Glozman and Friend Claim ITA All-American Singles Championships; USTA Pro Circuit Titles for Day, Shelbayh and Perot; Spizzirri Captures Second Challenger Title in China

Valerie Glozman of Stanford ended her freshman year in June by winning the USTA's US Open Collegiate Playoff. The 18-year-old from Washington started her sophomore year this month with the first Division I major singles title for a Stanford woman since Nicole Gibbs won the NCAAs in 2013, beating Texas's Carmen Herea 6-2, 6-3 in today's final of the ITA women's All-American Championships in Cary North Carolina. 

Glozman, the No. 4 seed, dropped her only set of the tournament in the third round, when she fell behind Mao Mushika of Cal 5-0 before rebounding for a 3-6, 7-5, 6-3 victory to secure her spot in November's NCAA individual tournament in Lake Nona. After that, Glozman cruised, losing only 12 games in her last three matches.

In today's final, Glozman was in control from the third game, when she broke No. 9 seed Herea, a 19-year-old sophomore from Romania. Glozman had two set points with Herea serving at 1-5, 30-40, but received an unsportsmanlike conduct point penalty when her call on the baseline was overturned by the PlayReplay Electronic Line Calling system. That gave Herea the point and the penalty assessed gave her the game, which caused much consternation from Stanford head coach Frankie Brennan, who spoke with the chair umpire and the referee throughout the ensuing changeover.

Glozman, now facing a game penalty if another out call of hers was overturned, was able to regroup and hold in the next game to take the first set, and when she got a double fault from Herea on a deciding point in the first game of the second set, she appeared to have the match under control. 

But with no-ad, opportunities are likely to surface, and Glozman had to win a deciding point in her 2-1 service game to stay in front. Her variety, which keeps opponents off balance, unsure whether her slice or a ripped two-handed forehand is going to come next, was too much for Herea, who tried several strategies to put pressure on Glozman with little success. Herea did manage to save two match points with Glozman serving at 5-2, the second with a backhand angle winner short of the service line that gave Glozman a taste of her own medicine. But Glozman went up 0-40 in the next game and closed out the title on her fourth match point. 

Glozman is the first women's All-American champion for Stanford since Hilary Barte won the title in 2010 at the Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles. 

Jay Friend spent his first three years at the University of Arizona in the shadow of Colton Smith, but he is now the only Wildcat, man or woman, to win a Division I major championship, after beating Aidan Kim of Ohio State 6-2, 6-4 in today's final of ITA men's All-American Championships in Tulsa Oklahoma. 

The third-seeded Friend, who won gold medals for Japan in mixed doubles and men's singles at the World University Games in Germany this summer, dominated on serve in the first set, losing only four points on serve.

Similar to the women's final, the second set started poorly for the player trailing, with No. 2 seed Kim, a junior from Michigan, broken after leading 40-0 in the opening game.

Friend kept the lead by winning a deciding point in the next game, and Kim would not get another look. With Friend serving at 4-3, 30-all, he came up with a crucial ace, then closed out the game. After Kim held serve to make it 5-4, benefitting from an overturned call by Friend on a first serve, Friend served out the title at love.

In addition to the history Friend made with his title, the women's doubles champions also put themselves in their school's record books. Wisconsin's Maria Sholokhova and Lucie Urbanova defeated Oklahoma's Roisin Gilheany and Gloriana Nahum 6-3, 6-3 in a final between unseeded teams, becoming the first team from Wisconsin, men or women, to win an All-American doubles title. Sholokhova had made history last year with Wisconsin's first All-American singles title, and is the first woman since UCLA's Robin Anderson in 2013 and 2014 to win both All-American titles.

The men's doubles title went to the top seeds, with Benito Sanchez Martinez and Petar Jovanovic of Mississippi State beating the unseeded Wake Forest team of DK Suresh and Andrew Delgado 7-5, 6-3. Sanchez and Jovanovic are the second Mississippi State men's team to win an All-American title, joining Daniel Courcol and Laurent Miquelard, the 1992 champions.

The final two qualifiers for the NCAA singles championships were determined today, with the winners of the semifinals of the feed-in consolation matches guaranteed a spot in the NCAA draws.

Piper Charney of Michigan defeated Anastasiia Grechkina of Pepperdine 6-1, 4-6, 7-6(6) and Savannah Dada-Mascoll of Appalachian State, who had beaten top seed DJ Bennett of Auburn in the first round, defeated Ashton Bowers of Texas 6-2, 6-3 to secure their entries into the NCAA singles championships.

