INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (April 7, 2014)
– You can count Kalman Boyd as a fan of the ASICS Easter Bowl venue switch to
the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
“This is unreal,” said Boyd, the
Boys’ 18s No. 8 seeded player from Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., who for the second
straight year eliminated Charlie Adams of Wayzata, Minn., from this event in a
6-2, 6-1 first-round victory on Monday. “It’s crazy being here. It’s almost like
a dream. To be here and playing on the courts where the pros play. I don’t know
if anyone else is enjoying it as much as me, but I think it’s amazing.”
The sentiment was carried out throughout
the day from the players, to parents, to officials and tournament directors:
the setup at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden was all first-rate.
“We did have a great first day,” said
ASICS Easter Bowl tournament chairman Lornie Kuhle. “Everyone seems really
excited to be here and the venue and Indian Wells Tennis Garden staff has been
amazing to work with.”
It may have taken a little less than
360 days, but the bad taste of an ASICS Easter Bowl finals lost may have
finally left Boyd. One year ago in the final of Boys’ 16s, Boyd fell to
top-seeded Sameer Kumar without winning a game, 6-0, 6-0.
“Yeah, I think I’m just trying to
make this a brand new tournament,” Boyd said. “I was so nervous in that final.
A couple months later I beat Sameer in a practice match. I just think it was
all the pressure of being in a final at this level.”
Boyd was forced to withdraw from last
week’s Carson USTA International Spring Championships because of a long illness
suffered while he was playing ITF events in South America.
Boyd is working part-time with the
USTA and has spent time training in Boca Raton, Fla., this spring. He has been
working primarily with Tommy Haas’ former coach Christian Groh and former ATP
touring pro Guy Fritz.
Boyd said his ITF junior rank got to
No. 120 before he got sick, but has fallen to No. 138. “Now I feel like I’m
playing better than I was before I got sick,” he said. “I had a very busy start
to the year. I went to Costa Rica then straight to Boca Raton to train. From
there I went to Bolivia, Chile and then Argentina to play Grade 1 ITF events.
That’s when I got really sick in Paraguay and had to pull out of tournaments
there, two in Brazil and Carson.”
Local player Austin Rapp of Rancho
Mirage, Calif., had his ASICS Easter Bowl singles career ended on Monday as he
fell to Cameron Klinger of Elk Grove, Calif., in three sets, 6-3, 2-6, 6-3. “It
was a tough match and could have gone either way,” said Rapp, who is headed to
UCLA in the Fall on a full-ride scholarship. “I didn’t play my best but should
have been used to the conditions and the heat. This is my hometown, and I wish
I would have been able to pull out a win.”
Rapp will play with Henry Gordon in
doubles on Tuesday.
Fourteen-year-old Kelly Chen of
Cerritos, Calif., opened up play on Monday in the Girls’ 18s with a solid 6-2,
6-0 win over Sydney Riley of Dallas. Chen advanced all the way to the
semifinals of the 18s at the recent Carson USTA International Spring
Championships last week losing to eventual champion CiCi Bellis.
Chen said she was used to the venue
having played the BNP Paribas pre-qualifying two months ago and losing in the second
round to Anne-Liz Jeukeng.
“My feet were burning out there,”
Chen said of her match on Monday.
Chen next faces top-seeded Sophia Kenin
on Wednesday if she wins her first-round match as expected.
Reilly Opelka of Palm Coast, Fla.,
was named the winner of the daily ASICS Sportsmanship Award. Opelka beat
Catalin Mateas of Braintree, Mass., 6-4, 7-5.
Sponsors include: ASICS, Laurel Springs
School, Indian Wells Tennis Garden, the Taylor Dent Junior Academy, Tennis
Warehouse, TennisPlayer.net Digital Magazine, the tennis website 10sBalls.com,
USTA, The Old Spaghetti Factory, SCTA and Mind Matters.
To keep up with all the ASICS Easter
Bowl news, visit the website at www.easterbowl.com
and check out the tournament on Facebook (www.facebook.com/EasterBowl) and
Twitter (@easterbowl). For more information on ASICS, check out: www.ASICSAmerica.com and follow on
Twitter @ASICSAmerica.
Monday’s
Scores
Boys'
18 Singles (Round of 64)
Hiltzik, Aron (Wilmette,
IL) def. Lam, Kevin (Galloway, NJ) 6-1, 6-1
Gordon, Henry (New
Braunfels, TX) def. Gealer, Daniel (Los Angeles, CA) 6-4, 6-4
Cargill, Christian (15)
(Wesley Chapel, FL) def. Ross, Alex (Burr Ridge, IL) 6-4, 6-3
Klinger, Cameron (Elk Grove, CA) def.
