2008 Category I National Results
Irvine CA, June 16-22 (65 & 70 Hard)
Seeding was accurate as favorites prevailed in both divisions. Jimmy
Parker doubled up once again in the 65s. Top seed Parker dispatched #3
Rudy Hernando 6-3,6-3 in the semis and followed it up with a convincing win over
surprise finalist C. Raymond Lake 6-1,6-2. Parker cruised through the
tournament winning five matches losing a total of only 18 games while Lake had
benefited from three walkovers. Parker & Ken Robinson survived a
first-set semi-final loss before defeating Michael Stewart & Dean Corley
5-7,6-2,6-3 and then wrapping up the championship with a decisive finals win
over Hernando & George Sarantos 6-2,6-1. Hernando & Sarantos had edged
David Bird & Robert Jones 6-3,7-5.
Fred Farzanegan continued his winning ways as a new 70 with five
convincing wins (and no lost sets). Farzanegan, seeded second, bested Neil
Hurlbut 6-3,1-0,ret(ill) in the semis and again dominated top seed Bob Duesler
6-1,6-2 in the final. Duesler had topped #9 Art Wahl 6-2,6-1. Wahl
had ousted #4 Larry Sears 6-2,6-4 in the quarter-finals. In the 70 doubles
fifth seeds Farzanegan & Don Biedinger topped Thurston Barnett & Bill Ulmer
6-3,6-1 in the semis and then pushed perennial winners Duesler & Jim Nelson
— to no avail. Duesler & Nelson bested Roy Anderson & Gordy Nichol 6-1,6-4
in the semis and then triumphed again in the final over Farzanegan & Biedinger
6-2,3-6,6-3. Barnett & Ulmer barely won the third-place playoff over
Anderson & Nichol 7-5,6-7,7-6 and thus consolidated their reputation for winning
nail-biters following their run to the Indoor finals in March.
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Rancho Santa Fe CA, May 19-24 (75, 80 & 85 Hard)
Form went out the window in the 75s as 9th seeded Saul Snyder won four
consecutive matches against higher seeds to gain the gold ball. Snyder
ousted #2 Chuck Devoe 6-3,6-3 then #5 Jim Perley 3-6,6-4,6-3 then #4 Marvin
Brown 6-4,7-5 and, finally, #5 Roger Hing 3-6-6-2,6-4. Hing had narrowly
defeated Tom Springer 6-3,4-6,6-4 and then barely overcame #5 David Rothgaber
2-6,7-6,7-6. Top seed George McCabe fell in his first match to unseeded
Neil McDonald 7-6,6-4. It was a heck of a doubles event except that the
final was unplayed! Go figure. Form prevailed (until then) as top
seeds George McCabe & Jack Vredevelt bested #4 Bob Isenberg & Chuck Nelson
6-3,6-1 while #2 Dick Doss & John Powless dispatched #3 Chuck Devoe & Jerry
Thomas 6-2,6-3.
Form held in the 80s as the top four seeds met in the semi-finals where #2
Clem Hopp emerged with the gold ball besting #1 Graydon Nichols 6-2,1-6,6-4.
Hopp had defeated Hugh Stewart 6-1,ret(inj) while Nichols bested Jason Morton
2-6,6-2,6-4. Nichols & Stewart gained a measure of revenge in the
doubles final overcoming Hopp & Morton 6-4,6-0. Hopp & Morton had defeated
Bob Chapman & Don Tully 6-4,6-1 as Nichols & Stewart were ousting Lee Glouner &
Jack Graham 7-5,6-4.
Bob Sherman caught up with doubles partner Marvin Henderson in the 85
singles and won yet another pair of gold balls. Sherman topped #4 Ed Selfe
7-5,6-3 in the semis and then Henderson 6-3,6-3 in the final. Henderson
had outlasted Edwin Tyler 4-6,6-1,6-1. Henderson & Sherman
won the doubles with wins over Dyle Anderson & Don Tobey 1-6,6-1,6-1 and George
Druliner & Tyler 7-6,6-4. Druliner & Tyler had bested Jim Carleton & Ken
Kayes 6-3,6-1.
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Vancouver WA, May 6-10 (80, 85 & 90 Indoors)
Jason Morton rebounded from a couple of down years to win two gold balls
in the 80s. Marvin Henderson continued his singles mastery in the
85 Indoors while Alex Swetka dominated the 90s once again.
In the 80s, Morton bested Roald Flater 2-6,6-4,6-0 in the semis and then
surprise finalist Lou Wick 4-6,6-3,6-2. The unseeded Wick has a terrific
run ousting top seed Clem Hopp 6-3,7-5 in the quarters and Hugh Stewart 6-3,6-2
in the semis. Hopp & Morton combined to win the doubles defeating
Vernon Larson & Earl Schalin 6-3,4-6,6-4 and Raymond Stange & Wick 6-1,6-2 in
the final. Stange & Wick had ousted Dick Land & Joe Pitts 6-1,6-1.
In the 85s, Henderson bested unseeded Melvin Brown 6-1,6-2 in the semis and then
unseeded Don Tobey 6-4,7-6 in the final. Tobey had outlasted Bob Sherman
5-7,7-5,6-1. Two unseeded teams met in the doubles final where Jim
Carleton & Ken Hayes defeated Dyle Anderson & Tobey 4-6,6-4,6-3.
