Krizek And Pierrepont Are Top Seeds In Season-Ending WDSA Wilson Cup  
by Rob Dinerman

Dateline July 24th --- Defending champions Suzie Pierrepont and Narelle Krizek will be headlining an eight-team field at the season-ending second annual Wilson Cup, which begins on Thursday and will be hosted by the Elmaleh/Stanton Center in Southhampton, N. Y. This is a non-ranking event open only to those players who have earned top-16 rankings for their play in the seven ranking WDSA pro women’s doubles tournaments this past season.

   Pierrepont and Krizek, who won the 2010 U. S. National Doubles and took the inaugural Wilson Cup last summer with an exciting five-game final-round win over Natarsha McElhinny and Steph Hewitt, compiled an undefeated 2012-13 slate by winning all three tour stops in which they partnered up, namely in Philadelphia, John’s Island (in Florida) and Chicago. Current U. S. National Doubles champs Hewitt and Dana Betts, whom Pierrepont and Krizek defeated in the finals in John’s Island and Chicago, are the second seeds, followed by third/fourth seeds Emily Lungstrum/McElhinny (who are in the draw’s top half) and Carrie Hastings/Tina Rix, the young British duo reached the semifinals of the recent World Doubles. Amanda Sobhy, who teamed with Natalie Grainger to capture that World Doubles event in New York in April, and her partner Victoria Simonds should give the top seeds a good opening-round test, while Lungstrum and McElhinny will play Alex Clarke and the veteran Canadian Karen Jerome. The bottom-half quarterfinals will pit Hastings and Rix against Philadelphians Dawn Gray and Amy Milanek, with Betts and Hewitt taking on Joyce Davenport and Heidi Mather. The semis will be held on Friday afternoon, with the final scheduled for Saturday at 4 PM.

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