Columbia's Richard and Victor Pham, brothers from Saratoga in the San Francisco Bay Area, lost to wild cards Jeffrey Schorsch and Charlie Emhardt of Valparaiso in Indiana 7-6 (8), 6-3 on Saturday in the semifinals of the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships in Flushing, N.Y.
Schorsch and Emhardt, who ousted top-seeded Filip Bergevi and Florian Lakat of Cal in the second round, will face second-seeded Skander Mansouri and Christian Seraphim of Wake Forest for the men's doubles title today at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center not before 8 a.m. PST.
Seraphim, a junior from Germany, is 6-foot-10 (2.08 meters). Mansouri, a junior from Tunisia, is 6-foot-3 (1.90 meters).
Today's other finals:
--No. 1 seed Mikael Torpegaard, who won the $50,000 Columbus Challenger on his home courts at Ohio State in September, vs. No. 7 Michael Redlicki of Arkansas in men's singles not before 8 a.m.
--No. 1 seed and defending champion Francesco Di Lorenzo of Ohio State vs. No. 4 Hayley Carter of North Carolina in women's singles at 7 a.m.
--Kentucky's Mami Adachi and Aldila Sutjiadi, last year's runners-up to Carter and Whitney Kay, vs. UCLA wild cards Jada Hart and Ena Shibahara, this year's U.S. Open girls doubles champions, in women's doubles at 7 a.m.
All matches will be streamed live.
Veteran journalist Paul Bauman, based in Sacramento, covers Northern California professional, collegiate and junior tennis. Contact him at norcaltennisczar@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter @norcaltenczar.
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