Great Day For Doubles – Venus/Harrison Win French Open; Alcantara/Verbeek Singing In Singapore, Dougaz/Mansouri Take Tunisia, Santamaria/Tere-Apisah First in Delaware

Tagged with: Abigail TereApisah, Aziz Dougaz, Francis Alcantara, French Open, Michael Venus, Sabrina Santamaria, Sem Verbeek, Skander Mansouri

Prior to this week Michael Venus (LSU ’09) had never made it past the round of 16 at a grand slam but today he and Ryan Harrison are French Open doubles champions after the duo defeated Donald Young and Santiago Gonzalez in a tough three-setter. There were no breaks of serve in the first two sets with Venus and Harrison taking the first set 7-6(5) while Young and Gonzalez claimed the second set 7-6(4). In the third and final set, Venus and Harrison broke for 4-2 but Young and Gonzalez broke back in a four-deuce game for 4-3. Venus and Harrison broke again for 5-3 and then Harrison served it out in a one-deuce game to give the guys with Louisiana ties their first grand slam trophy. 

Venus and Harrison split the €660,000 payout which is roughly $739,000 US. There were a couple of good articles written about Venus and his friendship with Harrison. The article from Stuff New Zealand is here and the one from RolandGarros.com is here.  

 

Sem Verbeek (Pacific ’16) and Francis Alcantara (Pepperdine ’14) won the doubles title at the $15K Singapore F3 Futures in Singapore City with a 7-6(3), 6-2 win over Yuichi Ito and Hoang Nam Ly. The title was Verbeek’s seventh of the year, eight overall, while it was Alcantara’s fourth of the year, fifth overall. It was also the third week in a row that the duo won a title in Singapore.

Aziz Dougaz (Florida State Rising Jr) and Skander Mansouri (Wake Forest Rising Sr) won the doubles title at the $15K Tunisia F22 Futures in Hammamet with a 7-6(4), 6-1 win over Moez Echargui and Goncalo Oliveira. The title was the second for the duo with their first coming last year in Morocco. Overall it was Mansouri’s fourth and Dougaz’s third. 

 

 

Sabrina Santamaria (USC ’15) and Abigail Tere-Apisah (Georgia State ’14) won the doubles title at the ITF $25K in Bethany Beach, Delaware, with a 6-4, 6-0 win over Sophie Chang and Alexandra Mueller. The title was Santamaria’s second of the year, eighth overall, while it was Tere-Apisah’s first of the year and second overall.