ITA Regional Results | Midwest Open Results

ST. PETER, Minn. – Six Saint John's tennis student-athletes competed at the 2025 ITA Midwest Regional Championships and Gustavus Adolphus Midwest Open Sept. 26-27 in Mankato and St. Peter. 

Junior Alex Draeger (Litchfield, Minn.) and senior Taylor Duncan (Benson, Minn.) represented SJU in the singles competition of the ITA Midwest tournament, falling in straight sets on Friday. Draeger battled Wisconsin-Stevens Point's Dawson Froemming to a 6-3 and 6-4 loss, while Duncan fell 6-4 and 6-0 to Mateo Torre of St. Scholastica. 

Draeger and freshman Nam Tran (Shakopee, Minn./Eden Prairie) won their first-round match of ITA doubles, 8-5, over Bethel's Zack Chaffey and Watson Sheard. The tandem dropped their second-round bout to Jack Hehll and Ty Schneider of Wisconsin-La Crosse, seeded ninth in the tournament.

Tran advanced to the Midwest Open G semifinals, winning his first collegiate singles match by two scores of 6-4 over Dubuque's Tanner Laube. He defeated Wartburg's Kellen Jones 6-4 and 6-1 on Saturday and won set one of his next match 6-4 over Loras' Hayden Martin, but dropped set two 7-6 and the tiebreaker 10-6 to the eventual bracket champion.  

Fellow freshman Jack Gangl (Elk River, Minn.) won his first singles draw 6-1 and 6-1 but fell in the next round to Macalester's Ezra Mahoney, 6-2 and 6-0. Sophomore Andrew Eckmann (Eagan, Minn./Two Rivers) and freshman Henry Raiche (Maple Plain, Minn./Orono) each fell in their first round of Midwest Open singles on Friday.

Both Midwest Open doubles teams (Eckman/Raiche and Duncan/Gangl) lost their first match, 8-4.

The Johnnies return to action with the MIAC opener against Hamline on Saturday, Feb. 28, at Sta-Fit in Sartell.