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Saturday, November 17, 2012

Changes planned for Gold River Women's Challenger

Maria Sanchez of Modesto, Calif., won the
inaugural FSP Gold River Women's Challenger
last June. Photo by Paul Bauman
   Several changes are planned for the second annual FSP Gold River Women's Challenger, tournament director Michael Burchett said recently.
   In an effort to draw a better field, the $50,000 tournament at the Gold River River Racquet Club in the Sacramento area will be held four weeks later. The Challenger is scheduled for June 22 to June 29 or 30.
   The top seed this year was Russia's Elena Bovina, then ranked No. 243 in the world. The last direct acceptance, 17-year-old Samantha Crawford of Tamarac, Fla., was No. 877.
   The Challenger in El Paso, Texas, the following week attracted a better field despite offering half the prize money. Bovina again was seeded first, but American Whitney Jones was the last direct acceptance at No. 653.
   The problem for the Gold River Challenger was that it was held during the first week of the French Open. Most players who lost in French Open qualifying then traveled to England to play on grass and prepare for Wimbledon  a few weeks later.
   Next year's Gold River tournament is set for the first week of Wimbledon, but players who lose in qualifying there will head to the United States for the summer hardcourt circuit. Some of them figure to play at Gold River.
   Also, in an attempt to draw more fans, night matches will be played for the first time. Last year's tournament was sparsely attended as temperatures reached the high 90s and most working people were unable to attend. Organizers are even "shooting for a Saturday night final," Burchett said.
   In addition, Burchett plans to increase publicity, which was minimal for the inaugural tournament.
   Fourth-seeded Maria Sanchez of Modesto, 87 miles (140 kilometers) south of Gold River, won the singles title, and second-seeded Asia Muhammad of Henderson, Nev., and Yasmin Schnack of Elk Grove in the Sacramento area took the doubles crown.
   It was the first professional singles title for the 5-foot-10 Sanchez, who commuted from home throughout the week. In her first full year as a pro, the former USC All-American has soared from No. 687 to No. 127 in the world in singles and from No. 268 to No. 115 in doubles. She will turn 23 on Nov. 26.
   Muhammad and Schnack played doubles together for the Sacramento Capitals in the World TeamTennis regular season in July and during the league playoffs in September. The Washington Kastles edged Sacramento 20-19 for their second consecutive WTT crown. 
   Mary Laver dies -- Mary Laver, the wife of legend Rod Laver, died Monday at their home in the San Diego suburb of Carlsbad after a long illness, the Associated Press reported. She was 84.
   Rod, 74, is Australian, and Mary was born in DeKalb, Ill. They were married in San Rafael, across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, in 1966 and had one child, a son named Rick. Mary had three children from a previous marriage.
   Rod is the only player, male or female, to win the Grand Slam twice. He accomplished the feat as an amateur in 1962 and as a professional in 1969.

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Solovieva, 19, upsets top seed in Gold River tourney

   With her piercing blue eyes, Valeria Solovieva bears an uncanny resemblance to fellow Russian Vera Zvonareva.
   Solovieva, 19, did a pretty good impersonation of the 27-year-old star on the court Friday, too.
   Seeded seventh, Solovieva dismantled top-seeded Elena Bovina of -- you guessed it -- Russia 6-1, 6-2 in the quarterfinals of the $50,000 FSP Gold River Women's Challenger at the Gold River Racquet Club.
Seventh-seeded Valeria Solovieva, top, routed top-seeded
Elena Bovina, below, in an all-Russian quarterfinal Friday.
Solovieva, 19, is 10 years younger than the 6-foot-2 Bovina.
Photos by Paul Bauman
   Solovieva rolled her eyes when asked if many people tell her she looks like Zvonareva, who reached the Wimbledon and U.S. Open finals two years ago to climb to No. 2 in the world.
   "So much," Solovieva, who won the 2009 U.S. Open junior girls doubles title with Maryna Zanevska of Ukraine, said with a smile. "I know her pretty well. She's the only person I actually idolize. Since I was young, I really liked how she played, she's a great person, and she's smart. I used to get (comparisons to Maria) Kirilenko and Zvonareva all the time, which is not bad."
   Second-seeded Ashley Weinhold also lost Friday. The 22-year-old resident of Spicewood, Texas, in the Austin area fell to fifth-seeded Jessica Pegula, 18, of Boca Raton, Fla., 7-5, 6-4.
