LEXINGTON, Ky. --- John Isner, former member of the University of Georgia men’s tennis team, won the Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championship Sunday with a come-from-behind 6-7 (9), 6-3, 6-4 victory over Brian Wilson in Lexington. The win marks Isner’s second tournament championship since his collegiate career ended following the Bulldogs’ NCAA Championship in May.

Isner upset three seeded players en route to the championship. He gained entrance into the tournament as a Wild Card and proceeded to defeat No. 8-seeded Kyu Tae Im of Korea in the first round, 6-3, 6-7(4), 6-3. Isner then eased thru his second-round match with a 6-3, 6-4 over Kami Capkovic of France to reach the quarterfinals where he topped the No. 2 seed, Bruno Echagaray of Mexico, 7-6(9), 4-6, 7-6(3). In the semifinals, Isner took down No. 7-seeded Brendan Evans of the United States, 7-6(1), 7-6(3), earning his berth in the final against Wilson, who is another ex-collegian, formerly of Illinois.

The courts in Lexington should have been familiar to Isner for two reasons. They were held on the home courts of the University of Kentucky tennis team, where Isner would have competed at least twice in his collegiate career; and also because the surface is PlexiPave, which is the same surface as UGA’s home courts at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex.

With Isner's recent successes as a first-year professional, he has earned a Wild Card berth into the $600,000 Legg Mason Tennis Classic in Washington, D.C., where he is slated to face Tim Henman of Great Britain in the Round of 64. The tournament’s No. 1 seed is Andy Roddick and the event will be played on hard courts at the William H.G. Fitzgerald Tennis Center. Fans can follow his progress here.

Isner’s first pro tournament crown came in the first event he ever played as a professional, when he captured the USA F14 Futures tournament in Shingle Springs, Calif. in early June.