EDMOND, Okla. -- For the fourth straight season Washburn men's tennis claimed the ITA Central Region singles championship on Sunday morning with Kilian Martinez defeating Yuto Miyagawa in a battle of Ichabods.  

Kilian Martinez follows Pavlos Parson in 2025, Tim Hammes in 2024 and Sebastian Pjontek in 2023 as regional champions for Washburn. It secures him a spot in the first annual Division II Singles and Doubles Championships in Tuscaloosa, Ala. beginning Wednesday, Nov. 4. 

In the championship match Martinez led off the match with a 6-2 first-set victory. Miyagawa responded, taking the match to a third set with a 7-6(6) tiebreaker win in the second. Martinez took control early in the third set and went on to win 6-1. 

The duo then took the court as teammates in the finals of the doubles championship facing Yarin Aebi and Johannes Rittmannsberger of Ouachita Baptist. The Tigers duo won the opening set 6-2 and while the Washburn sophomores extended the second set to an extra game, they came up just short falling 7-5. 

Singles competition: 

F – Marginez, Kilian (WU) def. Miyagawa, Yuto (WU) 6-2, 6(6)-7, 6-1 

Doubles competition: 

F – Aebi, Yarin/Rittmannsberger, Johannes (OBU) def. Martinez, Kilian/Miyagawa, Yuto (WU) 6-2, 7-5