Thirty-five Americans in Wimbledon Singles Draws; Fritz and Brooksby Advance to ATP Eastbourne Final, Pegula Reaches WTA Bad Homburg Final; Top Seed Sell, Seven Americans Advance to SoCal Pro Series Lakewood $15K Semifinals
The draws for next week's Wimbledon Championships were revealed today, with 19 US women and 16 US men featured in the singles draws.
According to a press release today from the USTA, that's "the most since the exact same tallies in 1999 (35 total; 19 women, 16 men)."
Below are the first round matches of all 35; I don't know which half is playing Monday and which is starting play on Tuesday, but I will post Monday's matches of Americans on Sunday night. With so many Americans it is fortunate that only two matches are between Americans. To see the full draws, click on the headings.
Top half
McCartney Kessler[32] v Marketa Vondrousova(CZE)
Ann Li v Viktorija Golubic(SUI)
Peyton Stearns v Laura Siegemund(GER)
Madison Keys v Elena-Gabriela Ruse(ROU)
Bernards Pera v Linda Noskova[30](CZE)
Amanda Anismiova[13] v Yulia Putintseva(KAZ)
Ashlyn Krueger[31] v Mika Stojsavljevic[WC](GBR)
Bottom half
Hailey Baptiste v Sorana Cirstea(ROU)
Caroline Dolehide v Arantxa Rus(NED)
Emma Navarro[10] v Petra Kvitova[WC](CZE)
Iva Jovic[Q] v Suzan Lamens(NED)
Alycia Parks v Belinda Bencic(SUI)
Katie Volynets v Tatjana Maria(GER)
Jessica Pegula[3] v Elisabetta Cocciaretto(ITA)
Caty McNally v Jodie Burrage[WC](GBR)
Danielle Collins v Camila Osorio(COL)
Sofia Kenin[28] v Taylor Townsend[Q]
Coco Gauff[2] v Dayana Yastremska(UKR)
Top half
Tommy Paul[13] v Johannus Monday[WC](GBR)
Ben Shelton[10] v Alex Bolt(AUS)
Aleksandar Kovacevic v Marton Fucsovics(HUN)
Brandon Nakashima[29] v Yunchaokete Bu(CHN)
Reilly Opelka v Alexander Shevchenko(KAZ)
Marcos Giron v Camilo Ugo Carabelli(ARG)
Alex Michelsen[30] v Miomir Kecmanovic(SRB)
Christopher Eubanks v Jesper De Jong(NED)
Bottom half
Taylor Fritz[5] v Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard(FRA)
Brandon Holt v Alejandro Davidovich Fokina[26](ESP)
Mackenzie McDonald v Karen Khachanov[17](RUS)
Ethan Quinn v Henry Searle[WC](GBR)
Learner Tien v Nishesh Basavareddy
Jenson Brooksby v Tallon Griekspoor[31](NED)
Frances Tiafoe[12] v Elmer Moller(DEN)
The ITA has also sent out a release on the number of collegians in the draws at Wimbledon, with the 26 men in singles this year the most this century.
Three Americans will play in two of the last grass court finals before Wimbledon, with top seed Taylor Fritz, the defending champion, taking on lucky loser Jenson Brooksby for the ATP 250 Eastbourne title Saturday. In the Eastbourne doubles final today, the all-collegiate British team of Julian Cash(Mississippi St, Oklahoma St) and Lloyd Glasspool(Texas) won their second straight title and fourth of the year, with the third-seeded Queens Club champions beating unseeded Ariel Behar of Uruguay and Joran Vliegen(East Carolina) of Belgium 6-4, 7-6(5) in today's final. Glasspool, the 2015 NCAA doubles champion, and Cash are the No. 5 seeds at Wimbledon.
Top seed Jessica Pegula will play No. 4 seed Iga Swiatek of Poland for the title at the WTA 500 in Bad Homburg. And at the WTA 250 in Eastbourne, 2022 US Open girls champion Alexandra Eala of the Philippines, a qualifier, will play unseeded 19-year-old Maya Joint, the American now representing Australia, in the final.
All four of the men's quarterfinals today at the SoCal Pro Series in Lakewood California went three sets, but the top two seeds came through, as did an unseeded recent Pro Series champion and a qualifier.
No. 1 seed and ATP 284 Karue Sell fought back to defeat qualifier Dominique Rolland(Arizona, UC-Santa Barbara) 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(3) and will face unseeded Trevor Svajda, a rising junior at SMU, who won the title two weeks ago at the $15K in San Diego before spending last week competing at the USTA's American Collegiate Playoffs in doubles. Svajda, 19, defeated No. 4 seed Dane Sweeny of Australia 2-6, 6-1, 7-5 today.
Qualifier Spencer Johnson, a rising junior at UCLA, beat qualifier Maciej Rajski of Poland 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 and will play No. 2 seed Garrett Johns(Duke) in the semifinals. Johnson, who has played four of the five SoCal Pro Series events, getting through qualifying in three of the four, will be playing in his first Pro Circuit semifinal.
All four of the women's semifinalists are Californians, with Stanford incoming freshman Alyssa Ahn of San Diego continuing her stellar play in her fourth straight week competing in the SoCal Pro Series. Ahn, who made the final two weeks ago and the semifinals last week, defeated top seed Haley Giavara 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, avenging her two previous losses to the former Cal All-American. She will play qualifier Anne Christine Lutkemeyer, the rising UCLA senior, who beat Natsuho Arakawa(Arkansas, Washington) 6-3, 6-1.
Last week's Rancho Santa Fe champion, No. 2 seed Eryn Cayetano(USC), continued her winning streak, beating unseeded incoming Stanford freshman Tianmei Wang 6-2, 6-4. Her semifinal with 17-year-old Alexis Nguyen will be a rematch of last week's final, which Cayetano won 6-7(4), 6-2, 6-0. Nguyen, the No. 5 seed, received a walkover from No. 3 seed Hiroko Kuwata of Japan today.
For more on Friday's action, see this article from Steve Pratt for USTA SoCal.
At the ITF J300 in Roehampton, five of the seven Americans in the qualifying have advanced to Saturday's final round of qualifying: Jacob Olar, Gavin Goode[4], Matisse Farzam[7], Capucine Jauffret[2] and Ishika Ashar[5].
1 comments:
Hi Colette.
I don't think there's any mystery about which half of the singles draw plays on which day at Wimbledon, assuming the title is being defended. The men's defending champion opens play on CC on Monday, so his half plays on day 1. The women's defending champion opens play on CC on Tuesday, so her half of the draw plays on day 2. This year, both defending champions were placed in the bottom half of the draw, so day 1 features the bottom half for the men and the top half for the women.
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