Boys 18s and 16s Nationals Begins Friday in Kalamazoo; Exsted and Woestendick Top Seeds in 18s Doubles; Crawley Beats No. 1 Seed in Lexington W75; Tien and Michelsen Advance to Round of 16 Meeting in Toronto Masters 1000

The USTA Boys 18s and 16s National Championships begin Friday, with first round matches in singles and doubles. None of the seeds are in action Friday, with all of them receiving byes into the second round; The seeds in the 18s in both singles and doubles will play Saturday.

The good news is that for the first time in this decade, there is no rain expected Friday; the tournament had rain during the opening day in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, with the tournament not held in 2020 due to the pandemic. In fact, the forecast is excellent for the next five days, with the oppressive heat and humidity of the past week now gone and no rain expected.

The schedule for the week, which might actually be accurate this year with the expected good weather, can be found at ustaboys.com. Links to live scoring and live streaming can be found at the ustaboys.com home page.

The doubles seeds are below, with 2024 Australian Open boys champions Max Exsted and Cooper Woestendick the top seeds in the 18s, and 2025 ITF J300 San Diego champion Michael Antonius and Roshan Santhosh the top seeds in the 16s.

Boys 18s
1. Max Exsted and Cooper Woestendick
2. Noah Johnston and Benjamin Willwerth
3. Ryan Cozad and Keaton Hance
4. Maximus Dussault and Ronit Karki
5. Arnav Bhandari and Jack Satterfield
6. Nolan Bathazor and Yashwin Krishnakumar
7. Andre Alcantara and Tyler Lee
8. Bryan Assi and Justin Lin
9. Nicholas Patrick and James Weber
10. Jack Kennedy and Jacob Olar
11. Drew Fishback and Nicolas Iantosca
12. Aaron Beduhn and Bode Campbell
13. Adrien Abarca and Justin Riley Anson
14. Sawyer Severance and Sutton Severance
15. Zavier Augustin and Jon Gamble
16. Gavin Goode and Dominick Mosejczuk

Boys 16s
1. Michael Antonius and Roshan Santhosh
2. Andrew Johnson and Mason Vaughan
3. Ryan Corcoran and Kahven Singh
4. Ivan Rybak and Boning Wang
5. Nicolas Pedraza and Erik Schinnerer
6. Anish Poojari and Soren Swenson
7. Shaan Majeed and Lucas Smith
8. Colin McPeek and James Ross
9. Paxton Au and Peter Jorniak
10. Simon Hayal and Atticus Kim
11. Eli Kaminski and Noah Richer
12. Carson Kuchar and Robert McAdoo
13. Rafael Lopez and Rowan Qalbani
14. Keshav Muthuvel and Joseph Nau
15. Marcel Latak and Vihaan Reddy
16. Safir Azam and Tristan Stratton

Former North Carolina All-American Fiona Crawley defeated top seed Anastasia Zakharov of Russia 6-2, 5-7, 6-1 today to reach the quarterfinals of the USTA women's Pro Circuit W75 in Lexington Kentucky. Zakharova, was 85 in the WTA rankings when the draw was made for Lexington, but has since fallen to 103, so although this is Crawley's best career win by ranking, it is not a Top 100 win. The 23-year-old from Texas, who qualified this week, will face wild card Kayla Day. Another wild card, Victoria Hu(Princeton), is through to the quarterfinals after beating qualifier Tori Osuigwe 6-3, 6-3. Qualifier Lea Ma(Georgia) received a walkover from No. 6 seed Clervie Ngounoue and will face No. 2 seed Varvara Lepchenko in the quarterfinals.

Five American men are through to the quarterfinals at the M25 in Edwardsville Illinois, with four of them in the top half. Top seed Tyler Zink(Oklahoma State) will face No. 7 seed Kyle Kang(Stanford) and qualifier Nicolas Kotzen(Columbia) will play wild card Aidan Kim(Ohio State).  Evan Bynoe is the fifth American in the quarterfinals; he will face qualifier Marko Miladinovic(Baylor) of Serbia Friday.  

At the ATP Masters 1000 in Toronto, Alex Michelsen, the No. 26 seed, took out No. 3 seed Lorenzo Musetti of Italy 3-6, 7-6(4), 6-4 and will now meet friend and training partner Learner Tien(USC) for a spot in the quarterfinals. Tien defeated Reilly Opelka 7-6(3), 6-3 with both he and Michelsen into the round of 16 at a Masters 1000 for the first time. 

Michelsen, 20, and Tien, 19, met in the semifinals of the ATP NextGen Finals last December, with Tien, getting the victory  2-4, 4-2, 1-4, 4-0, 4-1. A rematch at the ATP 250 in Houston in April went to Michelsen 6-4, 6-2, which is their only match appearing in the ATP head-to-head.

At the WTA 1000 in Montreal, McCartney Kessler(Florida), the No. 28 seed, defeated No. 4 seed Mirra Andreeva of Russia 7-6(5), 6-4 to advance to the round of 16, where she'll play No. 24 seed Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine.

July Aces; Urhobo Named Top Seed in G18s USTA National Championships Over Pareja; Seeds for 12s, 14s 16s Nationals Posted

My monthly column for Tennis Recruiting Network, featuring the top performances from current and former collegians and juniors, is out today, a few days early due to the start of Kalamazoo on Friday, when my preview for that tournament will be published. 

Because former collegians, and even juniors, have had so much success on the pro circuit, I've been unable to include them for 15Ks, unless they win more than one tournament in a month. And this month, despite expanding to 19 highlights, I didn't have room for those who won M25s. Last month that included Blaise Bicknell(Florida, Tennessee), Charlie Broom(Dartmouth, Baylor), Gilles Arnaud Bailly(Texas), 2024 spring NCAA champion Filip Planinsek(Alabama), Paul Jubb(South Carolina) and Lucas Da Silva(South Carolina), and possibly others I missed. This is just more evidence that the depth and breadth of college and junior tennis is steadily improving, providing an impact at all pro levels now. And note that two of the highlights feature former collegians in doubles, who won an ATP 250 title and Wimbledon.

The seeds for the USTA Nationals, starting this weekend, have all been posted, with a big surprise in the Girls 18s. ITF junior No. 1 and WTA 340 Julieta Pareja is not the top seed in San Diego, with the top spot instead going to Akasha Urhobo.

Urhobo's ITF junior ranking is 708 and her WTA ranking is 429, with neither having any USTA ranking to speak of. Both Pareja and Urhobo are in the Pro Zone in World Tennis Number ratings, so those can't be compared directly, but even if Urhobo's WTN is better, I don't see how it could trump Pareja's advantage in the other two rankings used for National 18s seeding. Fortunately, there is virtually no practical difference in being the No. 1 or No. 2 in seeding, so with Pareja No. 2, they can't meet until the final. But when the 18s draw comes out Thursday night, it will be interesting to see in whose half No. 3 Monika Ekstrand, WTA No. 355, lands.

I didn't see any thing too notable elsewhere in the 18s seedings, although I think Tianmei Wang, who went 12-4 with one title in five SoCal Pro Series events this summer on Southern California hard courts, might have earned a top 16 seed based on those results. Below are the Top 16 seeds, (top 32 for Kalamazoo), in all divisions. Click on the heading to go to the USTA tournament sites, with the additional seeds provided in the Players tab.

Girls 18s

1. Akasha Urhobo

2. Julieta Pareja

3. Monika Ekstrand

4. Kristina Penickova

5. Alexis Nguyen

6. Victoria Osuigwe

7. Alyssa Ahn

8. Nicole Weng

9. Claire Hill

10. Kate Fakih

11. Christasha McNeil

12. Thea Frodin

13. Bella Payne

14. Karlin Schock

15. Calla McGill

16. Thara Gowda

Girls 16s

1. Carlota Moreno

2. Armira Kockinis

3. Welles Newman

4. Paige Wygodzki

5. Sylvana Jalbert

6. Aarini Bhattacharya

7. Julia Seversen

8. Anastasiya Muravia

9. Vanessa Kruse

10. Natalie Kha

11. Lauren Nolan

12. Kalista Papadopoulos

13. Enya Hamilton

14. Sadira Ouyang

15. Kasia Chen

16. Kara Garcia

Girls 14s

1. Isha Manchala

2. Olivia Lin

3. Anna Scott Laney

4. Nadia Poznick

5. Natalie Frisbie

6. Daniella Sales

7. Anna Kapanadze

8. Juliana Diianni

9. Rebecca Wu

10. Roxanne Luu

11. Blake Chang

12. Eugenia Alvarez

13. Kyndall Noel

14. Reena Alavalapati

15. Alexandra Hu

16. Eleanor Armistead

Girls 12s

1. Danielle Han

2. Mila Mikoczi Spivey

3. Daniella Yogumyan

4. Violetta Li

5. Jacqueline Feehan

6. Cataleya Brown

7. Chloe Anthony

8. Anna Sandru

9. Summer Yang

10. Noa Boar

11. Valentina Singh Carvajal

12. Mary Podkhyneychenko

13. Emma Li

14. Grace Malhotra

15. Maya Laddin

16. Ranvi Reddy

Boys 18s:

