Baptist Health Bolo Bash

Jung makes break, moves to championship match

Jason Jung took advantage of the breaks he received Saturday in the semifinals of the Bolo Bash.

Jung broke Eric Quigley's serve in the first set and twice more in the second, with his last snapping a 5-5 tie on his way to a 6-4, 7-5 victory that sent Jung into today's final of the United States Tennis Association Pro Circuit tournament at Pleasant Valley Country Club in Little Rock.

Baptist Health Bolo Bash

A Pleasant Valley Country Club

Saturday’s results

SINGLES

SEMIFINALS

Darian King def. Dane Propoggia, 6-3, 6-2

Jason Jung def. Eric Quigley, 6-4, 7-5

TODAY’S FINAL

King vs. Jung, 1 p.m.

DOUBLES

SEMIFINALS

K. Crowley-Hans Hach def. Bradley Holt-Jordan Parker, 6-2, 6-4

Eric Quigley-Matt Seeburger def. Jesus Bandres-Luis Fernando Ramirez, 7-5, 6-4

TODAY’S FINAL

Crowley-Hack vs. Quigley-Seeburger, noon

Jung, the No. 3 seed, will face No. 4 seed Darian King of Barbados at approximately 1 p.m. today for the title. King defeated Dane Propoggia 6-3, 6-2 in the other semifinal Saturday.

Quigley, 26, was leading 5-4 in the second set before Jung served a love game, including two aces to tie the set. Jung promptly broke Quigley, who hit two volleys into the net and two more long to go up 6-5, then closed out the match with an ace to advance to the final.

"It's always good whenever you break your opponent, and that was a good time to do it," said Jung, 25, of Los Angeles. "I had a couple of lapses in the second set, but it's great to close things out with an ace. When you're right there you want to put a little more on it."

Quigley, who teamed with Jean-Yves Aubone to win last year's doubles championship, said to lose serve at such a critical juncture was too costly to overcome.

"Holding serve is the name of the game," said Quigley, who played at Kentucky and was the 2012 NCAA singles runner-up. "I just wasn't able to do it in big moments. Five-all is always big. You get to 5-all and hold then, you know you have a good chance in a tie-breaker."

The two played even to open the match before Jung's break in the fifth game of the first set. He led 40-15 before the eighth-seeded Quigley took the game to deuce. Quigley survived one break point but couldn't survive the second as Jung took a 3-2 advantage.

Jung lost the first point of the next game but reeled off four consecutive to stake himself to a 4-2 lead. After the two swapped the next three games, Jung raced out to a 40-0 lead before he double faulted, then saw Quigley hit a backhand wide to finish off the set, 6-4.

The second set began with each player breaking serve. Quigley, who won his doubles match later in the afternoon to advance to today's final with Matt Seeberger, got things back on track to go up 2-1 as both held serve the remainder of the set until Jung made his stand to go ahead 6-5.

Jung has not lost a set in four matches this week whereas King has had two of his four matches this week go three sets.

"I think he has got to be pretty tired," Jung said of King. "He's played a lot, but he's a good mover, gets to the ball real fast. I have to be find a way to offset his speed a little."

Sports on 04/19/2015

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