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Wimbledon Underway, ITA Summer Circuit Week 2, Maciej Bogusz New Women’s Coach at Northern Arizona, Ben Johnson Steps Down at Richmond

by | Jul 4, 2017 | Blog

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The opening round of singles at Wimbledon went about as good as expected with players with college ties going 4-2. John Isner, Steve Johnson, and Jennifer Brady won in straight sets while Kevin Anderson came back from a set down to knock out the No. 31 seed Fernando Verdasco in four sets. Cameron Norrie made his Grand Slam debut but the No. 12 seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga knocked him out in just 1 hour and 23 minutes. Irina Falconi was the only former collegian to come through qualies but she lost in straight sets to the top seed Angelique Kerber though it was a respectable 6-4, 6-4 scoreline. 

The doubles draw gets started on Wednesday plus Anderson, Johnson, and Brady will be back in action in the singles draw. 

Wimbledon Championships
 
Men’s Singles – First Round
#10 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga def. #236 Cameron Norrie (TCU ’17*) 6-3, 6-2, 6-2
#42 Kevin Anderson (Illinois ’07*) def. #35 Fernando Verdasco 2-6, 7-6(5), 7-6(8), 6-3
#31 Steve Johnson (USC ’12) def. #91 Nicolas Kicker 6-4, 7-5, 6-3
#21 John Isner (Georgia ’07) def. #128 Taylor Fritz 6-4, 7-6(3), 6-3
 
Second Round
#42 Kevin Anderson (Illinois ’07*) vs. #87 Andreas Seppi
#31 Steve Johnson (USC ’12) vs. #108 Radu Albot
#21 John Isner (Georgia ’07) vs. #90 Dudi Sela
 
Women’s Singles – First Round
#93 Jennifer Brady (UCLA ’15*) def. #123 Danka Kovinic 6-3, 6-1
#1 Angelique Kerber def. #246 Irina Falconi (Georgia Tech ’10*) 6-4, 6-4
 
Second Round
#93 Jennifer Brady (UCLA ’15*) vs. #9 Dominika Cibulkova
 
Men’s Doubles – First Round
[1] John Peers (Baylor ’11)/Henri Kontinen vs. Fognini/Seppi
[10] Michael Venus (LSU ’09)/Ryan Harrison vs. Andre Begemann (Pepperdine ’08)/Jan-Lennard Struff
Johan Brunstrom (SMU ’03)/Andreas Siljestrom (Middle Tenn St ’07) vs. Troicki/Zimonjic
Treat Huey (Virginia ’08)/Jonathan Erlich vs. [6] Dodig/Granollers
Dominic Inglot (Virginia ’09)/Robin Haase vs. Petzschner/Peya
Adil Shamasdin (Brown ’05)/Leander Paes vs. Knowle/Oswald
[9] Jean-Julien Rojer (UCLA ’02)/Horia Tecau vs. Kokkinakis/Thompson
Ken Skupski (LSU ’07)/Neal Skupski (LSU ’12) vs. Joe Salisbury (Memphis ’14)/Brydan Klein
[7] Rajeev Ram (Illinois ’03*)/Raven Klaasen vs. Copil/Vasdasco
Purav Raja (Loyola Marymount ’04)/Divij Sharan vs. Edmund/Sousa
Scott Lipsky (Stanford ’03)/Frances Tiafoe vs. Podlipnik-Castillo/Vasilevski
[12] Robert Farah (USC ’10)/Juan Sebastian Cabal vs. Berlocq/Ramos-Vinolas
James Cerretani (Brown ’04)/Mikhail Elgin vs. [15] Peralta/Zeballos
Robert Lindstedt (Pepperdine ’98)/Sam Groth vs. Duran/Molteni
[5] Bob & Mike Bryan (Stanford ’98*) vs. Polmans/Whittington
Max Schnur (Columbia ’15)/Cheng-Peng Hsieh vs. Marcin Matkowski (UCLA ’03)/Max Mirnyi
Nicholas Monroe (North Carolina ’04)/Artem Sitak vs. Sa/Sela
JP Smith (Tennessee ’11)/Matt Reid vs. [11] F Lopez/M Lopez
Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (Washington ’11)/Jared Donaldson vs. Clarke/Willis
 
Women’s Doubles – First Round
Jennifer Brady (UCLA ’15*)/Alison Riske vs. [1] Mattek-Sands/Safarova
[6] Abigail Spears (UCLA ’00)/Katarinia Srebotnik vs. Haddad Maia/Konjuh
[11] Raquel Atawo (Cal ’04)/Jelena Ostapenko vs. Rae/Robson
Maria Sanchez (USC ’11)/Magda Linette vs. Kichenok/Savchuk
 

 
The second week of the ITA Summer Circuit Powered By UTR is in the books – below are some of the winners with a full list of host sites listed on the ITA’s event page. 
 
