Kehrer Wins Doubles at Ojai

Walker Kehrer and Stanford teammate Greg Hirshman won the Pac-10 Invitational doubles championship at the 110th Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament last Sunday. Kehrer, who grew up in Pacific Palisades and had a stellar prep career at Brentwood School, is only a freshman but already he is showing the same poise and confidence that got him to the top of the national rankings in doubles in the juniors. He and Hirshman, a junior, beat Washington’s Tobi Obenaus and Alex Rosinski, 8-4, in the final. Palisades High players advanced deep into their respective draws in the junior divisions. Joseph Silvers made the semifinals of the boys’ 14s singles, beating Reed Stadler, 6-3, 6-4, and Joseph Rotheram, 6-2, 6-1, Tanner Smith, 7-6, 6-2, and Fabian Schaefer, 6-4, 6-2, along the way. Spencer Pekar made it the furthest in the boys’ 16s singles draw, losing to Cristobal Rivera, 6-2, 6-2, in the quartertfinals. Robbie Bellamy lost to Rivera in the round of 16 while fellow freshman Alex Giannini reached the round of 32. Oliver Thornton, the Dolphins’ top player, lost in the second round of the CIF singles division, as did Santa Monica High’s Connor Treacy. Brett Alchorn and Max Licona scored an upset victory in three sets in the second round before falling to the fifth-seeded duo in the CIF doubles division. * * * * Adam Sraberg won the boys’ 12s division at the South Bay Tennis Center Spring Junior Open last weekend, upsetting second-seeded David Goulak of Oak Park, 6-3, 6-2, in the semifinals, then upsetting top-seeded Gilbert Chung of Los Angeles, 1-6, 6-4, 6-1, in the finals. Harry Cohen got to the quarterfinals and fellow Pacific Palisades resident RJ Sands reached the semifinals. Palisadian Sophie Bendetti beat Katie Chang of Rancho Santa Fe in three sets, then won three more matches to take the girls’ 12s title at the Woodbridge Tennis Club Spring Open in Irvine. Bendetti upset top-seeded Riley Gerdau of Newport Beach, 7-6, 6-4, in the final. Roscoe Bellamy is currently ranked No. 1 in Southern California in the boys’ 10s singles and doubles–the only player in any age division holding the top ranking in both. Clay Thompson is No. 2 in singles in the boys’ 18s after recently winning the boys’ International Championships at Claremont. He has accepted a scholarship to play at UCLA in the fall.