by Bobby Knight | Aug 15, 2016 | Blog
Michael Mmoh came into this year’s USTA Boys 18 National Championships as the top seed and he definitely lived up to the billing. Mmoh only needed about 90 minutes to win the best of five sets final over the No. 7 seed Vasil Kirkov 6-1, 6-2, 6-3. Mmoh only lost 35 games in seven matches and didn’t drop a set all week. Colette Lewis has all the quotes from today’s winners over at ZooTennis. Mmoh’s Week at the Zoo:BYE in R1 def. Ivan Thamma 6-4, 6-4 in R2 def. Joshua Marchalik 6-0, 6-1 in R3 def. [18] Keegan Smith 6-2, 6-2 in R4 def. [10] Oliver Crawford 6-1, 7-6(4) in R5 def. [5] Gianni Ross 6-4, 6-2 in QF...
by Bobby Knight | Jul 30, 2016 | Blog
#474 Mikelis Libietis (Tennessee ’15) won his tenth straight match and second straight Futures after defeating #1626 Alberto Brizzi 7-6(6), 7-6(6) in the finals of the $10K Futures in Parnu, Estonia. Libietis broke Brizzi to start the match and then held in a four-deuce game to go ahead 2-0. Brizzi took the next four games to open up a 4-2 lead but Libietis took the next two to even it at 4-4. It stayed on serve until the tiebreak and then Libietis won the pivotal 6-6 point on Brizzi’s serve and then took the next point to take the opening set tiebreak 8-6. The second set started with six straight holds then Brizzi broke from 15/40 to go up 4-3....
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