Zoo - Round 2 Results

Day 2 of the USTA Boys 18 National Championship in Kalamazoo is in the books with 24 of the top 32 seeds moving on to Day 3.

4 of the top 16 seeds were upset with 2 of those being top 10 seeds.  Below are the 8 seeds to lose though a few wouldn't be considered upsets based off TRN and UTR info.

The seeded losers were as follows:

• #27 Andrew Heller lost to Vincent Lin 6-2, 6-2.  Lin (2015 Duke commit) is a TRN Blue Chip with a 13.50 UTR while Heller (2016 Yale commit) is a TRN 5-star with a 12.59 UTR.
• #21 Connor Hance lost to to Grayson Broadus 6-2, 5-7, 6-3. Broadus (2015 Notre Dame commit) is a TRN 5-star with a 13.11 UTR while Hance (2017 uncommitted) is a TRN Blue Chip with a 13.40 UTR.
• #26 Kalman Boyd lost to Jack Turchetta 6-4, 7-5. Turchetta (2015 Columbia commit) is a TRN 4-star with a 12.80 UTR while Boyd (2015 USC commit) is a TRN Blue Chip with a 13.70 UTR.
• #16 Zeke Clark lost to Logan Smith 6-3, 6-4. Smith (2015 USC commit) is a TRN Blue Chip with a 13.65 UTR while Clark (2016 uncommitted) is a TRN Blue Chip with a 13.81 UTR. 
• #32 Matthew Gamble lost to Ryan Dickerson 7-5, 6-4. Dickerson (2015 Duke commit) is a TRN 5-star with a UTR of 13.59 while Gamble (2016 uncommitted) is a TRN Blue Chip with a 13.15 UTR.
• #15 Eric Rutledge lost to Michael Genender 6-2, 6-1. Genender (2015 Stanford commit) is a TRN Blue Chip with a 13.95 UTR while Rutledge (2015 Wake Forest commit) is a TRN Blue Chip with a 13.78 UTR
• #8 William Blumberg lost to Henrik Wiersholm 1-6, 6-3, 6-4. Wiersholm (Virginia Rising Soph) is a TRN Blue Chip with a 13.48 UTR while Blumberg (2017 uncommitted) is a TRN Blue Chip with a 14.70 UTR. 
• #9 Sam Riffice lost to Reese Stalder 6-4, 2-6, 7-6(6). Stalder (2015 TCU commit) is a TRN 5-star with a 13.19 UTR while Riffice (2018 uncommitted) is a TRN Blue Chip with a 14.36 UTR.

UTR upsets - greater than 1.0 difference between the 2 players:

Reese Stalder (13.19) def. Sam Riffice (14.36) 6-4, 2-6, 7-6(6)
Henrik Wiersholm (13.48) def. William Blumberg (14.70) 1-6, 6-3, 6-4


TRN biggest upsets - guys with the lowest winning probability based off power rankings

Jack Turchetta def. Kalman Boyd 6-4, 7-5 - Turchetta 7% of winning
Reese Stalder def. Sam Riffice 6-4, 2-6, 7-6(6) - Stalder 14%
Amit Batta def. Payton Holden 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 - Batta 19%


Breakdown of Final 64

By High School Graduation Class:
2014 - 1
2015 - 32
2016 - 22
2017 - 8
2018 - 1

By TRN Stars
3-star - 1
4-star - 11
5-star - 21
Blue Chip - 27
Not Rated - 4

By Home State
Alabama - 1
Arizona - 1
California - 12
Connecticut - 2
Florida - 8
Georgia - 2
Illinois - 4
Indiana - 1
Maryland - 3
Michigan - 1
Missouri - 2
North Carolina - 1
New Jersey - 5
New York - 6
Ohio - 3
Oklahoma - 1
South Carolina - 2
Texas - 4
Utah - 1
Washington - 3
Wisconsin - 1

By College Commitment
Brown - 2
Columbia - 2
Cornell - 1
Dartmouth - 1
Dayton - 1
Duke - 3
Georgetown - 1
Georgia - 2
Illinois - 1
Loyola Marymount - 1
Michigan - 1
MIT - 1
Northwestern - 2
Notre Dame - 3
Ohio State - 1
Penn - 1
Stanford - 2
TCU - 1
Texas - 1
Tulane - 1
USC - 3
Wake Forest - 1
Yale - 1
Virginia - 1 (currently attending)
Turned Pro - 6
Undecided - 23


The google doc lets you scroll with the headers staying in place so it may be easier to view it here instead of the chart below - also has Round 3 match-ups.

TennisRecruiting.Net also has an informative google doc with Power Ratings which compares boys across graduation classes.  TRN also has predictions based off the power ratings - check those out here

Make sure you check out Colette Lewis's latest post on ZooTennis to get in-depth details and player quotes from a few of today's biggest matches. 

