Qualifying for US Open Junior Championships Begins Thursday; Goode, Cozad and Tu Reach Repentigny Canada ITF J300 Quarterfinals; Men's Doubles Wild Cards and Draw; Singles Second Round Results

As is often the case in the junior slams, there was a lot of late movement after the freeze deadline at the US Open Junior Championships, with three of the US boys wild cards announced Monday getting into the qualifying on their own. The wild cards for Ford McCollum, Agassi Rusher and Zavier Augustin were then given to Zachary Cohen, Sean Grosman and Shaan Majeed. Jerrid Gaines Jr. and Izyan Ahmad are the other two American wild cards, with Naoto Tomizawa of Japan the sixth boys wild card.

The other American boys in qualifying are Simon Caldwell[15], Lachlan Gaskell and Nischal Spurling. With neither Gavin Goode nor Roshan Santhosh in qualifying, I'm assuming Goode got in on his own, perhaps via a special exempt entry and that Santhosh received Goode's main draw wild card. 

Matei Todoran of Romania, a semifinalist at last week's J300 in College Park, is the top seed in the boys qualifying draw and will play McCollum.

The same late movement happened in the girls qualifying draw, with Maggie Sohns and Jordyn Hazelitt getting in on their own ranking, with Sena Yoon and Anya Arora receiving their wild cards. The other three US wild cards are the 14-and-under ITF World Junior tennis team champions: Emery Combs, Carol Shao and Olivia de los Reyes. The Japanese wild card is Kurea Hayasaka. There are so many US girls in the qualifying--18 of the 32 entries--that two have to play fellow Americans. By ITF rule, juniors from the same country can't play each other in the first round unless it can't be avoided, which it can't be in this case.

De los Reyes will face fellow American Capucine Jauffret, the top seed; No. 4 seed Ishika Ashar will face Thara Gowda.

The other US girls in qualifying at the Cary Leeds facility in the Bronx are Isabelle DeLuccia, Ireland O'Brien, Chukwumelije Clarke[14], Aspen Schuman[5], Brooke Wallman, Claire An, Ligaya Murray and Raya Kotseva[13].

The Thursday qualifying start is complicated for those playing the ITF J300 in Repentigny Canada this week, but Goode, the No. 11 seed, won his match today to reach the quarterfinals, beating No. 6 seed Ludvig Hede of Sweden 2-6, 6-4, 6-0. He then received a walkover from No. 15 seed Gasper Matijasic of Slovenia, who is playing US Open junior qualifying instead, putting Goode through to the semifinals. No. 8 seed Ryan Cozad beat his doubles partner this week, No. 9 seed Yannick Alvarez of Puerto Rico(they won last year's Kalamazoo 16s doubles title), 5-7, 6-1, 6-1 to advance to a quarterfinal meeting with top seed Ziga Sesko of Slovenia. 

No. 15 seed Anita Tu is the sole US girls in the singles quarterfinals; she defeated No. 3 seed Nauhany Vitoria Leme Da Silva of Brazil 7-6(3), 6-3 today. She will face No. 7 seed Yihan Qu of China Thursday.

The men's doubles doesn't begin until Saturday, but the wild cards and the draws were released tonight. The wild cards:

Max Exsted and Cooper Woestendick(Kalamazoo 18s champions)
Cooper Williams and Theo Winegar(USTA Collegiate playoff winners)
Tristan Boyer and Emilio Nava
George Goldhoff and Reese Stalder
Trey Hilderbrand and Patrik Trhac
Brandon Holt and Colton Smith
Mackenzie McDonald and Ethan Quinn

The women's doubles wild cards included juniors Akasha Urhobo and Julieta Pareja, but the men, with the exception of Nava, are all former college players.

Exsted and Woestendick will face David Goffin of Belgium and Alexandre Muller of France in the first round.

The men's doubles draw is here.

Today was a good day for qualfiers, four of whom advanced to the third round, all going the distance. Priscilla Hon of Australia defeated No. 17 seed Liudmila Samsonova of Russia 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Jerome Kym of Switzerland beat No. 30 seed Brandon Nakashima 4-6, 7-6(2), 7-5, 3-6, 7-6(8), Ugo Blanchet of France took out No. 16 seed Jakub Mensik of the Czech Republic 6-7(2), 7-6(5), 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(7) and Jan-Lennard Struff of Germany beat No. 11 seed Holger Rune of Denmark 7-6(5), 2-6, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5.

Wednesday's US Open second round results of Americans:

Novak Djokovic[7](SRB) d. Zachary Svajda[Q] 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-3, 6-1

Taylor Fritz[4] d. Lloyd Harris[Q](RSA) 4-6, 7-6(3) 6-2, 6-4

Ben Shelton[6] d. Pablo Carenno Busta(ESP) 6-4, 6-2, 6-4

Frances Tiafoe[17] d. Martin Damm[Q] 6-4, 7-5, 6-7(8), 7-5

Benjamin Bonzi(FRA) d. Marcos Giron 2-6, 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4

Jerome Kym[Q](SUI) d. Brandon Nakashima[30] 4-6, 7-6(2), 7-5, 3-6, 7-6(8)

Luciano Darderi[32](ITA) d. Eliot Spizzirri[WC] 6-0, 7-6(3), 2-6, 6-4 

Jessica Pegula[4] d. Anna Blinkova(RUS) 6-1, 6-3

Jasmine Paolini[7](ITA) d. Iva Jovic 6-3, 6-3 

Emma Navarro[10] d. Caty McNally[WC] 6-2, 6-1

Marketa Vondrousova(CZE) d. McCartney Kessler[32] 7-6(7), 6-2

Taylor Townsend d. Jelena Ostapenko[25](LAT) 7-5, 6-1

Ann Li d. Belinda Bencic[16](SUI) 6-3, 6-3

Thursday's US Open second round matches featuring Americans:

Coco Gauff[3] v Donna Vekic(CRO)

Hailey Baptiste v Naomi Osaka[23](JPN)

Amanda Anisimova[8] v Maya Joint(AUS)

Peyton Stearns v Magdalena Frech[28](POL)

Ashlyn Krueger v Jaqueline Cristian(ROU)

Tommy Paul[14] v Nuno Borges

Tristan Boyer[WC] v Andrey Rublev[15](RUS)

Jenson Brooksby v Flavio Cobolli[24](ITA)