The dual-match season gets underway in a few places this weekend while there are still a few more weeks of individual play at other schools.
BYU opens its season tonight at 5:30pm MST against Southern Utah and Washington opens up on Saturday with a doubleheader against Seattle. Washington will have live scoring and streaming video available at this link.
Florida Gulf Coast hosts the FGCU Invitational with players coming from #30 LSU, #45 Memphis, and Kentucky.
Central Florida hosts the UCF Spring Invitational with players coming from Florida A&M and The Citadel.
Florida State was the big winner at the Rainbow Warrior Invitational, which just finished up today, as the Seminoles went 33-8 in singles and doubles versus Hawaii and Nebraska. Florida State true freshman Aziz Dougas (13.36) and senior Michael Rinaldi (13.48) went a perfect 6-0. FSU’s #1 Benjamin Lock (14.18) didn’t play singles but he went 3-0 in doubles. Below are full results with comments from Nebraska’s Kerry McDermott (FSU & Hawaii’s recaps didn’t have any quotes)
Chris Schindler (NU) def. Kula Companion (UH), 6-4, 6-3
Rainbow Warrior Invitational – Day 2 – January 6, 2015
Singles Results:
Doubles Results:
Day 3 – “Much tougher today as the team only went 2-6 in singles and three of those matches were tough losses of three sets that didn’t go our way. Dusty beat a kid ranked 77th from Florida State in two straight sets and seemed to play better as the tournament went on from day to day. Marc Herrmann also played very well today and took down a very solid player from Hawaii to finish strong. As a team today, if we win a few of those three\-setters then it would have been a good day but we had a very good fight, and I feel like this team will only get better as the year goes on. We have some areas to improve upon such as return of serves and also attacking on short balls but not trying to go for the lines and trying to hit too big of a shot. We have a few weeks now to get ready for some indoor tennis and our anxious to play our first match ever on our new indoor courts!”
Day 1 – “It was a good first day of competition to start the year, as we went 6-2 overall in doubles and 5-3 in sinlges against Florida State and Hawaii. Toby and Dusty Boyer had a great doubles win, knocking off the No. 55 team in the country from Florida State by the score of 8-4. Overall a good performance, and I am looking forward to getting back at it tomorrow.”
There were a lot of college guys in action yesterday at the Los Angeles F1 Futures and a few guys are this weekend playing over in Australia/New Zealand.
In Los Angeles, USC freshman Jake DeVine (13.24) earned his first ATP point after upsetting Virginia junior Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (14.73) 6-4, 6-3. DeVine broke Kwiatkowski to go up 3-2 in the first and then held serve in an epic 6-deuce game to go up 4-2 (won’t see that in college). DeVine held from 40-30 in his next two service games to take the opening set 6-4. DeVine went ahead in the second set when he broke Kwiatkowski’s 1-1 service game and the only heat he’d feel the rest of the way came when he served up 4-3. Kwiatkowski had 3 break points to get the match back on serve but DeVine managed to fight each of them off and eventually held in a 4-deuce game to go up 5-3. DeVine then broke Kwiatkowski from 30-40 to close out the 6-4, 6-3 win.
Due to rain washing out play on Wednesday, DeVine had to come back out and play his second round match 3 hours later against an opponent, Philip Bester (14.47), that had been resting since his first round win on Tuesday. Despite the quick turnaround DeVine jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the opening set before Bester won 3 straight to even it at 3-3. The opening set would go to a tiebreak and after jumping out to a 3-1 lead DeVine would drop the next 6 point to lose the breaker 7-3. The second set stayed on serve until Bester broke from 15-40 to go up 5-3 and then the Canadian held to close out the 7-6(3), 6-3 win.
Virginia senior and defending NCAA singles champion Ryan Shane (14.93) won a pair of matches on Thursday to advance to the quarterfinals. Shane won his first round match over #357 Deiton Baughman (14.81) 7-5, 7-5 in a match where Shane hit 12 aces and 11 double faults. Shane broke Baughman’s 5-6 serve game in each set and was only broke once himself.
Shane didn’t have too much time to soak in the win because he had to get back on the court a few hours later to face recent USC graduate Yannick Hanfmann (14.67) who also won his first round match earlier in the day. Hanfmann took the early lead when he broke Shane at love to go up 2-1 and Yannick would ride that break lead to a 6-4 first set. Shane would get his first break of the match when he broke Hanfmann in a 1 deuce game to go 4-2 however Hanfmann would break right back from 30-40 and then hold from 40-30 to even it at 4-4. The second set would go to a tiebreak and after Shane fell behind an early mini-break he rallied to win 7 of the next 8 points to take it 7-2.