1. Darwin Blanch

2. Cooper Woestendick

3. Jack Kennedy

4. Benjamin Willwerth

5. Ronit Karki

6. Keaton Hance

7. Noah Johnston

8. Jack Satterfield

9. Dominick Mosejczuk

10. Maxwell Exsted

11. Maximus Dussault

12. Gus Grumet

13. Ilija Palavestra(WC)

14. Roy Horovitz(WC)

15. Lukas Phimvongsa

16. Braeden Gelletich

17. Ian Mayew

18. Dylan Long

19. Nav Dayal

20. Ryan Cozad

21. Gavin Goode

22. Matisse Farzam

23. Simon Caldwell(WC)

24. Lachlan Gaskell

25. Nischal Spurling

26. Cooper Han

27. Jacob Olar(WC)

28. Shaan Patel

29. Yashwin Krishnakumar

30. Nikolas Stoot

31. Tanishk Konduri

32. Ethan Chung

Boys 16s:

1. Michael Antonius(WC)

2. Andrew Johnson

3. Roshan Santhosh

4. Vihaan Reddy

4. Marcel Latak

6. Keshav Muthuvel

7. Safir Azam

8. Tristan Stratton

9. Sean Grosman(WC)

10. Jerrid Gaines Jr

11. Izyan Ahmad

12. Shaan Majeed

13. Navneet Raghuram

14. Joseph Lee

15. Mason Vaughan

16. Colin McPeek

17. Ilias Bouzoubaa

18. Erik Schinnerer

19. Aditya Pandey

20. Daniil Berezin

21. Sebastian Bielen(WC)

22. Ryan Bedwick

23. Lucas Smith

24. Lennart Hammargren

25. Artem Dmytrenko

26. Rafael Lopez

27. Gadin Arun

28. Peter Jorniak

29. Sebastian Inaki Godoy

30. Rowan Qalbani

31. Joseph Nau

32. Cristobal Plasencia Robles

Boys 14s:

1. Joshua Dolinsky

2. Sebastian Zavala

3. Dylan Meineke

4. Kensho Ford

5. Luke Jones

6. Michael Chervenkhov

7. Evan Puente

8. Joaquin Hernandez

9. Smyan Vijay

10. Grant Miller

11. Ishaan Marla

12. Joseph Garrean

13. Kyle Hwang

14. Smyan Thuta

15. Jiarui Zhang

16. Robert Pheister

Boys 12s:

1. William McGugin

2. Evan Fan

3. Olie Rosa Hall

4. Thomas Gamble

5. Keita Iida

6. Mateo Vicens

7. Dmitriy Flyam

8. Ved Iyengar

9. Pranav Madamanchi

10. Ayaan Bangera

11. Matthew Kolomeyer

12. Ethan Cho

13. Samuel Hartley

14. David Benedict

15. Gabriel Marino

16. Luca Rodriguez

US Open Junior Championships Acceptances Feature Eight ITF Top 10 Boys and Seven ITF Top 10 Girls; Judge Certifies NCAA Tennis Players as Class in Brantmeier Lawsuit; Two USTA Pro Circuit 75s in Lexington, Edwardsville M25 Underway

The acceptances for the US Open Junior Championships, which begins Sunday August 31st, were released today, with eight of the ITF Top 10 boys and seven of the ITF Top 10 girls entering.

Leading off both lists are the current ITF No. 1 juniors, Wimbledon champion Ivan Ivanov of Bulgaria and Wimbledon finalist Julieta Pareja. 

The other top 10 boys are: No. 2 Andres Santamarta Roig of Spain, No. 4 Alexander Vasilev of Bulgaria, No. 5 Benjamin Willwerth, No. 7 Oskari Paldanius, No. 8 Yannick Alexandrescou of Romania, who just won a J300 last week in Poland, No. 9 and Roland Garros finalist Max Schoenhaus of Germany and No. 10 and Roland Garros champion Niels McDonald, who just picked up his first ATP Challenger win today as a wild card in his home country of Germany. 

Missing are Jacopo Vasami of Italy, the No. 3 ranked junior, and Australian Open boys champion Henry Bernet of Switzerland, who has just returned to competition on the ITF men's World Tennis Tour after a five-month injury layoff.

The 10 US boys on the acceptance list are Jack Kennedy, Jagger Leach, Ronit Karki, Keaton Hance, Noah Johnston, Jack Secord, Jack Satterfield, Maxwell Exsted, Dominick Mosejczuk and Maximus Dussault. 

Two players received main draw entries based on the ITF Top 80 exception for regions not otherwise represented: Karim Bennani (Africa) and Yannik Alvarez of Puerto Rico (Central America and Caribbean). Nicolas Arseneault of Canada, a rising freshman at Kentucky received entry based on his ATP ranking of 638. Arseneault received a wild card and won a round at the ATP Masters 1000 in Toronto this weekend. 

The initial boys ranking cutoff for main draw was 49.

American boys currently in qualifying are Ryan Cozad, Gavin Goode, Matisse Farzam and Michael Antonius.

The initial boys ranking cutoff for qualifying was 79.

In addition to No. 1 Pareja, the other Top 10 girls in the draw are No. 2 Emerson Jones of Australia, No. 4 Hannah Klugman of Great Britain, No. 5 Kristina Penickova, No. 7 Wimbledon champion Mia Pohankova of Slovakia, No. 8 Luna Vujovic of Serbia and No. 9 Jana Kovackova of the Czech Republic.

Missing are Roland Garros champion and No. 3 Lilli Tagger of Austria, Australian Open champion and No. 6 Wakana Sonobe of Japan and No. 10 Teodora Kostovic of Serbia.

As has been the case at the previous two junior slams, the US girls in the main draw is a small number. In addition to Pareja and Penickova, the other three main draw acceptances from the US are Thea Frodin, Annika Penickova and Maya Iyengar.

Seventeen-year-old Alisa Oktiabreva of Russia, who has not played a junior event since the 2023 Orange Bowl, received main draw entry based on her WTA ranking of 347. She is 23-6 this year on the Pro Circuit, having recently reached the quarterfinals of a WTA 125 in Italy.

The initial girls main draw cutoff was 50.

Americans Leena Friedman, Capucine Jauffret and Ishika Ashar are in the qualifying, with the ranking cutoff 85.

Two girls received places in qualifying based on their regions being unrepresented. Alyssa James of Jamaica and Jahnie Van Zyl of South Africa were granted those places based on their rankings in the ITF junior Top 150.

The acceptances for the ITF J300 in College Park Maryland, which I'll be covering in person again this year, were also published today. 

The top two in the boys and girls ITF rankings are not playing it, with No. 4 Hannah Klugman and No. 5 Benjamin Willwerth leading the lists. There are three Top 10 girls and five Top 10 boys currently entered.

The initial ranking cutoff for main draw was 61 for the boys and 88 for the girls.

As announced earlier this month, there was additional news on the Reese Brantmeier lawsuit challenging the NCAA's prohibition of college tennis players accepting prize money, with judge Catherine Eagles certifying two classes of college tennis players who could benefit from the lawsuit.

From the very thorough coverage of the case in this article by the Carolina Journal:

The first covers any player who has competed in Division I tennis since March 19, 2020, or was ineligible to compete because of NCAA prize money restrictions. That class includes 12,000 players, according to the court order.

The second class covers any player who “voluntarily forfeited” prize money during the same time period. Brantmeier’s lawyers have “provided evidence that there are over 60 members” of that class, Eagles wrote.

Whether this decision will push the NCAA toward a settlement, rather than another long and costly lawsuit, remains to be seen.

The USTA Pro Circuit has three tournaments this week, with an ATP Challenger 75 and a W75 in Lexington Kentucky and an M25 in Edwardsville Illinois.

The first round is nearly complete at the Challenger, with top seed Nishesh Basavareddy(Stanford) winning his opening match yesterday and No. 2 seed Eliot Spizzirri(Texas) defeating qualifier Stefan Dostanic(USC, Wake Forest) 6-3, 6-2 today. Spizzirri was caught in an unusual set of circumstances last week, when he made it into qualifying at the Masters 1000 in Toronto, but couldn't play because he was still in the Bloomfield Hills Challenger. He was automatically withdrawn from Lexington because he was in Toronto qualifying, so he needed a wild card to play this week there. 

Other Americans through to the second round are No. 6 seed Zachary Svajda, who beat qualifier Alex Rybakov(TCU) 6-2, 7-6(10) and ATP College Accelerator entrant Michael Zheng(Columbia), who defeated Bloomfield Hills finalist Andres Martin(Georgia Tech) 6-4, 6-4 today. The winner of tonight's match between qualifier Aidan Mayo and No. 7 seed Christopher Eubanks(Georgia Tech) will be the fifth American in the second round.

At the women's tournament in Lexington, qualifiers include Americans Alana Smith(NC State), Fiona Crawley(North Carolina), Katrina Scott, Eryn Cayetano(USC), Lea Ma(Georgia) and Tori Osuigwe(NC State). The final qualifying match between Usue Arconada and Katie Swan of Great Britain is still in progress.

Amelia Honer(UC-Santa Barbara), Kayla Day, Victoria Hu(Princeton) and Zoe Hammond(Kentucky) received wild cards, with Honer facing top seed Anastasia Zakharova of Russia in the first round. Varvara Lepchenko is the No. 2 seed and will play a qualifier in the first round Wednesday.

Heat has interrupted the M25 in Edwardsville, but all qualifying matches were completed.  

Americans qualifying are Braden Shick(NC State), Nicolas Kotzen(Columbia), Nicholas Steiglehner(Michigan) and Jonah Braswell(Texas). 

