Bay Area's Volynets loses marathon in $25K Boca Raton

Katie Volynets talks with reporter Tony Acosta during the 2018 Stockton (Calif.)
Challenger. In the background is Volynets' father, Andrey. Photo by Paul Bauman

   The first match between Americans Katie Volynets and Usue (pronounced OO-sway) Maitane Arconada was a doozy.

   The third-seeded Arconada, 22, outlasted Volynets, 19, of Walnut Creek in the San Francisco Bay Area 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-4 in 3 hours, 26 minutes today in the second round of a $25,000 hardcourt tournament in Boca Raton, Fla.

    The match was not the longest of the tournament, however. Top-seeded Olga Govortsova of Belarus edged qualifier Maria Mateas, a 21-year-old American born in Romania,  4-6, 7-6 (8), 7-6 (3) in 4:07, virtually unheard of for a best-of-three-set match, in the first round. 

   Govortsova, a quarterfinalist at Stanford on the WTA Tour in 2007 and 2013, then lost to Tereza Mrdeza of Croatia 1-6, 6-4, 6-4 in a mere 2:31.

   Arconada captured the doubles title in the 2017 Stockton (Calif.) Challenger with Sofia Kenin. Volynets won the singles crown in the USTA 18 National Championships in August 2019 and turned pro that December.

   ITF Men's Tour — Second-seeded Alejandro Gomez of Colombia and Israel Alexander Ore of the United States beat alternates Strong Kirchheimer of Cary, N.C., and Dennis Novikov, 27, of San Jose, Calif., 6-4, 6-4 in the quarterfinals of a $25,000 clay-court tournament in Naples, Fla.

NorCal's Jovic falls in $60K Rome, Ga., doubles final

Jovana Jovic (formerly Jaksic) and Olga Govortsova
lost 10-8 in a match tiebreaker in the final of the
$60,000 Rome (Ga.) Challenger. 2018 photo by
Paul Bauman

   Emina Bektas of the United States and Tara Moore of Great Britain edged Olga Govortsova of Belarus and Jovana Jovic (formerly Jaksic) of Serbia 5-7, 6-2 [10-8] in a battle of unseeded teams today to win the $60,000 Rome (Ga.) Challenger.

   The tall, slender Bektas, 27, and the short, stocky Moore, 28, led 3-0, 5-1 and 9-6 in the match tiebreaker. On the pair's third championship point, Moore's topspin lob landed inside the baseline as Govortsova and Jovic watched at the net in vain.

   Bektas and Moore claimed their third and biggest ITF title together, including the $25,000 Redding, Calif., Challenger in 2019.

   Govortsova, who played for the Sacramento Capitals of World TeamTennis in 2013, and Jovic, who lives in Sacramento, were seeking their first ITF title as a team.

   Jovic is projected to soar 49 places to No. 311 in the world in doubles on Monday.

   In singles, unseeded Grace Min of the United States and qualifier Irene Burillo Escorihuela of Spain advanced to Sunday's final in contrasting fashion. 

   Min, the runner-up to Sofia Kenin in the 2016 Sacramento Challenger, routed qualifier Bektas 6-0, 6-3 in 65 minutes. Burillo Escorihuela then outlasted qualifier Ana Sofia Sanchez of Mexico 5-7, 6-2, 7-5 in 2 hours, 58 minutes.

   The singles final, scheduled for 8 a.m. PST, will be streamed live.

   UTR Pro Tennis Series — Priya Nelson, 15, of Sacramento defeated Emma Sun, a high school junior from Newbury Park in the Los Angeles area, 6-3, 6-2 in Newport Beach, Calif.

   Nelson finished 2-2 in round-robin play in the $25,000 singles-only tournament. Sun went 0-4.

Gauff takes out No. 2 seed to reach Lexington quarters

Add Aryna Sabalenka to Coco Gauff's list of highly ranked victims.

Gauff, a 16-year-old U.S. sensation, topped Sabalenka, seeded second and ranked 11th, 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-4 in a ragged match today to reach the quarterfinals of the Top Seed Open in Lexington, Ky.

Gauff broke serve for 5-4 in the third set on a running forehand passing shot down the line in the first WTA tournament in North American in almost one year.

Both players broke serve seven times in the 2-hour, 48-minute battle. Sabalenka committed 14 double faults and Gauff 10 in their first career meeting.

