Men’s Tennis Wraps up Fall Season at Navy Invitational

Sunday, November 8

Annapolis, Md.

All Day

Bucknell University

Navy Invitational

Results

Photo by: Matt Durisko

11/8/2026 8:41:00 PM | Men's Tennis

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The Bucknell men's tennis team but a bow on the fall tournament season with a busy weekend of competitive matches at the Navy Invitational. Seven Bison played singles during the three-day tourney and combined for a 9-10 record, while four doubles tandems combined for a 7-5 mark.

Bucknell played matches against players from Navy, James Madison, and Binghamton, and freshman Jovan Morales was the star of the weekend with a 3-0 record in singles and a 2-1 ledger in doubles alongside Will Robinson. Morales won two of his three singles matches in a third-set super tiebreaker, outlasting Navy's James Thomson and James Madison's Harrison Lee. He also cruised to a 6-2, 6-2 win over Binghamton's Ionnia Sakkas, and he wrapped up the fall season with a 5-1 singles record and an 8-2 doubles record.

Long singles matches were a theme for the weekend with evenly matched competition. Nine of those matches went to a third set, and the Bison went 5-4 in those matches.

Nelson Alapi and Justin Yuan both went 2-1 in singles, and Morales/Robinson, Vlad Dombrovskyi/Enoch Lin, and Alapi/Tyler Bush all went 2-1 in doubles.

The Bison will now be off until the spring semester, when they open up the dual-match season on the road against Mount St. Mary's on Jan. 23.

Below are Bucknell's matches from the Navy Invitational.

Friday Singles
Liam Kilmer lost to Somei Ogata (Navy), 7-6 (7-4), 6-3
Tyler Bush def. George Cutone (Navy), 6-3, 3-6, 10-7
Vlad Dombrovskyi lost to Louis Anderson (Navy), 5-7, 6-1, 10-8
Will Robinson lost to Jason Kim (Navy), 6-2, 6-3
Nelson Alapi def. Jacob Jones (Navy), 6-3, 3-6, 10-4
Jovan Morales def. James Thomson (Navy), 5-7, 6-4, 10-7
Justin Yuan def. Daniel Seo (Navy), 6-3, 6-4

Friday Doubles
Vlad Dombrovskyi/Enoch Lin lost to Louis Anderson/George Cutone (Navy), 7-6 (7-2)
Jovan Morales/Will Robinson def. James Thomson/Somei Ogata (Navy), 6-2
Tyler Bush/Nelson Alapi def. Jacob Jones/Daniel Seo (Navy), 6-3
Justin Yuan/Liam Kilmer lost to Alberto Cutone/Brandon Tragord (Navy), 6-3

Saturday Singles
Liam Kilmer def. Filipe Costa (Bing), 2-6, 6-4, 10-7
Tyler Bush lost to Andre Ajed (Bing), 6-4, ret.
Vlad Dombrovskyi lost to Milan Icboyun (Bing), 5-7, 6-3, 11-9
Will Robinson lost to Zihe Liao (Bing), 6-2, 5-7, 10-7
Nelson Alapi lost to Radu Valentin Filipache (Bing), 6-3, 7-5
Jovan Morales def. Ionnis Sakkas (Bing), 6-2, 6-2
Justin Yuan def. Shashank Reddy Pennabadi (Bing), 6-2, 6-3

Liam Kilmer lost to Kaua Lopes Cressoni (JMU), 6-2, 6-1
Will Robinson lost to Aurelien Schmitt (JMU), 6-4, 6-7 (3-7), 10-5
Nelson Alapi def. Theodor Lorentzon (JMU), 6-4, 6-2
Jovan Morales def. Harrison Lee (JMU), 1-6, 7-6 (7-4), 10-6
Justin Yuan def. Damian Sancilio (JMU), 7-5, 6-3

Sunday Doubles
Vlad Dombrovskyi/Enoch Lin def. Filipe Costa/Zihe Liao (Bing), 6-4
Jovan Morales/Will Robinson def. Dylan Breen/Ioannis Sakkas (Bing), 6-3
Tyler Bush/Nelson Alapi lost to Radu Valentin Filipache/Andre Ajed (Bing), 7-5
Justin Yuan/Liam Kilmer def. Milan Icboyun/Shashank Reddy Pennabadi (Bing), 6-3

Vlad Dombrovskyi/Enoch Lin def. Aurelien Schmitt/Damian Sancilio (JMU), 6-4
Jovan Morales/Will Robinson lost to Ethan Boswell/Harrison Lee (JMU), 6-3
Tyler Bush/Nelson Alapi def. Theodor Lorentzon/Riccardo Ciulli (JMU), 6-4
Justin Yuan/Liam Kilmer lost to Zachary Fleishman/Kaua Lopes Cressoni (JMU), 6-3