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$106.5K Braunschweig, Germany Challenger (Clay) – James Cerretani (Brown ’04) and Phillip Oswald won a Challenger for the second week in a row with a 4-6, 7-6(5), 1-0 (2) win over Mateusz Kowalczyk and Antonio Sancic. Kowalczyk and Sancic served for the match twice but Cerretani and Oswald broke both times to force a second set tiebreak. Cerretani and Oswald went down an early mini-break but quickly regained the upper-hand and took both the second set and third set supertiebreak to win it all. It was Cerretani’s fourth title this year and 26th overall.

$50K Winnetka, Illinois, USA Challenger (Hard) – JP Smith (Tennessee ’11) and Stefan Kozlov won their first doubles title as a team with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Sekou Bangoura (Florida ’11) and David O’Hare (Memphis ’14). It was Smith’s second doubles title this year and 22nd overall (16 Challenger/6 Futures).

$10K Harare, Zimbabwe, F3 (Hard) – #356 Tucker Vorster (Ole Miss ’11) won his first singles title this year and sixth overall with a 3-6, 6-4, 7-5 win over #342 Nik Scholtz (Ole Miss ’15). Vorster led 5-3 in the third before Scholtz held at love and then fought off a match point to break in a four-deuce game to even it at 5-5. Vorster broke back in a one-deuce game and then held from 40/30 to win it.

$10K Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, F14 (Hard) – #1707 Jarmere Jenkins (Virginia ’13) lost a heartbreaker in the semifinals to the top seed #217 Aldin Setkic. Jenkins took the opening set 6-4 while Setkic took the second 6-1. Setkic broke to go up 5-4 in the third but Jenkins broke back and then held to go up 6-5. Jenkins had a match point on Setkic’s 5-6 service game but Setkic got the hold to force a third set tiebreak. Jenkins came back from 5-2 down in the tiebreak and had a match point on his serve up 6-5 and another match point on Setkic’s serve while leading 7-6 but Setkic fought them both off and won it 9-7.

Jenkins did get some redemption later in the day when he and Anderson Reed (Florida State) won the doubles title for the second week in a row with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Aziz Dougaz (Florida State Soph) and Javier Pulgar-Garcia (San Diego State ’12). It was Jenkins ninth career doubles title while it was Reed’s sixth.

$10K Saarlouis, Germany, F6 (Clay) – #1945 Johann Willems (Texas Tech ’14) career best week came to a close after a 6-3, 6-3 loss to #669 Marvin Netuschil. Willems went down an early break in the first set but he went up a break at 3-2 in the second. Unfortunately he didn’t win another game and went down in straight sets.

Julian Lenz (Baylor ’16) and Sebastian Fanselow (Pepperdine ’13) won their first doubles title as a team with a straight set win over Marcel Felder and Manuel Pena Lopez. Lenz and Fanselow trailed 5-2 in the first set but they won three straight games to even it at 5-5. The opening set went to a tiebreak with Lenz and Fanselow going up 5-2 and taking it 7-4. Lenz and Fanselow went up 4-1 in the second before Felder and Pena Lopez held and broke at love to pull within 4-3. Lenz and Fanselow broke back and then held to win it 7-6(4), 6-3. It was Lenz’s first pro title while it was Fanselow’s third though it was his first doubles title.

$50K Cali, Colombia, Challenger (Clay) – #360 Jose Hernandez-Fernandez (North Carolina ’12) was attempting to reach his first final since March 2015 but he came up short falling 7-6(3), 6-3 to #255 Darian King.

$42.5K Bastad, Sweden, Challenger (Clay) – Johan Brunstrom (SMU ’03) and Andreas Siljestrom (Middle Tennessee State ’07) were looking for their fourth doubles title this year but they went down 6-3, 7-5 to Isak Arvidsson and Fred Simonsson.

$10K Telfs, Austria, F1 (Clay) – #490 Yannick Hanfmann (USC ’15) made it to second final this year but he wasn’t able to get the win and fell 7-6(4), 3-6, 6-1 to #513 Goncalo Oliveira. Hanfmann led 5-3 in the first set but Oliveira held at love and broke from 30/40 to even it at 5-5. In the tiebreak Hanfmann was serving at 4-5 but he lost both points on serve to drop it 7-4. After Hanfmann took the second set he got broke to go down 3-1 and then he got broke again to go down 5-1 before losing 6-1.