ITF Pan Am Gallery; Broadus, Vidmanova and Eubanks Win USTA Pro Circuit Titles; Qualifying Now Complete for NCAA D-I Individual Championships

The Tennis Recruiting Network has just published a Zootennis.com photo gallery from last month's ITF Pan American Regional Championships in Houston Texas, with 48 of the participants featured. It's always great to have an outlet for the photos that I don't use during the week of the tournament, and most of these photos are of players who were not part of September's US Open Junior Championships gallery.

Two women who will be competing in the NCAA Division I individual championships beginning a week from Tuesday in Waco Texas warmed up for that event by claiming titles today on the USTA Pro Circuit.

Pepperdine senior Savannah Broadus added the singles title to the doubles championship she claimed yesterday at the W15 in Lincoln Nebraska. Broadus, who came through qualifying, defeated Rachel Gailis, a junior at Florida, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 in today's final to earn her first USTA Pro Circuit singles title.

At the W35 in Miami Florida, University of Georgia senior Dasha Vidmanova, seeded No. 8, came from 6-4, 4-1 down against unseeded 18-year-old UCLA recruit Mayu Crossley to post a 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 win in today's final. It's the fourth Pro Circuit singles title of the year for the 21-year-old from the Czech Republic, and her second at the W35 level. 

No. 2 seed Christopher Eubanks(Georgia Tech) had won two third-set tiebreakers in the quarterfinals and semifinals at the ATP Challenger 75 in Knoxville Tennessee; in today's final, he didn't need a third set against No. 3 seed Learner Tien(USC), saving two set points in yet another tiebreaker to claim a 7-5, 7-6(9) victory. Eubanks, who also won the Knoxville Challenger in 2021, is now very much in contention for the USTA's reciprocal Australian Open wild card, with one week remaining in the race. Eubanks, Tien and Basavareddy(Stanford) are all in the draw at the Champaign Illinois Challenger 75; Nicolas Moreno De Alboran(UC-Santa Barbara) won a Challenger 75 in Japan this weekend, so he is currently in the lead, with a Challenger 100 in Japan on his schedule for the coming week.

No. 6 seed Rebecca Marino of Canada won the title at the WTA 125 Dow Tennis Classic in Midland Michigan, beating No. 3 seed Alycia Parks 6-2, 6-1 in the final.  No. 2 seeds Emily Appleton and Maia Lumsden of Great Britain won the doubles title, beating the unseeded team of Texas A&M junior Mia Kupres and former Auburn star Ariana Arseneault of Canada 6-2 4-6, 10-5 in the final.

The fields are set for the NCAA singles and doubles championships at Baylor, with the final few spots left to fill decided today at the Conference Masters Championships in Rome Georgia and the Sectional Championships at seven sites across the country.  

The results from these final two tournaments, both in singles and doubles, are below. There were a lot of walkovers, as there have been all fall, once a player had secured their spot in the NCAAs. I would hope that eliminating that option by simply holding these tournaments as qualifying events, rather than an attempt to determine a "champion" is under consideration for year two of this format.

I was very happy to see that North Carolina State's Braden Shick earned his spot on his last possible attempt. He had gone 0-4 in matches (at All-Americans, Regionals and in the East Sectional) that would have qualified him for NCAAs before finally winning in his fifth opportunity today.

Sectional NCAA qualifiers:

EAST:

Men:

DK Suresh[1], Wake Forest

Paul Inchauspe[4], Princeton

Lucas Adrade da Silva, South Carolina

Cooper Williams[2], Duke

Fifth and sixth place: 

Braden Shick, NC State

Luca Staeheli, NC State

Doubles:

Champions: Cooper Wiliams and Theo Winegar, Duke

Finalists: DK Suresh and Ioannis Xilas[[4], Wake Forest

Third place: Patrick Schoen and Logan Zapp, North Carolina

Women:

Singles:

Carons Tanguilig[1], North Carolina

Kaitlyn Carnicella, South Carolina

Annabelle Xu[3], Virginia

Sarah Hamner[2], South Carolina

Fifth and sixth place:

Elaine Chervinsky[5-8], Virginia

Emma Jackson[5-8], Duke

Doubles:

Champions: Theadora Rabman and Tatum Evans, North Carolina

Finalists: Irinia Balus and Ellie Coleman[3], Duke

Third place: Martina Genis Salas and Annabelle Xu[4], Virginia

SOUTH:

