July 15, 2016

Soyuzivka hosts USCAK-East Tennis Tournament

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Roman Kramarchuk

Winners and finalists of the USCAK-East Tennis Tournament at Soyuzivka.

KERHONKSON, N.Y. – Unlike last year, when the rains forced postponements and some cancellations of play on the second day of the USCAK-East Tennis Tournament, this year’s tournament was blessed with beautiful although very hot weather.

Played on Soyuzivka’s tennis courts on June 25-26, the tournament was contested in nine playing groups with 31 participants from eight states. Many participants were also members of the staff and campers of Soyuzivka’s Tennis Camp held at the facility during the tournament.

In the men’s singles group, young Marko Gural from New York was the winner in the final, defeating Alexander Dale of Pennsylvania, 6-2, 6-2. In the semi-finals, Gural, in a grueling match, won over Bohdan Kucyna of New Jersey, 6-0, 3-6, 6-2; and Dale defeated Christopher Bula of Florida, 7-5, 6-4.

In a round-robin women’s singles competition, Molly Bis, of Michigan, was the winner with Ariadna Louer of Pennsylvania finishing second. Bis won over Louer, 6-4, 6-1, and Yana Skorobokatova of New York, 6-1, 6-4, while Louer in a three-set match overcame Skorobokatova, 5-7, 6-1, 6-1.

The men’s seniors competed in two age groups. In the younger M45 field, New Jerseyan Steve Sosiak in the final match bested Kucyna 1-6, 6-2, 7-6. In the semis, Kucyna beat George Petrykevych of Connecticut, 6-2, 6-3, and Sosiak won over Walter Dziwak of New Jersey, 6-0, 6-0.

In the older M65 senior group’s round-robin play, George Walchuk of New Jersey defeated Dziwak, 6-2,6-2, and Petrykevych, by the same score, with Petrykevych taking second place.

In the junior boys’ group, which was also the largest, Marko Gural became a two-time USCAK-East champion with a win in the finals over Danylo Sosiak, 6-1, 6-0. In the semi-finals, Gural bested Adam Bis of Michigan, and Sosiak beat Daniel Mazur of New Jersey.  Daniel Bula of Virginia won the consolation match over Max Melnyk of New Jersey, 6-1, 6-1.

Melania Kramarchuk of New Jersey became the girls’ champion with a 7-5, 6-0 win over Natalia Pavlyk of Maryland. In the previous round, Kramarchuk bested Daria Gural of New York, while Pavlyk defeated Natalia Bula of Virginia.

In the women’s doubles, a team of Molly Bis and Ariadna Louer won the division over Natalia Pavlyk and Yana Skorobokatova, 6-1, 6-1.

Pennsylvanian Don Kopach and New Yorker Roman Rakoczy repeated as the men’s doubles champions this year by winning over last year’s finalists, Sosiak and Walchuk, in a very long and very well played match, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2. In the semi-finals Kopach-Rakoczy defeated New Jerseyans Ivan Durbak and Dziwak, 6-1, 6-0, and Sosiak-Walchuk bested brothers Bohdan and Jurij Kucyna, the latter from California, 6-3, 6-3.

In the girls’ doubles, played in a round-robin format, the team of Natalia Bula and Melania Kramarchuk won the division. They defeated Elli Klim and Ksenia Lewyckyj, both cousins from Indiana, 6-3, 6-0, and Ivanna Voloshchak of New Jersey and Dianna Kozyniatkoof New York by the same score. Klim-Lewyckyj took second place in the division with a 7-5, 7-5 win over Voloshchak-Kozyniatko.

During the closing ceremonies on Sunday afternoon trophies funded by USCAK were presented to the winners and finalists by Ivan Durbak and George (Yurko) Sawchak, members of the USCAK Tennis Committee.

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