POMONA VALLEY HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER USTA PRO CLASSIC
CLAREMONT, CA * SEPTEMBER 12-18, 2011
Site: The Claremont Club, Claremont, CA Main Draw: (32 singles, 16 doubles)
Surface: Hard/Outdoor Prize Money: $10,000
Website: (www.procircuit.usta.com)
FORMER PEPPERDINE STAR BEIDAS RALLIES TO WIN FIRST-ROUND MATCH AT
16th ANNUAL POMONA VALLEY HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER USTA PRO CLASSIC
Former Pepperdine All-American Bassam Beidas rallied to beat Serbian qualifier Nikola Bubnic, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, in one of six first-round singles matches completed Tuesday on the first day of main-draw play at the 16th annual Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center USTA Pro Classic at the Claremont Club.
The second-seeded Beidas, a four-year starter for the Waves whose eligibility ended after the 2009-10 school year, is representing the country of Lebanon. The former WCC freshman of the year in 2007, Beidas lost to John Isner of Georgia in that year’s second-round of the NCAA Individual Championships.
He moves on to next face the winner of the Adam Hubble-Thomas Shubert match set for Wednesday between two qualifiers.
UCLA freshman Marcos Giron won his first-round match beating Javier Pulgar-Garcia of Spain, 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-3.
All eight first-round doubles matches were completed on Tuesday with two big upsets as the top two seeded teams fell.
Joshua Graves and Rudolph Siwy defeated No. 1-seeded Marvin Barker and Darian King, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 10-6, and Jeremy Hunter Nicholas and Javier Pulgar-Garcia beat No. 2-seeded Boris Bakalov and Kiryi Harbatsiuk, 6-3, 3-6, 13-11
Following a wheelchair exhibition on center court at 10 a.m., on Wednesday, the tournament’s top-seeded Steve Johnson of Orange, the current NCAA singles champion from USC, will take on Thousand Oaks’ Kyle McMorrow.
Tuesday’s First-Round results
Singles
Andre Dome, U.S., def. Amrit Narasimhan, U.S., 6-3, 6-1
Dennis Mkrtchian, U.S. (wc), def. JC Aragone, U.S. (wc), 6-2, 7-6 (3)
Mark Verryth, Australia (3), def. Sean Berman, U.S., 6-2, 6-0
Darian King, Barbados, def. Kiryi Harbatsiuk, Bulgaria, 7-6 (4), 5-7, 6-3
Marcos Giron, U.S., def. Javier Pulgar-Garcia, Spain, 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-3
Bassam Beidas, Lebanon (2), def. Nikola Bubnic, Serbia (q), 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
Doubles
Joshua Graves, U.S.-Rudolph Siwy, Czech Republic, def. Marvin Barker, New Zealand-Darian King, Barbados, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 10-6
Emmett Egger, U.S.-Kyle McMorrow, U.S. (wc) def. JC Aragone, U.S.-Andre Dome, 6-4, 6-4
Christian Harrison, U.S.-Terence Nugent, Ivory Coast (3), def. Timothy Kpulun, Sierra Leone-Michael Longanecker, U.S., 6-1, 6-3
Vladimir Obradovic, Serbia-Vignesh Peranamallur, India, def. Michael Hui, U.S.-Maxime Tabatruong, France, 6-2, 6-2
Luke Saville, Australia-Andrew Whittington, Australia, def. Adam Hubble, Australia-Dennis LaJola, U.S., 6-3, 3-6, 10-4
Alexandre Lacroix, France, def. Sanam Singh, India (4), def. Samuel Garland, U.S., Nathaniel Gorham, U.S. (wc), 7-6 (3), 6-3
Dennis Mrktchian, U.S.-Dennis Novikov, U.S., def. Marcos Giron, U.S.-Kyle McMorrow, U.S., 7-6 (6), 4-6, 11-9
Jeremy Hunter Nicholas, U.S.-Javier Pulgar-Garcia, Spain, def. Boris Bakalov, Bulgaria-Kiryi Harbatsiuk, Bulgaria (2), 6-3, 3-6, 13-11
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Community Events:
Wednesday, Sept. 14 – Tennis Clinic, 9-10:30 a.m.
Wheelchair Exhibition, 10:30-11 a.m.
Brunch, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 16 – Free High School Clinic and Coaches Workshop.
Recent Claremont Champions
Year Singles Winner Singles Runner-up Doubles Champions
2010 Gary Sacks Devin Britton Taylor Fogleman-Chris Kearney
2009 Matej Bocko Bradley Klahn Brett Joelson-Ashwin Kumar
2008 Tigran Martirosyan Adriano Biasello Marcus Fugate-Nima Roshan
2007 Carsten Ball Robert Yim Nikita Kryvonos-Michael McClune
2006 Dudi Sela Sascha Kloer Ryler DeHeart-Dennis Zivkovic
2005 Benedikt Dorsch Tyler Cleveland K.C. Corkery-James Pade
2004 Bobby Reynolds Huntley Montgomery Nick Rainey-Brian Wilson
2003 Glenn Weiner Jimy Szymanski K.C. Corkery-James Pade
2002 Dmitry Tursunov Raven Klaasen Chris Magyary-Mirko Pehar
Points, Prize Money for $10,000 Futures Tournaments
Singles Doubles
Points Prize $ Points Prize $
Winner 17 $1,300 17 $630
Finalist 9 $900 9 $330
Semifinalist 5 $480 5 $260
Quarterfinalist 2 $290 2 $180
Round of 16 1 $200 1 ——
Round of 32 0 $117.50 – ——
Order of Play: Click Here
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