Duke Travels to Columbia for Carolina Regional Championship

DURHAM, N.C. – Duke men's tennis hits the road for the 2026 ITA Carolina Regional Championship this weekend at the University of South Carolina.

The singles qualifying, singles main and doubles main draw each will include 64 entries. The qualifying draw will be on Thursday, with the singles and doubles main draws beginning on Friday.

Representing Duke this weekend in the main draw will be Yannick Alexandrescou, Dylan Long and Saahith Jayaraman. Jakub Smejcky and Sebastian Eie are slated to take part in the qualifying draw. Blue Devil doubles teams are Jayaraman and Alexandrescou as well as Long and Eie and Smejcky and Alexander Visser.

Eie and Smejcky earned No. 9 seeds in the qualifying draw while the duo of Alexandrescou and Jayaraman are a No. 9 seed in doubles.

Singles Qualifying Draw

Round of 64

[9] Sebastian Eie (Duke) vs. Jack DiMenna (Charlotte)
[9] Jakub Smejcky (Duke) vs. Yonatan Sagiv (North Carolina A&T)

Doubles Draw

Round of 64

[9] Yannick Alexandrescou / Saahith Jayaraman (Duke) vs. Jan Montero Diaz (Queens)
Dylan Long / Sebastian Eie (Duke) vs. [9] William Dean / Jordi Domenech (UNC Wilmington)
Jakub Smejcky / Alexander Visser (Duke) vs. Jakub Solarski / Jacob Rouleau-Mailly (College of Charleston)

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