Orange Bowl: Adolfo Daniel Vellejo and Petra Marcinko take the title
Adolfo Daniel Vallejo (Paraguay) and Petra Marcinko (Croatia) won the U18 competition at the legendary Orange Bowl.
by Florian Goosmann
last edit: Dec 13, 2021, 10:37 am
Vallejo beat Bruno Kuzuhara from the USA, who was seeded at two, 6: 2, 6: 3 in the final. Marcinko won against Diana Shnaider from Russia 3: 6, 6: 1, 6: 3.
In the U16 age group, Quang Duong (USA) and Kate Kim (USA) won.
Orange Bowl: Also Roger Federer and Dominic Thiem among the winners
The Orange Bowl is one of the most famous youth competitions, many of the winners later made it to the top of the world. Björn Borg won the U18 class in 1972, Ivan Lendl in 1977, Roger Federer in 1998 - and ten years ago, in 2011, Dominic Thiem won.
In the women’s category, Anna Kournikova (1995), Vera Zvonareva (2000, 2001), Caroline Wozniacki (2005), Bianca Andreescu (2015) and Coco Gauff (2018) won.