Williams, Svajda and Quan Advance at Little Rock Challenger; First SoCal Pro Series Events Underway in San Diego; Chicago's Rena Lin, Bowdoin's Tristan Bradley Claim D-III Titles
Eighteen-year-olds Cooper Williams of Harvard and UCLA rising freshman Rudy Quan won their first ATP Challenger main draw matches, while Trevor Svajda, also 18, notched his second today at the 75 tournament in Little Rock Arkansas.
Williams, a rising sophomore who turns 19 next month, defeated 26-year-old qualifier Yusuke Takahashi of Japan 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 for that milestone, while qualifier Quan came from 5-2 down in the second set to beat Stefan Kozlov 6-1, 7-5 for his first Challenger main draw win.
Eighteen-year-old Trevor Svajda, a rising sophomore at SMU, earned his first Challenger win in January at the Indian Wells II Challenger 50; today the wild card from San Diego defeated qualifier Ernesto Escobedo of Mexico 6-3, 6-4 to claim his second.
Qualifier Andres Martin of Georgia Tech, who was a No. 9 seed at NCAA singles championship last week but lost in the first round, posted the biggest upset of the day, beating No. 4 seed Yu Hsiou Hsu of Taiwan 7-6(1), 6-2.
Williams, who is in the top half, will play again Wednesday, facing former Florida Gator Abdullah Shelbayh of Jordan, the No. 8 seed.
Nishesh Basavareddy, who beat No. 7 seed Ethan Quinn(Georgia) yesterday, is in the bottom half, as are Svajda and Martin, who play each other Thursday, and Quan. Quan will face Andres Andrade(Florida) for the third time in the past seven months, with Quan winning the most recent encounter at the beginning of this month in the quarterfinals of the $15K in Orange Park Florida. Andrade, who won the Pensacola $25K last week, defeated No. 2 seed Coleman Wong of Hong Kong yesterday 6-7(5), 6-4, 6-3.
Mike Cation is providing commentary on Stadium Court matches, with the live streams available at the Challenger TV page.
The SoCal Pro Series, now in its third year, is starting earlier than ever, with both the men and women at converging on San Diego's Barnes Tennis for the first two $15,000 tournaments, with five more following at other Southern California locations.
Qualifying concluded today, with five American men and four American women reaching the main draw: three of the US women qualifying are juniors: Alexis Nguyen, Claire Hill and Taylor Goetz. The other, 19-year-old Isabelle Chhiv, is a rising sophomore at Princeton. UCLA's rising sophomore Spencer Johnson, the Pac-12 freshman of the year, is among the US men qualifying.
Top seeds in the two events are two-time Kalamazoo champion Learner Tien(USC), who has been out with injury the past three months, and former Cal All-American Haley Giavara. A preview of this week's tournaments is available on the USTA Southern California website.
The NCAA Division III individual tournament concluded today in St. Louis, with the top seeds winning the singles titles.
Rena Lin of Chicago took the women's title Monday, defeating teammate Sylwia Mikos, the No. 5 seed, 6-0, 7-6(3) in the final. Lin, a graduate student who started her college career at Yale, is the first Chicago Maroon to claim an NCAA singles title. See the Chicago website for all the details on the all-Chicago final.
The men's doubles final was between two unseeded teams, with Tyler Haddorff and Gage Gohl of Gustavus Adolphus defeating Jordan Theron and Quinn Wicklund of Sewanee 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 in today's championship match.
Results can be found on the NCAA Division III tournament page at Washington-St. Louis University's website.
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