Boys Tennis: 2022 Singles and Doubles Tournaments Finals preview

It all comes down to this. The last day of the boys tennis season has arrived with the final round for both the NJSIAA state singles and doubles tournaments. To get you ready before individual Champions for the season are crowned, check out the preview below.

Each match begins at 2:00 pm on Thursday at Mercer County Park in West Windsor.

4-Jack Wong, East Brunswick, Sr. vs. 5-8-Jonathan Gu, Princeton, Jr.

UTR Ratings: Wong, 10.95; Gu, 10.52

Tennis Recruiting Network:

• Wong: 4-star Recruit, No. 8 NJ (2022), no. 151 nationally
• Gu: 4-star Recruit, No. 4 in NJ (2023), no. 154 nationally

How they got here:

• Wong defeated Oscar Chu, Ranney, 6-0, 6-1, defeated Cameron Scarpati, Delbarton, 6-1, 6-1, defeated Siddarth Arudi, Hillsborough, 6-1, 6-1. defeated 5-8-Bradley Deeds, Hopewell Valley, 6-1, 6-0, defeated 1-Eric Li, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1.
• Gu defeated Caleb Park, Pingry, 6-0, 6-0, Tanay Patil, Rutgers Prep, 6-2, 6-2, defeated 9-16 Will Robinson, Delbarton, 6-4, 4-6, (10-7 ), defeated 17-32 Derrin Lerner, Cherry Hill East, 6-3, 6-3, defeated 5-8-Andrew Kotzen, 6-3, 6-2.

Head-to-head meetings (since 2013 according to UTR) – Wong, 1-0

• 2014: Wong over Gu, 6-2, 6-2

History: East Brunswick has had four singles Finalists with three wins in 1992 (Rob Chess), 2004 (Vivek Subramanian), and 2015 (Joshua Marchalik).

Jacob Leschly won for Princeton in 1984.

In their own words:

• Jobs not finished. Still need to focus. Jons a good player. Just have to play my game and well see what happens. Hope for the best. – Jack Wong
• I trained with Jack for a while. Im excited. Well have to see. Just have to rest up and get ready. – Jonathan Gu

Pick: Wong, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2

2-Ryan Val, So., and Nathan Bernadskii, So. East Brunswick vs. 9-14-Carson He, Sr., and Andrew Cui, Fr., East Brunswick

UTR Ratings (Doubles):

• Bernadskii 8.48 / Val 8.47
• Cui 8.27 / He 8.09

Tennis Recruiting Network:

• Val 2-star (No. 21 NJ, 439th nationally in 2024) / Bernadskii NR
• Cui 3-star (No. 15 NJ, 412th nationally in 2025) / He NR

How they got here:

• Bernadskii / Val defeated Andrew Becker / Vishan Vyas, Chatham, 6-1, 6-2, Davide Orlov / Rajvir Solanky, Dwight-Englewood, 6-1, 6-1, 5-8-Andrew Van Dusen / Roy Liu, West Windsor-Plainsboro South, 6-0, 4-6, (10-6), 9-14-Miles Kelly / Ryan Burns, Pingry 1, 6-3, 6-1.
• He / Cui defeated Yifan Guo / Taran Mehta, Freehold Borough, Anthony Reale / Hudson Bonetti, Delbarton 2, 6-1, 6-1, 5-8-Ryan Lee / Jason Boyd, Dwight-Englewood, 6-3, 6- 0, 9-14-Pradyun Kamaraju / Kabir Nagpal, Hillsborough 2, 6-1, 6-2, Nate Blum / Aviv Cohen, Pingry 2, 5-7, 6-3, 6-0.

In their own words:

• Nathan and Ryan are OK, I guess. Were just going to try and have fun out there. This is what we wanted when we saw the draw. We were on opposite sides, so this is the dream scenario. They definitely crushed us early on the year, but I think we’ve developed more as a team. – Carson He

Head-to-head meetings:

• Val and Bernadskii beat He and Cui in a challenge match, 6-3.

History: East Brunswick won the state doubles title in 2004 (Jay Kaplan / David Lui). It won both the singles and doubles Crowns in the same year that season.

Pick: Val / Bernadskii, 7-5, 6-1.

WEATHER FORECAST: Chance of rain in the morning. Cloudy with a high of 80-degrees with 10-15 MPH Winds.

Full results Day 1 | Day 2: Singles Doubles | Quarterfinals results | Semifinals results

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