Gauff already has wins over two top-10 players, No. 4 Naomi Osaka and No. 8 Kiki Bertens. Gauff won Linz (Austria) as a lucky loser last October for her first career title. 

Gauff will return to the top 50 on Monday, rising at least three spots to No. 50. She attained a career high of No. 49 in February after advancing to the fourth round of the Australian Open.

Sabalenka reached the final of the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic in San Jose, Calif., last August, then won the U.S. Open doubles title with Elise Mertens of Belgium.

Gauff is scheduled to play Tunisia's Ons Jabeur, seeded eighth and ranked No. 39, for the first time Friday.

Jabeur, 25, lost the first four games to qualifier Olga Govortsova of Belarus but recovered to win 3-6, 6-2, 6-4. Jabeur, only 5-foot-6 (1.67 meters), had 10 aces to none for the 6-foot (1.82-meter) Govortsova, who was playing a five-hour drive from her adopted hometown of Huntsville, Ala. 

Jabeur won the French Open girls singles title in 2011 and reached her first career Grand Slam quarterfinal in the Australian Open in January, ending former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki's career in the third round. 

Govortsova, a 31-year-old mother, was seeking her first WTA quarterfinal since 2014. She has plunged from a career-high No. 35 in 2008 to No. 135.

In the other quarterfinal in the bottom half of the draw, 49th-ranked Marie Bouzkova of the Czech Republic will meet 48th-ranked Jennifer Brady of Boca Raton, Fla., for the first time.

Bouzkova, who ousted third-seeded Johanna Konta of Great Britain in the first round, defeated Anna Blinkova of Russia 6-4, 6-2. Brady, a semifinalist as a qualifier at Dubai in February, bounced sixth-seeded Magda Linette of Poland 6-2, 6-3. 

The quarterfinals in the top half of the draw will be determined Thursday.

Top-seeded Serena Williams, 38, is set to face Venus Williams, 40, not before 9:30 a.m. PDT (Tennis Channel). Serena leads the head-to-head series 18-12 with nine wins in the last 11 encounters.

San Francisco Bay Area product CiCi Bellis will meet American Jessica Pegula, the daughter of Buffalo Bills and Sabres owners Terry and Kim Pegula, not before 11 a.m. In their only previous meeting, Pegula prevailed 6-0, 6-4 in the first round at Auckland in January en route to the final, in which she lost to Serena Williams 6-3, 6-4.

Ahn loses battle against top seed in $100K Midland

Kristie Ahn, a 26-year-old Stanford graduate, saved three match points be-
fore falling to top-seeded Rebecca Peterson of Sweden 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 today
in the quarterfinals of the $100,000 Dow Tennis Classic in Midland, Mich.
2018 photo by Paul Bauman

   Kristie Ahn fought hard but came up short against the top seed in a $100,000 tournament in Midland, Mich.
   The 26-year-old Stanford graduate and New Jersey resident saved three match points before falling to Rebecca Peterson, a 23-year-old Swede, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 in 2 hours, 31 minutes today in the quarterfinals of the Dow Tennis Classic.
   Peterson, ranked No. 57, broke serve to lead 3-2 in the third set and held for 4-2. Ahn, ranked No. 220, escaped a break point to hold for 3-4. After Peterson held for 5-3, Ahn survived two match points and pulled within 4-5.
   Peterson, who reached the third round of last year's U.S. Open and the second round of last month's Australian Open, trailed 0-30 in the next game but won three consecutive points to earn her third match point. Ahn again stayed alive and then earned a break point, but Peterson won the following three points to improve to 3-0 lifetime against Ahn.
   It was Peterson's second victory over Ahn in two weeks. Peterson triumphed 6-4, 6-4 in the second round of the $162,480 Newport Beach Challenger.
   Peterson will face Caty McNally, a 17-year-old wild card from Cincinnati, on Saturday. McNally ousted third seed and defending champion Madison Brengle of Dover, Del., 6-3, 6-4. Brengle won the $60,000 Stockton (Calif.) Challenger last October.
   In Saturday's other semifinal, fourth-seeded Jessica Pegula will meet qualifier and fellow American Robin Anderson.
   Pegula, the 24-year-old daughter of Buffalo Bills and Sabres owners Terrence and Kim Pegula, topped American Christina McHale, a former top-25 player, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4.
   Pegula advanced to the final of the $50,000 Sacramento Challenger in 2012, losing to Modesto (Calif.) product Maria Sanchez, and the semifinals of last year's Stockton Challenger.
   The 5-foot-3 (1.61-meter) Anderson, who won the $25,000 Redding (Calif.) Challenger in 2017, beat sixth-seeded Yanina Wickmayer, a 29-year-old Belgian who reached the semifinals of the 2009 U.S. Open, 6-3, 6-4.
   In Saturday's doubles final, U.S. wild cards Cori (Coco) Gauff, 14, and Ann Li, 18, will meet unseeded Olga Govortsova, 30, of Belarus and Valeria Savinykh, 27, of Russia.
   Li reached the singles quarterfinals of last year's Stockton Challenger, and Govortsova advanced to the singles quarters of the Bank of the West Classic at Stanford in 2007 and 2013.
   The Bank of the West Classic ended in 2017 after 21 years at Stanford and was replaced by the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic in nearby San Jose.

