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Thursday, December 4, 2025

ITF J300 Bradenton Quarterfinals Feature Two American Wild Cards, All US Girls Eliminated; Eleven US Juniors Compete in Semifinals of 12s, 14s and 16s Divisions; Orange Bowl 16s Qualifying Begins Friday; Santamarta Signs with Virginia

©Colette Lewis 2025--
Bradenton FL--



Jordan Lee had a difficult 2025, with a wrist injury keeping him out of competition for more than eight months. Yet on the green clay courts of the IMG Academy, the 15-year-old wild card is back to winning again, with the 2024 16s champion advancing to the ITF J300 quarterfinals with a 6-2, 6-0 thumping of No. 4 seed Alan Wazny of Poland Thursday morning.

"After being out for so long, it feels great," said Lee, who returned to competition as a member of the Junior Davis Cup championship team last month in Chile.  "It's not my life, but tennis is the thing that I enjoy most in life, what I love doing most. During the time away I missed it so much, but it was important not to rush it."

Lee admitted to some jitters when he played his first match at the Junior Davis Cup, but he is not surprised by the form he's displayed since his return.

"The first match in Chile was very tough, I was very nervous," said Lee, whose only loss since coming back was in the second round of the M15 in Orlando last month. "But since I was finally back, I didn't want to waste it being nervous, just wanted to have fun, enjoy it. I put a lot of hard work into coming back."

Lee hadn't played Wazny, so wasn't sure what to expect, but was happy with his own level. 

"I did a very good job of staying solid, I played very well overall," Lee said. "I don't really know him, so I don't know, but I did a very good job today."

Lee will play unseeded 16-year-old Daniel Jade of France, who defeated wild card Marcel Latak 6-2, 3-6, 6-3, in the quarterfinals, but hasn't given much thought to a second straight title.

"It feels great being back on these courts, but I'm not really thinking about being defending champion, a two-peat or anything like that," said Lee, who reached the Eddie Herr 12s final in 2021. "I'm just thinking about doing the best I can, using what I have and giving 100 percent."

Another young American reached the quarterfinals by claiming a decidedly tougher battle, with 16-year-old Jerrid Gaines Jr. defeating fellow wild card Samim Filiz of Turkey 7-5, 3-6, 6-3. Filiz was returning the big first serves of Gaines well in the first two sets, but Gaines said he raised his level in the third set to reach his first J300 quarterfinal.

Gaines will play unseeded Juan Miguel Bolivar Idarraga of Colombia, who won a second straight three-setter, beating doubles partner Pedro Henrique Chabalgoity of Brazil 6-3, 0-6, 7-6(5). Chabalgoity, who had beaten No. 9 seed Michael Antonius Wednesday in over three and a half hours, looked exhausted in the late stages of the match, but managed to break Bolivar Idarraga serving for the match at 5-4 and saved two match points down 3-6 in the final tiebreaker before finally succumbing.

No. 5 seed Jamie Mackenzie of Germany also dropped a third set tiebreaker, with Dimitar Kisimov of Bulgaria taking a 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(3) decision. Mackenzie was cramping badly at the end of the match and withdrew from his doubles quarterfinal as a result.

Kisimov will face qualifier Tim Vaisman of Israel, who has now won six matches this week after beating Connor Doig of South Africa 6-4, 6-3. 

The only two boys seeds remaining play each other, with No. 13 seed William Rejchtman Vinciguerra of Sweden facing No. 7 seed Thijs Boogaard of the Netherlands. Rejchtman Vinchiguerra beat Dan Brand of Israel 7-6(3), 6-3, while Boogaard coasted past No. 12 seed Andy Johnson 6-1, 6-2.


There are no US girls through to the quarterfinals, with wild card Allison Wang withdrawing due to an ab injury prior to her match with Alyssa James of Jamaica. No. 16 seed Nancy Lee dropped a 6-3, 6-4 decision to No. 4 seed Sol Ailin Larraya Guidi of Argentina and Anita Tu lost to Antonina Sushkova of Ukraine 5-7, 6-3, 6-2.

Sushkova trailed 5-2 in the first set before getting back to 5-all, but she identified the problem and cleared her head during a bathroom break after the first set.

"I went to the restroom and just told myself to fight and to do my best," said the 17-year-old, who is now training in France. "In the first set my serve was terrible, so many double faults, and it was in my head, so that toilet break really helped me to clean my mind."

Sushkova is playing her first tournament on green clay, but she prefers it to the red clay prevalent in Europe.

"I like it because it doesn't bounce really high like on normal clay," Sushkova said. "For me, it's really good, I'm an aggressive player, so when the ball doesn't bounce high I have less time and feel it better."

Sushkova left her home country to train near Nice when Russia invaded Ukraine.

"For the first two years I was really struggling a lot mentally," said Sushkova, who travels with her French coach. "I used to be home, with my parents and grandparents. Now my mom stays with me, I see my dad only when I come to Ukraine, maybe one time per year, so it's quite tough. But we keep in touch, all the time, I call him after every match, I think he was actually watching this match (on live stream). But in time, I'm getting better in France, and it's my second home now."

Sushkova will face James in the quarterfinals, with the other quarterfinal in the top half featuring Hollie Smart of Great Britain and No. 5 seed Anastasija Cvetkovic of Serbia. Smart defeated No. 15 seed Iva Marinkovic of Sweden 6-2, 7-5 and Cvetkovic beat Tereza Hermanova of the Czech Republic 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.

