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While several former collegians were playing Davis Cup last week there were others that were out on the pro circuit taking care of business. Former Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket, Kevin King, won a pro singles title for the second consecutive week after defeating former TCU star Cameron Norrie 6-4, 6-1 in the finals of the $50K Atlantic Tire Championships in Cary, North Carolina. King, who served as a volunteer assistant at Georgia Tech last season while rehabbing an injury to both of his hips, won the week prior at a Futures event in Toronto and with the points from both of those events added in he has now risen to a new career-high ranking of 253. 

 

Recent Texas A&M graduate Rutuja Bhosale won her second pro singles title of the summer after a tough 6-4, 2-6, 7-5 win over recent Mississippi State graduate Hua-Chen (Jasmine) Lee at the ITF $15K in Hua Hin, Thailand. Bhosale looked like she would cruise through the third set but Lee came back from 5-2 down to even it at 5-5. Bhosale held for 6-5 and then broke Lee from 30/40 to get the win. Bhosale also played in the doubles final but she and Charleston Southern graduate Alexandra Walters fell 6-2, 7-5. 

 

 

Title house in Hua Hin! #HBTA#fit2sport

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All the winners at the ITF $25K in Redding, California, had college ties with former UCLA Bruin Robin Anderson winning her second career singles title, other in 2011, with a 6-1, 6-4 win over South Africa’s Chanel Simmonds. Former Florida State star and current Wake Forest volunteer assistant, Daneika Borthwick, and former Auburn-Montgomery star Ana Veselinovic won the doubles title with a 6-3, 6-4 win over former USC Trojan Maria Sanchez and Great Britain’s Harriet Dart. 

Former UCLA Bruin Karue Sell doubled up at the Claremont USA F30 Futures by sweeping the singles and doubles titles. Sell defeated former teammate Martin Redlicki 6-7, 6-4, 6-3 in the singles final and in the doubles final he and Deiton Baughman defeated Evan Song and former FSU Seminole Ben Lock 6-4, 7-5 in the doubles final. Steve Pratt had a recap of the singles final on the USTA’s SoCal website. 

Former Tulsa Golden Hurricane Marcelo Arevalo and former Texas Longhorn Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela won a Challenger doubles title for the third straight week after winning the $50K Atlantic Tire Championships in Cary, North Carolina. Arevalo and Reyes-Varela defeated former Tennessee Volunteer Mikelis Libietis and former UCLA Bruin Dennis Novikov 6-7(6), 7-6(1), 10-6. Libietis and Novikov were up a break twice in the second set including at 5-4 but Arevalo and Reyes-Varela broke at love for 5-5 and then cruised through the tiebreak. Arevalo moves up to 117 in the latest ATP doubles rankings (CH 114) while Reyes-Varela checks in at 165 (CH 100). 

 

Below is a list of last weekend’s winners and runner-ups on the pro circuit.  

Singles Champions (5)  
$50K Cary (NC) USA Challenger – Kevin King (Georgia Tech ’12)
$25K Redding (CA) USA – Robin Anderson (UCLA ’15)
$15K Claremont (CA), USA F30 Futures – Karue Sell (UCLA ’16)
$15K Nottingham, Great Britain F4 Futures – Lloyd Glasspool (Texas ’15)
$15K Hua Hin, Thailand – Rutuja Bhosale (Texas A&M ’17)
 
Singles Runner-Ups (5)
$50K Cary (NC) USA Challenger – Cameron Norrie (TCU ’17*)
$25K Toronto, Canada F7 Futures – Dennis Nevolo (Illinois ’12)
$25K Mulhouse, France F19 Futures – Ed Corrie (Texas ’11)
$15K Claremont (CA), USA F30 Futures – Martin Redlicki (UCLA Sr)
$15K Hua Hin, Thailand – Hua-Chen (Jasmine) Lee – Mississippi State ’17)
 
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Doubles Champions (8)
$75K Istanbul, Turkey Challenger – Andre Begemann (Pepperdine ’08)
$50K Cary (NC) USA Challenger – Marcelo Arevalo (Tulsa ’11*)/Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (Texas ’09)
$25K Toronto, Canada F7 Futures – Harrison Adams (Texas A&M ’16)/Shane Vinsant (Texas A&M ’16)
$25K Redding (CA) USA – Daneika Borthwick (Florida State ’15)/Ana Veselinovic (Auburn-Montgomery ’12)
$15K Claremont (CA), USA F30 Futures – Karue Sell (UCLA ’16)
 
Doubles Runner-Ups (13)
$127K Szczecin, Poland Challenger – Andreas Siljestrom (Middle Tennessee State ’07)
$75K Shanghai, China Challenger – Bradley Klahn (Stanford ’12)
$50K Cary (NC) USA Challenger – Mikelis Libietis (Tennessee ’15)/Dennis Novikov (UCLA ’13*)
$25K Toronto, Canada F7 Futures – Gary Kushnirovich (St. John’s ’13)
$25K Redding (CA) USA – Maria Sanchez (USC ’11)
$15K Claremont (CA), USA F30 Futures – Benjamin Lock (Florida State ’16)
$15K Chennai, India F8 Futures – Arjun Kadhe (Oklahoma State ’17)
$15K Nottingham, Great Britain F4 Futures – Luke Johnson (Clemson ’16)
$15K Hua Hin, Thailand – Rutuja Bhosale (Texas A&M ’17)/Alexandra Walters (Charleston Southern ’14)
$15K Cairo, Egypt – Akiko Okuda (Dartmouth ’15)/Kelly Williford (Virginia Tech ’16)
 
* didn’t stay in college for all four years