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Erik Sandblom watches his backhand return during
the finals of the Dillingham Grand Prix Tennis
Championships at Punahou tennis courts. Sandblom
won in three sets over Mikael Maatta. He was slated
to compete in the doubles championship as well,
but it was canceled.

Jung upsets
Wenger for title

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Star-Bulletin staff

Nathalia Jung upset top seeded Nina Wenger to win the 49th Dillingham Grand Prix Tennis Championship at Punahou school yesterday.

In a match that lasted just under 3 hours, Wenger took the first set 6-4, only to watch the sixth-seeded Jung come back and win the second and third sets 7-5 and 6-4.

Jung fought her way through the entire draw, beating each of the top three seeds. She fell behind third-seeded Michiko Tanaka before taking the quarterfinal matchup in three sets and was also taken to the limit by second-seeded Sylvia Schenck in the semifinals.

Loni Matsunaga and Fleurete Miranti defeated Vanne Akagi-Bustin and Nicole Sakai to win the doubles.

After sweeping their way through the draw, Matsunaga and Miranti dropped their first set in the final 6-1, but came back to win the next two, 6-4, 6-2.

Sandblom succeeds: On the men's side, third-seeded Eric Sandblom outlasted fifth-seeded Mikael Maatta 6-1, 1-6, 6-3 to win the singles championship.

Sandblom earned the right to play in the championship by upsetting second-seeded Daouda Ndiaye in straight sets 7-5, 6-4. It was the first time Sandblom was challenged.

Sandblom was supposed to play in the doubles championship with Ndiaye right after his win, but the match was called off.

They were supposed to play the team of Chris Leong and Wei Yu Su, which advanced by surviving in three sets over fourth-seeded Maatta and Karl Sloss.

Sandblom and Ndiaye were the top seeds.

Kodama leads Warriors with 2 more top 10s

Sophomore Matt Kodama recorded the Hawaii men's golf team's first top-10 finishes of the season with an eighth place finish at the Fresno Lexus Classic last weekend and another eighth place at the Wolf Pack Classic at Carson City, Nev., yesterday.

At the Wolf Pack Classic, Kodama shot a first-round 69 and finished with a 142. He didn't get much help though, as the Warriors placed 10th in the 16-team tournament.

Hawaii-Hilo finished two shots better than the Warriors, behind Brian Okumura, who tied for 17th with a 144. Teammate Chris Keiter finished a shot back.

Washington State won the team title by three strokes over Denver with a 560.

Host Fresno State took the Lexus Classic team title by more than 40 strokes over second-place Stanford.