Wake, Ole Miss players claim NCAA singles titles

   The Wake Forest men made the most of their homecourt advantage in the NCAA Championships.
   After the Demon Deacons won the team title at home in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Tuesday, two of their players met in today's singles final. No. 4 seed Petros Chrysochos, a junior from Cyprus, defeated No. 7 Borna Gojo, a sophomore from Croatia, 6-3, 6-3.
   It was the first time in 20 years and fourth time in history that two men from the same school played for the NCAA title. In 1998, Stanford's Bob Bryan defeated Paul Goldstein in Athens, Ga.
   In today's women's final, No. 6 Arianne Hartono, a Mississippi senior from the Netherlands, beat No. 9-16 Ashley Lahey, a Pepperdine sophomore from Hawthorne in the Los Angeles area, 6-4, 6-2. Lahey was Hartono's third straight Pepperdine opponent.
   International players swept the singles titles for the first time since Cal's Suzi Babos (Hungary) and UCLA's Benjamin Kohllhoeffel (Germany) in 2006. Americans had won four consecutive men's titles and six straight women's crowns.
   Today's doubles finals featured four unseeded teams.
   UCLA's Martin Redlicki and Evan Zhu saved a match point in their 6-7 (8), 7-6 (4) [11-9] victory over Ohio State's Martin Joyce and Mikael Torpegaard.
   Redlicki, a senior from Boca Raton, Fla., also won the 2016 NCAA doubles title with Mackenzie McDonald, from Piedmont in the San Francisco Bay Area.
   As for Torpegaard, you have to feel for the guy. The senior from Denmark also lost to McDonald 6-3, 6-3 in the 2016 NCAA singles final and fell to Chrysochos in last week's singles quarterfinals in a third-set tiebreaker. Furthermore, Ohio State lost to Wake Forest 4-2 in last week's team final.
   LSU's Jessica Golovin and Eden Richardson outclassed Vladica Babic and Sofia Blanco of Oklahoma State 6-3, 6-2.
   All finals were moved indoors because of rain.

No. 4 Stanford men stunned at home in NCAA thriller

   William Genesen had three match points to send the Stanford men to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Championships in Winston-Salem, N.C.
   But Mississippi's Finn Reynolds, a freshman from New Zealand, survived the predicament and went on to beat Genesen, a sophomore from Tulsa, Okla., 3-6, 7-6 (6), 6-2 on Court 6 and give the No. 38 Rebels a 4-3 victory over the No. 4 Cardinal today at Stanford. Genesen led 2-0 in the third set.
  Mississippi (16-12) went ahead 2-0, but the Cardinal (22-4) rallied for a 3-2 advantage. No. 33 Tim Sandkaulen defeated No. 83 Axel Geller, a freshman from Argentina who reached No. 1 in the world junior rankings last November, 7-6 (4), 6-3 on Court 2 to tie the score before Reynolds' heroics.
   No. 16 Columbia, with three Northern California players, beat three-time defending champion Virginia 4-2 in New York on Saturday to reach the last 16.
   No. 27 Victor Pham, a junior from Saratoga in the San Francisco Bay Area, lost to No. 24 Carl Soderlund 6-1, 7-6 (5) on Court 1. Austen Huang, a freshman from Elk Grove in the Sacramento area, defeated Matthew Lord 6-4, 6-1 on Court 5. Alex Keyser, a sophomore from Danville in the Bay Area, did not play.
   Columbia (19-4) will face top-ranked Wake Forest (27-2) on Friday in Winston-Salem.  
   No. 2 UCLA, with senior Logan Staggs of Tracy (near San Francisco), dominated No. 39 San Diego 4-0 today.
   No. 22 Vanderbilt, with junior Cameron Klinger of San Jose, lost to No. 9 Illinois 4-0 in Champaign, Ill. Klinger fell at No. 1 singles and doubles.
   On Saturday, No. 15 Stanford and three other women's teams with NorCal players advanced to the Sweet 16 in Winston-Salem.
   No. 10 South Carolina features senior Hadley Berg of Greenbrae and junior Paige Cline of Kentfield. Playing for No. 11 Texas Tech is junior Felicity Maltby of Sunnyvale. Also, No. 14 UCLA has junior Alaina Miller of Saratoga.