Sanchez, Novikov claim Maui doubles titles

Asia Muhammad, left, and Maria Sanchez pose
after beating Jarmila Wolfe (formerly Gajdosova)
of Australia and Ajla Tomljanovic of Croatia in
the first round of the U.S. Open last September.
 Photo by Paul Bauman 

   Two players from Northern California won doubles titles in the $50,000 Maui Challenger over the weekend.
   Top-seeded Asia Muhammad and Maria Sanchez, a Modesto native, edged unseeded Jessica Pegula and Taylor Townsend 6-2, 3-6 [10-6] in an all-American final on Sunday.
   Also, unseeded Jason Jung of Taiwan and Dennis Novikov of Milpitas in the San Francisco Bay Area nipped second-seeded Alex Bolt of Australia and Frank Moser, 39, of Germany 6-3, 4-6 [10-8] in Saturday's final.
   Sanchez, a 26-year-old USC graduate, jumped 12 spots to a career-high No. 76 in the rankings with her 14th Challenger doubles title and second with Muhammad ($100,000 Vancouver in 2014).
   Muhammad and Sanchez also reached the second round of the U.S. Open last September.
   Sanchez owns one WTA tour doubles crown, at Auckland in 2014 with Sharon Fichman of Canada.
   Novikov, a 22-year-old Moscow native and former UCLA star, rose 17 places to No. 171 with his second Challenger doubles title. His career high, achieved last October, is No. 162.
   Novikov also won the $50,000 Tallahassee Challenger last May with Julio Peralta of Chile.
   Jung, 26, was born and lives in Torrance in the Los Angeles area.
   Moser, 6-foot-5 (1.96 meters), won his only ATP World Tour doubles title in the 2013 and last SAP Open in San Jose with since-retired Xavier Malisse of Belgium.
   Moser also reached the 2012 doubles final in San Jose, pairing with 6-foot-8 (2.03-meter) Kevin Anderson of South Africa in a loss to Mark Knowles of the Bahamas and Malisse.
   The San Jose tournament was discontinued after 125 years at various sites in the Bay Area.

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.

Capitals blow late lead, lose to Springfield

   Sunday can't come soon enough for the Sacramento Capitals.
   That's when CoCo Vandeweghe is scheduled to join the team for the first of five matches to end the regular season in World TeamTennis.
   Sacramento needs help big-time in women's singles and doubles, which again let down the team in a 20-19 loss at lowly Springfield on Thursday night.
   The Capitals led 15-10 at intermission behind Sam Querrey in men's singles, Yasmin Schnack of Elk Grove in the Sacramento area and Querrey/Mark Knowles in mixed doubles, and Querrey and Knowles in men's doubles.
   But Timea Babos and Modesto's Maria Sanchez beat Asia Muhammad and Schnack 5-3 in women's doubles to cut Sacramento's lead to 18-15. Then Babos, ranked 66th in the world in singles, routed No. 483 Muhammad 5-1 to give Springfield its second victory against six losses. Muhammad served at 3-0 in the last game but lost the next four points to end the match.
   Sacramento is 3-15 in women's singles in its last three matches, two of which the Capitals lost and one of which they needed a shutout in the last set (men's doubles) to win by one game.
   The Capitals rank first in men's singles this season in the eight-team league, third in men's doubles, fourth in mixed doubles and seventh in women's singles and doubles.
   The 6-foot-1 Vandeweghe, meanwhile, jumped from No. 120 in the world to No. 69 after reaching the final of last week's Bank of the West Classic at Stanford as a lucky loser. She held a set point against five-time Wimbledon singles champion Serena Williams in the first set of the title match before falling in straight sets.
   Sacramento (4-4) visits Kansas City (2-5) tonight before hosting Springfield on Sunday night at Sunrise Mall in Citrus Heights.
   After winning three of their first four matches, the Capitals have lost three of their last four. The bright side, in addition to Vandeweghe's impending arrival, is that they still lead the Western Conference by one-half match over Orange County (3-4), 1 1/2 matches over Kansas City and two matches over Springfield. The top two teams in each conference at the end of the 14-match regular season advance to the WTT playoffs, Sept. 14-16 in Charleston, S.C.   
   See below for full results of Thursday's match.
   ATP World Tour in Atlanta -- No. 2 seed and two-time defending champion Mardy Fish retired from his second-round match in the BB&T Atlanta Open.
   Fish, who played two matches for the Capitals last week, hurt his right ankle while leading Gilles Muller of Luxembourg 6-4, 3-2. It's the lastest setback for the 30-year-old Fish, who underwent a procedure on May 23 for an irregular heartbeat.
   The upcoming Olympics are not a concern for Fish, the second-ranked American at No. 13, because he chose to skip the tournament for the second straight time. He remains emotionally scarred after failing to capitalize on a two-sets-to-one lead over Nicolas Massu of Chile in the gold-medal match at the 2004 Olympics in Athens.
   In the first round of doubles in Atlanta, unseeded South Africans Kevin Anderson and Rik de Voest edged Paolo Lorenzi of Italy and Rajeev Ram of Carmel, Ind., 6-3, 6-7 (3), 10-6 tiebreak.
   The 6-foot-8 Anderson, ranked 33rd in singles, is scheduled to join the Capitals on Tuesday for the first of four matches to close the regular season. De Voest won the singles title in the inaugural Sacramento Challenger in 2005.
   Raven Klaasen of South Africa and Donald Young of Atlanta upset second-seeded Santiago Gonzalez of Mexico and Scott Lipsky of Huntington Beach 6-2, 7-6 (5). Lipsky, a former NCAA doubles runner-up from Stanford, won the 2010 Atlanta doubles crown with Ram. Gonzalez and Lipsky captured the doubles title on grass at Newport, R.I., last week.

