IMG International Wild Cards; ITF J300 Bradenton Qualifying Begins Saturday; Tu, Iyengar and Willwerth Reach J500 Merida Quarterfinals; Three Americans Qualify for ATP Next Gen Finals

The main draw wild cards for the IMG International Championships, which begin Monday at the IMG Academy in Bradenton Florida, are listed below. This list is obviously fluid, with late withdrawals likely to result in some of these wild cards getting in on their own.

Note that 2023 J300 Bradenton finalist Teodora Kostovic of Serbia is among them. Had she entered on time, she would not have needed one, as the ITF's ninth-ranked junior. 

B12s

Jingsong Tao
Sid Beers
Nanato Agui
Kajus Seliukas
Daniel Deng
David Oganesian
AJ Williams
Ormond Keighery

G12s

Emilia Matruglio
Yan Xinran
Alina Zhou
Quinn Kennedy
Serena Coleman
Mercedes Laub
Maria Cristina Edjoo
Lerong Yao

B14s

David Cercel
Xiaohan Jiang
Kazuki Nakajima
Leonardo Raphael Freitag
Max Neumann
Christian Rohrberg
Behleu Fomukong
Santiago Salazar

G14s

Josephine Ante
Maxime Ante
Isabella Gonzalez
Penelope Parrott
Jessa Arant
Mehar Kaur
Chen-Yun Tsai
Tessa Puente

B16s

Luca Sevim
Petru Cotoman
Nick Mertgens
Emilio Camacho
Andrej Markovic
Elijah Johnson
Ethan Chen
Jake Khera

G16s

Tingyu Fu
Lea Kaemena
Aiko Jackson
Lisa Anzai
Hanne Estrada
Janica Bo
Oleksandra Revina
Camille Chellas

B18s

Sasha Colleu
Joseph Oyebog
Abhishek Thorat
Bernardo Vialle
Andrew Johnson
Jack Secord
Keaton Hance
Ryan Cozad

G18s

Victoria Osuigwe
Teodora Kostovic
Sara Shumate
Hadley Appling
Anita Tu
Margaret Sohns
Hannah Ayreault
Lani Chang

Qualifying for the ITF J300 begins Saturday, with one round Saturday and two rounds Sunday. Qualifying for the 12s, 14s and 16s divisions finishes Saturday, with a day off for those players before the main draw begins for all age divisions Monday.

It's always been difficult to follow the Yucatan Cup, due to the Thanksgiving holiday and the late night matches there, so this post will be outdated when they finally post the results from today's quarterfinal matches. The event, which was formerly a J300 and is now a J500, saw massive upsets early this week, with unseeded Americans taking out both top seeds. Benjamin Willwerth defeated Maxim Mrva of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-3 in the second round, and Anita Tu ousted Teodora Kostovic of Serbia 7-6(3), 2-6, 6-2 in the third round.

Maya Iyengar, the No. 12 seed, also advanced to the quarterfinals, beating qualifier Riuen Zhang of China 2-6, 7-6(1), 7-6(5).

The Yucatan Cup's tournament website has a recap (in Spanish) of each day's action.

The field is set for next month's ATP Next Gen Finals, with three Americans making the eight-man field: Alex Michelsen, Learner Tien and Nishesh Basavareddy. 2023 US Open boys champion Joao Fonseca of Brazil was announced as the final participant today. There is still speculation that Arthur Fils of France, currently No. 20 in the ATP rankings, might pull out; if that happens 2022 US Open boys champion Martin Landaluce of Spain would take his place at the event, December 18-22 in Jeddah Saudi Arabia. 

The other competitors are Jakub Mensik of the Czech Republic, Luca Van Assche of France and Jerry Shang of China, who I anticipate I will see next week training at IMG. For more on each of those qualifying for the Next Gen Final, see the news page on the tournament from the ATP.