On Friday, April 17, Villanova\u2019s men\u2019s tennis season and Big East tournament run came to an end, after the Wildcats fell, 4-0, to No. 1-seeded St. John\u2019s. <\/p>\n
St. John\u2019s (17-6, 5-0 Big East) had dominant performances in both doubles and singles play to secure the quarterfinals victory, ending the Wildcats\u2019 (5-16, 0-5 Big East) 2026 season.<\/p>\n
St. John\u2019s took an early lead in the match, earning the doubles point with wins on courts No. 1 and No. 2. The Red Storm earned a 6-1 victory at No. 2 doubles before securing the point with a 6-2 win on court one. <\/p>\n
Villanova picked up a strong result on No. 3, where the pairing of sophomores Jack Sherner and Quincy Jones earned a 6-3 victory, but it was not enough to bring Villanova back into the match.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were a good team and won the conference. Winning at No. 3 was great, both matches at No. 1 and 2 we were in it, but came up short with some deuce points. It was hard to climb back,\u201d head coach Brad Adams said.<\/p>\n
In singles play, the Red Storm surged on, continuing to dominate with three straight-set victories to clinch the match. At No. 1 singles, Radomir Tomic defeated senior Cooper Gordon 6-1, 6-0, while Semen Agynskyy followed at No. 3 with a 6-1, 6-0 win over junior Will Monahan. Venedikt Tsirikidze then sealed the run at No. 5 singles, beating junior Kush Anand 6-0, 6-3, securing St. John\u2019s 4-0 victory.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur approach to the point needs work,\u201d Adams emphasized regarding the team\u2019s performance. \u201cWe need more confidence in ourselves. We went into the deuce point a bit defensively, not taking a chance, and let our opponent dictate the point. I\u2019d rather lose playing offensively than defensively.\u201d <\/p>\n
Despite the final score, the Wildcats were persistent on the remaining courts. Junior Ethan Carr held a 7-5, 2-2 lead at No. 2 singles until St. John\u2019s clinched victory, and junior Thomas Wakefield and sophomore Cameron Kruep continued to fight before having to abandon their matches.<\/p>\n
Adams was able to take some positives out of the result.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur singles bright spot was Ethan winning his first set. Thomas and Cam were in good battles and showed toughness. They stepped up and played well,\u201d Adams said. <\/p>\n
With the loss, Villanova\u2019s season comes to a close. The defeat caps a difficult stretch against conference opponents and ends the Wildcat\u2019s run in the tournament.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a development year for sure,\u201d Adams said, reflecting on this season. \u201cFive guys will be seniors, and I think all the juniors have raised their game during their time here. If they keep the work ethic and mentality, we will find a match that will click and move on from there. We should go into it [our first matches] with more confidence and trust that we can compete at a high level against some of these ranked teams,\u201d Adams said, looking forward to the next year\u2019s season.<\/p>\n
Despite the setback, the program will look to carry forward the lessons learned from a challenging year as it resets and builds toward next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, April 17, Villanova\u2019s men\u2019s tennis season and Big East tournament run came to an end, after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-623510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}