Wild cards were awarded to Alexander Razeghi(Stanford), who beat junior exempt entry Kaylan Bigun(UCLA) 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 in the first round; Aidan Kim(Ohio State), Oliver Okonkwo(Illinois) and Spencer Johnson(UCLA). Tyler Zink(Oklahoma State) is the top seed, with Leandro Riedi of Switzerland the No. 2 seed.

Kalamazoo USTA Nationals Draws Posted; Blockbuster Class Tapped for ITA Men's Hall of Fame; Martin, McNally Lead US Open Wild Card Race; Townsend Reaches Doubles No. 1; Murray Claims ITF J100 Title

The singles draws were posted today for the Boys 18s and Boys 16s USTA Nationals at Kalamazoo. I posted the top 32 seeds in each division yesterday. All 64 seeds in each division receive first round byes in singles. The projected quarterfinals by seeding, for those of you who don't want to click through all eight sections of the 256 draw, are:

18s:
Blanch[1] v Karki[5] 

Kennedy[3] v Johnston[7] 

Satterfield[8] v Willwerth[4] 

Hance[6] v Woestendick[2]

16s:

Antonius[1] v Latak[5]

Santhosh[3] v Muthuvel[6] 

Stratton[8] v Reddy[4] 

Azam[7] v Johnson[2]

Kalamazoo is the only Nationals that publishes their draw this early. The girls 16s draw is expected to be out Wednesday and the girls 18s and boys 14s draws are expected to be out Thursday and the girls and boys 12s are expected to be published Friday. There is no indication on the girls 14s site when their draw will be published.

The ITA men's Hall of Fame announced its class for 2026 and it's full of superstars: players Steve Johnson(USC), John Isner(Georgia) and Kevin Anderson(Illinois), coach Manny Diaz(Georgia) and contributor John Frierson(Georgia). It's fitting that the quintet will be inducted in Athens, the site of the men's Hall of Fame and undeniably one of the most beloved venues in college tennis. For more on all the inductees, see this article from the ITA.

The first US Open Wild Card standings for women came out today, with Caty McNally leading the women's race, which was reduced to three weeks and the best two results this year, while the men have six weeks and the best four results.

After winning the W100 in Evansville yesterday however, McNally has more points in one week than any US man has collected in four, with Andres Martin taking over the top spot after reaching the final of the Bloomfield Hills ATP Challenger 100. There is a bit more than two weeks left, with the race extending through second round matches played by Monday August 11 in Cincinnati.

The full standings with approximately two weeks to go:

Women's Standings:
(Player's current ranking in parentheses)
1. Caty McNally (116) - 100
2. Venus Williams (643) - 60
3. Amelia Honer (722) - 35
4. Robin Anderson (364) - 23
5. Haley Giavara (381) - 14

Men's Standings:
(Player's current ranking in parentheses)
1. Andres Martin (275) - 61
2. Emilio Nava (114) - 50
T3. Eliot Spizzirri (124) - 44
T3. Zachary Svajda (148) - 44
5. Govind Nanda (344) - 38

Emilio Nava and Tristan Boyer qualified and both have won a round at the 12-day ATP Masters 1000 in Toronto, so they are very much in contention. McNally is playing the WTA 1000 in Montreal, with her first round match against Alycia Parks scheduled for Tuesday.

Taylor Townsend won the doubles title at the WTA 500 in Washington DC, with partner Shuai Zhang of China, and with that result moved to No. 1 in the WTA women's doubles rankings. For more on what Townsend's ascent might mean for doubles, see this article by Hanlon Walsh, who specializes in writing about that often over-looked side of the sport.

With the USTA Nationals fast approaching the ITF Junior Circuit wasn't as populated with Americans as usual last week, with just two singles and two doubles titles collected. 

At the J100 in Colombia, top seed Ligaya Murray defeated No. 3 seed and doubles partner Jordyn Hazelitt 6-4, 6-2 in the all-USA girls singles final. The 17-year-old New Yorker, who did not drop a set all week, now has four ITF Junior Circuit singles title and is up to 152 in the ITF junior rankings. 

Murray and Hazelitt, the top seeds in doubles, lost to No. 2 seeds Ana Avramovic and Venezuela's Sabrina Balderrama 2-6, 6-1, 12-10 in the doubles final. 

McKenzie Shelton won her first title on the ITF Junior Circuit last week at the J30 in Jamaica. The 17-year-old from Georgia, seeded fifth, defeated unseeded Jane Ham of Korea 6-0, 6-2 in the championship match.

Sixteen-year-old Tristan Bradu won his first ITF Junior Circuit title in Montego Bay in boys doubles, partnering with Canadian Antoine Tardif. The unseeded pair defeated top seeds Mikaeel Ali Baig of Pakistan and Ross Johnson 6-4, 2-6, 10-2 in the final. 

USTA Nationals Kalamazoo Seeds; Lajal Saves Five Match Points to Win Bloomfield Hills Challenger, Another Title for Caty McNally; Honer, Jubb Claim Titles in Florence and Champaign

The seeds have been published for the USTA National 16s and 18s Championships, which begin Friday August 1 in Kalamazoo. The top 32 seeds, all of whom receive first round byes, are listed below. The 33 seeds can be found at the USTA PlayTennis website. Draws are expected to be posted Monday.

Boys 18s:
1. Darwin Blanch

2. Cooper Woestendick

3. Jack Kennedy

4. Benjamin Willwerth

5. Ronit Karki

6. Keaton Hance

7. Noah Johnston

8. Jack Satterfield

9. Dominick Mosejczuk

10. Maxwell Exsted

11. Maximus Dussault

12. Gus Grumet

13. Ilija Palavestra(WC)

14. Roy Horovitz(WC)

15. Lukas Phimvongsa

16. Braeden Gelletich

17. Ian Mayew

18. Dylan Long

19. Nav Dayal

20. Ryan Cozad

21. Gavin Goode

22. Matisse Farzam

23. Simon Caldwell(WC)

24. Lachlan Gaskell

25. Nischal Spurling

26. Cooper Han

27. Jacob Olar(WC)

28. Shaan Patel

29. Yashwin Krishnakumar

30. Nikolas Stoot

31. Tanishk Konduri

32. Ethan Chung

Boys 16s:

1. Michael Antonius(WC)

2. Andrew Johnson

3. Roshan Santhosh

4. Vihaan Reddy

4. Marcel Latak

6. Keshav Muthuvel

7. Safir Azam

8. Tristan Stratton

9. Sean Grosman(WC)

10. Jerrid Gaines Jr

11. Izyan Ahmad

12. Shaan Majeed

13. Navneet Raghuram

14. Joseph Lee

15. Mason Vaughan

16. Colin McPeek

17. Ilias Bouzoubaa

18. Erik Schinnerer

19. Aditya Pandey

20. Daniil Berezin

21. Sebastian Bielen(WC)

22. Ryan Bedwick

23. Lucas Smith

24. Lennart Hammargren

25. Artem Dmytrenko

26. Rafael Lopez

27. Gadin Arun

28. Peter Jorniak

29. Sebastian Inaki Godoy

30. Rowan Qalbani

31. Joseph Nau

32. Cristobal Plasencia Robles

The final at the ATP Challenger 100 in Bloomfield Hills Michigan was a three-and-a-half hour roller coaster ride, with unseeded Mark Lajal of Estonia saving five match points to beat wild card Andres Martin(Georgia Tech) 6-7(7), 7-5, 7-6(9) and claim his second Challenger title.

Lajal had three set points in the first set at 6-4 and 7-6 in the tiebreaker, but Martin saved the first when Lajal netted a forehand and the second with a drop shot that Lajal couldn't get back in play. Martin hit an ace up the T on the third set point, got a backhand error for his first set point, then converted it by bringing Lajal forward and bunting the reply into the open court.

There were no breaks in the second set until 5-all, but Lajal had to save two break points to serve it out, with the match two hours in duration at the juncture.

Martin had a break lead twice in the third set, at 2-0 and 3-1, but immediately lost serve both times, with the heat and the length of the match beginning to lead to more errors and less depth on the ground strokes.

After those four consecutive breaks, Martin had his first two match points after a double fault with Lajal serving at 4-5, 15-40. Martin failed to get a second serve return in play, then Lajal got a fortunate bounce off a let cord that led to him passing Martin on the second.

As in the first set tiebreaker, Lajal went up 6-4 in the third set tiebreaker, but double faulted to squander his first match point opportunity. Martin then played one of his most aggressive points of the final game, knocking off a backhand volley to save the second match point. Martin earned his third match point when Lajal netted an approach shot, but Martin's short second serve return led to a Lajal forehand winner to save it for 7-7. Lajal's backhand caught the tape and went wide to give Martin his fourth match point, but Martin sent a forehand way long in response to Lajal's return of Martin's first set to save it. Martin got his fifth and final match point when Lajal netted another forehand for 9-8, but Lajal saved that one with a good first serve and a plus-one forehand.  The next two points were also claimed by Lajal's forehand, with Lajal pounding one so deep that Martin couldn't handle it on his third and final match point of the day.

The 22-year-old Lajal is now up to a career-high ATP ranking of 147 with the title; the 24-year-old Martin is at a career-high ATP ranking of 276 after reaching the final. 

The other three USTA Pro Circuit finals today were decided with less drama, all in straight sets.

Caty McNally won her tenth straight match, with the No. 3 seed beating 2024 NCAA fall singles champion Dasha Vidmanova(Georgia) of the Czech Republic, the No. 7 seed, 7-5, 6-4 in the W100 Evansville Indiana final. McNally is now up to 116 in the WTA rankings and will no doubt lead the USTA's US Open Wild Card Race, which began for women this week.

