High School Tennis

Credit photo to PSAL/Damion Reid James Madison’s Omer Khalifa won the PSAL Boys Tennis Invitational Tournament in late April, beating Townsend Harris’ Justin Chen 6-3, 6-4 in the final. The play began with a round-robin style tournament where the players where split into four different groups with...Read more

Bard High School improved to 10-0 on the season on Monday, defeating the High School for Environmental Studies 5-0 in a key Manhattan B6 battle. Nathan Silverstein led the way for the Raports with a 10-1 win over Luis Liriano at first singles, while Gabriel Neuman won 19-8 over Matthew Wong at...Read more

The PSAL runner-ups from a year ago, Brooklyn Tech, improved to 6-0 on the season, notching a 5-0 win over Midwood on Thursday afternoon. Jonathan Glinsky remained perfect on the season, defeating Phillip Khoroshko 8-4 at second singles. Glinsky is now 4-0 on the year in singles. At first singles,...Read more

Wednesday afternoon played host to a small slate of high school matches in New York City, the biggest of which was Bronx Science taking on Stuyvesant in an inter-borough showdown in League A3. Bronx Science avenged a loss from earlier this season, taking down the Hitmen 5-0 to improve to 5-2 on the...Read more

McKee/Staten Island Tech improved to 3-0 on the season on Thursday, downing Staten Island foe Susan Wagner 4-1. In a match between two of the top singles players in New York City, Shawn Jackson of Susan Wagner beat Christopher Kolesnik 10-7 in the first singles spot, but it would turn out to be the...Read more

The Stuyvesant Hitmen moved to 4-1 on the season, knocking off the High School of American Studies 5-0 on Wednesday afternoon. Nicholas Pustilnik notched a 10-6 win over Lucas Suhl at first singles and Derek Lung won 10-3 over Jeremy Shemesh at second singles to lead the way for Stuyvesant. Michael...Read more

In a battle of two of New York City’s top teams on Wednesday, it was Beacon, the nine-time defending PSAL champions, who came out on top as the Blue Demons defeated Stuyvesant 5-0 to improve to 3-0 on the season. With Ethan Leon out, Marcos Lee stepped into the first singles role for Beacon and...Read more

The Benjamin Cardozo Judges improved to 3-0 on the spring season, handing Townsend Harris its first defeat with a 4-1 victory on Monday. Cardozo was led by its singles play as it notched wins in all three singles flights, anchored by Kay Yuminga’s 10-4 win over Maxin Prohorov in the top spot...Read more

The Engineers of Brooklyn Tech won its season opener on Thursday, shutting out Midwood for a 5-0 victory to begin its spring campaign. Last year’s runner-ups in the New York City championship match got big performances from its doubles tandems on Thursday. Alex Huynh and Jaysen Altman won 8-0 over...Read more

Townsend Harris won its season opening match on Wednesday afternoon, sweeping all give flights to notch a 5-0 win over its Queens foe Francis Lewis. The Hawks were led by Maxim Prohorov, who began his senior campaign with a 10-5 win over Jeremy Breland in the first singles spot. Aleksa Pljakic...Read more