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1. August 22, 1983, Monday, BC cycle IRVINE, Calif.
National Junior Tennis Championships
Nicholas Barone of Des Plaines, Ill., and Halle Cioffi of Knoxville, Tenn.,
Sunday captured the boys and girls 14-and-under titles in the National Junior Tennis Championships.
The two were among hundreds of children from across the nation competing in the six-day tournament at the Vic Braden Tennis College.
Barone defeated Pete Sampras of Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., 6-1, 6-0 while Cioffi defeated Amy Schwartz of North Miami, Fla., 6-5, 7-6, 6-2. In the boys' 12-and-under division, Jared Palmer of Largo, Fla., defeated Michael Chang of La Costa, Calif., 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 while Noelle Porter of San Juan Capistrano, Calif., defeated Stacey Martin of Largo, Md., 4-6, 6-0, 6-4 in the girls' 12-and-under group.
The four winners, along with all semifinalists and finalists, qualified for an International Tennis Federation-sponsored tournament to be held Sept. 21-25 in Orlando, Fla.
Copyright 1984 U.P.I.
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2. The San Diego Union-Tribune
January 1, 1985, Tuesday, BC cycle DATELINE: SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.
Fiesta Bowl National Tennis Championships
Forest ''Woody'' Hunt won the boys 18 title and Eleni Rossides the girls 18 crown in the 12th annual Reebok Fiesta Bowl Junior Tennis Championships Monday.
Hunt, a southern California high school senior, came from behind to score a 7-6 (7-3), 6-3 victory over fifth-seeded Kip Brady of Lawrence, Kan. No. 1 seeded Rossides, of Washington, D.C., beat sixth-seeded Diana Merrett of Richardson, Tex., 6-3, 6-1.
Cindy Buchsbaum of Tucson came in third in girls 18s, defeating Stella Sampras, Palos Verdes, Calif., 6-4, 6-2.
No. 2 seeded Allison Grace of Paradise Valley won the girls 12 division with a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Jenny Baker of Mentor, Ohio. She was the only Arizonan to win a title.
Top-seeded Jeffrey Tarango of Manhattan Beach, Calif., won the boys 16 tiotle with a 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 victory over second-seeded Carl Chang of La Costa, Calif.
No. 1 seeded Elly Hakami of Tiburon, Calif., beat Deborah Graham of Fountain Valley, Calif., 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 to win the girls 16 championship.
Dan Marting of Phoenix took third-place in the boys 16s, defeating Pete Sampras of Palos Verdes 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.
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3. The San Diego Union-Tribune
November 10, 1985, Sunday
La Quinta Invitational
Pierce, Berg in final of La Quinta tennis
BYLINE: Linda Pentz; Special to The Union
Brad Pierce, a UCLA sophomore, will meet Richard Berg, a Long Beach State freshman, today in the final of the Adidas Invitational at the La Quinta Hotel Tennis Club.
Pierce, 20, yesterday upset the No. 1 player in college tennis, 20-year-old Steve DeVries of Cal. DeVries earned the top seeding in the La Quinta tournament by winning the Volvo All-American title last week at UCLA. But Pierce, seeded fifth, demolished the favorite, 6-0, 6-1, in 51 minutes.
Berg, 19, a Swedish left-hander, defeated the tournament's seventh seed, Dani Leal of Pepperdine, 6-2, 6-4 in one hour, 24 minutes.
Berg, unseeded here, was ranked eighth in Sweden in the 18-and-under juniors before coming to the United States this fall.
Pierce opened aggressively against DeVries, winning his serve at love. With Pierce constantly pressuring his first serve, DeVries double-faulted to yield a break on his first service game. Pierce then rattled off nine more games in a row before DeVries salvaged a single game on his own serve.
Although Pierce is the more solid serve-volleyer, DeVries tried to respond with a similar attack but was constantly forced into the backcourt. The longer things went bad for me, the more confident he got."
At stake for the singles and doubles winners is a wild card into the Pilot Pen Classic, the men's Grand Prix tournament to be played here next February.
The La Quinta tournament is unusual in that it pits college players, top California juniors, junior vets and teaching pros against each other in a single-elimination, 64-player draw. Competitors this year ranged in age from Pete Sampras, a 14-year-old high school junior from Palos Verdes, to Lenny Lindborg, 50, from Huntington Beach.
Sampras was eliminated in the first round but returned to upset 18-year-old Tom Blackmore of San Diego in the consolation singles. The singles final begins today at 10 a.m.
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