WORLD TEAMTENNIS

Springfield 20, Capitals 19

In Springfield, Mo.

   Men's singles -- Sam Querrey (Capitals) def. Amir Weintraub (Lasers) 5-4.
   Mixed doubles -- Mark Knowles-Yasmin Schnack (Capitals) def. Timea Babos-Devin Britton (Lasers) 5-2.
   Men's doubles -- Mark Knowles-Sam Querrey (Capitals) def. Devin Britton-Amir Weintraub (Lasers) 5-4.
   Women's doubles -- Timea Babos-Maria Sanchez (Lasers) def. Asia Muhammad-Yasmin Schnack (Capitals) 5-3.
   Women's singles -- Timea Babos (Lasers) def. Asia Muhammad (Capitals) 5-1.

TV SCHEDULE

(All times PDT)

   Today -- Hamburg (men), quarterfinals, Tennis Channel, 3-11 a.m. (live), 8-10 p.m. (repeat); Atlanta (men), quarterfinals, ESPN2, 1-6 p.m. (live), Tennis Channel, 6-8 p.m. (live); Bastad (women), quarterfinals, Tennis Channel, 2-6 p.m. (delay); Carlsbad (women), quarterfinals, ESPN2, 8-10 p.m. (live).
   Saturday -- Hamburg (men), semifinals, Tennis Channel, 4:30-9 a.m. (live), noon-2 p.m. (repeat), 8-10 p.m. (repeat); Atlanta (men), semifinals, Tennis Channel, 10 a.m.-noon (live), ESPN2, 4-6 p.m. (live); Carlsbad (women), semifinals, Tennis Channel, 2-4 p.m. (live), ESPN2, 8-10 p.m. (live); Bastad (women), Tennis Channel, 4-8 p.m. (delay). 
   Sunday -- Hamburg (men), final, Tennis Channel, 5-7 a.m. (live), 7-9 a.m. (repeat); Atlanta (men), final, ESPN2, noon-2 p.m. (live), Tennis Channel, 5-7 p.m. (repeat); Carlsbad (women), final, ESPN2, 2-4 p.m. (live); Gstaad (men), final, Tennis Channel, 3-5 p.m. (delay); Bastad (women), final, Tennis Channel, 7-9 p.m. (delay). 

CALENDAR

   Today -- World TeamTennis, Sacramento Capitals (with Sam Querrey) at Kansas City, 5:35 p.m.
   Sunday -- Springfield at Capitals (with Querrey, CoCo Vandeweghe), Sunrise Marketplace Outdoor Pavilion, Sunrise Mall in Citrus Heights, 7:35 p.m., http://www.saccaps.com/.
   Tuesday -- Orange County (with Lindsay Davenport) at Capitals (with Kevin Anderson, Vandeweghe), Sunrise Marketplace Outdoor Pavilion, Sunrise Mall in Citrus Heights, 7:35 p.m., http://www.saccaps.com/.
   Wednesday -- Capitals (with Vandeweghe) at Orange County, 7 p.m.
   July 27 -- Philadelphia (with Mark Philippoussis) at Capitals (with Anderson, Vandeweghe), Sunrise Marketplace Outdoor Pavilion, Sunrise Mall in Citrus Heights, 7:35 p.m., http://www.saccaps.com/.
   July 28 -- Boston at Capitals (with Anderson, Vandeweghe), Sunrise Marketplace Outdoor Pavilion, Sunrise Mall in Citrus Heights, 7:35 p.m., http://www.saccaps.com/.
   July 28-Aug. 5 -- OLYMPIC TENNIS TOURNAMENT, Wimbledon, www.london2012.com.

