STILLWATER, Okla. – The University of Notre Dame men’s tennis season came to an end in Stillwater, Oklahoma last Wednesday. The Fighting Irish were represented in the NCAA Individual Championships by a pair of players. Sophomore Sebastian Dominko and senior Jean-Marc Malkowski competed at host school Oklahoma State University.
Dominko was competing in the ITA Individual Singles Championships for the second year in a row. In the opening round, he defeated the #20 player in the country from Texas A&M 7-5, 7-6 (6). In this second round, he won the opening set 6-3, before dropping the next two 3-6, 4-6 to end his sophomore singles campaign.
In doubles, Dominko and Malkowski took on Hunter Heck and Karlis Ozolins from Illinois, the same duo that Dominko and partner Connor Fu played last year in the first round of the ITA Doubles Championships. Dominko and Malkowski dropped the match 6-4, 6-3 under the lights in Stillwater. But they entered the tournament seeded which secured their status as ITA All-Americans.
Notre Dame has had a player advance to the second round of the singles tournament for four consecutive years. Last year, Dominko won his opening match against Harvard to advance. The two years prior, Axel Nefve, won his first round contests and fell to the #1 seed each year. Notre Dame is one of only three schools to have had a player move on to round 2 in the singles tournament each of the last 4 years (TCU, Kentucky).