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| 16 Dec 2000 | |
| Orange Bowl Finals Set |
Todor Enev started dreaming of
an
Orange Bowl title on his first trip to Miami as a 13-year old. On Saturday,
the
dream moved one step closer to reality when he beat unseeded Giles Muller,
6-2,
6-0, to advance to the Orange Bowl Boys 18 finals.
The No. 1 seed, who swept
through
the draw by winning every match in two sets, will face Bruno Soares of
Brazil
for the Eddie Herr trophy he has coveted for so long. Soares, the
tournament’s No. 14 seed, beat Mexico’s Bruno Echagaray 6-4,
4-6,
6-3 Saturday to earn the shot at Enev.
In the girls 18s, No. 1 seed
Aniko
Kapros of Hungary was upended by another No. 14 seed—Russian Vera
Zvonareva— in three sets (1-6, 6-2, 6-3) while No. 6 seed Kaia Kanepi
of
Estonia was upset by No. 10 seed Edina Gallovits (7-6 [3], 6-3) of Romania.
Gallovits, who celebrated her 16th birthday on the first day of
the
tournament, is ranked No. 12 in the current ITF rankings and Zvonareva is
No.
19.
Argentina’s Brian Dabul
was a
double winner in the Boys 16s competition: he won the singles title
Saturday
with a 6-2, 6-0 win over France’s Marc Auradou and then the doubles
title
with fellow countryman Juan Monaco. The two beat Togo’s Komlavi Loglo
and
Algeria’s Lamine Ouahab, 6-1, 6-4.
No. 4 seed Marion Bartoli of
France
beat No. 8 seed Daniela Casanova of Switzerland for the Orange Bowl Girls
16s
title.
Enev was the lone No. 1
seed in any division to make the final
at
the 2000 Ericsson Orange Bowl Championships. What makes the 18-year old
Bulgarian so good?
Janko Tipsarevic, an Enev
victim in
the quarterfinals, offers this perspective: “These courts are not so
fast
and he’s a clay court player. He has a solid serve, a perfect return
and
he runs so good. I only had maybe three of four winners in my match against
him. I think he’ll win.”
Singles Finals (Sunday)
Boys 18s Final
Todor Enev (1) vs. Bruno Soares (14)
Girls 18s Final
Edina Gallovits (10) vs. Vera Zvonareva (14)
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