\n By: Jordan Modjeski, SJU Assistant Director of Athletic Communications
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ITA Regional Results<\/a> | Midwest Open Results<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n ST. PETER, Minn. \u2013 Ten Saint John’s tennis student-athletes competed at the 2026 ITA Midwest Regional Championships and Gustavus Adolphus Midwest Open Oct. 2-3 in Mankato and St. Peter. \u00a0<\/p>\n Senior Sam Wolden<\/a> (St. Louis Park, Minn.) and freshman Anthony Perrill<\/a> (Orono, Minn.) represented SJU in the ITA singles competition, with Perrill seeded 17th in his first weekend of collegiate tennis. Perrill won his first set 6-4, but was downed 7-5 and 10-7 in the tiebreaker to St. Scholastica’s Dane Patten in the first round. \u00a0<\/p>\n Wolden defeated Ulrik Gellein of Carroll (Wis.) 7-6 and 6-2 to advance to Friday’s second round. He dropped his second match in a tiebreaker, winning set one 6-3 before falling 6-0 in set two and 15-13 in the breaker. \u00a0<\/p>\n Perrill and Wolden just missed the quarterfinals in the doubles competition after winning their first two rounds. The duo, playing their first official match together as a doubles team, won 8-2 over UW-Whitewater’s pair of Obrachta and Smigel. They defeated Wisconsin-Stevens Point in the second round 8-3 before falling to Benvenutti and Pirri of Luther (Iowa).\u00a0<\/p>\n Sophomore Nam Tran<\/a> (Shakopee, Minn.\/Eden Prairie) and freshman Eli Woidyla<\/a> (Brandon, S.D.\/Brandon Valley) also qualified for the ITA doubles competition where they fell to Bethany Lutheran’s Barton and Jones, 8-5. \u00a0<\/p>\n Woidyla advanced to the quarterfinals of the Midwest Open B singles, cruising past opponents from Loras (Iowa), Coe (Iowa) and Grinnell (Iowa) in two sets before falling to Wisconsin-Eau Claire’s Sam Murrillo by scores of 6-1 and 6-3.\u00a0<\/p>\n Freshman Djordje Sopko<\/a> (Novi Becej, Serbia Gimnazija Becej) defeated Loras’ Sam Canas in two sets (6-1, 6-3) before falling to BLC’s Carballero in a 10-8 tiebreaker. Freshman Lincoln Dille<\/a> (Litchfield, Minn.\/Laurel Spring School) defeated a player from Dubuque by two scores of 6-4 before dropping another tiebreaker for the Johnnies to Brett Cillessen of Simpson (Iowa). \u00a0<\/p>\n