Petr Michnev Rallies To Win Austria F7 & US Open Doubles Draws Released, NCAA Doubles Champs US Open Results

#471 Petr Michnev (Hawaii-Pacific '14) won his second singles title this year, and third of his career, with a come from behind win over #542 Corentin Denolly in the finals of the $10K Austria F7 Futures in Poertschach. Denolly broke Michnev in a two-deuce after trailing 40/0 to go ahead 3-2 in the first and then only dropped two more points on serve in route to taking the set 6-4. Michnev broke Denolly in a one-deuce game to go ahead 3-1 in the second and then he broke him again in a four-deuce game to take the set 6-2. Denolly went ahead 4-2 in the third set after breaking from 15/40 and then holding from 40/15 but it was all Michnev in the next four games. Michnev held at love, broke in a one-deuce game, held at love, and broke from 15/40 to close out the 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 win.

Michnev entered the week with a career high singles ranking of 471 and with no points to defend until October he has a good chance to surge into the top 400.

Pro Titles/Finals This Past Week:

Singles:
Austria - Petr Michnev (Hawaii-Pacific '14)
Belgium - Joran Vliegen (East Carolina '14)

Doubles:
Thailand - John-Paul Fruttero (Cal '03)

Runner-Ups:

Singles:
None

Doubles:
Winston-Salem (ATP) - Andre Begemann (Pepperdine '08)
Austria - Peter Nagy (Texas A&M Corpus Christi '15)
Belgium - Sander Gille (East Tennessee State '12) & Joran Vliegen (East Carolina '14)
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The US Open released its men's and women's doubles draws today and as you can see below they loaded full of players with college tennis ties. The NCAA Men's Champions, Mackenzie McDonald/Martin Redlicki, drew the top seeded team of Herbert and Mahut while the NCAA Women's Champions, Brooke Austin/Kourtney Keegan, drew the unseeded American duo of Muhammad and Townsend.

US Open Men's Doubles
Mackenzie McDonald (UCLA '16)/Martin Redlicki (UCLA Jr) vs. [1] P-H Herbert/Nicolas Mahut
Dennis Novikov (UCLA '13)/Denis Kudla vs. Robin Haase/Artem Sitak
Andreas Siljestrom (MTSU '07)/Jiri Vesely vs. Dominic Thiem/Tristan-Samuel Weissborn
[13] Robert Farah (USC '10)/Juan Sebastian Cabal vs. Jeremy Chardy/Sam Groth
[10] John Peers (Baylor '11)/Henri Kontinen vs. Federico Delbonis/Guido Pella
Robert Lindstedt (Pepperdine '98)/Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi vs. Carlos Berlocq/Albert Ramos-Vinolas
Michael Venus (LSU '09) /Mate Pavic vs. Julio Peralta/Horacio Zeballos
[5] Jean-Julien Rojer (UCLA '02)/Horia Tecau vs. Julian Knowle/Florian Mayer
Marcin Matkowski (UCLA '03)/Jurgen Melzer vs. Alexandr Dolgopolov/Sergiy Stakhovsky
[9] Treat Huey (Virginia '08)/Max Mirnyi vs. Nicolas Almagro/Victor Estrella Burgos
Steve Johnson (USC '12)/Sam Querrey vs. Fabio Fognini/Andreas Seppi
John McNally ('17 Ohio St commit)/JJ Wolf ('17 Ohio St commit) vs. Chris Guccione/Andre Sa
[7] Rajeev Ram (ILL '03)/R Klaasen vs. Eric Butorac (Gust Adolphus '03)/Scott Lipsky (Stanf '03)
Austin Krajicek (Texas A&M '11)/Ryan Harrison vs. [8] Feliciano Lopez/Marc Lopez
[3] Bob & Mike Bryan (Stanford '98) vs. Martin Klizan/Adil Shamasdin
Daniel Nguyen (USC '12)/Noah Rubin (Wake Forest '15) vs. Daniel Evans/Nick Kyrgios
Andre Begemann (Pepperdine '08)/Leander Paes vs. Dudi Sela/Stephane Robert
Nick Meister (UCLA '12)/Eric Quigley (Kentucky '12) vs. [12] Lukas Kubot/Alexander Peya
Dominic Inglot (Virginia '09)/Marin Draganja vs. [15] Oliver Marach/Fabrice Martin
Nicholas Monroe (North Carolina '04)/Donald Young vs. [2] Ivan Dodig/Marcelo Melo

