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WATCH; Geoff Chizever and Nick Monroe chat with former world number four James Blake about the clay season as well as his return to the pro tour next week at the Rancho Santa Fe $15,000 Futures in doubles.

Freshmen Ethan Quinn of Georgia and Fangran Tian of UCLA won singles titles in the NCAA tennis tournament on Saturday.

Quinn, a redshirt, rallied to defeat Michigan's Ondrej Styler 6-7 (2), 7-6 (5), 6-2 in Lake Nona, Florida, to become the third Bulldog and fourth-ever freshman to win the singles crown.

Tian became the second Bruin to capture the title, with a 6-4, 6-2 win in Orlando, Florida, over Layne Sleeth, the first Oklahoma player to play in the final match.

Quinn, the first Georgia player to reach the championship since John Isner in 2007, joined two-time Georgia winners Mikael Perfors (1984, 1985) and Matias Boeker (2001, 2002). Quinn, from Fresno, California, faced four match points in the second set before taking control in the third.

Quinn closed the season with 17 straight wins and a 34-10 record.

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Tian, from Beijing, China, didn't drop a set in six matches in Orlando, Florida, to finish the season with a 30-7 record. Keri Phebus won the 1995 title.

In men's doubles, Andrew Lutschaunig and James Trotter of Ohio State defeated Cleeve Harper and Eliot Spizzirri of Texas 6-4, 6-4. It was the second doubles championship for the Buckeyes, the first coming in 2012.

The Ohio State duo beat Harper and Spizzirri twice earlier in the season. Harper won the title last year with Richard Ciamarra, beating the Ohio State team of Matej Vocel and Robert Cash.

The women's doubles championship was an all-North Carolina matchup as Fiona Crawley and Carson Tanguilig defeated teammates Reese Brantmeier and Elizabeth Scott 6-1, 2-6, 11-9. It was the third doubles crown in program history.

Last weekend North Carolina won its first women's team championship and Virginia defended its men's title.