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.