Five Singles Titles for Americans This Week at ITF J3s; Quinn Advances to First Pro Circuit Final; Harrison Defeats Wolf, Mmoh Wins Roland Garros Wild Card; Lee Reaches Future Stars Final; Michigan and Ohio State in Both Big 10 Finals

With the announcement of the fields for the NCAA Division I team championships likely to monopolize my attention on Monday, I'm going to review the ITF Junior Circuit results from this week today. It's going to take some time, because no fewer than five Americans won singles titles today at three Grade 3s, as well as four doubles championships, all at Grades 2 or 3.

Here in the United States, top seed Sebastian Gorzny defeated No. 2 seed Preston Stearns 6-3, 6-2 in the J3 Delray Beach final to capture his second singles title on the ITF Junior Circuit, after winning his first at the J1 in Costa Rica in January. 

Unseeded 14-year-old Tyra Grant also won her second singles title in Delray Beach, defeating No. 3 seed Mayu Crossley of Japan 7-5, 6-4 in the final. Like Gorzny, Grant lost her only set during the week in her first round match.

No. 2 seeds Jonathan Irwanto and Felipe Pinzon Moreno won the boys doubles title in Delray Beach, beating the unseeded team of Santiago Padilla Cote of Mexico and Emilio Sanchez Bronzetti of Spain 6-2, 7-5 in the final. No. 3 seeds Taylor Goetz and Esther Vrylan lost in the girls doubles final to No. 2 seeds Eva Elbaz and Maelie Monfils of France 3-6, 6-3, 10-1.

At the J3 in Istanbul Turkey, unseeded 14-year-old Darwin Blanch won his first ITF Junior Circuit singles title as a qualifier, beating No. 4 seed Tuncay Duran of Turkey 6-1, 4-6, 7-5 in the final. Blanch is the reigning USTA 14s Clay Courts champion and was a finalist at last December's Junior Orange Bowl 14s.

Kennedy Gibbs and Dylan Charlap won their first two titles at the J3 in Costa Rica, sweeping the singles and doubles, although neither was seeded in singles. The 17-year-old Gibbs defeated unseeded Brooke Lynn Schafer 7-5, 4-6, 6-2 in the final. The 16-year-old Charlap beat unseeded Tygen Goldammer 6-0, 6-2 in another all-USA final. 

In doubles Gibbs partnered with Natalia Perez of Puerto Rico, with the No. 2 seeds defeating unseeded Katie Rolls and Sabrina Lin 6-2, 6-3 in the final. Charlap and Stefan Regalia, who were unseeded, defeated No. 2 seeds Roy Keegan of Great Britain and Alejandro Licea of El Salvador 7-6(8), 6-3 in the final. 

At the J2 in Salsomaggiore Italy, Aidan Kim and partner Jaden Weekes of Canada took the doubles title, with the top seeds defeating the wild card team of Giacomo Nosei and Lorenzo Schiahbasi of Italy 6-3, 6-7(3), 10-5 in the final. 

Ethan Quinn is into his first Pro Circuit final after the unseeded 18-year-old wild card defeated No. 2 seed John McNally(Ohio State), 6-3, 6-7(5), 6-3 this afternoon at the $15,000 USTA Pro Circuit tournament in Vero Beach Florida. The University of Georgia redshirt freshman had a match point serving for it at 5-4 in the second set, but didn't dwell on the disappointment of failing to convert it. He took a 3-0 lead in the third set and, after two hours and 50 minutes, closed it out. His opponent in the final, No. 3 seed Sekou Bangoura(Florida), had a much less taxing semifinal, taking out top seed Liam Draxl(Kentucky) of Canada 6-2, 6-4 in an hour and 20 minutes.

Another teenaged wild card, Nishesh Basavareddy, advanced to the doubles final, with partner Ricardo Rodriguez-Pace of Venezuela. Basavareddy and Rodriguez-Pace defeated No. 4 seeds Peter Bertran(South Florida) of the Dominican Republic and Mwendwa Mbithi 7-5, 7-5 in the semifinals. They will play No. 2 seeds Draxl and Millen Hurrion of Great Britain after the University of Kentucky teammates defeated No. 3 seeds Alex Knaff(Florida State) of Luxembourg and Abraham Asaba of Ghana 6-4, 2-6, 11-9.

The USTA's Roland Garros wild card race for men was decided today in Savannah Georgia, when unseeded Christian Harrison defeated No. 6 seed JJ Wolf(Ohio State) 6-1, 6-3 in the semifinals of the ATP Challenger 80. With Wolf's loss, Michael Mmoh clinches the main draw wild card into Roland Garros next month. 

Harrison will face No. 4 seed Jack Sock in the final, after Sock defeated No. 8 seed Bjorn Fratangelo 6-2, 6-4.

The doubles title in Savannah went to No. 4 seeds Treat Huey(Virginia) and Ruben Gonzales(Illinois) of the Philippines, who defeated unseeded Tung-Lin Wu of Taiwan and Zhizhen Zhang of China 7-6(3), 6-4 in the final.

Wild card Taylor Townsend is through to her first final since returning from maternity leave, defeating qualifier Whitney Osuigwe 6-3, 6-1 in the semifinals of the $100,000 USTA Pro Circuit tournament in Charleston South Carolina. Townsend will face No. 5 seed Xiyu Wang of China, who survived a three-hour and 38-minute contest with qualifier Gabriela Ce of Brazil to earn a 6-4, 5-7, 7-6(4) victory. Townsend can put herself in the USTA Roland Garros wild card picture with the title; there is one more week to go for the women, and a $100,000 tournament on the schedule in Bonita Springs next week.

The winning streak of Sophie Chang and Angela Kulikov(USC) came to an end today in their third doubles final in three weeks. The unseeded pair lost to top seeds Aldila Sutjiadi(Kentucky) of Indonesia and Katarzyna Kawa of Poland 6-1, 6-4.

At the ATP 250 in Estoril Portugal, Frances Tiafoe saved three match points and went on to defeat Sebastian Korda 4-6, 7-6(2), 6-4 to reach his fourth ATP final and second at that event. The 2015 Kalamazoo 18s champion had come from a set and 5-2 down to Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain in the quarterfinals; his previous two victories had also come in three sets. The No. 5 seed will face unseeded Sebastian Baez of Argentina, who reached his first ATP final in February.

At IMG's Future Stars U12 tournament in Athens Greece, Jordan Lee defeated Teodor Davidov 6-3, 6-4 in the semifinals, avenging his loss to Davidov in the Eddie Herr 12s final last December. Lee will play for the title Sunday against Alexander Kunitsyn of Russia.

The girls final will feature Joyce Geng of Canada and Ksenia Ruchkina of Russia.

It will be Michigan and Ohio State in both the men's and women's Big Ten conference finals Sunday. The Michigan women defeated Northwestern 4-3 in a thriller, while Ohio State, who has not lost in conference play this year, took out Wisconsin 4-0 in Iowa City.  In the regular season, the Buckeyes defeated Michigan 4-3 in Columbus, handing the Wolverines their only conference loss.

The men will play the rubber match in the conference tournament final after each took a decision at home in their first two meetings. Ohio State defeated Northwestern 4-0 and Michigan defeated Illinois 4-0 in today's semifinals in Madison Wisconsin. The loss by Illinois ended any chance for the NCAA final site host to make the tournament.