The field for the Ohio High School Athletic Association boys tennis state tournament is set and the local qualifiers will have play for state titles close to home at the Lindner Family Tennis Center on May 28 and 29.
The Lindner Family Tennis Center also hosted the district tournament for Southwest Ohio players on May 21 and 23, with the top four individuals or doubles teams qualifying in Divisions I and II.
Here are the boys tennis state qualifiers from Cincinnati.
Mason senior Greg Bernadsky, last season’s Division I singles state champion, won the 2026 district championship on his repeat quest. Bernadsky beat Loveland freshman Bode Zappin 6-2, 6-2 in the semifinals and met teammate Janek Teply, a sophomore in the finals.
Teply, who beat Tippecanoe senior Nick Von Krosigk in the semis, fell to Bernadsky 6-3, 6-3.
Von Krosigk finished in third after Zappin retired with an injury in the third-place match.
On the doubles side, it was an all-St. Xavier final.
Carson Dwyer and Nihal Narisetty swept the final 6-0, 6-0 against fellow Bombers Conor Lynch and Henry Brandt.
Jake Farquhar and Abi Dinesh of Sycamore, who lost to Dwyer and Narisetty in the semis, beat Mason’s Shreyas Mantha and Sean Fu 6-0, 6-4 in the third-place match.
Division I singles state qualifiers: 1. Greg Bernadsky (Mason), 2. Janek Teply (Mason), 3. Nick Von Krosigk (Tippecanoe), 4. Bode Zappin (Loveland).
Division I doubles state qualifiers: 1. Carson Dwyer/Nihal Narisetty (St. Xavier), 2. Conor Lynch/Henry Brandt (St. Xavier), 3. Jake Farquhar/Abi Dinesh (Sycamore), 4. Shreyas Mantha/Sean Fu (Mason).
In the sectional rounds, Indian Hill had the top three doubles teams coming out of the Lindner Center sectional. A round later in districts, those same pairs went 1-2-3 again.
Neelan Gandhi and Gareth Kurowski were the winners, beating Will Jordan and Vedant Buch 6-0, 6-0 in the championship round. Jeremy Starczynowski and Yousef Moussa (who lost to Gandhi and Kurowski in the semis), won the third-place match 6-4, 6-3 against Oakwood’s Oren Watson and Ronin Boehne.
In Division II singles, Summit Country Day senior beat Seven Hills senior Adi Nayak in the semifinals before dropping the championship to Alter’s Michael Shope 6-2, 6-4.
Nayak, who finished in fourth in the sectional round, opened with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Mariemont’s Paxton Lesseuer, who was a sectional champion. Nayak finished in fourth, falling to Milton-Union’s Levi Brumbaugh in the third-place match.
Division II singles state qualifiers: 1. Michael Shope (Alter), 2. Tyler Lammers (Summit Country Day), 3. Levi Brumbaugh (Milton-Union), 4. Adi Nayak (Seven Hills).
Division II doubles state qualifiers: 1. Neelan Gandhi/Gareth Kurowski (Indian Hill), 2. Will Jordan/Vedant Buch (Indian Hill), 3. Jeremy Starczynowski/Yousef Moussa (Indian Hill), 4. Oren Watson/Ronin Boehne (Oakwood).
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Mason, St. Xavier, Indian Hill players win boys tennis district titles