Roundup: Bellis wins her biggest doubles title

CiCi Bellis, 16, of Atherton won the doubles title in the $100,000
Dow Corning Tennis Classic in Midland, Mich., with Ingrid Neel,
17, of Rochester, Minn. 2015 photo by Paul Bauman

   CiCi Bellis and Ingrid Neel might want to stick together.
   Playing in their first professional tournament together, the American teenagers won the doubles title in the $100,000 Dow Corning Tennis Classic on Sunday in Midland, Mich.
   Wild cards Bellis, 16, of Atherton in the San Francisco Bay Area and Neel, 17, of Rochester, Minn., beat second-seeded Naomi Broady of Great Britain and Shelby Rogers of Charleston, S.C., 6-2, 6-4.
   Bellis, an amateur, won her biggest doubles title in only her seventh pro doubles event and first since an opening-round loss with Jacqueline Cako of the United States in the Bank of the West Classic at Stanford last August. Bellis lives minutes from Stanford.
   Bellis and Neel defeated the top three seeds in Midland. They routed No. 1 Asia Muhammad and Maria Sanchez, a Modesto product, in the quarterfinals and edged No. 3 Nicole Gibbs, a former Stanford All-American, and Taylor Townsend in the semifinals.
   Bellis also upset No. 2 singles seed and defending champion Tatjana Maria of Germany in the first round before losing to wild card Robin Anderson of Matawan, N.J.
   The unseeded Broady won the singles title, defeating Anderson 6-7 (6), 6-0, 6-2. The 6-foot-2 (1.89-meter) Broady towered over the 5-foot-3 (1.61-meter) Anderson.

Ingrid Neel returns a shot in the first round of women's
doubles in the U.S. Open last September. Neel lost
with fellow American teenager Tornado Alicia Black.
Photo by Paul Bauman

   Broady, who will turn 26 on Feb. 28, qualified in Auckland on the elite WTA tour last month and stunned former world No. 1 Ana Ivanovic in the first round en route to the quarterfinals.
   Broady also won the doubles title in the $50,000 Sacramento Challenger in 2013 with Storm Sanders of Australia.

   Fed Cup in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii -- Venus Williams overpowered Magda Linette 6-1, 6-2 in 60 minutes to give the United States an insurmountable 3-0 lead over Poland in World Group II.
   The United States also won in doubles behind Bethanie Mattek-Sands and CoCo Vandeweghe to beat Poland 4-0. The final singles match was not played.
   The United States advances to the World Group playoffs in April for a chance to compete for the Fed Cup title in 2017. The draw for the playoffs will be held Tuesday.
   Williams, 35, has won the Bank of the West Classic twice (2000 and 2002) and reached the final five other times (1998, 1999, 2004, 2005 and 2009).
   Williams' younger sister, top-ranked Serena Williams, and No. 4 Agneiszka Radwanska of Poland skipped this weekend's competition.
   Fed Cup in Quebec City, Canada -- Stanford junior Carol Zhao of Canada didn't exactly ease into the Fed Cup.
   The World Group II tie between Canada and Belarus came down to doubles, with Gabriela Dabrowski and Zhao, playing her first Fed Cup match, falling to Olga Govortsova and Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-2, 6-4. That gave Belarus a 3-2 victory.
   The 6-foot (1.82-meter) Govortsova reached the Bank of the West quarterfinals in 2007 (as a qualifier) and 2013.
   Neither Belarus' Victoria Azarenka nor Canada's Eugenie Bouchard -- formerly ranked No. 1 and No. 5, respectively -- played in the tie.    