US Open Women's Doubles
[9] Abigail Spears (UCLA '00)/Raquel Atawo (Cal '04) vs/ Heather Watson/Michaella Krajicek
Nicole Gibbs (Stanford '13)/Nao Hibino vs. Monica Puig/Mariana Duque-Marino
Jada Hart (UCLA Fr)/Ena Shibahara (UCLA Fr) vs. [7] Sania Mirza/Barbora Strycova
Maria Sanchez (USC '11)/Mirjana Lucic-Baroni vs. Belinda Bencic/Kirsten Flipkens
Jacqueline Cako (Arizona State '13)/Danielle Lao (USC '13) vs. Louisa Chirico/Alison Riske
Brooke Austin (Florida Jr)/Kourtney Keegan (Florida Sr) vs. Asia Muhammad/Taylor Townsend
Caitlin Whoriskey (Tennessee '10)/Ashley Weinhold vs. [10] Vania King/Monica Niculescu
Catherine Bellis ('17 Stanford commit)/Julia Boserup vs. [3] Timea Babos/Yaroslava Shvedova

It has been 21 years since the NCAA Men's Doubles Champs won a round at the US Open with Ole Miss's Mahesh Bhupathi and Ali Hamadeh achieving that task before falling in the second round.

Stanford's Hilary Barte and Mallory Burdette were the last NCAA Women's Doubles Champs to advance past the first round with that happening just five years ago in 2011.

Year	Player	School	US Open Results
2016	Mackenzie McDonald, Martin Redlicki	UCLA	vs. #1 Herbert/Mahut
2015	Soren Hess-Olesen, Lloyd Glasspool	Texas	No wild card
2014	Mikelis Libietis, Hunter Reese	Tennessee	No wild card
2013	Jarmere Jenkins, Mac Styslinger	Virginia	lost to Llodra/Mahut 6-3, 6-2
2012	Chase Buchanan, Blaz Rola	Ohio State	No wild card
2011	Jeff Dadamo, Austin Krajicek	Texas A&M	lost to Farah/Cabal 7-6, 6-4
2010	Drew Courtney, Michael Shabaz	Virginia	lost to Moodie/Norman 6-3, 6-4
2009	Dominic Inglot, Michael Shabaz	Virginia	No wild card
2008	Robert Farah, Kaes Van't Hof	USC	No wild card
2007	Marco Born, Andreas Siljestrom	Middle Tenn St	No wild card
2006	Kevin Anderson, Ryan Rowe	Illinois	No wild card
2005	John Isner, Antonio Ruiz	Georgia	No wild card
2004	Sam Warburg, KC Corkery	Stanford	lost to Martin/Sanchez-Munoz 6-4, 6-4
2003	Rajeev Ram, Brian Wilson	Illinois	lost to Ginepri/Reynolds 6-4, 6-4
2002	Andrew Colombo, Mark Kovacs	Auburn	No wild card
2001	Matias Boeker, Travis Parrott	Georgia	No wild card
2000	Cary Franklin, Graydon Oliver	Illinois	lost to Barnard/Koenig 5-7, 7-5, 6-1
1999	K.J. Hippensteel, Ryan Wolters	Stanford	lost to Roddick/Harper-Griffith 6-2, 6-2
1998	Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan	Stanford	lost to Adams/Delaitre 6-1, 5-7, 7-6
1997	Luke Smith, Tim Blenkiron	UNLV	lost to Noteboom/Wibier 2-6, 7-5, 6-2
1996	Justin Gimelstob, Srdjan Muskatirovic	UCLA	lost to Henman/Galbraith 7-6, 7-5
1995	Mahesh Bhupathi, Ali Hamadeh	Mississippi	def. Keil/Nyborg 7-6, 6-1 in R1; lost to Black/Stark 6-1, 6-1 in R2
1994	Laurent Miquelard, Joc Simmons	Mississippi St.	lost to Leach/Visser 6-0, 6-1
1993	David Blair, Mark Merklein	Florida	def. Bathman/Mortensen 6-3, 7-6 in R1; lost to P McEnroe/Reneberg 6-1, 6-4 in R2
1992	Chris Cocotos, Alex O'Brien	Stanford	lost to J McEnroe/Stich 6-3, 6-4
1991	Matt Lucena, Bent-Ove Pedersen	California	def. Nijssen/Suk 6-4, 6-1 in R1; def. L Jensen/Warder 7-5, 6-3 in R2; def. Korda/Novacek 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 in R3; lost to Fitzgerald/Jarryd 5-7, 7-6, 6-2, 6-4 in QF
1990	Doug Eisenman, Matt Lucena	California	lost to Delaitre/Rosset 6-4, 6-4

