Three Manhattan players remain after Day 1 of the KSHSAA state tennis tournament at Harmon Park Tennis Complex in Prairie Village.
Dan Harkin (27-1), the top seed in the singles tournament, beat s
Shawnee Mission East’s Gregor Wiedeman and Blue Valley-Northwest’s Brent Fallon to advance to the state semifinals.
Both opponents pushed Harkin harder than he was used to. Before Friday, Harkin had only lost four or more games in a match three times. But Wiedeman pushed Harkin to a 7-6 (7-5) tiebreaker in the first set before losing the second 6-0, and Fallon played Harkin tight in a pair of 6-4 losses.
Harkin will play Blue Valley-North’s CJ Smith, who lost just one of the 25 games he played on Friday, in the semifinals on Saturday. The winner of that match will play either Graham Faros from Shawnee Mission East or Akshath Poojari from Blue Valley-Northwest
Luke Craft and Kelton Poole (33-6), Manhattan’s top doubles team, spent Friday afternoon fighting their way through the losers’ bracket after their 6-0, 6-0 loss to Blue Valley-North’s Matthew Crossland and Eli Amsterdam.
From there, Craft and Poole won 18 straight games while beating Hutchinson’s Seth Allen and Will Jackson and Dodge City’s Erik Martinez and Christopher Velez. Blue Valley Northwest’s Jackson Marrs and Cameron Parrish await them in the next round, where a win would bring Craft and Poole within two wins of fifth place and a loss would drop them to the 11th-place match.
Dil Ranaweeera and Jackson Ivester didn’t last long enough to fight for a medal. After beating Allen and Jackson to start the day, Ranaweera and Ivester lost a third-set tiebreaker to Lawrence Free State’s Benjamin Melvin and George Thornton. Their day ended with a 9-7 loss to Olathe East’s Ryan Kempker and Sam Sweat.
The Indians’ No. 2 doubles team finished 21-11 on the season.
Jon Grove finished 27-12 out of the No. 2 doubles slot. Grove lost his opening match to Poojari in straight sets. And though he beat Free State’s Jared Loos during his first losers’ bracket match, Olathe North’s Samuel Amrith stopped Grove’s run with a 9-3 win in the next round.
Day 2 of the tournament will begin Saturday morning at around 9:30 a.m. Harkin is aiming to win Manhattan’s first singles title since Michael Center won in 1982.
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