   ITA Women's Team Indoors in Madison, Wis. -- Karla Popovic defeated Olivia Sneed 6-2, 1-6, 6-3 on Court 6 to give sixth-ranked Cal a 4-3 victory over No. 16 Ohio State in the semifinals of the ITA National Women's Team Indoor Championship.
   Cal (5-0) will play defending champion North Carolina, ranked fifth, for the title today at 9 a.m. PST. It will be the Bears' second appearance in the final. They lost to Stanford in 2000 in Madison.

Capitals' Govortsova shocks Stosur at Stanford

Olga Govortsova upset second-seeded Samantha Stosur
6-2, 6-4 in the second round of the Bank of the West Classic.
Photo by Paul Bauman

   STANFORD -- Taylor Townsend's injury turned out to be a lucky break for Olga Govortsova.
   It helped the 24-year-old Belarusian stun second-seeded Samantha Stosur 6-2, 6-4 tonight in the second round of the 43rd Bank of the West Classic, the longest-running women's professional tennis tournament in the world.
   The Sacramento Capitals of World TeamTennis signed Govortsova for four matches last week after Townsend, 17, strained an abdominal muscle. Then Govortsova beat Julia Goerges of Germany 7-6 (2), 6-2 on Monday in the first round of the Bank of the West Classic.
   Stosur, meanwhile, played in her first match since falling to eventual runner-up Sabine Lisicki in the third round at Wimbledon in the last week of June. Stosur, the 2011 U.S. Open champion, received a first-round bye at Stanford.
   "I played really well today," Govortsova, ranked 83rd after reaching a career-high 35th at 19 years old in 2008, said after her first meeting with Stosur. "I think it helped that I had the extra match yesterday, and (playing WTT) was a really good warmup for the hardcourt season."
    Initially, Govortsova wasn't going to play WTT, in which eight teams spread across the United States play 14 matches in a three-week regular season. After Townsend's injury, Govortsova agreed to play two matches in California. She ended up playing in Springfield, Mo., and the Boston area, too.

Stosur, the 2011 U.S. Open champion, committed 10 double-
faults in tonight's match. Photo by Paul Bauman

   "(WTT) is kind of tough with a lot of traveling, but I was in (Los Angeles), and Sacramento asked me to play in California. They had a private jet, so I couldn't say no," Govortsova said with a laugh. "But I really enjoyed it. Next year, I would love to play for them."
   The victory over Stosur, ranked 13th, was one of the biggest of Govortsova's career. She beat Agnieszka Radwanska, Marion Bartoli and Daniela Hantuchova when they were No. 2, No. 11 and No. 12, respectively. But Radwanska retired from that match with a shoulder injury, and the win over Bartoli came on clay.

   "I actually didn't think today what is her ranking," Govortsova said of Stosur. "I felt really good yesterday and today in the warmup. I was feeling the ball really well."
   Govortsova, who will meet the winner of Wednesday's match between fifth-seeded Sorana Cirstea and 2012 runner-up CoCo Vandeweghe, was the last direct acceptance in the tournament. If she had been ranked any lower, she would have had to play in the qualifying event.
   Stosur returned to Australia after Wimbledon, took a week off, then practiced for a week. The winner of the 2010 WTA Diamond Aces award for doing the most to promote the game on and off the court, she was cordial as usual after her loss.
   "It is what it is," Stosur said of her layoff. "I certainly needed to take a break after Wimbledon, and that's what I've done every single year. It would be nice to start off better in your first tournament back."

Govortsova said playing for the Sacramento
Capitals in World TeamTennis helped her
beat Stosur. Photo by Paul Bauman

   Stosur, a semifinalist at Stanford in 2009 and 2010, became the latest big name to exit the tournament. Serena Williams, who has won the last two titles, did not return. Four-time Grand Slam singles champion Maria Sharapova, reigning Wimbledon champ Bartoli and Lisicki withdrew before the Bank of the West with injuries.
   The only headliners left, Radwanska and 2010 French Open champion Francesca Schiavone, meet on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the second round.
   But there is an outside chance of Radwanska facing her younger sister, seventh-seeded Urszula Radwanska, in the final. Urszula coasted past American Christina McHale 6-1, 6-3 in tonight's late match. McHale has plunged from a career-high No. 24 last August to No. 94 after being diagnosed with mononucleosis last September.
   In a matchup of past Bank of the West semifinalists, Daniela Hantuchova, 30, of Slovakia eliminated Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium 6-2, 4-6, 6-0 in the first round. Hantuchova, a former top-five player who owns a career Grand Slam in mixed doubles, reached the semis at Stanford in 2007. Wickmayer, a U.S. Open semifinalist in 2009, advanced to the final four in last year's Bank of the West Classic.  
    Stosur trailed 4-0 and 5-1 in both sets against Govortsova. Stosur won three straight games to pull within 5-4 in the second set, but Govortsova converted her third match point with a service winner.
   "She had nothing to lose," Govortsova said of Stosur's rally. "She started going for shots, and she started making more. I got a little nervous. It was kind of the same situation as the French Open. I had two match points against Bartoli (in the first round). I lost, and she won Wimbledon."

