Setting the Scene
\nWhat:\u00a0ITA Northeast Regional Championships
\nDates:\u00a0Thursday-Tuesday, Oct. 16-21\u00a0
\nWhere:\u00a0Princeton, N.J.<\/p>\n
DRAWS\/RESULTS<\/a><\/p>\n Bucknell at a Glance A Look Ahead
\n\u2022 Six Bison will be in action this week at the ITA Northeast Regional Championship, hosted by Princeton. The tournament gets underway with singles qualifying rounds on Thursday and continues through next Tuesday.
\n\u2022 The ITA Regionals serve as a qualifier to the NCAA Individual Championships. The two singles finalists and the doubles champions from each of the 13 regions will earn NCAA bids. The NCAA Individual Championships will be held in Lake Nona, Fla., Nov. 18-23.
\n\u2022 Bucknell’s top two player \u2013 No. 43 Amar Tahirovic<\/a> and Adam Stavrakas<\/a> \u2013 have earned byes into the main singles draw this week. Oscar Bain Moreno de Vega<\/a>, Liam Kilmer<\/a>, Brendan McDonald<\/a>, and Will Robinson<\/a> will all start out in the qualifying round on Thursday. Here are their first-round matchups:
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 Kilmer vs. Kyle Chesman (Penn State) \u2013 10 a.m.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 Robinson vs. David Lindsay (Penn State) \u2013 11:30 a.m.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 Bain vs. Promov Nemani (Temple) \u2013 11:30 a.m.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 McDonald vs. Lukas Cabue (Mercyhurst) \u2013 11:30 a.m.
\n\u2022 Doubles play starts on Friday with the main draw Round of 64. Bucknell will have all three doubles teams in action:
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 Bain\/Stavrakas vs. Kush Anand\/William Monahan (Villanova) \u2013 9:45 a.m.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 Tahirovic\/McDonald vs. Tom Sorin\/Severin Risan (NJIT) \u2013 10:30 a.m.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 Kilmer\/Robinson vs. Tobey Lock\/Euan Mackenzie (Delaware) \u2013 11:15 a.m.
\n\u2022 The Bison had eight players in action at the Richmond’s River City Open two weeks ago, and the squad combined for a 12-10 record in singles and 5-7 in doubles against good competition.
\n\u2022 Tahirovic and Stavrakas both went 3-0 in singles at Richmond, while Kilmer and McDonald went 2-1. Tahirovic and McDonald led the way in doubles, winning two of their three matches.
\n\u2022 Tahirovic and Stavrakas both competed at the ITA All-American Championships in Tulsa, Okla. Tahirovic earned a bye into the main draw and dropped two hard-fought matches to opponents from TCU and Baylor, the latter in three sets. Stavrakas started in the pre-qualifying round and fell to opponents from Florida and Wake Forest. The Bison tandem were the only two Patriot League players in the field.
\n\u2022 Bucknell returns virtually its entire roster from last year’s Patriot League championship team. The list of returnees is headlined by Tahirovic, the 2025 Patriot League Player of the Year and Scholar-Athlete of the Year, and Stavrakas, the Patriot League Tournament MVP and First Team All-PL honoree. Those two, along with Bain and McDonald, comprise one of the most accomplished senior classes in program history. That quartet has combined for 248 singles wins and 249 doubles wins over the last three years.
\n\u2022 Tahirovic is No. 43 in the ITA men’s singles rankings. He now has 86 career singles wins, second-most in team history behind Nick Bybel’s 112. Stavrakas ranks eighth with 65 wins, and Bain is 16th with 54.\u00a0
\n\u2022 Last year’s championship was Bucknell’s first since claiming the 1991 Patriot League title. That was the league’s inaugural season, and the men’s tennis championship was decided by an individually flighted tournament. The 2025 crown was the team’s first in the Patriot League’s team-format era, and the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament was the first in team history.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Next up for the Bison is the Patriot League qualifier for the ITA Conference Masters at Lehigh Oct. 24-26.
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