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FAIRFAX, Va. – Current men’s tennis player Dan Sablik and former Phoenix standout Damon Gooch both had a great showing recently at the Asian Festival Scholarship Tennis Classic, hosted by George Mason University.
 
Sablik, a rising sophomore for the Phoenix, finished second overall in the men’s open doubles competition. Sablik and teammate Patrick Brick, a former player at Princeton, won four matches en route to the finals. Sablik and Brick won their first three matches in impressive fashion (8-1, 8-0, 8-1) on their way to a semifinals matchup with Gooch and Fred Mesmer. The current Phoenix player bested the former Elon standout, as Sablik and Brick claimed a hard-fought 8-6 win to reach the finals. But the two would drop the finals match (2-6, 6-3, 10-6) to Gustavo Loza and Mark Mozer.
 
Gooch had an outstanding performance in the men’s open singles competition. Gooch breezed through his first three matches, not surrendering more than three games in any of the matches. In the semifinals, Gooch squared off against Tobias Fanselow, a former number one player at Old Dominion University. Gooch won in three sets (7-5, 5-7, 10-5) to set up a finals match-up with former University of Virginia number one Michael Shabez.
 
Shabez, who ended his career at UVA ranked No. 2 nationally, claimed a 6-3 win in the first set of the finals, but Gooch stormed back to win the second in a tiebreaker, 7-6. The two battled back and forth in the third set, staying on serve until reaching a tiebreaker. Gooch pushed it to match point and led, 6-5, but Shabez came back to win 10-8 on a tiebreaker in the third set.