My Interviews with USO Collegiate Wild Cards Dostanic and Glozman; Four US Men Advance in Wimbledon Qualifying, 11 US Women Play Tuesday; Mosejczuk Sweeps Titles at ITF J200; Annual US Open Wild Card Challenge Announced

My coverage of last week's US Open American Collegiate Wild Card Playoffs is up today at the Tennis Recruiting Network, with winners Valerie Glozman and Stefan Dostanic discussing their strategies in the Playoff finals, their plans for the summer and how they will prepare for their main draw slam debuts in phone interviews I conducted after their matches. With this the first year of the event, and the NCAA fall championships still officially in a pilot phase, I'm not sure what the future holds for it, but this year at least, six American collegians will receive wild cards into the US Open, and that's a win for college tennis.

Emilio Nava, Colton Smith(Arizona), Eliot Spizzirri(Texas) and Zachary Svajda advanced to Wimbledon's second round of qualifying with wins today at Roehampton. I was able to watch Nava's 7-6(6), 7-6(3) win over Mitchell Krueger on ESPN+, with Krueger withstanding 21 aces in a match that featured no breaks of serve and just one break point. Spizzirri led 6-2 in the second set tiebreaker before losing six consecutive points, but he came from 3-1 down in the third set to beat Alejandro Moro Canas of Spain 7-6(4),6-7(6), 6-4.

Monday's Wimbledon qualifying results of Americans:
Emilio Nava[13] d. Mitchell Krueger 7-6(6), 7-6(3)
Luka Pavlovic(FRA) d. Tristan Boyer[9] 7-6(5), 7-6(2)
Zachary Svajda d. Lukas Neumayer(AUT) 6-2, 6-3
Alexis Galarneau(CAN) d. Murphy Cassone 6-4, 2-6, 6-4
Eliot Spizzirri[10] d. Alejandro Moro Canas(ESP) 7-6(4),6-7(6), 6-4
Colton Smith d. Santiago Rodriguez Taverna(ARG) 6-4, 6-1

Oliver Bonding, who won his qualifying wild card as this year's LTA 18s champion, advanced to the second round with a 7-5, 2-6, 6-4 win over Victor Durasovic of Norway, a last-minute replacement for Jason Kubler of Australia. 

Another Norwegian had better luck today, with 2024 Wimbledon boys champion Nicolai Budkov Kjaer of Norway earning his first senior slam victory with a 7-6(3), 6-2 win over 36-year-old Yan Bai of China.

The women's first round of qualifying is Tuesday, with 11 American women in draw. Iva Jovic, the No. 3 seed, will be on Show Court 1, the only court on ESPN+ that is streamed in qualifying.

Tuesday's Wimbledon qualifying matches featuring Americans:

Iva Jovic[3] v Linda Klimovicova(POL)

Taylor Townsend[7] v Louisa Chirico

Robin Montgomery[16] v Hanne Vandewinkel(BEL)

Kayla Day v Ella Seidel[13](GER)

Lauren Davis v Shuai Zhang[23](CHN)

Varvara Lepchenko[19] v Mariam Bolkvadze(GEO)

Maria Mateas v Tereza Valentova[18](CZE)

Whitney Osuigwe v Sinja Kraus(AUT)

Hina Inoue v Sofia Costoulas(BEL)

Hanna Chang v Lola Radivojevic(SRB)

Dominick Mosejczuk swept the titles at the ITF J200 in Germany last week. The No. 2 seed, the 18-year-old New Yorker defeated No. 8 seed Pedro Chabalgoity of Brazil 6-4, 5-7, 7-6(1) in the singles final.

Mosejczuk and 15-year-old Andrew Johnson, who lost in the singles semifinals to Chabalgoity, won the doubles title, with the top seeds defeated No. 2 seed Jan Chlodnicki of Poland and Jake Dembo of Australia 6-1, 7-5 in the final.

Mosejczuk only gained one spot in the ITF junior rankings, as he had won a J200 in Mexico the same week last year, but at No. 36, he'll have a good shot at direct entry into his home slam regardless of his results on the grass in the next several weeks. Johnson hadn't played since the ITF J300 in March, so it's good to see him back on court, and he is now up to a career-high 115 in the ITF junior rankings.

There were four other singles titles for Americans on the ITF Junior Circuit last week.

At the J60 in Ecuador, 16-year-old Filipa Delgado claimed her first ITF Junior Circuit singles title. The No. 3 seed defeated No. 8 seed Sandra Talamo Pinto of Venezuela 6-0, 6-0 in the final. Rowan Qalbani won the boys doubles title in Ecuador, with partner Adrian Oltean Achacollo of Spain. The unseeded pair defeated No. 3 seeds Nicholas Carneiro and Mateus Ranciaro of Brazil 6-2, 4-6, 10-4 in the final. It's the third ITF Junior Circuit doubles title for Qalbani.