   Forbes magazine reported that Pegula's father, Terry, sold his oil and gas company, East Resources, to Royal Dutch Shell for $4.7 billion in 2010 and bought his hometown team, the NHL's Buffalo Sabres, for $189 million in February 2011.
   In an all-Northern California quarterfinal, fourth-seeded Maria Sanchez of Modesto brushed aside unseeded Romana Tedjakusuma, a 35-year-old Indonesian who lives in Tracy, 6-3, 6-3.
   Also, 17-year-old Samantha Crawford of Boca Raton advanced with a 1-6, 6-4, 6-1 victory over Asia Muhammed, a 21-year-old Henderson, Nev., resident who will make her World TeamTennis debut for the Sacramento Capitals in July.
    Today's semifinals, starting at noon, match two prototypically tall women against two 5-foot-6 competitors. The 5-foot-10 Sanchez will face Solovieva in the first match, and the 6-foot-2 Crawford will take on Pegula in the second. Both will be first-time meetings.
   Sanchez, last year's Pacific-10 Conference Women's Player of the Year at USC, is the old lady of the group at 22. The three teenagers have taken advantage of a field diluted by the tournament's position during the first week of the French Open. Bovina, 29, is ranked No. 246. 
   Solovieva improved to 2-0 against the 6-foot-2 Bovina, who reached No. 14 in the world in 2005 before injuries derailed her career. Solovieva won 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 in the final round of qualifying on clay at a $50,000 tournament in Dothan, Ala., in April.
   Solovieva grew up in Saratov, a city of 873,000 people on the Volga River 560 miles southeast of Moscow. She said that when she was 5, she saw Bovina play in the Kremlin Cup in Moscow.
   "I came as a little girl to watch some (top) players. She was (later) top 20. She wasn't my idol, but she was a (top) player for me. I was really excited to play her a month ago. This time, I knew her (game), so I was ready," Solovieva said.
   Solovieva kept Bovina, who has stork-like legs, off-balance with pinpoint groundstrokes and great gets in 97-degree heat. Rattled, Bovina struggled with her serve.
   "I played really well," Solovieva said. "I put pressure on her right away. I didn't let her play her game. She likes to come in, be in control and not be controlled. That's what I did today."
   Bovina, described by Pegula as "very intense," was not available for comment after the match.
   So has Zvonareva given Solovieva any advice?
   "When I was 12," Solovieva said.
   What did she say?
   "I keep it for me," Solovieva said with a smile.
   Whatever it was, it's working.
   See below for Friday's full singles and doubles results and today's schedule.
   French Open in Paris -- Au revoir, Serena. Thanks for coming.
   Serena Williams ended her brief stay in Paris with a first-round loss in mixed doubles that followed her opening-round exit in singles. Pairing for the first time, Williams and Bob Bryan lost to Gisela Dulko and Eduardo Schwank of Argentina 7-5, 3-6, 10-6 tiebreak. Williams did not play women's doubles.
   Williams hadn't played mixed doubles at a Grand Slam tournament since the 1999 Australian Open, when she and Max Mirnyi of Belarus lost in the final. Williams and Mirnyi won the 1998 Wimbledon and U.S. Open mixed doubles crowns.
   Williams is scheduled to defend her singles title in the Bank of the West Classic at Stanford in July, and Bryan won the 1998 NCAA doubles title with twin brother Bob when they were Stanford sophomores.
   In men's doubles Friday, 40-year-old Mark Knowles of the Bahamas and Xavier Malisse, a comparative youngster at 31 from Belgium, upset 13th-seeded Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram of Israel 7-6 (4), 6-3 in the second round.
   Knowles, who will return for his 11th season with the Capitals, and Malisse could meet the second-seeded Bryans in the third round. All four players have won the French Open men's doubles title once -- the Bryans in 2003, Malisse in 2004 with countryman Olivier Rochus and Knowles in 2007 with former longtime partner Daniel Nestor of Canada.
   Meanwhile, former Cal All-American John Paul Fruttero of San Jose made his Grand Slam men's doubles debut as a  31-year-old lucky loser with Raven Klaasen of South Africa. They lost to unseeded Dudi Sela of Israel and Filippo Volandri of Italy 6-3, 7-6 (3) in the first round.          
