Brooksby ($25K), Hashimoto (Herr) score big upsets

   Jenson Brooksby is already feeling at home in Texas.
   The 18-year-old wild card from Carmichael in the Sacramento area, who's headed to Texas Christian in Fort Worth, shocked top-seeded Michael Redlicki of Fayetteville, Ark., 6-7 (4), 6-2, 6-4 today to reach the quarterfinals of the $25,000 Waco (Texas) Futures.
   Redlicki, a 6-foot-8 (2.03-meter) left-hander, is the second-highest-ranked player, at No. 426, and fourth in the top 500 whom Brooksby has beaten. He surprised No. 408 Joao Souza of Brazil in the first round of qualifying for the $100,000 Tiburon (Calif.) Challenger in September.
   Brooksby, who won the USTA boys 18 national championship in August, advanced to a Futures quarterfinal for the second time. He lost to Redlicki's younger brother, Martin, in the $15,000 Claremont (Calif.) quarters in September last year.
   Brooksby is scheduled to play Nick Chappell, a 26-year-old former Texas Christian star, on Thursday. Chappell surprised eighth-seeded Hady Habib of Lebanon 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.
   Eddie Herr -- Unseeded Hugo Hashimoto of San Jose upended second-seeded Juan Dominguez of Guatemala 4-6, 7-5, 6-3 in the second round of the boys 16s at the Eddie Herr International Junior Championship in Bradenton, Fla..
   Hashimoto will meet unseeded Arda Azkara of Turkey on Thursday. Azkara eliminated 13th-seeded Alvin Tudorica of Canada 4-6, 7-5, 6-2.
   In the second round of the boys 18s, 14th-seeded Sergey Fomin of Uzbekistan beat Aidan Mayo, a 15-year-old qualifier who grew up in the Sacramento suburb of Roseville, 7-5, 6-2.
   Mayo, the younger brother of Illinois freshman Keenan Mayo, trains at the USTA Player Development Center in Carson.
   Top-seeded Rudy Quan of Roseville routed unseeded Changmin Ryu of South Korea 6-3, 6-0 to reach the quarterfinals in the boys 12s. Quan has lost only four games in three matches.
    In the second round of the girls 16s, seventh-seeded Vivian Ovrootsky of San Jose dominated unseeded Alexa Karatantcheva of Bradenton 6-3, 6-1, but unseeded Tomi Main of Seaside lost to 10th-seeded Allie Gretkowski of Mount Pleasant, S.C., 6-2, 7-6 (3).
   Ovrootsky, who won the 14s last year, will face 11th-seeded Abigail Rencheli of Sarasota, Fla. Rencheli beat unseeded Isabelle Kouzmanov of Novi, Mich., 6-3, 6-1.

Qualifier Mayo advances in Eddie Herr boys 18s

   Aidan Mayo, a 15-year-old qualifier who grew up in the Sacramento suburb of Roseville, beat Santiago De La Fuente of Argentina 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 today in the first round of the boys 18s at the Eddie Herr International Junior Championship in Bradenton, Fla.
   De la Fuente, 16, won a Grade A tournament in Yucatan, Mexico, on Sunday.
   Mayo, who trains at the USTA Player Development Center in Carson, is scheduled to meet 14th-seeded Sergey Fomin of Uzbekistan on Wednesday.
   In the boys 16s, Luke Garner of Arnold, Md., eliminated No. 12 seed Max Fardanesh of Albany in the San Francisco Bay Area 0-6, 7-5, 7-5.
   Hugo Hashimoto of San Jose advanced with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Ekansh Kumar of Vienna, Va. Hashimoto will face second-seeded Juan Dominguez of Guatemala.
   Meanwhile, No. 1 seed Rudy Quan of Roseville dropped only one game in two matches to reach the round of 16 in the boys 12s.
   No. 7 seed Vivian Ovrootsky of San Jose and unseeded Tomi Main of Seaside triumphed in straight sets in the first round of the girls 16s. Ovrootsky won the 14s last year.
   Ria Bhakta of Saratoga in the Bay Area lost in the second round of the girls 14s, and Esther Vyrlan of Sacramento fell in the opening round of the girls 12s. Both were unseeded.
   Past competitors in the Eddie Herr include former world No. 1 players Roger Federer, Andy Roddick, Maria Sharapova, Jelena Jankovic and Ana Ivanovic. Herr, the father of international junior tennis, died in 2000 at 93.

