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Marcelo Arevalo & Alejandro Gomez Win Titles at Home; Salisbury/O’Hare Take Columbus

by | Nov 27, 2016 | Blog

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While most of us were feasting on turkey and stuffing last week there were several guys and gals that were out on the pro tour taking care of business. Marcelo Arevalo (Tulsa ’11*) and Alejandro Gomez (Kentucky ’14) won singles titles in their home countries while Aleksandr Nedovyesov (Oklahoma State ’10), Catherine Harrison (UCLA ’16), and Maddie Kobelt (Syracuse ’14) won doubles titles in their backyards.  

Arevalo swept both the singles and doubles titles at the $10K El Salvador F2 Futures (Clay) in La Libertad. Arevalo was the top seed in both draws with he and Christopher Diaz-Figueroa winning the doubles title on Friday with a 6-0, 6-4 win over Pirmin Haenle and Nicholas Reyes and then on Saturday Arevalo capped off the week with a 6-1, 6-2 rout over the second seed Bruno Sant’Anna. Arevalo only dropped 20 games in his five matches in route to winning his 11th singles title while the doubles title was his 21st of his career and fifth with Diaz-Figueroa. Arevalo has now equaled his singles career high of 176 while his doubles ranking of 119 is just two spots behind his career high of 117. 

Alejandro Gomez (Kentucky ’14) won his fourth singles title of the year after defeating Daniel Galan 5-7, 6-2, 7-6(3) in the finals of the $10K Colombia F8 Futures (Clay) in Medellin. After splitting sets the third set was all holds with only 3 of 12 service games reaching 40/30. Gomez jumped out to a *4-1 lead in the tiebreak in route to taking it 7-3. Gomez entered the week with a career high ranking of 431, he is now up to another career high of 405 as of Monday, and is expected to rise to another career high of 394 when these points are added in next week.  

 

Aleksandr Nedovyesov (Oklahoma State ’10) won his 21st career doubles title and 9th challenger after he and Timur Khabibulin won the $50K Astana Challenger Capital Cup (Hard) with a 7-6(7), 6-2 win over the top seeds Mikhail Elgin and Denis Istomin.

Joe Salisbury (Memphis ’14) and David O’Hare (Memphis ’14) won their ninth career doubles title as a team after defeating Cameron Norrie (TCU Jr) and Luke Bambridge 6-3, 6-4 in the finals of the $75K Columbus (OH) II Challenger (Hard). Overall it was O’Hare’s 13th career doubles title while it was Salisbury’s 10th. O’Hare’s doubles ranking rises to 147 (CH 140) while Salisbury’s comes up to 302 (CH 211).  

 

Maddie Kobelt (Syracuse ’14) won her fourth doubles title of the year, fifth career, and Catherine Harrison (UCLA ’16) won her third of the year, fourth career, as the former collegians defeated Melissa Kopinski (Illinois ’15) and Felicity Maltby (Texas Tech Soph) 6-3, 6-0 to win the ITF $25K in Nashville, Tennessee.  

 

Jessy Rompies (Clemson ’15) won her fifth doubles title of the year, 20th career, as she and Jawairiah Noordin defeated Kamonwan Buayam and Ling Zhang 6-4, 6-3 in the finals of the ITF $10K in Hua Hin, Thailand. Rompies and Noordin didn’t drop a set all week with Rompies now just 15 spots behind her career high doubles ranking of 253. 

Tennys Sandgren (Tennessee ’11*) was seeking his second career Challenger singles title but he came up short falling 6-1, 2-6, 6-2 to Stefan Kozlov in the finals of the $75K Columbus Challenger. Sandgren picked up 55 points for the result and moved up to 193 which is just 10 spots behind his career-high. 

Nicole Gibbs (Stanford ’13*) was seeking her first doubles title at a $125K WTA Series Event but she and Asia Muhammad fell 6-7(3), 6-3, 10-8 to Eri Hozumi and Miya Kato in the doubles final of the Hawaii Open in Honolulu. In a bit of an oddity there were only eight doubles teams entered in this event so play began with the quarterfinal round.   

 

Pro Titles The Week of 11/21-11/27:
 
Singles:
El Salvador – Marcelo Arevalo (Tulsa ’11*)
Colombia – Alejandro Gomez (Kentucky ’14)
 
Doubles:
USA (CH) – Joe Salisbury (Memphis ’14)/David O’Hare (Memphis ’14)
Kazakhstan (CH) – Alexsandr Nedovyesov (Oklahoma State ’10)
USA – Catherine Harrison (UCLA ’16)/Maddie Kobelt (Syracuse ’14)
El Salvador – Marcelo Arevalo (Tulsa ’11*)
Thailand – Jessy Rompies (Clemson ’15)
 
 
 
Runner-Ups
 
Singles:
USA (CH) – Tennys Sandgren (Tennessee ’11*)
 
Doubles:
USA (WTA $125K) – Nicole Gibbs (Stanford ’13*)
USA (CH) – Cameron Norrie (TCU Jr)
USA – Melissa Kopinski (Illinois ’15)/Felicity Maltby (Texas Tech Soph)
 

*didn’t stay at school for all four years

 

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