FRENCH OPEN TV
(All Times PDT)
   Today -- Third round, Tennis Channel, 2-9 a.m. (live). Third round, NBC, 9 a.m.-noon (live).  French Open Tonight (daily wrapup), Tennis Channel, noon-3 p.m. (premiere), 3-6 p.m. (repeat), 6-9 p.m. (repeat).
   Sunday -- Fourth round, Tennis Channel, 2-10 a.m. (live). Fourth round, NBC, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. (live). French Open Tonight (daily wrapup), Tennis Channel, 1-4 p.m. (premiere), 4-7 p.m. (repeat), 7-10 p.m. (repeat).

FSP GOLD RIVER WOMEN’S CHALLENGER
At Gold River Racquet Club
Singles quarterfinals
   Valeria Solovieva (7), Russia, def. Elena Bovina (1), Russia, 6-1, 6-2. 
   Jessica Pegula (5), Boca Raton, Fla., def. Ashley Weinhold (2), Spicewood, Texas, 7-5, 6-4. 
   Samantha Crawford, Boca Raton, Fla., def. Asia Muhammed, Henderson, Nev., 1-6, 6-4, 6-1. 
   Maria Sanchez (4), Modesto, def. Romana Tedjakusuma, Tracy/Indonesia, 6-3, 6-3.
Doubles quarterfinals
   Lena Litvak, Bronx, N.Y., and Adriana Perez, Venezuela, def. Jessica Pegula, Boca Raton, Fla., and Marie-Eve Pelletier (1), Canada, 6-3, 7-6 (4). 
   Maria-Fernanda Alves, Brazil, and Valeria Solovieva (3), Russia, def. Chieh-Yu Hsu, San Antonio, and Ashley Weinhold, Spicewood, Texas, 1-6, 6-3, 10-6 tiebreak. 
   Kaitlyn Christian, Orange, and Maria Sanchez, Modesto, def. Elena Bovina, Russia, and Gabriela Paz (4), Venezuela, 6-2, 6-0. 
   Asia Muhammed, Henderson, Nev./Capitals, and Yasmin Schnack (2), Elk Grove/Capitals, def. Yawna Allen, Phoenix, and Erin Clark, Fairfax, Va., 6-3, 6-4.
Today’s schedule
Stadium Court
(Beginning at noon)
   Valeria Solovieva (7), Russia, vs. Maria Sanchez (4), Modesto.
   Samantha Crawford, Boca Raton, Fla., vs. Jessica Pegula (5), Boca Raton, Fla.
   Maria-Fernanda Alves, Brazil, and Valeria Solovieva (3), Russia, vs. Asia Muhammed, Henderson, Nev./Capitals, and Yasmin Schnack (2), Elk Grove/Capitals.
Court 7
(After rest, not before 2:30 p.m.)
   Lena Litvak, Bronx, N.Y., and Adriana Perez, Venezuela, vs. Kaitlyn Christian, Orange, and Maria Sanchez, Modesto.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Former top-15 player heads Gold River field

   Elena Bovina, who reached No. 14 in the world in 2005, and promising Tennys Sandgren head the updated entry lists for their respective professional tournaments during the next two weeks in the Sacramento area.
   Qualifying is set for Sunday and Monday in the FSP Women's USTA $50,000 Challenger at the Gold River Racquet Club in Gold River. Main-draw matches are scheduled for Tuesday through June 3.
   The men's $15,000 Tennis Town Pro Tennis at Park Terrace begins with qualifying on June 2 and ends June 10. The tournament will be held at the Park Terrace Swim & Tennis Club in south Sacramento.  
   The top three early entrants in the FSP Challenger -- No. 139 Julia Cohen, No. 152 Tetiana Luzhanska and No. 156 CoCo Vandeweghe -- withdrew along with other players. Cohen and Vandeweghe, a member of the Sacramento Capitals in World TeamTennis, remain alive in qualifying for the French Open, which begins Sunday.
   Bovina, whose career was derailed by shoulder and foot injuries, is the highest-ranked remaining player at No. 243. Other entrants include Capitals Yasmin Schnack, a Sacramento-area resident, and Asia Muhammed; Maria Sanchez of Modesto; and Alexandra Stevenson, a Wimbledon semifinalist in 1999 and the daughter of basketball legend Julius Erving.
   Meanwhile, 264th-ranked Matt Reid of Australia pulled out of the Park Terrace tournament. That tentatively makes the 20-year-old Sandgren, ranked No. 317, the top seed.
