RISING TENNIS STAR TAYLOR FRITZ PULLS A RABBIT OUT OF HIS HAT @THE ASICS EASTERBOWL BEING PLAYED IN THE COACHELLA VALLEY

Written by: Staff on 10th April 2015

RISING TENNIS STAR TAYLOR FRITZ PULLS A RABBIT OUT OF HIS HAT @THE ASICS EASTERBOWL BEING PLAYED IN THE COACHELLA VALLEY |

Top-Seeded Taylor Fritz Pulls Off Amazing Comeback

In Third Round of ASICS Easter Bowl

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INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (April 9, 2015) – It looked pretty certain for a short time during play at the 48th annual ASICS Easter Bowl on Thursday that the event might lose its top-seeded player in the ITF 18s for a second consecutive day.

Facing a 4-6, 0-5 deficit against 15-year-old qualifier Patrick Kypson from Greenville, N.C., the world’s No. 4-ranked ITF junior Taylor Fritz, 17, pulled off an amazing and improbable comeback to beat Kypson, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2.

“The first set and a half I was just playing awful,” said Fritz, 17, of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., who will play Cameron Klinger in the quarterfinals on Friday around 10:30 a.m. at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. “He was playing into all my weaknesses, and he was playing me smart.”

Fritz never faced a match point and said after the match he could not recall ever facing such a big deficit and coming back to win. He said Kypson was effective moving him around a lot, and exposing a mild ankle injury Fritz has been recovering from.

“He was slicing a lot and mixing up his serve and not letting me get the feel, especially on the second serve,” Fritz said. “He was doing a lot of running and digging out a lot of balls. He could probably play like that all day, but I felt at some point his body would stop him from playing at that level, just because he’s younger.”

Fritz broke Kypson’s serve for 5-1, and again at 5-3 and rallied off seven straight games to take the second set for the amazing turnaround.

After the match, tournament chairman Lornie Kuhle asked Fritz if he knew who Harry Houdini was. Fritz responded with a yes, and Kuhle told him, “He was an escape artist. But he didn’t perform any better escapes than you did today.”

Fritz is still recovering from a long 15-hour flight from China to Los Angeles he took on Monday after competing in the ITF Junior Masters. “I came here from China so I don’t have extremely high expectations,” he said, adding, “Last night it hit me. At 9 o’clock I couldn’t stay awake. I woke up in the middle of the night and was extremely tired this morning.”

He added: “I just wanted to prove to myself that I could do it. At 6-4, 5-0, I haven’t come back like before. It kept me in it. It’s not too tough to keep it going for one game. If you win, you keep going and if you don’t that’s it. It’s just one game.”

Girls’ 18s wild-card Caty McNally, who upset the top-seeded Girls’ 18s player Usue Arconada on Wednesday, was taken out by the unseeded Helen Altick of Monroe, La., 6-2, 6-7 (3), 6-1.

“Yeah, I was aware of her big win,” said Altick, who has played the ASICS Easter Bowl since she was 13. “Not many people have heard of me, but I’m looking forward to finishing out a great week here.”

No. 12-seeded Claire Liu of Thousand Oaks, Calif., had a great win over No. 7 Ingrid Neel of Bradenton, Fla., 7-5, 6-1, to advance to the quarterfinals.

“I had lost to Ingrid before at a Grasscourts ITF event in three sets,” Liu said. “There are a lot of good players still left in the draw. If you make it to the quarters here, you know you’ve got to be good.”

In the Boys’ 16s final on Friday, it will be top-seeded Oliver Crawford against No. 11 Brian Cernoch of North Bethesda, Md. In the Girls’ 16s final on Friday, it will be Natasha Subhash of Fairfax, Va., against Samantha Martinelli, the No. 2 seed from Denver.

You can catch all the action on Friday live on www.easterbowl.com. Sponsors include: ASICS, Laurel Springs School, Indian Wells Tennis Garden, the Dent Junior Academy, the tennis website 10sBalls.com, USTA, The Old Spaghetti Factory, SCTA and Mind Matters Tennis.

To keep up with all the ASICS Easter Bowl news, visit the website at www.easterbowl.com and check out the tournament on Facebook (www.facebook.com/EasterBowl) and Twitter (@asicseasterbowl). For more information on ASICS, check out: www.ASICSAmerica.com and follow on Twitter @ASICSAmerica.

