There is room at the top of the Boys 18 & 16 Super National Championships. Both Number One seeds, Rajeev Ram of Carmel, IN in the 18s and Sukhwa Young from Wesley Chapel, FL in the 16s, lost their Round of 16 matches on Wednesday.

In the 18s, 9th seed Prakash Amritraj from Encino, CA rode an agressive serve-volley strategy to a 7-6(2), 6-2 victory over top seeded Ram.

In 16s action, top seed Young battled both the heat index that climbed above 100 degrees and the tenth seeded player of Pramod Dabir (Saratoga, CA), eventually succumbing by the score of 7-6(5), 2-6, 6-2.

In other 18s singles action, upsets abounded as 10th seed Lester Cook (Van Nuys, CA) beat 6th seed Jesse Witten (Naples, FL) 7-5, 5-7, 6-1; 13th seed Sam Warburg (Sacramento, CA) upset 4th seed Evan Austin (Naples, FL) 6-1, 1-6, 6-4; and 22nd seed Travis Rettenmaier (Fountain Valley, CA) unseated 12th seed Roger Gubser (Laredo, TX) 6-3, 6-2.

Several top seeds managed to avoid Wednesday's upset bug: 2nd seed Brian Baker (Nashville, TN) beat 15th seed Robert Yim (Glendale, CA) 7-5, 7-6(2); 3rd seed Ytai Abougzir (Naples, FL) defeated 24th seed Drew Hoskins (Los Alamitos, CA) 6-1, 6-3; 5th seed Todd Widom (Coral Springs, FL) bested Chris Kwon (Boca Raton, FL) 6-4, 6-4; and 8th seed Alex Bogomolov (Miami, FL) beat Sean Kelleher (Forty Fort, PA) 6-2, 6-2.

The 16s singles draw was also littered with upsets. Unseeded Scoville Jenkins (Atlanta, GA) defeated 14th seed Juan Carlos Rebaza (Rockville, MD) 6-2, 6-4 and is the only unseeded player in either quarterfinal draw; 15th seed John Isner (Greensboro, NC) out-lasted 8th seed Jarrett Chirico (Bradenton, FL) 4-6, 6-4, 6-2; and 13th seed Jamil Al-Agba (Camarillo, CA) ousted 6th seed Jonathan Howard (Waskom, TX) 6-3, 6-2.

Four favorites in the 16s also advanced: 3rd seed James Wan (Woodbury, NY) defeated 22nd seed Phillip Simmonds (Reston, VA) 6-4, 6-4; 4th seed Brendan Evans (Key Biscayne, FL) topped 26th seed Ryan Rowe (Bettendorf, IA) 7-6(4), 6-3; 5th seed Wayne Odesnik (Weston, FL) beat 20th seed Adam Fass (Parkland, FL) 6-4, 7-5; and 7th seed Justin Montgomery (Oxnard, CA) defeated 9th seed Scott Oudsema (Portage, MI) 7-6(7), 6-2. James Wan, as the third seed, is the highest seed remaining in the draw.

Source: Matt