Chaudhary coasts to boys 16 national title; Legaspi falls

   Top-seeded Aryan Chaudhary of Santa Clara beat 16th-seeded Quinn Vandecasteele of Murray, Utah, 6-3, 6-2 today to win the boys 16 singles title in the USTA National Indoor Championships in Wayland, Mass.
   Chaudhary, ranked fourth nationally in the 16s, survived a harrowing trek to the title. He won three consecutive three-setters, including 7-6 (3) in the third set in the quarterfinals, to reach the final.
   In the boys 14 singles final in Chicago, eighth-seeded Evan Wen of Morristown, N.J., dominated unseeded Herrick Thomas Legaspi of Sacramento 6-2, 6-2.
   Wen encountered little resistance in the tournament, except in his 7-5, 7-6 (5) semifinal victory over sixth-seeded Sebastian Gorzny of Irvine in the Los Angeles area.
   No Northern California boys or girls played in a doubles final in the 18s, 16s, 14s or 12s at various sites.

NorCal juniors to play for National Indoor singles titles

   Top-seeded Aryan Chaudhary and unseeded Herrick Thomas Legaspi will play for singles titles in their age groups in the USTA National Indoor Championships.
   Chaudhary, from Santa Clara, beat unseeded Liam Krall of Bronxville, N.Y., 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-2 in the boys 16s in Wayland, Mass.
   Chaudhary, ranked fourth nationally in the 16s, is scheduled to play 16th-seeded Quinn Vandecasteele of Murray, Utah, on Monday. Vandecasteele surprised fifth-seeded Thomas Paulsell of Seattle 4-6, 6-3, 6-1.
   Legaspi, from Sacramento, ousted second-seeded Grant Lothringer of The Woodlands, Texas, 6-2, 6-2 in the boys 14s in Chicago.
   Legaspi will face eighth-seeded Evan Wen of Morristown, N.J. Wen topped sixth-seeded Sebastian Gorzny of Irvine in the Los Angeles area 7-5, 7-6 (5).

Two NorCal juniors move into National Indoor semis

   Two Northern California boys will play in the semifinals of their age groups in the USTA National Indoor Championships on Sunday.
   Aryan Chaudhary, seeded first in the boys 16s in Wayland, Mass., and Herrick Thomas Legaspi, unseeded in the boys 14s in Chicago, each won two matches today.
   Chaudhary, ranked fourth nationally in the 16s, beat Gavin Young of Apple Valley, Minn., 2-6, 6-4, 6-1 and Baylor Sai of Nashville, Tenn., 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (3). Both Young and Sai were unseeded.
   Chaudhary will face unseeded Liam Krall, a Bronxville, N.Y., resident who ousted eighth-seeded Saiprakash Goli of Mason, Ohio, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 in the quarterfinals.
   Legaspi eliminated unseeded Dylan Charlap of Palos Verdes Estates in the Los Angeles area 6-0, 7-5 and seventh-seeded Ritesh Patil of Katy, Texas, 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-4.
   Legaspi will take on second-seeded Grant Lothringer of The Woodlands, Texas. Lothringer topped unseeded Alex Cairo of Dallas 6-3, 4-6, 6-1.
   In the girls 18s in Memphis, Tenn., seventh-seeded Ashley Yeah of Los Gatos in the San Francisco Bay Area beat 14th-seeded Carly Briggs of Calhoun, Ga., 6-3, 6-1 in the round of 16 but lost to top-seeded Andrea Cerdan of Bloomfield, N.J., 6-3, 6-7 (8), 6-4 in the quarters.
   NorCal players losing in the round of 16 were:
   --Seventh-seeded Ryder Jackson of Nicasio, 13th-seeded Zachery Lim of Fairfield and unseeded Stevie Gould of Corte Madera in the boys 18s in Overland Park, Kan.
   --Unseeded Makenna Thiel of Piedmont in the girls 16s in Minneapolis.
   --Eleventh-seeded Mason Nguyen of El Dorado Hills in the boys 12s in Flushing, N.Y.

NorCal juniors reach round of 16 in National Indoors

   Three Northern California boys won their opening two matches in the 18s today in the USTA National Indoor Championships in Overland Park, Kan.
   Advancing to the round of 16 were No. 7 seed Ryder Jackson of Nicasio, No. 13 seed Zachary Lim of Fairfield and unseeded Stevie Gould of Corte Madera.
   Lim, a high school junior who has verbally committed to Penn, lost only five games total. Jackson, a senior headed to USC, also won twice in straight sets.
   Gould, a senior headed to Washington, barely survived. He edged 12th-seeded Daniel Milavsky of Needham, Mass., 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (8) and topped Christopher Li of Westford, Mass., 6-7 (tiebreaker score not available), 6-4, 6-2.
   Other NorCal players advancing to the round of 16 in the National Indoors were:
   --No. 7 seed Ashley Yeah of Los Gatos in the girls 18s in Memphis, Tenn. Yeah has signed to play at Illinois.
   --No. 1 seed Aryan Chaudhary of Santa Clara in the boys 16s in Wayland, Mass.
   --Unseeded Makenna Thiel of Piedmont in the girls 16s in Minneapolis.
   --Unseeded Herrick Legaspi of Sacramento in the boys 14s in Chicago.
   --No. 11 seed Mason Nguyen of El Dorado Hills in the boys 12s in Flushing, N.Y.
   College signings -- Four players from the JMG Tennis Academy in Sacramento have signed letters of intent.
   Eric Hadigian will play at Gonzaga, Ben Keyser at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Klara Kosan at Pacific and Jessi Muljat at San Diego.

