Patrick Kypson Edges JJ Wolf In 5-Sets To Win Kalamazoo; Chris Eubanks Qualifies In Cincy; Gustav Hansson Sweeps Eville; Pro Circuit Recap

Tagged with: Chris Eubanks, Gustav Hansson, JJ Wolf, Joao Monteiro, Kalamazoo National Championships, Marta Lesniak

Ohio State rising sophomore JJ Wolf was a set away from winning the 2017 USTA Boys 18 National Championship in Kalamazoo but Patrick Kypson fought back to win the fourth and fifth sets to come away with the title and US Open main draw wild card. Kypson had the upper-hand for most of the first set with the 17-year old from Greenville (NC) holding serve rather quickly while Wolf had to work for his holds. Kypson had five set points on Wolf’s serve, three at 4-5 and two at 5-6, but Wolf fought them off and then surprisingly cruised through the tiebreak 7-1. 

Kypson earned his first break of the match in the second set when he broke Wolf for 3-2 but it looked like Wolf might get it back on serve. After Wolf held for 4-5, he had three break points to even it at 5-5 but Kypson managed to hold which gave him a 6-4 set.  

Wolf jumped on Kypson early in the third set with a break for 2-0 and then after adding a second break for 5-1 he served out the set to take it 6-1.

After a mandatory 10-minute break in between the third and fourth sets, Wolf broke Kypson to start the set but Kypson immediately broke back for 1-1. Wolf found himself in trouble during his 2-3 service game when he fell behind 0/40. Wolf managed to get it back to deuce but he couldn’t get the advantage and Kypson got the break for 4-2. Kypson would hold two more times to take the fourth set 6-3 to set up a winner-take-all fifth set.  

The fifth set started off with three consecutive breaks until Kypson held for 3-1. Kypson broke Wolf for 4-1 but Wolf broke back for 4-2. Wolf went up 40/0 with a chance to hold for 4-3 but Kypson came back to break and then he served it out to win the match 6-7(1), 6-4, 1-6, 6-3, 6-2. 

Kypson becomes the first player to win both the Boys 16 and 18 National Championships since Alex Bogomolov did it in 2001.

Despite the loss Wolf doesn’t leave Kalamazoo empty-handed because he’ll get a wild card into the US Open qualifying draw. 

Colette Lewis has more insights and quotes from today’s match on ZooTennis.

 

 

Georgia Tech rising senior Chris Eubanks qualified for his first ATP 1000 Masters main draw after defeating Janko Tipsarevic (ATP 58) 6-3, 6-4 at the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati. Eubanks held serve all 10 times while hitting 10 aces plus he broke Tipsarevic twice in the 1 hour and 19 minute match. Eubanks will be back on court Monday night when he faces the flamboyant Gael Monfils in the headlining match on center court with first serve coming no earlier than 8:30 p.m. ET.

 

 

Ole Miss rising senior Gustav Hansson won his first career singles title with a dominating 6-1, 6-2 win over Or Ram-Harel (Tulsa ’17) in the final of the $25K USA F27 Futures in Edwardsville, Illinois. Hansson won 66% of the points on Ram-Harel’s serve and broke him all eight times in the 1 hour and 43 minute match. 

 

 

Marta Lesniak (SMU ’12) won her second singles title of the year, fourth career, when she defeated the top seed Seone Mendez 6-4, 6-4 in the final of the ITF $15K in Mragowo, Poland. Lesniak broke Mendez seven times and never trailed during the 1 hour and 43 minute match. 

 

 

Joao Monteiro (Virginia Tech ’16) saw his nine match winning streak get snapped with a 6-4, 6-0 loss to Sergio Gutierrez-Ferrol in the final of the $15K Portugal F15 Futures in Caldas Da Rainha.