Current and future college players in ATP events

[db379]

Klahn in the 3rd round of Charlotteville Challenger, Steve J lost in 3 sets!

01/11/12 16:00 M. Lammer - D. Kudla 1 : 2 (3 : 6) (6 : 4) (4 : 6)
31/10/12 23:30 T. Smyczek - B. Klahn 1 : 2 (6 : 4) (6 : 7) (3 : 6)
31/10/12 17:30 A. Kuznetsov - F. Wolmarans 2 : 0 (6 : 4) (7 : 6)
31/10/12 16:30 R. Williams - S. Johnson 2 : 1 (4 : 6) (6 : 4) (6 : 4)
31/10/12 15:00 A. Krajicek - A. Bogomolov Jr 0 : 2 (3 : 6) (4 : 6)

[TopDawg]

Blaz Rola into the semifinals of the Marbella Spain Challenger. If he goes out tomorrow his ranking will jump to a career high of around 310 or so. A spot in the finals would boost him to around 285 and a championship would get him to around 250. Rola's current ranking of 362 is a career high. I just don't see him coming back to Columbus with a ranking around 300 or better. He only has 2 points to defend from a January future so by playing pro full time he can easily push his ranking into the 150-200 range if he continues playing at the same level. This year he has won 4 futures, finished as a runner-up twice, and this is his best result at the Challenger level.

[brizzle77]

College Tennis Online has a great article showcasing college graduates now battling it out on the ATP and WTA tour. http://bit.ly/YfDnJP

[matchplay]

Originally Posted by brizzle77

College Tennis Online has a great article showcasing college graduates now battling it out on the ATP and WTA tour. http://bit.ly/YfDnJP

Graduates?
just a hand full of the players listed have degrees.

[TopDawg]

Ole Miss's Nik Scholtz won a South African Future yesterday - Draw. His 2 closest matches came in the Quarters against former Florida Gator Tyler Hochwalt and in the Semis against former Ole Miss Rebel Tucker Vorster

[10isDad]

Spent the weekend watching and photographing a money tournament in Phoenix, AZ. Some very solid players including Dennis Nevolo, Nick Meister, Amit Inbar, Joel Kielbowycz, Connor Farren plus a couple journeyman pros: Roman Borvanov and Brian Battistone.

I'd never seen Meister or Nevolo play, but after their first matches I knew they'd likely be in the final. They play today at 10:30 a.m.

Inbar beat Farren in a really good match 6-7, 7-6, 10-4 (played a match TB by their own agreement). Inbar then retired to Meister (6-1, ret.).

On the top half of the draw, Borvanov beat Battistone 4 & 3 in one quarter. Nevolo just destroyed former UNLV player Kielbowycz 6-1, 6-2. In the semi finals, in a very, very high quality match Nevolo beat Borvanov 4 & 4. Both players have remarkable foot speed and both are extremely consistent players.

Unfortunately, I have to miss the finals today. Should be a good match.

[ClarkC]

Good run in India for some former college players. Sanam Singh of UVa won the first two Futures of a three-tourney sequence. Torsten Wietoska of Duke made the semis of the first two, and is now in the finals of the third one, the Belgaum Futures, against Michael Shabaz of UVa. Final was played many hours ago, but results are slow to post. Shabaz won his second doubles title in a row with Amrit Narasimhan, who played two years at Tyler JC and two years at Memphis. Teddy Angelinos of UVa also won some singles and doubles matches at this tourney.

[jaggy]

Indiana's Will Kendall went to India and an extended Asia trip but despite qualifying for main draws he couldnt get an elusive 1st atp point.

[Clemson_tennis]

Yannick and Dom Maden are playing in a German future this week (odd timing). Yannick got former Badger Baumann in the first round and Dom got Niles Ranger

[jaggy]

Steve Johnson is first up on court 3 against Almagro, tough draw but should be good to watch.

[andfor]

Originally Posted by jaggy

Steve Johnson is first up on court 3 against Almagro, tough draw but should be good to watch.

Agreed. Almagro in 4 but pulling for Johnson.

[treeman10]

Enjoyed the 5 setter with Stevie and Almagro, just too many unforced errors to pull it off.

[TopDawg]

Couple of Ohio State guys playing in the Sunrise, FL Future event this week. Blaz Rola in the main draw and Hunter Callahan and Constantin Christ were both in qualies. Christ lost to Dennis Nevolo 6-4 6-0 in 3rd round and Callahan went down in the 1st round to a guy from Brazil ranked 440.

[J011yroger]

Originally Posted by Clemson_tennis

Yannick and Dom Maden are playing in a German future this week (odd timing). Yannick got former Badger Baumann in the first round and Dom got Niles Ranger

Are you Derek, or just sporting his picture as your avatar?

J

[ClarkC]

ITA has a page following the former collegians in the Australian Open. It is a pretty impressive bunch on the men's side. I especially think that a lot of players really learn to play doubles while in college, and 15 of 64 men's doubles teams have a collegian, with four teams having two collegians.

[Clemson_tennis]

Emilio Gomez lost to Paul Capdeville (world no.155) 7-5 6-1 7-5 in Davis Cup.

[Vicious Vik]

Originally Posted by Clemson_tennis

Emilio Gomez lost to Paul Capdeville (world no.155) 7-5 6-1 7-5 in Davis Cup.

Shows how much college tennis sucks. One of the top guys gets easily beat by a guy not even in the top 150.

[Clemson_tennis]

Originally Posted by Vicious Vik

Shows how much college tennis sucks. One of the top guys gets easily beat by a guy not even in the top 150.

There is certainly a gap but Capdeville is a good player. He has been as high as 76 before and I remember gave Federer a good match a few years ago in a US Open night match..

[andfor]

Originally Posted by Clemson_tennis

There is certainly a gap but Capdeville is a good player. He has been as high as 76 before and I remember gave Federer a good match a few years ago in a US Open night match..

You're responding to someone who's expectations are delusional at best.

No offense Vik, I still want to see a video of you at a Texas match booing Center when he's introduced.

[Smiler]

Originally Posted by andfor

No offense Vik, I still want to see a video of you at a Texas match booing Center when he's introduced.

Don't encourage him! I'm already cringing at the thought of it