#471 Petr Michnev (Hawaii-Pacific ’14) won his second singles title this year, and third of his career, with a come from behind win over #542 Corentin Denolly in the finals of the $10K Austria F7 Futures in Poertschach. Denolly broke Michnev in a two-deuce after trailing 40/0 to go ahead 3-2 in the first and then only dropped two more points on serve in route to taking the set 6-4. Michnev broke Denolly in a one-deuce game to go ahead 3-1 in the second and then he broke him again in a four-deuce game to take the set 6-2. Denolly went ahead 4-2 in the third set after breaking from 15/40 and then holding from 40/15 but it was all Michnev in the next four games. Michnev held at love, broke in a one-deuce game, held at love, and broke from 15/40 to close out the 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 win.
Pro Titles/Finals This Past Week:
Singles:
Austria – Petr Michnev (Hawaii-Pacific ’14)
Belgium – Joran Vliegen (East Carolina ’14)
Doubles:
Thailand – John-Paul Fruttero (Cal ’03)
Runner-Ups:
Singles:
None
Doubles:
Winston-Salem (ATP) – Andre Begemann (Pepperdine ’08)
Austria – Peter Nagy (Texas A&M Corpus Christi ’15)
Belgium – Sander Gille (East Tennessee State ’12) & Joran Vliegen (East Carolina ’14)
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The US Open released its men’s and women’s doubles draws today and as you can see below they loaded full of players with college tennis ties. The NCAA Men’s Champions, Mackenzie McDonald/Martin Redlicki, drew the top seeded team of Herbert and Mahut while the NCAA Women’s Champions, Brooke Austin/Kourtney Keegan, drew the unseeded American duo of Muhammad and Townsend.
US Open Men’s Doubles
Mackenzie McDonald (UCLA ’16)/Martin Redlicki (UCLA Jr) vs. [1] P-H Herbert/Nicolas Mahut
Dennis Novikov (UCLA ’13)/Denis Kudla vs. Robin Haase/Artem Sitak
Andreas Siljestrom (MTSU ’07)/Jiri Vesely vs. Dominic Thiem/Tristan-Samuel Weissborn
[13] Robert Farah (USC ’10)/Juan Sebastian Cabal vs. Jeremy Chardy/Sam Groth
[10] John Peers (Baylor ’11)/Henri Kontinen vs. Federico Delbonis/Guido Pella
Robert Lindstedt (Pepperdine ’98)/Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi vs. Carlos Berlocq/Albert Ramos-Vinolas
Michael Venus (LSU ’09) /Mate Pavic vs. Julio Peralta/Horacio Zeballos
[5] Jean-Julien Rojer (UCLA ’02)/Horia Tecau vs. Julian Knowle/Florian Mayer
Marcin Matkowski (UCLA ’03)/Jurgen Melzer vs. Alexandr Dolgopolov/Sergiy Stakhovsky
[9] Treat Huey (Virginia ’08)/Max Mirnyi vs. Nicolas Almagro/Victor Estrella Burgos
Steve Johnson (USC ’12)/Sam Querrey vs. Fabio Fognini/Andreas Seppi
John McNally (’17 Ohio St commit)/JJ Wolf (’17 Ohio St commit) vs. Chris Guccione/Andre Sa
[7] Rajeev Ram (ILL ’03)/R Klaasen vs. Eric Butorac (Gust Adolphus ’03)/Scott Lipsky (Stanf ’03)
Austin Krajicek (Texas A&M ’11)/Ryan Harrison vs. [8] Feliciano Lopez/Marc Lopez
[3] Bob & Mike Bryan (Stanford ’08) vs. Martin Klizan/Adil Shamasdin
Daniel Nguyen (USC ’12)/Noah Rubin (Wake Forest ’15) vs. Daniel Evans/Nick Kyrgios
Andre Begemann (Pepperdine ’08)/Leander Paes vs. Dudi Sela/Stephane Robert
Nick Meister (UCLA ’12)/Eric Quigley (Kentucky ’12) vs. [12] Lukas Kubot/Alexander Peya
Dominic Inglot (Virginia ’09)/Marin Draganja vs. [15] Oliver Marach/Fabrice Martin
Nicholas Monroe (North Carolina ’04)/Donald Young vs. [2] Ivan Dodig/Marcelo Melo
US Open Women’s Doubles
[9] Abigail Spears (UCLA ’00)/Raquel Atawo (Cal ’04) vs/ Heather Watson/Michaella Krajicek
Nicole Gibbs (Stanford ’13)/Nao Hibino vs. Monica Puig/Mariana Duque-Marino
Jada Hart (UCLA Fr)/Ena Shibahara (UCLA Fr) vs. [7] Sania Mirza/Barbora Strycova
Maria Sanchez (USC ’11)/Mirjana Lucic-Baroni vs. Belinda Bencic/Kirsten Flipkens
Jacqueline Cako (Arizona State ’13)/Danielle Lao (USC ’13) vs. Louisa Chirico/Alison Riske
Brooke Austin (Florida Jr)/Kourtney Keegan (Florida Sr) vs. Asia Muhammad/Taylor Townsend
Caitlin Whoriskey (Tennessee ’10)/Ashley Weinhold vs. [10] Vania King/Monica Niculescu
Catherine Bellis (’17 Stanford commit)/Julia Boserup vs. [3] Timea Babos/Yaroslava Shvedova
It has been 21 years since the NCAA Men’s Doubles Champs won a round at the US Open with Ole Miss’s Mahesh Bhupathi and Ali Hamadeh achieving that task before falling in the second round.