In today's doubles final, No. 2 seeds Arianne Hartono(Ole Miss) of the Netherlands and Prarthana Thombare of India defeated unseeded Ayana Akli(Maryland, South Carolina) and NC State rising freshman Tori Osuigwe 6-3, 6-3.

Wild card Amelia Honer won her second USTA Pro Circuit title today, with the 22-year-old UC-Santa Barbara All-American defeating top seed Robin Anderson(UCLA) 6-3, 7-6(3) at the W35 in Florence South Carolina.  Honer, who completed her eligibility just two months ago, won her first Pro Circuit singles title at a W35 in Bakersfield California last fall.

At the M25 in Champaign Illinois, top seed Paul Jubb(South Carolina) of Great Britain won his 12th Pro Circuit title, beating No. 8 seed Blaise Bicknell(Florida, Tennessee) of Jamaica 6-1, 7-6(4). The 2019 NCAA singles champion has a long climb back to his ATP career-high ranking of 180, but he does have a second M25 title this year to build on in the second half. 

Martin Advances to First Challenger Final at Bloomfield Hills; Vidmanova Reaches Another W100 Final; Honer and Anderson Meet for Florence W35 Title; Meri and Friend Win Singles Gold at World University Games

Wild card Andres Martin will play in his first ATP Challenger final Sunday at the Bloomfield Hills 100, after he avenged two previous Challenger losses to No. 5 seed Eliot Spizzirri(Texas) 6-1, 7-6(5).  The former Georgia Tech All-American, who completed his eligibility last May, had been in just one Challenger semifinal before this week, but he now is in the thick of the race in the USTA's US Open Wild Card Challenge. 

He will play unseeded 22-year-old Mark Lajal of Estonia, who has now made one Challenger final in each of the last three years, beating Yu Hsiou Hsu of Taiwan today 6-3, 6-0. 

Hsu and partner Tsung-Hao Huang, also of Taiwan, won the doubles title today, beating wild cards Theodore Winegar(Columbia, Duke) and Michael Zheng(Columbia) 4-6, 6-3, 11-9. Winegar, who will be playing in the US Open main draw in doubles after he and Cooper Williams(Duke) won the USTA Collegiate US Open Playoff, and Zheng led 7-5 in the match tiebreaker, lost four straight points, saved those two match points, then dropped the third to give the Taiwanese pair their fifth doubles title, but first at the Challenger level.

2024 NCAA fall singles champion Dasha Vidmanova continues to rack up the wins on the USTA Pro Circuit, with the recent University graduate now 20-2 since completing her eligibility in May, including a title at the W100 in Cary at the beginning of this month. The 22-year-old from the Czech Republic, seeded No. 7, defeated No. 6 seed and 2018 NCAA singles champion Arianne Hartono(Ole Miss) of the Netherlands 6-3, 6-4 today at the W100 in Evansville Indiana. She will face No. 3 seed Caty McNally in the final, hoping to avenge one of those two losses, which McNally inflicted earlier this month in the first round of the WTA 125 in Newport Rhode Island. McNally defeated No. 5 seed Xiyu Wang of China 6-3, 6-1 for her ninth straight victory.

At the W35 in Florence South Carolina, top seed Robin Anderson(UCLA) will face wild card Amelia Honer(UC-Santa Barbara). Anderson defeated Haley Giavara(Cal) 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 in today's semifinals, while Honer, an All-American who just concluded her collegiate career this spring, beat qualifier Shilin Xu of China 6-3, 3-2, retired. Honer's only Pro Circuit title came last fall at a W35 in Bakersfield California.

The doubles title went to top seeds Giavara and Hiroko Kuwata of Japan, who beat unseeded Sofia Cabezas(Iowa State, Tennessee) of Venezuela and Kylie Collins(Texas, LSU, Oklahoma State) 6-0, 6-4 in the final. 

Both unseeded Americans in the semifinals at the USTA Pro Circuit M25 in Champaign Illinois lost today, with top seed Paul Jubb(South Carolina) of Great Britain defeating Ryan Dickerson(Duke, Baylor) 7-5, 6-3, and No. 8 seed Blaise Bicknell(Florida, Tennessee) of Jamaica beating Quinn Vandecasteele 6-3, 6-2.

No. 3 seeds Zachary Fuchs(Gonzaga, BYU) and Wally Thayne(Utah, BYU) took the doubles title, beating the unseeded all-Illinois team of Hunter Heck and Japan's Kenta Miyoshi 6-3, 2-6, 10-5.

The tennis competition at the World University Games in Germany concluded today, with two current D-I student-athletes, University of Arizona rising senior Jay Friend of Japan and University of Texas rising sophomore Eszter Meri of Slovakia, claiming gold medals in singles.

No. 13 seed Friend, 21, defeated No. 12 seed Toby Samuel(South Carolina) of Great Britain 6-1, 4-6, 7-5 to add a second gold medal, after winning the mixed doubles title yesterday.

The 22-year-old Meri, seeded 11th, beat WTA No. 342 and No. 2 seed Alevtina Ibragimova of Russia 6-3, 1-6, 7-5 to take gold in the women's singles. For more on Meri's title, see this article from the Texas website.

Japan was the overall winner in the country standings for tennis, claiming women's doubles, mixed doubles and men's singles titles. 

My Coverage of Wimbledon 14U Tournament; Spizzirri and Martin to Meet in Bloomfield Hills Challenger Semifinals; Current, Former NCAA Champs to Clash at W100 in Evansville; Friend and Kajuru Claim Doubles Gold at World University Games

How much bandwith I have to devote to the Wimbledon U14 tournament depends a lot on the weather, the scheduling and how the older Americans are doing in the Wimbledon Junior Championships. I did manage to watch all three of the Americans and most of the boys final this year, but was unable to catch the dramatic girls final, with it encroaching on the boys final.

But I did get an opportunity to talk with boys champion Moritz Freitag of Austria and with Texan Tristan Ascenzo for this article, posted today at Tennis Recruiting Network. The opportunity to experience Wimbledon, to play on the same courts as the pros, is a dream come true for them and they can hardly contain their excitement when talking about it.

Two three-hour quarterfinals today at the ATP Challenger 100 in Bloomfield Hills forced the tournament to move the last match of the day, between qualifier Arthur Fery(Stanford) of Great Britain and Mark Lajal of Estonia, to Court 2, while the third quarterfinal was still going. There are no lights at Cranbrook, so playing late into the night is not an option.

No. 5 seed Eliot Spizzirri did his part to move the schedule along in the first match of the day, with the former Texas All-American beating Yi Zhou of China 6-1, 6-2 in an hour and 21 minutes. But wild card Andres Martin(Georgia Tech) and Alexis Galarneau(NC State) of Canada played a 78-minute second set, with Martin defeating Galarneau 4-6, 7-6(6), 6-1 in eight minutes short of three hours to advance to his second career Challenger final. Spizzirri and Martin will play each other for the third time in a Challenger in the last eight months, with Spizzirri winning the previous two at Sioux Falls and San Diego. 

The winner of tomorrow's match will earn at least 50 points in the USTA's Wild Card Challenge, which has two weeks remaining after this week.

Qualifier Tony Wu and Yu Hsiou Hsu, both of Taiwan, battled for three hours and 12 minutes before Hsu claimed a 7-6(5), 3-6, 7-6(4) victory. Hsu, who defeated top seed Nishesh Basavareddy in the first round, will face Lajal, who beat Fery 6-1, 5-7, 6-3 as dusk deepened in Michigan.

2018 NCAA singles champion Arianne Hartono(Ole Miss) and 2024 NCAA singles champion Dasha Vidmanova(Georgia) will meet in the semifinals of the W100 in Evansville after each picked up straight-sets wins today. No. 6 seed Hartono, of the Netherlands, defeated unseeded Himeno Sakatsume of Japan 7-6(5), 6-1, while No. 7 seed Vidmanova beat No. 2 seed and Granby W75 champion Talia Gibson of Australia 6-4, 6-1

Caty McNally, who won the WTA 125 in Newport Rhode Island two weeks ago, has continued her winning streak on hard courts, reaching the semifinals in Evansville. The No. 3 seed, who was recently announced as a wild card recipient at the Cincinnati Open, her hometown event, advanced to the semifinals with a 6-2, 7-6(3) win over No. 8 seed and former Pepperdine All-American Janice Tjen of Indonesia. McNally will play No. 5 seed Xiyu Wang of China, who beat top seed Yue Yuan of China 7-6(11), 7-5. Wang and McNally have played three times, twice in junior slams and once in WTA tour qualifying, with McNally winning all three matches.

At the M25 in Champaign, Ryan Dickerson(Duke, Baylor) and Quinn Vandecasteele(Oregon), both unseeded, are the two Americans in the semifinals. Dickerson will face top seed Paul Jubb(South Carolina) of Great Britain, the 2019 NCAA singles champion, while Vandecasteele's opponent in the semifinals is No. 8 seed Blaise Bicknell(Florida, Tennessee) of Jamaica.

In Florence, the W35 semifinals will feature top seed Robin Anderson(UCLA) and unseeded Haley Giavara(Cal), along with wild card Amelia Honer(UC-Santa Barbara) and qualifier Shilin Xu of China. The 27-year-old Xu, a former ITF junior No. 1, did not play at all in 2023 or 2024, but returned to the Pro Circuit in March of this year.

