Brooklyn Heights - David Johnson Memorial Doubles

Mudge And Berg Take Third Consecutive Johnson Crown In Brooklyn By Rob Dinerman       Feb 23--- Deadlocked at two games apiece and 4-all, two-time defending champions Damien Mudge and Viktor Berg engineered a 6-0 burst, then weathered, albeit barely, a potentially disastrous Berg injury and managed to ... More

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ISDA No. 34 Stout Captures U. S. Open Tourneys In Court Tennis And Racquets In Successive Weekends  -  By Rob Dinerman -  Mar 8th --- James Stout, the 25-year-old assistant pro at the Racquet & Tennis Club in mid-town Manhattan who along with partner Yasser Kamel has successfully qualified into the main draws of the ’08 Kellner Cup, the ’09 Big Apple Open and the ’10 North American Open in his four forays onto the ISDA doubles tour over the past 23 months (the lone exception being a five-game loss to Greg Park and Tim Porter in the Briggs Cup last autumn), has had a banner past two weeks. On the evening of March 1st, the slender left-handed Bermudian, who had earned a No. 116 PSA ranking in 2004, capped off a stunning path through the draw of the U. S. Open Court Tennis Championships in New York with a three-sets-to-one final-round win over Bryn Sayers to garner that prestigious title (after first knocking off defending champ Camden Riviere in a four-set semi), and then this past weekend he roared through the U. S. Open Racquets Championship in Chicago without dropping a single set.    Stout is the current world champion in racquets, having earned that distinction in November 2008 when he dethroned Harry Foster in a decisive five sets to one Challenge Match, but he had been defeated by Alex Titchener-Barrett a few months ago in the final of the British Open. The hoped-for rematch never materialized in Chicago, since Titchener-Barrett lost his semifinal to James Coyne, whom Stout subsequently dominated in the final. If Stout, whose No. 7 world court-tennis ranking will doubtless improve in the wake of his U. S. Open exploits, can retain his world-champion standing in racquets in the face of an expected Challenge Match next year, he stands a definite chance of being selected to challenge for the world championship in court tennis (which since 1994 has been held by Rob Fahey, now 41, who missed the U. S. Open due to leg and back injuries) in 2012. Not since Peter Latham in 1898 has one man simultaneously been the world champion in both of these sports, but the soft-spoken Stout, who plans to enter the ISDA Kellner Cup next month, increasingly appears positioned for a run at duplicating Latham’s remarkable dual accomplishment of well over a century ago.