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Monday, November 19, 2007

Lajola Wins Hawaii Futures; More College Signings


When 18-year-old Dennis Lajola won the Oceanic Time Warner Cable Honolulu Futures yesterday, it marked an American sweep of the three pro level events played in the U.S. last week, with Jesse Levine winning the Champaign Challenger and Ashley Harkleroad taking the $50K Women's event in La Quinta. Lajola had a relatively easy time reaching the semis, with a mysterious walkover win over Carsten Ball in the quarterfinals (puzzling because Ball continued in the tournament and won the doubles title), and then met 17-year-old Ty Trombetta of the U.S., who made great use of his wild card. Lajola won 7-6 in the third after dropping the first set, and he also came back from a set down in the final to win. The Honolulu Advertiser reported on the final here. For complete draws, see the usta.com Pro Circuit page.

The college early signings continue, with Chelsey Gullickson joining Nadja Gilchrist at the University of Georgia. UCLA picked up Alex Brigham for the men's team and Nina Pantic for the women's and up the coast, Stanford officially announced the signings of the impressive pair of left-handers from Southern California who are joining the Cardinal men.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is Lajola going to school or has he turned pro?

Anonymous said...

did collegeandjuniortennis.com make a mistake by putting Klahn and Krajicek as the Stanford signees? I assume they meant to put Ryan Thacher instead. Krajicek didnt switch from A&M to Stanford, right?

Anonymous said...

Thanks for catching the Stanford mistake. It's been a long week of releases!

The Krajicek-Stanford connection came from an email that I received since determined was wrong. That's exactly why I NEVER post signings until they come from the school. Anybody can make up whatever they want and I don't publicize rumors.

Thanks again,
Marcia