Penickova and Kennedy Start ITF World Tennis Tour Junior Finals with Wins, Top Seed Vasilev Upset by Alexandrescou; Thirty More Players Qualify for Division I NCAA Singles Championship with Regional Play Complete

Kristina Penickova and Jack Kennedy picked up victories in the first day of play at the ITF World Tennis Tour Junior Finals in Chengdu China Wednesday. 

Penickova, the top seed, defeated Julia Stusek of Germany 6-0, 6-4, coming from 4-1 down in the second set to close out the No. 5 seed in 61 minutes.

Kennedy, the No. 5 seed, defeated No. 2 seed and former ITF Junior No. 1 Andres Santamarta Roig 7-5, 6-0.

Top seed Aleksandar Vasilev of Bulgaria, currently No. 2 in the ITF junior rankings, lost to Yannick Alexandrescou of Romania 4-6, 7-6(6), 6-4 in the longest match of the day: 2:26

ITF WTT Junior Finals Day One Round Robin Results:

Boys Group A

Yannick Alexandrescou[6](ROU) d. Aleksander Vsailev[1](BUL) 4-6, 7-6(6), 6-4
Jacopo Vasami[3](ITA) d. Oskari Paldanius[8](FIN) 6-3, 7-6(4)

Boys Group B
Max Schoenhaus[4](GER) d. Benjamin Willwerth[7](USA) 6-4, 7-5
Jack Kennedy[5](USA) d. Andres Santamarta Roig[2](ESP) 7-5, 6-0

Girls Group A
Kristina Penickova[1](USA) d. Julia Stusek[5](GER) 6-0, 6-4
Jeline Vandromme[4](BEL) d. Charo Esquiva Banuls[7](ESP) 6-3, 4-6, 6-2

Girls Group B
Hannah Klugman)[2](GBR) d. Jana Kovackova[6](CZE) 6-4, 6-4
Mia Pohankova[3](SVK) d. Ruien Zhang[8](CHN) 6-4, 7-5

Order of Play for Thursday, Day Two of Round Robin Play:

Boys Group A

Jacopo Vasami[3](ITA) v Yannick Alexandrescou[6](ROU)

Oskari Paldanius[8](FIN) v Aleksandar Vasilev[1](BUL)

Boys Group B

Andres Santamarta Roig[2](ESP) v Benjamin Willwerth[7](USA)

Max Schoenhaus[4] v Jack Kennedy[5](USA)

Girls Group A

Kristina Penickova[1](USA) v Jeline Vandromme[4](BEL)

Julia Stusek[5] v Charo Esquiva Banuls[7](ESP)

Girls Group B

Hannah Klugman[2](GBR) v Mia Pohankova[3](SVK) 

Jana Kovackova[6](CZE) v Ruien Zhang[8](CHN)

Live streaming is here; live scoring is here.

The ITA Division I Regionals concluded Tuesday, with 30 more players earning their entries into next month's NCAA singles tournament at the USTA's National Campus in Lake Nona Florida. 

That puts the number of qualifiers at 36, with the final 28  to be determined November 6-9 at the last two qualifying events, the Sectionals and the Conference Masters. 24 players, six from each of the four Sectionals, will qualify, as will the four semifinalists at the Conference Masters in San Diego.

The lists of the 36 qualifiers to date are below; the 17 doubles qualifiers can be found at Chris Halioris of Collegetennisranks.com's google docs, with the men's entries here and the women entries here.

NCAA singles qualifiers as of October 22, 2025

Women

From All-American Championships:

Valerie Glozman, Stanford

Carmen Herea, Texas

Teah Chavez, Ohio State

Luciana Perry, Ohio State

Tatum Evans, UNC

Emma Charney, USC

Irina Balus, Duke

Reese Brantmeier, UNC

Savannah Dada-Mascoll, Appalachian State

Piper Charney, Michigan

From Regionals:

Mountain:

Louise Wikander, Denver

Emma Kamper, Utah

Texas:

Mia Kupres, Texas A&M

Darya Schwartzman, Rice

New England:

Serafima Shastova, Syracuse

Stephanie Yakoff, Harvard

Northeast:

Esha Velaga, Penn

Alice Ferlito, Princeton

Northwest:

Alyssa Ahn, Stanford

Naomi Xu, Cal

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Southern:

Kristina Paskauskas, Alabama

Ashton Bowers, Auburn

Atlantic:

Annabelle Xu, Virginia

Vivian Yang, Virginia

Carolina:

Savannah Dada-Mascoll, Appalachian State*

Ange Oby Kajuru, North Carolina

*Dada-Mascoll has already qualified for NCAAs via the All-American Championships, so her bid goes to Anna Zyryanova of NC State, who finished in third place in the Carolina Regional

Central:

Julia Garcia Ruiz, Oklahoma

Carolina Gomez Alonso, Arkansas

Midwest:

Bianca Molnar, Notre Dame

Nao Nishino, Ohio State

Ohio Valley:

Bridget Stammel, Vanderbilt

Mia Yamakita, Vanderbilt

Southeast:

Anastasiia Lopata, Georgia

Anastasiia Gureva, Georgia

Southwest:

Jana Hossam Salah, USC

Anastasiia Grechkina, Pepperdine

Men:

From A-A:

Jay Friend, Arizona

Aidan Kim, Ohio State

Devin Badenhorst, Baylor

Dylan Dietrich, Virginia

DK Suresh, Wake Forest

Ozan Baris, Michigan Sate

Matthew Forbes, Michigan State

Sebastian Gorzny, Texas

Duncan Chan, TCU

Kenta Myoshi, Illinois

From Regionals:

Central:

Luis Alvarez, Oklahoma 

Oscar Lacides, Oklahoma

Atlantic:

Keegan Rice, Virginia

Jangjun Kim, Virginia

Southeast:

Luis Miguel, Florida State

Hugo Car, South Florida

Southern:

Benito Sanchez Martinez, Mississippi State

Petar Jovanovic, Mississippi State

Ohio Valley:

Pablo Martinez Gomez, Vanderbilt

Sam Landau, Indiana

New England:

Vignesh Gogineni, Yale

Benjamin Privara, Harvard

~~~

Carolina:

Luca Pow, Wake Forest

Romain Gales, Clemson

Midwest:

Max Dahlin, Michigan

Preston Stearns, Ohio State

Mountain:

Ilia Snitari, UNLV

Illia Maksymchuk, UNLV

Northeast:

Paul Inchauspe, Princeton

Top Nidunjianzan, Princeton

Northwest:

Soham Purohit, Washington

Fryderyk Lechno Wasiutynski, Cal

Southwest:

Spencer Johnson, UCLA

Rudy Quan, UCLA

Texas:

Sebastian Eriksson, Texas

Trevor Svajda, SMU