Women:

Guillermina Grant[1], Georgia

Ludmila Kareisova, Mississippi

Lucie Petruzelova, Mississippi

Catherine Aulia[2], Tennessee

Fifth and sixth place:

Valeria Ray[5], Vanderbilt

Anaelle Leclercq-Ficher, Mississippi

Doubles:

Champions: Given Roach and Alejandra Cruz, Georgia Tech

Finalists: Guillermina Grant and Aysegul Mert[1], Georgia

Third place: Anaelle Leclercq-Ficher and Ludmila Kareisova, Mississippi

Men:

Roan Jones, Alabama

Martin Katz[1], Miami

Niccolo Baroni[5-8], Mississippi State

Jeremy Jin[5-8], Florida

Fifth and sixth place:

Oscar Pinto Sansano, Georgia

Jack Loutit, Kentucky

Doubles:

Finalists: Facundo Yunis and Jip van Assendelft, Indiana

Finalists: Youcef Rihane and Alex Bulte, Florida State

Third place: Mario Martinez Serrano and Niccolo Baroni[4], Mississippi State

CENTRAL:

Women:

Singles:

Julia Garcia Ruiz[1], Oklahoma

Piper Charney[3], Michigan

Lily Jones[5-8], Michigan

Nicole Khirin[2], Texas A&M

Fifth and sixth place:

Daria Smetannikov, Texas A&M

Alina Shcherbinina, Oklahoma

Doubles:

Champions: Liubov Kostenko and Cristina Tiglea, Baylor

Finalists: Lily Jones and Jessica Bernales, Michigan

Third Place: Jade Otway and Isabel Pascual, TCU

Singles:

Gavin Young[1], Michigan

Duncan Chan, TCU

Devin Badenhorst, Baylor

Trevor Svajda[2], SMU

Fifth and sixth place:

Oskar Brosrom Poulsen, Baylor

Aristotelis Thanos, Michigan State

Doubles:

Finalists: Arthus de la Bassetiere and Kabeer Kapasi, Rice

Finalists: Pedro Vives and Lui Maxted[1], TCU

Third place: Bryce Nakashima and Will Jansen, Ohio State

WEST:

Women:

Elise Wagle, UCLA

Anne-Christine Lutkemeyer[4], UCLA

Mao Mushika, Cal

Kate Fakih[5], UCLA

5th and 6th place:

Grace Piper, USC

Lan Mi, Cal

Doubles:

Champions: Olivia Center and Kate Fakih, UCLA

Finalists: Kendall Kovick and Yujia Huang, BYU

Third place: Amelia Honer and Anna-Marie Weissheim[3], UC-Santa Barbara

Men:

Maxi Homberg, Pepperdine

Alex Chang[4], Cal

Theo Dean[5-8], Cal

Youssef Kadiri, Nevada

Fifth and sixth place:

Timofey Stepanov, Cal

Emon Van Loben Sels, UCLA

Doubles:

Finalists: Carl Overbeck and Theo Dean[1], Cal

Finalists: Wally Thane and Zach Fuchs, BYU

Third place:

Alex Chang and Mikey Wright, Cal

CONFERENCE MASTERS NCAA qualifiers:

MEN:

Sebastian Dominko[1], Notre Dame

Thomas Paulsell[3], Georgia

Anton Arzhankin[4], Western Michigan

Tiago Silva,[5-8] Pacific

Doubles:

Champions: Petar Jovanovic and Benito Sanches Martinez[1], Mississippi State

Finalists: Peter Nad and Sebastian Dominko[2], Notre Dame

Third place: Vasco Prata and Matias Iturbe[5-8], UNC-Charlotte

WOMEN:

Singles:

Sofia Johnson[[2], Old Dominion

Gracie Epps[5-8], Oklahoma State

Katja Wiersholm[3], Cal

Oyinlomo Quadre[4], Florida International

Doubles:

Champions: Savannah Dada-Mascoll and Isabella Romanichen[5-8], Appalachian State

Finalists: Clara Owen and Abby Nugent, Xavier OH

Third place: Celia-Belle Mohr and Sophia Webster[1], Vanderbilt

For a complete list of all 64 singles competitors and 32 doubles teams, including the method by which they qualified, see Collegetennisranks.com's google documents. The women's list is here; the men's list is here.