Pittsburgh, Pa. – The Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League (WPIAL) announced its brackets for the WPIAL/UPMC Sports Medicine Boys’ Tennis Doubles Championships on Thursday, with 64 student-athletes qualifying through section tournaments held on April 15-16.
Student-athletes competed in four different sections in both Class 2A and Class 3A. The top four finishing student-athletes in each section earned qualification to the WPIAL Doubles Championships.
The Class 3A field features five past top-four finishers, highlighted by the reigning champions in Gateway senior Zidaan Hassan and junior Logan Memije. Hassan is seeking his third WPIAL doubles gold medal after winning in 2023 with Adam Memije. Upper St. Clair senior Ari Plutko finished runner-up in 2024 and third in 2023 with Ronan Gibbons as his partner, while Franklin Regional sophomore Colin Stalnaker took bronze last year with Dhruv Kulkarni. Fox Chapel senior Mason Friday placed fourth in 2023 with Cooper Friday.
In Class 2A, Montour junior Jonah Camardese captured gold last year with John Rohrkaste. The South Park junior duo of Jonah Jasek and Steven Duing were bronze medalists in 2023, while Valley senior Landon Harclerode placed fourth that year with Nicholas Bussard.
There are 11 student-athletes who are returning qualifiers in the Class 3A bracket, with the aforementioned five joined by Butler senior Andrew Bocci, Mt. Lebanon sophomore Luca Ritivoi, North Allegheny junior Adhav Ramadas and sophomore Shivum Telang, Peters Township senior Kritin Sharma, and Shady Side Academy senior Sai Chaudhry. Friday, Hassan, Memije, and Plutko will each be making their third appearances.
The Class 2A draw also has 11 returning student-athletes, with Camardese, Duing, Harclerode, and Jasek joined by Beaver senior Zack Masters, Blackhawk junior Ben Crefeld, Indiana senior Gabe Nettleton, Mt. Pleasant senior Ayden Gross, North Catholic senior Alex Lopez Foubert and junior Alex Weber, and Valley junior Tyler Quinn. Duing, Harclerode, and Weber are now three-time WPIAL qualifiers, while the duos of Harclerode and Quinn as well as Lopez Foubert and Weber competed together in last year’s tournament.
Class 3A saw the following section champions: Gateway’s Hassan and Memije (Section I), Fox Chapel’s Friday and freshman Frank Siegel (Section III), Mt. Lebanon’s Ritivoi and senior Mark Summers (Section IV), and North Allegheny’s Ramadas and senior Nick Scheuring (Section II). In Class 2A, the section champions were: Central Valley juniors Cody Clayton and Hunter Hazelwood (Section IV), North Catholic’s Weber and Lopez Foubert (Section IV), South Park’s Jasek and Duing (Section II), and Valley’s Harclerode and Quinn (Section I).
Last season, Gateway’s Hassan and Memije won Class 3A in three sets (4-6, 6-1, 6-4) over Upper St. Clair’s Plutko and Ronan Gibbons, while Montour’s Camardese teamed up with John Rohrkaste to defeat Sewickley Academy’s Jackson Quigley and Tejas Mitra, 7-5, 7-5.
The WPIAL/UPMC Sports Medicine Boys’ Tennis Doubles Championships will be held on April 22-23. The first round through semifinals will be held at Bethel Park High School and North Allegheny High School (Class 2A only) on Tuesday, April 22, and all finals and consolation finals will be held at Bethel Park on Wednesday, April 23. The top two finishers in Class 3A and top three finishing teams in Class 2A will move onto the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) Boys’ Tennis Doubles Championships, which will be held on May 23-24 at Hershey Racquet Club.
CHAMPIONSHIP CAPSULE
Dates & Locations: April 21-22 at Bethel Park High School, April 21 at North Allegheny High School (Class 2A)
Number of Qualifying Student-Athletes: 64
Class 3A Top Four Seeds: #1 Zidaan Hassan (12)/Logan Memije (11), Gateway; #2
Class 2A Top Four Seeds: #1 Jonah Jasek (11)/Steven Duing (11), South Park; #2
2024 Class 3A Final: Zidaan Hassan/Logan Memije (Gateway) def. Ari Plutko/Ronan Gibbons (Upper St. Clair), 4-6, 6-1, 6-4.
2024 Class 2A Final: John Rohrkaste/Jonah Camardese (Montour) def. Jackson Quigley/Tejas Mitra (Sewickley Academy), 7-5, 7-5.
BY THE NUMBERS
- 1945: The first season that the WPIAL held boys’ tennis doubles championships, which was won by Latrobe’s Ned Khory and George Gruble.
- 33: The number of schools who have boasted at least one WPIAL boys’ tennis doubles champion.
- 30: The number of student-athletes who have won two or more WPIAL boys’ tennis doubles championships.
- 22: The number of student-athletes in the 2025 fields that have previously qualified for the WPIAL Boys’ Tennis Doubles Championships.
- 13: The number of WPIAL boys’ tennis doubles championships won by Sewickley Academy student-athletes, a league record. The Panthers won in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.
- 4: The number of student-athletes who have won exactly three WPIAL boys’ tennis doubles championships. Mt. Lebanon duo Dan Hersh and John Nichols won together in 1998, 1999, and 2000, Sewickley Academy’s Will Kleeman won in 2011, 2012, and 2013, and Shady Side Academy’s Chris Grubbs claimed gold in 2012, 2013, and 2014. Gateway senior Zidaan Hassan could join that group with a win in 2025 after capturing the title in 2023 and 2024.
- 1: The number of student-athletes to win four WPIAL boys’ tennis doubles championships. Sewickley Academy’s Ryan Gex accomplished this perfect run from 2014 to 2017, winning with Luke Vith in 2014, then pairing with Don Gex in 2015 and 2016, before completing the four-peat with Neil Rana in 2017. Gex’s run highlighted a streak of nine consecutive seasons in which Sewickley Academy student-athletes won the WPIAL Boys’ Tennis Doubles Championships.
CLASS 3A SECTION CHAMPIONS
Section I: Zidaan Hassan (12)/Logan Memije (11), Gateway
Section II: Adhav Ramadas(11)/Nick Scheuring (12), North Allegheny
Section III: Mason Friday (12)/Frank Siegel (9), Fox Chapel
Section IV: Luca Ritivoi (10)/Mark Summers (12), Mt. Lebanon
CLASS 2A SECTION CHAMPIONS
Section I: Landon Harclerode (12)/Tyler Quinn (11), Valley
Section II: Jonah Jasek (11)/Steven Duing (11), South Park
Section III: Alex Weber (11)/Alex Lopez Foubert (12), North Catholic
Section IV: Cody Clayton (11)/Hunter Hazelwood (11), Central Valley
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