Stanford’s Hilary Barte and Mallory Burdette were the last NCAA Women’s Doubles Champs to advance past the first round with that happening just five years ago in 2011.
| Year | Player | School | US Open Results |
| 2016 | Mackenzie McDonald, Martin Redlicki | UCLA | vs. #1 Herbert/Mahut |
| 2015 | Soren Hess-Olesen, Lloyd Glasspool | Texas | No wild card |
| 2014 | Mikelis Libietis, Hunter Reese | Tennessee | No wild card |
| 2013 | Jarmere Jenkins, Mac Styslinger | Virginia | lost to Llodra/Mahut 6-3, 6-2 |
| 2012 | Chase Buchanan, Blaz Rola | Ohio State | No wild card |
| 2011 | Jeff Dadamo, Austin Krajicek | Texas A&M | lost to Farah/Cabal 7-6, 6-4 |
| 2010 | Drew Courtney, Michael Shabaz | Virginia | lost to Moodie/Norman 6-3, 6-4 |
| 2009 | Dominic Inglot, Michael Shabaz | Virginia | No wild card |
| 2008 | Robert Farah, Kaes Van’t Hof | USC | No wild card |
| 2007 | Marco Born, Andreas Siljestrom | Middle Tenn St | No wild card |
| 2006 | Kevin Anderson, Ryan Rowe | Illinois | No wild card |
| 2005 | John Isner, Antonio Ruiz | Georgia | No wild card |
| 2004 | Sam Warburg, KC Corkery | Stanford | lost to Martin/Sanchez-Munoz 6-4, 6-4 |
| 2003 | Rajeev Ram, Brian Wilson | Illinois | lost to Ginepri/Reynolds 6-4, 6-4 |
| 2002 | Andrew Colombo, Mark Kovacs | Auburn | No wild card |
| 2001 | Matias Boeker, Travis Parrott | Georgia | No wild card |
| 2000 | Cary Franklin, Graydon Oliver | Illinois | lost to Barnard/Koenig 5-7, 7-5, 6-1 |
| 1999 | K.J. Hippensteel, Ryan Wolters | Stanford | lost to Roddick/Harper-Griffith 6-2, 6-2 |
| 1998 | Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan | Stanford | lost to Adams/Delaitre 6-1, 5-7, 7-6 |
| 1997 | Luke Smith, Tim Blenkiron | UNLV | lost to Noteboom/Wibier 2-6, 7-5, 6-2 |
| 1996 | Justin Gimelstob, Srdjan Muskatirovic | UCLA | lost to Henman/Galbraith 7-6, 7-5 |
| 1995 | Mahesh Bhupathi, Ali Hamadeh | Mississippi | def. Keil/Nyborg 7-6, 6-1 in R1; lost to Black/Stark 6-1, 6-1 in R2 |
| 1994 | Laurent Miquelard, Joc Simmons | Mississippi St. | lost to Leach/Visser 6-0, 6-1 |
| 1993 | David Blair, Mark Merklein | Florida | def. Bathman/Mortensen 6-3, 7-6 in R1; lost to P McEnroe/Reneberg 6-1, 6-4 in R2 |
| 1992 | Chris Cocotos, Alex O’Brien | Stanford | lost to J McEnroe/Stich 6-3, 6-4 |
| 1991 | Matt Lucena, Bent-Ove Pedersen | California | def. Nijssen/Suk 6-4, 6-1 in R1; def. L Jensen/Warder 7-5, 6-3 in R2; def. Korda/Novacek 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 in R3; lost to Fitzgerald/Jarryd 5-7, 7-6, 6-2, 6-4 in QF |
| 1990 | Doug Eisenman, Matt Lucena | California | lost to Delaitre/Rosset 6-4, 6-4 |
| Year | Players | School | US Open Result |
| 2016 | Brooke Austin/Kourtney Keegan | Florida | vs. Asia Muhammad/Taylor Townsend |
