FILA Easter Bowl Boys 14 Top Seed Pawar Takes Charge To Advance in Three Sets, 2024 12s Champion Davletshina Returns Seeking 14s Title; Monday Claims Bakersfield $25K Title; Challenger Title for Nava, Osuigwe Wins W50; Eala Shocks Keys at Miami Open

©Colette Lewis 2025--

Indian Wells CA--

Upsets have been few at the FILA Easter Bowl, with the top four seeds in the 12s and 14s divisions advancing to Monday's round of 16 matches at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden (Boys 14s No. 3 seed Gadin Arun withdrew). But Rafael Pawar, the No. 1 seed in the boys 14s draw, needed three sets to advance over wild card Johan Lee Sunday afternoon when the temperatures had topped out in the mid-90s.

Pawar, who hadn't dropped a game in the first round, found himself down a set when Lee took the tiebreaker 8-6. But the eighth grader from New Jersey made the adjustments he needed and cruised through the final two sets 6-1, 6-0.

"I definitely started attacking more," said Pawar, who is moving to Florida to train next month. "I was hitting a lot of shots off my back foot. He was getting a lot of balls back and doing a really good job of pushing me back. I tried to attack on a lot of balls but he was hitting with a lot of depth and spin countering my game in the first set, but I changed the way I was playing."

Pawar is making his Easter Bowl debut this year, and has never been the No. 1 seed at a USTA Level 1 tournament until this week. 

"It feels great," Pawar said of his position at the top of the draw. "There's definitely some nerves, but I try to push through them and get the dub."

Pawar cited a couple of reasons for not making the trip to Indian Wells in the youngest age division.                                      

"In the 12s, I don't think my ranking was high enough to get in," Pawar said, agreeing that he had improved a lot in the last two years. "Also, I live on the East Coast, so it's a far tournament, across the country."

Pawar will face unseeded Louden Muha in Monday's round of 16.

While Pawar is competing in his first Easter Bowl, 11-year-old Nikol Davletshina is already playing in her third, winning the 12s title last year as a 10-year-old. 

Davletshina added the IMG Academy and Junior Orange Bowl 12s titles to her resume last December, but turned her focus to the 18s division the past two months, winning two Level 5s in Florida, with that jump in divisions part of the reason she isn't seeded this week.

"I was a little bit surprised not be seeded, but not really," said the left-hander from Lake Worth. "I only played 14s a little bit. But some of the seeds, I was very surprised by them."

Davletshina is attempting to complete the back-to-back championships that Raya Kotseva, last week's ITF J300 San Diego finalist, won in the 12s and 14s in 2023 and 2024, although Davletshina is more than a year younger. 

"I'll try to do that, but there's some tough matches, and next match I play a tough opponent," Davletshina said. 

That will be Soo-Ah Byun, who advanced to the third round when Teaghan Jou An Keys retired at 2-6, 7-5.

Top seed Madeline Cleary has yet to lose a game, blanking her first two opponents, but she will be tested Monday, when she faces No. 9 seed Emery Combs. Combs, who reached the Les Petits As semifinals in January, is returning to competition this week after suffering an injury in that semifinal. Although she needed comebacks in each of her wins this weekend, beating Karissa Chang 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 today, Combs will be a formidable test for Cleary.

In the 12s, boys top seed James Borchard defeated Sushant Pothula 6-2, 6-4 to set up a third round match with Jungmin Lee and girls top seed Lucy Dupere beat Summer Yang 6-2, 6-2 to earn a meeting with No. 9 seed Daniella Yogumyan.

The 16s and 18s don't begin until Tuesday, but the draws are now up at the USTA tournament site, with the seeds listed below.

Boys 16s:

1. Safir Azam

2. Alexander Suhanitski

3. Mangus Weng

4. Maddoz Bose

5. Lixing Jiang

6. Joseph Nau

7. Mason Vaughn

8. Tristan Stratton

9. Gurjot Singh

9. Keshav Muthuvel

9. Marcel Latak

9. Rowan Qalbani

9. Sebastian Inaki Godoy

9. Ilias Bouzoubaa

9. Ryan Bedwick

9. Jesse Yang

Girls 16s:

1. Anna Bugaienko

2. Kohana Darroch

3. Carlota Moreno

4. Aarini Bhattacharya

5. Natalie Kha

6. Sophia Budacsek

7. Carolina Castro

8. Anjani Vickneswaran

9. Lyla Messler

9. Kara Garcia

9. Kalista Papadopoulos

9. Whitney Burke

9. Julia Seversen

9. Kavya Kongara

9. Sasha Miroshnichenko

9. Armira Kockinis

Boys 18s:

1. Shaan Patel

2. Drew Fishback

3. Joshua Lamm-Bocharov

4. Nav Dayal

5. Blake Anderson

6. Nicholas Patrick

7. Andre Alcantara

8. Francisco Salmain

9. Nolan Balthazor

9. James Quattro

9. Arnav Bhandari

9. David Wu

9. Winston Wooin Lee

9. Prathinav Chunduru

9. Elliot Wasserman

9. Nathan Germino

Girls 18s:

1. Thara Gowda

2. JoAnna Kennedy

3. Carrie-Anne Hoo

4. Catherine Rennard

5. Chloe Qin

6. Karlin Schock

7. Blair Gill

8. Ashley Kurizaki

9. Nadia Valdez

9. Calla McGill

9. Nicole Weng

9. Emily Deming

9. Reagan Levine

9. Addison Lanton

9. Yilin Chen

The USTA Pro Circuit's $25,000 tournament in Bakersfield California concluded today with Great Britain's Johannus Monday, the former University of Tennessee All-American winning his second $25K title of the year and the sixth since he completed his eligibility last May. The 23-year-old left-hander, seeded No. 1,  defeated No. 6 seed Alex Rybakov(TCU) 6-2, 6-4 in today's final. He is inching closer to Roland Garros qualifying, with his ATP live ranking at a career-high 253.

The doubles title also went to the top seeds, with former Georgia Tech teammates Andres Martin and Keshav Chopra defeating unseeded Ryan Dickerson(Duke, Baylor) and Ty Gentry(Oregon) 1-6, 6-1, 10-6 in the final.

Emilio Nava won his third Challenger title today at the 75 in Paraguay. The unseeded 23-year-old beat four seeds, taking out top seed Thiago Monteiro of Brazil in the final 7-5, 6-3, with his ATP live ranking moving to 204 with the title.

Whitney Osuigwe won her first women's ITF World Tennis Tour title in her third final of the year at the W50 in the Dominican Republic. The 22-year-old from Florida, seeded No. 4, defeated unseeded Ana Sofia Sanchez of Mexico 6-2, 7-5 in the final. Like Nava, Osuigwe is moving back up the rankings and now at 185, will be competing in the Roland Garros qualifying. 

