Davletshina Wins 12s Version of Sunshine Double at Junior Orange Bowl; China's Qi Hongjin Takes Both Florida Titles in B14s; Michelsen and Tien Win Openers at ATP Next Gen Finals; Australia's 18s and 16s National Championships Complete

This has been a banner year for dominating runs at the big junior events in South Florida, with four different players winning the younger set's version of the Sunshine Double this month. After Jordan Lee and Andres Santamarta Roig went back-to-back in the 16s and ITFs in Bradenton and Plantation, two more players added Junior Orange Bowl titles to the championships they had won earlier this month at the IMG Academy International Tennis Championships in Bradenton.

Top seed Nikol Davletshina of the United States swept the girls 12s titles, while Qi Hongjin of China took both titles in the boys 14s. Davletshina, who won the Easter Bowl 12s in March, played the 14s in the Clays and Hard Courts this summer, but with these two titles the 11-year-old is 18-0 this year in the 12s, winning three of the most prestigious tournaments held in the United States.

The results from the Junior Orange Bowl finals today in Coral Gables:

G12s

Singles:
Nikol Davletshina[1](USA) d. Isha Manchala[2](USA) 6-0, 6-3

Doubles:
Ayul Kim and Seohyeon Kim[4](KOR) d. Ayaka Iwasa and Shina Okuyama[9](JPN) 7-6(4), 6-3

G14s

Singles:
Sakino Miyazawa[13](JPN) d. Sofiia Bielinska[9](UKR) 6-4, 6-1

Doubles:
Olivia De Los Reyes and Emery Combs[5](USA) d. Shristi Selvan and Vibha Gogineni[7](USA) 6-3, 6-0

B12s

Singles:

Novak Palombo[2](AUS) d. Max D Smith[32](USA) 6-3, 3-6, 6-4

Doubles:

Ethan Jake Frans(INA) and Mingeon Choi(KOR)[2] d. Max D Smith and Wyatt Markham(USA)[9] 6-2, 7-5

B14s

Singles:

Qi Hongjin[10](CHN) d. Taiki Takizawa[1](AUS) 7-6(0) 1-0, ret.

Doubles: Victor Pignaton and Gadin Arun[3](USA) d. Ruben Stanmore(GBR) and Har Abir Sekhon[5](AUS) 6-3, 6-3

Complete draws are available at the USTA's tournament page.

Very little tennis is being played this week around the world, so the attention is squarely on the Next Gen ATP Finals in Jeddah Saudi Arabia, particularly here in the United States, which has three players competing: Alex Michelsen, Learner Tien(USC) and Nishesh Basavareddy(Stanford).

Michelsen, 20, and Basavareddy, 19, were drawn into the same round robin group, and played each other on opening day of the five-day event. Michelsen won 2-4, 4-3(5), 4-3(4), 4-2 and will play Luca Van Assche of France on day two. Van Assche defeated Jerry Shang of China 4-3(3), 2-4, 4-1, 4-3(5). Shang and Basavareddy will play in the other match in the red group.

Tien was drawn into the group with two ATP Top 50 players: No. 20 Arthur Fils of France and No. 48 Jakub Mensik of the Czech Republic. The 19-year-old defeated Mensik today, saving a match point in the fifth-set tiebreaker in his 4-3(6), 4-3(3), 2-4, 2-4, 4-3(8) victory, despite Mensik's tournament record 20 aces. The two-time Kalamazoo 18s champion will face 18-year-old Joao Fonseca of Brazil in a rematch of last year's US Open Junior final, which Fonseca won 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. Fonseca posted an even bigger upset than Tien today, beating Fils for the second time this year, 3-4(9), 4-2, 4-1, 1-4, 4-1. Fils and Mensik will meet in the other blue group match Thursday, with the loser unlikely to advance to the semifinals.

For the explanation of the scoring being used, and other rules and format innovations, see this page on the tournament site.

There are match recaps for each of today's four matches on the ATP website. For a feature on the three Americans, see this article. Although Basavareddy did live and play in Southern California before he was 12, the vast majority of his competition and development took place in Carmel Indiana. Tien and Michelsen were much closer geographically during their development, and both trained  at Tier 1 Performance together for years.

Tennis Australia holds its 16s and 18s National Championships in December, and those events recently concluded in Bendigo Victoria. The 16s champions, who receive Australian Open Junior wild cards, are Ymerali Ibriami and Sarah Mildren. The 18s champions, who receive an Australian Pro tournament wild card, are Ava Beck and Lachlan McFadzean. The tournaments are not like those the USTA holds for its Level 1 National Championships, with the Australian events much smaller, with qualifying and main draw entries of 48 players, which are based on UTR and prize money in 18s, with players competing in round robin and knockout rounds. The Tennis Australia tournament page is here; a recap of the finals is here.