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.