With all the junior tennis I've been covering, I'm falling behind on the Miami Open, but there were several notable results today.

Wild card Alexandra Eala of the Philippines, the 2022 US Open girls champion, followed up her win over Jelena Ostapenko in the first round with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Australian Open champion Madison Keys[5] today. Eala, who turns 20 in May, will play No. 10 seed Paula Badosa next.

One of the players Eala beat in her run to the US Open girls championship was Mirra Andreeva of Russia, who saw her Masters 1000 winning streak snapped today by Amanda Anisimova. Anisimova, the No. 17 seed, defeated No. 11 seed Andreeva 7-6(5), 2-6, 6-3. Anisimova and Jessica Pegula[4] are the Americans remaining in the bottom half of the women's draw, while defending champion Danielle Collins[14], Ashlyn Krueger and Coco Gauff[3] are alive in the top half. 

The top half of the men's draw plays their third round matches Monday, but there are two Americans through to the round of 16 in the bottom half: Sebastian Korda[24] and Brandon Nakashima[31].

Satterfield Claims First ITF J300 Title; Penickova Completes Title Sweep at San Diego North American Regional Championships; Top Seeds Advance in Easter Bowl 12s and 14s

©Colette Lewis 2025--
San Diego CA--

Jack Satterfield earned his first ITF J300 title and Kristina Penickova went one step further than she had last year Saturday in the finals of the ITF J300 North American Regional Championships. The fifth-seeded Satterfield defeated No. 6 seed Jack Secord 6-7(3), 6-2, 6-0, while top seed Penickova dominated unseeded Raya Kotseva 6-1, 6-1.

The week of sunshine and cool temperatures extended another day, although there was a new twist to the atmosphere at the Barnes Tennis Center Saturday morning as a host of junior players and their families, who were competing in a USTA Level 4 event for all four age divisions, provided an appreciative audience around Stadium Court.

The first set of the boys final was a riveting one, although the nerves were obvious as both competed for their first J300 title. After Secord held to open the match, the next four games were breaks of serve, with Secord surrendering his advantage when broken at love serving at 3-1. As the jitters subsided, service holds became the norm, with seven holds sending the set to a tiebreaker. 

Secord brought his best level to the tiebreaker, hitting three winners and a good first serve to go up 6-3. After 65 minutes of tennis, Satterfield missed a forehand long on Secord's first set point, but he showed no signs of being discouraged or frustrated. 

"At first we were missing some balls we usually don't miss, but at the end it got high level," said Satterfield, a 17-year-old from Northern California, who lives and trains in Florida. "In the breaker, he played too good, but I thought if I stayed steady and stayed solid, he was going to break down. I saw he was getting a little tired and I knew he had something wrong with his shin--he's been dealing with it for a couple of weeks--so I knew if I kept grinding away he'd break down, so that's why I stayed confident for the second."

Satterfield credited his first serve with his fast start in the second set, with the Vanderbilt signee taking a 4-0 lead.

"I got so many free points off my serve and my serve and plus-ones," said Satterfield, who is coached by Sukhwa Young at Eric Dobsha Tennis in Tampa. "It's such a game changer, when you're starting out 30-0 in every game you serve."

Although Satterfield was broken serving for the second set at 4-0 and 5-2, Secord was unable to put a sustained run together, with the 16-year-old left-hander from Illinois unable to hold serve in the last two sets. As the third set unfolded, Secord, who had received a walkover to the semifinals and a retirement to advance to the final, looked like the right leg injury he had been nursing all week was worsening.

"Definitely when he was sliding back and forth I could see he was a little off balance, a little shaky," said Satterfield, who played excellent defense to prolong many rallies. "My plan was to just keep moving him side to side and I knew I could go behind him or change direction, and that was working well."

Secord started the third set positively, getting Satterfield in a 0-40 hole in the opening game, but Satterfield won the next five points to hold, then immediately broke Secord, who began to struggle mightily with his forehand. 

"I tried to bring it back in the third set, but he got that first game and he had the momentum and it was tough to bounce back," said Secord, who is coached by his grandfather Steve Wild. 

"He played well the whole match really. He's tough; you've got to bring it every point with him and he really didn't give me a lapse mentally at all."

Secord was not offering his leg injury as a reason for his decline in level in the final two sets.

"I was struggling with some minor things, nothing crazy," Secord said. "It wasn't like I couldn't bring my level today. But props to Jack, he played pretty well."

Although he didn't play as well as he would have liked in the third set, Secord did enjoy having an audience of junior players for the finals.

"I'm glad that they got to watch," Secord said. "It's fun that people would watch me, because I've always watched the older players."

Satterfield confessed that he was motivated by the spectators, which aren't always present at junior finals.

"It was super cool, I really wanted to put on a show and play my best tennis for them," said Satterfield, who lost his only set of the week in the final. "With so many matches going on with the L4, I wanted to impress the parents and kids. Hopefully they knew this wasn't an L4 match, but something higher," Satterfield joked.

With the title Satterfield has secured entry into this summer's junior slams, a goal for nearly every American junior in this two-week Southern California hard court swing.

"That was a massive goal," said Satterfield, who reached the quarterfinals at Indian Wells. "If I didn't do well in this tournament, I was going to go to a 200 in Canada to hopefully to secure Wimbledon and the French, but now I don't have to go, which I'm so happy about."

The girls final that followed took less time than the first set of the boys championship match, with Penickova at the top of her game. After expressing disappointment with her level after her 6-7(1), 6-3, 7-6(4) semifinal win over Zaire Clarke, Penickova re-calibrated for her first meeting with Kotseva.

"Definitely today was a lot better," said the 15-year-old from California, who trains in Florida with the USTA. "I was hitting the ball a lot better and I was focused a little better. In the more important moments, I came out on top."

Kotseva, playing in her first J300 final, did not have a game point in the first set until she had already had saved two set points serving at 0-5. She held that game, and had two break points in Penickova's service game, but Penickova held to take the 29-minute first set. 

Kotseva began to play better at the close of the first and to start the second but Penickova never felt threatened, even as Kotseva's level improved.

"I was just really confident in my game and that I was going to be able to stay in those rallies, outplay her a little bit," said Penickova, who stepped up her serving performance dramatically in the finals, both in first serve percentage and pace. "I was confident that I had a better game than her, was willing to stay in the point a little more, so her game wasn't going to bother me as much."

Penickova could see a little of herself a year ago in Kotseva, who at 14, was the same age as Penickova when she lost 6-3, 6-2 in the final to Iva Jovic.

"She's a great player and getting to the finals at her age is amazing," said Penickova, the 2025 Australian Open girls finalist. "Last year was definitely tough against Iva, she's insane, so I'm definitely happy to win it this time."

Kotseva admitted that Penickova's power was too much to overcome.

