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Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Trio of Top Four Seeds Fall in Second Round Action at USTA 16s and 18s Winter Nationals; Bad Weather at 12s and 14s in Tucson Cancels Doubles on Day Two

Most of the top four singles seeds in the 16s and 18s USTA Winter Nationals made it through their first round matches Tuesday, but that was not the case in today's second round, with three of them bounced to the back draw.

After the loss in the first round of the G16s top seed Saray Yli-Piipari, No. 2 seed Jessica Bernales assumed the role of favorite, but she was beaten today by Sabrina Lin 3-6, 6-1, 6-2. The 14-year-old Lin had a breakthrough tournament at the Junior Orange Bowl this month, finishing in fifth place as a qualifier, with her only loss to top seed and eventual champion Iva Jovic. 

In the G18s, No. 3 seed Ahmani Guichard lost to Ava Martin 6-4, 6-4 and B16s No. 3 seed Callum Markowitz is out after retiring in his match with Owen DeMuth at 6-4, 4-6, 2-1.

As I mentioned earlier this week when the draws were posted, unseeded Aidan Kim was going to be a dangerous and today he defeated No. 15 seed Jelani Sarr 4-6, 7-6(3), 6-3 in what should have been a round of 16 or quarterfinal match.

The top four seeds in the B18s are all through to Thursday's third round, but No. 5 seed Dean Kamenev lost to Douglas Yaffa 7-5, 4-6, 7-6(2).

Below is the Top 16 seed report for the 16s and 18s:

B16s:
1. Ari Cotoulas
2. Mitchell Lee
3. Callum Markowitz (out rd 2)
4. Andrew Ena
5. Aaron Sandler
6. Kaveh Taheri (out rd 1)
7. Declan Galligan (out rd 2)
8. Noah McDonald (out rd 2)
9. Rahul Sachdev
10. Ian Bracks
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
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
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

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

G18s:
1. Akari Matsuno
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
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

While the weather has cooperated so far for the 16s and 18s in Lake Nona Florida, the conditions at the 12s and 14s Winter Nationals in Tucson led to a late start to singles today, with the second round of doubles already canceled for the day. I assume the reason for these changes, which included going to a match tiebreaker for a third set, was rain. Unfortunately, the weather forecast for the next two days is dicey as well, with rain likely Thursday evening. 

Below is the top 16 seed report for Tuesday's first round (now updated for Wednesday's results):

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
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
9. Addison Lanton
10. Calla McGill
11. Anna Bennett (out rd 2)
12. withdrew
13. Ligaya Murray
14. Danielle Young
15. Natalie Oliver
16. Lily Zawaneh

As you can see, very few losses for them in the first round, although as I mentioned a few days ago, the top five G12s seeds had byes, so they did not play.

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