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Register tennis writer Jim Fuller has the latest news on the Pilot Pen tourney and the tennis scene.

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Youth to be served

Three teenagers join former men's champion Kabelo Maleka in today's finals of the men's and women's open singles bracket Sunday at the Yale Summer Championships with spots in the qualifying draws of next month's Pilot Pen Tennis tournament on the line.

The women's final will be held at 9:30 a.m. at the upper court at the Connecticut Tennis Center between 17-year-old Floridian Brooke Bolender, who has played in 17 ITF events, and Farmington's Rachel Kahan who is rated as one of the top 20 recruits nationally in the high school class of 2010.

The men's final will be held at 10:30 a.m. with Maleka, a former member of the South African Davis Cup team, facing Stamford's Marc Powers, who will be playing on these same courts for the next four seasons as a member of Yale's men's tennis squad.

Former Amity High star Ben Zuckerberg fell in the quarterfinals on Saturday to Kirill Kasyanov. Quinnipiac's No. 1 singles player John Hughes fell to Powers in the semifinals on Saturday.

The winners of the men's and women's open titles will receive wild cards into the Pilot Pen qualifying tournament.

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