Adam Ambrozy of St. Petersburg, Fla., defeated Jonathan Medina of Venezuela 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-2 Monday in the final of the wild card tournament at the Tennis Resort at the ESPN Wide World of Sports in Orlando for the Mardy Fish Children’s Foundation Tennis Championships.
The match victory over the former 13-time member of Venezuela’s Davis Cup team, that took an incredible 3 hours and 28 minutes to complete, earns the 18-year-old Ambrozy a main draw wild card entry into the Mardy Fish Children’s Foundation Tennis Championships that starts April 22 at The Boulevard Tennis Club in Vero Beach, Florida.
Ambrozy, who will attend Columbia University in New York City in the Fall, will be playing in only his second “Futures” level professional tournament and will be seeking his first career ATP World Tour ranking. He served for a straight-set victory at 6-5 in the second set, but faltered when trying to close out the title. He quickly lost the second-set tie-breaker 7-3 and was immediately broken in the opening game of the final set. After fighting off break points to go down a double-break in the final set, Ambrozy held serve en route to streaking to win the final six games of the match to close out the incredible victory.
Another American teenager, seventeen-year-old Pietro Rimondini of Boca Raton, Fla., won the other main draw wild card tournament for the Fish Foundation Futures in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
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