Year	Players	School	US Open Result
2016	Brooke Austin/Kourtney Keegan	Florida	vs. Asia Muhammad/Taylor Townsend
2015	Maya Jansen / Erin Routliffe	Alabama	Got WC due to winning USONP - lost to Spears/Kops-Jones 6-2, 6-1
2014	Maya Jansen / Erin Routliffe	Alabama	No wild card
2013	Kaitlyn Christian / Sabrina Santamaria	USC	Forgot to apply for wild card thus not given
2012	Mallory Burdette / Nicole Gibbs	Stanford	Got a wild card but they had to pull out when Gibbs got injured
2011	Hilary Barte / Mallory Burdette	Stanford	def. Glatch/Hampton 6-4, 6-4 in R1; lost to Klepac/Tatishvili 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 in R2
2010	Hilary Barte / Lindsay Burdette	Stanford	lost to Vesnina/Zvonareva 7-5, 6-3
2009	Mari Andersson / Jana Juricova	Cal	No wild card
2008	Tracey Lin / Riza Zalameda	UCLA	def. Parra-Santonja/Suarez Navarro 6-3, 6-4 in R1; lost to Foretz/Pin 6-3, 6-3 in R2
2007	Sara Anundsen / Jenna Long	North Carolina	lost to Jans/Rosolska 6-2, 6-1
2006	Cristelle Grier / Alexis Prousis	Northwestern	No wild card
2005	Alice Barnes / Erin Burdette	Stanford	No wild card
2004	Daniela Bercek / Lauren Fisher	UCLA	No wild card
2003	Christina Fusano / Raquel Kops-Jones	Cal	lost to Mandula/Wartusch 6-3, 5-7, 6-1
2002	Lauren Kalvaria / Gabriela Lastra	Stanford	lost to Clijsters/Shaughnessy 6-2, 6-1
2001	Whitney Laiho / Jessica Lehnhoff	Florida	def. Harkleroad/Mattek 6-2, 7-5 in R1; def. Gagliardi/Tu 6-3, 6-7, 6-3; lost to Navratilova/Sanchez-Vicario 6-3, 6-0 in R16
2000	Claire Curran / Amy Jensen	Cal	lost to Hingis/Pierce 4-6, 6-0, 6-1
1999	Amanda Augustus / Amy Jensen	Cal	lost to Hrdlickova/Rittner 6-3, 6-3
1998	Amanda Augustus / Amy Jensen	Cal	lost to Fernandez/Sanchez-Vicario 6-2, 6-2
1997	Dawn Buth / Stephanie Nickitas	Florida	lost to Fusai/Tauziat 6-7, 6-3, 6-2
1996	Dawn Buth / Stephanie Nickitas	Florida	lost to Raymond/Stubbs 6-1, 6-2
1995	Keri Phebus / Susie Starrett	UCLA	lost to Boogert/Krijger-Jagerman 6-2, 7-6
1994	Rebecca Jensen / Nora Koves	Kansas	def. Kschwendt/Strnadova 6-4, 6-4 in R1; lost to Arendt/Radford 6-2, 6-2 in R2
1993	Alix Creek / Michelle Oldham	Arizona	lost to Provis/Raymond 6-2, 6-3
1992	Mamie Ceniza / Iwalani McCalla	Florida	lost to Fairbank-Nideffer/Rush 3-6, 6-2, 6-2
1991	Jillian Alexander / Nicole Arendt	Florida	lost to Caverzasio/Herreman 6-2, 6-7, 6-4
1990	Meredith McGrath / Teri Whitlinger	Stanford	def. Benjamin/Minter 1-6, 6-3, 6-1 in R1; lost to Burgin/Fairbank-Nideffer 6-4, 6-1 in R2