Carleton & Hayes had topped second seeds Ted Heisler & W.T. Mathes 6-1,3-6,6-2
while Anderson & Tobey had bested top seeds Henderson & Sherman.
In the 90s, Swetka doubled up winning three singles matches with the loss of
only three games! Swetka bested Tracy Strong 6-0,6-1 in the semis and then
unseeded Ed Osgood 6-1,6-1. Osgood had bested Thomas Whitlow 6-0,7-6(4).
Bob Mix & Swetka dominated the doubles defeating Walter Ralphs & Whitlow
6-0,6-1 in the semis and then top seeds Barrett Scallet & Norman Stoll 6-3,6-0
in the final. Scallet & Stoll had squeaked by Gardner Gray & Osgood
7-5,7-6(7).
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Boise ID, May 5-10 (55 Indoors)
Top seed Phil Landauer won both gold balls with a series of narrow wins
in the singles and dominating wins in doubles. Landauer topped Carl Sechen
2-6,6-1,6-4, Geoff Cykman 2-6,6-3,7-6(4) and then Bill Roach 7-5,6-0 to win the
singles title. Landauer & Tom Smith garnered the doubles gold ball
by winning all three of their matches by the same 6-2,6-2 score: Wesley
Jackson & Pete Kelly in the semis and then Cykman & Andrew Stanley in the final.
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New Orleans LA, April 7-13 (65 Clay)
Top seed Jimmy Parker doubled up with a dominating performance in the
singles. Parker, seeded number one, won his first five matches with the
loss of only ten games (total). He bested William Simon 6-1,6-1 in the
semis and then had to go all out to defeat third seed Joe Bachman 6-4,7-5 in the
final. Bachman had bested second seed Fred Drilling 6-2,6-4.
Parker & Ken Robinson cruised to victory in the doubles losing only seven
games in the eight sets they won. Parker & Robinson defeated the unseeded
team of George Balch & Peter Smith 5-7,6-0,6-1 (quarters), then Ted Hoehn &
Leland Housman 6-2,6-1 (semis) and then Drilling & Ray Lake 6-1,6-2 (finals).
Drilling & Lake had ousted the third seeded team of Dean Corley & Michael
Stewart 6-4,6-2.
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Rancho Mirage CA, April 7-13 (60 & 90 Hard)
Top seed Brian Cheney garnered another gold ball with a narrow win in the
60 singles over second seed Hugh Thomson 7-5,3-6,7-6. Oddly, Thomson had
bested Terry Ehlers by the same score in the semi-finals while Cheney had won
the last eight games to oust Bob Litwin 7-5,6-0. Brothers David & Dan
Bohannon triumphed in the 60 doubles by dint of three consecutive perilous wins:
Daud Ahmed & Richard Johnson 6-2,4-6,7-6 (quarters), Litwin & Neal Newman
6-1,6-7,7-5 (semis) and unseeded Laurence Hammel & Stuart Malin 6-2,4-6,6-2
(finals). Hammel & Stuart had enjoyed an injury walkover over the team of
Brent Abel & Charles Hoeveler in the semis.
Alex Swetka continued his winning ways in the 90s. Swetka bageled
Edmundo Giffoni 6-0,6-0 in the semis and then defeated Fererico Barbaza (score
not given) in the final. Swetka & Robert Mix won the doubles with
wins over Barrett Scallet & Norman Stoll 7-5,6-1 and then over Barbaza & Giffoni
7-6,6-4. Barbaza & Giffoni had crushed Tracy Strong & Jim Talman 6-0,6-0.
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Houston TX, March 24-29 (70 & 75 Indoors)
Fred Farzanegan introduced himself to the 70s with a splash by winning
the gold ball with convincing wins over Bob Duesler 6-4,6-1 and Herman Ahlers
6-4,3-6,6-1. Ahlers had defeated Courtney Henderson 6-3,6-0 in the semis.
In the 70 doubles Duesler & Jim Nelson once again prevailed handily while
losing only twelve games (and no sets) in four matches. They topped Lee
Hamilton & Henderson 6-3,6-0 in the semis and then surprise finalists Thurston
Barnett & Bill Ulmer 6-1,6-1. Barnett & Ulmer had surprised second seeds
Neil Hurlbut & Bill Hyde 4-6,7-5,7-5 in the opening round and then Greg Kohles &
Chuck Nelson 6-4,3-6,6-4 in the semis.
George McCabe had an outstanding tournament in the 75s by winning both the
singles and doubles titles. Overall McCabe won eight matches without the
loss of a set. In singles McCabe bested Scott Denison 6-4,6-4 in the semis
and then Chuck Devoe 7-5,7-5 in the final. Devoe had defeated 2007 winner
Tom Springer 6-2,6-4 in the semis. McCabe & Jack Vredevelt won the
doubles with a semi-final win over the unseeded team of Roger Gruggett & Richard
Haskell 7-6(5),6-2 and a final win over second seeds Devoe & Russell Seymour
6-3,6-3. Devoe & Seymour had edged out Bob Isenberg & Chuck Nelson
6-2,1-6,7-5 in their semi-final match.
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