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Americans Seek To Revive Careers At Cary Challenger
3 Comments · Posted by Scoop Malinowski in Bios
A group of young and veteran Americans are playing in Cary Challenger in North Carolina hoping to spark their careers.
Donald Young and Ryan Harrison are both ranked outside the top 600 but they both qualified into the main draw.
Tennys Sandgren also is ranked around the same range and got into the tournament as an alternate and won his first round main draw match vs. Brit Aidan McHugh 64 62.
Mitchell Krueger lost in the first round to another American Keegan Smith 63 76.
One-time highly touted junior from IMG Michael Mmoh beat Brit Dan Cox 60 63. Mmoh, now 24 year old, is ranked 156 and coached by his dad Tony Mmoh.
21 year old Govind Nanda, ranked 367, just beat Rinky Hijikata 62 63.
Stefan Kozlov is now on court vs another American Cannon Kingsley and they are deadlocked at 26 62 20 deuce. Kozlov just saved a break point on a Kingsley forehand into the net and screamed an extended CMOONN!
Also in the draw is the 17 yr old Chinese player Juncheng Shang, who is now coached by Marcelo Rios, and in the last month has won a Challenger in Lexington and finaled at another in Granby.
Cary Challenger · Donald Young · Ryan Harrison · Stefan Kozlov
Cory · September 14, 2022 at 11:34 am
Harrison should get past Chapelli tomorrow, and Kozlov past Uchiyama (less confident in the latter)… today Sandgren should get past Ficovich… and don’t be shocked if Nava beats Kudla… or should i say Kudla beats himself.
Scoop Malinowski · September 14, 2022 at 5:08 pm
Cory, I think Harrison will get on a roll soon. Kozlov looked and sounded very fired up vs Kingsley, he too should get rolling and finally enter the top 100. I see Sandgren bouncing back, he’s too good to be done. He was essentially a Grand Slam semifinalist just a couple years ago – if he wins one of those seven mps vs Federer in AO. Kudla is struggling now, poor results. Nava is dangerous. I see Shang going deep, with Rips as his coach.
Scoop Malinowski · September 14, 2022 at 6:02 pm
Yannick Noah just accused Rafa and Spanish players of using “magic potions”… https://firstsportz.com/tennis-news-if-you-dont-have-the-magic-potion-its-difficult-to-win-yannick-noah-accused-rafael-nadal-of-doping-for-miracle-healing/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter