Saratoga’s bid for a CCS title in tennis ended with a semifinal loss to No. 3 Bellarmine College Prep on May 11 at the Courtside Club in Los Gatos.

Bellarmine won at the No. 2 and No. 4 singles spots and swept the three doubles matches en route to a 5-2 victory. Senior No. 1 singles player Nikhil Jayashankar defeated Bellarmine’s Trevor James and freshman No. 3 singles player Kial Kaiser defeated Bellarmine’s Rohan Shankar in straight sets.
In the finals, Bellarmine lost 7-0 to No.1 seed Menlo.
Faced with the absence of No. 1 doubles player Roshan Sriram due conflicts with AP testing, the Falcons paired senior Sumant Sabada with sophomore Henry Shen at No. 1 doubles and sophomore Deepak Ravikumar with freshman Zach Hewlin at No. 2 doubles.
“It was a tough one, but no excuses,” head coach Tom Uyehara said. “We had our opportunities, especially in the No. 2 and No. 3 doubles matches that lost in three sets.”
The Falcons ended the season with an 18-6 record.
Senior No.1 singles player Nikhil Jayashankar finished with a record of 24-0, and will be playing in the singles tournament of CCS on May 24 and May 26 in Aptos.