"Her shots, they have so much power in them it's actually very hard to change the rhythm, even get them back faster," said Kotseva, who is well-versed in that game style. "Her serve is very good and her forehand is incredible, I don't know how she does it."

Kotseva, who won the 14s Easter Bowl last year and the 12s Easter Bowl title the year before, is accustomed to big stages, and wasn't willing to blame the occasion for her slow start.

"There is nerves, but really, I was just excited to play," Kotseva said. "She started out very strong and didn't give me any time to change the rhythm, change my attitude. I could have done better, but it's ok, she played great."

Kotseva isn't sure what her schedule will be this spring and summer, but she'll return home to Las Vegas before her next event.  

Penickova is expected to be named to the USA's Junior Billie Jean King Cup team for April's Regional Qualifying in Canada, and is also planning to return to the European clay, where she reached the Roland Garros semifinals last year.

"I'll be going to Europe in April, maybe two weeks, and then definitely French and all those," Penickova said.

After a disappointing second round loss at Indian Wells two weeks ago, Penickova ended the California hard court swing on a high note, winning the doubles title with her twin sister Annika on Friday and claiming her second ITF J300 title Saturday.

The Easter Bowl 12s and 14s played their first round matches today, and are scheduled to play the second round on Sunday. Only a few top eight seeds lost, with most of the seeds eliminated in the 9-16 category.  

Boys 12s

1. James Borchard

2. Evan Fan

3. Udham Singh

4. Jason Ye

5. William McGugin

6. Keita Iwata

7. Chris Deng

8. Olie Rosa Hall (out rd 1)

9. Ayaan Bangera (out rd 1)

9. Gabriel Marino

9. Haris Shahbaz

9. Keita Iida

9. David Benedict

9. Thomas Gamble

9. Mateo Vincens

9. Pranav Madamanchi 

Girls 12s

1. Lucy Dupere

2. Gabrielle Alexa Villegas

3. Violetta Mamina

4. Danielle Han

5. Kareena Cross

6. Mila Mikoczi Spivey

7. Brielle Amey (out rd 1)

8. Inie Toll

9. Daniella Yogumyan

9. Ocie Barran (out rd 1)

9. Emma Li

9. Nicole Blanco

9. Angelina Zhang

9. Victoria Park

9. Grace Malhotra

9. Sofia Cannon

Boys 14s 

1. Rafael Pawar

2. Aayush Vartak

3. Gadin Arun

4. Mason Menyhart

5. Dylan Meineke

6. Zesen Wang

7. Joshua Dolinsky

8. Arjun Krishnan

9. Ved Vanga (out rd 1)

9. Smyan Vijay

9. Carter Jauffret

9. Manas Kondapalli

9. Asher Yuan (out rd 1)

9. Connor Feehan

9. Joseph Kim

9. Jason Eigbedion

Girls 14s

1. Madeline Cleary

2. Olivia Lin

3. Allison Wang

4. Anna Scott Laney

5. Shristi Selvan (out rd 1)

6. Daniela del Mastro

7. London Evans

8. Ania Zabost

9. Emery Combs 

9. Molly Widlansky

9. Anya Arora

9. Kathryn Cragg

9. Sofia Kedrin (out rd 1)

9. Abigail Haile

9. Tanvi Pandey

9. Natalie Frisbie

The draws, with times for Saturday, are available at the USTA tournament website.

ITF J300 Indian Wells Recap; Penickova Returns to San Diego Final via Third Set Tiebreaker, Secord and Satterfield Meet Again, Doubles Champions Crowned; Seeds for Saturday's USTA L1 Easter Bowl 12s and 14s; Leach, Svajda Fall in Bakersfield $25K

©Colette Lewis 2025--
San Diego CA--

Before starting my report on Friday's singles semifinals and doubles finals at the ITF J300 North American Regional Championships in San Diego, you can read my recap of last week's Americans' sweep of the ITF J300 FILA International Championships titles at Indian Wells. If you weren't able to follow my daily coverage, this provides an overview of the runs to the singles titles by Jagger Leach and Julieta Pareja and the doubles championships won by Leach and Noah Johnston and Leena Friedman and Thea Frodin.

On another sunny and cool day at the Barnes Tennis Center, top seed Kristina Penickova and unseeded Zaire Clarke provided the heat, with Penickova advancing to the San Diego final for the second straight year with a heart-stopping 6-7(1), 6-3, 7-6(4) victory.

The two 15-year-olds didn't hold back in any rally, with both hitting with great depth and pace. Down a set and at 3-3 in the second, Penickova, No. 3 in the ITF junior rankings, found another gear to force a third set, and went up 4-1 in the second. But Clarke, No. 171 in the ITF junior rankings, was not ready to concede, even when Penickova saved five break points to take a 5-2 lead. 

Clarke held to force Penickova to serve it out, using the change of pace of two consecutive drop shot winners to bring it to 30-all. An unforced forehand error from Clarke, and I used the term loosely, as nearly every error was the result of a lengthy rally with both girls going at full blast, gave Penickova her first match point, but she just missed a forehand. She missed out on a second match point with a netted forehand, unusually early in the point, and when Clarke bombed a backhand winner to earn a break point, Penickova showed some nerves, double faulting for 5-4.

Clarke played a confident game in a tense position holding for 5-all and had four break points in the next game, but Penickova fought off each one, with Clarke especially frustrated when her drop shot didn't clear the net on the fourth. Penickova held on her first game point, and Clarke again had to serve to stay in the match. 

Down 15-40, Clarke saved those two match points and one more, continuing to hit boldly despite the precarity of her situation. Penickova was frustrated by her inability to return Clarke's second serve, of which there were many in that game, and Clarke held to force the tiebreaker.

In the tiebreaker, Clarke missed a couple of backhands, but steadied herself to keep within range, trailing 4-2 at the change of ends. Penickova hit a good second serve for a 5-3 lead and earned three more match points, when Clarke's backhand went wide, but Clarke saved her sixth match point with a drop shot lob combination. Clarke struck a good first serve on match point No. 7, but Penickova's return was better to end the three-hour battle.

"Not my best performance, but I was happy to get through it," Penickova said. "The most important thing was that I didn't go away. She was playing really well, serving amazing, playing amazing, so I have to give that to her. I wasn't too happy with the calls from the ref, so that might have thrown me off a little, but I'm proud of myself for fighting. And to be in the finals again, it feels really good."

Penickova, who won two third set tiebreakers from a set down in her first two matches en route to the Australian Open girls final, admitted all those match points took a toll.

"I had definitely so many, so many chances, six match points, that's obviously a little tough to take," Penickova said. "But the world doesn't end, you just move on. You try to forget about it, think about it after the match, but it that moment you have to literally pretend it never happened."

Penickova had a disappointing second round loss as the top seed last week at Indian Wells, but was optimistic coming to San Diego.

