Bulls Compete at Holmes Cathrall Invitational

Friday, October 3

University Park, PA

All Day

Penn State Invitational

Photo by: Paul Hokanson / UB Athletics

Bulls Compete at Holmes Cathrall Invitational

10/5/2025 2:56:00 PM | Men's Tennis

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA – Members of the University at Buffalo men's tennis team competed at the Holmes Cathrall Invitational this weekend. The event included players from Columbia, Cornell, Navy, Florida and the hosts, Penn State.

Friday morning started with the doubles competition where Emiliano Jorquera and Faiz Nasyam defeated Columbia 6-3 and then followed that up with a 6-2 win over Cornell. In singles action, Onder Balci picked up his first win in the blue and white with a 6-2, 6-3 win over Cornell's Jack Casciato, Jorquera defeated Columbia's Tristan Lee 6-4, 6-0 and Michael Malkin picked up a 6-2, 6-0 win over Penn State's Christos Glavas. In the white draw, Theodoros Mitsakos def. Reiya Hattori (PSU) 6-2, 7-5 and Minjae Kim took down Cornell's Petar Teodorovic 6-2, 6-0.

On Saturday, Jorquera and Nasyam picked up their third straight victory with a 6-1 win over the hosts and Mitsakos and Malkin also defeated a duo from Penn State 6-3. Jorquera continued his strong play in singles action as he cruised to a 6-2, 6-1 win over Cornell's Nathan Gold, Balci overcame a dropped second set to defeat Columbia's Junghee You 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (8-6), Nasyam picked up a pair of wins defeating Navy's Tommy Kim 6-4, 6-4 and Columbia's Lee 6-1, 6-2 and Malkin took down Columbia's You 6-2, 6-4.

Jorquera and Nasyam continued to roll in doubles on Sunday as they defeated Navy 6-3, while Kim and Balci took down the hosts 6-4. The Bulls then picked up two more wins in singles play as Nasyam defeated Penn State's Christos Glavas 6-2, 6-3 and Balci cruised to a 6-2, 6-0 victory over Penn State's Kyle Chesman.

Up next, Buffalo will return to action on Thursday, October 9 when they begin play at the ITA Regionals, held in New Haven, Connecticut.

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