The weather in Greater St. Louis has been extremely hot and humid this week but that hasn't slowed down 2013 Rice graduate Jonathan Chang as he has blazed his way into the quarterfinals at the $25K Godfrey, Illinois, USA F24 Futures. Chang came into this week's Futures event having won just one main draw match but he's managed to come through qualies and knock off a pair off a pair of guys that spent most of last year in the ITA top 10. Chang defeated Georgia Tech's Chris Eubanks 6-2, 6-3 in the opening round then today he came back from a 5-2 third set deficit to beat recent Tulane graduate Dominik Koepfer 6-7(3), 6-2, 7-5 in a match that lasted 3 hours and 2 minutes. Chang's quarterfinal opponent will be former Tennessee All-American Rhyne Williams while the other quarterfinal match in the top half of the draw will be between former Tennessee Vol Tennys Sandgren and former Georgia Bulldog Wil Spencer.
The doubles title in Godfrey will be decided on Friday afternoon as Emil Reinberg (Georgia Rising Soph) and Nathan Ponwith (Georgia commit) take on Jesus Bandres (East Tennessee St '13) and Facundo Mena. Neither Reinberg or Ponwith had earned an ATP doubles point coming into this week while Bandres has one Futures doubles title to his name.
Doubles maestro Ellen Perez (Georgia Rising Jr) won her third consecutive Futures doubles title (with her third different partner) as she and Abbie Myers defeated Fatma Al Nabhani and Estelle Cascino 7-6(5), 6-2 in the finals of the ITF $10K in Saint-Gervais, France.
There will be an all-college doubles final at the $10K Knokke, Belgium, F6 Futures as SMU's Hunter and Yates Johnson meet Joran Vliegen (East Carolina '14) and Sander Gille (East Tennessee State '12).
Another Georgia Bulldog will play for a Futures doubles title as Jan Zielinski (Rising Soph) and Michal Dembek face off against the top seeded team of Laurynas Grigelis and Liukas Mugevicius at the $10K Lithuania F1 in Vilnius.
A Mississippi State Bulldog will be guaranteed to win a doubles title at the $10K Serbia F1 Futures in Belgrade as Strahinja Rakic (Rising Soph) and his partner Nebojsa Peric face Ivan Bjelica (MSU '08) and Arsenije Zlatanovic.
Nicolas Barrientos (West Florida '08) and Ruben Gonzales (Illinois '08) are playing for a doubles title at the $50K Gomcheon, Korea, Challenger against Cheng-Peng Hsieh and Tsung-Hua Yang. Winner team splits $3100 and gets 80 ATP points.
Northwestern rising senior Strong Kirchheimer earned a main draw wild card into next week's Edwardsville, Illinois, USA F25 Futures by winning the Pro Wildcard Challenge with a 6-3, 6-2 win over 16 year-old Alafia Ayeni.
Ole Miss released it's schedule for the 2016-17 season and the dual-match portion begins with a trip to Hawaii. Ole Miss will play SMU during the ITA Kickoff Weekend and then depending on the outcome of that match they'd meet Texas A&M or Baylor. The Rebels only other substantial non-conference opponent will be North Carolina with the Rebs going to Chapel Hill the week of the National Team Indoors. The Toby Hansson coached team will have to replace Stefan Lindmark who played at No. 1 most of the season as well as Vinod Gowda who started in two SEC matches.
Pepperdine head coach Marcelo Ferreira announced the hiring of Martin Parkes (Campbell '04) as the Waves new men's assistant coach. Parkes had been the assistant men's and women's coach at St. Leo (D2) for the last four years and prior to that had spent a number of years coaching juniors and pros at Saddlebrook in Wesley Chapel, Florida.
The doubles title in Godfrey will be decided on Friday afternoon as Emil Reinberg (Georgia Rising Soph) and Nathan Ponwith (Georgia commit) take on Jesus Bandres (East Tennessee St '13) and Facundo Mena. Neither Reinberg or Ponwith had earned an ATP doubles point coming into this week while Bandres has one Futures doubles title to his name.
Doubles maestro Ellen Perez (Georgia Rising Jr) won her third consecutive Futures doubles title (with her third different partner) as she and Abbie Myers defeated Fatma Al Nabhani and Estelle Cascino 7-6(5), 6-2 in the finals of the ITF $10K in Saint-Gervais, France.
Third straight pro doubles title this summer. 💪🎉🏆 #aussiesontheroad pic.twitter.com/fPjrTTOPZQ— Ellen Perez (@EllenPerez95) July 21, 2016
There will be an all-college doubles final at the $10K Knokke, Belgium, F6 Futures as SMU's Hunter and Yates Johnson meet Joran Vliegen (East Carolina '14) and Sander Gille (East Tennessee State '12).
Another Georgia Bulldog will play for a Futures doubles title as Jan Zielinski (Rising Soph) and Michal Dembek face off against the top seeded team of Laurynas Grigelis and Liukas Mugevicius at the $10K Lithuania F1 in Vilnius.
A Mississippi State Bulldog will be guaranteed to win a doubles title at the $10K Serbia F1 Futures in Belgrade as Strahinja Rakic (Rising Soph) and his partner Nebojsa Peric face Ivan Bjelica (MSU '08) and Arsenije Zlatanovic.
