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USCTA Levels – Noll Cup (30-39)
February 3, 2017 - February 5, 2017
by John Lumley
We had a fantastic turnout of 16 players come to Philadelphia for the Noll Cup. Dick Tanfield and Brad Urpsrung had the match of the day on Friday with Tanfield taking it 5/6 6/5 6/4. Each set saw some great rallies and very close exchanges making it a very competitive match. Andrew Dick and Mark Philpott also had a battle out on court for the first round with Dick taking it 6/2 2/6 6/4. Peter Vogt and Charles Katz had a fantastic match with which went down to the wire and ended with Peter Vogt hitting a Dedans to beat chase better 2. Score was 6/4 3/6 6/5 which took Vogt into the semis where he faced Ben Hudson from Boston. They had 2 hard fought sets at 6/4 4/6 but in the final set Hudson kept the pressure up and won it 6/2 to secure his place in the final. On the other side of the draw Morgan Purvis beat Dan Sternberg in two of the closest sets of the tournaments winning 6/5 6/5 to advance Purvis into the semi-finals. There he met Philip Stockton and with good length and change of pace managed to take it 6/4 6/3 to get him into the final vs Hudson.
The crowds were piling in to watch the final between Morgan Purvis & Ben Hudson. Hudson started off very strong taking an early 4-1 lead but Purvis changed up his length and came back to 5 games all. 30 all and Purvis played two great shots to take the first set 6/5! Hudson determined and pumped up from the first set took another early lead to 3-2. Purvis with some fantastic volleys and serving put the pressure back on and ended up winning 6/5 6/4 to take the 2017 Noll Cup Title!