Zheng Reaches Final at Orange Park $15K; Mmoh, Chirico Play for Titles Sunday; Stanford Women Claim PAC-12 Title, Virginia Beats No. 1 UNC in ACC Tournament; GoFundMe for Incarnate Word's Ivan Smith; Shriver Reveals Inappropriate Relationship with Coach as a Teen

Qualifier Michael Zheng will go for his seventh consecutive win Sunday at the $15,000 USTA Men's Pro Circuit tournament in Orange Park Florida after the 18-year-old from New Jersey defeated No. 6 seed Wilson Leite of Brazil 7-6(13), 6-0 in today's semifinals.  Columbia recruit Zheng, who needed a match tiebreaker in his first round qualifying match with fellow junior Aidan Kim, has had more straightforward wins against older players; he has needed three sets to get by fellow juniors Kim, Victor Lilov and China's Fnu Nidunjianzan.

His opponent in the final will be unseeded Yibing Wu of China, who cruised past wild card Learner Tien 6-3, 6-0 in 55 minutes. Wu, the 2017 US Open boys champion, is just getting back to competitive tennis after being out for the majority of the past three years with injuries. Wu, who won an ATP Challenger right after his title at the US Open, is playing his second tournament since March of 2019.  This week marks the first time Zheng has made it past the second round of a Pro Circuit tournament.

Easter Bowl champion Alexis Blokhina fell in today's semifinals of the $25,000 USTA Women's Pro Circuit tournament in Orlando, with top seed Mirjam Bjorklund of Sweden posting a 6-3, 6-4 victory. Bjorklund will face No. 2 seed Alexandra Ignatik of Romania, who beat No. 3 seed Grace Min 6-4, 7-5. 

No. 2 seeds Catherine Harrison(UCLA) and Maegan Manasse(Cal) won the doubles title in Orlando, beating top seeds Yu-Chieh Hseih and Connie Hsu(Penn) of Taiwan 6-1, 6-0 in the final. It's the twelfth pro title for Harrison and the eighth for Manasse, but their first as a team.

Louisa Chirico is through to the final of the $60,000 USTA Women's Pro Circuit tournament in Charlottesville after her 7-6(7), 6-1 win over No. 6 seed Lucrezia Stefanini of Italy. The unseeded 25-year-old will face No. 3 seed Xiyu Wang of China, who came back to defeat No. 2 seed Tatjana Maria of Germany 3-6, 6-3, 6-3.

Sophie Chang and Angela Kulikov(USC) won their second straight doubles title, taking the Charlottesville crown after winning at the $100,000 tournament in Palm Harbor last week. Chang and Kulikov, the No. 4 seeds, defeated No. 3 seeds Valentini Grammatikopoulou of Greece and Alycia Parks 2-6, 6-3, 10-4 in the final. 

At the ATP 80 Challenger in Tallahassee, Michael Mmoh ended the win streak of No. 3 seed Daniel Elahi Galan of Colombia, last week's Sarasota Challenger champion, with a 3-6, 7-5, 6-4 victory in today's semifinals. Mmoh was down 6-3, 5-3 and saved two match points serving at 4-5 before rebounding; the 24-year-old, who won the Kalamazoo 18s title in 2016, will take on Tung-Lin Wu of Taiwan, also unseeded, in Sunday's final. Wu defeated Zhizhen Zhang of China 6-4, 7-6(7). Regardless of Sunday's result Mmoh should take over the lead for the USTA Roland Garros wild card with one week remaining.

The unseeded team of the Netherlands' Gijs Brouwer and Christian Harrison won the doubles title in Tallahassee, beating No. 3 seeds Diego Hidalgo(Florida) of Ecuador and Cristian Rodriguez of Colombia 4-6, 7-5, 10-6 in the final.

The conference championships are set to finish Sunday in three of the Power 5 conferences, while the Pac-12 tournaments conclude today in Ojai. (The Big Ten tournaments are next weekend). For the fourth time in five conference tournaments, the Stanford women have earned the conference tournament title; today the No. 3 seeds defeated No. 5 seed Arizona State 4-2 to earn their place in the NCAA championships. The Cardinal took the doubles point by claiming a tiebreaker on court 2, then got their three singles points from Connie Ma at line 1, Alexandra Yepifanova at line 2 and Angelica Blake at line 3. Arizona State had defeated Stanford 4-2 in Tempe three weeks ago.

You could probably gotten pretty good odds if you had been inclined to wager on the likelihood that it would be the North Carolina men, and not the North Carolina women in Sunday's ACC conference championship match. But that's the reality after the men defeated Georgia Tech 4-1 and the women fell to Virginia 4-2 in today's semifinals. 

The UNC men will play top seed Virginia, who beat them 4-2 in Chapel Hill in early March. The Virginia women will play Duke, who beat them 4-3 in Durham, with Elaine Chervinsky not in the lineup that day for the Cavaliers. Duke needed a third-set tiebreaker win from Kelly Chen today at line 4 to give the Blue Devils a 4-3 decision over Miami. Results from today are below; for all conference results, check out CollegeTennisToday.com's tournament central for men and tournament central for women.

Big 12 Women
Semifinals
Oklahoma[1] d. Kansas[5] 4-0
Texas[2] d. Oklahoma State[4] 4-1

Big 12 Men
Semifinals
TCU[1] d. Oklahoma[5] 4-1
Baylor[2] d. Texas[4] 4-2

SEC Women
Semifinals
Texas A&M[1] d. Florida[4] 4-3
Georgia[3] d. Tennessee[7] 4-3

SEC Men
Semifinals
Florida[1] d. Tennessee[5] 4-1
Kentucky[3] d. Auburn[7] 4-1

ACC Men
Virginia[1] d. Louisville[4] 4-0
North Carolina[3] d. Georgia Tech[10] 4-1

ACC Women
Virginia[4] d. North Carolina[1] 4-2
Duke[2] d. Miami[3] 4-3

Pac 12
Men's Final
USC[2] d. Washington[8] 4-1

Women's Final
Stanford[3] d. Arizona State[5] 4-2

I received a text today from a friend in San Diego about a GoFundMe campaign that has been set up for University of Incarnate Word's Ivan Smith, who was critically injured in an automobile accident earlier this month in Texas. Smith, a junior at Incarnate Word, is a former five-star recruit from San Diego.

The GoFundMe page, set up two days ago to assist with his medical expenses, can be found here. If you are unable to donate, please support Ivan and his family with your prayers.

Pam Shriver recently revealed that she and her much older coach had what she calls an "inappropriate" relationship back when she was a teenager pursing her professional career. Shriver, now known for her work as a commentator on ESPN, said she felt disclosing this from her past might help shine a light on a problematic dynamic that she continues to see in the sport. Parents need to be aware of the possibility of this developing; it may not be prevalent, but acknowledging that it does happen is a step toward understanding the perils that accompany some of these relationships.

Here is a brief article from the Associated Press; Tennis.com  talked with Shriver here, and she spoke at length about it with the Tennis Podcast.