Edgar Melik-Stepanyan
There will be plenty of local flavor at the 101st annual Southern
California Tennis Assn. Junior Sectional Championship. Twenty five
area players will play in the prominent tournaments.
Vahe Assadourian and Sam Tadevosian -- who helped the Hoover boys'
tennis team win the CIF Southern Section Division I championship in
2002 -- will be in the 18-year-old main singles draw, which features
32 players and starts Wednesday at the Los Caballeros Sports Village
in Fountain Valley. Their first-round opponents have yet to be
finalized.
Stanley Sarapanich, a 2003 Crescenta Valley graduate, and Tom
McCullough, a 2003 Flintridge Prep grad, will compete in the boys' 18
singles event, which begins Saturday at the Los Caballeros Sports
Village.
McCullough and Sarapanich each have first-round byes.
Glendale residents Jason Caldito, Hovsep Gasamanian and Hakop
Tadevosian will join Sarapanich and McCullough in the 256-player
draw.
Sergy Vagramian, a standout at Hoover in 2002, will be the lone
local representative in the boys' 16 main singles draw. The
second-seeded Vagramian should meet Rasha King Homneyom on Thursday
at the Neal Machander Tennis Center in Santa Ana in a second-round
match.
La Canada Flintridge resident Anand Muthiah, Glendale High
sophomore Mike Youn and Glendale resident Norik Otuzbiryan will also
be in the boys' 16 singles tournament Saturday
Local residents Gregory Blikian, Alex Sarkissian, Edmond Halebian
and Paul Nagapetyan will play in the boys' 14 singles draw Saturday
at Irvine Valley College. Grayson Frazier, a La Canada Flintridge
resident, will be in the boys' 12 draw Saturday at Irvine's Heritage
Park.
Glendale residents Sahak Bazrganian and Alexios Halebian will
compete in the boys' 10 singles draw Saturday at the Neal Machander
Tennis Center.
Katie Sullivan and Lauren Hawthorne, both of whom will be seniors
at CV, will play in the girls' 18 singles tournament Saturday at the
Neal Machander Tennis Center.
Charlotte Guy, a junior at Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy (girls'
16s), Glendale resident Ekaterina Nikolova (girls' 14), and Jessica Harrow, a La Crescenta resident, Sabrina Man-Son-Hing and Sevana
Zargarian (girls' 12) will all take part in their respective
tournaments beginning Saturday.
