Seeds Begin Play Tuesday at ITF J300 College Park After Long Opening Day; Wild Cards Advance in US Open Qualifying; Tien, Svajda Reach Second Round at ATP Winston-Salem; Pegula and TIafoe Fall in Cincinnati Finals

©Colette Lewis 2024--
College Park MD--

The first day of main draw at the ITF J300 at the Junior Tennis Champions Center extended for more than twelve hours, with long matches and an early evening rain storm requiring the first round of girls singles and the first round of boys doubles be finished indoors.

Four qualifiers, two boys and two girls, won their opening round matches Monday; after playing two qualifying matches on Sunday, they showcased their stamina by winning their fourth match in three days.

Calvin Baierl, who was the No. 3 seed in qualifying, went the distance Monday against Dominick Mosejczuk before pulling out a 1-6, 6-2, 7-6(3) win to advance to a second round meeting with top seed Rei Sakamoto of Japan. Baierl was on court in doubles until after 8 p.m. Monday night, indoors, but he again got a victory with Keaton Hance to put his win total over the past three days at five.

Zachary Cohen, the No. 11 seed in qualifying, defeated wild card Erik Schinnerer 7-6(4), 6-2, but he and partner Simon Caldwell lost their first round doubles match Monday evening.

The two qualifiers in the girls draw advancing to Tuesday's second round are Kristina Liutova of Russia, who beat wild card Maggie Sohns 6-4, 6-4, and Brooke Wallman, who finished her 6-4, 6-3 win over wild card Shristi Selvan indoors. The girls did not play first round doubles; those are scheduled for Tuesday.

In addition to Baierl's victory, there was another match decided in a third set tiebreaker, with Niels McDonald of Germany disappointing the JTCC crowd by earning a 3-6, 6-3, 7-6(6) win over Stiles Brockett on stadium court in the final boys first round match.

Seeded players begin play on Tuesday, having received first round byes. No. 6 seed Mayu Crossley of Japan, who was onsite, withdrew.

Girls seeds:

1. Emerson Jones(AUS)

2. Teodora Kostovic(SRB)

3. Rositsa Dencheva(BUL)

4. Antonia Vergara Rivera(CHI)

5. Sonja Zhiyenbayeva(KAZ)

6. Mayu Crossley(withdrew)

7. Yelyzaveta Kotliar(UKR)

8. Monika Stankiewicz(POL)

9. Luna Cinalli(ARG)

10. Reina Goto(JPN)

11. Asylzhan Arystanbekova(KAZ)

12. Thea Frodin(USA)

13. Hikari Yamamoto(JPN)

14. Nellie Taraba Wallberg(SWE)

15. Shannon Lam(USA)

16. Claire An(USA)

Boys seeds:

1. Rei Sakamoto(JPN)

2. Hayden Jones(AUS)

3. Amir Omarkhanov(KAZ)

4. Jagger Leach(USA)

5. Rafael Jodar(ESP)

6. Cooper Woestendick(USA)

7. Miguel Tobon(COL)

8. Marko Maksimovic(SRB)

9. Max Schoenhaus(GER)

10. Alexander Razeghi(USA)

11. Thomas Faurel(FRA)

12. Oliver Bonding(GBR)

13. Maxwell Exsted(USA)

14. Charlie Robertson(GBR)

15. Ian Mayew(USA)

16. Daniil Sarksian(RUS)

Live scoring, which will not be point-by-point, will begin with Tuesday's matches.

A link to that, the draws and the order of play can be found at the JTCC tournament website.

Rain in New York also made for a late night on the opening day of the US Open qualifying, but several wild cards advanced to the second round, including Mary Stoiana(Texas A&M), Ethan Quinn(Georgia), Eliot Spizzirri(Texas) and Valerie Glozman.  San Diego 18s finalist Glozman, who is starting her freshman year at Stanford, won a match in women's qualifying for the third straight year, and it was her best one by ranking in any of the few pro tournaments she's played. The 17-year-old from Washington defeated WTA No. 120 Zhuoxuan Bai of China 6-1, 6-7(5), 6-2.

Hannah Chang and Alycia Parks also advanced to the second round of qualifying.

The women's qualifying draw is here.

Tuesday will feature the remaining 22 Americans in qualifying. The men: Nishesh Basavareddy(Stanford), Kaylan Bigun, Jack Kennedy, Brandon Holt(USC), Bruno Kuzuhara, Aidan Mayo, Michael Zheng(Columbia), all of whom are wild cards, plus Nicolas Moreno De Alboran(UC-Santa Barbara), Mitchell Krueger, JJ Wolf(Ohio State), Maxime Cressy(UCLA), Patrick Kypson(Texas A&M) and Emilio Nava.

The men's qualifying draw is here.

Tuesday's schedule is here.

At the ATP 250 in Winston-Salem, qualifier Learner Tien earned his first ATP main draw victory, beating Australian Tristan Schoolkate, also a qualifier, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3. His fellow two-time Kalamazoo 18s champion Zachary Svajda, a lucky loser, beat Laslo Djere of Serbia 6-4, 6-1. Svajda plays No. 3 seed Francisco Cerundolo(South Carolina) of Argentina; Tien faces No. 9 seed Fabio Marozsan of Hungary, both on Tuesday.

At the Masters 1000 in Cincinnati, Americans Jessica Pegula and Frances Tiafoe finished as runners-up. Pegula lost to Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus 6-3, 7-5; Jannik Sinner of Italy beat Tiafoe 7-6(4), 6-2.