Cal State Northridge
Men’s Singles – #1 Luis Lopez (UC Irvine ’19) def. #6 Joseph Rotheram (UCSB ’20) 7-5, 6-3
Women’s Singles – #1 Terri Fleming (UCLA ’18) def. #2 Paris Corley (Arizona ’20) 6-3, 6-4
 
Elon
Men’s Singles – #14 Daniel Belovs (North Carolina ’21) def. #8 Joseph Brown (Mary Washington ’20) 6-2, 6-4
Women’s Singles – #2 Amanda Rebol (NC State ’19) def. #1 Celia Ruiz (East Carolina ’19) 6-3, 3-6, 13-11
 
Middle Tennessee State
Men’s Singles – #5 Vincent Rettke (Gonzaga ’20) def. #7 Steven Karl (Dayton ’20) 6-0, 6-4
Women’s Singles – #1 Nami Otsuka (Georgia Tech ’20) def. #2 Anna Bright (Cal commit) 6-4, 6-1
 
Penn
Men’s Singles – #1 Jordan Benjamin (Dayton ’19) vs. #2 Yuval Solomon (Wake Forest commit)
Women’s Singles – #5 Mihaela Codreanu (Rhode Island ’20) def. #2 Maya Jacobs (Rutgers commit) 7-6, 6-4
 
Pacific
Men’s Singles – #1 Kevin Ma (Amherst commit) def. Matthew Campana (St. Mary’s CA ’18) 6-2, 6-3
Women’s Singles – #1 Carolyn Campana (’18 Vanderbilt commit) def. #2 Karina Vyrlan (Pacific commit) w/o
 
UT Tyler
Men’s Singles – #17 Gabriel Evans (Laredo CC) def. #7 Art Jakubowski (Bryant ’19) 5-7, 6-0, 10-1
Women’s Singles – #2 Vivienne Kulicke (SMU ’18) def. #5 Liza Buss (SMU ’19) 6-2, 2-0 ret. 
 
Western Michigan
Men’s Singles – #4 Matthew Gamble (Notre Dame ’20) def. #3 David Horneffer (Dartmouth ’20) 7-5, 6-1
Women’s Singles – #1 Bianca Moldovan (NC State ’19) def. #6 Tiffany Chen (Princeton ’20) w/o
 
Notes – Daniel Belovs is attending UNC but I don’t think he’s going to be on the tennis team. Gabriel Evans played at Laredo CC during the 15-16 season but I couldn’t find if he played somewhere else last year. 
 

  
Northern Arizona VP of Intercollegiate Athletics Lisa Campos announced the hiring of Maciej Bogusz as the program’s new women’s head coach. Bogusz, who played at Lamar from 2006 to 2009, comes to Flagstaff from Wyoming where he served as a volunteer assistant, full-time assistant, and associate head coach over the last five years. Bogusz takes over for Ki Kroll (men’s coach) who served in the interim role last season following Kim Bruno’s departure to Michigan State last summer. Below are some quotes from NAU’s release:
 
“I am honored to have Maciej as our new head coach for women’s tennis,” said Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Dr. Lisa Campos. “Maciej has experience recruiting and coaching top talent, as his players have ranked amongst some of the best in the mountain region. He understands that it’s important to win in the classroom and on the court and we are happy to have him in Flagstaff.”
 

“I would like to thank Vice President Dr. Lisa Campos, and the entire search committee for this great opportunity to join the NAU family,” said Bogusz. “NAU has exceptional athletic programs, and together with my wife Ewa I cannot be more excited to be a part of it. I look forward to getting to know my new players and start working with this amazing group of student-athletes. I also want to thank Coach Clower, my former players, and the great tennis community for five wonderful years at University of Wyoming.”

 

 

The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that Richmond men’s head coach Ben Johnson has resigned after 7 seasons to pursue other professional opportunities. Johnson, who was the Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year last season, went 98-69 (.587) including a stout 25-4 last year although the Spiders missed out on the NCAA Tournament after falling to VCU 4-3 in the final of the A-10 Tournament. 
 
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