12 players with collegiate ties won pro titles last week with 10 of those titles coming within the United States.
Jarmere Jenkins (Virginia ’13) won his first singles title of the year, seventh of his career, with a 6-1, 7-5 win over #292 Marc Polmans in the final of the $25K Australia F6 Futures in Brisbane. Interesting to note that five of Jenkins’s seven career titles have come in Australia. Here was article on the match from Tennis Australia.
Danielle Collins (Virginia ’16), who won the NCAA singles title last season, won her first singles title since 2011 with a 1-0 retirement win over Caroline Dolehide in the finals of the ITF $25K in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Collins had to win three rounds of qualies (only dropped six games) to make it to the main draw and then won five more matches to win the title.
JP Smith (Tennessee ’11) won his fourth doubles Challenger of the year after he and fellow Aussie Matt Reid defeated Dennis Novikov (UCLA ’13*) and Quentin Halys 6-1, 6-2 in the finals of the $100K in Tiburon, California. Smith has now won 24 career doubles titles with 18 Challengers and 6 Futures.
SMU seniors Hunter and Yates Johnson won their second career pro doubles title with a 6-4, 7-5 win over Sebastian Fanselow (Pepperdine ’13) and Sebastian Bader (Hawaii Pacific ’11) in the finals of the $10K USA F30 Futures in Fountain Valley, California.
Abigail Tere-Apisah (Georgia State ’14) won her first career pro title as she and Naiktha Bains defeated Julia Glushko and Fangzhou Liu 6-7(4), 6-2, 1-0 (3) in the doubles final of the ITF $25K in Brisbane, Australia.
Maria Sanchez (USC ’11) won her third doubles title of the year as she and Michaella Krajicek defeated Jamie Loeb (UNC ’15*) and Chanel Simmonds 7-5, 6-1 in the finals of the ITF $50K in Las Vegas, Nevada. Sanchez and Krajicek have now won back-to-back titles after winning the ITF $75K in Albuquerque the week prior.
Congrats @Sanchez_Maria_V on yet another @ITFprocircuit doubles title @RedRockTennis! pic.twitter.com/trqdQyWwC7— JJB Esq (@agentatleta) October 3, 2016
Michigan grads Emina Bektas and Ronit Yurovsky won their first doubles title as a team with a 6-4, 6-7(6), 1-0 (6) win over Giuliana Olmos (USC ’16) and Nazari Urbina (Texas A&M ’13) in the finals of the ITF $25K in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
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| Left to Right – Urbina, Olmos, Yurovsky, Bektas (Photo StillwaterProTennis) |
Andie Daniell (Alabama Soph) and Erin Routliffe (Alabama Sr) won their first doubles title as a team with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Whitney Kay (UNC ’16) and Quinn Gleason (Notre Dame ’16) in the finals of the ITF $10K in Charleston, South Carolina. It was Daniell’s third career pro doubles title while it was Routliffe’s first.
Pro Titles/Finals This Past Week:
Singles:
Australia – Jarmere Jenkins (Virginia ’13)
USA – Sebastian Fanselow (Pepperdine ’13)
USA $25K – Danielle Collins (Virginia ’16)
Doubles:
USA (CH) – JP Smith (Tennessee ’11)
USA – Hunter and Yates Johnson (SMU Sr)
USA $50K – Maria Sanchez (USC ’11)
USA $25K – Emina Bektas (Michigan ’15/Ronit Yurovsky (Michigan ’16)
USA $10K – Andie Daniell (Alabama Soph)/Erin Routliffe (Alabama Sr)
Australia – Abigail Tere-Apisah (Georgia State ’14)
Runner-Ups:
Singles:
France – Ray Sarmiento (USC ’14)
Hungary – Peter Nagy (Texas A&M Corpus ’15)
Sweden – Ed Corrie (Texas ’11)
USA – Ingrid Gamarra Martens (South Carolina Soph)
Doubles:
USA – Sebastian Fanselow (Pepperdine ’13)/Sebastian Bader (Hawaii Pacific ’11)
USA (CH) – Dennis Novikov (UCLA ’13*)
USA $50K – Jamie Loeb (North Carolina ’15*)
USA $25K – Giuliana Olmos (USC ’16)/Nazari Urbina (Texas A&M ’13)
USA $10K – Quinn Gleason (Notre Dame ’16)/Whitney Kay (North Carolina ’16)
Israel – Austin Smith (Georgia ’16)
Israel – Madeleine Kobelt (Syracuse ’14)
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