Updated at 1:58 p.m., Friday, January 18, 2008
Honolulu's Chris Lam wins second pro tennis title
Advertiser Staff
Honolulu's Chris Lam won his second professional title today, capturing the doubles championship at the $10,000 Extreme Tennis Academy Futures in North Miami Beach, Fla. Lam and partner Chris Wettengel held off Israel's Amit Inbar and India's Rupesh Roy, 6-4, 6-7 (6), and 11-9 in the third-set "super-tiebreaker."Lam and Wettengel lost the first three games of the final, but rallied to win the first set. They were ahead 5-3 in the second and had a match point. Inbar and Roy held on and got to the tiebreaker. Lam and Wettengel had four match points in that, but again couldn't convert, forcing a 10-point USTA Pro Tour "Super-tiebreaker" for the match.
Lam's team got the first four points, lost the next four, then got five in a row to reach match point at 9-4. Inbar and Roy held off five match points to tie it at 9. Finally, Wettengel ripped a winner and aced match point.
Lam, home-schooled here and part of UCLA's NCAA Championship team in college, also won a Pro Tour doubles title last year. He is 2-1 in pro finals.
"I felt a little more uptight in the first final," he said. "This time I felt a little more at ease, relaxed and not too nervous and I felt like I played well today."
