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.