Pittsburgh, Pa. – The Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League (WPIAL) hosted its second of three 2025 boys’ tennis championships on Tuesday and Wednesday at the WPIAL/UPMC Sports Medicine Boys’ Tennis Doubles Championships. The first round through semifinal matches took place on Tuesday at both Bethel Park High School and North Allegheny High School, and the championship and consolation matches were held at Bethel Park on Wednesday. After two days of tennis, the Gateway duo of senior Zidaan Hassan and Logan Memije successfully defended their Class 3A title, while South Park juniors Jonah Jasek and Steven Duing captured the Class 2A crown.
 
Hassan and Memije make it three straight WPIAL boys’ tennis doubles championships for Gateway, with Hassan becoming the sixth different WPIAL student-athlete to win three gold medals in doubles competition. The senior won with this year’s WPIAL singles champion Adam Memije in 2023 before winning the last two with Logan Memije. Gateway now has four WPIAL doubles championships, which ties it for eighth all-time with Fox Chapel and Quaker Valley.
 
Jasek and Duing took home the Class 2A doubles gold, giving South Park its second title in five seasons. Joe Toth and Ethan Bowden won for the school in 2021, and with two titles the Eagles are now the 18th different WPIAL school with multiple doubles championships.
 
The top two finishers in Class 3A and top three finishers in Class 2A have qualified for the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) Boys’ Tennis Doubles Championships, which will be held on May 23-24 at Hershey Racquet Club.
 
CLASS 3A RECAP
Gateway senior Zidaan Hassan and junior Logan Memije defended their Class 3A doubles championship with a 6-4, 6-1 victory over Mt. Lebanon sophomore Luca Ritivoi and senior Mark Summers. Hassan and Memije entered as the top seed, and reached the final with victories against Butler senior Andrew Bocci and junior Ryan Conaway (10-1), Fox Chapel seniors Henry Stallings and Charlie Larsen (10-3), and Upper St. Clair seniors Ari Plutko and Shawn Khurana (6-7(5), 6-3, 6-2).
 
Ritivoi and Summers triumphed against Greater Latrobe senior Blaise Bukovac and sophomore Eli McKeever (10-1), North Allegheny sophomores Ronit Ginde and Shivum Telang (10-7), and Fox Chapel senior Mason Friday and freshman Frank Siegel (3-6, 6-3, 7-5) to qualify for the championship match.
 
In the third-place consolation match, Friday and Siegel topped Plutko and Khurana by a 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 scoreline.
 
Hassan and Memije’s victory marked the first time since 2019 that the same doubles pairing successfully defended its title. In that season, Shady Side Academy’s Naman Dua and Colin Gramley defeated Peters Township’s Connor Bruce and Elian Ascencio, 6-4, 6-3, in the final at Oxford Athletic Club after winning 6-4, 6-3 against Hampton’s Ben Ringeisen and Ted Donegan the year before.
 
As previously mentioned, Hassan is now 3-for-3 for gold medals at the WPIAL Boys’ Tennis Doubles Championships. Memije went 1-1 with Zack Meshanko in 2023 before teaming up with Hassan. Ritivoi went 1-1 last season with Paul Gorun, Friday placed fourth in 2023 with Cooper Friday, and Plutko was the 2024 runner-up and 2023 third-place finisher with Ronan Gibbons as his partner.
 
CLASS 2A RECAP
South Park juniors Jonah Jasek and Steven Duing took home the Class 2A doubles gold medals in comeback fashion, winning 6-7(4), 6-2, 6-4 against Valley senior Landon Harclerode and junior Tyler Quinn. Jasek and Duing were the top seed, and they made it to the championship match with wins over Greensburg Salem junior Silas Morris and sophomore Tommy Shrum (10-2), Beaver senior Zack Masters and sophomore Sean Perez (10-0), and Quaker Valley seniors Will Meagher and Matthew Henry (6-2, 6-1).
 
Harclerode and Quinn, the three seed, had their path to the final include victories against Seton LaSalle senior Vincent Chen and sophomore Collin Zhang (10-2), Mt. Pleasant senior Aydan Gross and freshman Austyn Gross (10-4), and Indiana seniors Gabe Nettleton and Michael Dubetsky (4-6, 6-1, 6-2).
 
In the third-place consolation match, Meagher and Henry topped Nettleton and Dubetsky, 1-6, 6-3, 6-3, to claim the final PIAA qualifier slot.
 
The three-set championship match was the first of its kind in Class 2A since 2014 when Sewickley Academy’s Ryan Gex and Luke Vith won 6-3, 4-6, 7-6(6) over Winchester Thurston’s Charlie Orr and Max Pollack.
 
Jasek and Duing were previously bronze medalists in 2023, with Duing having Brody Wojcik as his partner for the 2024 tournament. Harclerode placed fourth in 2023 with Nicholas Bussard and went 1-1 last year with Quinn.
 
PIAA PREVIEW
Dates & Location: May 23-24 at Hershey Racquet Club
Number of Champions from WPIAL: 28 (15 in Class 3A, 4 in Class 2A)
Class 3A Qualifiers: Zidaan Hassan (12)/Logan Memije (11), Gateway; Luca Ritivoi (10)/Mark Summers (12), Mt. Lebanon
          - Appearances: Hassan – 3rd (3rd w/ Memije in 2024, 3rd in 2023); Memije – 2nd (3rd w/ Hassan in 2024);
                                      Ritivoi – 1st; Summers – 1st
Class 2A Qualifiers: Jonah Jasek (11)/Steven Duing (11), South Park; Landon Harclerode (12)/Tyler Quinn (11), Valley; Will Meagher (12)/Matthew Henry (12), Quaker Valley
          - Appearances: Jasek – 2nd (0-1 w/ Duing in 2023); Duing – 2nd (0-1 w/ Jasek in 2023);
                                      Harclerode – 2nd (0-1 in 2023); Quinn – 1st; Meagher – 1st; Henry – 1st
Last Class 3A PIAA Champion from WPIAL: Connor Bruce/Elian Ascencio, Peters Township (2019)
Last Class 2A PIAA Champion from WPIAL: Will Nosito/Dylan Parda, Sewickley Academy (2018)
 
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