My ITA Men's D-I Team Indoor Recap, All-Tournament Team Announced; Four Americans Reach Semifinals at ITF J300 in Brazil; Three Americans Advance to Naples $15K Semifinals; Cold Weather Cancels Play Friday at W50 in Texas

If you didn't follow my daily coverage of the ITA Men's Team Indoor Championships from Dallas, you can catch up with just one article in my recap of the tournament, published today at the Tennis Recruiting Network. Although I still am no fan of no-ad, I have missed covering college tennis in person, so I am grateful for all that SMU men's head coach Grant Chen did to convince me to come to Dallas for the event, which was an unqualified success. I am planning a TRN article about the Electronic Line Calling system that was in use during the Division I Women's and Men's Team Indoor Championships for next Friday, and I will be joining John Parsons on his No-Ad, No-Problem podcast this weekend to offer my impressions of the tournament in more detail.

We'll be talking about the All-Tournament Team, which was released today by the ITA. It's unusual that the Most Outstanding Player isn't on the All-Tournament Team at his position, but Wake Forest graduate student Stefan Dostanic's performance in the final set that decided the championship had to be recognized, so I have no argument with that anomaly.

ITA Men's Division I Team Indoor Championships All-Tournament Team:

Singles:

1. Oliver Tarvet, San Diego

2. Pedro Vives, TCU

3. Lui Maxted, TCU

4. Ioannis Xilas, Wake Forest

5. Cooper Woestendick, TCU

6. Luca Pow, Wake Forest

Doubles:

1. DK Suresh and Stefan Dostanic, Wake Forest

2. Samir Banerjee and Alexander Razeghi, Stanford

3. Ioannis Xilas and Franco Capalbo, Wake Forest

Most Outstanding Player: Stefan Dostanic, Wake Forest

All four Americans who reached Friday's quarterfinals at the ITF J300 in Porto Alegre have advanced to the semifinals, with No. 4 seed Thea Frodin and No. 2 seed Annika Penickova playing Saturday for a spot in the final.

Frodin defeated unseeded Alyssa James of Jamaica 6-2, 6-2, while Penickova beat No. 7 seed Sol Ailin Larraya Guidi of Argentina 7-6(3), 6-1 in the quarterfinals.

The US boys will have to win one more match before they play each other, with unseeded Noah Johnston defeating No. 5 seed Yannick Theodor Alexandrescou of Romania 7-5, 7-5 and No. 7 seed Keaton Hance defeating Dante Pagani of Argentian 6-2, 6-1.

Johnston's opponent in the semifinals will be 15-year-old Luis Guto Miguel of Brazil, the No. 6 seed, who beat Ian Vertberger of Argentina 6-0, 6-0.  

Hance will face qualifier Ivan Ivanov of Bulgaria, who beat unseeded Ryo Tabata of Japan 6-3, 5-7, 7-6(3).  Ivanov and Hance played in the quarterfinals of the Eddie Herr 14s back in 2022, with Hance winning a three-hour and 30-minute contest 7-6(4), 4-6, 6-3. Hance went on to reach the final; Ivanov went on to beat Jack Kennedy in the final of the Junior Orange Bowl 14s two weeks later.

Hance and Johnston will face off for a title regardless of their singles results Saturday, with Hance and Kennedy, the top seeds, play unseeded Jacob Olar and Johnston in the doubles final.

Olar and Johnston defeated Ronit Karki and Jack Satterfield 6-4, 7-5; Kennedy and Hance advanced via walkover from Alexandrescou and Tabata.

Frodin will play for the girls doubles title Saturday, with Kaitlyn Rolls, after the top seeds defeated unseeded Welles Newman and Lucy Oyebog Atang 4-6, 6-2, 10-8 in the semifinals today. Frodin and Rolls will play unseeded Larraya Guidi and Nauhany Vitoria Leme Da Silva of Brazil, who defeated the unseeded team of James and Capucine Jauffret 6-2, 6-1.

The success rate was the same for Americans at the men's $15,000 USTA Pro Circuit tournament in Naples Florida, with all three quarterfinalists advancing to Saturday's semifinals.

Cannon Kingsley(Ohio State) had received a walkover from top seed Dmitry Popko of Kazakhstan, so he didn't play today, but the No. 6 seed will take on No. 7 seed Felix Corwin(Minnesota) for a place in the final. Corwin defeated unseeded Taha Baadi(Wake Forest, Kentucky) 4-6, 6-4, 6-2. Victor Lilov defeated Argentina's Ignacio Monzon 6-4, 6-0, and will face fellow qualifier Daniel Paty of the Czech Republic in the semifinals. Paty beat No. 2 seed Tommaso Compagnucci of Italy 6-3, 6-3.

The cold weather in Southern Texas continued to cause problems at the women's USTA Pro Circuit W50 in Spring Texas and the forecast is not promising for Saturday either.

No matches were played Friday, although Iva Jovic did advance to the quarterfinals via a walkover from Renata Jamrichova of Slovakia, last year's Australian Open and Wimbledon girls champion. Temperatures were in the 30s most of the day, the entire doubles tournament was cancelled yesterday, and there is a chance of "mixed winter precipitation" is in the forecast for Saturday. Four second round matches still need to be completed, along with the quarterfinals, with the assumption that the semifinals and finals will take place on Sunday.  The weather looks much better for next week, when the main draw of the WTA 250 in Austin Texas gets underway, but this weekend's qualifying there will also feel the impact of this persistent cold, unless they move those matches to an indoor facility.