Capitals' Muhammad upsets No. 8 seed

   There will be no all-Sacramento Capitals showdown today in the quarterfinals of the $50,000 FSP Gold River Women's Challenger.
   However, there will be an all-Northern California matchup.

Asia Muhammad, who will play for the Sacramento
Capitals in July, serves during her first-round victory
Wednesday. Photo by Paul Bauman

   Asia Muhammad, who's scheduled to make her World TeamTennis debut for Sacramento in July, did her part Thursday night at the Gold River Racquet Club near Sacramento. The 21-year-old resident of Henderson, Nev., led eighth-seeded Gabriela Paz of Venezuela 6-1, 4-0 when Paz retired with the flu.
   But 24-year-old Yasmin Schnack, who will return for her second season with her hometown Capitals, lost to Samantha Crawford, 17, of Boca Raton, Fla., 6-2, 4-6, 6-3. The 6-foot-2 Crawford pounded serves and groundstrokes against the 5-foot-10 Schnack, an ex-UCLA All-American who upset third-seeded Marie-Eve Pelletier of Canada in the first round.
   Meanwhile, fourth-seeded Maria Sanchez of Modesto will meet Tracy resident Romana Tedjakusuma.
   The 5-foot-10 Sanchez, a 22-year-old former USC All-American, turned back 15-year-old Gabrielle Andrews of Pomona 3-6, 7-5, 6-2. Andrews won the Australian Open girls doubles title in January with Taylor Townsend, 16, of Stockbridge, Ga.

Samantha Crawford, 17, of Boca Raton, Fla., prepares for a
forehand during her second-round victory Thursday over
Yasmin Schnack, who will return for her second season
with her hometown Capitals. Photo by Paul Bauman

   Tedjakusuma, a 35-year-old Indonesian, topped American Elizabeth Lumpkin 6-4, 7-6 (0).
   In an all-Russian quarterfinal, top-seeded Elena Bovina will face seventh-seeded Valeria Solovieva. The 6-foot-2 Bovina, who reached No. 14 in the world in 2005 before injuries derailed her career, is 10 years older at 29.
   Finally, in an all-American encounter, second-seeded Ashley Weinhold will play fifth-seeded Jessica Pegula. Weinhold is 22 years old and Pegula 18.
   In two matches each, Bovina has lost only four games, Solovieva eight and Weinhold eight.
   See below for Thursday's full singles and doubles results and today's schedule.
   French Open in Paris -- No. 29 seed Julien Benneteau of France beat Sacramento-area resident Dmitry Tursunov  6-4, 6-4, 6-4 in the second round of the French Open.
   Tursunov, a 29-year-old Moscow native, had lost in the first round at Roland Garros for the last three years. However, he reached the French Open doubles quarterfinals in 2007, semifinals in 2008 and quarterfinals in 2009 with fellow Russian Igor Kunitsyn. Tursunov is not playing doubles in the tournament this year.
   Mark Knowles of the Bahamas and Xavier Malisse of Belgium defeated Michal Mertinak of Slovakia and Andre Sa of Brazil 6-3, 6-6, retired in the first round of men's doubles. Ironically, Knowles and Mertinak lost in the first round of last year's French Open to Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine and Malisse.
   Knowles and Malisse are former French Open champions with different partners. Knowles won in 2007 with Daniel Nestor of Canada and Malisse in 2004 with countryman Olivier Rochus.
   Knowles, 40, will return for his 11th season with the Capitals.
   In other opening-round matches:
   --Liga Dekmeijere of Latvia and Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand ousted 10th-seeded Raquel Kops Jones of Fresno and Abigail Spears of San Diego 6-4, 6-4 in women's doubles.
   Kops-Jones won the 2003 NCAA doubles title with Sacramento native Christina Fusano, who retired last year after eight years on the pro circuit.
   --Second-seeded Kveta Peschke of the Czech Republic and Mike Bryan downed the French team of Pauline Parmentier and Benoit Paire 6-4, 6-1 in mixed doubles.
   Peschke and Bryan are longtime WTT teammates on the Kansas City Explorers. Twins Bob and Mike Bryan won the 1998 NCAA doubles title as Stanford sophomores, then turned pro.
   Bob Bryan is scheduled to play with Serena Williams in the first round of mixed doubles today. They are -- get this -- unseeded.
   Television coverage of the French Open continues today live from 2 to 7 a.m. PDT on ESPN2 and 7 a.m to 4 p.m. on Tennis Channel, which also will broadcast its daily wrapup show from 4 to 7 p.m.