The doubles medals were awarded today at the World University Games in Germany, with Ange Oby Kajuru(Iowa State, Oklahoma State, UNC) of Japan winning the women's doubles gold and Jay Friend(Arizona) of Japan claiming the mixed doubles gold.

Kajuru and partner Kanon Yamaguchi, who were unseeded, defeated No. 3 seeds Li Yu-yun and Lin Fang-an of Taiwan 6-4, 4-6, 10-4 for the title. Kajuru ended the 2024 academic year ranked No. 2 in the ITA national doubles rankings, with Oklahoma State partner Anastasiya Komar. 

Friend, partnering with Natsuki Yoshimoto, defeated Kenya's Angella Okutoyi(Auburn) and her partner Kael Shah 6-3, 6-3 in the gold medal match. Both teams were unseeded.

Top seeds Egor Agafonov and Ilia Simakin of Russia won the gold in men's doubles, beating No. 2 seeds Mert Alkaya and Tuncay Duran of Turkey 3-6, 6-2, 10-3 in the final. 

USTA Nationals Wild Cards; Teams Announced for Girls ITF World Junior Tennis 14U Competition; Seeds Exit at Bloomfield Hills Challenger 100; Friend, Samuel, Meri, Okutoyi and Kajuru Reach World University Games Finals

I posted the Kalamazoo wild cards on Tuesday, but didn't receive the list for the other divisions until today. As usual, all six of the available wild cards were distributed for the 18s, all but one in the 16s, while the 12s and 14s fields have very few.

B12s Mobile Alabama
Maxim Kerbikov

B14s Mobile Alabama
Advay Singh
Luke Perry
Aston Mansell

B16s Kalamazoo Michigan
Michael Antonius
Sebastian Bielen
Sean Grosman
Kamil Stolarczyk
Sulaiman Syed
Macksimus Malhotra

B18s Kalamazoo Michigan
Ilija Palavestra
Roy Horovitz
Simon Caldwell
Jacob Olar
Carel Ngounoue
Sklar Phillips

G12s Peachtree City Georgia
Maria Cristina Edjoo
Genoa Sinno

G14s Rome Georgia
Sofia Dvortsova

G16s San Diego California
Ariana Ikwueme
Teagan Keys
Kaylee Hill
Leah Lup
Emerson White

G18s San Diego California
Alyssa Ahn
Kate Fakih
Kori Montoya
Lani Chang
Nancy Lee
Maria Aytoyan

The ITF released the names of the participants for the girls World Junior Tennis team event next month in Prostejov, with Wimbledon 14U champion Sakino Miyazawa not among them, although Japan was one of the 16 teams to qualify. Yeri Hong of Korea is also not on her country's team. Great Britain is fielding a strong team of Megan Knight, Liv Zingg and Grace Watson. 

The USA team is Emery Combs, Carol Shao and Olivia de los Reyes, who won the 16s Clay Courts while Combs and Shao were competing at the Wimbledon 14U event. USTA National Coach Celeste Frey is the the team captain.

The announcement for the boys is here.

Only one seed has advanced to the quarterfinals at the ATP Challenger 100 in Bloomfield Hills: No. 5 Eliot Spizzirri, who won a third-set tiebreaker yesterday over Michael Zheng. The three seeds in action today all lost, with two qualfiers, former Stanford All-American Arthur Fery of Great Britain and Tony Wu of Taiwan, making Friday's quarterfinals. None of the four doubles semifinalists are seeded with the four seeded teams all losing in the quarterfinals today.

Results - Thursday, 24 July 2025

Men's Singles - Round of 16
Yu Hsiou Hsu (TPE) d [Q] Aidan Mayo (USA) 63 62
[Q] Tung-Lin Wu (TPE) d [7] Li Tu (AUS) 36 76(2) 64
[Q] Arthur Fery (GBR) d [3] Alexander Blockx (BEL) 64 63
Mark Lajal (EST) d [6] August Holmgren (DEN) 61 62

Men's Doubles - Quarterfinals
[WC] Stefan Dostanic (USA)/Benjamin Kittay (USA) d [2] Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND)/Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) 46 64 10-7
Jason Jung (TPE)/Reese Stalder (USA) d [3] Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND)/Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) 61 62
Yu Hsiou Hsu (TPE)/Tsung-Hao Huang (TPE) d [1] Blake Bayldon (AUS)/Trey Hilderbrand (USA) 06 64 10-2
[WC] Theodore Winegar (USA)/Michael Zheng (USA) d [4] Patrick Harper (AUS)/Joshua Sheehy (USA) 63 46 10-7

ORDER OF PLAY - FRIDAY, 25 JULY 2025
Center Court - start 11:00
[5] Eliot Spizzirri (USA) vs [NG] Yi Zhou (CHN)
[WC] Andres Martin (USA) vs Alexis Galarneau (CAN)
Yu Hsiou Hsu (TPE) vs [Q] Tung-Lin Wu (TPE)
[Q] Arthur Fery (GBR) vs Mark Lajal (EST)

Court 2 - start 15:00
[WC] Theodore Winegar (USA) / Michael Zheng (USA) vs [WC] Stefan Dostanic (USA) / Benjamin Kittay (USA)

Not Before 16:00
After Rest - Yu Hsiou Hsu (TPE) / Tsung-Hao Huang (TPE) vs Jason Jung (TPE) / Reese Stalder (USA)

Three current and one former Division I collegians will play for titles at the World University Games in Germany, with Arizona rising senior Jay Friend of Japan playing in the men's singles and the mixed doubles finals in the next two days.  No. 13 seed Friend defeated Florida State's Jamie Connel of Great Britain 6-3, 6-4 in the singles semifinals, and will play another British player, former South Carolina All-American Toby Samuel, in Saturday's final. Samuel advanced with a 7-6(4), 6-3 win over VASQUEZ Alessio Vasquez of Germany. 

Friend and Natsuki Yoshimoto will play for the mixed doubles title Friday against Auburn rising senior Angella Okutoyi of Kenya and her partner Kael Shah.

Texas rising sophomore Eszter Meri of Slovakia, the No. 11 seed, will play for the women's singles title Saturday against No. 2 seed Alevtina Ibragimova of Russia.

Ange Oby Kajuru of Japan, who has left Oklahoma State to join North Carolina as a graduate transfer this fall, will play for the women's doubles title with partner Kanon Yamaguchi. Draws, schedules and individual match statistics can be found here.

My Wimbledon Junior Recap; Spizzirri and Martin Reach Bloomfield Hills Challenger Quarterfinals; USTA Pro Circuit Update; Teams Announced for Boys ITF World Junior Tennis 14U Competition; Nevolo's Contract Not Renewed at SMU

My annual article on the Wimbledon Junior Championships was posted today at the Tennis Recruiting Network, with an overview on the paths to the titles for unseeded Mia Pohankova of Slovakia and Ivan Ivanov of Bulgaria. In case you missed my other, less match-related impressions of this year's Wimbledon, that post from last week can be found here.

I'm no longer at the ATP Challenger 100 in Bloomfield Hills, but I'm still following it from home via Challenger TV or radiotennis.com. Four second round singles matches were played today, with wild card Andres Martin(Georgia Tech) and No. 5 seed Eliot Spizzirri(Texas) the two Americans advancing to Friday's quarterfinals. 

Spizzirri, the only seed left in the bottom half, defeated wild card Michael Zheng(Columbia) 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(4), recovering from failing to serve out the match from 5-3, 30-0 up in the third set. Spizzirri took the initiative in the final set tiebreaker, coming in often and forcing Zheng to pass him, which he did on the first match point at 6-3. But on the second, Spizzirri traded ground strokes with Zheng until he saw a forehand approach he liked, and Zheng couldn't handle it, netting his reply.

Spizzirri will face Yi Zhou of China, after the 20-year-old, who reached No. 3 in ITF junior rankings two years ago, defeated No. 4 seed Chris Eubanks(Georgia Tech) 7-6(5), 6-1. 

A Yellow Jacket did move on however, with Martin beating Yuta Shimuzu of Japan 7-5, 6-3 to reach his fourth Challenger quarterfinal of the year. He will face Alexis Galarneau(NC State) of Canada, who beat Rio Noguchi of Japan 6-1, 6-4. 

