Tucson’s Maddie Pothoff, one of Arizona’s leading teenage tennis players, was sidelined with a back injury from April to July but has restored her reputation quickly. Pothoff, who is home-schooled, won the Girls 16 doubles championship at the Eddie Herr Invitational last week in Bradenton, Fla., defeating the No. 1 and No. 3 seeds in doing so. Pothoff also played her first professional tournament (as an amateur), defeating two pros in Hilton Head Island, S.C., a few weeks earlier. 

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