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Wild card Jack Sock lost a set for the first time at the $10,000 Amelia Island Futures tournament this week, but it didn't cost him the match. The 17-year-old from Nebraska, who trains in Kansas City with Mike Wolf, defeated No. 2 seed Artem Sitak of Russia 7-6(5), 1-6, 6-3 to claim his first ...
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Jack Sock has reached the finals of the Amelia Island Futures tournament after defeating Michael Venus today 7-6(5), 6-4. The 17-year-old from Nebraska will face No. 2 seed Artem Sitak, a 23-year-old Russian, in Sunday afternoon's final. For a trip down memory lane, check out this post of mine ...
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Seventeen-year-old Jack Sock has reached his second Futures semifinal of the fall with a 6-4, 6-1 win today over No. 6 seed Adam El Mihdawy in Amelia Island, Florida. In Thursday's second round, Sock beat No. 4 seed Matej Bocko of Slovakia 6-3, 6-0; it was his second straight-set win over the ...
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As I neared the end of Andre Agassi's best-selling autobiography "Open", I had so many conflicting emotions that I thought it might help to do spreadsheet with one column for things I liked about the book and another for what I didn't like about it. It proved to be a useless attempt to ...
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Six members of the men's tennis team at Stanford spent last Saturday morning just an hour north of Palo Alto, but it might as well have been a moon of Jupiter, so alien their destination would be to student-athletes on The Farm. Alex Clayton, Greg Hirshman, Matt Kandath, Bradley Klahn. Denis ...
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Andy Gladstone, Competitive Tennis Coordinator at USTA Florida, launched his new junior tennis podcast, called the G Cast , earlier this month, and he snared an impressive guest for his first episode, Patrick McEnroe. In the 26-minute podcast, which is available on iTunes, Gladstone asks McEnroe ...
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My recap of the ITA Indoor Championships is posted today at the Tennis Recruiting Network, and with that, the fall college tennis season comes to a close for me. It will be two months before the spring season begins and it's three months until the next collegiate major: the Team Indoor ...
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Fifteen-year-old Kyle McPhillips won her second consecutive ITF today, defeating No. 7 seed Caitlyn Williams 6-2, 6-0 at the ITF Grade 4 tournament at the Evert Tennis Academy in Boca Raton. She and Chanelle Van Nguyen, the fifth seeds, also won the doubles title, defeating sixth seeds Mary ...
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Sekou Bangoura Jr., who turns 18 in four days, will end his ITF junior tennis career next month with appearances at the Eddie Herr and Orange Bowl. In January, he’ll begin a new phase in his tennis development, joining Andy Jackson’s Florida Gators. A blue chip recruit from Bradenton, Fla. who ...
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The Tennis Recruiting Network wrapped up their coverage of blue chip signings today, with the announcement that Lilly Kimbell had signed with the University of Georgia. Josh Rey, who wrote some outstanding stories this year for usopen.org, gives a detailed look at Kimbell's junior tennis career, ...
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If you are lucky enough to get the Tennis Channel, you will have an opportunity to see zootennis contributor Harold Solomon this weekend when he kicks off the new season of the Tennis Channel Academy series with Tracy Austin. According to this release , Solomon is the first of seven coaches who ...
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Signing Day is here, and today the Tennis Recruiting Network revealed two blue chips' choices. Alexandra Cercone has committed to the Florida Gators and you can find my story about her decision here , while Daniel Kosakowski will also being staying close to home, signing with UCLA. Ali Jones ...
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With National Letter of Intent signing day coming up tomorrow, I thought it would be a good idea to get the slideshow and videos from the ITA Indoor up today. It will be early next week before my recap will be published on the Tennis Recruiting Network. Create a Free Slideshow Tags: college ...
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I had heard at the US Open that the Billie Jean King USTA National Tennis Center in New York was going to become a National Training Center, and today the USTA made the official announcement, which can be found here . New USTA National Coach Tim Mayotte, who conducted a seminar for coaches at ...
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©Colette Lewis 2009-- West Haven, CT-- Tennis in the Pac-10 doesn't normally involve much indoor tennis, but the conference produced every ITA Indoor champion crowned Sunday at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center at Yale University, the first time that has happened since 1995. Steve Johnson of ...
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©Colette Lewis 2009-- West Haven, CT-- Two Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets took different paths to the ITA Indoor finals, but Irina Falconi and Guillermo Gomez are hoping to become only the second pair from the same school to capture both singles titles when they take the court Sunday afternoon at ...
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©Colette Lewis 2009-- West Haven CT-- The men's and women's contenders for the college season's second major were pared from 16 to 4 Friday at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center at Yale University. Men's top seed JP Smith of Tennessee will meet fifth seed Steve Johnson of the University of ...
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©Colette Lewis 2009-- West Haven CT-- Top seed Maria Mosolova of Northwestern's 6-4, 7-5 loss to wild card Anastasia Petukhova of Fresno State was over by the time we arrived at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center at Yale University, but I did watch some of the second big upset of the day, as ...
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I don't know what time my post from the first day of the ITA Indoor Championships might go up this evening, so here's an early post, linking to my monthly aces feature for the Tennis Recruiting Network. Check out the ITA tournament home page and my twitter feed for results throughout the ...
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We're heading for Connecticut early Thursday, (look for a link to my Tennis Recruiting Network October Aces to autopost around noon) but we won't be seeing Virginia's Sanam Singh playing at the ITA Indoor. Singh qualified for the main draw of the $50,000 Challenger being played in ...
