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Cooper Williams, Andy Murray’s Florida Practice Partner, Earns First ATP Ranking Point In Vero Beach

Randy Walker · April 28, 2022 · Leave a Comment

Cooper Williams, the 17-year-old New Yorker and a recent practice partner of Andy Murray in Orlando, will  face No. 3 seed Sekou Bangoura in Thursday’s 6 pm night match in the second round of the $15,000 Mardy Fish Children’s Foundation Tennis Championships at The Boulevard.

Williams had a memorable Wednesday evening in Vero Beach, defeating Alejandro Franco of Ecuador 7-6 (1), 6-0 to earn his career ATP ranking point. To boot, there to watch the hallmark event was Vero Beach resident and tennis Hall of Famer Ivan Lendl, who now coaches Murray and oversaw the practice sessions with Williams in Orlando.

For Bangoura, his match with Williams will mark his second straight match against an teenage American after beating reigning Easter Bowl champion Alex Mickelsen 4-6 6-3 6-0 in Wednesday’s first round. Bangoura is a former standout at the University of Florida who competed in the main draw of doubles at the U.S. Open in 2010. Bangoura was a singles and doubles finalist at The Boulevard back in 2019.

While Williams was earning his first ATP point on the Grandstand court at The Boulevard with Lendl watching on, two other tennis legends, two-time Olympic gold medalist Mary Joe Fernandez and Roger Federer’s agent Tony Godsick were watching their 17-year-old son Nico play against top-seed Liam Draxl of Canada. Despite being up an early service break, Godsick was unable stage the upset, falling 6-4, 6-3.

Godsick, however, is still alive in doubles with partner Ethan Quinn and will play their doubles quarterfinal not before 3 pm Thursday. Quinn, who is undergoing a redshirt freshman year at the University of Georgia, plays Alex Knaff, a Davis Cup player from Luxembourg, in the second match on Grandstand Thursday. Ryan Shane, the 2015 NCAA singles champion for the University of Virginia, plays former University of Georgia player Emil Reinberg third on stadium Thursday.

Read Harvey Fialkov’s TCPalm story “Vero Beach pros make strong impression at Mardy Fish Children’s Foundation Tennis Championships” here https://www.tcpalm.com/story/sports/2022/04/27/vero-beach-tennis-pros-make-strong-impression-mardy-fish-tourney/9559448002/

View Thursday’s schedule here: https://www.usta.com/content/dam/usta/2022-pro-circuit/20220425_vero_beach_m15/OP.pdf

View the updated singles draw here https://www.usta.com/content/dam/usta/2022-pro-circuit/20220425_vero_beach_m15/MDS.pdf

View the updated doubles draw here

https://www.usta.com/content/dam/usta/2022-pro-circuit/20220425_vero_beach_m15/MDD.pdf
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tennisverobeach TennisVeroBeach @tennisverobeach ·
25 Jan

Nice to see this from the Australian Open on ESPN

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tennispublisher Randy Walker @tennispublisher ·
24 Jan

Yes....Ben Shelton has a big serve....he obliterated our sponsor signage with it at our @VeroFutures when he played our $15,000 Futures event in October of 2021. We had him sign the "fragments" and gave them to Bob Gibb of John's Island Real Estate

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23 Jan

I confront Ben Shelton in his post-match on-court interview at the $15,000 @VeroFutures in October of 2021 about the property he destroyed.... 🤣 https://youtu.be/oonrh9t4osQ via @YouTube

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25 Jan

Looking Back At A Hallmark Event In The Career of Tommy Paul - His First ATP Point (Achieved In Vero Beach, Florida In 2014) https://www.worldtennismagazine.com/archives/21667 via @WorldTennisMag

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tennispublisher Randy Walker @tennispublisher ·
22 Jan

How’s this putt by ⁦@MardyFish⁩ on NBC television?!? (Morgan Pressel, Aaron Krickstein’s niece, is the NBC color commentator)

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