Volynets Reaches Quarterfinals of Bonita Springs $100K; Three US Juniors Make Plantation J4 Finals; NCAA Division III Individual Selections; Pegula, Gauff and Opelka Advance to Italian Open Quarterfinals

Katie Volynets, the 2019 USTA 18s National Champion, has advanced to the quarterfinals of the $100,000 USTA Women's Pro Circuit tournament in Bonita Springs Florida, joining fellow Americans Hanna Chang, a qualifier and top seed Madison Brengle. The 19-year-old wild card, who also reached the quarterfinals last week at the $100,000 tournament in Charleston South Carolina, defeated No. 6 seed Renata Zarazua of Mexico 6-1, 6-3 in today's second round action. 

Volynets will face Brengle in the quarterfinals for the second straight week; in Charleston Brengle, who went on to the final, beat Volynets 7-5, 7-6(3).

Chang will play the winner of an unfinished match between Francesca Di Lorenzo(Ohio State) and No. 3 seed Mayar Sherif(Pepperdine) of Egypt. 

Wild card Ashlyn Krueger, the reigning Orange Bowl champion, beat No. 7 seed Olga Govortsova of Belarus 6-2, 5-7, 6-1 last night, and put up another good showing today against another WTA Top 200 player in Storm Sanders before falling to the Australian 5-7, 6-4, 7-6(7) in three hours and 14 minutes.

On the other side of the state, the singles semifinals of the ITF Junior Circuit J4 in Plantation were played today, with top seed Giulio Perego of Italy reaching his third final in this three-tournament clay circuit in Florida. Texas A&M recruit Perego, who won in Delray Beach and lost in Coral Gables, will face unseeded Luc Hotze, who won the J4 in Panama last week. Hotze defeated No. 8 seed John Chin of Jamaica 6-4, 7-5, while Perego beat No. 3 seed Sebastian Gorzny 6-4, 6-3

The all-US girls final will feature unseeded Emma Charney, who beat top seed Nevena Carton in the second round, against No. 8 seed Sonya Macavei. Charney took out wild card Valeria Ray 6-1, 6-0, while Macavei won her match the hard way, beating Coral Gables J4 champion Mary Stoiana 6-2, 3-6, 7-6(5). 

Macavei and Ray won the girls doubles title today, defeating Stoiana and Ahmani Guichard 7-5, 5-7, 10-4 in a final between two unseeded teams.

The NCAA released the singles and doubles qualifiers for the Division III individual championships last night. Defending champion Ysabel Gonzalez-Rico of Emory is among the 32 women aiming for the 2021 singles title. 2019 men's champion Jonathan Jemison of Emory graduated, but the Eagles will have a chance to retain the singles title, with Hayden Cassone making the men's field. The Division III singles championships are 32-player draws contested over three days, with May 28-30 the dates this year. Unlike NCAA Division I, Division III will use a standard alternate system this year. Seeds are not revealed in Division III until the draw is released on May 26th.

Three Americans have advanced to the quarterfinals at the Masters 1000 tournament in Rome, with Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula and Reilly Opelka getting victories today. The unseeded Gauff defeated No. 17 seed Maria Sakkari of Greece in Wednesday's second round, and today took out Madrid champion and No. 7 seed Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus 7-5, 6-3. Gauff faces top seed Ashleigh Barty of Australia in Friday's quarterfinals. 

Pegula, also unseeded, defeated No. 2 seed Naomi Osaka of Japan in the second round and unseeded Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia 6-2, 6-4 in today's third round. Pegula, who is 21-7 this year on the WTA tour, takes on unseeded Petra Martic of Croatia in the quarterfinals.

The unseeded Opelka has yet to beat a seed this week, but took out Aslan Karatsev of Russia, one of the hottest players on tour this year, 7-6(6), 6-4 in today's third round. Opelka will face unseeded Federico Delbonis of Argentina in Friday's quarterfinals.

The women's draws are here; the men's draws are here.

At the ATP Challenger 100 in Germany, No. 8 seed Mackenzie McDonald has reached the semifinals. The 2016 NCAA champion from UCLA will face No. 4 seed Daniel Galan of Colombia Saturday.