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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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