Americans won all four titles at the J30 in Honduras, with sweeps by 16-year-olds Macksimus Malhotra and Isabella Pisarczyk.

Malhotra, the No. 6 seed, defeated No. 2 seed Niccolo Magagnin of Italy 6-7(1), 6-4, 6-0 in the singles final, then earned his second career title by partnering with Magagnin to take the doubles. The No. 2 seeds defeated top seeds Caio Lara Campos and Diego Valpereiro of Brazil 6-2, 7-5 in the final.

Pisarczyk also won her first two titles, by defeating her doubles partner, then teaming up with her for a second title later in the day. The top seed defeated No. 4 seed Adriana Khomyakova 6-1, 6-3 in the singles final, with the top seeds then defeating No. 2 seeds Asia Sundas and Sofia Sundas of Italy 6-4, 6-4 in the doubles final. 

At J30 in Peru, 13-year-old Kathryn Cragg of New York won her first ITF Junior Circuit title, losing only 10 games in her five wins. The No. 8 seed, Cragg defeated No. 5 seed Leticia Rojas Vega of Peru 6-1, 6-2 in the final.

At the J100 in Mexico, the girls doubles title went to No. 8 seeds Olivia De Los Reyes and Ligaya Murray, who beat the unseeded team of Regan Levine and Julia Seversen 7-5, 6-7(5), 10-3 in the final.  No. 9 seed Brooke Wallman reached the girls singles final, falling to No. 8 seed Riyo Yoshida of Japan 6-3, 6-3.

The USTA announced the annual US Open Wild Card Challenge would return this summer, although there is a major difference from previous editions. The men's competition begins next week and runs for six weeks, with the four best results counting in the race. The women's competition doesn't begin until July 21 and runs only three weeks, with just two results counting. It also encompasses the first two rounds of the Cincinnati Open 1000, which has been expanded to a two-week event this year.

Usually, all three of the USTA's Wild Card Challenges are four or five weeks, with the best three results counting, so I don't know why the men's event was expanded and the women's contracted. The complete release, shown below, does not provide any explanation.

US Open Wild Card Challenge Returns to Award an American Man and Woman a Singles Main Draw Wild Card Into the 2025 US Open 

 

Challenge to Begin June 30 for Men, July 21 for Women

 

Orlando, Fla., June 23, 2025 – The US Open Wild Card Challenge, which utilizes hard-court pro tournaments to award an American man and woman a singles main draw wild card into the US Open, will kick off the week of June 30 for the men and July 21 for the women, with both windows lasting through the week of August 4. 

 

The men's wild card will go to the American with the highest cumulative total of ATP singles ranking points earned from their best four results over six weeks. The Men's Challenge counts outdoor and indoor hard-court events at the M25-level and above around the world. 

 

The women's wild card will go to the American with the highest cumulative total of WTA singles ranking points earned from their best two results over three weeks. The Women's Challenge counts outdoor and indoor hard-court events at the W35-level and above around the world. 

 

For both the men and the women, results from the first two rounds of the Cincinnati Open will be included if those rounds are completed by the end of the day on Monday, August 11. If all second round matches are not completed by that deadline, then only first-round results will be considered.

 

Both main draw and qualifying points earned count toward each player’s Challenge total.

 

Americans who otherwise earn direct entry into the US Open are not eligible, including those who can enter with a protected ranking. Should the player with the highest number of Challenge points earn direct entry into the US Open, the wild card will go to the next eligible American in the Challenge points standings. In the event of a tie, the player with the best ATP or best WTA singles ranking on Monday, August 11, will earn the wild card.

 

The USTA's recent Wild Card Challenge winners include 17-year-old Iva Jovic, who won the Challenges to get into both the 2025 Australian and French Opens and won her first-round match at both events. Roland Garros Wild Card Challenge men's winner Emilio Nava also reached the second round in Paris, while Australian Open Wild Card Challenge men's winner Nishesh Basavareddy pushed Novak Djokovic to four sets in Melbourne. 

 

Previous US Open Wild Card Challenge winners (and how they did at that year’s US Open) are below:

 

2024: Amanda Anisimova (1R); Learner Tien (1R)

2023: Steve Johnson (1R); Kayla Day (1R)

2022: JJ Wolf (3R), Elizabeth Mandlik (2R)

2019: Ernesto Escobedo (1R), Kristie Ahn (4R)

2018: Bradley Klahn (1R), Asia Muhammad (1R)

2017: Tommy Paul (1R), Sofia Kenin (3R)

2016: Ernesto Escobedo (2R), Sofia Kenin (1R)

2015: Bjorn Fratangelo (1R), Samantha Crawford (1R)

2014: Wayne Odesnik (1R), Nicole Gibbs (3R)

2013: Bradley Klahn (2R), Shelby Rogers (1R)

2012: Steve Johnson (3R), Mallory Burdette (3R)