Tomic and Rus Win Australian Open Titles; Min Falls in Teen Tennis Final; Virginia Squeaks Past Illinois
Fifteen-year-old Australian Bernard Tomic made history Saturday in Melbourne, becoming the youngest male winner of a Junior Grand Slam when he defeated Tsung-Hua Yang of Chinese Taipei 4-6, 7-6(5), 6-0, breaking Donald Young's record, set at the same tournament in 2005. The Australian Open website did not cover the match, but here are two stories, one from The Age and one from the Herald Sun. The Taipei Times has this story on Yang, who left Melbourne with the boys doubles trophy.
Arantxa Rus of the Netherlands downed Australian Jessica Moore in straight sets to take the girls' title, giving her a 12-0 start to the year, after winning the Grade 1 in Nottinghill the week before. Eleanor Preston has the story and an audio interview with Rus on the ITF junior website.
In Bolton, American Grace Min, the fourth seed, reached the singles championship match, losing to Polina Leikina of Russia, the third seed, 6-2, 6-2. Click here for the usta.com story on the tournament.
And if the men's college season ends with anything close to the excitement it started with last night in Champaign, Ill., it's going to be a great one. The No. 1 ranked Virginia Cavaliers came back from 3-1 down to defeat the No. 8 ranked Fighting Illini in front of over 1200 fans at Atkins Tennis Center. Dominic Inglot was down a break in the third at No. 3 with Virginia trailing 3-2, but won the tiebreaker over Billy Heiser. Cavalier Ted Angelinos faced a dual match point at No. 6 when Illinois' Brandon Davis served for it up 6-3, 5-4, but Angelinos came back to win that set and the next to finish the comeback. The virginiasports.com story on the match is here.
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Congrats to Grace Min on a great tournament. I wish I could say the same for the guys, but it would appear the boys selected for this year's trip are extremely weak. Is the best the USTA has to offer?
Colette,
Heard a commentator say this is the first year in the open era that the US did not have any player beyond the quarters in men’s, women’s singles, doubles or mixed doubles. Is that correct? Another indicator that the USTA needs to have a broader approach to player development and get their high performance coaches/program to support as many upcoming young players as possible instead of banking the bank and their resources on a few each age group. Also, lot of references to IMG’s elite program in these blogs. Anyone know who is in it and how many Americans?
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