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.
What a week for Kevin King! World No. 434 stuns Cam Norrie 64 61 for his first #ATPChallenger title at the @AtlanticTireCh in Cary. pic.twitter.com/CFp0yqw12m
— ATP Challenger Tour (@ATPChallenger) September 17, 2017
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.
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.
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