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Local singles tennis stars Kelly Lamble, Zoe De Bruycker, Lindsey Marsh and John Lamble shone bright at the United States Tennis Association West Coast Junior Championships recently.
Kelly Lamble and De Brucker both won four matches in the Girls 14 division, before squaring off in the championship match. Marsh was part of the winning Girls 14 doubles team and John Lamble captured the Boys 12 crown.
DeBruycker won the first set 7-5, but Lamble bounced back big time claiming the second set, 6-0, to force a third set. Lamble, who entered the tourney seeded third out of a field of 37, won the final set 6-1.
Lamble certainly worked hard for the title, going three sets in four of her five matches. One of the three-set affairs was in the second round against Marsh, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4.
Although Marsh went 1-2 in the singles tourney, she teamed with Michelle Lam of San Francisco to go 3-0 en route to the doubles title.
De Bruycker, the sixth seed , needed to get past two higher seeds to reach the singles finale. First she defeated the top seed, Lam, 6-2, 1-6, 6-0, in the quarter-finals. Then she moved into the title match when an injury forced No. 4 seed Stephany Chang of San Jose to withdraw.
Meanwhile, John Lamble proved why he was the top seed of the Boys 12 division. Four of his five wins were in straight sets. After breezing through his first three matches, Lamble received a wake-up call in the semifinals.
Third seed Zhongming Chen of Oakland blanked Lamble 6-0 in the first set, but Lamble recovered to win 6-1, 6-2 and advance into the finals. Lamble won the championship by topping fourth seed Daniel Britt of Fair Oaks, 6-3, 6-1.
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