Duncan Chan of TCU beat Emon van Loben Sels of UCLA 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 to earn his place in the NCAAs, as did Kenta Miyoshi of Illinois, who defeated Kentucky's Jack Loutit 6-2, 4-1, ret. injury.

All eight singles quarterfinalists and all four doubles semifinalists had already qualified for the NCAAs.

The women's draw page is here; the men's draw page is here.

Kayla Day won the battle of the left-handed Kaylas today at the USTA Pro Circuit W75 in Templeton California, earning her seventh title with a 6-2, 3-0 retired victory over LSU sophomore Kayla Cross of Canada on Day's 26th birthday. Now back into the WTA Top 300 with the title, the 2016 USTA 18s National and US Open girls champion is aiming to return to the WTA Top 100, which she reached in 2023. Steve Pratt, the press officer for the tournament, provided this account of the final.

TEMPLETON, Calif. – September 28, 2025 – Kayla Day was serenaded by a couple hundred fans who sang her Happy Birthday following her seventh pro singles title becoming the first Californian to win the seventh edition of the Central Coast Tennis Classic brought to you by Central Coast Home Health on Sunday at the Templeton Tennis Ranch.

 

After winning the first set, 6-2, against the No. 5 seeded Canadian Kayla Cross, Day was leading 3-0 in the second set when the serving Cross lost the first point. She then walked over to the chair umpire and informed her she was going to retire from the match because of a left hip injury.

 

After the trophy presentation and photos, Day, who turned 26 on Sunday, then joined about a dozen ball kids and jumped into the shallow end of the swimming pool, a tradition started last year after Renata Zarazua won the singles title a day before her 27^th birthday and just days after the new pool at the Templeton Tennis Ranch opened.

 

“I expected a battle today and you never want to win that way so I’m sorry for Kayla,” Day told the crowd, later adding that “In those moments you just have to stay extra focused because you never know if she could come back.” 

 

Cross said she injured her hip at the start of the match. “I went for a wide forehand and I could tell I had pulled something,” the 20-year-old LSU sophomore said. “During the first set it was getting worse and worse.” 

 

Asked how she would rank the win among her seven career pro titles, the WTA world-ranked No. 345^th player Day said, “It’s definitely up there. It’s my biggest title since I had my injury and me being from California and so close to home, it’s pretty special, especially on my birthday.”

 

Day, who was out for nine months after surgery on her right ankle, won two ITF W100 singles titles in 2023, the same year she reached the third round at the French Open.    

 

Day, who earned 75 WTA ranking points, gave a shoutout to her longtime coach Larry Mousouris, who was a Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo All-American in the late 1960s. “Larry’s been my coach since I was 9 years old,” Day said. “Thanks to Larry for being here because he doesn’t get to travel with me very much.”

Mousouris couldn’t help but flash a smile or two on Kayla’s big day. “She’s worked very hard to get to this point,” he said. “But she knows there’s still a lot of work to do.”

The final at the W35 in Berkeley between qualifier Merna Refaat(Auburn) of Egypt and Johanne Svendsen of Denmark has been delayed by drizzle, but the doubles final was completed, with top seeds Rasheeda McAdoo(Georgia Tech) and Auburn senior Angella Okutoyi of Kenya defeating No. 2 seeds Francesca Pace of Italy and Zuzanna Pawlikowska of Poland 7-6(2), 6-4 in the final.

No. 2 seed Rafael Perot(Texas A&M) of France won the M15 in Ann Arbor, beating qualifier Oliver Okonkwo(Iowa, Illinois) of Great Britain 6-2, 6-1 in the final. The only set Perot lost all week was to former Tennessee star Shunsuke Mitsui of Japan in the second round. It's the second ITF men's World Tennis Tour title for the 24-year-old, whose senior year in College Station was 2023-2024.

 

At the ATP Challenger 75 in Las Vegas, Abdullah Shelbayh(Florida) of Jordan claimed his second Challenger title and his first in two years, with the 21-year-old beating fellow left-hander Alex Rybakov(TCU) 6-2, 6-4 in today's final. Shelbayh moves up to 302 in the ATP rankings with the title.

Eliot Spizzirri, the former Texas All-American, won his second Challenger title Sunday in Jingshan China, beating qualifier Alex Bolt of Australia 6-4, 6-4 in the final. Spizzirri, who won his first Challenger title in February, is now up to a career-high of 105 in the ATP live rankings. He is playing qualifying for the ATP Shanghai Masters 1000 beginning Monday.