Results - Wednesday, 23 July 2025
Men's Singles - Round of 16

[5] Eliot Spizzirri (USA) d [WC] Michael Zheng (USA) 64 46 76(4)
[WC] Andres Martin (USA) d Yuta Shimizu (JPN) 75 63
Alexis Galarneau (CAN) d Rio Noguchi (JPN) 61 64
[NG] Yi Zhou (CHN) d [4] Christopher Eubanks (USA) 76(5) 61

Men's Doubles - Round of 16

[WC] Stefan Dostanic (USA)/Benjamin Kittay (USA) d Nicolas Mejia (COL)/Cristian Rodriguez (COL) 26 63 10-5
[4] Patrick Harper (AUS)/Joshua Sheehy (USA) d Kody Pearson (AUS)/Li Tu (AUS) 26 64 10-8
[WC] Theodore Winegar (USA)/Michael Zheng (USA) d Mac Kiger (USA)/Patrick Maloney (USA) 76(4) 61
[1] Blake Bayldon (AUS)/Trey Hilderbrand (USA) d Masamichi Imamura (JPN)/Yuta Shimizu (JPN) 64 46 10-8
Jason Jung (TPE)/Reese Stalder (USA) d Ryuki Matsuda (JPN)/Kelsey Stevenson (CAN) 63 75
[3] Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND)/Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) d Jody Maginley (ANT)/Eliot Spizzirri (USA) 67(4) 64 10-8

ORDER OF PLAY - THURSDAY, 24 JULY 2025

Center Court - start 11:00
Yu Hsiou Hsu (TPE) vs [Q] Aidan Mayo (USA)
[Q] Tung-Lin Wu (TPE) vs [7] Li Tu (AUS)
[3] Alexander Blockx (BEL) vs [Q] Arthur Fery (GBR)
Mark Lajal (EST) vs [6] August Holmgren (DEN)

Court 2 - start 11:00
[WC] Stefan Dostanic (USA) / Benjamin Kittay (USA) vs [2] Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND) / Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)
[3] Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND) / Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs Jason Jung (TPE) / Reese Stalder (USA)

Not Before 14:00
[1] Blake Bayldon (AUS) / Trey Hilderbrand (USA) vs Yu Hsiou Hsu (TPE) / Tsung-Hao Huang (TPE)

Court 3 - start 11:00
[WC] Theodore Winegar (USA) / Michael Zheng (USA) vs [4] Patrick Harper (AUS) / Joshua Sheehy (USA)

Galarneau, along with Liam Draxl(Kentucky) and 18-year-old University of Kentucky rising freshman Nicolas Arseneault, received main draw wild cards into next week's ATP 1000 National Bank Open in Toronto. Four former collegians also received qualifying wild cards: Justin Boulais(Ohio State), Juan Carlos Aguilar(Texas A&M, TCU), Alvin Tudorica(South Florida) and Dan Martin(Dartmouth, Miami).

Carson Branstine(Texas A&M) and Kayla Cross(LSU) received main draw wild cards to the women's 1000 in Montreal, with Cadence Brace(LSU) and Carol Zhao(Stanford) awarded qualifying wild cards.

In addition to the Bloomfield Hills Challenger, there are three other USTA Pro Circuit tournaments this week: an M25 in Champaign Illinois, a W35 in Florence South Carolina and a W100 in Evansville Indiana.

Three Kalamazoo 18s competitors are through to the second round in Champaign, with Cooper Woestendick, wild card Maxwell Exsted and qualifier Jon Gamble picking up wins today. Gamble earned his first ATP point with a 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(11) win over fellow qualifier William Manning(NC State). 2024 Kalamazoo champion Matt Forbes(Michigan State), a wild card, beat Alexander Bernard 6-0, 6-3 to reach the second round. 2019 NCAA champion Paul Jubb(South Carolina) of Great Britain is the top seed, and will play Exsted in Thursday's second round.

In Florence, qualifier Alyssa Ahn and wild card Kristina Penickova, both of whom are playing San Diego 18s next month, are through to the second round, with Ahn, a rising Stanford freshman, advancing when No. 3 seed Petra Hule(Florida State) of Australia retired trailing 6-3, 2-2. Penickova beat Carolyn Ansari(Auburn) 6-3, 7-5. Top seeds Robin Anderson(UCLA) and Lea Ma(Georgia) are among 13 Americans in the second round. 

Wild card Valerie Glozman(Stanford), playing for the first time since winning the USTA's USO Collegiate Wild Card Playoff, defeated Rachel Gailis(Florida) 6-2, 1-0 retired.

Play was delayed in Evansville, I believe due to excessive heat, with most second round matches being played this evening. Fiona Crawley, who received a special exemption into the main draw for reaching the W75 final in Granby last week, defeated Stanford rising freshman Monica Ekstrand, a wild card, 6-7(4), 6-3, 6-4 to continue her impressive form this summer. 

2024 NCAA singles champion Dasha Vidmanova(Georgia), the No. 7 seed, defeated wild card Elvina Kalieva 6-4, 6-3.

The ITF has announced the names of the boys who will be competing in the 16-team 14U World Junior Tennis competition next month in Prostejov Czech Republic. Representing the United States, who are the defending champions, are Tristan Ascenzo, Indra Vergne and Alexander Anderson, with USTA National Coach Jon Glover the team captain. Carlos Alcaraz's brother Jaime is a member of Spain's team.

SMU announced today that women's head coach Jeff Nevolo's contract would not be renewed and Alexis Casati, the associate head coach last year, would serve as interim head coach. Nevolo, who was hired in 2019, was a two-time American Conference Coach of the Year prior to SMU's move last season to the ACC.

Top Seeds Basavareddy and Mochizuki Drop Opening Matches, Spizzirri, Blockx and Holmgren Continue Good Form at ATP Challenger 100 Bloomfield Hills; Kalamazoo 18s and 16s Wild Cards

©Colette Lewis 2025--

Bloomfield Hills MI--

My short visit to the ATP Challenger 100 in Bloomfield Hills concluded this evening with an expected result, but many of the 12 first round matches that preceded it did not go as expected, with No. 2 seed Shintaro Mochizuki of Japan and 2024 finalist and top seed Nishesh Basavareddy failing to advance to the second round.

No. 6 seed August Holmgren of Denmark, who won the Granby Challenger last week, a week after a third round appearance at Wimbledon after qualifying there, defeated qualifier Garrett Johns(Duke) 6-1, 6-4 on Stadium Court, running his record since the end of June to 11-1, with the sole loss coming to ATP No. 13 Alex de Minaur of Australia.

Holmgren told Cracked Racquets' Alex Gruskin that all the attention and the more than $200,000 he received for his Wimbledon run was a jolt, but did not fundamentally change how he viewed himself as a player.

"I did have to sit down when I saw it in my bank account a couple days ago," said the former University of San Diego All-American. "It's a big honor to get this much attention and have this many people celebrate my accomplishment. It's a little bit funny to say my accomplishment, and I lose in the third round in a tournament, but it shows that it's a surprise, why it gets so much attention."

"I have some very good people around me, who help me stay on track, to focus on the right things, to continue with my player identity, not trying all of sudden to do something extraordinary just because I had some good results here and there," Holmgren said. "Nothing changes, I'm still the same player that I was the week before Wimbledon, when I lost in the first round of qualies (at the Nottingham Challenger). The difference is so small in a lot of the matches. What does help with this run is the confidence; it's so important to play the matches and the big moments with a lot of confidence, trust in my own abilities and what I'm trying to do, because if I have no hesitation, there's a bigger chance it's going to work out."

Holmgren will face Mark Lajal of Estonia, who breezed past Omar Jasika of Australia 6-0, 6-3.

The day started with No. 2 seed Shintaro Mochizuki of Japan jumping out to a 3-0, two-break lead over compatriot Rio Noguchi, but Noguchi won six of the next seven games, before Mochizuki retired due to illness.

Top seed Nishesh Basavareddy had no time to work his way into the tournament, with Yu Hsiou Hsu of Taiwan sustaining his level throughout his 6-3, 6-4 win over Basavareddy. The 20-year-old from Indiana wasn't sharp, but Hsu gave him very little to work with. The 26-year-old, a former Top 5 ITF junior, didn't face a break point and hit 30 winners and just 18 unforced errors, keeping Basavareddy defending not dictating.

Two recent Australian Open boys champions suffered different fates Tuesday afternoon, with 2024 champion Rei Sakomoto of Japan falling to No. 5 seed Eliot Spizzirri 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 and 2023 champion Alexander Blockx of Belgium rolling past qualifier Tsung-Hao Huang of Taiwan 6-2, 6-1.

Spizzirri, who has reached the semifinals of the last two Challengers, in Newport on grass and Granby on hard courts, struggled with his serve and his forehand in the opening set, with five double faults and 15 unforced errors. But he gradually found his game, and was able to counteract the dangerous game of Sakamoto, who can blast winners close to the lines and pull off big serves on key points.

"Especially in that third set, I was saying ok, he's going to hit some flashy shots, because he's real talented and that's the kind of player he is," Spizzirri said of Sakamoto, who won the Cary Challenger earlier this month. "But if I can stick to my game over the long haul, hopefully that will give me a chance, and if he keeps on hitting winners left and right and I'm playing my game, moving well, playing point to point, then that's too good and I've got to shake hands and hold my head high. But I did that, he kind of made some errors there at the end, and I was lucky to come through."

Spizzirri now has over a year of professional tennis behind him, and can better assess how his four plus years at Texas has contributed to his rise into the ATP Top 150. 

"It teaches you a lot of lessons you're going to need on tour," said the 24-year-old from Connecticut. "There's a lot of losing, a lot of tough weeks on tour and if you're not resilient, have that ability to bounce back quick, have short term memory, then the tour can eat you alive."

As evidenced by his comeback today, Spizzirri earned a reputation as a tough competitor in college and he counts that as one of his assets as he makes his way on the pro tour.

"When you're playing for something bigger than yourself, you're playing for your teammates, for your coaches, for your school, for your the alumni, you're playing for so much, there's no giving up out there," Spizzirri said. "I feel I've tried to carry that competitiveness that I unlocked in college and Bruce(Berque) and Brandon(Wagner) and (Ryan) Lipman and all the other Texas coaches brought out in me, and I try to bring that to the pro game. It looks a little different, it's not as rah-rah maybe at times, but inside, I'm definitely using those skills that college tennis teaches you if you want to be one of the best."

Spizzirri will face wild card Michael Zheng(Columbia) in the second round Wednesday.

No. 3 seed Blockx, who like Sakamoto, has won two Challenger titles, is coming off a final in Winnipeg and a semifinal in Granby, losing to Canadian Liam Draxl in both tournaments. Blockx had some success on grass this summer, reaching the final round of Wimbledon qualifying before falling to San Diego's Oliver Tarvet, but American hard courts are where he is most comfortable.

