July 3, 2002      Sunnyvale, California  Since 1994



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Muchynski 3rd in net tourney By Dick Sparrer There were some surprises, there were some minor upsets and some things went just as expected when the Saratoga Country Club played host to the Junior Open Grand Prix tennis tournament for boys and girls 10 and 12 singles players last week. The biggest surprise of the tourney came in girls 12 singles play, where unseeded Jocelyn Davis of San Martin won the title with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 win over No. 2 seeded Samantha Lam of Mountain View. And there was a mild upset in the boys 12 division when No. 4 seeded William Li of San Jose edged No. 3 seed Emerson Lin of Saratoga 6-2, 6-2 in the finals. Things went pretty much as expected in the other two divisions. No. 1 seed Adrian Schwarzer of Fremont outlasted No. 2 seed Conor Berg of Greenbrae 2-6, 7-6, 6-2 to take the boys 10 crown, and No. 1 seed Tayler Davis of San Jose topped No. 3 seed Samantha Critser of Mountain View 6-3, 7-5 to win the girls 10 title. Li and Lin were on a collision course to meet in the boys 12 finals, each player winning in straight sets four times to get into the championship match. In the title match, it was all Li as he rolled to the straight set win over Lin, 6-2, 6-2. Eugene Muchynski of Sunnyvale, who had won three straight matches before falling to Lin in the semifinals, went on to beat Sameet Ramakrishnan of Saratoga 2-6, 6-0, 6-0 in the third-place match. In the boys 10 division, David Cappello of Saratoga lost his first match, but then played his way into the consolation finals before losing again. Cappello opened with a 6-0, 6-2 loss to Daniel McCall of San Francisco to fall into the consolation bracket. But he fought back with wins over Anthony Brewer of Sunnyvale (6-1, 6-1), Benjamin Lam of San Francisco (6-3, 6-1) and Nolan Richard of Lafayette (6-0, 6-0) before losing 6-1, 7-6 to Warren Lewis of Pacific Grove in the consolation finals. Falling in the first round were Michael Kung and Anthony Brewer of Sunnyvale. In girls 12 play, Jennifer Kung of Sunnyvale won in the round of 32, but lost in the round of 16.

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