Oklahoma filled one of its two openings on Thursday by announcing the hiring of Audra Cohen as its new women’s head coach. Cohen won a NCAA singles championship as a player at Miami in 2007 and spent the last five seasons in Jacksonville as the head coach at North Florida. Cohen’s North Florida teams won almost 75 percent of its matches in that five-year period and made four NCAA Tournament appearances. Here is the full release from Oklahoma on the hire and here is North Florida’s release as well.

Clemson head coach John Boetsch announced the hiring of Ryan Young as the Tigers new assistant coach. Young played at Clemson from 2004 to 2007 and spent the last three years in Columbia as Josh Goffi’s assistant coach at South Carolina.

Florida Atlantic announced it was going to be spending $800K on a new eight-court on-campus facility. FAU has been playing its home matches five miles away at Patch Reef Park while they’ve been using the six on-campus courts for practice.

Wimbledon (Grass)

John Isner (Georgia ’07) picked up a nice straight set win (7-6, 7-6, 6-3) over Marcos Baghdatis to move into the second round. The match was originally supposed to be played on Tuesday but it was pushed back two days due to rain. Isner will meet Australian qualifier Matthew Barton in he second round on Friday in the opening match of the day on court 18 (5 a.m. ET).

Steve Johnson (USC ’12) moved into the third round after a 6-1, 7-6, 6-3 win over France’s Jeremy Chardy. Johnson will face #37 Grigor Dimitrov on Friday morning in the third match scheduled on court 18.

Benjamin Becker (Baylor ’05) will have a tough second round match on Friday when he gets #9 Tomas Berdych in the opening match on court 3 (5 a.m. ET).

Dennis Novikov (UCLA ’13) suffered a tough 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 loss to #31 Joao Sousa.

$25K Wichita, KS, USA F23 (Hard) – Recent Tulane graduate Dominik Koepfer advanced to his second quarterfinal in as many weeks with a come from behind three-set win over the No. 2 seed Mitchell Krueger. Koepfer trailed 6-4, 5-1 but he held 40/15, broke from 15/40, held from 40/15, and then fought off a match point to break in a three deuce game to even it at 5-5. Koepfer went ahead 6-5 after holding from 40/30 then he broke Krueger for a third straight time from 15/40 to take the second set 7-5. There were no breaks of serve in the third set and Koepfer raced out to a 6-1 lead in the tiebreak and ended up taking it 7-3.

Second Round
[1] #202 Tommy Paul def. #1381 Emil Reinberg (Georgia Rising Soph) 7-5, 6-0
[5] #252 Sekou Bangoura (Florida ’11) def. #852 Reilly Opelka 7-6(4), 7-6(2)
#640 Cameron Norrie (TCU Rising Jr) def. #1388 Felix Corwin (Minnesota Rising Jr) 6-2, 6-3
[8] #450 Clay Thompson (UCLA ’14) def. #862 Mico Santiago 6-3, 3-6, 6-2
#596 Jared Hiltzik (Illinois ’16) def. [6] #344 Eric Quigley (Kentucky ’12) 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
#1057 Ryan Haviland (Stanford ’02) def. [3] #268 Nicolas Meister (UCLA ’12) 6-4, 7-6(2)
#499 Takanyi Garanganga def. Haru Inoue (Wichita St Rising Soph) 6-2, 6-2
#1825 Dominik Koepfer (Tulane ’16) def. [2] #239 Mitchell Krueger 4-6, 7-5, 7-6(3)

Quarterfinals
[5] #252 Sekou Bangoura (Florida ’11) vs. [1] #202 Tommy Paul
[8] #450 Clay Thompson (UCLA ’14) vs. #640 Cameron Norrie (TCU Rising Jr)
#596 Jared Hiltzik (Illinois ’16) vs. #1057 Ryan Haviland (Stanford ’02)
#1825 Dominik Koepfer (Tulane ’16) vs. #499 Takanyi Garanganga

$10K Pittsburgh, PA USA F22 (Clay)

Second Round
[1] #336 Gavin Van Peperzeel def. #1825 Strong Kirchheimer (Nwestern Rising Sr) 6-4, 5-7, 6-1
[5] #527 Jose Statham def. #873 Nathan Pasha (Georgia ’15) 6-1, 6-0
[4] #462 Adam El Mihdawy def. [Q] #2125 Dragos Ignat (Columbia ’16) 6-4, 6-3
#1096 Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (UVA Rising Sr) def. [8] #830 Cameron Silverman (Elon ’14) 6-0, 6-1
#787 Winston Lin (Columbia ’15) def. #923 Andrew Carter (Louisville ’12) 6-4, 6-2
[3] #417 Connor Smith (Ohio St ’13) def. [WC] #1260 Jeremy Efferding (TX A&M ’15) 7-5, 3-6, 6-3
#994 Patrick Daciek (Virginia Tech ’12) def. #1016 Raleigh Smith (Nwestern ’14) 6-3, 6-7(5), 7-5
[2] #451 Kaichi Uchida def. [WC] #1945 Jonathan Ho (Wake Forest ’16) 6-1, 3-6, 6-1