"These courts are definitely faster (than Indian Wells) and I'd say it suits my game a little bit better," said Penickova, who lost in the first round of Indian Wells last year but then went on to reach the final, losing to Iva Jovic. "So even from last year, I kind of had that experience, came into this, reset, still really confident because that was just one bad match, and I knew from last year the courts were a little bit better for my game."

Penickova will face another unseeded player for the title, and one even younger than she is, after 14-year-old Raya Kostseva defeated No. 5 seed Capucine Jauffret 6-2, 6-1, a semifinal nearly two hours shorter than Penickova's. 

Kosteva, who will be playing in her first J300 final after coming from 6-1 down in a third set tiebreaker in her first round win over Calla McGill, wasn't prepared for a run like this.

"I didn't expect to go this far, at all," said the right-hander from Las Vegas, who has beaten four seeds since that first round escape, the last three in straight sets. "I beat players that I did not expect to beat that easily; I expected to go to a third set, maybe lose, maybe win, just go out there and try my best, but I'm very proud of my performance so far."

Jauffret had beaten Kotseva 6-1, 6-3 in the second round of the J300 in Costa Rica in January, although she had previously posted a win over Jauffret last fall in the J300 in Houston.

"Everything was different," Kotseva said. "In Costa Rica I was not in my best form, I wasn't feeling my best, my strokes weren't there, nothing was there really. But today, I really focused and went out there and everything was perfect almost. I believed in myself in Houston, but here, I believe in myself even more, am more confident even."

Kosteva and Penickova have not played, although Kotseva lost to her twin sister Annika in the Houston quarterfinals.

The boys semifinals were completed quickly, with top seed and Australian Open finalist Ben Willwerth retiring with a hip injury trailing No. 6 seed Jack Secord 5-2 in the first set. Secord, not one hundred percent physically himself, received a walkover into the semifinals from No. 4 seed Maximus Dussault and is now in his second J300 final after today's retirement.

"It's funny, I don't know how life works, but two defaults is a little crazy," said the 16-year-old left-hander from Illinois, who is playing with a compression sleeve on his right leg. "I hurt it my match with Ronit (Karki) in Indian Wells, and I've been struggling with it a little bit. They just said to rest, not play any tennis, which is not the time I wanted to hear that."

Secord, who reached his first J300 final in Colombia in January, was not optimistic coming into San Diego.

"It's a little crazy, I was thinking about not even playing the tournament actually," Secord said. "It's a definitely a blessing that I get to be in the final, even with my leg."

Secord will play No. 5 seed Jack Satterfield, who beat No. 8 seed Lachlan Gaskell 6-4, 6-2. With their last meeting in May of 2024 decided in Satterfield's favor 6-4 in the third, a straight-sets victory wasn't what Satterfield expected.

"At the end of the second set, he definitely got pretty tired," said Satterfield, a 17-year-old from Florida. "It was a complete grind. Usually he goes a lot bigger on his forehand, and I like that because I deflect it pretty well, so I think he was trying to play a little more patient this time. It was working but I don't think he was used to it. I was moving him a lot, so I think he got pretty tired, so he kind of quit in the second."

Secord and Satterfield played recently in the semifinals of the J300 in Colombia, with unusual circumstances leading to a win for Secord. After Satterfield had won a second set tiebreaker to force a third, he took a toilet break, and because he took a shower during that break, he was defaulted, giving Secord a 3-6, 7-6(3) victory.

Their previous major final was at the 2023 Eddie Herr, with Secord winning the 16s title with a tense 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 victory that featured great play from both.

"Every time we've played it's been a close third set," Satterfield said. "We were playing in Colombia and we couldn't finish the match. It was a great match and we were going into a third there, so I'm just excited to play him. Every time we have battles. And he's a great kid, so it's fun to play a good guy. I've lost two semis so far in South America, so I really wanted to get past this one. I'm excited."

The boys doubles final went the way of the newly formed team of Michael Antonius and Roshan Santhosh, with the No. 6 seeds defeating No. 5 seeds Simon Caldwell and Gavin Goode 6-4, 7-6(9).

Santhosh reached out to Antonius a few weeks ago, looking for a partner and Antonius was a quick yes.

"I thought we would be a good team," said Antonius, a 15-year-old from New York. "I've seen his hands before and they're just so smooth at the net, with his drop volleys and his lobs, they're unbelievable. We both had the shots, it was just how it would play out."

Santhosh and Antonius had survived a match tiebreaker in the semifinals, defeating unseeded Justin Riley Anson and Tyler Lee 2-6, 6-2, 10-7, so they weren't stressed when Santhosh was unable to serve out the match at 5-3. Goode was broken serving for the set at 6-5, and Santhosh pointed to that as a key to their win.

"They stepped it up, and the 6-5 game was the turning point," said Santhosh, a 16-year-old from California. "We played a solid match, but finishing it out got a bit tight at the end, the nerves and all that."

The subsequent tiebreaker was 6-6 at the second change of ends, after Antonius and Santhosh had saved a set point. They earned match points at 7-6 and 8-7, but failed to convert and Caldwell and Goode had another set point, on serve, but lost it, and after a double fault and a backhand wide, Santhosh and Antonius had claimed their first J300 title.

"Knowing we would have another chance (in a match tiebreaker) and that was their final attempt made it so we could play loose," Antonius said. "Sometimes I think it was too loose, at 5-3 maybe too casual, but it helped us in the tiebreaker to play some good shots and to stay solid."

The pair don't have any tournaments together coming up, but hope to play together again soon.

"If we're playing in the same tournament, we'll probably be playing doubles," Santhosh said. "Our schedules are different right now, but we'll definitely reach out to each other in another tournament," Antonius said.

The girls champions are undefeated as a doubles team this year, with top seeds Kristina and Annika Penickova, the Australian Open girls doubles champions winning their third title of 2025 with a 6-7(5), 6-2, 10-7 victory over No. 7 seeds Isabelle DeLuccia and Anita Tu.

The Penickovas, who now have ten ITF Junior Circuit titles together, insist they don't expect to win every event, despite adding this title to those at the J300 and junior slam in Australia in January.

"It's obviously amazing that we can play this well and keep winning, but you do expect to lose at some point," Kristina said. "You don't expect to win every tournament. It's great that we are, but..."  

"It's definitely a goal that you have for every tournament and when it's going great, it's going great," said Annika, the left-hander in the partnership. "You're not surprised by the losses, you accept them and move on, but that hasn't been the case this year so far, so that's good."

After losing the first set, the Penickovas made several adjustments.

"We were definitely more aggressive and were more active at the net," Kristina said. "I think we started reading them a bit better, adjusting a little in that sense, and started serving better as well, getting more free points with our serves. We played smarter and started to do more damage with our ground strokes as well."

Annika noted that their experience as a team goes much deeper than just matches played together.

