Aidan Kim

They reached the third round of the US Open, and they went all the way to win the title in this tournament.

And the doubles finals also featured another Ohio State player, which was Aiden Kim and Bryce Nakashima.

And I'm interested with the pipeline that has been going on with Ohio State and doubles lately, especially with last week's Columbus Challenger, their home campus challenger, which Brandon and Nikita won the doubles titles.

And if we look at the winner's circle of that tournament, at least since 2023, some had Ohio State affiliations, like in 2023 with Robert Cash and James Trotter.

But Theo won this match, four-six, six-two, six-one.

The match that also felt like a Challenger Tour level match on their days.

And speaking of the men's finals, let's start with the all Ohio State men's doubles finals, where Brandon Carpico and Nikita Filin defeated Aiden Kim and Bryce Nakashima 6-2 retired.

Brandon and Nikita started perfectly from the net as they capitalized on Aiden and Bryce's previous errors with their working volley not only did create their break point, but also converted it to 2-0 after going after Bryce's cross-court forehands earlier on, then smoothly consolidating their position to 3-0.

You got 10 men on this list from nine different schools.

So we talked about Victor Markov of Clemson, Theo Papamilamos, Texas A&M, number four seed, our champion, Rodger Pascual of TCU, Dominik Mošič of Wake Forest, Nikita Filin of Ohio State, Aiden Kim of Ohio State, number three seed, who ends up qualifying through consolation.

You have Keegan Rice of Virginia, Nicolas Arseneault of Kentucky, and then Connor Van Schalkwyk of Baylor.

So Adam, we actually get some of the top seeds here.

We get number two, Keegan Rice.

We get number three, Aiden Kim.

We get number four, Theo Papamilamos.

Actually, three of our top four seeds, they all qualify.

But the rest was a tough call for me, I guess, because...

there were two other second Kingston challenger first round matches which first set were tiebreakers and the other player ended up turning it around such as the one between Juan Pablo Vicovic and Evan Chu and the other one was between Aiden Kim and Gareth Johns but this German generational clash in Augsburg between Max and Daniel received my last slot just because of how generational the premise looked like and how it ended up being a classic.

That week, the poll winner on Twitter was the semi-final match in the second Roehampton Challenger between Charles Broome and Oliver Darvitt.

moving on to the third week which was the first week of the us open i ended up nominating these four matches for the weekly poll the first one was the first round borto ctp challenger match between nicolas sanchez izquierdo and miguel damas the second one This one was another first round match in the third Lofty Challenger between Daniel Siniakov and Georgi Kravchenko.