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There are still 10 men’s head coaching jobs open and another 15 on the women’s side.
There weren’t many notable results from Wimbledon today due to the rain so here are the latest and greatest from the ITF Futures Circuit.
$25K Wichita, KS, USA F23 (Hard) – 11 of the 16 guys to advance to the second round have college ties with Minnesota rising junior Felix Corwin pulling off the biggest upset with a 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 win over ATP #255 Darian King. It was definitely an upset from a Universal Tennis rating standpoint with King a 14.79 and Corwin 13.17. Wichita State’s Haru Inoue got into the main draw with a wild card and thanked the organizers by picking up his first ATP point with a 6-2, 6-3 win over Iowa’s Eleftherios Theodorou.
Second Round
#1381 Emil Reinberg (Georgia Rising Soph) vs. [1] #202 Tommy Paul
[5] #252 Sekou Bangoura (Florida ’11) vs. #852 Reilly Opelka
#640 Cameron Norrie (TCU Rising Jr) vs. #1388 Felix Corwin (Minnesota Rising Jr)
[8] #450 Clay Thompson (UCLA ’14) vs. #862 Mico Santiago
#596 Jared Hiltzik (Illinois ’16) vs. [6] #344 Eric Quigley (Kentucky ’12)
[3] #268 Nicolas Meister (UCLA ’12) vs. #1057 Ryan Haviland (Stanford ’02)
Haru Inoue (Wichita St Rising Soph) vs. #499 Takanyi Garanganga
#1825 Dominik Koepfer (Tulane ’16) vs. [2] #239 Mitchell Krueger
$10K Pittsburgh, PA USA F22 (Clay) – 12 former/current collegians advanced to the second round. Former Virginia Tech Hokie Patrick Daciek was the only guy to knock off a seed after he beat the No. 6 seed Tigre Hank 0-6, 6-4, 6-1.
Second Round
[Q] #1825 Strong Kirchheimer (Northwestern Rising Sr) vs. [1] #336 Gavin Van Peperzeel
#873 Nathan Pasha (Georgia ’15) vs. [5] #527 Jose Statham
[Q] #2125 Dragos Ignat (Columbia ’16) vs. [4] #462 Adam El Mihdawy
#1096 Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (Virginia Rising Sr) vs. [8] #830 Cameron Silverman (Elon ’14)
#787 Winston Lin (Columbia ’15) vs. #923 Andrew Carter (Louisville ’12)
[3] #417 Connor Smith (Ohio State ’13) vs. [WC] #1260 Jeremy Efferding (Texas A&M ’15)
#994 Patrick Daciek (Virginia Tech ’12) vs. #1016 Raleigh Smith (Northwestern ’14)
[WC] #1945 Jonathan Ho (Wake Forest ’16) vs. [2] #451 Kaichi Uchida
$25K Kelowna, Canada, F4 (Hard) – Ray Sarmiento (USC ’14) picked up a huge 6-1, 6-4 win over the top seed #240 Ben Mitchell while NC State commit Alexis Galarneau picked up his second ATP point in the last two weeks with a 6-3, 6-3 win over #856 Daniel Cukierman.
Second Round
#560 Ray Sarmiento (USC ’14) vs. #1017 Chandril Sood
[Q] #2141 Riaan Du Toit (Central Florida ’13) vs. [7] #422 Filip Peliwo
#1641 Joshua Peck (North Carolina Commit) vs. [3] #311 Philip Bester
[Q] Raheel Manji (Indiana Rising Jr) vs. [8] #464 Sebastein Boltz
#869 Farris Gosea (Illinois ’15) vs. [4] #341 Peter Polansky
[2] #289 Jason Jung (Michigan ’12) vs. [WC] Alexis Galarneau (NC State Commit)
$25K Montauban, France, F12 (Clay) – #905 Florent Diep (Florida ’14) locked up his second quarterfinal of the year after defeating #291 Yasutaka Uchiyama 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. Next up #352 Caio Zampieri.