Zverev stuns Djokovic for title; Bryan, 40, sets record

   Even though he's only 21, Alexander Zverev has long been touted as a future Grand Slam champion.
   The 6-foot-6 (1.98-meter) German reached his first major quarterfinal this year and could go further in 2019, perhaps all the way.
   One day after beating second-seeded Roger Federer in straight sets, the third-seeded Zverev shocked top seed and five-time champion Novak Djokovic 6-4, 6-3 today to win the Nitto ATP Finals in London.
   Zverev, who began working with International Tennis Hall of Famer Ivan Lendl in August in an effort to improve his Grand Slam results, became the youngest ATP Finals champion since Djokovic 10 years ago at 21.
   Zverev also became the first player to defeat Djokovic and Federer in the tournament, and the first to beat the top two seeds in the semifinals and final of the event since Andre Agassi in 1990.
   "This is the biggest title of my career so far," Zverev, who had lost to Djokovic 6-4, 6-1 on Wednesday in a round-robin match, told reporters. "This trophy means a lot, everything, to all the players. I mean, you only have so many chances of winning it. You play against the best players only. How I played today, how I won it, for me it's just amazing."
   Djokovic, who had won 35 of his previous 37 matches, was trying to tie Federer's record of six ATP Finals titles.
   "(Zverev) had big serves. I wasn't returning well," said Djokovic, who returned to No. 1 this month after undergoing right elbow surgery in February. "I wasn't making him move too much. I was making way too many unforced errors.
   "From 4-4 in the first set, my game fell apart. But if we put things in perspective, it has been an amazing year and a great comeback."
   Zverev pocketed $2,509,000, and Djokovic collected $1,432,000.

   ATP Finals doubles -- Since pairing for the first time in June, Mike Bryan and Jack Sock have won three titles.
   And we're not talking Umag, Winston-Salem and Chengdu.
   We're talking Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and the Nitto ATP Finals.
   Bryan (Stanford, 2017-18) and Sock of the United States completed a dream half-season with a 5-7, 6-1 [13-11] victory over Frenchmen Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut in the title match of the ATP Finals.
   Bryan and Sock, seeded fifth, saved a championship point at 10-11 in the match tiebreaker and converted their sixth championship point when Herbert double-faulted. Herbert and Mahut, the eighth seeds and this year's French Open champions, had routed Bryan and Sock 6-2, 6-2 in 53 minutes on Friday in round-robin play.
   Bryan, 40, became the oldest champion in the history of the ATP Finals and the sixth player to win the title with at least two partners. It was the fifth crown in the tournament for Bryan, who won the others with twin Bob Bryan, and first for Sock, the singles champion in the $100,000 Tiburon (Calif.) Challenger in 2012 and the doubles runner-up in the $100,000 Sacramento Challenger in 2011 with countryman Nicholas Monroe.
   Bob, who's recovering from August hip surgery, and Mike plan to reunite next year. They have won a record 16 Grand Slam men's doubles titles together but none since the 2014 U.S. Open.
   "I've had a magical partnership with Jack, but his No. 1 focus has always been singles," Mike said in a New York Times story published Tuesday. "He knows he was just filling in until Bob comes back."
   Mike Bryan and Sock became the first team to win Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in the same season since Jonas Bjorkman of Sweden and Todd Woodbridge of Australia in 2003.
   Herbert and Mahut were bidding to become the first French team to win the ATP Finals since Michael Llodra and Fabrice Santoro in 2005.
   Bryan and Sock shared $479,000; Herbert and Mahut split $279,00.
   ATP Challenger Tour -- Second-seeded Bradley Klahn, a 28-year-old Stanford graduate, beat wild card Roy Smith, a sophomore at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4) in a matchup of American left-handers to win the $150,000 Oracle Challenger Series -- Houston.
   The match was moved indoors because of rain.
   Klahn won his seventh Challenger singles title, his second this year and the biggest of his career. He rose 20 places to No. 77, 14 spots below his career high in 2014. Klahn underwent his second operation for a herniated disc in his back in 2015.