Nya Saunders, Nathan Ji and Aidan O’Brien each fell in the quarterfinal round of the Western Massachusetts Individual Tennis Tournament this weekend.
The tournament started May 13-14, and finished Saturday and Sunday at Longmeadow High School.
Saunders, of Amherst Regional, beat Mount Everett’s Madeline Von Ruden 6-1, 6-1 and Pope Francis’ Daniela Martinez-Duran 6-0, 6-0 to reach the quarters of the girls singles tournament.
Saunders lost to Ludlow’s Dominique Alves 6-2, 6-0.
In the boys singles tournament, Amherst’s Nathan Ji played three three-set matches. He beat Agawam’s Meesha Ohradke 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 and Northampton’s Jake Duggan 5-7, 6-0, 6-4 en route to the quarterfinals. Ji lost to eventual runner-up Tristan Viale of Westfield 6-2, 2-6, 6-2.
Aiden O’Brien, of Northampton, beat Minnechaug’s Matt Berg 6-2, 6-1 and Sabis’ Matt Wraga 6-2,6-0. He lost to East Longmadow’s Kabir Khurana 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 in the quarterfinals.
Duggan beat Holyoke’s Joseph Cavanaugh 6-3, 6-0 and Ryan Goncalves, of Ludlow, 6-3, 6-0 before falling to Li.
Belchertown’s Jon Vinagre, South Hadley’s Connor Barbacki, Amherst’s Patrick O’Connell and Amherst’s Austin Xiong each won one match in the tournament.
Frontier’s Celia Speth and Amherst’s Margaret O’Connell each won one match in the girls singles field.
In boys doubles, Northampton’s Asa Geller and Matt Skrzynski beat Erik Unger and Will Scott 6-0, 6-2, before falling to eventual runner-up Dan Moore and Ben Griffith Longmeadow 6-3, 6-0 in the quarterfinals.