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Wimbledon Qualies Underway, Norrie Picks Up Top 50 Win, ITA Summer Circuit Week 1 Update

by | Jun 26, 2017 | Blog

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The opening day of Wimbledon qualies was a good one for those with college tennis ties as 11 of 18 men picked up opening round wins. 2015 USC graduate Roberto Quiroz defeated 2011 Texas graduate Ed Corrie in the only matchup between two former college players. Corrie jumped out to a 6-4, 3-1 lead but Quiroz won 10 straight games to go up 5-0 in the third and would close it out 4-6, 6-3, 6-1. Benjamin Becker, who won the 2004 NCAA Singles Championship, moved on to the second round with a 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 win over Yasutaka Uchiyama. The 36-year old former Baylor Bear broke Uchiyama to go up 5-3 in the second and then in the third set he broke for 3-2.

James McGee, who spent two seasons at the NC State almost 10 years ago, won his first-ever qualifying match at Wimbledon by coming back from 4-1 down in the third to defeat Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo 6-7(6), 6-3, 6-4. McGee will try to make it two in a row when he plays Andrey Rublev in the second round. 

Full results from Monday are down below along with the second round matchups. The women get started on Tuesday with five former college players in the qualifying draw.

 
Wimbledon Qualies – Men’s Round 1
#228 Benjamin Becker (Baylor ’05) def. #185 Yasutaka Uchiyama 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
#173 Yannick Hanfmann (USC ’15) def. #162 Federico Gaio 6-4, 6-3
#490 Bradley Klahn (Stanford ’12) def. #192 Soon Woo Kwon 6-3, 6-4
#226 Mackenzie McDonald (UCLA ’16*) def. #657 Daniel Cox 7-5, 6-1
#210 James McGee (NC State ’08*) def. #172 Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo 6-7(6), 6-3, 6-4
#216 Aleksandr Nedovyesov (Oklahoma State ’10) def. #554 Neil Pauffley 5-0 ret.
#175 Dennis Novikov (UCLA ’13*) def. #221 Di Wu 6-4, 7-6(3)
#238 Roberto Quiroz (USC ’15) def. #354 Ed Corrie (Texas ’11) 4-6, 6-3, 6-1
#220 Rajeev Ram (Illinois ’03*) def. #129 Reilly Opelka 7-6(6), 7-6(5)
#104 Tennys Sandgren (Tennessee ’11*) def. #184 Michael Mmoh 6-3, 7-5
#211 JP Smith (Tennessee ’11) def. #123 Laslo Djere 6-2, 6-7(5), 6-2
#181 Tatsuma Ito def. #475 Matija Pecotic (Princeton ’13) 6-2, 6-2
#169 Maximo Gonzalez def. #239 Petr Michnev (Hawaii Pacific ’14) 6-3, 6-1
#193 Tim Smyczek def. #212 Yannick Maden (Clemson ’13) 7-6(3), 6-2
#213 Lukas Rosol def. #160 Jason Jung (Michigan ’11) 7-6(5), 7-6(6)
#360 Jay Clarke def. #232 Marcelo Arevalo (Tulsa ’11*) 6-3, 6-4
#182 Nicolas Jarry def. #407 Lloyd Glasspool (Texas ’15) 6-3, 6-1
 
2nd Round
#173 Yannick Hanfmann (USC ’15) vs. #190 Stefanos Tsitsipas
#104 Tennys Sandgren (Tennessee ’11*) vs. #171 Vincent Millot
#210 James McGee (NC State ’08) vs. #92 Andrey Rublev
#490 Bradley Klahn (Stanford ’12) vs. #119 Darian King
#220 Rajeev Ram (Illinois ’03*) vs. #213 Lukas Rosol
#228 Benjamin Becker (Baylor ’05) vs. #117 Illya Marchenko
#238 Roberto Quiroz (USC ’15) vs. #122 Sergiy Stakhovsky 
#211 JP Smith (Tennessee ’11) vs. #226 Mackenzie McDonald (UCLA ’16*)  
#216 Aleksandr Nedovyesov (Oklahoma State ’10) vs. #154 Marco Trungelliti 
#175 Dennis Novikov (UCLA ’13*) vs. #126 Stefan Kozlov
 
Women’s Round 1
#164 Danielle Collins (Virginia ’16) vs. #150 Rebecca Sramkova
#116 Kristie Ahn (Stanford ’14) vs. #186 Veronika Kudermetova
#145 Jamie Loeb (North Carolina ’15*) vs. #168 Louisa Chirico
#246 Irina Falconi (Georgia Tech ’10*) vs. #216 Tara Moore
#219 Jacqueline Cako (Arizona State ’13) vs. #125 Tamara Korpatsch
 

 
Cameron Norrie, who left TCU after his junior season, picked up his second top 100 win of the summer with a 6-4, 7-6(4) win over Argentina’s Horacio Zeballos (ATP #49). Norrie broke Zeballos twice in the first set with the second break closing out the set. In the second set Norrie broke for 3-1 but Zeballos broke back in the next game to put it back on serve. Neither player faced a break point the rest of the way and in the tiebreak Norrie never trailed and close it out 7-4. Norrie picked up 20 ATP points with the win which was good because he came into the week defending 27 ATP points after winning the Tulsa Futures last year. 
 

 
The first week of the ITA Summer Circuit Powered By UTR is in the books with play wrapping up today at nine different sites across the country. Below are some of the winners with a full list of host sites listed on the ITA’s event page. 
 
Abilene Christian
Men’s Singles – #1 Nevin Arimilli (HS Class of ’18) def. #3 Edward Ayers (George Mason ’20) 6-1, 6-0
Women’s Singles – #2 Vivienne Kulicke (SMU ’18) def. #1 Miranda Ramirez (Syracuse ’20) 6-4, 6-3
 
Florida State
Men’s Singles – #1 Chase Wood (Florida State commit) def. #6 Alec Josepher (Emory ’18) 6-3, 6-1
Women’s Singles – #1 Anna Bright (Cal commit) def. #3 Amanda Rebol (NC State ’19) 6-2, 6-3
 
Pomona Pitzer
Men’s Singles – #3 Sam Tullis (BYU ’20) def. #7 Jed Kronenberg (Pomona Pitzer Commit) 6-2, 6-3
Women’s Singles – #1 Gabby Smith (USC ’18) def. #2 Carolyn Campana (’18 Vanderbilt commit) 6-0, 6-3
 
UMKC
Men’s Singles – #3 Brooks Kendall (Creighton ’18) def. #5 William Gleason (HS Class of ’18) 7-6, 7-5
Women’s Singles – #1 Anastasia Rychagova (Kansas ’19) def. #3 Clare Raley (Missouri ’18) 6-0, 6-2
Wake Forest
Men’s Singles – #1 Andrew Pickens (’18 Northwestern commit) def. #7 Steven Karl (Dayton ’19) 6-0, 6-4
Women’s Singles – #1 Lauren Proctor (Winthrop ’19) def. #2 Caroline Daxhelet (Virginia Tech ’18) 2-6, 7-6(3), 11-9