2005 NATIONAL OPEN JUNIOR TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS-16s-ATLANTIC CLUB, NJ-7/6/05

2005 NATIONAL OPEN JUNIOR TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS-16s-ATLANTIC CLUB, NJ-7/6/05--

My friend and colleague Marcia Frost of collegeandjuniortennis.com gets out of her office at Port Washington Tennis Academy on Long Island often, and over the 4th of July holiday weekend she was hard at work at one of the East Coast National Opens for 16 year olds. And though I wasn't familiar with the girls in the finals (no surprise there, you're probably saying to yourself), I have recently made the acquaintance of the boys winner, Adam El Mihdawy (and his father) at the Grass Courts.

Adam, who turns 16 in September, lives near the National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, and although he hasn't been playing junior tennis very long, he is starting to produce some solid results, with this Open win his first title. I understand both father and son will be at the Clay Courts, and I look forward to seeing them both and watching Adam play again on an entirely different surface this time.