| 2015 | Maya Jansen / Erin Routliffe | Alabama | Got WC due to winning USONP – lost to Spears/Kops-Jones 6-2, 6-1 |
| 2014 | Maya Jansen / Erin Routliffe | Alabama | No wild card |
| 2013 | Kaitlyn Christian / Sabrina Santamaria | USC | Forgot to apply for wild card thus not given |
| 2012 | Mallory Burdette / Nicole Gibbs | Stanford | Got a wild card but they had to pull out when Gibbs got injured |
| 2011 | Hilary Barte / Mallory Burdette | Stanford | def. Glatch/Hampton 6-4, 6-4 in R1; lost to Klepac/Tatishvili 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 in R2 |
| 2010 | Hilary Barte / Lindsay Burdette | Stanford | lost to Vesnina/Zvonareva 7-5, 6-3 |
| 2009 | Mari Andersson / Jana Juricova | Cal | No wild card |
| 2008 | Tracey Lin / Riza Zalameda | UCLA | def. Parra-Santonja/Suarez Navarro 6-3, 6-4 in R1; lost to Foretz/Pin 6-3, 6-3 in R2 |
| 2007 | Sara Anundsen / Jenna Long | North Carolina | lost to Jans/Rosolska 6-2, 6-1 |
| 2006 | Cristelle Grier / Alexis Prousis | Northwestern | No wild card |
| 2005 | Alice Barnes / Erin Burdette | Stanford | No wild card |
| 2004 | Daniela Bercek / Lauren Fisher | UCLA | No wild card |
| 2003 | Christina Fusano / Raquel Kops-Jones | Cal | lost to Mandula/Wartusch 6-3, 5-7, 6-1 |
| 2002 | Lauren Kalvaria / Gabriela Lastra | Stanford | lost to Clijsters/Shaughnessy 6-2, 6-1 |
| 2001 | Whitney Laiho / Jessica Lehnhoff | Florida | def. Harkleroad/Mattek 6-2, 7-5 in R1; def. Gagliardi/Tu 6-3, 6-7, 6-3; lost to Navratilova/Sanchez-Vicario 6-3, 6-0 in R16 |
| 2000 | Claire Curran / Amy Jensen | Cal | lost to Hingis/Pierce 4-6, 6-0, 6-1 |
| 1999 | Amanda Augustus / Amy Jensen | Cal | lost to Hrdlickova/Rittner 6-3, 6-3 |
| 1998 | Amanda Augustus / Amy Jensen | Cal | lost to Fernandez/Sanchez-Vicario 6-2, 6-2 |
| 1997 | Dawn Buth / Stephanie Nickitas | Florida | lost to Fusai/Tauziat 6-7, 6-3, 6-2 |
| 1996 | Dawn Buth / Stephanie Nickitas | Florida | lost to Raymond/Stubbs 6-1, 6-2 |
| 1995 | Keri Phebus / Susie Starrett | UCLA | lost to Boogert/Krijger-Jagerman 6-2, 7-6 |
| 1994 | Rebecca Jensen / Nora Koves | Kansas | def. Kschwendt/Strnadova 6-4, 6-4 in R1; lost to Arendt/Radford 6-2, 6-2 in R2 |
| 1993 | Alix Creek / Michelle Oldham | Arizona | lost to Provis/Raymond 6-2, 6-3 |
| 1992 | Mamie Ceniza / Iwalani McCalla | Florida | lost to Fairbank-Nideffer/Rush 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 |
| 1991 | Jillian Alexander / Nicole Arendt | Florida | lost to Caverzasio/Herreman 6-2, 6-7, 6-4 |
| 1990 | Meredith McGrath / Teri Whitlinger | Stanford | def. Benjamin/Minter 1-6, 6-3, 6-1 in R1; lost to Burgin/Fairbank-Nideffer 6-4, 6-1 in R2 |
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