Quarterfinals
#1096 Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (UVA Rising Sr) vs. [4] #462 Adam El Mihdawy
[3] #417 Connor Smith (Ohio St ’13) vs. #787 Winston Lin (Columbia ’15)
#994 Patrick Daciek (Virginia Tech ’12) vs. [2] #451 Kaichi Uchida

$25K Kelowna, Canada, F4 (Hard)

Second Round
#560 Ray Sarmiento (USC ’14) def. #1017 Chandril Sood 6-1, 6-4
[Q] #2141 Riaan Du Toit (Central Florida ’13) def. [7] #422 Filip Peliwo 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
[3] #311 Philip Bester def. #1641 Joshua Peck (North Carolina Commit) 6-3, 6-2
[8] #464 Sebastein Boltz def. [Q] Raheel Manji (Indiana Rising Jr) 6-4, 6-0
[4] #341 Peter Polansky def. #869 Farris Gosea (Illinois ’15) 6-3, 6-2
[2] #289 Jason Jung (Michigan ’12) def. [WC] Alexis Galarneau (NC State Commit) 6-2, 6-1

Quarterfinals
#560 Ray Sarmiento (USC ’14) vs. [Q] #2141 Riaan Du Toit (Central Florida ’13)
[2] #289 Jason Jung (Michigan ’12) vs. #357 Blake Mott

$25K Montauban, France, F12 (Clay) – #905 Florent Diep (Florida ’14) won his second round match on Wednesday and will face #352 Caio Zampieri on Friday in the quarterfinals.

$10K Harare, Zimbabwe, F2 (Hard) – #1509 Mitchell Frank (Virginia ’15) advanced to his first semifinal since 2014 after defeating #808 Michael Grant (USC ’14) 6-3, 6-2.  #342 Nik Scholtz (Ole Miss ’15) is into the semifinals for the third time in his last four tournaments after rolling over #928 John Lamble (Santa Clara ’14) 6-0, 6-2. Scholtz will face #503 Marc Polmans in the one semifinal while Frank meets #315 Lloyd Harris in the other.

$25K Pardubice, Czech Republic, F4 (Clay) – #540 Petr Michnev’s (Hawaii Pacific ’14) road came to an end in the quarterfinals after a 6-2, 6-4 loss to #413 Peter Torebko.

$10K Nieuwpoort, Belgium, F3 (Clay) – #534 Joran Vliegen (East Carolina ’14) won his second round match on Wednesday and will meet the top seed #323 Filip Horansky on Friday.
#1042 Laurens Verboven (USC Rising Soph) was attempting to make a quarterfinal for the first time since last September but he came up just short in a 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 loss to #489 Omar Salman.

$10K Kamen, Germany, F5 (Clay) – #619 Jonas Luetjen (Ole Miss ’13) is into the quarterfinals for the third tournament in a row after a 6-4, 6-4 win over #794 Gabor Borsos. #1518 Hendrik Jebens (San Diego State Rising Sr) fell 6-4, 6-4 to the top seed #305 Marc Sieber.

$10K Cali, Colombia, F3 Futures (Clay) – #551 Roberto Quiroz (USC ’15) advanced to his fourth semifinal in his last five tournaments with a 6-4, 6-2 win over #466 Christopher Diaz-Figueroa. Next up is #557 Marcelo Barrios Vera.

$10K Kazan, Russia, F2 Futures (Clay) – #797 Ronald Slobodchikov (SMU Rising Jr) won a 2-6, 6-1, 7-6 thriller over #777 Vitaly Kozyukov to move into the semifinals where he’ll meet the top seed #421 Marc Giner.

$10K Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, F13 (Hard) – All three former college players got knocked out in the second round. #1707 Jarmere Jenkins (Virginia ’13) lost 6-1, 6-7(6), 6-2 to #295 Roberto Ortega-Olmedo, #718 Javier Pulgar-Garcia (San Diego State ’12) lost to #1252 Leny Mitjana 6-2, 6-0, and Alexandru Danes (Troy ’13) fell 7-6(4), 6-3 to #217 Aldin Setkic.