   Also set to play are Chris Guccione, a 6-foot-7 left-hander from Australia who reached No. 67 in the world in 2008; Devin Britton, the 2009 NCAA champion as a Mississippi freshman; and Bjorn Fratangelo, who last year joined John McEnroe as the only Americans to win the French Open boys singles title in the Open Era.
   Bovina, a 29-year-old Russian, is by far the most accomplished player in the FSP Challenger. In fact, the 6-foot-2 right-hander has a Grand Slam title to her credit. In 2004, Bovina and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia defeated Martina Navratilova and Leander Paes for the Australian Open mixed doubles title.
   Bovina also reached the mixed doubles final of the 2002 French Open with Mark Knowles, a longtime doubles star for the Capitals.
   In singles, Bovina reached the quarterfinals of the 2002 U.S. Open and the fourth round of the 2003 Australian Open and 2005 French Open.
   Bovina has won three singles and five doubles titles on the WTA tour, the major leagues of women's tennis, and she played on Russia's victorious Fed Cup team in 2005.
   Sandgren has won four singles crowns on the Futures circuit, equivalent to the low minor leagues in baseball, since reaching the NCAA singles semifinals last year at Stanford as a Tennessee sophomore and turning pro. He was not named after tennis.
   “It was my great-grandfather’s name,” Sandgren, from Gallatin, Tenn., was quoted as saying in last year's Tennessee media guide. “He was also Tennys Sandgren. He did not play tennis. No relation to the sport of tennis. It’s Swedish. And a family name.”
   FSP Challenger tickets, which begin at $5, can be purchased at www.goldriverchallenger.com or at the tournament. Admission to the Park Terrace tourney is free.
   NCAA Championships in Athens, Ga. -- Stanford junior Stacey Tan, last year's runner-up from Lakewood in the Los Angeles area, lost to Rice's Natalie Beazant, a freshman from England, 7-5, 6-2 in a first-round matchup of unseeded players in women's singles.  
   Sixth seed and defending champion Jana Juricova of Cal outclassed Kate Turvy of Northwestern 6-3, 6-1. Also advancing with easy victories were Stanford's Nicole Gibbs, seeded third, and Mallory Burdette, seeded fifth. Burdette will meet Washington's Denise Dy, a senior from San Jose who beat Marianne Jodoin of Fresno State 6-4, 7-6 (3).
   Cal freshman Zsofi Susanyi, seeded 9-16, downed Nebraska's Mary Weatherholt 6-4, 7-5, but two other Bears lost. Tayler Davis, a junior from San Jose, fell to Joelle Kissell of North Carolina State 7-5, 6-1, and Anett Schutting succumbed to Lindsey Hardenbergh of Virginia 6-1, 6-4. Katie Le of the University of Santa Clara fell to Abigail Tere-Apisah of Georgia State 7-6 (4), 5-7, 6-0.
   On the men's side, Stanford senior Bradley Klahn returned to the site of his 2010 NCAA singles crown and knocked off fourth-seeded Jarmere Jenkins of Virginia 7-5, 6-3 in the opening round. Klahn, a 6-foot left-hander from the San Diego suburb of Poway, is unseeded at No. 36 in the national rankings after undergoing surgery for a herniated disc in the offseason.
  Stanford senior Ryan Thacher fell to Gonzalo Escobar of Texas Tech 6-3, 7-6 (5).
  Both Cal men lost to Mississippi State players, one from the Sacramento area. No. 9-16 seed Artem Ilyushin, a senior from Granite Bay, routed Ben McLachlan 6-1, 6-3, and George Coupland rallied past senior Nick Andrews of Folsom in the Sacramento area 4-6, 7-6 (7), 6-4.
   On Tuesday, USC won its fourth consecutive NCAA men's title and Florida its second straight women's crown. The top-ranked Trojans (33-1) scored a 4-2 victory over No. 2 Virginia (29-2) in a rematch of last year's final at Stanford, and the Gators (27-1) coasted to a 4-0 win over No. 1 UCLA (26-3).
   USC and Florida were led Steve Johnson and Allie Will, respectively. Both are ranked No. 1 nationally in  singles.
   Bank of the West Classic -- Jelena Jankovic and Nadia Petrova -- formerly ranked No. 1 and 3 in the world, respectively -- will join defending champion Serena Williams and two-time winner Marion Bartoli in this summer's Bank of the West Classic at Stanford.