FSP GOLD RIVER WOMEN’S CHALLENGER

At Gold River Racquet Club

Second-round singles

   Jessica Pegula (5), United States, def. Jennifer Elie, United States, 6-3, 7-5. 

   Valeria Solovieva (7), Russia, def. Whitney Jones, United States, 6-2, 6-3. 

   Ashley Weinhold (2), United States, def. Lena Litvak, United States, 6-4, 6-3. 

   Elena Bovina (1), Russia, def. Maria-Fernanda Alves, Brazil, 6-3, 6-0. 

   Romana Tedjakusuma, Tracy/Indonesia, def. Elizabeth Lumpkin, United States, 6-4, 7-6 (0). 

   Samantha Crawford, United States, def. Yasmin Schnack, Elk Grove/Capitals, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3. 

   Maria Sanchez (4), Modesto, def. Gabrielle Faith Andrews, United States, 3-6, 7-5, 6-2. 

   Asia Muhammed, United States/Capitals, def. Gabriela Paz (8), Venezuela, 6-1, 4-0, retired.

First-round doubles

   Chieh-Yu Hsu and Ashley Weinhold, United States, def. Whitney Jones and Elizabeth Lumpkin, United States, 6-1, 6-2. 

   Maria-Fernanda Alves, Brazil, and Valeria Solovieva (3), Russia, def. Gabrielle Faith Andrews and Samantha Crawford, United States, 6-3, 6-4. 

   Jessica Pegula, United States, and Marie-Eve Pelletier (1), Canada, def. Jennifer Elie, United States, and Kim-Alice Grajdek, Germany, 6-2, 6-4.

Today’s schedule

(Beginning at noon)

Stadium Court

   Elena Bovina (1), Russia, vs. Valeria Solovieva (7), Russia.

   Asia Muhammed, United States/Capitals, vs. Crawford, United States.

   Jessica Pegula, United States, and Marie-Eve Pelletier (1), Canada, vs. Lena Litvak, United States, and Adriana Perez.

   (Not before 7 p.m.) Elena Bovina, Russia, and Gabriela Paz, Venezuela, (4) vs. Kaitlyn Christian, United States, and Maria Sanchez, Modesto.

   Yawna Allen and Erin Clark, United States, vs. Asia Muhammed, United States/Capitals, and Yasmin Schnack (2), Elk Grove/Capitals.

Court 7

   Jessica Pegula (5), United States, vs. Ashley Weinhold (2), United States.

   Maria Sanchez (4), Modesto, vs. Romana Tedjakusuma, Tracy/Indonesia.

   Chieh-Yu Hsu and Ashley Weinhold, United States, vs. Maria-Fernanda Alves, Brazil, and Valeria Solovieva (3), Russia.