Stosur said double-faulting so often in the match
was "inexcusable." Photo by Paul Bauman

   Stosur committed 10 double faults in the match, including three in each of her first two service games.
   When asked why she double-faulted so often, Stosur said with a laugh: "I wish I had that answer. The way I serve and how reliable my second serve is, it's kind of inexcusable to hit that many in one match. There's certainly a lot of (issues) I've got to work out."
   Govortsova is reminiscent of former world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka, right down to jerking her head slightly before serving to get her ponytail out of the way. Both are powerful at 6 feet (1.83 meters), grunt loudly and reside in Minsk. They grew up together in the juniors and won the Wimbledon girls doubles title in 2004. 
   "I'm happy she's from Belarus and doing well, but I have my own career," Govortsova said.
   At the moment, it's looking pretty good.

BANK OF THE WEST CLASSIC

At Stanford

First-round singles

   Varvara Lepchenko (6), United States, def. Michelle Larcher de Brito, Portugal, 6-2, 6-4.
   Tamira Paszek, Austria, def. Alla Kudryavtseva, Russia, 6-1, 6-7 (4), 3-0, retired.
   CoCo Vandeweghe, United States, def. Monica Niculescu, Romania, 6-0, 6-3.
   Vera Dushevina, Russia, def. Marina Erakovic, New Zealand, 6-2, 6-1.
   Daniela Hantuchova, Slovakia, def. Yanina Wickmayer, Belgium, 6-2, 4-6, 6-0.

   Urszula Radwanska (7), Poland, vs. Christina McHale, United States, late.

Second-round singles

   Olga Govortsova, Belarus, def. Samantha Stosur (2), Australia, 6-2, 6-4.

First-round doubles

   Jacqueline Cako and Natalie Pluskota, United States, def. Nuria Llagostera Vives, Spain, and Francesca Schiavone, Italy, walkover.
   Natalie Grandin, South Africa, and Alicja Rosolska, Poland, def. Varvara Lepchenko, United States, and Ajla Tomljanovic, Croatia, 4-6, 7-5, 1-0 (10-6).
   Asia Muhammad and Allie Will, United States, def. Nicole Gibbs and CoCo Vandeweghe, United States, 7-5, 6-3.
   Hao-Ching Chan, Taiwan, and Vera Dushevina (4), Russia, def. Gabriela Dabrowski and Sharon Fichman, Canada, 6-4, 6-0.

Wednesday's schedule

Stadium

(Starting at 11 a.m.)

   Dominika Cibulkova, Slovakia, and Monica Niculescu, Romania, vs. Julia Goerges, Germany, and Darja Jurak (2), Croatia.
   Tamira Paszek, Austria, vs. Varvara Lepchenko (6), United States.
   Sorana Cirstea (5), Romania, vs. CoCo Vandeweghe, United States.
   Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears (1), United States, vs. Christina McHale, United States, and Tamira Paszek, Austria.

(Not before 7 p.m.)

   Agnieszka Radwanska (1), Poland, vs. Francesca Schiavone, Italy.
   Daniela Hantuchova, Slovakia, and Lisa Raymond (3), United States, vs. Mallory Burdette, United States, and Sorana Cirstea, Romania.

Court 6

(Starting at 1 p.m.)

   Olga Govortsova, Belarus, and Alla Kudryavtseva, Russia, vs. Miki Miyamura, Japan, and Olga Puchkova, Russia.

SPRINGFIELD 22, CAPITALS 17

In Springfield, Mo.

