No. 10 seed Jenson Brooksby of Carmichael in the Sacramento
area defeated No. 15 Robert Maciag of Sterling, Va., 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 Saturday in
the boys 16 semifinals of the USTA National Championships in Kalamazoo, Mich.
In today’s final,
the 15-year-old Brooksby will try to avenge a 6-1, 6-1 loss to Lukas Greif of
Evansville, Ind., in the USTA Clay Court Championships last month in Delray Beach, Fla.
Greif dominated
unseeded Matthew Tsolakyan of Glendale in the Los Angeles region 6-1, 6-3 in
Saturday’s other semifinal.
Brooksby won the
USTA National boys 12 title three years ago in Little Rock, Ark.
Meanwhile, Andrew
Ton of Milpitas in the Bay Area and Maximilian Wild of Murrieta, Calif., won
the boys 16 doubles title in Kalamazoo. Seeded second, they beat No. 11 seeds
Maciag and Jared Pratt of Daniel Island, S.C., 7-6 (5), 6-3.
In the boys 18
doubles semifinals, No. 4 seeds John McNally and Jeffrey Wolf, both of
Cincinnati, edged No. 10 Anudeep Kodali of Durham, N.C., and Sam Riffice, who
grew up in the Sacramento suburb of Roseville, 7-5, 5-7 [10-8].
McNally and Wolf
went on the win the title.
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