128	(2) Taylor Fritz d. Alex Ross	6-1; 6-2
128	Asher Hirsch d. Kawika Lam	6-3; 6-2
128	(29) Sameer Kumar d. Matthew Jacobs	6-1; 6-0
128	Kaden Funk d. Ethan Nittolo	6-4; 6-0
128	(13) Dennis Uspensky d. Riley Smith	7-6(4); 6-4
128	Jayson Fung d. David Goulak	2-6; 6-2; 6-4
128	(25) Liam Caruana d. Sebastian Arcila	6-2; 7-5
128	Jake DeVine d. Jarod Hing	6-3; 6-3
128	(5) Michael Mmoh d. Sam Turchetta	7-6(0); 6-3
128	Nicholas Borchenko d. Johnathan Small	6-3; 6-3
128	(23) Emil Reinberg d. Zachary Bessette	7-5; 6-3
128	Jordan Benjamin d. Galen Lee	7-6(6); 7-5
128	Reese Stalder d. (9) Sam Riffice	6-4; 2-6; 7-6(6)
128	Alex Cauneac d. Roy Smith	6-4; 6-3
128	(20) John McNally d. Chase Wood	6-1; 6-1
128	Rex Serituk d. Michael Lee	7-6(3); 6-1
128	(3) Stefan Kozlov d. Grey Hamilton	6-4; 6-4
128	Charles Tan d. Tripp Tuff	6-2; 7-5
128	(31) Jacob Brumm d. Benjamin Lieb	6-3; 6-1
128	Vincent Rettke d. Wyatt Demulling	6-1; 6-1
128	Michael Genender d. (15) Eric Rutledge	6-2; 6-1
128	Robert Smithline d. Yash Parikh	7-6(6); 3-6; 6-3
128	(28) Vasil Kirkov d. Ryan Shen	6-2; 6-2
128	Maverick Lin d. Abhin Sharma	6-0; 6-1
128	Henrik Wiersholm d. (8) William Blumberg	1-6; 6-3; 6-4
128	Tyler Schick d. Bjorn Hoffmann	1-6; 6-3; 6-3
128	(22) Brandon Holt d. Catalin Mateas	7-5; 6-1
128	Amit Batta d. Payton Holden	6-2; 1-6; 6-4
128	(12) Eduardo Nava d. Alex Diaz	6-2; 6-2
128	Brandon Lam d. Joseph Myles Conlin	6-2; 6-4
128	(17) Nick Stachowiak d. Mwendwa Mbithi	6-3; 6-1
128	Ben Vandixhorn d. Ryland McDermott	6-3; 7-6(4)
128	Ty Gentry d. Matthew Galush	6-4; 6-2
128	Ryan Dickerson d. (32) Matthew Gamble	7-5; 6-4
128	Jonathan Dollahite d. Charlie Adams	7-5; 6-2
128	Logan Smith d. (16) Zeke Clark	6-3; 6-4
128	Tyler Raclin d. Ananth Raghavan	7-5; 6-3
128	Jack Turchetta d. (26) Kalman Boyd	6-4; 7-5
128	Alex Phillips d. Mayson Xue	6-3; 7-5
128	(7) Alex Rybakov d. Aron Pierce	7-6(4); 6-1
128	Jason Seidman d. Clayton Alenik	6-3; 2-6; 6-3
128	Grayson Broadus d. (21) Connor Hance	6-2; 5-7; 6-3
128	David Horneffer d. Brenden Volk	6-4; 6-3
128	(11) Oliver Crawford d. James Wasserman	6-3; 6-1
128	Timothy Wang d. Zac Brodney	6-3; 6-2
128	(19) Gianni Ross d. Aleks Huryn	6-1; 6-0
128	Peter Litsky d. Zach Jennings	6-2; 6-1
128	(4) Tommy Paul d. Lane Leschly	6-2Ret (inj)
128	Michael Chen d. Artur Jakubowski	4-6; 6-1; 6-1
128	(30) Nathan Perrone d. Jacob Wareti	6-0; 7-6(0)
128	Sean Burnette d. Keanu Ellen	6-1; 6-3
128	(14) William Genesen d. Jason Kerst	6-2; 6-3
128	Alafia Ayeni d. Kyle Seelig	7-6(4); 6-0
128	Vincent Lin d. (27) Andrew Heller	6-2; 6-2
128	Richard Ciamarra d. Lorenzo Rollhauser	6-4; 6-4
128	(6) Reilly Opelka d. Paul Barretto	7-6(6); 6-3
128	Nathan Griffin d. Max Palmer	7-5; 7-6(1)
128	(24) Martin Joyce d. Spencer Richey	6-1; 6-4
128	Nathan Brown d. Jesse Levitin	6-2; 6-3
128	(10) Nathan Ponwith d. Kevin Lam	6-4; 6-1
128	Alexander Lebedev d. Alexander Keyser	1-6; 6-2; 6-2
128	(18) Spencer Furman d. Casey Ross	6-2; 6-2
128	Lubomir Cuba d. Nicholas Beaty	6-2; 6-2
128	(1) Francis Tiafoe d. Billy Rowe	6-1; 6-3