   Men's singles -- Rik de Voest (Springfield) def. Sam Querrey, 5-2.
   Mixed doubles -- Jean-Julien Rojer and Vania King (Springfield) def. Mark Knowles and Taylor Townsend, 5-4.
   Men's doubles -- Rojer and de Voest (Springfield) def. Knowles and Querrey, 5-3.
   Women's singles -- Townsend (Capitals) def. Alisa Kleybanova, 5-2.
   Women's doubles -- King and Kleybanova (Springfield) def. Megan Moulton-Levy and Townsend, 5-3.   
   Team records -- Springfield 9-4, Capitals 5-8. The Lasers will host Texas in the Western Conference finals on Thursday. Sacramento, which has one regular-season match remaining, was eliminated from playoff contention on Monday.

Sharapova out of Stanford; Caps' tailspin continues

   The Bank of the West Classic lost Maria Sharapova and Sabine Lisicki, but it still has Marion Bartoli.
   The second-ranked Sharapova withdrew from next week's tournament at Stanford with a left hip injury, tournament officials announced Monday.
   Sharapova lost to Michelle Larcher de Brito, who played for the Sacramento Capitals of World TeamTennis at 14 six years ago, 6-3, 6-4 in the second round at Wimbledon last month. Sharapova tumbled several times during the match and took a medical timeout for a hip injury.
   The 26-year-old Russian announced on her website Saturday that she had hired Jimmy Connors to replace Thomas Hogstedt as her coach. 
   Lisicki, the runner-up to Bartoli in the Wimbledon final, pulled out of the Bank of the West Classic last week with a wrist problem.
   The seventh-ranked Bartoli will make her 11th consecutive appearance in the Bank of the West Classic. She reached the final in 2008, 2009 and 2011, beating Venus Williams for the 2009 title.
   Bartoli is one of three entrants to have won a Grand Slam singles title. Samantha Stosur of Australia took the 2011 U.S. Open crown, and Francesca Schiavone of Italy captured the 2010 French Open title. 
   The field also includes fourth-ranked Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland, recent Wimbledon semifinalist Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium and Americans Varvara Lepchenko, Jamie Hampton and Madison Keys. 
   For more information, go to www.bankofthewestclassic.com.
   Capitals lose again -- Olga Govortsova fared even worse than Irina Falconi for Sacramento, and Ryan Sweeting continued to struggle.
   The result was the Capitals' fourth consecutive loss, 21-13 to the Orange County Breakers in Irvine. The teams were tied 11-11 at intermission, but Govortsova and Sweeting lost 5-1 in women's singles and men's singles, respectively, to end the match.
   Sacramento's Taylor Townsend, 17, missed her second straight contest with a strained abdominal muscle. Falconi replaced her in Sunday's 23-10 loss at Texas and dropped her two sets (women's singles and women's doubles) by a combined score of 10-3. Govortsova, 24, of Belarus took over on Monday and fell 10-2 overall in the same sets.
   Sweeting, 26, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has won only one of his eight sets (men's singles and men's doubles) for Sacramento this season.
   At the midpoint of the regular season, the Capitals (3-4) rank first in the eight-team league in mixed doubles with Mark Knowles and Megan Moulton-Levy, fourth in women's doubles, fifth in men's doubles, seventh in women's singles and last in men's singles.
   Clay Court Shootout -- Mackenzie McDonald of Piedmont and seven others won division titles in last week's Olympic Club Har-Tru Clay Court Shootout in San Francisco.
   Other champions were Lidia L. Dukic of Santa Clara, Andy Huang of Fremont, Grace Lin of South San Francisco, Kailas Shekar of Cupertino, Pamela Duke of San Jose, Joshua Leopold of Santa Clara and Katie Volynets of Walnut Creek.
   Each division winner received a $500 travel voucher for this week's USTA Boys and Girls National Clay Court Championships at various sites in the Southeast. 

ORANGE COUNTY 21, CAPITALS 13

In Irvine, Calif.

   Mixed doubles -- Mark Knowles and Megan Moulton-Levy (Capitals) def. Treat Huey and Maria Elena Camerin, 5-3.
   Women's doubles -- Camerin and CoCo Vandeweghe (Orange County) def. Olga Govortsova and Moulton-Levy, 5-1.
   Men's doubles -- Knowles and Ryan Sweeting (Capitals) def. Huey and Steve Johnson, 5-3.
   Women's singles -- Vandeweghe (Orange County) def. Govortsova, 5-1.
   Men's singles -- Johnson (Orange County) def. Sweeting, 5-1.