Top Seeds Pareja and Ivanov Begin Quest for US Open Junior Titles Sunday, 28 of 38 Americans in Action; Winegar and Williams Advance in Men's Doubles; Miguel and Efremova Claim Titles at ITF J300 in Repentigny Canada

©Colette Lewis 2025--
Flushing Meadows, NY--

Three-quarters of the first round US Open Junior Championships singles matches will be played Sunday, with the top four seeds in both draws and 28 of the 38 American entries taking to the courts of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center 

ITF World No. 1 juniors Julieta Pareja, the Wimbledon finalist and Bulgaria's Ivan Ivanov, the Wimbledon champion lead the list of contenders, with the seeds listed below. One note on the boys seeds, with Nicolas Arseneault of Canada seeded solely on the basis of his ATP ranking, which is 502. Girls are occasionally seeded based on their WTA rankings, but I don't remember the last time a boy received a seed via those ITF calculations. An interesting fact from the girls seeds is that none of the Top 8 played either of the ITF Junior Circuit warm-up J300s, with Americans Pareja and Penickova playing US Open women's qualifying that week. Defending champion Mika Stojsavljevic of Great Britain, seeded No. 9, did play last week in Canada, losing in the semifinals.

US Open Junior Championships Seeds

Girls:

1. Julieta Pareja, USA

2. Hannah Klugman, GBR

3. Kristina Penickova, USA

4. Mia Pohankova, SVK

5. Julia Stusek, GER

6. Jana Kovackova, CZE

7. Alena Kovackova, CZE

8. Charo Esquiva Banuls, ESP

9. Mika Stojsavljevic, GBR

10. Laim Vladson, LTU

11. Ruien Zhang, CHN

12. Luna Cinalli, ARG

13. Elizara Yaneva, BUL

14. Jelind Vandromme, BEL

15. Victoria Barros, BRA

16. Thea Frodin, USA

Boys:

1. Ivan Ivanov, BUL

2. Andres Santamarta Roig, ESP

3. Yannick Alexandrescou, ROU

4. Benjamin Willwerth, USA

5. Alexander Vasilev, BUL

6. Oskari Paldanius, FIN

7. Niels McDonald, GER

8. Max Schoenhaus, GER

9. Jack Kennedy, USA

10. Ryo Tabata, JPN

11. Nicolas Arseneault, CAN 

12. Alan Wazny, POL

13. Timofei Derepasko, RUS

14. Oliver Bonding, GBR

15. Ronit Karki, USA

16. Joao Didoni Bonini, BRA

The 38 Americans--16 girls and 22 boys--include three special exempts from Canada, with Anita Tu(singles quarterfinalist), Kori Montoya(doubles semifinalist) and Gavin Goode(singles semifinalist) all getting into the main draw because they were unable to compete in US Open qualifying. The second boys special exempt went to Michele Mecarelli of Italy, who Goode beat in the semifinals. 

Leena Friedman ended up getting in on her own ranking, so Tianmei Wang received her previously announced wild card.

Saturday's first round junior singles matches featuring Americans:

Kristina Penickova[3] v Nellie Taraba Wallberg(SWE)

Kori Montoya[SE] v Deniz Dilek(TUR)

Julieta Pareja[1] v Mika Buchnik(ISR)

Leena Friedman v Ruby Cooling[Q](GBR)

Anita Tu[SE] v Elizara Yaneva(BUL)

Thea Frodin[16] v Eugenia Zozaya Menendez(ESP)

Maya Iyengar v Kanon Sawashiro(JPN)

Hannah Ayrault[WC] v Riyo Yoshida[Q](JPN

Bella Payne[WC] v Daphnee Mpetshi Perricard[Q](FRA)

Lani Chang[WC] v Yushan Shao(CHN)

Alexis Nguyen[WC] v Jeline Vandromme[14](BEL)

Aspen Schuman[Q] v Hannah Klugman[2](GBR)

Benjamin Willwerth[4] v Cruz Hewitt(AUS)

Izyan Ahmad[Q] v Tito Chavez[Q](ESP)

Michael Antonius[WC] v Ivan Ivanov[1](BUL)

Keaton Hance v Naoto Tomizawa[Q](JPN)

Jack Secord v Oliver Bonding[14](GBR)

Jack Kennedy[9] v Nikita Bilozertsev(UKR)

Matisse Farzam[WC] v Linus Lagerbohm(FIN)

Tanishk Konduri[WC] v Alexander Vasilev[5](BUL)

Maximus Dussault v Hitesh Chauhan[Q](IND)

Carel Ngounoue[WC] v Yannik Alvarez(PUR)

Marcel Latak[WC] v Michele Mecarelli(ITA)

Noah Johnston v Alejandro Arcila(COL)

Dominick Mosejczuk v Pedro Chabalgoity[Q](BRA)

Vihaan Reddy[WC] v Max Schoenhaus[8](GER)

Jack Satterfield v Jamie Mackenzie(GER)

Andrew Johnson[WC] v Yannick Alexandrescou[3](ROU)

Saturday's US Open third round results of Americans:

Coco Gauff[3] d. Magdalena Frech[28](POL) 6-3, 6-1

Amanda Anisimova[8] d. Jaqueline Cristian(ROU) 6-4, 4-6, 6-2

Alexander Bublik[23](KAZ) d. Tommy Paul[14] 7-6(5), 6-7(4), 6-3, 6-7(5), 6-1 

Sunday's US Open fourth round matches featuring Americans:

Jessica Pegula[4] v Ann Li

Taylor Townsend v Barbora Krejcikova(CZE)

Taylor Fritz v Tomas Machac[21](CZE)

In men's first round doubles today, Ohio State's 2024 NCAA spring(<-corrected) doubles champions Robert Cash and JJ Tracy defeated Romain Arnedo of Monaco and Rohan Bopanna of India 6-4, 6-3.  USTA collegiate playoff champions Cooper Williams and Theo Winegar of Duke won their match against Petr Nouza and Patrik Rikl of the Czech Republic 7-6(7), 6-4.

Kalamazoo 18s champions Max Exsted and Cooper Woestendick(TCU) will face No. 6 seeds Neal Skupski(LSU) and Joe Salisbury(Memphis) of Great Britain on Court 17 Sunday afternoon.

The singles finals of the ITF J300 in Repentigny Canada were played today, with Luis Guto Miguel of Brazil, the No. 3 seed, beating Gavin Goode, the No. 11 seed, 7-6(2), 6-2 for the boys title.  It's the second J300 title for the 16-year-old Miguel, with his first coming in Belgium's J300 warmup tournament for Roland Garros this spring. Miguel, who lost in the first round in Paris, has drawn Roland Garros champion and No. 7 seed Niels McDonald of Germany in the first round here in New York.

The girls title in Canada went to No. 4 seed Ksenia Efremova of France, who beat No. 7 seed Yihan Qu of China 6-3, 6-0. In an unlikely set of coincidences, Efremova also won the warmup to Roland Garros this year for her first J300 title, with this her second. She too plays the No. 7 seed in New York, Alena Kovackova of the Czech Republic.