Acceptances for ITF J300 Fila International Championships at Indian Wells; Semifinals Set at ITF J30 in Eau Claire; Michelsen, Svajda Advance to Quarterfinals at Rome Georgia Challenger; UTR Pro Tennis Tour Update
Entries closed yesterday for the new ITF J300 Regional tournament in Indian Wells next month, which I wrote about for the Tennis Recruiting Network in January.
The acceptance lists were posted today, with Kyle Kang, at No. 17, the highest ranked player in the draw, followed by Kaylan Bigun(34), Alexander Razeghi(39), Roy Horovitz(43) and Canada's Keegan Rice(44). The tournament is restricted this year to players from the US and Canada, although there are three boys who are listed in the acceptances from other countries: Oliver Bonding of Great Britain, Max Stenzer of Germany and Miguel Tibon of Colombia. I'm not sure what that's about, but there have been previous cases of players representing other countries playing in the Easter Bowl ITF, so I assume that's what is happening with them.
The J500 in Brazil, on clay, is the week before the Indian Wells J300, and several players remain on both acceptance lists: Razeghi, Adihithya Ganesan, Cooper Woestendick, Cyrus Mahjoog and Jordan Resnik. The withdrawal deadline for Brazil has passed, but there is another week yet to withdraw from Indian Wells.
Notably absent from the Indian Wells acceptance list is Cooper Williams. Nishesh Basavareddy(Stanford) and Learner Tien(Southern California) are also eligible, but they are playing (or waiting to be granted eligibility in the case of Tien) college tennis now. If he does get eligible, Tien could play at Indian Wells in the UTR sponsored match between USC and Pepperdine on finals Sunday at the BNP Paribas Open.
The girls acceptance list at Indian Wells is headed by Iva Jovic, who is No. 12 in the ITF rankings, and Kaitlin Quevedo, who is No. 15. Orange Bowl finalist Clervie Ngounoue, currently No. 24, is also on the acceptance list, as are Mia Slama(33),Tatum Evans(40), Qavia Lopez(43), Ariana Pursoo(44), Valeria Ray(46) and Theadora Rabman(48). Quevedo and Lopez have both withdrawn from the Brazil J500. Ashton Bowers(47) and Alexis Harmon(81) are still entered in both events.
The Eau Claire Wisconsin area is bracing for some heavy snowfall tonight, but hopefully everyone who is through to the semifinals of the J30 tournament there can get to the site for their matches Thursday.
The girls semifinalists are all Americans, with 14-year-old qualifier Karlin Schock of Green Bay Wisconsin facing top seed and Princeton recruit Isabella Chhiv in the top half, and No. 3 seed Kayla Chung and No. 7 seed Gayathri Krishnan meeting in the bottom half. Krishnan dealt No. 2 seed Thea Frodin her first loss in 14 matches this year in today's quarterfinal, beating the 14-year-old from California 6-4, 0-6, 6-4.
The boys semifinals feature three Americans and one Canadian, unseeded Eric Crivei, who will play unseeded Jack Kennedy in the top half semifinal. Kennedy defeated top seed Aaron Yu of Hong Kong 6-4, 6-3 in today's quarterfinals.
In the bottom half, it will be No. 4 seed Keaton Hance against unseeded Mark Krupkin for a spot in Friday's final.
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Eighteen-year-old Alex Michelsen and two-time Kalamazoo 18s champion Zachary Svajda advanced to the quarterfinals of ATP Challenger 75 in Rome Georgia with victories today. Michelsen, who received a wild card, advanced to his first Challenger quarterfinal when Germany's Mats Moraing retired, with an apparent back injury, at 7-6(4), 1-3. Michelsen, who has signed with Georgia for this fall, will play the winner of Thursday's second round match between Nathan Ponwith(Georgia/Arizona State) and Edan Leshem of Israel.
Svajda defeated No. 3 seed Aleks Vukic(Illinois) of Australia 6-3, 6-3 to reach his fourth ATP Challenger quarterfinal. The 20-year-old from San Diego will play 30-year-old Elmar Ejupovic of Germany, who beat wild card Ryan Harrison 3-6, 7-5(5), 6-2. Only two seeds, No. 1 Jordan Thompson of Australia and No. 8 Seong-chan Hong of Korea, are left after today's results.
Below are the results of the first seven weeks of 2023 tournaments on the UTR Pro Tennis Tour:
MEN:January 2 Boston MA
Nicholas Kotzen d. Holden Koons 6-2, 7-6(4)
January 9 Winston-Salem NC
Harris Walker d. Stefan Latinovic 6-4, 5-7, 7-6
Maciej Rajski d. Jacob Brumm 6-2, 6-4
January 30 Boca Raton FL
Sekou Bangoura d. Yannick Rahman 6-4, 7-6(0)
February 6 Newport Beach CA
Maciej Rajski d. Evan King 7-6(5), 7-6(4)
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