Boys’ 18 Singles (Round of 16)

Taylor Fritz (1) (Rancho Santa Fe, CA) def. Patrick Kypson (Greenville, NC) 4-6, 7-5, 6-2

Cameron Klinger (Elk Grove, CA) def. John Jorgeson (Bradenton, FL) 6-1, 7-5

Nathan Ponwith (4) (Scottsdale, AZ) def. Vasil Kirkov (16) (Tampa, FL) 6-3, 1-6, 6-2

Hady Habib (7) (Bradenton, FL) def. Jeffrey Wolf (Cincinnati, OH) 6-3, 6-2

Mwendwa Mbithi (10) (Deerfield Beach, FL) def. Jacob Brumm (Rancho Santa Fe, CA) Wo (inj)

Sam Riffice (14) (Roseville, CA) def. Ulises Blanch (3) (Deerfield Beach, FL) 6-1, 3-6, 6-2

Catalin Mateas (8) (Braintree, MA) def. Nicholas Borchenko (Studio City, CA) 6-4, 6-1

William Blumberg (2) (Greenwich, CT) def. Nicolas Moreno de Alboran (13) (London, Surrey) 6-2, 6-1

Boys’ 18 Doubles (Quarterfinal Round)

Jake DeVine (Los Altos Hills, CA) / Patrick Kypson (Greenville, NC) def. Taylor Fritz (Rancho Santa Fe, CA) / Catalin Mateas (1) (Braintree, MA) 6-3, 6-2

Cameron Klinger (Elk Grove, CA) / Nathan Ponwith (Scottsdale, AZ) def. Zeke Clark (Tulsa, OK) / Nathan Perrone (7) (Bluffton, SC) 6-4, 6-4

Trent Bryde (Suwanee, GA) / Emil Reinberg (5) (Atlanta, GA) def. Alex Ross (La Grange, IL) / Eric Rutledge (Fort Worth, TX) 6-3, 7-5

Vasil Kirkov (Tampa, FL) / Sam Riffice (6) (Roseville, CA) def. Ulises Blanch (Deerfield Beach, FL) / Liam Caruana (2) (New Braunfels, TX) 7-6(0), 6-2

Girls’ 18 Singles (Round of 16)

Helen Altick (Monroe, LA) def. Caty McNally (Cincinnati, OH) 6-2, 6-7(3), 6-1

Claire Liu (12) (Thousand Oaks, CA) def. Ingrid Neel (7) (Bradenton, FL) 7-5, 6-1

Raveena Kingsley (4) (Fulton, MD) def. Caroline Lampl (Bluemont, VA) 6-0, 7-6(1)

Caroline Dolehide (8) (Hinsdale, IL) def. Ena Shibahara (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA) 6-3, 6-0

Kylie McKenzie (Anthem, AZ) def. Francesca Dilorenzo (6) (New Albany, OH) 5-7, 6-3, 6-2

Sofia Kenin (3) (Pembroke Pines, FL) def. Sofia Sewing (14) (Doral, FL) 1-6, 6-4, 6-1

Kayla Day (9) (Santa Barbara, CA) def. Emma Higuchi (Los Angeles, CA) 7-5, 6-3

Katie Swan (2) (Wichita, KS) def. Meible Chi (Weston, FL) 6-2, 6-1

Girls’ 18 Doubles (Quarterfinal Round)

Sonya Kenin (Pembroke Pines, FL) / Katie Swan (1) (Wichita, KS) def. Meghan Kelley (Falmouth, ME) / Gabriella Pollner (6) (Boca Raton, FL) 7-6(4), 6-4

Morgan Coppoc (Tulsa, OK) / Alexandra Sanford (8) (Westerville, OH) def. Jessica Failla (Ramona, CA) / Jada Hart (Colton, CA) 6-4, 6-1

Caroline Dolehide (Hinsdale, IL) / Ena Shibahara (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA) def. Annette Goulak (Oak Park, CA) / Alaina Miller (Saratoga, CA) 6-1, 6-3

Usue Arconada (Rio Piedras, PR) / Francesca Dilorenzo (2) (New Albany, OH) def. Andie Daniell (Douglasville, GA) / Emma Higuchi (Los Angeles, CA) 6-3, 6-3

Boys’ 16 Singles (Semifinal Round)

Oliver Crawford (1) (Spartanburg, SC) def. Jason Lui (7) (Bellevue, WA) 6-1, 6-1

Brian Cernoch (11) (North Bethesda, MD) def. Sean Sculley (3) (Hilton Head Island, SC) 7-6(6), 6-3

Boys’ 16 Doubles (Final Round)

Bryce Pereira (San Gabriel, CA) / Ivan Thamma (San Diego, CA) def. Peter Conklin (Fairfield, CT) / Matthew Lord (Bloomfield, CT) 8-2

Boys’ 16 Doubles (Playoff)

Jackson Suh (Bellevue, WA) / Danny Thomas (Pickerington, OH) def. Robert Baylon (Buena Park, CA) / Andrew Ton (Milpitas, CA) 8-6

Boys’ 16 Singles Consolation (Third Round)

William Woodall (Washington, DC) def. Charles Deng (Temple City, CA) 7-6(5), 6-2

Conrad Russell (Palo Alto, CA) def. Ajai Shekhera (16) (Campbell, CA) Wo (inj)

