Saturday was another great day for doubles with former college players winning six pro titles. Robert Lindstedt (Pepperdine ’98) won a pro doubles title for the 20th year in a row as he and his doubles partner Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi won the ATP 250 Antalya (Turkey) Open with a 7-5, 4-1 retirement win over Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic. Lindstedt has won 47 career titles with the last 21 of those coming at the ATP level. His biggest tournament win came in 2014 when he and Lukasz Kubot won the Australian Open plus Lindstedt has also been a runner-up at Wimbledon three times. Lindstedt is currently ranked No. 44 in the latest ATP doubles rankings however he reached No. 3 back in 2013.
Florian Lakat (Cal ’17) and Arthur Rinderknech (Texas A&M Rising Sr) won the doubles title at the $25K Belgium F2 Futures in Arlon with a 6-1, 4-6, 10-4 win over Constant De La Bassetiere (Penn State Rising Jr) and Geoffrey Blancaneaux. It was Rinderknech’s first career pro title and Lakat’s second.
Nicolaas Scholtz (Ole Miss ’15) won his fourth singles title of the year, and second in the last three weeks, with a come from behind three set win over Baptiste Crepatte in the finals of the $15K Zimbabwe F3 Futures in Harare. Crepatte fought off a set point to win the first set in a tiebreak 8-6 but Scholtz took the second set 6-3. Crepatte broke Scholtz to go up 3-1 in the third but Scholtz rallied to win the next five games to close it out 6-7, 6-3, 6-3. Scholtz now has 11 career singles titles with all 11 coming at the Futures level.
Junior Ore (Texas A&M ’14) won his fourth career doubles title as he and Youssef Hossam defeated Marat Deviatiarov and Isaam Taweel 6-2, 6-3 in the finals of the $15K Egypt F18 Futures in Sharm El Sheikh. Ore and Hassam broke their opponents four times while not facing a break point themselves.
Nuno Borges (Mississippi State Rising Jr) and Francisco Cabral won a doubles title for the second straight week after they defeated Harry Bourchier and Daniel Nolan 7-6(4), 6-4 in the finals of the $15K Portugal F9 Futures in Setubal. There were nine breaks of serve in the match with Borges and Cabral breaking five times while Bourchier and Nolan broke four times. In the first set there was a stretch with five straight breaks but then neither team faced a break point in the final four service games of the set. Bourchier and Nolan led 4-2 in the second set but Borges and Cabral won the no-ad point in back-to-back games to put it back on serve at 4-4. Borges and Cabral held at love for 5-4 and then they broke on the no-ad point to close it out.
Borges and Joao Monteiro (Virginia Tech ’16) will meet in the singles final for the second straight week after Borges defeated Nolan 6-2, 6-3 while Monteiro routed Erik Crepaldi 6-0, 6-0 in 54 minutes. Last week Monteiro got the win in a close 6-4, 1-6, 7-5 match.
Emina Bektas (Michigan ’15) and Alexa Guarchi Mathison (Alabama ’13) won their third doubles title of the year with a 4-6, 6-4, 10-5 win over Luisa Stefani (Pepperdine Rising Jr) and Ellen Perez (Georgia ’17) at the ITF $25K in Auburn, Alabama,. The title was Bektas’s seventh this year while it was the fifth for Guarchi Mathison.
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In the singles semifinals it was Nicole Gibbs (Stanford ’13*) advancing to the finals with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Ellen Perez. Gibbs will meet Japan’s Miharu Imanishi in the final after Imanishi defeated Carol Zhao (Stanford ’16*) 6-2, 2-6, 6-0.
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Sanaz Marand (North Carolina ’10) won her 18th career doubles title as she and Melis Sezer defeated Ena Kajevic and Ipek Oz 6-2, 7-6(1) in the finals of the ITF $15K in Istanbul, Turkey. Marand also advanced to singles final with a 6-1, 6-2 win over her doubles partner Melis Sezer. Marand will face the top seed Ayla Aksu in Sunday’s final.
Eudice Chong (Wesleyan Rising Sr) will attempt to win her first career singles title on Sunday after picking up a 6-4, 6-4 win over the second seed Jai-Qi Kang at the ITF $15K in Anning, China. Chong, who had never made it past the second round prior to this week, will meet Shanshan Guo in the final.
Nathan Pasha (Georgia ’15) advanced to his first career singles final after defeating Dennis Nevolo (Illinois ’12) 6-3, 6-4 at the $15K USA F22 Futures in Pittsburgh. Pasha will meet Kaichi Uchida in the final after Uchida upset the top seed Mikael Torpegaard (Ohio State Rising Sr) 6-3, 6-3.
Alex Sarkissian (Pepperdine ’14) advanced to the singles final at the $25K Canada F3 Futures in Kelowna after defeating Ray Sarmiento (USC ’14) 6-3, 5-7, 7-6(1). There were no breaks of serve in the third set and in fact Sarkissian only lost two points on serve in that final set with both of those points coming in his 5-6 service game. Sarkissian will meet Canada’s Filip Peliwo in the final after Peliwo defeated Deiton Baughman 5-7, 6-2, 6-2.
Both Emil Reinberg (Georgia Rising Jr) and Austin Krajicek (Texas A&M ’11) lost their semifinal matches at the $25K USA F21 Futures in Tulsa. Reinberg lost to Christian Harrison 6-4, 6-3 while Krajicek fell to Tommy Paul 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.
Peter Nagy (Texas A&M Corpus Christi ’15) came up short in the semifinals of the $15K Romania F5 Futures in Curtea De Arges. The former Islander fell to Vasile Antonescu 6-2, 6-1.
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