Boys Tennis 2025: Class AA crowns new champions, St. Paul Academy completes Class A sweep

Mounds View sophomore Soren Swenson acknowledged it was a "big goal." In fact, he said, it was "the main goal ... the only goal."

On Friday at Baseline Tennis Center on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis, Swenson could finally cross that goal off his list.

The No. 1 seed captured the Class AA Minnesota State High School League Boys Tennis State Tournament singles championship with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over No. 2 seed Aaron Beduhn of Wayzata, who finished runner-up for the second consecutive year.

Swenson beat Tarun Gopalakrishnan of Blake in the morning semifinals, 6-3, 6-1. His only three-set match in the tournament was a quarterfinal win over Minnetonka's Brody Barbeau.

Swenson and Beduhn met during the team tournament won by the Trojans earlier in the week, but that Wednesday morning match was an abbreviated 7-6 (1), 4-6, 10-5 victory for Beduhn with the team result already clinched. Swenson won their regular-season meeting, 6-3, 6-4, on April 16.

"I knew it was going to be a very tough match," Swenson said. "I knew one big thing I had to do really well was dictate with my forehand, specifically my forehand down the line."

His brother, Bjorn Swenson, won Class AA titles in 2021 and 2019. 

This stage did the opposite of rattle Soren.

"This facility is the best environment," Soren Swenson said. "When the bleachers are full with people, I love it so much. I love when there's a crowd getting hyped."

Mounds View took third in the team tournament and also had the fourth-place doubles team in Max Daigle and Anders Swenson.

The No. 2 doubles seed captured gold medals in Class AA. Orono's Anthony Perrill and Quinn Martini knocked off No. 1 Jacob Salisbury and Rishi Ranjith of Wayzata in the final, 6-2, 7-6 (1).

They're the second doubles state champions from Orono in four years, joining 2022 champs Matias Maule and Sam Skanse.

Perrill is a junior, Martini a senior.

They played a unique match in the semifinals earlier Friday, outlasting Daigle and Anders Swenson by a 6-0, 6-7 (10), 6-0 scoreline.

Eden Prairie's Varin Tangeti and Zayden Chau took third.

Class A

The post-match handshakes were more like warm hugs following the Class A doubles final at Reed Sweatt Tennis Center in Minneapolis.

St. Paul Academy teammates greeted each other with smiles at the net after they battled for another title at the end of a long week of tennis.

In the end, it was the No. 2 seed — Isaak Senaratna and Allan Wang — defeating the top seed of seniors Jacob Colton and Ben Macedo for gold, 6-3, 6-4.

Then, they all cheered on another teammate, ninth-grader Winston Arvidson, the No. 1 singles seed who earned that championship with a 6-1, 6-1 win over Evan Ritter of Rochester Lourdes.

On Wednesday, all five were part of the Spartans' fourth consecutive team championship.

Arvidson, last year's runner-up, dropped only five games throughout his four-match run to the singles title.

Minnehaha Academy's Joshua Cook defeated North Branch Area's Wyatt Helberg for third.

Senaratna and Wang had to rally to reach the final with a 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 victory over Cotter's Hamilton Brewer and Logan Granseth in Friday morning's semifinals. 

Brewer and Granseth fell to Andy Fink and Joseph Palen of Rochester Lourdes in the third-place match.