The draws for the Kalamazoo tournament, which starts on Friday, are now available at ustaboys.com. With such a strong group of seeds there was always going to be some tough, tough quarterfinals, and No. 2 Fritz versus No. 5 Mmoh and No. 1 Tiafoe versus No. 6 Opelka are certainly two of them, provided they all make it that far, of course.
Last year the top eight seeds in the 18s all reached the quarterfinals for the first time since 1976. Could it happen two years in a row after a nearly 40-year gap?
The draws for the other age groups are not yet posted--I'm told the San Diego draws will be out Thursday--but the seeds have all been announced. Below are the Top 16 seeds in the 12s, 14s, and the girls 16s and 18s. The 17-32 seeds are available via a link back to the TennisLink site. All 32 of the Kalamazoo 16s and 18s seeds are here.
Girls 18s:
1 Tornado Alicia Black
2 Usue Arconada
3 Sofia Kenin
4 Michaela Gordon
5 Raveena Kingsley
6 Francesca Dilorenzo
7 Ingrid Neel
8 Claire Liu
9 Kayla Day
10 Alexandra Sanford
11 Alexa Graham
12 Ellyse Hamlin
13 Ena Shibahara
14 Rebecca Weissmann
15 Mia Horvit
16 Kelly Chen
Girls 16s
1 Natasha Subhash
2 Victoria Flores
3 Hannah Lairmore
4 Nicole Mossmer
5 Elysia Bolton
6 Clarissa Hand
7 Taylor Johnson
8 Anna Brylin
9 Carson Branstine
10 Hannah Zhao
11 Victoria Emma
12 Caroline Dunleavy
13 Meg Kowalski
14 Ally Bojczuk
15 Whitney Osuigwe
16 Sydney Jones
Girls 14s
1 Alexa Noel
2 Katie Volynets
3 Victoria Hu
4 Lea Ma
5 Angelica Blake
6 Reilly Tran
7 Kacie Harvey
8 Chloe Beck
9 Maggie Cubitt
10 Emma Navarro
11 Naomi Cheong
12 Hailey Baptiste
13 Addison Guevara
14 Gabriella Price
15 Cori Gauff
16 Lauren Stein
Girls 12s
1 Brooke Theis
2 Kenadee Semenik
3 Jenna DeFalco
4 Emma Jackson
5 Rachel Arbitman
6 Bridget Stammel
7 Sydni Ratliff
8 Maria Rizzolo
9 Tyra Richardson
10 Tara Malik
11 Hibah Shaikh
12 Madison Sieg
13 Elise Wagle
14 Ellie Pittman
15 Carrie Beckman
16 Katrina Scott
Boys 14s
1 William Grant
2 Cannon Kingsley
3 Daniel Sharygin
4 Nathan Han
5 Ronan Jachuck
6 Connor Nisbet
7 Harry Yang
8 Stefan Leustian
9 Evin McDonald
10 Leighton Allen
11 Hunter Heck
12 Andrew Dale
13 Nicholas Garcia
14 Spencer Gray
15 Richard Bell
16 Thomas Yu
Boys 12s
1 Hugo Hashimoto
2 Karl Lee
3 Saud Alhogbani
4 Phillip Deaton
5 Benjamin Kittay
6 Griffin Daehnke
7 Samuel Landau
8 Eric Perkowski
9 Daniel Dunac
10 Nishesh Basavareddy
11 James Delgado
12 Sam Reichbach
13 Andrew Chang
14 Tonmye Nirundorn
15 Gavin Young
16 Teddy Truwit
NCAA champion Ryan Shane of Virginia is back competing after an injury layoff following his title in Waco in May. After going 1-1 in the Lexington Challenger qualifying, Shane will be in action this weekend at the qualifying for the ATP event in Washington DC. In anticipation of that, Kelyn Soong wrote
this feature on Shane for the
Washington Post, which contains some interesting background on how Ryan and older brother Justin started playing the sport.
In other
University of Virginia news, assistant men's coach Dustin Taylor will be accompanying the USTA Collegiate Team to Italy for two $15,000 Futures events there beginning next week.
The Aptos Challenger, a $100,000 event that begins in two weeks, could decide the US Open men's Wild Card Challenge. Here's
a preview from the
Santa Cruz Sentinel.
4 comments:
How about UVa's Wiersholm facing #8 Blumberg in the 2d rd. Last year Wiersholm was the #12 seed. Not sure who is actually favored in that matchup.
Blumberg has a significantly higher UTR than Wiersholm based on recent results which would make him the overwhelming favorite on that basis. Also justifies a lack of seeding for Wiersholm.
UTR is great but has its limitations. Wiersholm decided to go to UVA, the most stacked collegiate tennis roster in the country. Remarkably, even for a player of his level, there is no shame in not playing top 6 for UVA as a freshman. While his overall results when he did get an opportunity were not overly impressive and not up to his usual standard, he also subsequently has materially less recent data in the model than Blumberg does. Won't be surprised at all if Wiersholm beats him, and I stand by the notion that Wiersholm clearly deserved a seed.
Also, I get the argument about 'just shut up and play the next match in front of you'. Each player obviously has the ability to control the outcome on the court, but to say there shouldn't be a discussion about accurate seeding and its' potential impact on results is basically taking the position that there shouldn't be seeds in the first place. Maybe we should just scrap everything and see if Tiafoe and Fritz play in the round of 128. Who cares? Wiersholm could easily beat Knight and Paul in two incredibly draining matches and then lose in the round of 64. To act like his ability to compete and/or win the title wasn't impacted by his lack of a seed is really short-sighted.
Congrats to D Kudla.... Knocks off Jack Sock in Atlanta. 7-6(6),3...kudla is coming off a Great Wimbledon and continues.... Good Luck to Kudla! Raymond Sarmeinto, USC Alum , knocks off Brayden Schnur, North Carolina Tar Heel, in Saskatoon, Canada Futures.... This is a good sign for Brayden to go back to the Tarheels instead of going pro
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