ITA Regionals Conclude; USTA Pro Circuit Tournaments Underway This Week in Charlottesville, Naples and Tyler

The final eight regionals finished in the past few days, so all 24 champions have been crowned. Both the winners and the finalists receive entry into next month's Oracle ITA National Fall Championships, which begin on November 6th in Newport Beach California.

Unlike last weekend's finals, none of the eight finals contested this weekend featured teammates playing one another. University of Virginia freshman Natasha Subhash, No. 1 in the ITA Newcomer rankings, won the Atlantic Regional title without dropping a set. UCLA's Abbey Forbes, No. 4 in the Newcomer rankings, was the other freshman to win a Regional. Zoe Howard of Princeton shared the title with teammate Brianna Shvets, with the final not played. None of the men's regional champions are freshman. Although there are a couple of errors on their list of Regional winners, the ITA page does include doubles champions. Below are the results of all the regional singles finals.

Division I Regional Champions
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 6-1, 6-1
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Southeast: Duarte Vale(Florida) d. Juan Pablo Grassi Mazzuchi(Central Florida) 6-4, 6-4
Northwest: Damon Kesaris(St. Mary's) d. Yuta Kikuchi(Cal) 7-6(2), 6-0
Texas: Sven Lah(Baylor) d. Valentin Vacherot(Texas A&M) 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
Central: Kody Pearson(Tulsa) d. Stefan Milicevic(Minnesota) 6-3, 6-1
Ohio Valley: Tin Chen(Louisville) d. Bennett Crane(Indiana) 6-0, 6-3

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(Okla St) d. Dariya Detkovskaya(Okla 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
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Carolinas: Cameron Morra(UNC) d. Kelly Chen(Duke) 6-1, 6-4
Atlantic: Natasha Subhash(Virginia) d. Paola Delgado(VCU) 6-2, 6-0
Mountain: Chiara Tomasetti(Northern Arizona) d. Sara Nayar(Colorado) 6-2, 6-1

Three USTA Pro Circuit tournaments are on the schedule this week: the Charlottesville ATP Challenger 80, an $80,000 women's event in Tyler Texas and a $25,000 men's event in Naples Florida (not Italy, as the ITF's Live Scores page shows).  There is also a $60,000 ITF World Tennis Tour women's tournament in Toronto this week, which has also drawn a substantial number of Americans.

In Charlottesville, the top seed is former North Carolina star Brayden Schnur of Canada, with Ivo Karlovic of Croatia seeded No. 2. Wild cards were given to University of Virginia stars Brandon Nakashima and Carl Soderlund of Sweden, with Nakashima already through to the third round, and Soderlund winning his opening match. Other wild cards went to Raymond Sarmiento(USC), Govind Nanda(UCLA) and Alex Rybakov(TCU).

2017 Kalamazoo champion Patrick Kypson(Texas A&M), who has not played since January due to injuries, is in the doubles draw with Sebastian Korda, after the pair received a wild card, and they won their first round match today.

In Tyler, Astra Sharma(Vanderbilt) of Australia is the No. 1 seed and for the second week in a row, she is out of the tournament in the first round despite her position at the top of the draw. Alexa Glatch, who received a wild card this week, beat Sharma 6-2, 6-4 today. For more on Glatch, who is now 30, and why she decided to come back this year after surgery in 2017, see this article from Steve Pratt for the USTA Southern California website.  In addition to Glatch, wild cards were given to Grace Min, Coco Vandeweghe and Jamie Loeb. Americans who qualified with wins today are Sophie Whittle(Gonzaga), Sanaz Marand(UNC), Kate Fahey(Michigan) and Lorraine Guillermo(Pepperdine). 2019 NCAA champion Estela Perez-Somarriba(Miami) of Spain received a wild card into qualifying and advanced to the main draw with wins over Claire Liu and Chanelle Van Nguyen(UCLA).

In Toronto, Kennedy Shaffer(Georgia), Hayley Carter(UNC) and Dalayna Hewitt qualified with wins today. The top seed is Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium, with Francesca Di Lorenzo(Ohio State) the No. 2 seed. Three Canadian juniors received wild cards: Ariana Arseneault, Jada Bui and Melodie Collard.

In Naples, the American qualifiers are Oliver Crawford(Florida) and 37-year-old Jesse Witten(Kentucky). Witten, who coaches at an academy in the Naples area, has played a couple of Pro Circuit tournaments a year for several years now, but currently he doesn't have an ATP ranking. Matias Descotte of Argentina is the No. 1 seed, and Crawford will face him in the first round. Wild cards went to Sam Riffice(Florida), Texas recruit Micah Braswell, Tyler Zink(Georgia) and North Carolina recruit Logan Zapp.  Riffice defeated Braswell 6-3, 6-3 and Zapp lost to No. 2 seed Jordi Arconada(Texas A&M) 6-1, 6-2.