"We just know each other really well, we're siblings, and have a little bit of like the doubles telepathy," Annika said. "We know what the other is going to do, how to they are going to react, what to anticipate, what they're going to hit, so I think that gives us a big advantage. We're just used to it."

Championship Saturday will begin with the boys final at 10 a.m. Pacific, followed by the girls final, not before noon.

The Easter Bowl begins Saturday for the 12s and 14s division at various locations in the Coachella Valley. The seeds are below; draws can be found here.

Boys 12s

1.James Borchard

2. Evan Fan

3. Udham Singh

4. Jason Ye

5. William McGugin

6. Keita Iwata

7. Chris Deng

8. Olie Rosa Hall

9. Ayaan Bangera

9. Gabriel Marino

9. Haris Shahbaz

9. Keita Iida

9. David Benedict

9. Thomas Gamble

9. Mateo Vincens

9. Pranav Madamanchi 

Girls 12s

1. Lucy Dupere

2. Gabrielle Alexa Villegas

3. Violetta Mamina

4. Danielle Han

5. Kareena Cross

6. Mila Mikoczi Spivey

7. Brielle Amey

8. Inie Toll

9. Daniella Yogumyan

9. Ocie Barran

9. Emma Li

9. Nicole Blanco

9. Angelina Zhang

9. Victoria Park

9. Grace Malhotra

9. Sofia Cannon

Boys 14s 

1. Rafael Pawar

2. Aayush Vartak

3. Gadin Arun

4. Mason Menyhart

5. Dylan Meineke

6. Zesen Wang

7. Joshua Dolinsky

8. Arjun Krishnan

9. Ved Vanga

9. Smyan Vijay

9. Carter Jauffret

9. Manas Kondapalli

9. Asher Yuan

9. Connor Feehan

9. Joseph Kim

9. Jason Eigbedion

Girls 14s

1. Madeline Cleary

2. Olivia Lin

3. Allison Wang

4. Anna Scott Laney

5. Shristi Selvan

6. Daniela del Mastro

7. London Evans

8. Ania Zabost

9. Emery Combs 

9. Molly Widlansky

9. Anya Arora

9. Kathryn Cragg

9. Sofia Kedrin

9. Abigail Haile

9. Tanvi Pandey

9. Natalie Frisbie

At the men's $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit tournament in Bakersfield California, wild card Jagger Leach's winning streak came to an end in the quarterfinals, with the future TCU Horned Frog losing to former TCU All American Alex Rybakov 6-1, 7-6(3). No. 7 seed Trevor Svajda, the SMU sophomore, lost to top seed Johannus Monday(Tennessee) of Great Britain 7-6(3), 2-6, 6-1.

Second Seeds Fall in Quarterfinals, Doubles Finals Set for Friday at ITF J300 North American Regional Championships; Leach Reaches First Pro Circuit Quarterfinal in Bakerfield $25K; Krueger Defeats Rybakina at Miami Open

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San Diego CA--

Top seeds Kristina Penickova and Benjamin Willwerth have advanced one step closer to their first final since the 2025 Australian Open Junior Championships, but No. 2 seeds Annika Penickova and Noah Johnston saw their hopes for an ITF J300 North American Regional Championships title ended on a clear and cool day at the Barnes Tennis Center.

Penickova, a finalist at this tournament a year ago, defeated unseeded Maggie Sohns 6-1, 6-4 and will play fellow 15-year-old Zaire Clarke, who eliminated seeded opponent number three this week with a 6-1, 6-2 win over No. 9 Ishika Ashar.

No. 5 seed Capucine Jauffret boasted a 2-0 record against Annika Penickova, but both those matches were back in 2023. The 17-year-old from Delaware conceded that Penickova had improved substantially since then, but Jauffret kept her record unblemished with a 1-6, 6-4, 6-4 win today.

Jauffret knew better than to attempt to trade ground strokes with Penickova, with the 15-year-old left-hander possessing the power advantage, so she made the necessary strategy shift after the first set.

"She was playing really well in the first set, but I had to take a step back and reset, take my time and change the heights a little bit more," said Jauffret, who has verbally committed to Florida for 2026. "I couldn't give her as much pace as she wanted. We practice a lot, we're really close friends, and I'm used to that pace, but in a match you're a little bit tighter so I do think (the less aggressive tactics) were a surprise. I had to stay really patient against her, be willing to just run side to side. I think I have the advantage in movement, so I just did what I could to find a way to win."

Jauffret went up 4-2 in the final set, but Penickova fought back to break and then hold, with rallies in that lengthy eighth game primarily ending with either a Penickova forehand winner or unforced error.

Jauffret held a long game of her own to take a 5-4 lead, and Penickova then went up 40-0, but she wouldn't win another point, with Jauffret refusing to miss and anticipating every target, eventually getting two unforced errors from the Penickova backhand to claim the victory and reach her second J300 semifinal.

She will face 14-year-old Raya Kotseva, who advanced to her first J300 semifinal with a 7-5, 6-3 win over No. 17 seed Kenzie Nguyen. Jauffret and Kotseva have split their previous two meetings, with Jauffret winning the most recent, in the second round of the J300 in Costa Rica in January, while Kotseva won their second round encounter at the J300 in Houston last fall.

Only three boys quarterfinals were played Thursday, with No. 6 seed Jack Secord advancing via a walkover from No. 4 seed Maximus Dussault, who suffered a foot injury in his third round win over Michael Antonius.  Secord's opponent is Willwerth, who overcame No. 7 seed Ronit Karki 6-2, 2-6, 6-4. 

Today was the first day with chair umpires, and Willwerth conceded a half a dozen calls to Karki, including two in a six-deuce game with Karki serving to stay in the match at 3-5. Karki saved six match points in that game with some good serving, while also receiving some unforced errors from Willwerth. But Willwerth ended the drama quickly serving at 5-4, hitting two aces, getting a backhand error from Karki and converting his seventh match point with an excellent forehand volley.

Willwerth defeated Secord 6-4, 6-1 in their only meeting on the ITF Junior Circuit, in the second round of a J200 in Mexico last June. 

There was no such drama in No. 8 seed Lachlan Gaskell's win over Johnston, with Gaskell taking the battle of the left-handers 6-2, 6-1.

Gaskell had complicated his 7-5, 4-6, 6-2 win over Agassi Rusher in Wednesday's third round, and he was determined not to do that again.

"I closed it out better today," said the 17-year-old from Florida. "I was up in two of the sets yesterday a lot and he came back, 5-1 in the first set, which I won 7-5. Today, I closed out the first set well today and ran with the confidence."

Gaskell, who had won only four matches in six ITF Junior Circuit events this year, didn't anticipate reaching his first J300 semifinal this week.

