Blanch Earns First ATP Victory in Winston-Salem Qualifying; Sohns and Ngounoue Capture J100 Titles in Chestertown; College Park ITF J300 Wild Cards; Jodar Wins First Challenger; Hrastar Claims First Pro Circuit Title

Kalamazoo 18s champion Darwin Blanch got the biggest win of his pro career today in the qualifying of the ATP 250 Winston-Salem Open, beating ATP No. 116 Tristan Boyer(Stanford) 6-2, 6-3. The 17-year-old left-hander, who today saved the only break point he faced, will play No. 4 seed Valentin Royer of France in Sunday's final round qualifying match. Like Blanch, Royer has received a main draw wild card into the US Open; Blanch for winning Kalamazoo, Royer as the French reciprocal wild card.

Carel Ngounoue and Maggie Sohns won the singles titles today at the ITF J100 in Chestertown Maryland, with the 16-year-old Ngounoue winning his second J100 title of the year, while the 15-year-old Sohns claimed her first ITF Junior Circuit title.

Ngounoue, the No. 3 seed, didn't drop a set all week, defeating No. 2 seed Oliver Sanders of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-2. Sohns, the No. 2 seed, didn't lose a set until the final, beating No. 7 seed Londyn McCord 3-6, 6-4, 7-5 in the championship match.

No. 8 seeds Joanna Kennedy and Katie Spencer won the girls doubles, beating unseeded Sobee Oak and Ukraine's  Alina Vysochenko 6-3, 6-0 in the final. Kennedy and Spencer didn't drop a set in their four victories.

France's Aaron Gabet and Canada's Xavier Massotte, the top seeds, defeated unseeded Connor Plunkett and Andrew Gordon 6-1, 6-3 for the boys doubles title.

Sohns was accepted into the main draw of the ITF J300 in College Park next week; Ngounoue was in qualifying, and since he couldn't play that today, wasn't eligible for a special exempt (SEs are for tournaments within one grade of each other) and isn't on the wild card lists below, he won't be in College Park. UPDATE: Ngounoue is in the main draw, he was apparently the last player to receive direct acceptance after four withdrawals from the main draw.

ITF J300 College Park

MD wild cards

GIRLS

Yael Saffar

Reiley Rhodes

Scarlett Fagan

Shristi Selvan

Janae Preston

Hannah Ayrault

BOYS

Naoto Tomizawa(JPN)

Erik Schinnerer

Nicholas Mekhael

Marcel Latak

Nikolas Stoot

Nicolas Pedraza

Saffar and Tomizawa won the JTCC wild card tournaments. Links to draws, the order of play, live scoring and live streaming can be found at the JTCC tournament website.

Rafael Jodar won the ITF J300 in College Park last year, two weeks before claiming the US Open boys title.

Speaking of the College Park tournament, which I'll be onsite covering beginning Sunday, last year's boys champion Rafael Jodar of Spain won his first ATP Challenger title today at the 50 in Greece. The unseeded rising Virginia sophomore, who turns 19 next month, defeated top seed George Loffhagen of Great Britain in the first round in three sets and won two more three-setters to reach the semifinals. When fellow teen Petr Brunclik of the Czech Republic retired trailing 6-2, 6-0, Jodar was through to his first Challenger final. After defeating No. 6 seed Dan Added of France 6-4, 6-2 in today's final, Jodar is up to a career-high 395 in the ATP live rankings.

At the W15 in Huntsville Alabama, Ava Hrastar(Georgia Tech, Auburn) won her first Pro Circuit title, beating Gabriella Broadfoot(NC State) of South Africa 6-1, 6-1 in the final. 

The unseeded Spanish team of Isabel Adrover Gallego(Nebraska) and Aran Teixido Garcia(Memphis, LSU) won the doubles title in Huntsville, beating No. 4 seeds Broadfoot and Wolfpack teammate Mia Slama 6-2, 6-4.

No. 3 seed Blu Baker of Great Britain won the M15 in Huntsville, beating unseeded Aleksa Ciric(Georgia Gwinnett) 6-7(3), 6-3, 6-4 in today's final. 

Unseeded Braden Shick(NC State) and Matthew Thomson(Wake Forest) won the doubles title, beating No. 3 seeds Reece Falck and Matthew Shearer of New Zealand 7-6(5), 7-6(5) in the final. It's the first Pro Circuit title for both Shick and Thomson.