BOYS TENNIS: Abington Heights and Wyoming Seminary teams earn gold medals in District 2 Doubles Championships

S. ABINGTON TWP. – It is never easy for Abington Heights boys’ tennis coach Art Comstock to have players opposing each other vying for a District 2 title and a trip to the state championship tournament.

No matter how many times he must sit through the scenario, which has become more common than one might think, it is agonizing.

On Thursday afternoon, however, Comstock had an extra burden to carry as he watched from the observation deck at Birchwood Racquet Club.

Abington Heights’ top-seeded doubles team of William Arp and Liam Farrell faced off against the brother team of Brady and Bryce Comstock, Coach Comstock’s sons, for the Class 3A gold.

Talent and competitive spirit were on full display. Both teams fought for every point, executed as a tandem, and showed massive bursts of emotion in an edge-of-your-seat showdown between four of the top tennis players in the district.

It only seemed fitting that the intense battle came down to a third-set tiebreaker. In the end, Arp and Farrell earned a hard-fought victory, 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 (2), to give Abington Heights a clean sweep of the team, singles, and doubles championships this postseason.

“There is a lot of pride involved, because both teams played phenomenal tennis, probably one of the best district doubles matches I’ve ever seen in all of my years coaching and playing tennis,” Coach Comstock said after comforting his sons and congratulating his champions. “It was really high-level tennis. Both teams were excellent all the way around.

“The only disservice is that only one team gets to go to states.”

In the Class 2A final contested on an opposite court, Wyoming Seminary’s pairing of Stefan Zecar and Dhru Sudhakar captured the gold, outlasting the top-seeded team of Alex Harrison and Ray Zhang of Holy Cross, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4.

“It was awesome,” said Zecar, who won his second straight district crown after teaming with Billy Hall to win in 2025. “Playing with Dhru, he is only a freshman, so this was great. We came back from down a set, and this is one of the greatest wins of my season.”

Both finals were entertaining and filled with momentum swings and drama.

In Class 3A, Arp and Farrell, the No. 1 seed, defeated Crestwood’s Sean Rossi, 6-0, 6-0, and the Comstock brothers beat Valley View’s Nick Burak and Billy Giovagnoli, 6-0, 6-1, to set up an all-Abington Heights doubles final for the fifth straight season.

The Comstock brothers gained the early upper hand, using their power to their advantage in a 5-7 victory.

Faced with the pressure to respond, Arp, the Comets’ No. 2 singles player for the last three seasons and a doubles champion two years ago when he teamed with Domenic Peters, and Farrell came back by executing at critical points in a 6-4 win to even the match.

The team of Arp and Farrell carried their confidence into the third and deciding set. They built a 5-2 lead.