Something's Bruin as Capitals pick another UCLA alum

   When the Sacramento Capitals open their World TeamTennis season on July 9, the roster will look like a meeting of the UCLA alumni association.
   The Capitals added yet another former Bruin when they selected Jean-Julien Rojer, the 2011 WTT Male Rookie of the Year for St. Louis, in the second round of Tuesday's WTT roster player draft.
   Ironically, Rojer and Liezel Huber won the fifth set to give St. Louis a 20-19 victory over Sacramento in last season's Western Conference finals. The Aces then lost to Washington in the WTT Finals and folded in the offseason. 
   Sacramento, picking seventh in the eight-team draft, protected ex-UCLA stars Mark Knowles in the first round and local resident Yasmin Schnack in the fourth and final round.
   The Capitals also picked 20-year-olds Asia Muhammad of Las Vegas in the third round and CoCo Vandeweghe of Rancho Santa Fe in the San Diego area as a supplemental, part-time player.
   "Based on (picking seventh), I think we did really well," Capitals co-owner Ramey Osborne said. " ... We didn't think Rojer would be available."
   Vandeweghe, a former Capital and the 6-foot-1 niece of former NBA star Kiki Vandeweghe, will play at least four or five of Sacramento's 14 regular-season matches, Osborne said.
   Mardy Fish, chosen by the Capitals in last month's marquee player draft, is scheduled to play home matches on July 12 and 13. Fish, a 30-year-old Los Angeles resident, leads all American men and women at No. 8 in the world but has started slowly this year. 
   Vania King and Dusan Vemic, who have played key roles for the Capitals in the past two seasons, were  bypassed in the draft.
   King, the 2009 WTT Female MVP for Springfield (Mo.), still could play some matches for Sacramento if she does not make the U.S. Olympic team, which will be based on the June 11 rankings. Osborne said last week, though, that he was not interested in bringing back the entertaining but erratic Vemic, a 35-year-old Serbian.
   Knowles, 40, and Rojer, 30, have more in common than UCLA. Both are doubles specialists from Caribbean nations. Knowles is from the Bahamas, near Miami, and Rojer from Netherlands Antilles, off the coast of Venezuela.
   Knowles will return for his 11th WTT season, all with Sacramento. Ranked No. 1 in the world in doubles in 2002 and 2004, he has won four Grand Slam titles (three in men's doubles and one in mixed doubles), 55 overall and three WTT Male MVP awards (2001, 2005 and 2007). Knowles has dropped to No. 61 but last month won the doubles crown in San Jose with Xavier Malisse.
   Rojer is ranked 38th, down from a career-high 17th last August. He has won five ATP doubles titles, all with former Capital Eric Butorac since October 2010, and reached the semifinals of last year's Australian Open with Butorac.
   The addition of Rojer addresses Sacramento's biggest weakness last year. The Capitals finished fourth or better in every category except men's doubles, in which they placed eighth. That was baffling, given Knowles' background and Vemic's appearances in two Grand Slam doubles semifinals.
   "We're very happy about men's doubles," Osborne said. "We're not done. We have a couple ideas we're working on. ... We're working on a possible trade for a singles player."
   If necessary, Rojer could play singles. He earned All-American honors in singles and doubles at UCLA and played singles regularly on the pro tour until 2008.
   Schnack, 23, played well as a WTT rookie last year. She helped Sacramento finish second in women's doubles and went 16-15 (.516) in singles games filling in for King, who missed the first week of the season to rest after Wimbledon.
   Muhammad, who will make her WTT debut, is ranked 186th in doubles and 387th in singles. She has won four minor-league doubles titles, including three last year. In 2009, Muhammad won the USTA girls 18 national doubles crown in Berkeley with Christina McHale, now the second-ranked American in singles at No. 35 in the world.
   Vandeweghe, the 2008 U.S. Open junior girls champion, played for the Capitals as a WTT rookie in 2009 and for Boston the past two seasons. As a qualifier in her hometown of San Diego in 2010, she beat Wimbledon runner-up Vera Zvonareva en route to the quarterfinals. Vandeweghe is ranked No. 159 in singles after reaching a career-high No. 89 last April.
   The Capitals have won a record six WTT titles but none since 2007.
   Maria Sanchez, a Modesto resident who led the league in women's doubles last year for St. Louis, went to Springfield in the second round. She plays doubles with Schnack on the regular circuit.
   Defending champion Washington, which last season became the first team in the WTT's 36-year history to go 16-0, returns largely intact. Former Capital Anastasia Rodionova joins her sister Arina and replaces Rennae Stubbs, the 2008 WTT Female MVP who turns 41 on March 26.
   See the full WTT draft and team rosters below.
   BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells -- In a matchup of former No. 1 players and Indian Wells champions, 15th-seeded Ana Ivanovic of Serbia defeated fourth-seeded Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark 6-3, 6-2 in the fourth round of the BNP Paribas Open. Wozniacki won the tournament last year and Ivanovic in 2008.
   Top-ranked Victoria Azarenka of Belarus improved to 20-0 this year with a 6-3, 6-1 victory over No. 14 seed Julia Goerges of Germany.
   The last two American women lost in the fourth round. Eighteenth-seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany rallied from match points down against a U.S. teenager for the second straight round to beat No. 32 Christina McHale 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (4). Also, wild card Jamie Hampton retired because of cramps with No. 5 Agnieszka Radwanska leading 6-3, 4-6, 3-0.
   Kerber, a U.S. Open semifinalist last year, survived three match points against the 19-year-old McHale, who had upset No. 3 seed and reigning Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova in the third round. Kerber had rallied from 6-2, 5-1 and two match points down to stun 18-year-old Sloane Stephens 26, 75, 64 in the previous round.
   France's Marion Bartoli, the No. 7 seed and last year's runner-up, dismissed 23rd-seeded Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-1. Bartoli won the 2009 Bank of the West Classic at Stanford and also reached the final there in 2011 and 2008.
   On the men's side, third-seeded Roger Federer extended his winning streak to 11 matches, but fifth-seeded David Ferrer's ended at 11.
   Federer, a three-time champion at Indian Wells (2004-06), outlasted 27th-seeded Milos Raonic, the two-time reigning SAP Open champion in San Jose, 6-7 (4), 6-2, 6-4 in the third round. It was their first career meeting. Unseeded Denis Istomin, the runner-up in last month's SAP Open, ousted Ferrer 6-4, 6-3 for his first career victory over a top-10 player in 11 attempts.
   In the second round of men's doubles, unseeded John Isner and Sam Querrey, a San Francisco native, edged fourth-seeded Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecau, the runners-up at Wimbledon for the past two years, 6-3, 5-7, 10-5 tiebreak.

