Publication Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2005
TENNIS ROUNDUP
Davenport, Clijsters win at Wimbledon
Davenport, Clijsters win at Wimbledon
(June 22, 2005) Former Bank of West champions will return to Stanford following the annual All-England Championships
by Rick Eymer
Lindsay Davenport and Kim Clijsters, two mainstays of the Bank of the West Classic which will be held at the Taube Tennis Center at Stanford beginning July 25, opened play at Wimbledon on Monday with convincing victories.
The top-ranked Davenport, who won last year's Classic title by beating Venus Williams in a dramatic three-set match in the finals.
Davenport only needed just 41 minutes to beat Alina Jidkova 6-0, 6-2, in the opening round at Wimbledon.
Davenport had 29 winners and just nine unforced errors. Last year she thought would be her final appearance at Wimbledon, but she decided to delay retirement after staging a career resurgence.
"I'm still out there because I'm enjoying it," Davenport said. "The ultimate goal is to try to win another Slam, and I still feel like I'm knocking on the door of having that happen. It's hard to walk away when you feel like you can achieve the ultimate goal in tennis."
Davenport next plays American teenager Jamea Jackson, who beat Marta Marrero 6-2, 6-3.
Clijsters, who won the Eastbourne title in England on Saturday, beat Katie O'Brien, 6-2, 6-3, at Wimbledon.
Clijsters missed last year's Bank of the West Classic with an injury, but won the 2001 championship.
Stanford products Anne Kremer and Marissa Irvin won their first-round matches in England, but former NCAA singles champion Lilia Osterloh lost in her match.
Stanford two-time NCAA singles champion Laura Granville meets Czech Republic's Klara Koukalova in another first round match.
On the men's side, Stanford grad Paul Goldstein, a lucky loser, will meet Belgium's Olivier Rochus and former Menlo School star Dmitry Tursunov meets Spain's Nicholas Almagro in first-round matches.
Kremer, the top women's player in Luxembourg, beat American Abigail Spears, 6-0, 2-6, 6-2 while Irvin took care of Japan's Saori Obata, 7-6 (4), 6-3.
Osterloh dropped a 6-3, 7-5 match to Czech Republic's Barbora Strycova.
Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Alicia Molik, Nathalie Dechy, Jelena Jankovic, Francesca Schiavone, Karolina Sprem, Chanda Rubin, Amy Frazier, Marion Bortoli, Anna-Lena Groenfeld, Shuai Peng, Marta Domachowska and Samantha Stosur are the others who are playing at Wimbledon who will also be at Stanford.
Pro Circuit
Osterloh is the top seed for the sixth State Farm USTA Challenger which runs June 28 through July 3 at the Los Gatos Swim and Racquet Club.
Osterloh, a Columbus, Ohio, resident ranked No. 101 in the world, is the highest-ranked player entered in the $50,000 women's professional event. Osterloh won the 1997 NCAA women's singles championship while at Stanford.
Other top entrants include Lindsay Lee-Waters, ranked No. 104 of Dunwoody, Ga., and Frenchwomen Severine Beltrame (No. 115) and Camille Pin (No. 118).
Current or former Stanford players expected to compete include Teryn Ashley (main draw) and Lauren Barnikow (qualifying). Whitney Deason, who recently wrapped up her freshman season competing for the Cardinal, was awarded the tournament's wild card into the main draw.
Former Cal players Christina Fusano and Sasha Podkolzina advanced out of last week's pre-qualifying tournament to compete in this weekend's qualifying rounds, which begin Sunday at 10 a.m. Admission is free. The singles final is scheduled for Sunday, July 3 at noon. Call (408) 356-2136 for more information.
Elsewhere in pro tennis:
Former Stanford player Story Tweedie-Yates reached the finals of the Baylor Medical Center Pro Tennis Classic in Fort Worth, Texas, on Sunday before losing to American Tara Snyder, 6-3, 6-3.
Tweedie-Yates knocked off No. 1 seed Kristen Schlukebir, 6-2, 1-6, 7-6 (2), in the semifinals. She also beat the No. 3 seed and No. 5 seed along the way.
Stanford grad Sam Warburg lost in the first round of the Vintage Developers Make-A-Wish Pro Circuit Tennis Tournament in Auburn last week, 6-2, 5-7, 6-4, to Nigeria's Jonathon Igbinovia.
USTA NorCal
The girls 18 Open Division of the Santa Cruz Academy Junior Open tournament at Cabrillo College in Aptos over the weekend turned into a local affair.
Three of the top four finishers came from local high schools. Woodside Priory grad Nisha Dixit reached the championship match, where she fell to Sacramento's Yasmin Schnack, 6-0, 6-0.
The second-seeded Dixit beat Menlo School sophomore Ashley Carlisle in the semifinals, 6-3, 6-1, while the top-seeded Schnack had to get by Menlo junior Sarah Hoffman, 6-1, 6-0, in the other semifinal.
Hoffman defeated Carlisle, 6-0, 6-2, in the third-place match.
Menlo-Atherton senior Shelley Murveit captured the consolation championship with a 6-1, 7-5 win over Anh Truong.
Carlisle teamed with Palo Alto's Christina Hu to win the girls' 18 doubles title.
Menlo Park's Max Glenn won the boys 14 title with a 7-6 (5), 6-2 win over Michael Elortegui, while Palo Alto's Jamin Ball beat Michael Kuhlman, by default in the third-place match. Glenn beat Ball in the semifinals.
Andrew Ball reached the championship match of the boys 12 division before losing to Arthur Chimeno, 6-2, 6-0. Ball beat Suhas Shekar, 6-1, 6-2, in the semifinals.
The Ball family did take home a championship trophy as David Ball downed Brian Sun, 6-7 (2-7), 6-3, 10-8, to win the boys 10 division. The third-seeded Ball knocked off top-seeded Sean Talmadge, 6-3, 6-1, in the semifinals.
Sacred Heart Prep's Haley Hemm won the girls 16 title of the Yuba City Junior Open at the Yuba City Racquet Club, beating Roseville's Courtney Kilarski, 6-3, 6-0, in the championship match.
Hemm beat Los Gatos' Priya Prasad, 6-4, 6-3, in the semifinals.
Rachel Hemm reached the finals of the girls' 10 consolation division.
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