SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Six top-25 ranked teams from last season's end-of-year rankings descended upon the McCaffery-Wagman Tennis and Wellness Center over the weekend for the Skidmore Open.

• Four singles and four doubles draws made the event up as nearly 70 of the nation's top players competed against each other in the fourth-annual version of the tournament.
• In singles, Yuval Goodman and Nathan Dolgushev reached the semifinals of their respective draws, while Alton Swan was the winner of the backdraw of the "D" bracket.
• Three Skidmore doubles teams also earned match victories to wrap up a strong fall for the team.   

Singles Results

• In the singles "A" flight, Yuval Goodman won two matches to reach the semifinals. He worked an opening-round victory over Leon Liu of Williams in three sets, before defeating Middlebury's Noah Lewis in straight sets. He lost in three sets to eventual champion Cameron Zia of Bowdoin. The second set against Goodman was Zia's only dropped set of the weekend.
• Ege Topbas lost his round of 16 match in the top draw to Denison's Chika Nwaozuzu in a tight 11-9 third-set tiebreak.
• In the "B" singles flight, Radin Sadeghi defeated Swarthmore's Fate MacAlasdair 6-4, 6-4. In the quarterfinal, he came out on the wrong end of a 10-8 third set to Denison's Jackson Mactaggart.
• First-year Nathan Dolgushev reached the semis of the "C" flight thanks to a straight-set win over Nicholas Choo of Swarthmore followed by a three-set triumph over Christian Stubbeman from Bowdoin.
• In the consolation side of the "C" draw, Mahen Bitukri beat Wesleyan's Maxim Kauffman in straight sets before reaching the final thanks to a three-set triumph over Nikky Kondamuri of Middlebury. In the final match of the tournament, Bitkuri worked back from down a set to force a deciding third, but his opponent Thomas Jani of Wesleyan took the decider 12-10.
• Alton Swan came out on top of the "D" flight consolation bracket. He did it with a semifinal win over Wesleyan's Aidan Ronan (6-3, 6-3), and then outlasted Drew Gilbert of Bowdoin with a decisive 10-3 margin in the third set.    

Doubles Results

• Goodman and Sadeghi teamed up to defeat the team of Luke/Sun from Williams, 6-2, in the opening semifinal round of the "A" draw.
• In the "C" bracket, Bitkuri and Dolgushev also reached the semifinal thanks to a 6-4 in over Idnani/Koido (Denison).
• In the "D" flight, Bruce Lunder and Swan earned a 6-2 victory over Wesleyan's Hermes/Ronan. They went 1-2 overall.

UP NEXT

• ITA Regional runner-up Yuval Goodman, as well as Ege Topbas, will represent Skidmore in next weekend's ITA Cup in Georgia. It is the first time that Skidmore will send two singles players to the fall national championship.