TRACY AUSTIN’S SON BRANDON HOLT CLINCHES PAC-12 TENNIS TITLE FOR USC TROJANS, 4-3, OVER NO. 1 UCLA AT THE OJAI IN CALIFORNIA

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TRACY AUSTIN'S SON BRANDON HOLT CLINCHES PAC-12 TENNIS TITLE FOR USC TROJANS, 4-3, OVER NO. 1 UCLA AT THE OJAI IN CALIFORNIA  |
Rod Laver and Rob Stone.

 

 

Rod Laver Honored At THE OJAI

 

10sballs Editors Note: We Caught up with Living Legend Rod Laver. Rod “THE ROCKET” Laver Was this year’s Honoree. Rod is really a one in a billion. He and Roger Federer are just different. Special. Maybe the humility comes from just knowing you are the best. Thanks Rod. Being in your presence is special. It’s magic moments. (LJ)

 

Saturday’s Pac-12 Men’s Championship at Libbey Park

No. 3 USC def. No. 1 UCLA, 4-3

 

Saturday’s Pac-12 Women’s Championship at Libbey Park

No. 1 Stanford def. No. 2 Cal, 4-1

Sunday’s Championship Match Schedule

 

UPPER LIBBEY PARK

8 a.m.

Boys’ 14 Singles – Takeyasu Sekiguchi (Ojai) v. Ryan Morgan (Pasadena)

Girls’ 14 Singles – Kenadee Semenik (Las Vegas) v. Leyden Games (Newport Beach)

Girls’ 16 Singles – Eryn Cayetano (Corona) v. Elle Christensen (Los Angeles)

Girls’ 18 Doubles – Amanda Chan (Pasadena)/Lauren Ko (Temple City) v. Cade Sorensen (Solvang)/Mikala Triplett (Goleta)

 

9:30 a.m.

Women’s Open Singles – Megan McCray (Oceanside) v. Salma Ewing (Long Beach)

Men’s Independent College Singles – Jonathan Sheehy (Abilene) v. Joshua Sheehy (Abilene)

Women’s Independent Colleges – Whitney Williams (Abilene) v. Lucile Pothier (Abilene)

 

11 a.m.

Men’s Open Singles – Philip Bester (Vancouver) v. Henry Craig (Murrieta)

Men’s Division III West Singles – Nikolai Parodi (CMS) v. Daniel Morkovine (CMS)

Men’s CCCAA State Singles – Javi Callejo Velasco (Irvine Valley) v. Vincent Reynaud (Cypress)

Women’s CCCAA State Singles – Danielle Garrido (San Diego Mesa) v. Clarissa Colling (Orange Coast)

 

12:30 p.m.

Women’s Open Doubles – Annette Goulak (Oak Park)/Dominique Schaefer (Newbury Park) v. Gail Brodsky (Woodinville, WA)/ Paiton Wagner (Cashmere, WA)

Girls’ 18s Singles – Cali Jankowski (Carlsbad) v. Charlotte Chavatipon (Fullerton)

Men’s & Women’s Independent College Doubles – TBD

 

2 p.m.

Men’s Open Doubles – Timothy Sah/Keegan Smith (San Diego) v. Haythem Abid (Los Angeles)/Rylan Rizza (Redondo Beach)

Men’s Division III West Doubles – Joey Dulle/Jake Ly (Redlands) v. Daniel Morkovine/Nikolai Parodi (CMS)

 

LOWER LIBBEY PARK

8 a.m. – Community College Men’s & Women’s doubles semifinals

 

Saturday Roundup

 

USC Men Capture Pac-12 Championship In Match For the Ages

 

OJAI – In a Pac-12 Championship match for the ages at the history-steeped 117th Annual Ojai Tennis Tournament, USC freshman Brandon Holt outlasted UCLA senior Gage Brymer, 7-5, 3-6, 6-4 at No. 1 singles to clinch the conference title for No. 7 (NCAA Division I) USC, 4-3, over No. 5 UCLA before a standing-room-only crowd at Libbey Park.

 

It was the fifth UCLA-USC final in the six years the Ojai Tennis Tournament has hosted the men’s Pac-12 Championships. Since The Ojai first hosted the Pac-12 men’s team championships in 2012, USC previously won it in 2012 and 2015, and UCLA in 2013, 2014 and 2016.

 

In the first Pac-12 Women’s (team) Championship at The Ojai, reigning NCAA Division I champion Stanford (No. 6 in NCAA Division I) captured the Pac-12 crown, 4-1, over Bay Area rival California (No. 16) and automatically secured its 36th consecutive berth in to the NCAA Division I Championships (May 18-29).

 

Stanford won the doubles point on the rackets of its No. 1 doubles team, Emily Arbuthnott and Taylor Davidson, who downed Cal’s top team of Maegan Manasse and Maya Jansen, 6-3. Cal’s Karla Popovic downed Melissa Lord, 6-3, 6-3 in No. 2 singles to give the Bears the first singles point and briefly even the match, but the Cardinal scored the final three singles points through Davidson (6-4, 6-3 over Denise Starr), Arbuthnott (6-1, 7-6 over Jansen) and No. 1 singles player Caroline Doyle, who outlasted Cal’s Manasse, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, to clinch the Pac-12 title.

 

The Ojai’s famed Men’s Open singles final will be contested between top seed Philip Bester (Vancouver, BC) and unseeded Henry Craig (Murrieta, Calif.) at 11 a.m. In the semifinals, Bester beat Los Angeles’ Haythem Abid, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4), and Craig dispatched No. 3 seed and former UCLA product Clay Thompson, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.

 

The Women’s Open singles final features No. 1 seed Megan McCray, of Oceanside, against No. 4 seed Salma Ewing, of Long Beach. Neither has lost a set this week.

 

The Ojai concluded play in the CIF Boys singles and doubles divisions. Palisades High junior Jake Sands defeated Woodbridge High sophomore Stefan Dostanic, 4-6, 7-5, 6-0, to win the coveted Ojai title. San Marino High seniors Bryce Pereira and Connor Lee repeated as CIF Boys doubles champions at The Ojai, defeating Harvard-Westlake’s Jed Kronenberg and Adam Sraberg, 6-4, 6-1, in the final.

 

Information on tickets can be found at The Ojai’s website, www.ojaitourney.org.

 

Rod Laver and K.T. Kim of SOLINCO sports (green strings)

 

 

This year’s program. 117 years!

 

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