   Jankovic played in the tournament from 2002 through 2006 and in 2009, reaching the quarterfinals three times. The 27-year-old Serb, now ranked No. 21, has won 12 singles titles and one doubles crown on the WTA tour. She gained the final of the U.S. Open in 2008.
   Petrova, a 29-year-old Russian, will make her fourth appearance in the Bank of the West Classic. She lost in the first round in 2003 and 2008 and the second round in 2009. Petrova, now ranked No. 29, has won 10 singles and 20 doubles crowns on the WTA circuit, and she has reached the singles quarterfinals or better in all four Grand Slam tournaments.
   Tickets to the Bank of the West Classic, July 9-15 at the Taube Family Tennis Stadium on the Stanford campus, are available at (866) WTA-TIXS or http://www.bankofthewestclassic.com/.
   Pete Sampras, Jim Courier and Michael Chang -- all International Tennis Hall of Famers from the United States -- will play a series of exhibition matches July 11-13.
   Admission to qualifying, July 7-8, is free. 
   Clijsters to retire (again) -- Former world No. 1 Kim Clijsters announced she will retire, for the second time, after this year's U.S. Open. The Belgian, who will turn 29 on June 8, has captured the singles title at Flushing Meadows three times.
   Clijsters has won the Bank of the West Classic four times but hasn't played in the tournament since 2006. She has not entered this year, either. 
   Open de Nice Cote d'Azur in Nice, France -- Qualifier Sam Querrey, a San Francisco native who's scheduled to play five matches for the Capitals, lost to Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan 6-2, 7-5 in the first round of the clay-court tournament. 
   However, wild cards Querrey and John Isner upset second-seeded Rohan Bopanna of India and David Marrero of Spain 6-3, 6-3 in the first round of doubles.
   Top-seeded Bob and Mike Bryan, the 1998 NCAA doubles champions from Stanford, eked out a 4-6, 6-2, 10-7 tiebreak win over Daniele Bracciali of Italy and Jamie Murray of Great Britain to reach the semifinals.
   The Bryans, the 34-year-old twin sons of Capitals coach Wayne Bryan, will face third-seeded Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan and Jean-Julien Rojer of the Netherlands Antilles. Qureshi and Rojer defeated  Scott Lipsky, an NCAA doubles runner-up in 2002 from Stanford, and Rajeev Ram of Carmel, Ind., 6-3, 6-2. 
   World Team Cup in Dusseldorf, Germany -- Folsom resident Dmitry Tursunov went 1-1 as Russia lost to Serbia 2-1 in the Power Horse World Team Cup on clay in Dusseldorf, Germany.
   Tursunov lost to Viktor Troicki 6-3, 6-2 and teamed with Igor Kunitsyn to beat Miki Jankovic and Nenad Zimonjic 7-5, 7-6 (6).  It was Tursunov's first victory in singles or doubles since he and Zimonjic reached the doubles semifinals at Doha in the first week of the year.
   Tursunov, a 29-year-old Moscow native, is playing his second tournament since missing three months with a strained tendon in his left wrist,
   Russia, 0-2 in the Blue Group, will finish round-robin play against Croatia. The winners of the Blue Group and the Red Group will meet in Saturday's final. 
   French Open -- Mardy Fish, the top-ranked American man at No. 10 in the world, withdrew from the year's second Grand Slam tournament because of fatigue. Fish, who has played only one match since late March, is still scheduled to play on grass at Queen's Club in London and at Wimbledon before joining the Capitals for home matches on July 12 and July 13.
   Taiwan's Jimmy Wang, who trains with Tursunov in Granite Bay, lost to Pedro Sousa of Portugal 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 in the first round of French Open qualifying.  
   ITF Women's Circuit in Sumter, S.C. -- Romana Tedjakusuma, an Indonesian living in Tracy, dismissed Nika Kukharchuk of Russia 6-3, 6-2 in the first round of the $10,000 Palmetto Pro Open in Sumter, S.C. 
   In the opening round of doubles, qualifiers Tedjakusuma and Diana Ospina of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., routed American wild cards Madeleine Kobelt and Komal Safdar 6-2, 6-1.
   Tedjakusuma, 35, is ranked No. 732 in the world. She reached No. 82 at 17 years old in 1994 but left the circuit to attend Nicholls State in Thibodaux, La. 