Shane’s momentum would carry over to the third set and he broke Hanfmann to take the early 1-0 lead. Shane fought off a break point in his next service game and then went on to hold 4 more times to finish off the 4-6, 7-6(2), 6-4 win. Next up in the quarters is Philip Bester (14.47)
USC senior Max de Vroome (13.97) ran into the same problem that his teammate Jake DeVine faced. Just a few hours after de Vroome won a grueling 6-2, 3-6, 7-6(3) match over UCLA’s Martin Redlicki (13.85) he had to come back out and play a well rested #351 Stefan Kozlov (14.66). De Vroome hung tough against Kozlov but came out on the wrong end of a 6-3, 6-3 result.
I couldn’t find the URL so I attached the email I got from Steve Pratt that has comments from Jake DeVine and Ryan Shane.
Other results from Los Angeles are below with college affiliation listed beside the player’s name.
1st Round:
#261 Tennys Sandgren (Tennessee ’11) def. #455 Michael Mmoh 7-5, 6-3
#1633 Tom Fawcett (Stanford Soph) def. #1896 Nicky Hu (Harvard Sr) 6-2, 6-4
#528 Sebastian Fanselow (Pepperdine ’13) def. #522 Eric Johnson (USC ’15) 6-1, 6-1
#414 Evan King (Michigan ’13) def. #371 Mackenzie McDonald (UCLA Jr) 6-3, 6-2
#302 Nick Meister (UCLA ’12) def. #617 Alexios Halebian 7-6(4), 7-5
#383 Gianluigi Quinzi def. #761 Gonzales Austin (Vanderbilt ’15) 7-6(3), 7-5
#1896 Max de Vroome (USC Sr) def. #1637 Martin Redlicki (UCLA Soph) 6-2, 3-6, 7-6(3)
#351 Stefan Kozlov def. #603 Jean-Yves Aubone (Florida State ’10) 6-0, 7-5
#730 Ryan Shane (Virginia Sr) def. #357 Deiton Baughman 7-5, 7-5
#660 Yannick Hanfmann (USC ’15) def. #2085 Robbie Bellamy (USC Jr) 6-1, 6-2
Jake DeVine (USC Fr) def. #1666 Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (UVA Jr) 6-4, 6-3
#303 Philip Bester def. Brandon Holt (’16 USC Commit) 6-4, 6-3
#468 Clay Thompson (UCLA ’14) def. #314 Eric Quigley (Kentucky ’12) 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-4
#646 Joe Salisbury (Memphis ’14) def. #1003 Shahin Khaledan 6-3, 6-4
#453 Ed Corrie (Texas ’11) def. #393 Ernesto Escobedo 7-6(3), 7-5
#621 Dennis Nevolo (Illinois ’12) def. #294 Nicolas Barrientos (West Florida ’08) 6-4, 7-6(3)
2nd Round:
#261 Tennys Sandgren (Tennessee ’11) def. #1633 Tom Fawcett (Stanford Soph) 6-3, 6-4
#528 Sebastian Fanselow (Pepperdine ’13) def. #414 Evan King (Michigan ’13) 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
#383 Gianluigi Quinzi def. #302 Nick Meister (UCLA ’12) 6-4, 6-4
#351 Stefan Kozlov def. #1896 Max de Vroome (USC Sr) 6-3, 6-3
#730 Ryan Shane (Virginia Sr) def. #660 Yannick Hanfmann (USC ’15) 4-6, 7-6(2), 6-4
#303 Philip Bester def. Jake DeVine (USC Fr) 7-6(3), 6-3
#468 Clay Thompson (UCLA ’14) def. #646 Joe Salisbury (Memphis ’14) 6-3, 6-3
#453 Ed Corrie (Texas ’11) def. #621 Dennis Nevolo (Illinois ’12) 4-6, 7-5, 6-4
Quarterfinals:
#261 Tennys Sandgren (Tennessee ’11) vs. #528 Sebastian Fanselow (Pepperdine ’13)
#730 Ryan Shane (Virginia Sr) vs. #303 Philip Bester
#468 Clay Thompson (UCLA ’14) vs. #453 Ed Corrie (Texas ’11)
Illinois sophomore Aleks Vukic (14.49) got a qualifying wild card into his hometown ATP 250 Apia International Sydney and will face #62 Sergiy Stakhovsky (15.25). This past week Vukic played in the $75K Happy Valley (Australia) Challenger and made it to the final round of qualies before falling to Andrew Whittington (14.25) 7-6(5), 6-2.
TCU sophomore Cameron Norrie (14.68) got a qualifying wild card in his native New Zealand at the ASB Classic in Auckland. Norrie will face Chung-Hyo Woo (12.70) in the opening round and if he wins that he’d face former Baylor Bear Benjamin Becker (15.17) in what would be the final round of qualies.
Zeke Clark (2016 Illinois Commit) is into the semifinals at the Grade 1 Coffee Bowl in Costa Rica where he will meet Cincinnati native JJ Wolf (Class of 17′) – Colette Lewis has been tracking this tournament all week so check out ZooTennis for more details/updates.
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