Rapp, Austin (Rancho Mirage, CA) 6-3, 2-6, 6-3
Smith, Logan (3)
(Carlsbad, CA) def. Furman, Spencer (Woodinville, WA) 6-1, 6-1
Lin, Vincent (Schaumburg,
IL) def. Staggs, Logan (Tracy, CA) 6-4, 5-7, 6-3
Garay, Christian (Columbus, GA) def.
Zlobinsky, Julian (10) (Greenvale, NY) 6-3, 5-7, 6-0
Boyd, Kalman (8) (Rancho Santa Fe,
CA) def. Adams, Charlie (Wayzata, MN) 6-2, 6-1
Levine, Robert (13) (Bedford, NY)
def. Lorenzini, Michael (Clarendon Hills, IL) 6-2, 6-1
Opelka, Reilly (Palm
Coast, FL) def. Mateas, Catalin (Braintree, MA) 6-4, 7-5
Paul, Tommy (12) (Coconut Creek, FL)
def. Lebedev, Alexander (Island Park, NY) 7-5, 6-4
Restrepo, Javier (Miami,
FL) def. Schalet, Myles (Montville, NJ) 6-4, 6-2
Ponwith, Nathan (Scottsdale, AZ) def.
Douglas, Jake (Rolling Hills, CA) 6-0, 4-6, 6-0
Genender, Michael (Los Angeles, CA)
def. Mautner, Kyle (Greenwich, CT) 4-6, 6-3, 6-3
Thirouin, Jean (Houston,
TX) def. Janglin, Oscar (16) (Sarasota, FL) 6-2, 6-2
Madison, Jared (Medina, WA) def.
Stalder, Reese (Costa Mesa, CA) 7-5, 1-0 Ret (inj)
Reinberg, Emil (Atlanta,
GA) def. Tishman, Gabe (Bedford, NY) 6-2, 7-6(3)
Sweet, Alan (Naples, FL) def.
Kaiser, Kial (Saratoga, CA) def. 7-5, 6-4
Lenhard, Rafael (Carlsbad, CA) def.
Blanch, Ulises (9) (Deerfield Beach, FL) 2-6, 6-2, 6-3
Girls’
18s Singles (Round of 64)
Daniell, Andie (Douglasville, GA)
def. Moldovan, Bianca (Livonia, MI) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
Altick, Helen (16) (Monroe, LA) def.
Larner, Erin (Portland, OR) 6-1, 6-3
McCarthy, Kaitlyn (8) (Cary, NC) def.
Miller-Krasilnikov, Ally (Delray Beach, FL) 6-0, 6-0
Chang, Sophie (Hvre De Grace, MD)
def. Minor, Brienne (Mundelein, IL) 6-3, 5-7, 6-4
Shibahara, Ena (Rancho Palos Verdes,
CA) def. Fahey, Katharine (Fair Haven, NJ) 7-6(5), 6-3
Chen, Kelly (Cerritos, CA) def.
Riley, Sydney (Dallas, TX) 6-2, 6-0
Hauger, Olivia (5) (Tulsa, OK) def.
Ndunda, Ndindi (Burke, VA) 6-1, 1-6, 6-1
Swan, Katie (11) (Wichita, KS) def.
Letzt, Alexandra (Scottsdale, AZ) 6-2, 6-4
Golovin, Jessica (New York, NY) def.
Ouellet-Pizer, Chloe (Chapel Hill, NC) 4-6, 6-2, 7-6(3)
Bourguignon, Madison (10) (Boca
Raton, FL) def. Norris, Marie (Burdett, KS) 6-3, 6-4
Hamlin, Ellyse (14) (Fairfield, CT)
def. Xepoleas, Meredith (Huntington Beach, CA) 6-4, 7-5
Ruder-Hook, Mira (Denver, CO) def.
Horvit, Mia (Parkland, FL) 6-4, 6-2
Higuchi, Emma (15) (Los Angeles, CA)
def. Friedel, Jenna (Mill Valley, CA) 4-6, 6-2, 6-0
Aney, Jessie (Rochester, MN) def.
Wiktorin, Claudia (Davidson, NC) 6-2, 6-4
Lampl, Caroline (Bluemont, VA) def.
Hart, Jada (Colton, CA) 7-6(1), 6-3
Kelley, Meghan (Falmouth, ME) def.
Hampton, Samantha (Vancouver, WA) 6-2, 6-3
Nelson, Alexis (Saint Paul, MN) def.
Zogg, Ellie (Dallas, TX) 6-2, 6-4
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