"I feel really well on the American hard courts, I've always played well on these hard courts," said the 20-year-old Blockx, who qualified for the Miami Open Masters 1000 this year. "I played pretty well on grass, on clay I didn't have my best season, but I tried to improve tactically, stay closer to the baseline, play more attacking tennis.  On grass that was going way better and I feel like here on the hard courts I can do that even more, when I feel comfortable. I have a lot of confidence and the goal is to play as aggressive as I can, because that's the only way to beat the top guys, in my case at least."

Blockx will face former Stanford All-American Arthur Fery of Great Britain, after the qualifier defeated Alex Bolt of Australia 6-4, 4-6, 6-2.

Tuesday's results and Wednesday's order of play:

Men's Singles - Round of 32

Alexis Galarneau (CAN) d Patrick Kypson (USA) 64 67(2) 63
[5] Eliot Spizzirri (USA) d [NG] Rei Sakamoto (JPN) 36 63 64
Yu Hsiou Hsu (TPE) d [1] Nishesh Basavareddy (USA) 63 64
[6] August Holmgren (DEN) d [Q] Garrett Johns (USA) 61 64
Rio Noguchi (JPN) d [2] Shintaro Mochizuki (JPN) 64 Retired
[7] Li Tu (AUS) d [WC] Nicolas Ian Kotzen (USA) 46 63 64
[Q] Arthur Fery (GBR) d Alex Bolt (AUS) 64 46 62
[3] Alexander Blockx (BEL) d [Q] Tsung-Hao Huang (TPE) 62 61
Yuta Shimizu (JPN) d [Alt] Nicolas Mejia (COL) 64 62
Mark Lajal (EST) d Omar Jasika (AUS) 60 63
[Q] Aidan Mayo (USA) d Alibek Kachmazov 76(5) 62
[Q] Tung-Lin Wu (TPE) d [Q] Patrick Maloney (USA) 76(11) 62

ORDER OF PLAY - WEDNESDAY, 23 JULY 2025

Center Court - start 11:00
[5] Eliot Spizzirri (USA) vs [WC] Michael Zheng (USA)
[WC] Andres Martin (USA) vs Yuta Shimizu (JPN)
Alexis Galarneau (CAN) vs Rio Noguchi (JPN)

Not Before 15:30
[NG] Yi Zhou (CHN) vs [4] Christopher Eubanks (USA)

Court 2 - start 11:00
[WC] Stefan Dostanic (USA) / Benjamin Kittay (USA) vs Nicolas Mejia (COL) / Cristian Rodriguez (COL)
Kody Pearson (AUS) / Li Tu (AUS) vs [4] Patrick Harper (AUS) / Joshua Sheehy (USA)

Not Before 14:00
[WC] Theodore Winegar (USA) / Michael Zheng (USA) vs Mac Kiger (USA) / Patrick Maloney (USA)

Not Before 15:00
[1] Blake Bayldon (AUS) / Trey Hilderbrand (USA) vs Masamichi Imamura (JPN) / Yuta Shimizu (JPN)

Court 3 - start 11:00
Jason Jung (TPE) / Reese Stalder (USA) vs Ryuki Matsuda (JPN) / Kelsey Stevenson (CAN)
Alternate vs [2] Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND) / Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)

Not Before 14:00
[3] Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND) / Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs Jody Maginley (ANT) / Eliot Spizzirri (USA)

The wild cards for the USTA Nationals in Kalamazoo have been confirmed, with Rochester M15 quarterfinalist Michael Antonius receiving a wild card for the 16s.

Boys 16s:

Macksimus Malhotra

Michael Antonius

Sean Grosman

Sulaiman Syed

Kamil Stolarczyk

Sebastian Bielen

B18s:

Carel Ngounoue

Ilija Palavestra

Jacob Olar

Simon Caldwell

Sklar Phillips

Roy Horovitz

Zheng Inspired by Wimbledon Collegiate Success; Johns Qualifies in Third Set Tiebreaker; Eubanks Stays Patient in First Round Comeback at Bloomfield Hills ATP Challenger 100

©Colette Lewis 2025--
Bloomfield Hills, MI--

If you were looking for a perfect summer day in Michigan, Monday July 21st should be framed and hung in a museum, with the first day of the Cranbrook Tennis Classic, an ATP Challenger 100, the beneficiary of the partly cloudy skies, light breeze and temperatures in the upper 70s.

I hadn't been to the previous two editions of the event, with it conflicting with Wimbledon, but now that it has moved, I was happy to make the two-and-a-half hour drive from Kalamazoo to see the biggest men's tennis tournament in the state. 

Four main draw singles matches were on Monday's schedule, along with the six final round qualifying matches, so the three courts at the new Cranbrook School eight-court complex were busy all day, with fans circulating between the three for the most exciting matches.

2024 fall NCAA singles champion Michael Zheng, the rising Columbia senior, received a wild card into the main draw, and was the first to move into the second round with a 7-5, 6-2 win over former ITF junior No. 1 Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez of Mexico.

Pacheco Mendez had two set points with Zheng serving at 4-5, 15-40 in the first set, but Zheng saved the first with a forehand winner and then received an error from Pacheco Mendez on the second; two points later Zheng and pulled even and he broke and held to take the set.

Although Zheng said he was confident he could come back had he lost one of those two points, having the first set end in that fashion turned the momentum permanently in his favor.

"I've had some problems serving to stay in the match down 4-5 a couple of times," Zheng said. "But he also played a pretty good game, hit some good returns. Once I got through that game, I loosened up a little bit. If had won that set, I think physically I could have gotten it in three sets, but it would have been more mental, trying to stay in it. I think he would have fought a little bit harder in the second too, so it would have been closer, more dicey."

Zheng, who told Cracked Racquets' Alex Gruskin that winning the NCAAs last November and not getting the US Open wild card that traditionally goes to an American singles champion "sucks a little bit."  The 21-year-old from New Jersey, who lost in the final of the US Open wild card playoff last month in Orlando, has to be content with a qualifying wild card, which he got in 2024, as the spring NCAA's singles finalist.  "At the same time, there's nothing I can do at that point. So now I'm just focusing on potentially winning the wild card points race."

Current standings at the halfway point of the six-week window for the US Open wild card:

(Player's current ranking in parentheses)
1. Emilio Nava (116) - 50
2. Govind Nanda (340) - 38
3. Patrick Kypson (214) - 31
4. Samir Banerjee (509) - 28
5. Nishesh Basavareddy (112) - 25

Zheng, who has been working with Ruan Roelofse since the end of the school year, said the success of his peers at Wimbledon this year has made it easier to envision a similar run at the US Open.

"To be honest, I was a little bit surprised," Zheng said. "I didn't think (Oliver) Tarvet would do as well as he did on the grass, especially. He usually likes slower courts. But I was super impressed with his run. Credit to their coaching staff at USD, (August) Holmgren and Tarvet have had incredible summers so far. It also gives you that confidence. I was up 3-0 in the third against (Tarvet) and his home courts at USD, so maybe I could have a deep run at the US Open, you never know, maybe play Carlos Alcaraz second round. Once you see all these guys, (top seed) Nishesh(Basavareddy) had been doing really well, it just gives you confidence. These are guys you grew up with in juniors, even in college, and the level's right there I think, at the highest level of college. It's just maintaining that physicality week in week out."

Garrett Johns, who completed his eligibility at Duke in the spring of 2024, defeated Ohio State rising junior Aidan Kim 3-6, 6-2, 7-6(2) to advance to the main draw of a Challenger for the eighth time.

Kim served for the match at 5-4 in the third set, but once Johns broke, with Kim's errors a major factor in that critical game, he played with more aggression.

"Even in that game, at 5-4 I was playing not to lose," said the 24-year-old from Georgia. "But after I got that game, I started to play loose after that, and it went my way in the tiebreaker. That's how it goes sometime, just a couple of points here and there."

Johns hopes to continue to play Challengers the rest of the summer, but he started his first full year on the pro tour in January at $15Ks, winning two and making the final of a third in Florida.

"A lot of it is location first," Johns said. "I played a lot in Florida, because I'm training down there. But now that I've been playing a year, full time, now I'm just going to play Challengers, to take that next step. But if it works for a future location, I could do that again."

Johns, who trains with Shariq Khan at Axis tennis in Delray Beach, says the difference in the quality of players at the lowest ITF level and the Challenger level is mostly at the top.

"The top seeded guys here, there's definitely a higher level, but I think anybody can beat anybody out here, a guy who's 700 can beat a guy who's 300," Johns said. "It's small things, and I don't think the level's that much different really."

Johns will face No. 6 seed and Granby champion August Holmgren(San Diego) of Denmark in the first round Tuesday.

Chris Eubanks was the feature attraction today on Stadium Court, with the No. 4 seed coming back to beat Yasutaka Uchiyama 6-7(3), 7-6(4), 6-3, earning his first victory in four tries over the 32-year-old from Japan. Eubanks, who drew a large crowd for his 3:30 p.m. match, was determined to stay patient.

"I was looking for any opportunity," said the former Georgia Tech star, who didn't face a break point in the match and converted the only one he had with Uchiyama serving at 1-2 in the third. "He was serving really well, I felt I wasn't getting good looks at firsts, or looks at seconds. Things just kind of happen: you lean right on one first serve return, you make good contact on a second, and finally you're applying scoreboard pressure that hasn't really happened in the match...he missed that forehand to get the break. It's one of those matches where you just have to focus on your end of the court so you're not getting super frustrated by not getting any looks on your opponent's serve."

