Three 2024 Wimbledon Girls Semifinalists Advance in Women's Qualifying; SoCal Pro Series Provides Only USTA Pro Circuit Action This Week; Illinois Signs Roland Garros Champion; Dostanic Receives ATP Winston-Salem Main Draw Wild Card

The first round of women's Wimbledon qualifying at Roehampton today featured three of the four 2024 girls semifinalists, and all three came through with three-set victories.

2024 girls champion Renata Jamrichova, who added the Wimbledon title to the Australian Open girls title she had won five months earlier, came from a set down to beat Tamara Korpatsch of Germany 1-6, 7-5, 7-5 to advance to a second round meeting with Joanna Garland of Taiwan.

Jamrichova, at 328 in the WTA rankings, needed the traditional qualifying wild card extended to the previous year's junior champion, but 2024 girls finalist Emerson Jones of Australia and 2024 semifinalist Iva Jovic got into qualifying a year later on the basis of their own WTA rankings.

WTA No. 209 Jones, who turns 17 next month, defeated No. 8 seed Antonia Ruzic of Croatia 6-1, 0-6, 6-0 today and will play Lola Radivojevic of Serbia in Wednesday's second round. 

No. 3 seed Iva Jovic, who lost to Jones 7-5, 6-1 in the girls semifinals last year, is ranked a WTA career-high of 89 now after her title at the W125 in Ilkley two weeks ago, but she needed over two-and-a-half hours to get by Linda Klimovicova of Poland, a 21-year-old who reached the Wimbledon girls semifinals in 2022, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. Klimovicova had 12 aces, and escaped being broke down 0-40 at 1-all in the third set by virtue of her clutch serving. But with Klimovicova serving at 4-5, 30-all, Jovic came up with a blistering forehand winner to earn a match point, and Klimovicova made an unforced error to end what was a high-quality first round qualifying match. Jovic will face Julia Riera of Argentina in the second round Wednesday.

Jovic was one of five American women to advance, with 22-year-old Hina Inoue, who played her first slam qualifying match last month at Roland Garros, getting her first win. Inoue, who plays Taylor Townsend next, defeated Sofia Costoulas of Belgium 6-2, 7-6(3).  The Townsend-Inoue match is scheduled for Show Court 1, the sole court being streamed at ESPN+.

In another notable result, former Texas A&M star Carson Branstine defeated qualifying top seed and Roland Garros semifinalist Lois Boisson of France 6-2, 6-7(1), 6-4. She will play Bianca Andreescu of Canada, with whom she won the Australian Open and Roland Garros girls doubles titles in 2017.

Wednesday's order of play is here.

Tuesday's Wimbledon qualifying results of Americans:

Iva Jovic[3] d. Linda Klimovicova(POL) 6-4, 4-6, 6-4

Taylor Townsend[7] d. Louisa Chirico 6-4, 6-2

Robin Montgomery[16] d. Hanne Vandewinkel(BEL) 7-6(6), 6-7(3), 6-3

Ella Seidel[13](GER) d. Kayla Day 2-6, 6-1, 6-2 

Shuai Zhang[23](CHN) d. Lauren Davis  6-3, 6-2

Mariam Bolkvadze(GEO) d. Varvara Lepchenko[19] 7-5, 6-4

Tereza Valentova[18](CZE) d. Maria Mateas 6-2, 6-3

Whitney Osuigwe d. Sinja Kraus(AUT) 6-3, 6-4

Hina Inoue d. Sofia Costoulas(BEL) 6-2, 7-6(3)

Lola Radivojevic(SRB) d. Hanna Chang 4-6, 7-6(3), 6-1

Wednesday's Wimbledon qualifying matches featuring Americans:

Taylor Townsend[7] v Hina Inoue

Robin Montgomery[16] v Patricia Maria Tig(ROU)

Whitney Osuigwe v Shuai Zhang[23(CHN)

Iva Jovic[3] v Julia Riera(ARG)

Zachary Svajda v Marton Fucsovics[1](HUN)

Eliot Spizzirri[10] v Alex Bolt(AUS)

Colton Smith v Yosuke Wantanuki(JPN)

Emilio Nava[13] v Dominic Stricker(SUI)

The only USTA Pro Circuit tournaments this week are in Lakewood California, with Week Five of the SoCal Pro Series underway.

Six of the women's qualifiers are Americans: Kayla Chung, Anne Lutkemeyer(UCLA), Olivia Center(UCLA), Bella Payne, Midoria Castillo Meza(Arizona) and Maria Aytoyan.

All four women's wild cards went to juniors: Kara Garcia, Kaia Giribalan, Armira Kockinis and Brooke Kwon.  Duke incoming freshman Claire An received an ITF Junior Reserved entry.

Haley Giavara(Cal) and last week's champion Eryn Cayetano(USC) are the top two seeds.

The eight men's qualifiers include five Americans: Spencer Johnson(UCLA), Phillip Jordan(South Carolina, UC-Santa Barbara), Keshav Chopra(Georgia Tech), Dominique Rolland(Arizona, UC-Santa Barbara) and Christopher Papa(San Diego Christian, Pepperdine). 

Wild cards were awarded to Max Fardanesh(UC-Irvine), Emon Van Loben Sels(UCLA), and juniors Rishvanth Krishna and Brayden Tallakson.

ATP Top 300 player Karue Sell(UCLA) of Brazil is the top seed, with Garrett Johns(Duke) the No. 2 seed.  Last week's finalists Jack Anthrop(Ohio State) and Andrew Fenty(Michigan) are unseeded this week, with Trevor Svajda, the champion of the San Diego $15K two weeks ago, also unseeded this week. 

The University of Illinois announced a major addition to their 2025-26 roster, with 2022 Roland Garros boys champion Gabriel Debru of France heading to Champaign-Urbana. Debru, whose older brother Mathis graduated from Illinois this year, is a former ITF No. 1 junior and has won two ATP Challenger titles. He is currently 263 in the ATP rankings, but has not competed since January.

The ATP 250 in Winston-Salem North Carolina, held the week before the US Open, has announced that Stefan Dostanic has been awarded the tournament's first main draw wild card. Once Dostanic won the US Open main draw wild card last week at the USTA's Collegiate Playoffs, he was free to compete that week, and with his just-completed semester at Wake Forest such a resounding success, he checks the box for local interest as well.