"Honestly I haven't had a great year, so I wasn't really expecting much from this tournament," said Gaskell, who has verbally committed to North Carolina for 2026. "This morning I was just like, fine with going home today. But I played a good match and I'm happy to keep playing. I don't think he played his best, but I kind of dominated the match and played with a lot of confidence, played really tight tennis and that's the reason he played a little worse."

Gaskell will face No. 5 seed Jack Satterfield, who avenged his loss in a third set tiebreaker last fall at the ITF J300 Houston to No. 3 seed Ryan Cozad, 6-3, 6-2.

"That was a great match and I learned a lot from it," said the 17-year-old from Florida, who has signed with Vanderbilt for this fall. "I was up 5-3 in the third serving, so losing that one was tough. I was really nervous at the end of the second in this one, because I was scared I was going to choke again, but I got through it. I played really well."

Satterfield is looking forward to another meeting with Gaskell.

"I've played Lachlan many times, we're good friends," said Satterfield, who will be playing in his third J300 semifinal this year. "I think we're probably something like 3 and 3. Last time we played it was at the (May 2024) J100 Plantation semis and I won that 6-4 in the third. It's always a battle with him, we have great matches."

The doubles champions will be crowned Friday, with the top seeded Penickova sisters facing No. 7 seeds Isabelle DeLuccia and Anita Tu for the girls title.

The Penickova twins defeated unseeded Camille Allegre and Ciara Harding 6-2, 6-0, while DeLuccia and Tu beat No. 5 seeds Ishika Ashar and Ligaya Murray 6-3, 6-2.

The boys doubles final will feature No. 6 seeds Michael Antonius and Roshan Santhosh, who came back to beat unseeded Tyler Lee and Justin Riley Anson 2-6, 6-2, 10-7, and No. 5 seeds Gavin Goode and Simon Caldwell, who defeated the unseeded team of Connor Plunkett and Zen Uehling 6-4, 6-3.

Jagger Leach has reached his first USTA Pro Circuit quarterfinal, with the ITF J300 Indian Wells champion advancing to the final eight at the $25,000 in Bakersfield California. Leach defeated fellow wild card Andy Nguyen, a sophomore at UC-Irvine, 7-5, 2-6, 6-2. Leach, a future TCU Horned Frog, will play former TCU All-American Alex Rybakov, the No. 6 seed, in the quarterfinals.

No. 7 seed Trevor Svajda, a sophomore at SMU, advanced to the quarterfinals and will play top seed Johannus Monday(Tennessee) of Great Britain Friday.

American women had another great day at the Miami Open, with Ashlyn Krueger defeating No. 7 seed Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan 6-4, 2-6, 6-4; qualifier Taylor Townsend beating No. 19 seed Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan 7-6(2), 1-6, 6-1; Coco Gauff[3] blanking Sofia Kenin 6-0, 6-0; wild card Hailey Baptiste defeating No. 12 seed Daria Kasatkina of Russia 3-6, 6-4, 7-5 and Danielle Collins(Virgina)[14] beating Sorana Cirstea of Romania 6-4, 7-6(3). All are through to the third round.

Only one US man got a first round win today, with Reilly Opelka defeating wild card Chris Eubanks(Georgia Tech) 6-3, 7-6(4).  Learner Tien(USC) lost to Joao Fonseca of Brazil 6-7(1), 6-3, 6-4.

Friday's order of play is here.

Top Eight Boys Seeds Reach San Diego ITF J300 Quarterfinals, but Injury Claims No. 4 Seed, Sohns Saves Match Points to Advance to Second Straight J300 Quarterfinal; Leach Beats No. 2 Seed at Bakersfield $25K; Spizzirri Wins Miami Open First Round

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San Diego CA--

Last week at the ITF J300 at Indian Wells, seven of the top eight boys seeds, all of them Americans, reached the quarterfinals. This week at the ITF J300 North American Regional Championships, which is restricted to juniors from the United States and Canada, all eight boys seeds advanced to the final eight, but one will not play in Thursday's quarterfinals.

No. 4 seed Maximus Dussault suffered a foot injury in his 7-6(5), 6-3 win over unseeded Michael Antonius and immediately withdrew from doubles. A few hours later, he withdrew from singles, giving No. 6 seed Jack Secord a walkover into Friday's semifinal. Secord defeated No. 12 seed Roshan Santhosh 6-4, 6-4.

Top seed Benjamin Willwerth defeated doubles partner Jacob Olar 7-5, 6-1 in their third round match, and Olar was unable to complete their doubles quarterfinal match, retiring at 7-6(5), 1-0 to give unseeded Connor Plunkett and Zen Uehling a spot in the semifinals. Willwerth will play No. 7 Ronit Karki, who survived a tough second set to beat unseeded Tanishk Konduri 6-2, 7-5. Willwerth beat Karki 6-3, 6-3 in the third round of the Pan American J300 in Houston last fall.

No. 5 seed Jack Satterfield breezed past No. 10 seed Matisse Farzam 6-2, 6-0 to set up another meeting with No. 3 seed Ryan Cozad, who beat unseeded Sklar Phillips 6-4, 6-1. Cozad defeated Satterfield in the second round in the Pan American J300 6-3, 1-6, 7-6(4). 

The only two boys to go three sets will play in the bottom quarterfinal, with No. 8 Lachlan Gaskell defeating unseeded Agassi Rusher 7-5, 4-6, 6-2 and No. 2 Noah Johnston getting past No. 16 seed Andrew Johnson 6-2, 4-6, 6-3.

"It was a battle," Johnston said. "Andrew is a sneaky player, crafty little guy. A lot of respect to him. I was up 6-2, 4-2 but he kept battling. I never felt I could breathe properly. Conditions were tough today, a lot of wind, and it was tough to hold serve."

Johnston said he had to make several strategic adjustments during the match against the 15-year-old, who he had just faced in the Indian Wells J300 doubles final on Sunday.

"He was never going to make a lot of mistakes," said Johnston, a 17-year-old left-hander from South Carolina. "I had to change my game plan throughout the match. The first set I was playing more of my game, but in the second set, he stepped it up, respect to him. I then changed to be a little more passive, let him step forward and that's eventually what got me through it. And fighting with all my heart."

After Johnson took the final four games of the second set, Johnston broke to open the third, but gave that break back with a series of unforced errors serving at 3-2.  But he immediately broke Johnson again, and that seemed to unnerve the Southern Californian, who began taking much more aggressive swings and not connecting. Johnston held from 0-30 down, then broke at 15-40 to secure the win.

Although Johnston and Gaskell haven't played on the ITF Junior Circuit, Johnston remembers their first meeting. 

"My first match against him was the 12s National Hard Courts," Johnston said. "First round, it went 6-4 in the third, I remember, a great match. But I haven't played him in a while, so I'm excited and looking forward to it."

