Top Seeds Reach Semifinals at Delray Beach J3; Davidov and Lee Advance to Quarterfinals of Future Stars Event; Quinn into Vero Beach $15K Quarterfinals; Sells Leaving LSU

The semifinals are set at this week's ITF J3 in Delray Beach, with No. 1 seed Sebastian Gorzny and No. 2 seed Preston Stearns through to the final four. Gorzny had the easier day today, with No. 9 seed Brayden Michna, Gorzny's doubles partner this week, retiring at 3-2 in the first set. Stearns had to come from a set down to beat No. 5 seed Roy Horovitz 3-6, 6-1, 6-3.

Stearns will play No. 8 seed Thanaphat Boosarawongse of Thailand in Friday's semifinals, after Boosarawongse defeated No. 15 seed Paris Pouatcha 2-6, 6-2, 6-2. Gorzny will face unseeded Gustavo Ribeiro De Almeida of Brazil, who beat No. 4 seed Felipe Pinzon Moreno 7-6(4), 7-6(4) in today's quarterfinals.

No. 1 seed Gabriella Broadfoot of South Africa is also through to the quarterfinals, with the North Carolina State recruit posting a 6-4, 7-5 win over wild card Nicole Okhtenberg, the Easter Bowl 14s champion. Broadfoot will play the only American remaining in the girls draw, 14-year-old Tyra Grant, who beat Marley Lambert, also unseeded, 6-4, 6-3 today. In the bottom half, No. 2 seed Maelie Monfils of France, Gael's sister, will play No. 3 seed Mayu Crossley of Japan, who made last month's J1 final in San Diego.

Teodor Davidov and Jordan Lee won their round robin groups at the IMG Future Stars tournament in Athens Greece and move on to Friday's quarterfinals. Both went 2-0 in their groups, with Davidov losing a total of six games and Lee four. If they both win tomorrow, they will meet in the semifinals, which would be a rematch of the 2021 Eddie Herr 12s final, won by Davidov.

Tyson Grant (Tyra's brother) lost a tough three-setter today to finish 1-1; Lani Chang, the only US girl competing, lost today and also finished 1-1.

There was only one tie in the 16 round robin groups, with all three players going 1-1. Lydia Panagiotidou of Greece advanced based on set winning percentage or games won; I'm not sure which tiebreaker they used, but she led in both.

The round robin results and the draws are available at the tournament website.

There's been at least one junior in the semifinals the past two weeks at the $15,000 tournaments in Florida; it's now up to wild card Ethan Quinn in Vero Beach, with the Georgia freshman the only junior in the quarterfinals. Quinn defeated Alex Knaff(FSU) of Luxembourg 6-3, 6-2 and will play qualifier Jakub Wojcik(South Florida) Friday. Cooper Williams, who earned his first ATP point with a first round win on Wednesday evening, led No. 3 seed Sekou Bangoura(Florida) 3-0 in the third set but ended up dropping a 6-3, 6-7(5), 6-3 decision.

University of Kentucky teammates Liam Draxl[1] of Canada and Millen Hurrion of Great Britain, who are the No. 2 seeds in doubles this week, will face off in the singles quarterfinals Friday.

Jack Sock[4], Bjorn Fratangelo[8], JJ Wolf[6], Christian Harrison and Alex Rybakov are through to Friday's quarterfinals at the ATP Challenger 80 in Savannah Georgia. Rybakov(TCU) and Wolf(Ohio State) play each other and Wolf needs to keep winning to remain alive for the USTA Roland Garros wild card. If he loses, even in the final, Michael Mmoh will get it.  Live streaming with Mike Cation is available at the ATP Challenger TV web page.

At the $100,000 Women's USTA Pro Circuit tournament in Charleston South Carolina, three qualifiers have advanced to the quarterfinals: Alexa Graham(UNC), Whitney Osuigwe and Gabriela Ce of Brazil.  Graham defeated another former Tar Heel, Jamie Loeb, 6-1, 6-4 and will face Ce, who beat No. 4 seed Hailey Baptiste 4-6, 6-4, 6-4. Osuigwe defeated No. 2 seed Tatjana Maria of Germany 7-6(4), 4-6, 6-2.  

Wild card Taylor Townsend and No. 3 seed Katie Volynets will play for the third time in the past three weeks after Townsend beat Louisa Chirico 6-3, 6-3 and Volynets breezed past Renata Zarazua of Mexico 6-1, 6-0. They have split the previous two meeting, with Townsend winning last week in Charlottesville. UVA sophomore Emma Navarro lost to top seed Irina Bara of Romania 6-2, 6-1.

With the regular season now over for many Power Five schools, coaching changes will be in the news for the next several weeks. The first official one that I'm aware of is today's announcement from LSU that Mike and Julia Sell are leaving the women's program to "pursue other opportunities." Julia Sell took the head coaching position in 2012, and her husband Mike, a former USTA National Coach and ATP Tour coach, was named a co-coach in 2015 after serving as the volunteer assistant.