The Livingston High School boys’ varsity tennis team defeated Morristown in the North Jersey Tennis Sectional Quarterfinals on Tuesday, May 30, and then lost to Montclair in the North Jersey Semifinals on Thursday, June 1.
Morristown
Dhruv Anantaraman won first singles 6-1, 7-6 (9-7), Jake Einzig won second singles 6-2, 6-4, and Arjun Bansal won third singles 6-0, 6-1.
The first doubles of Jake Hershkin and Atiksh Kotikalapudi won 6-1, 6-2 and second doubles Holden Baris and Jacob Goldstein won 6-1, 7-5. Livingston won, 5-0.
Montclair
Montclair’s first singles Tylan Ozkuzy defeated Anantaraman 6-4, 4-6, 10-3; Rainen Solomom defeated Einzig 6-2, 7-5 at second singles; and during third singles, Trent Tauber defeated Bansal 6-2, 6-4.
Hershkin and Kotikalapudi won first doubles for Livingston, defeating Teddy Ogden and Max Kordenbaum, 6-2, 6-2. Montclair’s Jasper Spoor and Matt Vincenti defeated Baris and Goldstein 6-4, 6-1 at second doubles.
With a 4-1 win, Montclair defeated Livingston for the fourth time this season during Tuesday’s game and twice in the Super Essex Conference; during the Essex County Tennis Tournament; and during the North 1, Group 4 Sectional Tournament.
This weekend, Livingston tennis team members will be involved in the New Jersey Singles and Doubles Tournaments with Anantaraman in singles and Kotikalapudi and Hershkin in doubles.
