Stanford Tops Women's 2025 Winter Recruiting Class Rankings; Majeed and Ye Claim ITF J60 Titles in Costa Rica; US Girls Top Seeds in ITF J300s in Egypt and Peru This Week; Sonobe Gets First WTA Main Draw Win

A familiar school is at the top of Tennis Recruiting Network's  women's 2025 winter recruiting class rankings: Stanford. The winningest program in Division I college tennis has always attracted the top Americans, and this year is no different, with the Cardinal getting commitments from blue chips Alyssa Ahn, Monika Ekstrand and Tianmei Wang, which garnered them 11 of the 13 first place votes. Four other blue blood programs fill out the top five, in order: Texas, UCLA, Georgia and Southern California. Rounding out the top ten are South Carolina, LSU, Virginia, Yale and NC State. NC State has just one player in their 2025 recruiting class, Victoria Osuigwe, but she impressed enough voters, of which I am one, to put the Wolfpack in the Top 10.

For the full list, as well as notes and comments about the history and highlights of this year's ranking, see this article.

I reported on the San Diego ITF J60 results last Friday, with top seed Ford McCollum and qualifier Yilin Chen taking the singles titles, but I need to catch up on the four titles for Americans at the J60 in Costa Rica in today's post.  

Fifteen-year-old Sarah Ye, who had reached the final two weeks ago in another J60 in Costa Rica, earned her first ITF Junior Circuit title last week. The blue chip from New Jersey, seeded No. 6, defeated No. 7 seed Calla McGill 7-6(7), 6-2 in the final.

No. 3 seed Shaan Majeed, who won the doubles title two weeks ago at the J60 in Costa Rica, captured the boys singles title, beating top seed Agassi Rusher 6-3, 6-4 in the final. Majeed, 15, had won two J30 singles titles last year.

The unseeded pair of Avner Wong and Korea's Junseo Jang won the boys doubles title, beating Caden Colburne and Brayden Woo of Canada, also unseeded, 6-4, 6-3 in the final. It's the first ITF Junior Circuit title for the 17-year-old Wong, but the second, both in doubles, for the 13-year-old Jang, who reached the IMG Academy International 14s singles final last December and swept the 12s titles at the Eddie Herr and Junior Orange Bowl in 2023. 

Fifteen-year-old Ava Avramovic won her fourth ITF Junior Circuit doubles title, with Sabrian Balderrama of Venezuela. The top seeds defeated unseeded Neda Rahimkhani and Lily Rochon of Canada 6-3, 6-1 in the final.

No. 6 seed Kali Supova of Slovakia and top seed Alejandro Arcila of Colombia won the singles titles at the J300 in Ecuador last week. The 17-year-old Arcila moved up to 27 in the ITF junior rankings with his first singles title above a J60. The 15-year-old Supova, who beat top seed Leena Friedman in the quarterfinals, won her first J300 title with a 7-5, 6-4 win over No. 2 seed Giulia Popa of Romania.

Friedman reached the girls doubles final, with British partner Allegra Korpanec Davies. The top seeds lost to No. 2 seeds Maayan laron of Israel and Dune Vaissaud of France 4-6, 6-3, 13-11. The only US boys in the draw, Nicolas Mekhael, reached the doubles semifinals.

Two American girls are the top seeds at the J300s this week in Peru and Egypt.

In Lima, Barranquilla J300 champion Julieta Pareja is at the top of the draw, with Capucine Jauffret the No. 2 seed. The four other US girls in the draw are Kayla Chung, Ligaya Murray, Chukwumelije Clarke, and Maria Aytoyan. Three US boys are in the draw: qualifier Sebastian Bielen, No. 3 seed Keaton Hance, the Barranquilla champion, and Zavier Augustin. Arcila of Colombia is the top seed.

Maya Iyengar is the top seed at the J300 in Cairo this week, and is the only American in either draw. Iyengar, who won her opening round match today, is playing the J500 in Cairo next week; she had a rough trip to Australia, losing in third set tiebreakers in the first round at both the J300 in Traralgon and at the Australian Junior Championships. 

Australian Open girls champion Wakana Sonobe continued her run at the WTA 500 in Abu Dhabi U.A.E.; after earning two WTA Top 100 wins as a wild card into qualifying (the tournament is managed by IMG, where Sonobe trains), the 17-year-old left-hander from Japan won again in the first round of the main draw today. Sonobe, who has yet to lose a set, defeated WTA no. 55 Yue Yuan of China 6-4, 6-3. She will face either No. 7 seed Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia or Ons Jabeur of Tunisia.

For more on the match, see this article from the WTA website.