Quinn loses in Orange Bowl doubles final; Ahn honored

    No. 7 seeds Edas Butvilas of Lithuania and Abedallah Shelbayh of Jordan, beat unseeded Nicholas Godsick of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and Ethan Quinn of Fresno, Calif., 6-2, 6-4 today to win the boys 18 doubles title in the Orange Bowl on clay in Plantation, Fla.

   Butvilas and Shelbayh, opponents in this year's Wimbledon boys doubles final, lost only one set during the week. They reached the quarterfinals of last week's Eddie Herr International Championships in Bradenton, Fla., in their first tournament together.

   Shelbayh is a freshman at the University of Florida, and Quinn has signed to play at Georgia.

   Godsick and Quinn won the Orange Bowl boys 16 doubles title last year. Shelbayh and Daniel Rincon of Spain earned the crown in 2019.

Stanford graduate Kristie Ahn won the WTA's Peachy Kellmeyer Player
Service Award for the second time. 2019 photo by Paul Bauman

   Godsick's mother, Mary Joe Fernandez, won consecutive Orange Bowl singles titles in the 12s, 14s, 16s and 18s (1982-85). A former top-five player in singles and doubles as a professional, Fernandez works as a tennis commentator for ESPN. Godsick's father, Tony Godsick, is Roger Federer's agent.

   WTA Tour — Kristie Ahn, a 29-year-old Stanford graduate, won the Peachy Kellmeyer Player Service Award for the second time.

   The award, voted on by Ahn's peers, recognizes her work supporting fellow players and wider initiatives on behalf of the WTA. Ahn serves as a player representative on the WTA Board of Directors and was a member of the WTA Players' Council.

   Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain earned the Karen Krantzcke Sportsmanship Award. Suarez Navarro overcame Hodgkin's lymphoma to play in five tournaments this year before retiring at 33.

   Ranked as high as No. 6 in singles (2016) and No. 11 in doubles (2015), Suarez Navarro won the doubles title in the 2014 Bank of the West Classic at Stanford in 2014 with compatriot Garbiñe Muguruza.

Stanford commit reaches Orange Bowl doubles quarters

   Wild cards Nishesh Basavareddy, a Stanford commit from Carmel, Ind., and Aidan Kim of Milford, Mich., ousted top-seeded Bruno Kuzuhara of Coconut Creek, Fla., and Mili Poljicak of Croatia 2-6, 6-2 [11-9] today to reach the boys 18-and-under quarterfinals on clay in the Orange Bowl in Plantation, Fla.

   Also advancing in the top half of the draw was the team of Nicholas Godsick of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and Ethan Quinn, a Georgia signee from Fresno, Calif.

   Godsick and Quinn, last year's doubles champions in the 16s, beat Gerard Campana Lee of South Korea and Dylan Dietrich of Switzerland 7-6 (4) 6-4 in a second-round matchup of unseeded teams. 

   Godsick's mother, Mary Joe Fernandez, won consecutive Orange Bowl singles titles in the 12s, 14s, 16s and 18s (1982-85). A former top-five player in singles and doubles as a professional, Fernandez now works as a tennis commentator for ESPN. Godsick's father, Tony Godsick, is Roger Federer's agent.

   All seeded teams in the top half of the Orange Bowl boys 18 doubles draw have been eliminated.

   In the bottom half, seventh-seeded Edas Butvilas of Lithuania and Abedallah Shelbayh of Jordan downed Samir Banerjee, a Stanford commit from Basking Ridge, N.J, and Braden Shick of Greensboro, N.C., 6-4, 6-4.

   In Wimbledon boys events this year, Banerjee won the singles title, and Butvilas took the doubles crown with Alejandro Manzanera Pertusa of Spain.

   In the second round of Orange Bowl girls 18 doubles, third-seeded Alexandra Eala of the Philippines and Solana Sierra of Argentina dismissed Mirra Andreeva of Russia and Katja Wiersholm, a University of California, Berkeley signee from Kirkland, Wash., 6-3, 6-2.

NorCal's Quinn claims Orange Bowl 16s doubles title

   Ethan Quinn of Fresno, Calif., and Nicholas Godsick of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, won the Orange Bowl boys 16 doubles title today.

   The fourth-seeded Quinn and Godsick beat third-seeded Lucas Brown of Plano, Texas, and John Kim of Sunnyvale in the San Francisco Bay Area 7-6 (0), 6-4 on clay in Plantation, Fla.

   Quinn won the 16s singles title in the USTA Winter Nationals on clay in Orlando, Fla., in January.

   Godsick's mother, Mary Joe Fernandez, won consecutive Orange Bowl singles titles in the 12s, 14s, 16s and 18s (1982-85). A former top-five player in singles and doubles as a professional, Fernandez now works as a tennis commentator for ESPN. Godsick's father, Tony Godsick, is Roger Federer's agent.

   In the other 16s finals:

   —Fifteenth-seeded Jonah Braswell of Sarasota, Fla., crushed fifth-seeded Ignacio Buse of Peru 6-0, 6-1.

   —Valeria Ray of Doral, Fla., downed Tatum Evans of McLean, Va., 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 in a matchup of unseeded players.

   —Vivian Miller of Sullivans Island, S.C., and Maddy Zampardo of Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., edged Ahmani Guichard of Seminole, Fla., and Lexington Reed of Orlando 6-4, 3-6 [10-6]. Both teams were unseeded.

   The boys and girls 18s singles semifinals and doubles finals are scheduled for Saturday.