Drenser-Hagmann Sweeps J200 Titles in Bogota; Baris and Rottgering Meet in Louisville M25 Final; Shcherbinina Reaches Fifth Final in Six Weeks; M15 Rochester Semis Postponed to Sunday

At this week's World Tennis J200 in Bogota Colombia, 17-year-old Kennedy Drenser-Hagmann swept the titles, claiming the doubles championship with Olivia De Los Reyes yesterday, then defeating De Los Reyes in today's singles final. 

In the All-USA doubles final, the No. 2 seeds defeated top seeds Scarlett Fagan and Ireland O'Brien 7-5, 6-4; in the singles final, No. 3 seed Drenser-Hagmann beat De Los Reyes, the No. 4 seed, 6-4, 6-3 for her second WT singles title, both in the past three months.

Drenser-Hagmann, a blue chip from Michigan, has now won six World Tennis junior titles, four doubles and two singles, all at the J200 level. She will rise to a career-high of around 80 in next week's junior rnakings.

Ozan Baris, who reached the quarterfinals of the ATP Challenger in Cary at the beginning of this month, has already won an M25 title since concluding his collegiate career at Michigan State in May. He will play for another one tomorrow in Louisville Kentucky, after the 22-year-old from Okemos Michigan, seeded No. 4, defeated No. 8 seed Aleksa Ciric(Georgia Gwinnett) of Serbia 7-5, 7-5 today. 

Baris, currently at a career-high ATP ranking of 578, will play Wake Forest rising sophomore Mees Rottgering of the Netherlands, the No. 1 seed, who advanced when Timo Legout(Texas) of France retired down 7-5.

Kentucky teammates JJ Mercer and Eli Stephenson, seeded fourth, won the doubles title today in Louisville, defeating the Canadian team of Joshua Peck(North Carolina) and Santa Clara rising freshman Adam Farag-Cao, the No. 3 seeds 6-3, 6-7(4), 10-6 in the final.

At the W35 in Dallas, Alina Shcherbinina(Baylor, Oklahoma) will play for her fourth title since the beginning of June when she faces No. 2 seed Hanna Chang. Shcherbinina, a 22-year-old from Russia, defeated former Oklahoma teammate Dana Guzman of Peru 6-7(6), 6-0, 6-2 today for her 26th win in her last 27 matches. Chang advanced to the final with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Lexington Reed, ending the run of the Texas A&M rising junior.

Mananchaya Sawangkaew(Oklahoma State) of Thailand, who reached the third round of Wimbledon as a qualifier and is now 113 in the WTA rankings, competed only in doubles in Dallas, but took the title with Hong Yi Cody Wong of Hong Kong. The top seeds, who didn't come close to dropping a set, beat unseeded Sophie Llewellyn(SMU) and Anita Sahdiieva(Baylor, LSU) of Ukraine 6-3, 6-1 in today's final.

The semifinals at the M15 in Rochester New York will be completed tomorrow, after a heavy rainstorm washed out play for the day. No. 2 seed Michael Antonius, 16, and Jerrid Gaines Jr, 17, are facing No. 8 seed Ilyas Fahim(Virginia Tech) and top seed Tristan McCormick(Notre Dame, Georgia) respectively. Antonius and Fahim are at 3-3 in the first, with Gaines, playing in his first Pro Circuit semifinal, trailing McCormick 3-2. The doubles tournament hasn't established its second finalists yet, with unseeded Ohio State teammates Alex Bernard and Ilija Palavestra waiting for the winner of the match between No. 1 seeds Andrew Delgado(Wake Forest, Georgia) and Reece Falck(Fresno State, UNC-Wilmington) and No. 3 seeds Joaquim Almeida(VCU, Liberty) of Brazil and Anders Matta(Stanford) of Chile.

The semifinals of the ATP Challenger 75 in Lincoln Nebraska are this evening, with UCLA rising senior Spencer Johnson, a wild card, facing No. 8 seed Bernard Tomic of Australia, and No. 5 seed Mark Lajal of Estonia playing No. 2 seed Yunchaokete Bu of China.  Johnson beat No. 3 seed Coleman Wong of Hong Kong 6-3, 7-6(2) Friday night to claim his 18th consecutive victory.

In the doubles final this afternoon, No. 2 seeds Nathaniel Lammons(SMU) and Jackson Withrow(Texas A&M) defeated top seeds George Goldhoff(Texas) and Canada's Cleeve Harper(Texas) 6-3, 6-3.