Men's Tennis Weekly Release

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Bulls Complete Fall Sked at Wicked Invitational

The University at Buffalo men’s tennis team completed the fall tournament portion of its schedule with the Cornell Wicked Invitational in Ithaca over the weekend. There was no team scoring in the event that featured five singles flights and two doubles flights.

Kalinin Wins Flight Title

Alex Kalinin

Sophomore Alex Kalinin won the D singles title with a 7-5, 7-5 win over Marcus Von Nordheim of Marist in Sunday’s championship match. He finished with a 4-0 record in the flight with a pair of his wins coming via super-tiebreakers. Kalinin opened play on Friday with a three-set victory over Cornell’s Jared Karson, winning the third-set super-tiebreaker, 10-5, after splitting the first two sets by identical 6-1 scores. Kalinin then rolled to a 6-2, 6-3 win over Sean Carr of Case Western to reach the semifinal round. He needed a rally to win his semifinal match over Binghamton’s Bastian Bornkessel. After dropping the opening set to Bornkessel, 6-2, Kalinin scored a 6-3 win in the second set to force the super-tiebreaker. In the breaker, Kalinin rolled into the finals by defeating Bornkessel, 10-3. Kalinin led the Bulls with eight singles wins during the fall campaign.

Kolomyts Faces Three Jeremys

Kirill Kolomyts

How common is one name today? In his three matches in the A flight, Kirill Kolomyts faced players named Jeremy in all three matches, winning two and reaching the semifinal round. Kolomyts opened with a 6-2, 6-0 over Navy’s Jeremy New. He then downed Jeremy Quiroz of Niagara, 6-2, 6-3. However, the third Jeremy, Cornell’s Jeremy Feldman, eliminated Kolomyts with a 6-3, 6-4 decision.

A Nickell’s Worth

Head coach Lee Nickell was happy with his team’s performance in Ithaca but said that there is still room for improvement. “I am very pleased with our overall performance this weekend,” said Nickell. “Alex made great strides closing out three tough matches and as always our team competed with great character and heart. We still have some things to iron out and we are excited to get better every day until spring.”