No. 2 Seed in Girls 18s, No. 3 Seed in Boys 18s Upset in USTA Winter Nationals Second Round;; Top Doubles Seeds Move On; Ethan Quinn Feature

Although all eight of the No. 1 seeds have advanced to Tuesday's third round of singles at the USTA Winter National Championships, another No. 2 seed has exited, along with the No. 3 seed in boys 18s division.

Calla McGill, the No. 2 seed in the girls 18s, lost today to Addison Lindsay 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, while Alexander Suhanitski, the boys 18s No. 3 seed lost to Michael Lorenzetti 6-7(5), 6-3, 7-5. Suhanitski won the boys 18s National Indoor title earlier this month. 

Three more Top 8 seeds lost in the boys 18s today, with Tristan Stratton beating No. 7 Williams Freshwater 1-6, 6-2, 6-1 and Brian Windsor defeating No. 6 seed Magnus Weng 7-5, 2-6, 6-4.  No. 5 seed David Wu withdrew with illness, putting TJ Shanahan in the third round.

After five top 16 seeds lost in the first round of boys 16s yesterday, the remaining 11 moved into the third round with wins today.

Although McGill was the only Top 8 seed to lose today in the girls 18s, No. 9 Lauren Nolan, No. 10 Alanna Ingalsbe, No. 12 Samaya Smith and No. 16 Reiley Rhodes were also beaten.

The girls 16s draw has lost just one Top 8 seed, and that was via a withdrawal before play began. 

B18s No. 1 seed and defending champion Shaan Patel, G18s No. 1 seed Carlota Moreno, B16s top seed Daniel Malacek and G16s top seed Sylvana Jalbert are all through to the third round.

The 12s division has gone remarkably according to form, with all top 16 seeds in the girls 12s advancing to the third round. Only one boys 12s Top 16 seed has lost, with Narain Mysore beating No. 5 seed Tomas Giraldo 6-2, 6-2 in the second round today.

In the girls 14s, No. 4 seed Kyndall Noel was beaten by Cydney Crocker 7-6(1), 7-6(3).

B14s top seed Sebastian Zavala, B12s No. 1 seed Dmitriy Flyam, G14s top seed Ava Chua and G12s No. 1 seed Anna Sandru have all reached the third round.

Doubles began today for the 16s and 18s and yesterday for the 12s and 14s. The top four seeds are listed below, with a note if they lost their first round match.

USTA Winter Nationals Top 4 doubles seeds:

B12s

1. Tomas Giraldo and Kush Purohit

2. Jackson Ansbach and Aaron Peng

3. Nicholas Rybak and Isaac Rubanenko (lost rd 1)

4. Patrick Bingham and Dmitriy Flyam

B14s

1. Sebastian Zavala and Andres Quijada

2. Joshua LaTour and Nathan Goldman

3. Krish Advani and Selwyn Olufemi-Owoeye

4. Oliver Zinaja and Marcus Gonzales

B16s

1. Rafael Lopez and Ryan Corcoran

2. Akshay Mirmira and Ivan Rybak

3. Carson Kuchar and Simon Nayal

4. Eli Kaminski and Sean Peng

B18s

1. Austin He and John Gentek

2. Darren Wei and George Santalov

3. Jacob Lee and Shaan Patel

4. William Freshwater and Maddox Bose (lost rd 1)

G12s

1. Cathryn Chartrand and Anna Sandru

2. Mary Pokdhyneychenko and Chloe Anthony

3. Lucy Jiang and Summer Yang

4. Lola Looney and Maya Laddin

G14s

1. Noel Kyndall and Christina Li

2. Eleanor Armistead and Eugenia Alvarez

3. Reese Ellingson and Daniella Akhtar

4. Natalia Martin and Alexandra Hu

G16s 

1. Meher Rao and Evelynn Kwak

2. Emery June Martin and Vanessa Kruse

3. Akanksha Parashar and Pepper Rickert

4. Adelyn Gross and Blythe Sturman (lost rd 1)

G18s

1. Isabelle DeLuccia and Carrie-Anne Hoo

2. Addy Rogin and Carlota Moreno

3. Mia Soso and Emerey Gross (lost rd 1)

4. Alaina LiSanti and Lauren Nolan

The draws and times for Tuesday can be found here for the 12s and 14s in San Antonio, and here for the 16s and 18s in Orlando.

Not much else going on in the tennis world right now in advance of the 2026 season, which kicks off with United Cup in Australia in a few days. 

But I did run see this feature on Ethan Quinn, the 2023 NCAA singles champion at Georgia, who talks with fellow UGA alum Randy Walker about his transition from college tennis to Challenger tennis and his consistent qualifying success on the ATP Tour this year which has led to his current position as the ATP No. 70.