Parry and Snigur Face Off in Girls ITF Junior Finals, Mayot and Rune Meet for Boys Title; Ngounoue and Brantmeier in WTA Future Stars Finals; Loeb, Kovacevic Reach $25K Finals; Anderson Aims for Title at $60K in Canada

The championship matches are set at the ITF Junior Finals in Chengdu China, with not only titles on the line, but also the No. 1 ranking in the Junior Circuit rankings.

Diane Parry, currently No. 1 in the rankings, defeated Elsa Jacquemot in an all-French semifinal 6-3, 6-3. Wimbledon champion Daria Snigur of Ukraine needed less than an hour to defeat Hurricane Tyra Black 6-0, 6-2 in the other semifinal, with matches played indoors due to rain, according to the ITF.  If Snigur wins the title, she will overtake Parry for the No. 1 ranking. For more on the stakes of Sunday's girls final, see this article from the ITF Junior website.

The boys final will feature Holger Rune of Denmark, the French Open champion, and Harold Mayot of France, who won the Grade A in Osaka last week. Mayot defeated Wimbledon champion Shintaro Mochizuki of Japan 6-2, 7-5 to advance to the final, while Rune eased past Valentin Royer of France 7-6(4), 4-6, 6-2. If Rune wins the title, he will take over the No. 1 ranking spot from US Open champion Jonas Forejtek of the Czech Republic, according to this ITF article on the boys semifinals.

Links to live scoring and live streaming are available at the ITF junior home page.

The top-seeded American girls have advanced to the finals of the WTA Future Stars event in Shenzhen China, which concludes on Sunday, when the WTA Finals begin. Reese Brantmeier defeated Tailia Gibson of Australia 6-3, 6-4 to advance to the final of the 16-and-under division. She will face No. 2 seed Annabelle Xu of Canada, who defeated Sanjana Sirimalla of India 6-2, 7-5.  In the 14-and-under division, Clervie Ngounoue survived a match tiebreaker against Taylah Preston of Australia, earning a 6-2, 2-6, 10-5 decision. She will face No. 2 seed Kayla Cross of Canada, who beat Anja Nayar of Malaysia 6-1, 6-2.

Jamie Loeb has advanced to the final of the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Dallas, with the seventh-seeded former University of North Carolina star defeating No. 3 seed Katie Swan of Great Britain 6-4, 7-6(3) today. She will face top seed Anhelina Kalinina of Ukraine, who beat unseeded Marcela Zacarias of Mexico 6-2, 6-2.  The doubles title in Dallas went to No. 2 seeds Zacarias and Olivia Tjandramulia of Australia, who defeated the top-seeded team of Loeb and Emily Appleton of Great Britain 6-3, 6-4 in the final.

Unseeded University of Illinois senior Aleks Kovacevic advanced to the final of the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit tournament in Fayetteville Arkansas, beating No. 2 seed Michael Redlicki(Duke/Arkansas) 5-7, 6-2, 6-2. He will play No. 1 seed and former South Florida All-American Roberto Cid of the Dominican Republic in Sunday's final. Cid defeated No. 3 seed Nicolas Mejia of Colombia 6-4, 6-3.  Cid and his partner Evan Song won the doubles title today. The unseeded pair beat No. 2 seeds Korey Lovett(Alabama/UCF) and Justin Butsch(LSU) 7-6(2), 6-3.

At the $60,000 ITF World Tennis Tour tournament in Saguenay Canada, No. 3 seed Robin Anderson is through to the final. The former UCLA star defeated No. 6 seed Samantha Murray(Northwestern) of Great Britain 6-1, 6-1 in less than an hour. Like Loeb, Anderson is looking for her first singles title this year. She will face unseeded Indy De Vroome of the Netherlands, who needed three hours and 13 minutes to defeat Francoise Abanda of Canada this afternoon in the other semifinal 6-7(4), 7-6(6), 7-6(5).

The final of the $80,000 USTA Pro Circuit tournament in Macon Georgia will feature unseeded Shelby Rogers and unseeded wild card Katarina Stewart, with the winner taking the lead in the USTA's Australian Open Wild Card Challenge. Rogers defeated Grace Min 6-4, 6-2, while Stewart rolled past Danielle Lao(USC) 6-3, 6-0.  Caroline Dolehide and Usue Arconada won the doubles title, their third Pro Circuit title this year, with the No. 3 seeds beating unseeded Jaimee Fourlis of Australia and Valentini Grammatikopoulou of Greece 6-7(2), 6-2, 10-8 in the final.

University of Texas seniors Anna and Bianca Turati won the doubles title today at the Austin Texas $15,000 tournament and will play for the singles title on Sunday. Anna, the No. 2 seed, beat Baylor junior Melany Krywoj of Argentina, the No. 4 seed, 6-3, 6-1, while Bianca, the No. 1 seed, beat unseeded Charlotte Chavatipon, a future Longhorn, 6-3, 6-2. The Italian twins claimed the doubles title, with the unseeded pair beating top seeds Krywoj and teammate Fernanda Labrana of Chile 6-3, 1-6, 10-4.

The rain-plagued men's $25,000 tournament in Fort Worth saw the last American bowing out in the semifinals, with qualifier Alfredo Perez(Florida) dropping his match to unseeded 19-year-old Jesper De Jong of the Netherlands 7-6(7), 6-3. De Jong will face No. 3 seed and former Memphis standout Ryan Peniston of Great Britain, who beat top seed Liam Broady of Great Britain 6-2, 6-4.