Rye’s boys tennis team is heating up at the right time.
The senior doubles duo of Filip Glitterstam and Lou Kim-Reuter advanced to the semifinals of the Section 1 tournament, earning a date with the defending state champions, Chris Cho and Pratik Nayak of Clarkstown South, before the match was postponed due to excessive temperatures. Play will resume at 6 p.m. Thursday at Harrison, with a spot in the section championship at stake.
The Garnets’ top doubles team earned all-section honors, along with senior Luke Gordon, who reached the quarterfinals of the singles bracket.
If the individual results are any indication, the Garnets (11-4) have a good shot at competing for the Section 1 title when team tournament play opens Saturday. Despite their record and recent success this week, Rye is seeded 11th in the Division I team bracket.
Rye was one of four schools in all of Section 1 to send multiple singles players into the round of 16, and had three doubles teams make the round of 16, tied for the most with Scarsdale.
Glitterstam and Kim-Reuter won 6-0, 6-0 in the first round, then 6-1, 6-1 in the second, and 6-1, 6-2 in the round of 16, rolling into the quarterfinals with ease. After winning the first set 6-0 against a team from Byram Hills, the Rye duo eked out a 7-5 win to make the semifinals.
In the singles bracket, Gordon rallied to beat Rye Neck’s Spencer Elliot in a second-round tiebreaker, 5-7, 6-1 (10-3), then defeated Mamaroneck’s Ryan Master in the round of 16, before falling to the tournament’s No. 1 seed, Scarsdale’s Jack Reis.
The other Garnets to make the round of 16 were sophomore Timothy Morell in singles, and doubles teams Philip Karajannis/Dylan Smailes and Marcos Becker/Xavier Morell.
