Flores and Bondar Play In Consolation Finals
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – University of Miami junior Jesse Flores and sophomore Kevin Bondar played in the consolation finals of their brackets on Sunday at the Ivy Plus Tournament in Princeton, N.J.
Flores, a transfer from UCF, battled Joshua Yablon from Princeton in the consolation final match of the Nassau bracket, but came up short, 6-3, 6-3. Bondar, from Calabasas, Calif., fell, 7-5, 7-5, to Dylan Brown of Cornell in the Whitman bracket’s consolation finals.
In another consolation match, sophomore Bernard Tefel was defeated by Afonso Salgado of Indiana, 6-4, 6-3.
The Canes are back in action this weekend in Ft. Myers, Fla., for the Bedford Cup – State of Florida Championships Sept. 25-27.
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Results – Sunday, Sept. 20
Nassau bracket consolation final: Joshua Yablon (Princeton) def. Jesse Flores (Miami) 6-3, 6-3
Whitman bracket consolation final: Dylan Brown (Cornell) def. Kevin Bondar (Miami), 7-5, 7-5
Afonso Salgado (Indiana) def. Bernard Tefel (Miami), 6-4, 6-3
Results – Saturday, Sept. 19
Jesse Flores (Miami) def. Mitchell Pritchard (Tulsa), 6-3, 6-3
Stefan Lugonjic (Indiana) def. Niclas Genovese (Miami), 6-1, 6-4
Pablo Alvarez (Buffalo) def. Bernard Tefel (Miami), 7-6(3), 6-2
Nile Clark (Miami) def. Theophile Lanthiez (Old Dominion) 6-2, 7-6(5)
Kevin Bondar (Miami) def. Ismael Lahlou (Penn) 6-4, 4-6, 10-7
Bernard Tefel / Kevin Bondar (Miami) def. Shawn Hadavi/Christopher Grant (Columbia), 8-2
Mohamed El Tonbari / Diego Vives (Princeton) def. Bernard Tefel / Kevin Bondar (Miami) 8-6
Jonathan Carcione/Alex Day (Princeton) def. Nile Clark/Jesse Flores (Miami), 8-6
Brian Yeung (Harvard) def. Nile Clark (Miami), 7-5, 6-0
Danny Rayl (Notre Dame) def. Niclas Genovese (Miami), 6-1, 7-5
Jesse Flores / Nile Clark (Miami) def. Old Dominion, 8-3
Results – Friday, Sept. 18
Diego Vives (Princeton) def. Jesse Flores (Miami) 6-2, 1-6, 6-2
Jesse Flores (Miami) def. Vim De Alwis (Penn), walkover
Kial Kaiser (Princeton) def. Bernard Tefel (Miami), 6-1, 7-5
Bernard Tefel (Miami) def. Dominic Bechard (Tulsa), 6-3, 6-7(5), 10-8
Aaron Sandberg (Brown) def. Nile Clark (Miami), 6-3, 6-3
Zach Lessen (Penn) def. Nile Clark (Miami), 6-2, 4-6, 10-4
Sergio Arevelillo (Buffalo) def. Niclas Genovese (Miami) 6-1, 6-1
Fedor Andrienko (Yale) def. Niclas Genovese (Miami), 6-4, 6-3
Alex Hagermoser (Yale) def. Kevin Bondar (Miami) 6-3, 6-1
Kevin Bondar (Miami) def. George Cartledge (Virginia Tech) 7-5, 6-3
Nick Bybel / Bryan Adams (Bucknell) def. Jesse Flores / Nile Clark (Miami) 8-3
Bernard Tefel / Kevin Bondar (Miami) def. Maverick Lin / Dylan Brown (Cornell) 8-6