$10K Harare, Zimbabwe, F2 (Hard) – #1509 Mitchell Frank (Virginia ’15) has played three tournaments since returning from a lengthy injury and he’s now made the quarterfinals in each after defeating #982 Benjamin Lock (Florida State ’16) 2-6, 6-0, 6-1. Frank will meet #808 Michael Grant (USC ’14) after Grant defeated #1825 Timothy Dollman 7-6(2), 6-1. #928 John Lamble (Santa Clara ’14) is into his fourth quarterfinal of the year after a 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 win over #434 Hugo Nys. Lamble will meet #342 Nik Scholtz (Ole Miss ’15) after the former Rebel rolled over #875 Matias Franco Descotte 6-3, 6-4.
$25K Pardubice, Czech Republic, F4 (Clay) – #540 Petr Michnev (Hawaii Pacific ’14) is back into a Futures quarterfinal for the fifth time of the year after a 6-0, 7-6(3) win over #505 Marcelo Zormann. Next up is #413 Peter Torebko.
$10K Nieuwpoort, Belgium, F3 (Clay) – #534 Joran Vliegen (East Carolina ’14) is in the quarterfinals for the third week in a row after a 3-6, 7-6(2), 6-4 win over #1097 Jolan Cailleau (Texas Tech Rising Sr). #1042 Laurens Verboven (USC Rising Soph) will play his second round match tomorrow against #489 Omar Salman.
$10K Kamen, Germany, F5 (Clay) – #1518 Hendrik Jebens (San Diego State Rising Sr) and #619 Jonas Luetjen (Ole Miss ’13) won their opening round matches – Jebens will face the top seed #305 Marc Sieber while Luetjen meets #794 Gabor Borsos.
$10K Cali, Colombia, F3 Futures (Clay) – #551 Roberto Quiroz (USC ’15) ran his record to 18-4 over the last two months after defeating #582 Matias Zukas 6-7(4), 6-4, 6-2. Next up for Quiroz in the quarterfinals is #466 Christopher Diaz-Figueroa.
$10K Kazan, Russia, F2 Futures (Clay) – #797 Ronald Slobodchikov (SMU Rising Jr) is into his first quarterfinal of the year after routing #828 Fedor Chervyakov 6-1, 6-0. Next up is #777 Vitaly Kozyukov.
$10K Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, F13 (Hard) – #1707 Jarmere Jenkins (Virginia ’13) had to win one match to qualify for the main draw and then he moved on to the second round with a 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 win over #1164 Lukas Koncilia. #718 Javier Pulgar-Garcia (San Diego State ’12) and Alexandru Danes (Troy ’13) also advanced to the second round.
$10K Middelburg, Netherlands, F3 (Clay) – Jake Douglas (Washington Rising Jr) earned his first career ATP point with a 6-3, 6-7(6), 6-3 win over #1187 David Pel. Douglas nearly took out the top seed #283 Aleksandre Metreveli in the second round but fell 7-6(4) in the third.
Colin Foster was the runner up. He has done more with less for longer. Also he's a great guy that has never gotten his boss fired.
Does this mean that they will hire a mid-major coach on the men's side??
So who would you have gone with?
Oklahoma couldn't do better than Audra Cohen?
True, although I'd imagine it'd be much easier to get a player into UCF as opposed to Brown.
Good point
Why does everyone say 0 athletic scholarships for IVY league. It's actually unlimited scholarship based on need. So you could really have 20 scholarships. It's definatley not a disadvantage.
I'd say it's a step up especially since UCF will be linked with the USTA's new facility. Going from a program that gave 0 athletic scholarships to one with 8 too.
Bobby, Is moving from the Brown Men's head coach to the Central Florida Women's head coach a move up or down?
Someone made a comment under the YouTube tab above but I wasn't able to publish it due to a glitch so here it is<br /><br />"I will agree that Matt Lin's channel is definitely the best in terms of sheer amount of footage but his channel is unfortunately too focused on UCLA (not his fault, he happens to be a student there). I think in terms of the best channels for the overall college scene, you and J10S have the best channels."
Sounds like a couple of more dominos should fall in the next few days – Brown men's head coach Bryan Koniecko is expected to take the Central Florida women's job and North Florida women's coach Audra Cohen is expected to take the Oklahoma women's job.
I know I've seen several mid-major or lower division head coaches take a demotion to be an assistant at a bigger school – of course in those cases it's not really a demotion. I'm thinking there have been a few other instances but none are coming to mind at the moment.
Bobby Katie Dougherty of Iowa just resigned from her head coaching position to take an assistant position at the university of Maryland. Has anyone else ever taken a demotion like this on purpose before?