3 Hoosiers compete at tennis invite

This weekend marked the beginning of the fall season for the men’s tennis team. While three players were at the Polo Ralph Lauren All-American Tennis Championships in Tulsa, Okla., junior Peter Antons and freshmen Santiago Gruter and Jai Yoon traveled north for the Tom Fallon Invitational at Notre Dame.\nThe three Hoosiers compiled a singles record of 6-6 and a doubles record of 3-5 on the weekend.\nOn day one, Antons got off to a good start with a 6-4, 6-2 win over the Fighting Irish’s Patrick Callaghan, a highly touted freshman out of Iowa. Antons then lost to Alejandro Staub of Western Michigan, 7-5, 7-5. \nGruter lost to Notre Dame’s Brett Helgeson 6-0, 6-2 before rebounding against WMU’s Kevin Hayward in a third-set super-tiebreak. Yoon, meanwhile, lost both of his Friday singles matches. \nIn doubles action, Gruter and Yoon fell 8-4 against Iowa’s Reinoud Haal and Tommy McGeorge. Antons, meanwhile, paired up with Notre Dame’s Daniel Schafer and also lost to a Hawkeye pairing, 9-7.\nOn day two, Gruter and Antons began the day with wins over Ball State opponents, while Yoon fell in his second consecutive third-set super-tiebreak. Gruter and Antons lost a doubles match to Hayward and Casey Cullen of WMU, but won 8-6 against Daniel Vidal and Joe Vallee of Ball State. Yoon and Notre Dame’s Schafer lost 8-1 to a WMU doubles team.\nOn the final day of competition, Antons and Gruter brought their singles records to 3-1 with wins over Iowa opponents, while Yoon dropped to 0-4 with a loss to the Hawkeye’s Walker Grimes, 6-4, 6-3. Antons and Gruter ended the invitational with a strong 8-5 victory over Purdue’s doubles team of Griffin Nienberg and Eren Turkmenler, while Yoon got his lone win of the weekend, pairing up with Notre Dame’s Callaghan for an 8-5 victory.