Erica Oosterhout is the only one left, the last unseeded player still alive in either draw of the 12-and-under boys and girls USTA National Open at the Champions Club.
Oosterhout, of Tampa, Fla., advanced to the quarterfinals of the girls’ tournament Sunday with a 7-6 (3), 6-1 win over No. 4 seed Danielle Vines. The first set lasted more than an hour, but Oosterhout made quick work of the second.
“I think that I got my confidence up better,” she said of winning the tough opening set, “and I kind of wore her out a little bit.”
After being the more aggressive player in the first set, which resulted in a lot of winners but also a lot of errors, Oosterhout tweaked her strategy in the second as Vines, of Elizabethton, began to struggle. Vines held her serve to open the second set but didn’t win another game.
“I kind of changed my game plan, because I was trying to go for it more in the first set and I was missing a lot, so I just tried to play consistently in the second set,”said Oosterhout, who will face Alexandra Sanford, a 9 seed, in the quarterfinals this morning.