Brayden Schnur Wins in Calgary; Mizzou Removes Interim Tag From Colt Gaston, Pro Circuit Recap, US Open Continues

Missouri named Colt Gaston as the interim women’s head coach on July 29th and on Saturday they officially named him as the new head coach. Gaston was the assistant coach last year at Mizzou and was promoted to associate head coach shortly after the season ended. Gaston replaces Sasha Schmid who left after five seasons to take the women’s head coaching job at Iowa.

Armando Soemarno (Oregon Rising Soph) won his first career pro title in his native Indonesia as he and Sunu-Wahyu Trijati defeated Kunal Anand and Anvit Bendre 6-0, 6-4 at the $10K Indonesia F3 Futures in Jakarta. Soemarno picked up his first-ever ATP doubles point last week when he and Trijati made it to the semis at the Indonesia F2.

Victor Vlad Cornea (MTSU/Texas Tech ’15) won his fourth doubles title of the year, 10th of his career, as he and Victor-Mugurel Anagnastopol defeated Vasile Antonescu and Mircea-Alexandru Jecan 4-6, 7-6(6), 1-0 (8) at the $10K Romania F15 Futures in Brasov.  Cornea and Anagnastopol trailed 6-4, 4-2 but after holding on the no-ad point they broke at love to even it at 4-4. The next four games went to the no-ad point with the server each time so off to a tiebreak they went. Cornea and Anagnastopol led 6-3 but after dropping three straight they took the next two to force a third set. Cornea and Anagnastopol trailed 8-5 in the supertiebreak but they won the last five to win it 10-8.

Anis Ghorbel (Drake ’13) made it to his fifth career pro singles final but unfortunately he came up short falling to Karim-Mohamed Maamoun 6-3, 6-1 in the finals of the $10K Egypt Futures in Sharm El Sheikh. Ghorbel also made it to the doubles final but he and Pedro Bernardi fell to Jordi Munoz-Abreu and David Perez Sanz 7-6(4), 7-5.

Jakob Sude (Oklahoma State ’15) was looking for his second doubles title of the year and fifth of his career but it wasn’t to be as he and Billy Harris fell 6-0, 6-2 to Adam and Jason Taylor in the finals of the $10K Belgium Futures in Middelkerke.

Alexis Klegou (Texas A&M ’12) and Maxime Mora (Oklahoma) lost a tough doubles final 6-3, 3-6, 1-0 (4) to Eduard Esteve Lobato and Pedro Martinez Portero at the $10K Spain F28 Futures in Donostia-San-Sebastian. Klegou and Mora jumped out to a 3-0* lead in the third set supertiebreak but then they dropped 10 of the next 11 points to fall 10-4.

Damon Gooch (Elon ’09) was trying to win his third career doubles title but he and Gregor Ramskogler fell 6-3, 6-3 to Lenny Hampel and Lucas Midler in the finals of the $10K Austria F8 Futures in Sankt Polten.

Hans Hach (Abilene Christian ’13) was looking for his fourth doubles title of the year but he and Jose Statham fell 6-4, 2-6, 1-0 (11) to Stefanos Tsitsipas and Tim van Rijthoven in the finals of the $25K Canada F6 Futures in Calgary.

Pro Titles/Finals This Past Week:

Singles:
Canada – Brayden Schnur (North Carolina ’16)

Doubles:
Indonesia – Armando Soemarno (Oregon Rising Soph)
Romania – Victor Vlad Cornea (MTSU/Texas Tech ’15)

Runner-Ups:

Singles:
Egypt – Anis Ghorbel (Drake ’13)

Doubles:
Austria – Damon Gooch (Elon ’09)
Belgium – Jakob Sude (Oklahoma State ’15)
Canada – Hans Hach (Abilene Christian ’13)
Egypt – Anis Ghorbel (Drake ’13)
Spain – Alexis Klegou (Texas A&M ’12)/Maxime Mora (Oklahoma)

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US Open Men’s Doubles – Third Round
[3] Bob & Mike Bryan (Stanford ’98) def. Fernando Verdasco/David Marrero 2-6, 6-3, 7-5
P Carreno Busta/G Garcia-Lopez def. Nicholas Monroe (North Carolina ’04)/Donald Young 4-6, 7-6(4), 6-3
[5] Jean-Julien Rojer (UCLA ’02)/Horia Tecau vs. Robert Lindstedt (Pepperdine ’98)/A Qureshi

Fourth Round
[3] Bob & Mike Bryan (Stanford ’98) vs. F Lopez/M Lopez or T Bellucci/M Demoliner
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US Open Women’s Doubles –  Third Round 
Nicole Gibbs (Stanford ’13)/Nao Hibino vs. [7] S Mirza/B Strycova
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US Open Mixed Doubles Second Round 
Robert Farah (USC ’10)/Anna-Lena Groenefeld def. Dominic Inglot (UVA ’09)/M Krajicek 6-4, 3-6, 1-0 (8)
N Zimonjic/Y Chan def. Scott Lipsky (Stanford ’03)/A. Kudryavtseva 6-1, 6-2
[2] B Soares/Y Shvedova def. Eric Butorac (Gust Adolphus ’03)/Timea Babos 6-3, 7-5
Nicole Gibbs (Stanford ’13)/Dennis Novikov (UCLA ’13) def. [5] M Mirnyi/H Chan 7-5, 7-6(2)
Abigail Spears (UCLA ’00)/Santiago Gonzalez vs. M Pavic/L Siegemund (Monday)

Quarterfinals
[7] Rajeev Ram (ILL ’03)/Coco Vandeweghe vs. Marin Draganja/Barbora Krejcikova
Robert Farah (USC ’10)/Anna-Lena Groenefeld vs. Rohan Bopanna/Gabriela Dabrowski

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US Open Junior 

Men’s First Round
#25 Alexei Popyrin def. #69 Lez Kazakov (Cornell Fr) 6-3, 6-4
#8 [6] Felix Auger-Aliassime def. #75 [WC] Nathan Ponwith (Georgia Fr) 6-2, 6-4
#219 [WC] Corentin Moutet def. #82 [WC] Zeke Clark (Illinois Fr) 6-1, 2-0 ret.
#50 Brandon Holt (USC Fr) def. #62 Ergi Kirkin 6-4, 6-2
#41 [WC] Oliver Crawford (’17 Florida commit) vs. #1 [1] Stefanos Tsitsipas
#24 JJ Wolf (’17 Ohio State commit) vs. #93 [Q] Andrea Guerrieri
#14 [10] John McNally (’17 Ohio State commit) vs. #30 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
#42 Liam Caruana (Texas ’15) vs. #52 Duarte Vale

Second Round
#50 Brandon Holt (USC Fr) vs. #6 [5] Miomir Kecmanovic

Women’s First Round
#51 Morgan Coppoc (’17 Georgia commit) vs. #81 [Q] Irina Cantos Siemers
#71 [Q] Ashley Lahey (Pepperdine Fr) vs. #31 Lucie Kankova