2012 WTT Roster Player Draft

Roster Exempt Draft Selections (Roster Exempt players play a limited season)

Sacramento Capitals:  Coco Vandeweghe

2012 WTT Roster Draft - March 13, 2012

Round One 

1.  PHILADELPHIA:  Karolina Pliskova

2.  SPRINGFIELD:  Timea Babos

3.  ORANGE COUNTY:  Anna-lena Groenefeld

4.  NEW YORK:  Robert Kendrick (protection)

5.  KANSAS CITY:  Chanel Simmonds

6.  BOSTON:  Jan-Michael Gambill (protection)

7.  SACRAMENTO:  Mark Knowles (protection)

8.  WASHINGTON:  Arina Rodionova (protection)

Round Two 

1.  PHILADELPHIA:  Kristyna Pliskova

2.  SPRINGFIELD:  Maria Sanchez

3.  ORANGE COUNTY:  John-Patrick Smith

4.  NEW YORK:  Jesse Witten (protection)

5.  KANSAS CITY:  Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi

6.  BOSTON:  Eric Butorac (protection)

7.  SACRAMENTO:  Jean-Julien Rojer

8.  WASHINGTON:  Leander Paes (protection)

Round Three   

1.  PHILADELPHIA:  Luka Gregorc

2.  SPRINGFIELD:  Amir Weintraub

3.  ORANGE COUNTY:  Travis Parrott

4.  NEW YORK:  Ashley Harkleroad (protection)

5.  KANSAS CITY:  Nick Monroe

6.  BOSTON:  Irina Falconi (protection)

7.  SACRAMENTO:  Asia Muhammed

8.  WASHINGTON:  Bobby Reynolds (protection)

Round Four 

1.  PHILADELPHIA:  Jordan Kerr

2.  SPRINGFIELD:  Devin Britton

3.  ORANGE COUNTY:  PASS

4.  NEW YORK:  PASS

5.  KANSAS CITY:  Tetiana Luzhanska

6.  BOSTON:  Carly Gullickson

7.  SACRAMENTO:  Yasmin Schnack (protection)

8.  WASHINGTON:  Anastasia Rodionova (doubles protection)  

2012 WTT TEAM ROSTERS (including Marquee & Roster players):

Boston Lobsters:  John Isner, Jan-Michael Gambill, Eric Butorac, Irina Falconi and Carly Gullickson.  Coach: Bud Schultz

Kansas City Explorers:  Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan, Chanel Simmonds, Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi, Nick Monroe, Tetiana Luzhanska.  Coach: Brent Haygarth

New York Sportimes:  John McEnroe, Martina Hingis, Robert Kendrick, Jesse Witten, Ashley Harkleroad.   Coach: Chuck Adams

Orange County Breakers:  Lindsay Davenport, Anna-lena Groenefeld, John-Patrick Smith, Travis Parrott.  Coach:  Trevor Kronemann

Philadelphia Freedoms:   James Blake, Mark Philippoussis, Karolina Pliskova, Kristyna Pliskova, Luka Gregorc, Jordan Kerr.  Coach:  Josh Cohen

Sacramento Capitals:  Mardy Fish, Coco Vandeweghe, Mark Knowles, Jean-Julien Rojer, Asia Muhammed, Yasmin Schnack.  Coach: Wayne Bryan

Springfield Lasers:  Timea Babos, Maria Sanchez, Amir Weintraub, Devin Britton.    Coach:  John-Laffnie de Jager

Washington Kastles:  Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Arina Rodionova, Anastasia Rodionova, Leander Paes and Bobby Reynolds. Coach: Murphy Jensen