The only quarterfinal between two seeds is No. 9 seed Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi of India and No. 4 sed Larray Giudi. Rajeshwaran Revathi defeated No. 6 seed Kanon Sawashiro of Japan 2-6, 6-3, 6-3.

In the bottom quarter, No. 8 seed Xinran Sun of China will be looking for revenge against unseeded Kristina Liutova, who beat Sun 2-6, 6-2, 6-0 in the semifinals of the ITF J300 College Park in August. Sun beat unseeded Pavla Sviglerova of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6-1 today, while Liutova defeated 14-year-old Sofiia Bielinska 6-3, 6-2. 

The Sun-Liutova quarterfinal is the only one where the competitors have played previously on the ITF Junior Circuit.

The doubles semifinals are set for Friday afternoon. 

No. 6 seeds Yannik Alvarez of Puerto Rico and Ziga Sesko of Slovenia will face No. 4 seeds Michael Antonius and Johnson in the top half; No. 7 seeds Johan Oscar Lien of Norway and Rejchtmann Vinciguerra play two-time junior slam champions Wazny and Oskari Paldanius of Finland.

Unseeded Rira Kosaka and Aoi Watanabe of Japan meet No. 3 seeds Sawashiro and Sun in the girls top half semifinal; No. 4 seeds Melije Clarke and Ha Eum Lee of Korea play No. 2 seeds Cvetkovic and Larraya Guidi.

The 12s, 14s and 16s divisions played their quarterfinals today, with 11 Americans still in the hunt for titles. An American girl will be the 16s champion, with all semifinalists from the United States. The girls 12s division is the only one of the six without an American still in contention for a title.

B12s Quarterfinals:
Rui He (CHN) d. Yeseong Lee[9] (KOR) 6-3, 6-0
Jobe Dikkenberg[3](AUS) d. Dmitriy Flyam[7] (USA) 6-3, 5-7, 10-6

Minchan Kwon[16] (KOR) d. Daichi Fujise (JPN) 2-6, 6-2, 10-1
James Borchard[5] (USA) d. Zirui Zhao (CHN) 6-4, 7-5

B14s Quarterfinals:
Genidy Mohamed[1] (EGY) d. Siyun Kim[7] (KOR) 6-3, 6-2
Tristan Ascenzo[3] (USA) d. Kenshin Sato (JPN) 6-2, 6-0

Akhmadi Makhanov[10] (KAZ) d. Boshi Wang[4] (USA) 6-2, 7-6(11)
Ignacio Mejias[16] (USA) d. Yosuke Hino[8] (SGP) 6-3, 6-0

B16s Quarterfinals:
Mason Vaughan[1] (USA) d. Rafael Bote[5] (CAN) 3-6, 6-0, 6-2
Artem Dmytrenko[9] (USA) d. Dhakshish Aryan[4] (USA) 6-4, 6-1

Colter Amey (USA) d. Ansar Niyetkaliyev (KAZ) 6-4, 6-0
Jang Junseo[14] (KOR) d. Cristobal Plasencia Robles[12] USA) 6-1, 6-2

G12s Quarterfinals:
Xiaoke Li (CHN) d. Chloe Anthony[7] USA) 3-6, 6-4, 10-1
Yoonseol Choi (KOR) d. Zana Peric[8] (USA) 6-7(4), 6-2, 10-3

Fangqiao Zou[4] (CHN) d. Yeonkyung Lim[6] (KOR) 6-2, 6-3
Seungyeon Seo[5] (AUS) d. Inie Toli[2] (USA) 6-0, 6-2

G14s Quarterfinals:
Adriana Khomyakova[13] (USA) d. Mia Tanasoiu (USA) 6-0, 6-1
Konstantina Volonaki[5](GRE) d. Jiayi Lu(CHN)[10] 7-6(6), 6-2

Zihao Han[4] (CHN) d. Srishti Kiran[11] (IND) 6-2, 6-0
Ayaka Iwasa[9] (JPN) d. Xinran Yan[12] (CHN) 6-2, 6-2

G16s Quarterfinals:
Adelina Iftime[11] (USA) d. Kara Fronek[16] (AUT) 7-5, 6-0
Samvrutha Jawahar[7] (USA) d. Sadira Ouyang[3] USA) 6-4, 6-3

Tanvi Pandey[6] (USA) d. Vibha Gogineni[4](USA) 3-6, 6-2, 6-2
London Evans (USA) d. Shaya Jovanovic (USA) 6-0, 6-4

Two rounds of doubles were played this afternoon and both the semifinals and finals are scheduled for Friday.

Qualifying for the 16s Orange Bowl begins Friday, and main draw wild cards have been determined. Draws and order of play can be found here.

Boys 16s wild cards:
Kush Bhandari
Chase Bowden
Diego Custodio
Alexander Farias
Mark Mrcela
Sulaiman Syed
Alexander Totian
Johnny Wolf

Girls 16s wild cards:
Audrey Dussault
Genevieve Hayden
Fiona Hu
Kylee Hung
Sofia Kedrin
Evelynn Kwak
Priyanka Tallamraju

The University of Virginia announced today that former ITF World Junior No. 1 and 2024 ITF J300 Bradenton and Orange Bowl champion Andres Santamarta Roig of Spain will be joining the team in January. Although Rafael Jodar is still planning to return to the team for the spring season, should the Spanish sophomore have notable results at the NextGen ATP Finals or in the Australian Open qualifying, that could change, and Santamarta would soften the blow should Jodar decide not to return.

Posted by Colette Lewis at 9:24 PM

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