Arora Beats No. 2 Seed at First ITF J300 of 2026; Ten US Juniors in ITF Top 20s in Year's First Rankings; TRN's Winter Nats 12s Recap; Quinn and Nava Named to USA's February Davis Cup Team
The first of the 39 ITF J300 tournaments scheduled for 2026 is underway in New Delhi India, with four Americans advancing to the second round with victories today and another aiming to join them with a win Tuesday.
Fourteen-year-old Anya Arora, 367 in the first ITF junior rankings of the year, defeated 15-year-old Alisa Terentyeva of Russia, 73 in the new rankings, 6-2, 6-0 in the first round today. Arora was one of the last girls to get into the main draw. Fourteen-year-old Tanvi Pandey lost in the final round of qualifying, but is in the main draw as a lucky loser; she is scheduled to play her first round match Tuesday.
Kali Supova of Slovakia is the top seed in the girls draw; she faces qualifier Anandita Upadhyay of India in the first round Tuesday.
No. 4 seed Roshan Santhosh, a finalist at the event last year, defeated wild card Aashravya Mehra of India 6-4, 6-0, while No. 6 seed Vihaan Reddy also beat a wild card from India, taking out Tavish Pahwa 7-6(2), 6-1. Both Santhosh, who recently switched his college commitment from Penn to Vanderbilt, and Reddy are now both in the main draw at the Australian Open Junior Championships after the withdrawals of Thijs Boogaard and Jack Kennedy, so they will head straight to Australia after this event.
The fifth American in the draw is 16-year-old Kamil Stolarczyk, who won three qualifying matches, then beat wild card Hruthik Katakam of India 6-1, 6-4 in the first round today. He faces top seed Thilo Behrmann of Austria in the second round.
The first ITF junior rankings of 2026 were published today, with all the players who aged out in 2025 removed. That is the only change, since there were no tournaments to affect the rankings since the week of the Orange Bowl.
Jack Kennedy, at No. 3 and Keaton Hance, at No. 7 are the two American boys in the Top 10; Kristina Penickova, No. 1, and Julieta Pareja, No. 4, are the two Americans girls in the Top 10.
In addition to Kennedy and Hance, there are seven other American boys in the Top 50: Michael Antonius[14], Andrew Johnson[15], Jack Secord[18], Gavin Goode[19], Ryan Cozad[22], Tanishk Konduri[27] and Santhosh[49].
The other US girls in the Top 50 are Thea Frodin[15], Annika Penickova[18], Welles Newman[49] and Capucine Jauffret[50].
The first of the four articles on the USTA Winter National Championships was posted today at Tennis Recruiting Network, with James Hill speaking with 12s top seeds Dmitriy Flyam and Anna Sandru about their titles in San Antonio.
Captain Bob Bryan announced the USA team for the first round of the 2026 Davis Cup playoffs today. The USTA's release:
ORLANDO, Fla., January 5, 2026 – The USTA and U.S. Davis Cup Captain Bob Bryan today announced that rising stars Ethan Quinn and Emilio Nava and accomplished veterans Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram have been named to compete for the U.S. in its Davis Cup Qualifying First Round tie vs. Hungary to be played February 7-8 on an indoor clay court at the Tatabányai Multifunkcionális Sportcsarnok, in Tatabánya, Hungary.
This First Round Qualifying competition is a best-of-five match series that will begin with two singles matches on Saturday, February 7, starting at 1 p.m. local time (7 a.m. ET), then continue with a doubles match and two more singles matches on Sunday, February 8, beginning at 11 a.m. local time (5 a.m. ET). The first nation between the USA and Hungary to win three out of those five matches wins the First Round Qualifier and will advance to the Second Round of Qualifying in late September. Tennis Channel will feature coverage in the U.S.
This is the first meeting in Davis Cup history between the United States and Hungary. This is also the debut Davis Cup nomination for both Quinn and Nava, two rising talents who produced successful results on clay courts in 2025.
Quinn, 21, qualified and reached the third round at the French Open last year in his debut appearance. The 2023 NCAA singles champion while at Georgia, Quinn was ranked as high as No. 64 last year and begins the year ranked No. 76.
Nava, 24, won four clay-court Challenger titles in 2025, three of which came during a 19-match unbeaten streak in the spring. Nava is currently ranked at his career high of No. 88.
Ram, 41, has played in 15 Davis Cup ties for the U.S. and has a 12-3 Davis Cup doubles record. A four-time Grand Slam doubles champion and former world No. 1, Ram is currently ranked No. 28.
Krajicek, 35, has played in 10 Davis Cup ties for the U.S. and has an 8-2 doubles record, all played with Ram. Krajicek won the French Open doubles title in 2023 en route to being the year-end doubles world No. 1. He is currently ranked No. 52.
Captains may make up to three combined substitutions / additions to their rosters up until the day prior to the competition starting.
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