Brady Draheim (Omaha, NE) def. Matthew Lord (5) (Bloomfield, CT) 6-2, 7-5

Paul Barretto (12) (Tiburon, CA) def. Mac Kiger (10) (Katonah, NY) 6-3, 6-2

Steven Sun (Boca Raton, FL) def. Austen Huang (2) (Elk Grove, CA) Wo (ill)

Kevin Ma (San Ramon, CA) def. Sam Turchetta (14) (Pound Ridge, NY) Wo (ill)

Jackson Suh (15) (Bellevue, WA) def. Spencer Brown (Spartanburg, SC) 6-3, 6-2

Christian Alshon (Boca Raton, FL) def. Bryce Pereira (San Gabriel, CA) 6-4, 4-6, 10-5

Boys’ 16 Singles Consolation (Quarterfinal Round)

Conrad Russell (Palo Alto, CA) def. William Woodall (Washington, DC) 7-5, 7-6(5)

Brady Draheim (Omaha, NE) def. Paul Barretto (12) (Tiburon, CA) 6-3, 6-4

Steven Sun (Boca Raton, FL) def. Kevin Ma (San Ramon, CA) 6-3, 3-6, 10-7

Christian Alshon (Boca Raton, FL) def. Jackson Suh (15) (Bellevue, WA) 6-3, 6-2

Boys’ 16 Singles (Playoff Semifinal)

Danny Thomas (Pickerington, OH) def. Daunte Harris (Lomita, CA) 6-2 Ret (inj)

Abhijeet Joshi (6) (Millington, NJ) def. Chambers Easterling (Spartanburg, SC) Wo (inj)

Girls’ 16 Doubles (Final Round)

Samantha Martinelli (Denver, CO) / Delaney Nothaft (4) (Tempe, AZ) def. Victoria Flores (Fort Dodge, IA) / Madeline Meredith (3) (Vestavia, AL) 8-4

Girls’ 16 Doubles (Playoff)

Cameron Corse (Baltimore, MD) / Nadia Gizdova (2) (Columbia, MD) def. Ally Bojczuk (Franklin, TN) / Madison Hwang (Frisco, TX) 8-5

Girls’ 16 Singles (Semifinal Round)

Natasha Subhash (Fairfax, VA) def. Stephanie Schrage (Millburn, NJ) 2-6, 6-4, 6-3

Samantha Martinelli (2) (Denver, CO) def. Hannah Lairmore (14) (Mobile, AL) 6-2, 6-0

Girls’ 16 Singles Consolation (Third Round)

Hannah Zhao (8) (San Diego, CA) def. Meg Kowalski (15) (La Grange, IL) 6-2, 6-3

Nadia Gizdova (5) (Columbia, MD) def. Nicole Mossmer (La Jolla, CA) 4-6, 6-0, 10-7

Tatum Rice (Hot Springs, AR) def. Ann Li (Devon, PA) 6-2, 6-2

Taylor Bridges (Mesa, AZ) def. Rachel Lim (11) (Briarcliff Manor, NY) 7-5, 7-5

Taylor Johnson (Redondo Beach, CA) def. Ally Bojczuk (7) (Franklin, TN) 6-3, 6-1

Dalayna Hewitt (Pepper Pike, OH) def. Carolyn Campana (Hillsborough, CA) 6-1, 6-3

Abigail Chiu (16) (Austin, TX) def. Delaney Nothaft (Tempe, AZ) 7-5, 6-3

Isabella Lorenzini (10) (Clarendon Hills, IL) def. Janice Shin (9) (Houston, TX) 6-3, 6-4

Girls’ 16 Singles Consolation (Quarterfinal Round)

Nadia Gizdova (5) (Columbia, MD) def. Hannah Zhao (8) (San Diego, CA) 7-5, 6-4

Taylor Bridges (Mesa, AZ) def. Tatum Rice (Hot Springs, AR) 2-6, 7-5, 10-1

Dalayna Hewitt (Pepper Pike, OH) def. Taylor Johnson (Redondo Beach, CA) 5-7, 6-2, 12-10

Isabella Lorenzini (10) (Clarendon Hills, IL) def. Abigail Chiu (16) (Austin, TX) 6-3, 7-5

Girls’ 16 Singles (Playoff Semifinal)

Victoria Flores (4) (Fort Dodge, IA) def. Anna Brylin (Short Hills, NJ) 6-3, 2-6, 10-7

Victoria Emma (12) (Naples, FL) def. Salma Ewing (Long Beach, CA) 6-1, 7-6(3)

About ASICS America: Anima Sana In Corpore Sano, meaning “A Sound Mind in a Sound Body,” is an old Latin phrase from which ASICS is derived and the fundamental platform on which the brand still stands. The company was founded more than 60 years ago by Kihachiro Onitsuka and is now a leading designer and manufacturer of running shoes, as well as, other athletic footwear, apparel and accessories. For more information, visit www.asics.com.

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