Manhattan High tennis stayed active with back-to-back meets early in the week, competing at the Topeka High Invitational on Monday, followed by the Emporia Invitational on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Across both events, the Indians picked up multiple bracket wins and continued to rotate lineups as the season moved toward postseason play.<\/p>\n
At the Topeka High Invitational, Manhattan competed in a 9-team field that included Topeka High, Topeka West, Bonner Springs, Derby, Wichita East, Wichita Southeast, Liberal, Junction City, and Gardner Edgerton.<\/p>\n
Jay Hoke once again led the way, going 5-0 to win the No. 1 singles bracket and improving his season record to 17-4. Henry He also had a steady day at No. 2 singles, finishing 3-2 and placing fifth.<\/p>\n
In doubles, Manhattan also used the opportunity to rotate in additional pairings, giving multiple players experience in competitive match play.<\/p>\n
Leonce Valentin and Ben Lee finished 2-3 to place sixth, while Henry Byerly and Jackson Peschel also went 2-3 and placed seventh.<\/p>\n
The next day at the Emporia Invitational, Manhattan finished third as a team while competing against Emporia, Mill Valley, St. Thomas Aquinas, Garden City, and Great Bend.<\/p>\n
Hoke continued his strong run with another 3-0 performance to win the No. 1 singles bracket, moving his season record to 20-4. Head coach Tony Ingram noted his consistency during this stretch.<\/p>\n
\u201cJay is playing well, and that\u2019s important this time of year,\u201d Ingram said.<\/p>\n
Eli White finished 1-3 and placed eighth in singles play.<\/p>\n
In doubles, Samuel Byerly and Henry He stepped into the lineup and went 2-1, earning a third-place finish. Ingram credited their adjustment and teamwork throughout the day.<\/p>\n
\u201cHenry filled in for doubles since Zac had a K-State presentation for one of his classes,\u201d Ingram said. \u201cI was impressed with Byerly and He\u2014they did some good things to finish third. It took Henry a few reps to get into doubles mode, but Samuel was a positive partner throughout. Their serve-and-volley game stood out\u2014Henry\u2019s serving and Samuel\u2019s finishing at the net with overheads and sharp volleys were effective.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luke Nichols and Ayavanth Natarajan also competed in doubles, finishing 2-2 and placing sixth after dropping a tight tiebreaker in their final match. Ingram noted continued growth from the pair.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey had a good day,\u201d he said. \u201cThey kept the ball in play, and even though they lost a tough one in a tiebreak, their skill set is improving with each experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Manhattan now turns its attention to league play on Monday at Kossover Tennis Center, where Topeka High will host the conference meet.<\/p>\n
Regionals follow on Saturday, May 9, also at Kossover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan High tennis stayed active with back-to-back meets early in the week, competing at the Topeka High Invitational…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[4029,75,84,83,9,24,63,67190,319,15547],"class_list":["post-214896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-ball-games","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-racket-sports","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}