Current and future college players in ATP events

[mikej]

Originally Posted by socaltennnis

Austin Krajicek won Kalamazoo in 2008 and already had a semester at Texas A+M and Bob Van Overbeek made it to the finals in 2010 after a semester at UF...

same for Prakash Amritraj who won back in 2002 after a season at USC

i'm sure there are more examples, guys w/ college experience playing the zoo clearly didn't just start this year with DN

jmac just being pissy that he didn't get a chance to commentate rubin's coming out party at the usopen and pat himself on the back this year...poor guy

[Tennishacker]

Originally Posted by mikej

same for Prakash Amritraj who won back in 2002 after a season at USC

i'm sure there are more examples, guys w/ college experience playing the zoo clearly didn't just start this year with DN

jmac just being pissy that he didn't get a chance to commentate rubin's coming out party at the usopen and pat himself on the back this year...poor guy

If a guy is eligible to play the "zoo", regardless if they are in college, professional or not, they would be stupid.

Seriously, main draw of USO, priceless.

[fightfan]

Originally Posted by floridatennisdude

Burdette into the 2nd round...shaky hold, but put it away. Not the same player that choked in the 2011 finals against Embree. Haha

Actually, Burdette made it into the 3rd round! Hradecka was a 2nd round opponent. She beat Timea Bacsinszky in round 1. Burdette will most likely play Sharapova next. Even if she loses, it has been a fantastic tournament and summer for Mal!

Steve Johnson also just finished a straight set win over Rajeev Ram! Klahn is about to get on court against Jurgen Melzer.

[floridatennisdude]

Originally Posted by Tennishacker

If a guy is eligible to play the "zoo", regardless if they are in college, professional or not, they would be stupid.

Seriously, main draw of USO, priceless.

Yea, JMac might not get that DN had a route to get into the main draw by going for the auto WC. It's about the same difficulty doing it through the Zoo as it is through quallies last week...if he would have even gotten into quallies.

Definitely a good move by DN. never know if you'll get another USO shot. Take em when you get em.

[2ndServe]

klahn seems to have a better pro game than johnson. Pretty impressive watching him vs melzer

[fightfan]

Wow, fantastic win for Klahn today over former top 10-er Melzer! This has been an incredible US Open so far for the NCAA!!

Novikov (UCLA) - 2nd round at least
Johnson (USC) - 2nd round at least, straight set win against Ram
Klahn (Stanford) - 2nd round at least, 5-set win vs. former top 10 Melzer
Burdette (Stanford) - 3rd round at least
Gibbs (Stanford) - lost in first round
Johnson/Sock - defeated #1 seed Mirnyi/Nestor in round 1

Am I missing something? Is there more?

[mikej]

Originally Posted by fightfan

Wow, fantastic win for Klahn today over former top 10-er Melzer! This has been an incredible US Open so far for the NCAA!!

Novikov (UCLA) - 2nd round at least
Johnson (USC) - 2nd round at least, straight set win against Ram
Klahn (Stanford) - 2nd round at least, 5-set win vs. former top 10 Melzer
Burdette (Stanford) - 3rd round at least
Gibbs (Stanford) - lost in first round
Johnson/Sock - defeated #1 seed Mirnyi/Nestor in round 1

Am I missing something? Is there more?

indeed there is more

novikov/redlicki saved some match pts to pull out a dubs win

and not surprisingly, former UVA players huey/inglot continued their solid dubs play this year with a win

[fightfan]

Ah, thanks for the update mikej! Technically, I guess Isner should also be a representative of recent NCAA grads too.

[db379]

Originally Posted by fightfan

Wow, fantastic win for Klahn today over former top 10-er Melzer! This has been an incredible US Open so far for the NCAA!!

Novikov (UCLA) - 2nd round at least
Johnson (USC) - 2nd round at least, straight set win against Ram
Klahn (Stanford) - 2nd round at least, 5-set win vs. former top 10 Melzer
Burdette (Stanford) - 3rd round at least
Gibbs (Stanford) - lost in first round
Johnson/Sock - defeated #1 seed Mirnyi/Nestor in round 1

Am I missing something? Is there more?

Very impressive indeed! I thought Johnson had a good shot at winning his 1st round but I am impressed by the others. Burdette in the 3rd round? Wow! But the most impressive win for me is Brad against Melzer. I watched parts of the match and I was impressed by his will to come back in the match early on after losing the first set. I didn't think he would win it but he did with gusto and he has really impressed me, once more...!

[Clemson_tennis]

I read that Novikov actually gave college tennis credit for his improved game. That's big for college tennis.

[Clemson_tennis]

Nik Scholtz played for South Africa in Davis cup and lost to Raonic 7-5 6-4 7-5.

[andfor]

Originally Posted by Clemson_tennis

Nik Scholtz played for South Africa in Davis cup and lost to Raonic 7-5 6-4 7-5.

But was Raonic trying? Was he tweeting before the match (JK TCF), was it a routine match and what story does the stats tell?

By the score line alone, I'm impressed. Many insiders in this area predict Scholtz won't last 4 years in school and turn pro before finishing his elegibility.

[TopDawg]

Scholtz lost 6-2 6-2 to Frank Dancevic in the dead rubber.

[Clemson_tennis]

Incoming Sooner Axel Alvarez beat Clay Thompson 6-3 6-2 in the final round of future qualies. Looks like John Roddick found a pretty darn good player.

[boomerTennis]

Originally Posted by Clemson_tennis

Incoming Sooner Axel Alvarez beat Clay Thompson 6-3 6-2 in the final round of future qualies. Looks like John Roddick found a pretty darn good player.

How did you find out already? I've been looking at the itf website for updates and didn't see it. This is really exciting for us, between Paval, Alcorta, Webb, Siributwong, Alvarez and Starkhovsky, we got a pretty deep team this year. So deep that Mihov transfer and we probably won't lose much.

[Clemson_tennis]

I always use the ATP website

[Jonny S&V]

Originally Posted by Clemson_tennis

Nik Scholtz played for South Africa in Davis cup and lost to Raonic 7-5 6-4 7-5.

The guy is a few months older than I am and he's only a sophomore in college (I'm a 4th year). Ah, foreign players in the NCAA...

[Jonny S&V]

Originally Posted by Jonny S&V

The guy is a few months older than I am and he's only a sophomore in college (I'm a 4th year). Ah, foreign players in the NCAA...

Not to say what the US players do is automatically right, just pointing out that it's not necessarily a level playing field age-wise...

[Clemson_tennis]

Junior Ore getting some nice wins

[db379]

Several former college players in action today in Sacramento.

Klahn plays Blake... could be interesting. In principle Blake should win easily but Klahn beat Melzer at the US open so it might be a competitive match.