Ronnie Schneider, Cameron Klinger Sweeps Singles and Doubles Titles at USTA Boys’ 16s and 14s Events, Respectively

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., August 15, 2011 – Jack Sock of Lincoln Neb., successfully defended his title at the USTA Boys’ 18s National Championships and Lauren Davis of Gates Mills, Ohio, captured the USTA Girls’ 18s title on Sunday, to earn wild card entries into the men’s and women’s main draws of the 2011 US Open.

The nation’s top junior tennis players competed in eight USTA National Championships across the country last week.  The singles and doubles champions at the USTA Boys’ and Girls’ 18s events are awarded wild card entries into the US Open main draw.  The singles runners-up in the boys’ and girls’ 18s divisions are traditionally offered wild card entries into the US Open Qualifying Tournament.

Sock, 18, who entered the tournament as the No. 1 seed, did not drop a set during the during the event and beat No. 2 seed Mitchell Frank of Annandale, Va., 6-3, 6-0, in the final at Kalamazoo College in Michigan to become the first back-to-back USTA Boys’ 18s National Champion since Donald Young in 2005-06.  Sock, the reigning US Open boys’ champion, also won the doubles title with fellow Nebraskan Jackson Withrow of Omaha, and becomes the first player to sweep the boys’ 18s singles and doubles titles since Young in 2006.