The location of the 2024 ITF Junior Davis Cup and Junior Billie Jean Cup competitions was announced today, with the two 16-and-under world team championships returning to Turkey after last year's one-off in Spain. The two tournaments, which are traditionally held at the same venue at the same time, were split last year, but both will be November 11-17 in Antalya Turkey this year.
The fields have yet to be completed, with the European Summer Cups next month determining five of the 16 teams, but the United States has already qualified both its boys and girls teams. Shannon Lam, Thea Frodin and Kristina Penickova were the US girls who played in April's qualifying; Carel Ngounoue, Jack Secord and Keaton Hance were the boys who earned the US a place in the finals. These players may or may not be named to the teams that will compete in Turkey in November. The other six teams that have qualified can be found in today's ITF release.
Tennis Recruiting Network wrapped up its coverage of last week's USTA National Clay Courts Championships with today's recaps of the 18s tournaments, won by Dylan Long and Claire Hill. The links to TRN's eight articles are below. Harvey Fialkov, a former Sun-Sentinel reporter who lives in Plantation and plays tennis at the Veltri Tennis Center, home of the Girls 14s Clays, filed this in-depth look at Allison Wang's title run for Florida Tennis.
Girls 18s: Hill Stays Confident, Secures First Gold Ball at Girls 18s Clays
Boys 18s: Long Goes the Distance for Gold Ball at Boys 18 Clays
Girls 16s: Traynor Wins First Ball, Captures Gold at USTA Girls 16 Clays
Boys 16s:
Grumet Nets First Gold Ball in Familiar Final at Clay Court 16s
The semifinals are set at the three USTA Pro Circuit tournaments this week, with current collegians contending for titles.
At the women's
$75,000 tournament in Evansville Indiana, ITA Player of the Year Mary Stoiana(Texas A&M) defeated top seed Sachia Vickery 6-1, 0-6, 5-4 retired to earn the second WTA Top 150 win of her career and a place in the semifinals against 2022 NCAA singles champion Tian Fangran(UCLA). Tian, who is 15-5 this summer, has beaten Fiona Crawley(UNC), No. 7 seed Liv Hovde and in today's quarterfinals, No. 4 seed Hanna Chang, dropping only 15 games in the process. In the bottom half, unseeded Sophie Chang will face No. 5 seed Iryna Shymanovich of Belarus.
In East Lansing, two unseeded rising sophomores have reached the semifinals of the
men's $25,000 tournament, with Aidan Kim(Florida, Ohio State) posting a 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 win over Alex Kotzen(Columbia, Tennessee) and Kyle Kang(Stanford) defeating No. 2 seed Cannon Kingsley(Ohio State) 6-2, 7-6(5). Kim will face top seed Aidan McHugh of Great Britain, who beat No. 5 seed and hometown favority Ozan Baris(Michigan State) 6-2, 2-6, 6-4, while Kang will face No. 6 seed Johannus Monday (Tennessee) of Great Britain, who beat Joshua Sheehy(Abilene Christian) 6-2, 6-4.
At the
$15,000 men's tournament in Rochester New York, rising Stanford junior Samir Banerjee, seeded No. 7, defeated top seed Colin Sinclair(Cornell) of Northern Mariana Islands 6-2, 6-1 and will play Ohio State rising junior Alex Bernard, who is unseeded. In the bottom half, recent Oklahoma State graduate Tyler Zink beat No. 2 seed Matias Descotte of Argentina 7-5, 6-3 and will face No. 8 seed Benjamin George(Western Michigan) of Canada.
For the first time since 1985, and the last time ever, the
ATP 250 Hall of Fame Open in Newport Rhode Island will feature all-USA semifinals. The tournament will leave the ATP calendar after this year and hold a joint event in 2025, consisting of a men's ATP Challenger 125 and a WTA women's tournament at the same level.
In the top half semifinal, wild card Reilly Opelka will face 2023 finalist and No. 3 seed Alex Michelsen, and in the bottom half, Chris Eubanks(Georgia Tech), seeded No. 4, plays Marcos Giron(UCLA), the No. 2 seed. See
this ATP article for more on today's wins by Eubanks and Giron.
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