Adoption Guild tennis: Local trio splits six tennis titles

Corona del Mar resident Scott Davis, Newport Beach resident Debbie

Graham and Costa Mesa resident Brittany Reitz all won a pair of titles at

the 41st annual Adoption Guild Tennis Tournament, completed Sunday at the

Newport Beach Tennis Club.

Davis and doubles partner David Pate won the men’s open doubles crown

for the second straight year.

Davis also teamed with Graham to win the mixed open doubles crown.

Graham, who coaches Reitz, a Corona del Mar High senior bound for

Purdue, teamed with her prize pupil to top the women’s open doubles

field.

Reitz teamed with John Cross to win the mixed 6.0 doubles.

Other local winners included Gail Glasgow, who picked up her 12th

Adoption Guild trophy by teaming with Rob Millsop from Scottsdale, Ariz.

to win the mixed 5.5 doubles title with a 6-1, 6-4 triumph over Dean

Corley and Beth Thomson.

Kathryn D’Eliscu and Christine Shively, both from Balboa, earned a

7-5, 6-3 victory in the women’s 4.5 doubles over Gail Klocke and Nancy

Wilson.

Newport Beach’s Kathy Bennett-Doss combined with Tracey Thompson from

San Diego to win the women’s 5.5 doubles crown. They defeated Erin

Hendricks from Newport Beach and Natalie Hill from Irvine, 6-1, 6-3, in

the title match.

Newport Beach’s Paul Cross and 6.0 men’s doubles partner Adam Kranson

from Irvine defeated Mike Hammer and Colby Morita, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5, in

their division final.

Davis and Pate defeated Jason Cook (Sherman Oaks) and Bruce

Man-Song-Hing (Pasadena), 4-6, 6-3, 7-5, in the men’s open doubles final.

Graham and Reitz earned a 6-2, 7-5 decision over Julie Shapiro from

Costa Mesa and Jennifer Lyons from Dana Point for the women’s open

doubles crown.

Davis and Graham decisioned the Huntington Beach tandem of Melissa

Esmero and Jakub Pietrowski, 6-2, 6-2, in the open mixed doubles title

match.

Reitz and Cross triumphed over CdM resident Orestes Baez and Laura

Rubin, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, in the mixed 6.0 doubles final.

Corona del Mar High product Randy Myers was another local finalist.

The Costa Mesa resident teamed with Rick Trager to finish second in the

men’s 5.0 doubles division.

FINALS

Men

Open singles - Reichel def. Rozpedski, 7-5, 6-1.

Open doubles - Davis-Pate def. Cook/Man-Song-Hing, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5.

6.0 doubles - Cross-Kranson def. Hammer-Morita, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5.

5.5 doubles - Burgess-Nguyen def. Brewer-Marzola, 6-4, 6-2.

5.0 doubles - Brown-Griscom def. Myers-Trager, 6-3, 7-5.

4.5 doubles - Goldberger-Rosenbaum def. Duddy-Gray, 6-4, 5-7, 7-6.

4.0 doubles - Covey-Davis def. Buccheri-Wiles, 6-3, 6-2.

3.5 doubles - Diep-Tran def. Lowman-Miller, 6-3, 7-5.

35-and-older doubles - Aldrich-Pugh def. Hernandez-Moravec, 6-2, 6-2.

Women

Open singles - Nguyen def. King, 6-3, 3-6, 6-2.

Open doubles - Graham-Reitz def. Lyons-Shapiro, 6-2, 7-5.

5.5 doubles - Bennett-Doss/Thompson def. Hendricks-Hill, 6-1, 6-3.

5.0 doubles - Beindorf-Peterson def. Amos-Jez, 6-2, 6-2.

4.5 doubles - D’Eliscu-Shively def. Klocke-Wilson, 7-5, 6-3.

4.0 doubles - C. Chung-S. Chung def. Dobos-Nailboff, 6-4, 7-6.

3.5 doubles - Howard, Suwito def. Fockler-Joplin, 6-2, 6-4.

Mixed

Open doubles - Davis-Graham def. Esmero-Pietrowski, 6-2, 6-2.

6.0 doubles - Cross-Reitz def. Baez-Rubin, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3

5.5 doubles - Glasgow-Millsop def. Corley-Thomson, 6-1, 6-4.

5.0 doubles - Headding-Thompson def. Hawks-Newton, 6-4, 6-4.

4.5 doubles - Jones-Wilkins def. Delong-Secora, 6-4, 6-3.

4.0 doubles - Hoffman-Peterson def. Amen-Nehrlich/Webber, 6-2, 6-4.

3.5 doubles - Bogart-Stuka won by default.

35-and-older doubles - Aldrich-Pugh def. Denny-Nguyen, 6-2, 6-2.

SEMIFINALS

Men

Open singles - Rozpedski def. Li, 6-3, 6-3.

Open doubles - Cook/Man-Son-Hing def. Endrikat-Morton, 7-6, 6-4.

Women

Open doubles - Graham-Reitz def. Beatty-King, 6-3, 6-4; Lyons-Shapiro

def. Denson-Devera, 4-6, 6-1, 6-1.

5.5 doubles - Bennett-Doss/Thompson def. Bezmallnovich-Schuller, 6-3,

6-2; Hendricks-Hill def. Brown-Thomson, 7-6, 3-6, 6-5.

Mixed

Open doubles - Davis-Graham def. Nainkin-Nguyen, 7-5, 6-2;

Esmero-Pietrowski def. Barry-Manley, 6-4, 6-4.

6.0 doubles - Cross-Reitz def. Canfield-Kranson, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3;

Baez-Rubin def. Bozeman-Miller, 7-6, 6-4.

5.5 doubles - Glasgow-Millsop def. Bezmallnovich-Gilman, 5-7, 6-1,

retired.; Corley-Thompson def. Hastings, Hill, 6-0, 6-2.

5.0 doubles - Headding-Thompson def. Rodriguez-Vigen, 6-3, 7-5;

Hawks-Newton def. Morton-Pfenning, 7-5, 6-7, 6-4.

4.5 doubles - Delong-Secora def. Flaherty-Neptune, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3;

Jones-Wilkins def. Oates-Richardson, 6-4, 6-2.

4.0 doubles - Hoffman-Peterson def. Durkin-Savala, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3.

3.5 doubles - Kinard-Peek def. M. Schulman-S. Schulman, 6-2, 2-6, 6-4;

Bogart-Stuka def. Foltz-Siani, 6-1, 6-4.

With Debbie Graham her coach and won the 6.0 mixed doubles, daughetr

of people who donated the $3,000 for women’s prize money, the open

women’s prize money, a senior at CdM, a full five-yhear to

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And the other delightgyul story of tuoruanet, Vania King who lost in

the open singles, got through the fiunals, only 13 years old, middle

student from Orange, to Hughges, those the two knockout

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Debbie Graham Stanford, also played in mixed open the final round

today, finihsed she won...............<

she’s played with Scott Davis from NB tennis club........<

won, 6-2, 6-2,m

Scott Davis.......... sure he has, double check for you, got hte

results from the other years............<

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Scott Davis won with David Pate, the 6.5 men’s and the 6.5 mixed

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REPEATED IN THE men’s open doubles...................<

6.5 in 2000 was Peter Smith and Kelly Gullett

in 98 and 99 Jim Push and Bruce Mandson........

Prize money won and can’t claim, ot the school, can’t be done

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