Nicolas Barrientos (West Florida '08) and Ruben Gonzales (Illinois '08) are playing for a doubles title at the $50K Gomcheon, Korea, Challenger against Cheng-Peng Hsieh and Tsung-Hua Yang. Winner team splits $3100 and gets 80 ATP points.
Northwestern rising senior Strong Kirchheimer earned a main draw wild card into next week's Edwardsville, Illinois, USA F25 Futures by winning the Pro Wildcard Challenge with a 6-3, 6-2 win over 16 year-old Alafia Ayeni.
Ole Miss released it's schedule for the 2016-17 season and the dual-match portion begins with a trip to Hawaii. Ole Miss will play SMU during the ITA Kickoff Weekend and then depending on the outcome of that match they'd meet Texas A&M or Baylor. The Rebels only other substantial non-conference opponent will be North Carolina with the Rebs going to Chapel Hill the week of the National Team Indoors. The Toby Hansson coached team will have to replace Stefan Lindmark who played at No. 1 most of the season as well as Vinod Gowda who started in two SEC matches.
Pepperdine head coach Marcelo Ferreira announced the hiring of Martin Parkes (Campbell '04) as the Waves new men's assistant coach. Parkes had been the assistant men's and women's coach at St. Leo (D2) for the last four years and prior to that had spent a number of years coaching juniors and pros at Saddlebrook in Wesley Chapel, Florida.
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UGA Dawgs Reinberg, Ponwith, Zielinski, Perez & UGA grad Wil Spencer all having great weeks on Futures circuit which is great not only for UGA but also college tennis generally. Along with other college players doing well this week and this summer, it provides further evidence that playing college tennis can lead to success at next level.
Don't forget Kennedy Shaffer. She is in the quarters at the Futures tournament in Evansville, today, after a great win yesterday against former Wimbledon Juniors Champion Sofya Zhuk.
Question on Men's $ tournaments-if college players win can they keep $ if less than expenses? College players-maybe the mid to bottom lines from power teams are playing $ tourneys this summer-guys who cant quite get in Future Qualifiers. Tourneys seem to be a mix of pros, recent grads, current D1 college players, and some juniors. They are choosing the $ tourneys over the ITA summer circuit which are mostly midmajors, rising freshmen, and juniors. Guys from ACC/SEC playing $ tourneys in our area. The $30K VA clay had some top current or former ITA players playing. Why is the $ for some of the opens > than the $ for circuits-sponsors? Is this a new thing for college players to play these? Are most on weekends so guys can have summer weekday jobs?
Here is the rule about accepting prize money from NCAA.org:
In all sports except tennis, a student-athlete or prospective student-athlete may accept prize money as long as the amount of the prize is less than or equal to his or her expenses for participating in the competition, such as meals or lodging. The prize money may not pay for expenses of parents or coaches.
In tennis, a prospective student-athlete may accept up to $10,000 per year in prize money. Once he or she has accepted $10,000 in prize money in a particular year, he or she may accept additional prize money on a per-event basis as long as the amount of the prize does not exceed his or her expenses. A current tennis student-athlete may accept prize money as long as the amount of the prize is less than or equal to his or her expenses for participating in the competition.
The $30K in VA had this in their brochure - Amateur and Collegiate players may accept expense money up to the amount of $100 gas money (must turn in receipts) and can cover Entry Fee to Tournament
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Some of the money tournaments only pay out to the guys/gals that finish in the semis or better while the Futures spread the money out to everyone. A lot of college players have always played these types of events it's just that no one ever knew about them (unless one was played in your community). I know many are using UTR for seeding so UTR is helping to publicize them and I try to mention them if I know about them. Many try to have them played on the weekends though a lot depends on the size of the draw.
Most of the money tournaments are open to anyone so I guess you never know who you'll play in the early rounds - could be a former college player, local tennis pro, a kid in high school, or a 4.0 weekend warrior.
That rule is for prospective student athletes (basically junior tennis) it is not for current college players.
The rule for current is in that same paragraph but further down - A current tennis student-athlete may accept prize money as long as the amount of the prize is less than or equal to his or her expenses for participating in the competition.
Bobby how can CiCi play college tennis now? She has won over $100,000 in prize money. Doesn't this disqualify her from competing. Also, if she does end up going to Stanford she will absolutely dominate. It won't even be fair haha
She has won that much in prize money however she hasn't collected more than the $10K a year plus expenses so she could retain her amateur status - turned down $60K from the 2014 US Open per this article - http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cici-bellis-wows-u-s-open-with-unlikely-win/
Bobby--I heard that tennis was amended for students athletes, the change was the student athlete (tennis only) could accept prize money against their expenses for the calendar year, not against the expenses just for the single event. Big difference if that is the case.
That'd be interesting - wonder how that would work because if you won say a $3K money tournament in June how would you know what your expenses would be for the rest of the year - would you have to spend money to travel to tournaments to make you expenses match up with your intake or would the NCAA let you cut them a check for the difference?
expenses are for the calendar year....that's why they need to go to school to understand how to keep a checkbook, a budget, and a journal of expenses:)
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