#474 Mikelis Libietis (Tennessee ’15) won his tenth straight match and second straight Futures after defeating #1626 Alberto Brizzi 7-6(6), 7-6(6) in the finals of the $10K Futures in Parnu, Estonia. Libietis broke Brizzi to start the match and then held in a four-deuce game to go ahead 2-0. Brizzi took the next four games to open up a 4-2 lead but Libietis took the next two to even it at 4-4. It stayed on serve until the tiebreak and then Libietis won the pivotal 6-6 point on Brizzi’s serve and then took the next point to take the opening set tiebreak 8-6. The second set started with six straight holds then Brizzi broke from 15/40 to go up 4-3. Libietis broke back at love to even it at 4-4 and then it was all holds until the tiebreak. Libietis led 6-3 in the tiebreak but Brizzi fought off three match points (two on his own serve and one on Libietis’s serve) to even it at 6-6. Libietis took the last two points to close out the title.
Alberto Barroso Campos (South Florida Rising Soph) won his first career pro doubles title when he and Pedro Martinez Portero defeated Francesc Aulina and Juan Lizariturry 6-4, 6-1 in the finals of the $10K Futures in Xativa, Spain. Coincidently Barroso Campos’s singles run came to an end when he lost to Martinez Portero in the quarterfinals.
#333 Tennys Sandgren (Tennessee ’11) advanced to the finals at the $25K Futures in Edwardsville, Illinois, by defeating last year’s champion #352 Evan King (Michigan ’13) 6-4, 6-7(9), 6-3. It was Sandgren’s ninth straight win and he will go for No. 10 on Sunday in the finals against #421 Marc Polmans.
#963 Rishab Agarwal (Mississippi State Rising Sr) advanced to his first career final with a 6-1, 6-4 win over #1020 Renta Tokuda at the $10K Futures in Thu Dau Mot City, Vietnam. Agarwal goes for the title at 11 p.m. eastern Saturday night when he faces the top seed #439 Seong-Chen Hong.
Victor Vlad Cornea (Middle Tenn State ’14/Texas Tech /15) won his eighth pro doubles title as he and Victor-Mugurel Anagnastopol defeated Ronan Joncour and Vladyslav Manafov 6-4, 6-2 in the finals of the $10K Futures in Cluj Napoca, Romania.
#799 Aziz Dougaz (Florida State Rising Soph) came up short in his first career singles final falling 6-3, 6-3 to qualifier Reda El Amrani at the $10K Futures in Nador, Morocco. Dougaz led 3-1 in the first set but El Amrani took the next five to take it 6-3. Dougaz fell behind 3-0 in the second set but he took the next three to even it at 3-3. El Amrani held for 4-3 and then broke in a one-deuce game to go ahead 5-3. Dougaz had a break point to get it back on serve but El Amrani held in a four-deuce game to seal the victory.
The weekend wasn’t a total loss for Dougaz because he and Skander Mansouri (Wake Forest Rising Jr) won the doubles title with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Alejandro Garcia Saez and Daniel Monedero-Gonzalez. It was Dougaz’s second career pro doubles title and Mansouri’s third.
Sebastian Bader (Hawaii Pacific ’11) won his seventh career pro doubles title as he and Goncalo Oliveira defeated Lenny Hampel and David Pichler 7-5, 6-3 at the $10K Futures in Wels, Austria.
Sander Gille (East Tennessee ’12) and Joran Vliegen (East Carolina ’14) won their 17th doubles title as a team after a 6-7(4), 6-3, 1-0 (4) win over Michael Geerts and Jeroen Vanneste in the finals of the $10K Futures in Duinbergen, Belgium.
Both #766 Ronit Yurovsky (Michigan ’16) and #1058 Josie Kuhlman (Florida Rising Jr) lost their semifinals matches on Saturday at the ITF $10K in Austin, Texas. Yurovsky lost to #345 Marcela Zacarias 6-1, 6-3 while Kuhlman fell to #686 Ashley Kratzer 6-2, 6-3.
The doubles final in Austin was an all-college affair as Lorraine Guillermo (Pepperdine ’15) and Catherine Harrison (UCLA ’16) defeated Madison Harrison (Mississippi State Rising Jr) and Stephanie Nauta (Virginia ’16) 6-3, 6-3. It was the second career doubles title for both Guillermo and Harrison but first as a team.
Georgia rising junior Ellen Perez won a pro doubles title for the fourth tournament in a row after she and Sally Peers defeated Deborah Kerfs and Chiara Scholl 6-2, 6-2 at the ITF $10K in Maaseik, Belgium – all four of those titles have come with different doubles partner.
#255 Jamie Loeb (North Carolina ’15) lost to #234 Arina Rodionova 7-6(1), 6-1 in the semifinals at the ITF $50K in Lexington, Kentucky.
Melissa Kopinski (Illinois ’15) and Quinn Gleason (Notre Dame ’16) made it to back-to-back doubles finals at ITF $10Ks in Targu Jiu, Romania, but lost both in third set supertiebreaks. This week they fell to Alexandra Perper and Anastasia Vdovenco 1-6, 6-2, 1-0 (8) while the week prior they fell to Rosca and Tararus 4-6, 6-4, 1-0 (8).
#1398 Benjamin Hannestad (South Florida commit) came up short against #610 Jonny O’Mara in the semifinals of the $10K Futures in Castelo Branco, Portugal. Hannestad got broke to start both the first and second sets and never led in the 6-4, 6-4 loss. He did make a late charge in the second set by coming back from 5-1 down to pull within 5-4 but O’Mara served it out from 40/15 to win it.
Nik Scholtz (Ole Miss ’15) and Tucker Vorster (Ole Miss ’11) were seeking their seventh doubles title as a team and first at the Challenger level but they came up falling to Luke Saville and Jordan Thompson 6-2, 7-5 at the $50K Challenger in Lexington, Kentucky.
Andre Begemann (Pepperdine ’08) was seeking his first doubles title since 2014 but he and Leander Paes lost 6-4, 6-4 to Andrej Martin and Hans Podlipnik-Castillo at the $85K Challenger in Biella, Italy.
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