I've been a fan of Sam and followed his progress for quite a while now, and I thought that he deserved his own thread. Last he year he came through a tough draw to win the title at the Bronx Challenger. This season he successfully qualified for the Aussie Open, beating the Ukrainian Dogpolov 14-12 in the 3rd set in his extraordinary final round qualifying match. In his maiden appearance in the main draw of a grand slam, he beat Brzezicki to reach the 2nd round. He also came through the qualifying draw at San Jose.
He is currently participating in the qualifying draw at Key Biscayne. He has just beaten 'El Polaco' Brzezicki 7-6(1) 6-3, in a re-match of their 5 set tussie at Melbourne. In order to reach the main draw, he will have to beat Guccione, which will be a very tough task for him.
Sam won a great match in the first round of LA qualies today. He saved set points on Mamiit's serve in the first set and came back to win it in straights
last week, Sam played in the Us Open, where he lost at the second round against Nicolas Almagro, of Spain. The result was: 3-6/4-6/4-6.
At the first round he won agains Janko Tipsarevic from Serbia. He won 6-2/1-0 Ret.
he plays the past week, at the challenger of Tulsa, he won the first round against Tood Widom from USA 7-5/6-2. Secound round against Aleksandr Nedovesov 6-1/6-3 was the result.
He lost at the third round against Vincent Spadea from USA, for 6-2/6-1.
In doubles he lose at the semifinals, his parter was Nicholas Monroe. They lose 6-2/7-6(11) against couple conformed with Ram and Reynolds, seeded number one.
Sam dropped like 30 places in the last couple weeks as some significant Challenger points came off. That being said, he has almost ZERO points to defend for the rest of the year. Hopefully he plays really well this fall and gets close to the top 100
Sam lost in the QF to the finalist Dominik Hrbaty in tight sets, 6-7(5) 4-6.
He previously beat Marsel Ilhan TUR 6-1 6-3, and world no.47 Janko Tipsarevic (SRB,2) 7-6(4) 7-6(3)[this was his 3rd career victory over a top 50 player ].
Awesome, a thread for Sam. Hes from where I'm from, and having talked to him a few times at the WTT matches, he seems like a great guy. Pity to see him lose in the first round this week. Hope he can qualify for Indian Wells thought!
OK, the draw has been released, and in my opinion, Sam got a great one.
He faces Scoville Jenkins in the first round, and if he were to win that, he shall face the winner of Kevin Kim and Vladimir Obradovic.
Cmon Sam!
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