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Saturday, July 4, 2009

Deadline approach for Yale Summer Championships

Players have until tomorrow at 5 p.m. to register for the Yale Summer Championships. The winners of the men's open and women's open singles events will receive wild cards into the Pilot Pen qualifying draws.

Currently, there are 40 men's players and 22 on the women's side for the open singles brackets.

Kabelo Maleka, a former winner of the men's event and a member of South Africa's Davis Cup team in 2001 and 2002, leads the list of men's players already registered. Among other noteworthy players on the men's side are:
Vincent Baudat who played in Futures and Challenger events from 2003-06, winning 10 singles and 36 doubles matches. Peaked at No. 389 in doubles on June 20, 2005 and No. 804 in singles on Oct. 18, 2004 in the ATP rankings.
Vicenzo Ciccone, a New York teenager who is in the player pool for Jamaica's Davis Cup squad.
Christian Coley, a former Cheshire Academy star who earned All-Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference honors at Marist.
Karill Kasyanov and Adam Gart who played No. 1 and 3 singles to lead Sacred Heart University into the NCAA tournament.
John Hughes, the No. 1 singles player at Quinnipiac.
Mark Kahan, the winner of the last two CIAC Class LL titles.
Marc Powers, an incoming freshman at Yale and a top-ranked player in various USTA New England age divisions the last seven years.
Ben Zuckerberg, a three-time Register Area Boys' Tennis MVP during his high school career at Amity.

On the women's side, here are some of the players to watch:
Brooke Bolender, a 17-year-old from Florida, she has played in 17 satellite events, most recently winning three qualifying matches to get into main draw at ITF event in Indian Harbour Beach.
Dominique Harmath, reached finals in 2008 and semifinals in 2009 at All-Canadian ITF Junior Championships, finished 2008 ranked 12th among Canada's 18-and-under players
Sarah Leonard, top-ranked player in USTA New England circules who reached reached Round of 16 in last year's event.
Stevi Petrelli, the No. 5 player at Yale.
Vanessa Petrini, won last two State Open titles
Kim Przeszlowski, Southington teen is one of top players in USTA New England circles.
Tina Tehrani, the 2007 CIAC State Open champion.

The draw will be posted on Tuesday with the tournament running from July 9-12.

PAUL FALLS IN NEWPORT
Former Fairfield Prep star Todd Paul lost to Nathan Thompson in the first round of qualifying at the Hall of Fame Championships in Newport, R.I. on Saturday. Paul won the first set 6-1 before losing the second set 7-6 (7-5 in the tiebreaker). Thompson won the third set 6-3.

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