Top seed Kristina Penickova needed nearly three hours to eliminate the last wild card still competing, Tianmei Wang, 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-3. The Australian Open finalist, who lost her first match last week in Indian Wells, trailed 2-0 in the final set before taking the next four games. Wang stopped that momentum with a hold from 0-40 down at 2-4 but she couldn't put enough sustained pressure on Penickova in the next game, which went to two deuces, but ended with Penickova holding for 5-3.

Wang saved two match points serving at 3-5, and had a game point, but a double fault and an unforced error gave Penickova a third chance, and she converted it when her forehand forced an error.

Penickova, who reached the final here last year, falling to Iva Jovic, will face fellow 15-year-old Maggie Sohns, who spent more than three hours on court in her dramatic 6-2, 6-7(4), 7-5 win over No. 12 seed Anita Tu.

"In the second set I had match points and in the third set she had match points, six or seven, something like that, a lot of them," said the unseeded Sohns, who saved those match points serving at 4-5 in the third. "Then I got some good points and then kind of had the momentum going into the 5-all game. So I think I did a good job of closing it out when I had my opportunities instead of getting tight and decelerating."

With back-to-back quarterfinals, Sohns is pleased with her tennis, and is looking forward to playing Penickova, who she has trained with in Orlando, but never played.

"She's a great player and I'm excited to play against her," Sohn said.

Another unseeded player in the quarterfinals who has saved match points in getting there is 14-year-old Raya Kotseva, who came from 6-1 down in the third set tiebreaker to win her first round match. No such heroics were necessary today, with Kotseva defeating No. 8 seed Ava Rodriguez 6-2, 6-3. She will play No. 17 seed Kenzie Nguyen, who beat qualifier Bella Payne 6-4, 6-4. Nguyen was given the No. 17 seed when ITF J300 Indian Wells champion Julieta Pareja, who was the third seed, withdrew after the draw was made. Kotseva defeated Nguyen  6-3, 6-3 in the third round of the ITF J60 in Las Vegas last year.

No. 9 seed Ishika Ashar defeated Sabrina Lin 6-2, 6-1 and will play unseeded Zaire Clarke, who beat No. 15 seed Ligaya Murray 6-1, 6-2.

In the bottom quarter, the only quarter with the expected seeds advancing, No. 5 seed Capucine Jauffret will try for her third ITF Junior Circuit win over No. 2 seed Annika Penickova. Jauffret had the much tougher third round match, beating unseeded Carrie-Anne Hoo 6-7(5), 7-6(4), 6-1 in over three hours; Penickova defeated No. 13 seed Shannon Lam 6-1, 6-3.

The doubles semifinals are scheduled for Thursday, with the top seeded Penickova twins advancing with a 4-6, 6-2, 10-2 win over Charlize Celebrini of Canada and Olivia Traynor.

They will play unseeded Ciara Harding and Camille Allegre, who beat unseeded Caroline Shao and Sarah Ye 6-2, 6-4.

Ashar and Murray, the No. 5 seeds, defeated No. 4 seeds Aspen Schuman and Nguyen 2-6, 6-3, 13-11 and will face No. 7 seeds Isabelle DeLuccia and Tu, who beat unseeded Jauffret and Sohns 7-6(4), 6-4.

No. 6 seeds Antonius and Santhosh advanced to the semifinals via walkover by Dussault and Johnston. The will play unseeded Tyler Lee and Justin Riley Anson, who beat No. 3 seeds Karki and Satterfield 6-4, 2-6, 10-5.

Unseeded Plunkett and Uehling, who advanced via the Olar retirement, will play No. 5 seeds Simon Caldwell and Gavin Goode, who saved five match points in their 6-4, 3-6, 11-9 win over Mark Krupkin and Zachary Cohen. 

The quarterfinals begin with the girls at 9 a.m., followed by the three boys quarterfinals not before 11:30 a.m. PDT.

ITF J300 Indian Wells boys champion Jagger Leach is playing the USTA Pro Circuit men's $25,000 tournament in Bakersfield this week as a wild card, and he made the most of it, beating No. 2 seed and ATP No. 305 Charlie Broom(Dartmouth, Baylor) 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.  Leach will play fellow wild card Andy Nguyen, a sophomore at UC-Irvine for a first appearance in a Pro Circuit quarterfinal.  Indian Wells finalist Jack Kennedy, who also received a wild card, lost to Noah Schachter(Texas A&M) 6-2, 6-3.

The three American men who qualified for the Miami Open all lost their first round matches today, with Ethan Quinn(Georgia) losing to fellow qualifier Tristan Schoolkate of Australia 6-0, 6-2, Brandon Hold falling to lucky loser Camilo Ugo Carabelli 2-6, 7-6(5), 6-4 and Mackenzie McDonald beaten by Nick Kyrgios of Australia 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. 

Wild card Eliot Spizzirri(Texas) earned his first ATP victory above the 250 level, beating qualifier Billy Harris of Great Britain 7-6(2), 3-6, 6-2. He will play No. 24 seed Sebastian Korda next.

Seventeen-year-old wild card Federico Cina of Italy won his ATP debut, beating qualifier Francisco Comesana of Argentina 7-6(4), 7-6(2).

The women's first round is complete, with Peyton Stearns(Texas), qualifier Bernarda Pera, and McCartney Kessler(Florida) advancing today. 

Seventeen-year-old card Tyra Grant lost her first match to Julia Grabher of Austria 6-4, 6-4. 

Thursday's schedule is here.

Australian Open Finalist Willwerth Returns to Junior Tennis at San Diego J300; Clarke Ousts No. 4 Seed Friedman; Wake Forest Men and Georgia Women Remain No. 1; Quinn, McDonald and Holt Qualify at Miami Open

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After receiving first round byes, the seeds took to the Barnes Tennis Center courts on a cool and sunny Tuesday, with four boys seeds and seven girls seeds falling in their opening matches of the ITF J300 North American Regional Championships.

The three biggest upsets came in the girls draw, with No. 4 seed Leena Friedman losing to Zaire Clarke 6-4, 0-6, 7-5,  No. 6 seed Aspen Schuman falling to Sabrina Lin 3-6, 6-0, 6-2 and No. 7 seed Claire An eliminated by Maggie Sohns 7-6(7), 6-5, ret.

Clarke managed to overcome losing eight straight games, falling behind 2-0 in the third after being blanked in the second set. But the 15-year-old from New Jersey, who trains in Florida, came back to take a 5-3 lead in the third and had a match point with Friedman serving at 3-5 ad out. Clarke made and unforced backhand error and Friedman went on to hold, and Clarke was broken without getting a match point serving at 5-4, double faulting at 30-40.

Undaunted, she broke Friedman with two winners helping her get to 15-40 and Friedman's unforced error on the backhand gave Clarke a second chance to serve out the win. She took that opportunity with a confident service game, with first serves and first strike tennis helping her convert her second match point when Friedman netted a return after three hours of play.