TV SCHEDULE
(All times PDT)
   Sunday -- French Open, early rounds, ESPN2, 2-7 a.m. (live); Tennis Channel,
7 a.m.-noon (live); NBC, 9 a.m.-noon (live); Tennis Channel, 4-7 p.m. (French Open Tonight). 
   Monday-June 1 -- French Open, early rounds, ESPN2, 2-7 a.m. (live); Tennis Channel,
7 a.m.-4 p.m. (live), 4-7 p.m. (French Open Tonight).
CALENDAR
   Through Monday -- NCAA Division I Singles and Doubles Championships, men and women, Athens, Ga., www.georgiadogs.com, www.ncaa.com.
   Sunday-June 3 -- $50,000 FSP Gold River Women's Challenger, Gold River Racquet Club, 2201 Gold Rush Drive, Gold River, www.goldriverchallenger.com.
   SUNDAY-JUNE 10 -- FRENCH OPEN, www.rolandgarros.com.
   June 2-10 -- $15,000 Sacramento Men's Futures, Park Terrace Swim & Tennis Club, 5500 Parkfield Court, Sacramento, www.parkterraceprotennis.org.
   June 9-10, 16-18 -- NorCal 18 Junior Sectional Championships, Sacramento State, www.norcal.usta.com.
   June 9-17 -- $15,000 Chico Men's Futures, Chico Racquet Club & Resort, 1629 Manzanita Ave.
Chico, www.chicoracquetclub.com.
   JUNE 25-JULY 8 -- WIMBLEDON, www.wimbledon.com.
   July 7-15 -- WTA, Bank of the West Classic, Stanford, www.bankofthewestclassic.com.
   July 9 -- World TeamTennis, Sacramento Capitals' season opener at Boston, 4 p.m., www.saccaps.com.
   July 12 -- World TeamTennis, Capitals' home opener (with Mardy Fish) vs. Kansas City, Sunrise Marketplace Stadium, Sunrise Mall in Citrus Heights, 7:35 p.m., www.saccaps.com.
PRO RANKINGS
   Following are this week's world rankings of professional players with Northern California ties (change from last week in parentheses):
Men
   Bob Bryan, 1998 NCAA doubles champion from Stanford -- No. 3 in doubles (no change), unranked in singles.
   Mike Bryan, 1998 NCAA doubles champion from Stanford -- No. 3 in doubles (no change), unranked in singles.
   Mardy Fish, Sacramento Capitals (2012) of World TeamTennis -- No. 10 in singles (-1), No. 724 in doubles (-268).
   John Paul Fruttero, Cal All-American in 2001 and 2002 -- No. 92 in doubles (-9), unranked in singles.
   Mark Knowles, Capitals (2001-07, 2009-12), three-time World TeamTennis Male MVP (2001, 2005 and 2007) -- No. 82 in doubles (-2), unranked in singles.
   Scott Lipsky, 2002 NCAA doubles runner-up from Stanford -- No. 38 in doubles (no change), unranked in singles.
   Conor Niland, 2006 Pacific-10 Conference Player of the Year and two-time All-American at Cal -- No. 341 in singles (+2), unranked in doubles.
   Sam Querrey, San Francisco native, Capitals (2012) -- No. 71 in singles (+18), No. 61 in doubles (-1).
   Dmitry Tursunov, Folsom resident -- No. 87 in singles (-1), No. 242 in doubles (-17).
   Jimmy Wang, Folsom resident -- No. 192 in singles (+3), No. 381 in doubles (+2).
   Pedro Zerbini, All-Pacific-10 Conference first team at Cal (2009-11) -- No. 685 in singles (-2), No. 1,397 in doubles (-6).
Women
   Raquel Kops-Jones, 2003 NCAA doubles champion from Cal -- No. 24 in doubles (-1), No. 725 in singles (-4).
   Asia Muhammed, Capitals (2012) -- No. 196 in doubles (+10), No. 469 in singles (+5).
   Maria Sanchez, Modesto resident -- Career-high No. 146 in doubles (no change), No. 283 in singles (no change).
   Yasmin Schnack, Elk Grove resident, Capitals (2011-12) -- No. 148 in doubles (-1), No. 394 in singles (no change).
   Romana Tedjakusuma, Tracy resident -- No. 732 in singles (-5), unranked in doubles.
   CoCo Vandeweghe, Capitals (2009, 2012) -- No. 156 in singles (-1), No. 291 in doubles (-7).