Chris Eubanks with Alex Gruskin of Cracked Racquets

When Eubanks had served out the match, he was far from finished for the day, with another 15 minutes of selfies and autographs with fans courtside and then doing media with Alex Gruskin of Cracked Racquets and me.

Eubanks was grateful for all the support he received in his first appearance in Bloomfield Hills.

"It means a lot, playing in the States, seeing young juniors aspiring to play on these courts one day, seeing tennis fans who've been fans for 30, 40 years take in some tennis here," Eubanks said. "We don't get that reception very often on tour, or at Challengers. It's such a warm atmosphere, good crowd today showing a lot of support for me; it's pretty cool, especially being my first time here, it's left a really good impression so far. So hopefully I can stick around a little bit."

Eubanks will face 20-year-old Yi Zhou of China in the second round.

Results - Monday, 21 July 2025
Men's Singles - Round of 32
[WC] Michael Zheng (USA) d Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez (MEX) 75 62
[WC] Andres Martin (USA) d [8] Hady Habib (LBN) 62 62
[4] Christopher Eubanks (USA) d Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) 67(3) 76(4) 63
[NG] Yi Zhou (CHN) d Sho Shimabukuro (JPN) 63 57 64

Men's Doubles - Round of 16
Yu Hsiou Hsu (TPE)/Tsung-Hao Huang (TPE) d Kris Van Wyk (RSA)/Tung-Lin Wu (TPE) 30 Retired

Men's Qualifying Singles - Qualifying Round 2
[4] Patrick Maloney (USA) d Ryuki Matsuda (JPN) 63 64
[8] [Alt] Arthur Fery (GBR) d [WC] Kaylan Bigun (USA) 57 64 62
[2] Tung-Lin Wu (TPE) d [WC] Spencer Johnson (USA) 62 62
Tsung-Hao Huang (TPE) d [1] Andres Andrade (ECU) 46 64 64
[3] Aidan Mayo (USA) d [9] Andre Ilagan (USA) 63 46 64
[6] Garrett Johns (USA) d [Alt] Aidan Kim (USA) 36 62 76(2)

ORDER OF PLAY - TUESDAY, 22 JULY 2025
Center Court - start 10:00
Patrick Kypson (USA) vs Alexis Galarneau (CAN)
[5] Eliot Spizzirri (USA) vs [NG] Rei Sakamoto (JPN)
[1] Nishesh Basavareddy (USA) vs Yu Hsiou Hsu (TPE)

Not Before 15:30
[Q] Garrett Johns (USA) vs [6] August Holmgren (DEN)

Court 2 - start 10:00
Rio Noguchi (JPN) vs [2] Shintaro Mochizuki (JPN)
[WC] Nicolas Ian Kotzen (USA) vs [7] Li Tu (AUS)
Alex Bolt (AUS) vs [Q] Arthur Fery (GBR)
[3] Alexander Blockx (BEL) vs [Q] Tsung-Hao Huang (TPE)

Court 3 - start 10:00
[Alt] Nicolas Mejia (COL) vs Yuta Shimizu (JPN)
Mark Lajal (EST) vs Omar Jasika (AUS)
Alibek Kachmazov vs [Q] Aidan Mayo (USA)
[Q] Patrick Maloney (USA) vs [Q] Tung-Lin Wu (TPE)

Delgado and Roh Win USTA Pro Circuit Titles; Holmgren Earns Third Challenger Title; Cash and Tracy Claim First ATP Doubles Title; Recent Collegians Qualify for Washington ATP 500; Newman Captures Singles and Doubles at ITF J200 in Colombia

Two rising red shirt sophomores won their first pro singles titles today on the USTA Pro Circuit with Wake Forest's Andrew Delgado taking the M15 in Rochester New York and Vanderbilt's Hoyoung Roh of Korea claiming the M25 in Louisville Kentucky.

Delgado, a 20-year-old wild card from High Point North Carolina, defeated No. 5 seed and defending champion Alexander Bernard, a rising senior at Ohio State, 6-3, 1-6, 6-4.  The 19-year-old Roh, a former ITF Junior No. 10, defeated rising Columbia senior Nicolas Kotzen 6-1, 6-4.

At the W75 in Granby Canada, top seed Talia Gibson of Australia defeated qualifier Fiona Crawley, a former All-American at North Carolina 6-3, 6-4 in the final. Despite the loss, Crawley should move to a new WTA career-high of 344 when Monday's rankings are posted.

August Holmgren of Denmark, the University of San Diego's 2022 NCAA singles finalist, won his third career ATP Challenger title today at the 75 in Granby. The sixth-seeded Holmgren, who is now 10-1 after qualifying for Wimbledon and falling in the third round to Australian Alex de Minaur, then winning five matches to take this week's title, beat No. 3 seed and last week's Winnipeg Challenger champion Liam Draxl of Canada 6-3, 6-3 in the final.

Holmgren is playing the Bloomfield Hills Challenger 100, which I am attending tomorrow and Tuesday, and is also the No. 6 seed there, although if he gets the latest start possible, I may not see him in action.

Today's results from the first round of qualifying at Bloomfield Hills, and Monday's schedule are below.

Men's Qualifying Singles - Qualifying Round 1

[1] Andres Andrade(ECU) d Jason Jung(TPE) 61 63
[4] Patrick Maloney(USA) d [Alt] Joshua Sheehy(USA) 64 76(2)
[9] Andre Ilagan(USA) d [WC] William Cooksey(USA) 61 63
[WC] Spencer Johnson(USA) d [10] Hyeon Chung(KOR) 75 61
[WC] Kaylan Bigun(USA) d [5] Naoki Nakagawa(JPN) 64 75
[8] [Alt] Arthur Fery(GBR) d Kris Van Wyk RSA) 64 75
[2] Tung-Lin Wu(TPE) d Stefan Dostanic(USA) 64 63
[6] Garrett Johns(USA) d Yusuke Takahashi(JPN) 76(3) 63
Tsung-Hao Huang(TPE) d [11] Hiroki Moriya(JPN) 36 76(6) 64
Ryuki Matsuda(JPN) d [7] Christian Langmo(USA) 76(2) 63
[3] Aidan Mayo(USA) d [WC] Reese Stalder(USA) 64 61
[Alt] Aidan Kim(USA) d [12] Masamichi Imamura(JPN) 63 20 Retired

ORDER OF PLAY - MONDAY, 21 JULY 2025
Center Court - start 10:00
Qualifying Final - [4] Patrick Maloney(USA) vs Ryuki Matsuda(JPN)
Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez(MEX) vs [WC] Michael Zhen (USA)
Followed By
[8] Hady Habib(LBN) vs [WC] Andres Martin USA)
Not Before 15:30
Yasutaka Uchiyama(JPN) vs [4] Christopher Eubanks(USA)

Court 2 - start 10:00
Qualifying Final - [WC] Kaylan Bigun(USA) vs [8] [Alt] Arthur Fery(GBR)
Qualifying Final - [2] Tung-Lin Wu(TPE) vs [WC] Spencer Johnson(USA)
[NG] Yi Zhou CHN) vs Sho Shimabukuro(JPN)
Not Before 14:00
Kris Van Wyk(RSA) / Tung-Lin Wu(TPE) vs Yu Hsiou Hsu(TPE) / Tsung-Hao Huang(TPE)

Court 3 - start 10:00
Qualifying Final - [1] Andres Andrade(ECU) vs Tsung-Hao Huang(TPE)
Qualifying Final - [3] Aidan Mayo(USA) vs [9] Andre Ilagan(USA)
Qualifying Final - [6] Garrett Johns(USA) vs [Alt] Aidan Kim(USA)

Ohio State's NCAA 2024 spring doubles champions JJ Tracy and Robert Cash won their first ATP title last night at the 250 in Los Cabos Mexico. The unseeded pair won three match tiebreakers to reach the final against unseeded Blake Bayldon and Tristan Schoolkate of Australia and earned the title with a 7-6(4), 6-4 decision. They are now at career-highs in the ATP doubles rankings with Tracy at 59 and Cash at 62. For more on their first title and their goals for the rest of this year, see this article from the ATP website.

The North American summer hard court swing began with Los Cabos and now moves to the ATP 500 in Washington DC. Qualifying concluded today, with Murphy Cassone(Arizona State), Colton Smith(Arizona) and two-time Kalamazoo 18s champion Zachary Svajda the three Americans to advance to the main draw. 

At the WTA 500 in Washington, only four qualifying spots were available, with Caroline Dolehide and Taylor Townsend the Americans through to the main draw, along with Yuliia Starodubtseva of Ukraine, the former Old Dominion All-American.

I won't have an opportunity to review the ITF Junior Circuit in detail this week with my trip to Bloomfield Hills, but the only singles title for an American was a big one, with 15-year-old Welles Newman winning her third straight title in the past three weeks at the J200 in Bogota Colombia. Newman, who won back-to-back J100 titles in Brazil and Medellin Colombia, was the No. 2 seed this week; she defeated doubles partner and top seed Nancy Lee 6-2, 6-3 in the final for her 15th consecutive straight-sets win. 

In the all-USA doubles final, Lee and Newman, the top seeds, defeated No. 6 seeds Ciara Harding and Adla Lopez 6-3, 7-5 for their second J200 title as a team.

With the two titles, Newman should move into ITF Junior Top 100 for the first time.