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Lindsey Marsh of Saratoga may have been the fourth seed in the girls 12 singles division at the Saratoga Junior Open tennis tournament, but by the time the weeklong tourney finished last Friday she was No. 1.
Marsh was one of six individual champions when the best young tennis players in the area converged on the courts at the Saratoga Country Club for the annual tournament.
The tournament was played June 23 through 27 at the country club, with the top players meeting in the semifinals on Thursday and the semi winners playing for titles on Friday.
Marsh joined with Andrew Malozsak of Woodside (boys 10), Adrian Schwarzer of Fremont (boys 12), David Clark of Sunnyvale (boys 14), Ellen Tsay of Pleasanton (girls 10) and Samantha Lam of Mountain View (girls 14) as singles champions in the tournament.
Winning doubles titles were Anthony Brewer and Justin Chan of Sunnyvale (boys 10); Jamin Ball of Palo Alto and Schwarzer (boys 12); Jason Daniel of Saratoga and Naveen Dixit of Los Altos (boys 14); Marsh and Kara Wang of Saratoga (girls 12); and Alison Daniel and Valerie Tang of Saratoga (girls 14).
Marsh and Schwarzer were the only tennis players to walk off as double winners in the five-day tourney.
Marsh clinched the girls 12 singles title with a convincing 6-2, 6-0 win over Esther Walker of San Jose in the finals. She also teamed with Wang to beat Kate Bergeson of San Jose and Angela Horng of Saratoga in the girls 12 doubles finals.
Anastasia Glyantseva of San Jose handled Caroline Logan of Bel Tiburon 6-0, 6-4 in the girls 12 consolation finals.
Other local players in the girls 12 field included Annalisa Choy, Carolina O'Haren, Ketaki Shriram and Natalie So of Saratoga; Melissa Koboayakawa of Cupertino; and Taylor Klein and Anne Robson of Los Gatos.
Schwarzer joined Marsh as a twin winner in the tourney. He whipped Spencer Talmadge of Hillsborough in the boys 12 singles finals and he teamed with Ball to outlast Conor Berg of Greenbrae and Daniel McCall of San Francisco 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 in the doubles finals.
Eugene Muchynski of Sunnyvale took care of Jason Ku of Cupertino 6-0, 6-2 in the boys 12 consolation finals.
Along with Muchynski and Ku, local players in the boys 12 field included Jack Allen, Vikram Babu, Nikil Balakirshnan, Sandeep Chandrasekhar, Eric Gast, Michael Gu, Andrew Hsieh, Shahin Malek, Rohan Mehra, Reid Patterson, Adam Prewett, Brian Tang and Michael Wu of Saratoga; Kevin Brogan of Los Gatos; Jonathan Chang, Daniel Hsu, Jeffery Ku, Raymond Lei and Dhruv Parthasarathy of Cupertino; Ian Clark of Sunnyvale; and Nino Hardin of Campbell.
In boys 10 play, Anthony Brewer of Sunnyvale had quite a week. He finished second to Malozsak in the finals, losing a tight 6-3, 6-4 decision, and he teamed with Justin Chan of Sunnyvale to take David Cappello and David Hubbard 6-1, 6-0 in the doubles finals.
Cappello cruised to a 6-3, 6-1 win over Will Scarlett of Woodland to take the boys 10 consolation singles title.
Local players in the division included Deepak Sabada, Justin Chan and Michael Kung of Sunnyvale; Roshan Sriram and Kyle Sum of Cupertino; Garrett Taylor of Monte Sereno; and Jimmy Castellanos, Adarsh Ranganathan and Shrinivas Sivakumar of Saratoga.
Clark pulled out a 6-3, 6-3 win over Bryan Song of Selma, Ala., to take the boys 14 singles title in the tourney.
Jason Daniel of Saratoga teamed with Naveen Dixit of Los Altos to beat Travis Cohan of Orinda and Keven Wong of Kaneohe, Hawaii, 6-1, 6-2 in the doubles finals.
Clark and Daniel were joined in the field by locals Patrick Brogan of Los Gatos; Daniel Shevtsov, Gautam Ashok, Jordan Kolb, Andy Lee, Brandon Lehrman, Deepak Natarajan, Vishnu Parthasarathy, Vishaal Sridhar, Eric Sum and Andrew Swenson of Cupertino; Emerson Lin, Amit Arunkumar, Jeffrey Bair, Rohit Dcosta, Kaveh Hemati, Karthik Jagadeesh, Ryan Kerin, Michael Kim, Michael Nguyen, Nicolas Simmons, Connor Skelly, Eugene Tseng and Aroon Vijaykar of Saratoga; and Nicholas Fracchia and Ashwin Pushpala of Sunnyvale.
Tsay pulled out a 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 win over Yanni Dzoan of Milpitas to win the girls 10 singles title in Saratoga. Ruri Kobayakawa of Cupertino was the consolation singles champ, beating Giannina Ong of Cupertino 6-4, 6-0.
Vynnie Kong of Cupertino, Jennifer Switzer of Los Gatos and Catherine Nguyen, Arthi Padmanabhan and Srinidhi Raghaven of Saratoga were other local players in the division.
Lam rolled to a 6-1, 6-0 win over Marjoria Adams of Woodside to walk off with the girls 14 singles top spot.
In doubles play, the Saratoga team of Alison Daniel and Valerie Tang handled Cassie Bergeson of San Jose and Diane Phan of Fremont 6-1, 6-4 in the finals.
Other local players in the division included Sarah Rose Cappello, Shireen Gupta, Sachi Hartley, Haley Hubbard, Frances Lin, Kelsey Marsh, Tiffany Sudlow and Tarini Ullal of Saratoga; Courtney Chin and Chau Nguyen of Cupertino; Michelle Decaro, Jennifer Kung and Alice Yelimeshyna of Sunnyvale; Caroline Hurley and Priya Prasad of Los Gatos; and Sara Silberstein of Monte Sereno.
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