Recent College Players That Turned Pro

[TopDawg]

Robert Farah #246: USC Trojan won his first tour level matches this week beating former Tulsa Hurricane Arnau Brugues and world # 38 Pablo Andujar in Barcelona

Daniel Kosakowski #315: UCLA Bruin has won 1 final and made 3 QF this year in futures. Beat Steve Johnson last June to win Sacramento Future. Last year won a main draw match in Los Angeles Classic.

JP Smith #349: Tennessee Vol has won 1 future made 2 finals and made 2 Challenger QFs.

Rhyne Williams #365: Tennessee Vol plays Ryan Sweeting tomorrow in QF at Savannah Challenger. Qualified for Indian Wells and lost 6-4 in the 3rd to #86 ranked Frederico Gil.

Blake Strode #384: Arkansas Razorback plays Peter Polansky tomorrow in QF at Savannah Challenger. Won 2 Futures in last year.

Tennys Sandgren #404: Tennessee Vol has won 4 futures in the last 9 months including one last week. Will be around 360 next week

Sanam Singh #446: Virginia Cav won back to back to back futures in India recently.

Amazing that Tennessee had 3 players in the current top 400 and couldn't make it past the quarterfinals last year. Feel free to add to the list for other players that you remember that went pro in the last 2 years or so.

[treeman10]

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[KineticChain]

Originally Posted by treeman10

Think I've got a correction for your TopDawg, this shows Farah at #66 - I didn't realize he was in the top 100....

http://www.atpworldtour.com/Tennis/P...ert-Farah.aspx

That's his doubles rank

[treeman10]

duh my bad. I should have never doubted the TopDawg.

[floridatennisdude]

Sekou Bangoura Jr - #800, 7-10 overall and has yet to make it out of the second round in a Futures event in 2012. Has earned $1594 in prize money this season.

Great decision to turn pro

[josofo]

steve johnson is ranked 368, if he had turned pro based on his early results i think he would be ranked around 200 by now.

other notable players

devin britton is ranked way up at 614.

austin krajick at 449

[volstennis]

John Peers (Baylor/Middle Tennessee): 511 in singles but made final in $15k Futures in Little Rock last week. 159 in doubles.

Peers & JP Smith have been practically lights out in doubles this year. They've won 3 Challenger titles in 2012. JP is 180 in doubles.

[Gatorluver]

Originally Posted by floridatennisdude

Sekou Bangoura Jr - #800, 7-10 overall and has yet to make it out of the second round in a Futures event in 2012. Has earned $1594 in prize money this season.

Great decision to turn pro

One of the worst decisions ever! Sad thing is he was happy and doing well in school. He was pushed to turn pro by his family.

[Rob_C]

Originally Posted by Gatorluver

One of the worst decisions ever! Sad thing is he was happy and doing well in school. He was pushed to turn pro by his family.

According to TCF, the family is education 1st, tennis 2nd, as far as priorities. Supposedly Sekou had to guarantee his Dad he would finish his degree for the Dad to sign off on him turning pro.

[TennisFan2Day]

Originally Posted by Gatorluver

One of the worst decisions ever! Sad thing is he was happy and doing well in school. He was pushed to turn pro by his family.

I agree. He was always fun to watch and seemed like he was really enjoying it there.

Most people don't know that Sekou is a scratch golfer and could easily get a golf scholarship.

[jaggy]

Dominic Inglot, England, played at UVA now 141 in doubles playing with Treat Huey, Philipines and also from UVA, currently 44 in doubles.

[BHSC]

Originally Posted by jaggy

Dominic Inglot, England, played at UVA now 141 in doubles playing with Treat Huey, Philipines and also from UVA, currently 44 in doubles.

For what it's worth, Huey is as American as they come, from Alexandria, Va.

His mother is from the Philippines. He's listed as Philippines now, so that he can play Davis Cup. Plus, their federation helps out with some expenses.

Another Philippines Davis Cupper is Ruben Gonzales, a small town Indiana kid who played at Illinois. He's been playing mostly futures this year.

[SoCal10s]

Originally Posted by BHSC

For what it's worth, Huey is as American as they come, from Alexandria, Va.

His mother is from the Philippines. He's listed as Philippines now, so that he can play Davis Cup. Plus, their federation helps out with some expenses.

Another Philippines Davis Cupper is Ruben Gonzales, a small town Indiana kid who played at Illinois. He's been playing mostly futures this year.

great idea for players with foreign heritage to play Davis Cup for parent's home country ,they would never get a chance to do otherwise.. play a few more years after college,make some contacts,get ready for real life down the road..

[goober]

Originally Posted by SoCal10s

great idea for players with foreign heritage to play Davis Cup for parent's home country ,they would never get a chance to do otherwise.. play a few more years after college,make some contacts,get ready for real life down the road..

It may be good for the players, however I don't really like the idea of players playing for a country that they did not grow up in, they don't currently live there, did not train there and the only connection that they have is one of their parents is from that country.

[andfor]

Originally Posted by goober

It may be good for the players, however I don't really like the idea of players playing for a country that they did not grow up in, they don't currently live there, did not train there and the only connection that they have is one of their parents is from that country.

Why not? The U.S. college system gives scholarships to international students to play tennis. For some low ranked kid who has no chance of cracking his DC team, what the difference will it make?

Alex Bogomolov U.S. citizen recently decided to play DC for Russia. The USTA made him repay them for the support they provided him. I believe the amount was $75,000.

[SoCal10s]

Originally Posted by goober

It may be good for the players, however I don't really like the idea of players playing for a country that they did not grow up in, they don't currently live there, did not train there and the only connection that they have is one of their parents is from that country.

real life .. you take what ever is given to you... if other countries are so hard up to give you a free ride on DC team why not.. it's not like these players have a real chance to beat the USA team,if they were really that good ,I'm sure they would rather play for team USA .. this is professional sports ..it's just mere entertainment... extending your sports life expectancy to entertain people who would support you,I see nothing wrong with that ,,it's not like they are expected to save the free world..

[tennismonster]

Originally Posted by goober

It may be good for the players, however I don't really like the idea of players playing for a country that they did not grow up in, they don't currently live there, did not train there and the only connection that they have is one of their parents is from that country.

Robert Farah...Canadian born played US College Tennis for SC, now represents Colombia in DC

This happens in the olympic too..didnt we(The US) take Bernard Lagat from Kenya, who was born an raised in Kenya, I believed competed for Kenya? If its allowed to happen at the olympic level and the olympic committee is okay with it...

[jaggy]

Originally Posted by BHSC

For what it's worth, Huey is as American as they come, from Alexandria, Va.

His mother is from the Philippines. He's listed as Philippines now, so that he can play Davis Cup. Plus, their federation helps out with some expenses.

Another Philippines Davis Cupper is Ruben Gonzales, a small town Indiana kid who played at Illinois. He's been playing mostly futures this year.

Thanks and smiling at "as American as they come". Lots of mileage there haha

[Clemson_tennis]

Marek Michalicka of Wisconsin, ranked 299 in singles. Has been tearing it up in European futures and now challengers.

[Vicious Vik]

Sanam Singh was doing well in Indian futures. I saw him play in one of them when I was over visiting family in India. He lookd very sharp and even quicker than he was in college. I will be pulling for him to make the ATP level.