Brantmeier and Ngounoue Advance to WTA Future Stars Semifinals; Black Beats Zheng in ITF Junior Finals Round Robin Play; Division I ITA Regional Update

Reese Brantmeier and Clervie Ngounoue have advanced to the semifinals of the WTA Future Stars competition this week in Shenzhen China, where the WTA Finals begin Sunday.  The 15-year-old Brantmeier is playing the 16-and-under competition, and she went undefeated during the round robin phase, winning all six matches in straight sets and dropping only six games total.  She will play Talia Gibson of Australia in Saturday's semifinal. Annabelle Xu of Canada is the No. 2 seed and she will play Sanjana Sirimalla of India in the other 16s semifinal.

Ngounoue, 13, also got through the round robin phase of the 14-and-under competition without dropping a set, and she is the top seed in the semifinals. She will face Taylah Preston of Australia, while No. 2 seed Kayla Cross of Canada plays Anja Nayar of Malaysia.  The order of play for Saturday's semifinals is here.

While that competition is going on in Shenzhen, the ITF Junior Masters continues in Chengdu, with Hurricane Tyra Black staying in contention for the semifinals with a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Qinwen Zheng of China. Diane Parry of France, Daria Snigur of Ukraine, Holger Rune of Denmark and Valentin Royer of France are 2-0, but with many players 1-1, as Black is, Friday's third and final round of match in the round robin will determine which four players advance to the semifinals. See the ITF Junior Circuit website for more on Black's win today and the other results from Day Two.

The live streaming link and live scoring link can be found on the ITF Junior Circuit website's home page.

The final eight ITA Division I Regional Championships are scheduled this weekend, with berths in next month's Oracle ITA Fall National Championships on the line.  Below are the results from the 16 Regional singles finals that concluded this week, with both the winner and the runner-up receiving entry into the Fall Nationals. An unusually large number of finals featured teammate vs teammate.  The ITA Regionals page now has links to individual regionals draws as well as names of the doubles champions, who receive entry into the Fall Nationals.

Division I Regional Championships singles finals:

MEN:
Midwest: John McNally(Ohio State) d. Kyle Seeling(Ohio State) 7-6(4), 6-1
Atlantic: Ryan Goetz(Virginia) d. Luca Maldoner(ODU) 6-7(4), 6-2, 6-4
Northeast: Charlie Broom(Dartmouth) d. Jackie Tang(Columbia) 6-3, 7-5
Southern: Gregor Ramskogler(Miss St) d. Tim Dollman(Auburn) 6-2, 4-6, 6-4
Carolinas: Bar Botzer(Wake Forest) d. Rrezart Cungu(Wake Forest) 6-4, 7-6(5)
Southwest: Joseph Guillin(UC-Santa Barbara) d. Stefan Dostanic(USC) 2-6, 6-3, 7-5
Mountain: Sean Hill(BYU) d. Mateo Vereau Melendez(BYU) 6-1, 6-1

WOMEN:
Midwest: Giulia Pairone(Michigan) d. Shiori Fukuda(Ohio State) 6-2, 6-4
Ohio Valley: Kaitlin Staines(Tennessee) d. Rebeka Mertena(Tennessee) 6-1, 6-1
Southeast: McCartney Kessler(Florida) d. Lea Ma(Georgia), 6-2, 6-2
Southwest: Abbey Forbes(UCLA) d. Jada Hart(UCLA) 7-6(3), 6-2
Northwest: Michaela Gordon(Stanford) d. Maria Kozyreva(St. Mary’s) 6-2, 7-5
Central: Lisa Rioux(Oklahoma St) d. Dariya Detkovskaya(Oklahoma St) 6-2, 6-3
Texas: Lucia Quiterio(Texas A&M) d. Lexi Ryngler(Texas), walkover
Northeast: Zoe Howard(Princeton) v Brianna Shvets(Princeton) final not played
Southern: Taylor Bridges(LSU) d. Paris Corley(LSU) 6-3, 6-0