Quarterfinals Set for USTA Winter Nationals, Unseeded Lee Ousts Top Seed Zavala in B14s; Jodar Will Not Return to Virginia as He Begins Pro Career

The quarterfinals are set for the USTA Winter National Championships on New Year's Day, with seven of the eight No. 1 seeds still in the hunt for a gold ball. The boys 14s lost their top seed in today's round of 16, with unseeded Nathan Lee, the younger brother of Tyler Lee, defeating Sebastian Zavala 6-1, 6-3.

The quarterfinal matchups in singles:

B18s:
Shaan Patel[1] v Noble Renfrow[13]
Michael Lorenzetti v Andrew Li[17]
Niko Klyachkin[12] v Gordon Gallagher[10]
Liam Alvarez v Ronit Karki[2]

G18s

Carlota Moreno[1] v Maria Navarro[17]

Ellery Mendell[4] v Kylie Liu[17]

Catherine Rennard[6] v Carrie-Anne Hoo[3]

Kenzie Nguyen[8] v Sophia Budacsek

B16s:

Daniel Malacek[1] v Nile Ung[9]

Rafael Lopez[4] v Piotr Gradzki[5]

Adrian Sharma v Lennart Hammargren[3]

Akshay Mirmira[17] v Rafael Pawar[17]

G16s:

Sylvana Jalbert[1] v Nikol Davletshina[5]

Olivia Lin[4] v Sofia Basto Cabrera[6]

Fiona Hu[17] v Vanessa Kruse[3]

Alicia Londono v Shristi Selvan[2]

B14s:

Nathan Lee v Rex Kulman[13]

Evaan Mohan[17] v Andry Wu[9]

Nikola Bogojevic[17] v Andres Quijada[3]

Pranav Vignesh[7] v Jiarui Zhang[2]

G14s:

Ava Chua[1[ v Charlotte Kim[17]

Eugenia Alvarez[9] v Annabelle Huang

Oleana Zerres[6] v Aarna Patel

Reese Ellingson[5] v Natalia Martinez[13]

B12s:

Dmitriy Flyam[1] v Louis Xu[17]

Samuel Hartley[4] v Aaron Peng[7]

Sanath Anand[10] v Ethan Kim[16]

William Zhang[2] v David Benedict[6] 

G12s:

Anna Sandru[1] v Alara Buyukuncu[17]

Lailah Cowgill[15] v Catherine Chan[16]

Chloe Anthony[5] v Summer Yang[3]

Mary Podkhyneychenko[2] v Lola Looney[9] 

The draws for the 16s and 18s in Orlando are here; the draws for the 12s and 14s in San Antonio are here.

Rafael Jodar announced late yesterday that he would not be returning to the University of Virginia for his sophomore season, as begins to pursue his professional career full-time. The 19-year-old from Spain, who won the 2024 US Open boys title, has seen his ATP ranking rise from 675 to 168 in the six months since he last competed for the Cavaliers in May of this year, winning three Challenger titles since August. The ITA's 2025 Rookie of the Year will play the Australian Open qualifying and few would be surprised if he reached the main draw in his first professional major.

"Thank you, UVA. Forever grateful ⚔" - Rafa Jódar pic.twitter.com/RD51DwjfEa

— Virginia Men's Tennis (@UVAMensTennis) December 30, 2025