Tian and Brumm Win San Diego SoCal Pro Series Titles; Moreno De Alboran Claims ATP Challenger in Tyler Texas; Puerto Rico Challenger Qualifying Underway; UTR Pro Tennis Tour Results
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| Tian competing at NCAA Singles Championships |
UCLA rising sophomore Fangran Tian hasn't taken anything resembling a break since winning the NCAA singles title in Lake Nona last month. The 19-year-old from China reached the final of last week's SoCal Pro Series $15K in Rancho Santa Fe, and this week she won the SoCal Pro Series tournament in San Diego, defeating 15-year-old qualifier Aspen Schuman 6-1, 6-2.
Rain in San Diego delayed the start times for the singles several hours, but that didn't bother the unseeded Tian, who ran out to 5-0 leads in both sets. Schuman, who had needed nearly three-and-a-half hours to get past Nikki Redelijk(Pepperdine) in Saturday's semifinal understandably didn't look as energetic as Tian, who had needed only 75 minutes to beat top seed Samantha Crawford 6-2, 6-1 in the semifinals,
It's the second career Pro Circuit singles title, with her first coming last fall at a $15K in Champaign Illinois. Tian won the doubles title this week as well, with teammate Kimmi Hance.
Twenty-four-year-old Jacob Brumm, who played at Cal and Baylor, won his first Pro Circuit singles title this evening in San Diego, defeating Ohio State rising sophomore Jack Anthrop 7-6(5), 6-3 in the final.
Former UC-Santa Barbara All-American Nicolas Moreno De Alboran won his second career ATP Challenger title today in Tyler Texas, with the 25-year-old defeating unseeded Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan 6-7(8), 7-6(0), 6-4 in the three-hour, 12-minute final. Moreno De Alboran, the No. 3 seed, won his first Challenger title last September in Portugal; he has reached two other Challenger finals in the last 16 months, and is now up to a career-high of 142 in the ATP rankings.
The doubles title in Tyler went to the unseeded Australian team of Alex Bolt and Andrew Harris(Oklahoma), who defeated top seeds Evan King(Michigan) and Reese Stalder(TCU) 6-1, 6-4 in Saturday's final.
Tyler is the last ATP Challenger in the United States until July's tournament in Bloomfield Hills Michigan, although many Americans are now in Puerto Rico for the ATP Challenger 75 Caribbean Open, including Moreno De Alboran, who is the No. 2 seed there. Kei Nishikori is also in the draw as a wild card, although he had been expected to return after a lengthy absence due to injury for several weeks now and hasn't been able to actually take the court. Nishikori's first round opponent is Christian Langmo(Miami).
Americans advancing to Monday's final round of qualifying in Puerto Rico are Evan Zhu(UCLA) Alex Rybakov(TCU), Nick Chappell(TCU), Michael Zheng(Columbia) and Strong Kirchheimer(Northwestern).
Other championships claimed this week for Americans include Hailey Baptiste's title at the $60K ITF women's World Tennis Tour in Italy and Makenna Jones's(UNC) win at the $25K ITF women's World Tennis Tour in Spain. USC rising sophomore Madison Sieg reached the final of the $25K ITF women's World Tennis Tour tournament in Portugal, falling to 2018 NCAA champion Arianne Hartono(Mississippi) of the Netherlands.
The total of American doubles champions at Roland Garros stayed at three, with No. 10 seeds Taylor Townsend and her partner Leylah Fernandez of Canada falling to the unseeded team of Su-Wei Hsieh of Taiwan and Xinyu Wang of China 1-6, 7-6(5), 6-1 in today's final. Austin Krajicek won the men's doubles title with Ivan Dodig of Croatia yesterday; Tyra Grant and Clervie Ngounoue won the girls doubles title.
Novak Djokovic won the men's singles title, a record 23rd major (for men), defeating Casper Ruud 7-6(1), 6-3, 7-5.
It's been more than three months since I updated the UTR Pro Tennis Tour results from the tournaments in the United States, due to all the junior and college action this spring, but I hope it is useful to see who is making finals, whether juniors, collegians or pros.
I neglected to mention, with all the NCAA team and individual activity last month, the results of the Universal Tennis NIT tournaments. The Liberty men and TCU women won the titles in the inaugural event. For more, including video highlights, see this release from Universal Tennis.
Gabriella Broadfoot d. Shannon Lam 6-2, 6-3
March 13 San Antonio TX
Luciana Perry d. Martina Okalova 6-2, 6-0
March 27 Boca Raton FL
Akasha Urhobo d. Gabriella Broadfoot 6-2, 6-0
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