ITF J300 Pan Am Recap, Videos; ITF WTT Junior Finals Semifinals Feature No Americans; Cassone Reaches First Challenger Semifinal in Calgary: Kim Ousts Top Seed Kodat at Harlingen $25K

If you didn't follow my daily coverage of the ITF J300 Pan American Regional Championships in Houston, the abridged version is available today at the Tennis Recruiting Network, with an overview of the singles titles by Jack Kennedy and Maya Iyengar, as well as the doubles championships won by Alanis Hamilton and Kayla Chung and Jon Gamble and James Weber. Videos of the champions are below; to see the videos of finalists Aspen Schuman and Ian Mayew on YouTube, click on their names to go to the tenniskalamazoo channel.

The round robin stage of the ITF World Tennis Tour Junior Finals concluded today in Chengdu China, with neither US girl advancing to Saturday's semifinals. Kristina Penickova[7] and Tyra Grant[2] both finished round robin play at 1-2 after losses today. Top seeds Rafael Jodar of Spain and Emerson Jones of Australia are the only players who went undefeated.

Boys results, Friday October 18

Group A

*Rafael Jodar[1](ESP) d. *Mees Rottgering[3](NED) 6-4, 7-6(4)

Jan Kumstat[5](CZE) d. Hayden Jones[7](AUS) 6-3, 7-6(4)

Group B

*Charlie Robertson[6](GBR) d. Maxim Mrva[4](CZE) 6-4, 6-3

*Luca Preda[2](ROU) d. Jangjun Kim[8](KOR) 6-4, 6-2

Girls results, Friday October 18

Group A

*Emerson Jones[1](AUS) d. Wakana Sonobe[4](JPN) 6-4, 6-0

*Jeline Vandromme[6](BEL) d.  Antonia Vergara Rivera[8](CHI) 6-4, 6-3

Group B

*Laura Samson[3](CZE) d. Tyra Grant[2](USA) 7-6(6), 6-1

*Mika Stojsavljevic[5](GBR) d. Kristina Penickova[7](USA) 6-4, 6-3

*semifinalists

Saturday's schedule is below. Links to live streaming and live scoring can be found here.

Arizona State senior Murphy Cassone, a qualifier, has reached his first ATP Challenger semifinal, beating No. 6 seed Alexis Galarneau(NC State) of Canada in the rare 39-game match 6-7(7), 7-6(2), 7-6(4) in Calgary Canada today. The 22-year-old from Kansas, who was playing in just his second Challenger quarterfinal Wednesday, trailed 4-2 in the final set before winning his fourth tiebreaker of the week to end the three-hour and 42-minute battle. He will face No. 3 seed and former Florida State star Aziz Dougaz of Tunisia in the semifinals.

Ohio State sophomore Aidan Kim has reached his sixth USTA Pro Circuit semifinal, with the 19-year-old from Michigan getting his best win by ranking today in a 7-6(2), 6-3 victory over ATP 364 and top seed Toby Kodat at the $25,000 tournament in Harlingen Texas. Kim, who played his freshman year at Florida before transferring prior to this season, reached the ITA All-American Championships semifinals last month, so he has already qualified for the NCAA singles championships next month. Kim will face No. 5 seed Johannus Monday(Tennessee), who beat No. 3 seed Garrett Johns(Duke) 6-4, 6-1.  Stefan Dostanic(USC) reached the semifinals with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Pierre-Yves Bailly(Texas), and will play qualifier Tadeas Paroulek(TCU, Baylor).

Both collegians are out at the USTA Pro Circuit W100 in Macon Georgia, with Dasha Vidmanova(Georgia) and Lea Ma(Georgia) losing in the quarterfinals, but an American is guaranteed to reach the final. No. 5 seed Ann Li beat top seed Renata Zarazua of Mexico 6-1, 6-4 to make the semifinals, where she'll face wild card Lauren Davis, who defeated No. 6 seed Lucrezia Stefanini of Italy 7-6(7), 6-7(3), 6-2 in three hours and 13 minutes. Anna Blinkova[2] of Russia, who beat qualifier Vidmanova 6-3, 6-0, will face Katarzyna Kawa of Poland, who defeated Ma 6-4, 6-3.

At the men's $15,000 tournament in Winston-Salem North Carolina, Wake Forest's DK Suresh and Luca Pow, and Duke's Pedro Rodenas are through to the semifinals. Wake junior Suresh defeated lucky loser Daniel Milavsky(Harvard) 6-2, 7-6(5) and will play No. 3 seed Victor Lilov, who beat Cooper Williams(Duke) 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-4. Nineteen-year-old wild card Pow had never won a main draw match on the Pro Circuit until this week, but the sophomore is now in the semifinals after defeating qualifier Aleksa Ciric(Georgia Gwinett) 6-2, 6-2. He will play Rodenas, who defeated recent Wake Forest graduate Matthew Thomson, a wild card, 6-3, 6-4.