Geneva.

Khurana and Oh’s tournament ended with a 6-2, 6-2 loss to unseeded Evan Gerbie and Mike Wasilewicz of Evanston Township in the consolation’s third round.

Chatham Glenwood’s tournament as a team ended when both of its singles players were eliminated in Class 2A on Thursday. Senior Ubaydah Mahmood, a third-place sectional finisher, lost his first-round match 6-0, 6-1 to 3-4 seed Alex Kotarski of Hinsdale Central.

Mahmood handled Lockport’s Ashton Plebanek 6-0, 6-2 in the first round of consolation play, and then fell to Chicago Kenwood’s Nhylan Westmoreland 6-2, 6-2 in his final match.

Glenwood sophomore Ben Loeffler, playing in his first state tournament, finished 0-2 in the singles draw. Loeffler was beaten by Nikhil Vijayakumar of Lincolnshire Stevenson 6-1, 6-1 in the first round and then lost to Will Geske of Huntley 6-1, 6-0 in the consolation draw.

Two more singles players from Class 1A concluded their state tournament run on Thursday.

SHG’s Adam Wheeling won a championship bracket match by beating Owen Helm of Freeport 6-1, 6-3 in the first round.

Wheeling then fell to a pair of 9-16 seeds. He lost to Kaushik 6-4, 6-3 in the second round to slip into consolation play, and his tournament ended with a 6-1, 6-1 loss to Benjamin Temple of Rockford Lutheran.

Jacksonville’s Christian Bonner won a consolation match and finished 1-2. Bonner lost his first-round match to Dunlap’s Timothy Liu 6-4, 6-2, but defeated Taehan Lee of Urbana University 6-3, 6-7 (4), (10-5) in a third-set tiebreak.

Isaac Street of Newton posted a 6-3, 6-3 win over Bonner in the consolation’s second round to end the senior’s tournament.

This article originally appeared on State Journal-Register: Boys state tennis results for Springfield area for 2024