Fifteen-year-old Antonius Reaches Quarterfinals at USTA Pro Circuit M15 in Rochester; Banerjee Extends Winning Streaks at M25 in Rainy Louisville; Godsick, Fakih and Center Win Opening Matches at World University Games; Brantmeier's Suit Against NCAA Proceeds

Fifteen-year-old Michael Antonius has been featured regularly here this week, first for his USTA National Clay Courts 18s singles title and then in the discussion regarding his entry into Kalamazoo, where he applied to compete in the 16s, but wasn't directly accepted.

On Wednesday, at the USTA Pro Circuit M15 in Rochester New York, Antonius earned his first ATP point when top seed Leo Vithoontien(Carelton) of Japan retired trailing Antonius 6-3, 4-1. Today Antonius reached the quarterfinals, advancing when qualifier Kian Vakili(Penn) retired trailing 7-6(2), 5-2.  

Antonius, who turned 15 in January, is the first player born in 2010 to earn an ATP point and will play for more against No. 5 seed and Ohio State rising senior Alexander Bernard. Bernard beat qualifer Nathan Cox(Vanderbilt) 6-2, 6-2 in the second round today. Two rising college sophomores, Stanford's Alexander Razeghi, and Wake Forest's Andrew Delgado, have made good use of their wild cards by advancing to Friday's quarterfinals.

Rain in Louisville Kentucky, the site of this week's USTA Pro Circuit M25, kept the second round of singles from being completed, but Stanford rising senior Samir Banerjee did manage to continue his winning streaks. The 21-year-old from New Jersey, who won the singles and doubles titles last week at the M25 in Dallas, is through to the quarterfinals in both draws. The No. 8 seed defeated Tyler Bowers, a rising junior at Illinois 6-0, 5-7, 6-1 in singles and partnered with Bruno Kuzuhara for a victory in the first round of doubles. 

Banerjee will play qualifier Vignesh Gogineni, a rising senior at Yale, who beat DK Suresh(Wake Forest) of India 7-6(2), 6-0. 

There are no USTA women's Pro Circuit events this week.

The World University Games are underway in Germany, with the tennis portion of the event beginning with preliminary round of 128 and several round of 64 matches for men, while round of 64 matches were on the schedule for women.

Nico Godsick of Stanford defeated Camilo Gonzalez Torres of Colombia 6-2, 6-1 to advance, with SMU's Trevor Svajda, seeded fifth, having a bye.

In addition to Svajda, Great Britain's Toby Samuel[12](South Carolina), Japan's Jay Friend[13] (Arizona) and Switerland's Dylan Dietrich[15](Virginia) are D-I collegians who are seeded. Australia's Derek Pham[16](Oklahoma State) lost to Great Britain's Jamie Connel 6-2, 6-1.

The American women competing in singles are UCLA rising sophomore Kate Fakih and Olivia Center, both of whom won their preliminary, round of 16 matches today. Fakih defeated Lilitha Sithenkosi Ndungane of South Africa by the popular score of 6-2, 6-1, while Center defeated Australia's Lily Taylor(Arizona State) 6-3, 7-6(5). Fakih will play Texas rising sophomore Eszter Meri of Slovakia, the No. 11 seed, next, with Center set to play No. 2 seed Alevtina Ibragimova of Russia, who is 326 in the WTA rankings. 

Fakih and Center, the 2024 NCAA doubles finalists, aren't seeded, but could contend for the doubles title, although they play the No. 1 seeds if they advance to the second round. Godsick and Jerry Barton(SMU) are the men's doubles team from the United States.

In addition to Meri, seeded Division I collegians are Kenya's Angella Okutoyi[9](Auburn), Great Britain's Esther Adeshina[10](Tennessee) and Germany's Gina Dittmann[13](NC State).

The tennis schedule extends to Saturday July 26. Mixed doubles will start Sunday.

Live scoring is available here. Draws are here.

The 2029 World University Games, which are held every two years, will be in Raleigh North Carolina.

There was news on Tuesday regarding the lawsuit UNC's Reese Brantmeier filed  against the NCAA. WRAL in Raleigh North Carolina reported the judge in case saying it was "Highly likely the Court will grant the motion for class certification" in Brantmeier's challenge of the NCAA's prohibition from accepting prize money earned at pro events. A looming class action suit might prompt the NCAA to look more favorably on a settlement than they have demonstrated so far.