"I knew I could pull it out," said Clarke, who was trying to learn from a second round loss to No. 4 seed Maya Iyengar at Indian Wells. "I knew I had to keep applying pressure, to keep believing in myself. Last week I had at least eight set points in the first set, so I was starting to think about that more toward the end of the third. On the (first) match point I just hit flat on the wrong ball, but I just kept believing I could win, and knowing that my game is good enough to beat almost anyone."

Clarke was determined to play more aggressive after failing to serve out the match on her first attempt.

"I knew I had to not wait," Clarke said. "Because she's a waiting player, she's really good at making balls and making you play balls, so I was like, ok I have to do something to make her miss, not just wait for her to miss. Match point, serve and volley, make her have to do something with the return."

Clarke took some time off due to knee pain after reaching the third round of the Orange Bowl last December, and is now beginning to find that level again.

"I lost in the first round in Ecuador (in February), but I knew I was still playing well in practice; I just needed to see it in a match, to kind of build the confidence. It's not fully at Orange Bowl level yet, but I've definitely improved on stuff and am still working on stuff."

Clarke will play No. 15 seed Ligaya Murray in Wednesday's third round, with Murray defeating qualifier Sara Shumate 6-2, 7-6(6).

The two Americans who reached the final of the 2025 Australian Open junior championships and are the top seeds this week, advanced to the third round with straight-sets wins on Stadium Court.  Kristina Penickova, a finalist here last year, was challenged by qualifier Ciara Harding before her superior serving in the tiebreaker secured a 6-2, 7-6(3) victory. 

Benjamin Willwerth took a few games to get going, but he found his form after three games and cruised past qualifier Andre Alcantara 6-2, 6-0. 

Willwerth was planning on playing Indian Wells last week and skipping San Diego this week, but he was automatically withdrawn from Indian Wells when he received entry into an M15 in Mexico, so he reversed course.  A bout of food poisoning after a first round win made that trip less than ideal, so competing again at the junior level after his performance in Melbourne is a chance to gain more feedback on his game.

"There's a little bounty on my head," said the 17-year-old from Florida. "Being the one seed in this tournament, people usually play better when they're playing the one seed, because they feel they have nothing to lose. I've noticed that some of the people I've played are playing more of their better tennis. I have a little more confidence now."

Willwerth, who reached the semifinals of USTA Pro Circuit $15K in November, has six ATP points, and he will get even more opportunities at a higher level in Challenger qualifying as a junior slam finalist as part of the ATP Accelerator Program.

"I'm good at neutralizing the point when they're aggressive, and I think my game is tricky to play against," Wilwerth said of the Pro Circuit competition he's faced. "I've seen that in the pros, that they struggle a little bit against my game. The Challenger wild cards help, to change my schedule a little; it's good to mix up the pro tournaments and the juniors."

None of the Top 8 seeds lost in the boys draw, although No. 6 seed Jack Secord needed a comeback to earn a 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 win over Vihaan Reddy. Qualifier Tanishk Konduri defeated No. 9 seed Gavin Goode 6-1, 6-4; Agassi Rusher beat No. 11 seed Nischal Spurling 6-3, 6-4; Sklar Phillips defeated No. 13 seed Yubel Ubri 6-4, 6-1 and Michael Antonius downed No. 14 seed Simon Caldwell 6-3, 6-4.

In doubles, the top-seeded Pennickova twins advanced to the quarterfinals, as did boys No. 1 seeds Noah Johnston and Maximus Dussault. But both No. 2 seeds were eliminated, with Capucine Jauffrey and Maggie Sohns beating Kori Montoya and Ava Rodrigues 6-4, 7-6(4) and Zachary Cohen and Mark Krupkin defeating Ryan Cozad and Jack Secord 4-6, 6-4, 10-8.

Third round singles play begins at 9 a.m. PDT, with the doubles quarterfinals to follow in the afternoon.

The latest ITA Division I team and individual rankings were released today, with the Wake Forest men and Georgia women remaining at the top, with NCAA fall champions Dasha Vidmanova of Georgia and Michael Zheng of Columbia staying at No. 1 in the singles rankings. Click on the heading below to go to the full ranking lists at the ITA website.

Men's ITA Division I Rankings, March 18 2025

(previous week's ranking in parentheses)

Team:

1. Wake Forest(1)

2. TCU(2)

3. Ohio State(4)

4. Texas(3)

5. NC State(5)

6. Virginia(8)

7. San Diego(6)

8. Stanford(9)

9. Columbia(7)

10. Harvard(12)

Singles:

1. Michael Zheng, Columbia

2. Pedro Vives, TCU

3. Timo Legout, Texas

4. Colton Smith, Arizona

5. Ozan Baris, Michigan State

6. DK Suresh, Wake Forest

7. Oliver Tarvet, San Diego

8. Jay Friend, Arizona

9. Carl Emil Overbeck, Cal

10. Rafael Jodar, Virginia

Doubles:

1. Pedro Vives and Lui Maxted, TCU

2. Oliver Tarvet and Stian Klaassen, San Diego

3. Luciano Tacchi and Luca Pow, Wake Forest

4. Petar Jovanovic and Benito Sanchez Martinez, Mississippi State

5. Stefan Dostanic and DK Suresh, Wake Forest

Women's ITA Division I Rankings, March 18 2025

Team:

1. Georgia(1)

2. Virginia(3)

3. Texas A&M(2)

4. North Carolina(4)

5. Michigan(6)

6. Tennessee(8)

7. Duke(7)

8. Auburn(11)

9. LSU(9)

10. NC State(5)

Singles:

1. Dasha Vidmanova, Georgia

2. Mary Stoiana, Texas A&M

3. Julia Fliegner, Michigan

4. DJ Bennett, Auburn

5. Maria Sholokhova, Wisconsin

6. Valeria Glozman, Stanford

7. Elza Tomase, Tennessee

8. Luciana Perry, Ohio State

9. Reese Brantmeier, North Carolina

10. Amelia Honer, UC-Santa Barbara

Doubles:

1. Elaine Chervinsky and Melodie Collard, Virginia

2. Maddy Zampardo and Gabriella Broadfoot, NC State

3. Olivia Center and Kate Fakih, UCLA

4. Avelina Sayfetdinova and Mariia Hlahola, Texas Tech

5. Lily Fiarclough and Grace Piper, Southern California

Men's qualifying is now complete at the Miami Open, with Mackenzie McDonald(UCLA), Ethan Quinn(Georgia) and Brandon Holt(USC) reaching the main draw. McDonald will play Nick Kyrgios of Australia, Quinn faces Tristan Schoolkate of Australia and Holt meets lucky loser Camilo Ugo Carabelli of Argentina, all on Wednesday.

In women's first round action today, wild card Hailey Baptiste, Sofia Kenin, Alycia Parks, Lauren Davis, Ashlyn Krueger and qualifier Taylor Townsend were American winners.