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Thursday, December 30, 2021

Junior Orange Bowl Recap; Both 18s No. 1 Seeds Fall in Third Round at USTA Winter Nationals

Now that my trip to Florida is over, with the laundry done and the mail opened (not quite there on tallying the expenses), I've filed my last recap of the year for the Tennis Recruiting Network, this one on the Junior Orange Bowl. Although the rain is always a source of anxiety at a tournament where there is no indoor alternative and no margin for error in the 7-day, 128-draw schedule, the tournament is always a great opportunity to watch the younger divisions, exclusively. It's the only event on my in-person schedule that does that, so I do feel I missed a lot when it was canceled last year. In any case, congratulations again to Slovenia's Svit Suljic, Moldova's Lia Belibova, Colombia's Alejandro Arcila and Iva Jovic of the United States for their titles last week in Coral Gables.

The 18s had dodged the upset bug the first couple of days at the USTA Winter Nationals in Lake Nona, but today both No. 1s were beaten. No. 21 seed Nikita Filin, who is 15, defeated Alex Visser, the 2021 USTA 18s National Indoor champion, 6-4, 6-3. 

In the girls 18s third round, No. 27 seed Esha Velaga, who is 17, defeated top seed Akari Matsuno 6-4, 6-1.

The most notable result in the 16s was unseeded Claire Hill's 4-6, 7-6(7), 7-6(15) over No. 6 seed Elena Daskalova. Thirty-two point tiebreakers (five changes of ends!) are not something you see often at any level of tennis.

Below are the seed reports, the last of these that I will post, although I will update the third round results of the 12s and 14s in Tucson first thing tomorrow. I will post the quarterfinal matchups for Saturday in tomorrow's post, at least for the 16s and 18s; the 12s and 14s draws may not be updated until the wee hours. 

G16s:
1. Saray Yli-Piipari (out rd 1)
2. Jessica Bernales (out rd 2)
3. Ariel Madatali (out rd 3)
4. Natasha Rajaram
5. Olivia Center
6. Elena Daskalova (out rd 3)
7. Clara Zou (out rd 3)
8. Maren Urata (withdrew)
9. Kate Fakih (out rd 2)
10. withdrew
11. Emily Deming
12. Andrea De Los Rios Martinez (out rd 3)
13. Pearlie Zhang
14. Madeleine Rexroat (out rd 1)
15. Sophia Webster
16. Trinetra Vijayakumar (out rd 2)

G18s:
1. Akari Matsuno (out rd 3)
2. Ariana Pursoo
3. Ahmani Guichard (out rd 2)
4. Charlotte Owensby (withdrew)
5. Alice Xu
6. Ann Guerry
7. Katie Codd
8. withdrew
9. Jo-Yee Chan (out rd 1)
10. Gayathri Krishnan (out rd 3)
11. Reese Miller
12. Sophia Wang
13. Bayley Sheinin (out rd 1)
14. Emma Charney (out rd 2)
15. Audrey Spencer (out rd 1)
16. Kinaa Graham (out rd 3)

B16s:
1. Ari Cotoulas
2. Mitchell Lee
3. Callum Markowitz (out rd 2)
4. Andrew Ena
5. Aaron Sandler (out rd 3)
6. Kaveh Taheri (out rd 1)
7. Declan Galligan (out rd 2)
8. Noah McDonald (out rd 2)
9. Rahul Sachdev (out rd 3)
10. Ian Bracks (out rd 3)
11. William Hsieh
12. Jordan Reznik (out rd 2)
13. Carter Pate (out rd 2)
14. Krish Arora
15. Vincent Yang
16. Kane Kelley (out rd 2)

B18s:
1. Alexander Visser (out rd 3)
2. Bjorn Swenson
3. Masato Perera
4. Nicholas Heng
5. Dean Kamenev (out rd 2)
6. Kian Vakili
7. Vignesh Gogineni (out rd 1)
8. Chad Miller (out rd 3)
9. Landon Ardila
10. Marko Mesarovic (out rd 2)
11. Rohan Sachdev (out rd 2)
12. Jason Shuler (out rd 1)
13. Grant Lothringer (out rd 2)
14. Emon Van Loben Sels
15. Jelani Sarr (out rd 2)
16. Ryan Torres

B12s:
1. Izyan Ahmad
2. Elliott Awomoyi
3. Andrew Johnson
4. Vihaan Reddy
5. Safir Azam
6. withdrew
7. Tanishk Konduri
8. Aidan Xu (out rd 1)
9. Simon Hernandez (out rd 2)
10. Griffin Goode
11. Ishan Mahapatra (out rd 1)
12. Tyler Lee
13. Ivan Rybak
14. Diego Custodio (out rd 3)
15. Dylan Jones (out rd 2)
16. Aditya Pandey

B14s:
1. Roman Sancilio
2. Zachary Cohen
3. Jon Gamble
4. Andre Alcantara
5. Nathaniel Suh
6. Adrien Abarca
7. James Quattro
8. Jagger Leach
9. Noah Johnston
10. Ford McCollum
11. Kaleb Ngwendson
12. Austin Cohen
13. Tej Bhagra
14. Benedict Graft
15. Rafael Ferreira (out rd 2)
16. Tristan Dussault (out rd 2)

G12s:
1. Nancy Lee
2. Carrie-Anne Hoo
3. Sophie Suh
4. Ellery Mendell
5. Reagan Levine
6. Elana Zaretsky (out rd 2)
7. withdrew
8. withdrew
9. withdrew
10. Kalista Papadopoulos
11. Anjani Vickneswaran 
12. Sephi Sheng
13. Welles Newman
14. Raya Kotseva
15. Daniela Navarro
16. Lani Chang

G14s:
1. Laima Frosh
2. Leena Friedman (withdrew)
3. Capucine Jauffret
4. Emerey Gross
5. Alexis Nguyen
6. Elizabeth Fauchet
7. Aishi Bisht
8. Thea Frodin (out rd 3)
9. Addison Lanton (out rd 3)
10. Calla McGill (out rd 3)
11. Anna Bennett (out rd 2)
12. withdrew
13. Ligaya Murray
14. Danielle Young
15. Natalie Oliver
16. Lily Zawaneh

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