Steve Johnson (USC ’12) started the day off by losing a heartbreaker to Andy Murray in the quarterfinals of the Olympics singles draw but he rebounded a few hours later in the doubles bronze medal match. Johnson, who was seeded 12th in the singles draw, dropped the opening set 6-0 to the second seed Andy Murray but Johnson fought back and nearly pulled off the upset. Johnson took the second set 6-4 and went up a break at 4-3 in the third but Murray broke back to even it at 4-4. The match went to a third set tiebreak with Murray pulling away for a 7-6(2) win.
Johnson was back on court a short while later with Jack Sock as the American duo took on Canada’s Daniel Nestor and Vasek Pospisil in the bronze medal doubles match. It only took 63 minutes for Johnson and Sock to beat Nestor and Pospisil 6-2, 6-4. Johnson became just the second USC tennis player to ever medal at the Olympics with the other being Rafael Osuna (doubles gold) in 1968. Congrats Stevie!!
Speechless. ???????? @JackSockpic.twitter.com/SdYUlgNx1s— Steve Johnson (@SJohnson_89) August 13, 2016
A pair of recent college graduates won the Champaign Futures doubles title as Jared Hiltzik (Illinois ’16) and Dominik Koepfer (Tulane ’16) ousted Tim Kopinski (Illinois ’15) and Alex Lawson (Notre Dame ’16) 3-6, 6-3, 1-0 (9). It was Koepfer’s first career pro title of any kind while it was Hiltzik’s third doubles title this year.
— Dominik Koepfer (@dom94k) August 13, 2016
The ITA Summer Circuit culminates with a four day tournament that begins on Saturday and runs until Tuesday. Louisville commit Parker Wynn is the top seed with the seeding based off each player’s Universal Tennis Rating. The winner gets a main draw wild card into the ITA All Americans while the runner-up gets a qualifying wild card.
I created a google doc with the men’s draw sorted by UTR, school, and name – you can view it through the link or the chart below.
Top 8 Seeds:
1. Parker Wynn (Louisville)
2. Raheel Manji (Indiana)
3. Kyle Mautner (Penn)
4. Connor Curry (Texas Tech)
5. Catalin Mateas (Duke)
6. Vincent Lin (Duke)
7. Eleftherious Theodorou (Iowa)
8. Christopher Fletcher (George Washington)
Colleges with multiple participants
8 – Iowa
6 – Indiana
5 – Ball State
4 – Detroit, Michigan State,
3 – Duke, IUPUI, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Wisconsin
2 – Abilene Christian, Dayton, Denver, George Washington, Harvard, Michigan, Ohio State, Rose Hulman, Western Michigan
Universal Tennis Rating
High – 13.56 (Wynn)
Low – 7.28 (Sweeney)
Avg – 11.65
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