Six Americans Reach Third Round at Australian Open; Guto Migel, Sun Claim ITF J300 Traralgon Titles; Five US Girls Advance to ITF J300 Coffee Bowl Quarterfinals; Virginia Men Move to No. 2 in Latest D-I Poll

Three US women and three US men advanced to the Australian Open third round with wins Wednesday, including 18-year-old Iva Jovic, who will be appearing in the third round of a major for the first time.

Jovic defeated Australian wild card Priscilla Hon 6-1, 6-2, winning the final six games of the late night match, to advance to a third meeting with Jasmine Paolini of Italy. Although Jovic's pro career has been brief, she has 2025 losses to Paolini in the second round at Indian Wells and in the second round of the US Open.

Columbia senior Michael Zheng suffered an injury in his second round match with Corentin Moutet of France, retiring in the fourth set.

Wednesday's second round results of Americans:

Iva Jovic[29] d. Priscilla Hon[WC](AUS) 6-1, 6-2

Coco Gauff[3] d. Olga Danilovic(SRB) 6-2, 6-2

Victoria Mboko[17](CAN) d. Caty McNally 6-4, 6-3

Karolina Muchova[19](CZE) d. Alycia Parks 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 

Hailey Baptiste d. Storm Hunter[Q](AUS) 6-2, 6-1

Magda Linette(POL) d. Ann Li 6-3, 6-3

Frances Tiafoe[29] d. Francisco Comesana(ARG) 6-4, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina[14](ESP) d. Reilly Opelka 6-3, 7-6(3), 5-7, 4-6, 6-4

Tommy Paul[19] d. Thiago Tirante(ARG) 6-3, 6-4, 6-2

Learner Tien[25] d. Alexander Shevchenko(KAZ) 6-2, 5-7, 6-1, 6-0

Corentin Moutet[32](FRA) d. Michael Zheng[Q] 3-6, 6-1, 6-3, 2-0 ret. 

Cam Norrie[26](GBR) d. Emilio Nava 6-1, 7-6(3), 4-6, 7-6(5)

Thursday's second round matches featuring Americans:

Jessica Pegula[6] v McCartney Kessler

Amanda Anisimova[4] v Katerina Siniakova(CZE)

Ashlyn Krueger v Madison Keys[9]

Peyton Stearns v Petra Marcinko(CRO)

Ben Shelton[8] v Dane Sweeny[Q](AUS)

Taylor Fritz[9] v Vit Kopriva(CZE)

Nishesh Basavareddy[Q] v Karen Khanchanov[15](RUS)

Ethan Quinn v Hubert Hurkacz(POL)

Eliot Spizzirri v Yibing Wu[Q](CHN)

In Australian Open Junior Championships qualifying, both seeded Americans lost their first round matches, with No. 4 Anita Tu losing to Diya Ramesh of India 7-5, 6-2 and No. 16 seed Ford McCollum falling to Cody Atkinson of New Zealand 3-6, 6-1, 7-5. (My annual kudos to Tennis Australia for playing out third sets in junior slam qualifying). Ciara Harding defeated No. 3 seed Ui Su Jeong of Korea 6-4, 6-2 to advance to Thursday's final round, where she'll play Australian wild card Georgia Campbell.

Live scoring is here.

The warmup to the Australian Open Junior Championships, the J300 in Traralgon concluded Wednesday, with No. 2 seed Luis Guto Miguel of Brazil sweeping the boys titles and No. 5 seed Xinran Sun of China capturing the girls singles championship,

Guto Miguel, whose brother Luis Felipe Miguel is a senior at Florida State, defeated No. 8 seed Kuan-Shou Chen of Taiwan 6-1, 6-2. The only set he lost in his six victories came in the third round against Yannik Alvarez.  Given Guto Miguel's semifinal appearance at the US Open Junior Championships last fall, the 16-year-old has established himself as the favorite for an Australian Open Junior title, in singles and/or doubles. He and Ziga Sesko of Slovenia, the No. 2 seeds, beat Chen and Flynn Thomas of Switzerland, the No. 3 seeds. 6-0, 6-4 in the Traralgon doubles final.

Sun, the Orange Bowl champion, hasn't lost a set in her 12-match winning streak these past two months. The 15-year-old defeated No. 2 Ksenia Efremova of France 6-1, 6-3 to earn her second J300 title and establish herself as a favorite in the Australian Open Junior Championships.

The girls doubles title went to the unseeded Russian team of Rada Zolotarea and Mariia Makarov, who beat No. 8 seed Renee Alame of Australia and Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi of India 6-1, 6-4 in the final.

At the ITF J300 Coffee Bowl in Costa Rica, five US girls have reached the quarterfinals, with top seed Welles Newman and qualifier Hannah Ayrault, the reigning San Diego 16s champion, meeting Thursday for a spot in the semifinals.

The other US girls advancing to the quarterfinals are No. 4 seed Janae Preston, who will play unseeded Ofir Manhard of Israel, unseeded Sarah Ye, who will play No. 7 seed Klara Blazkova of the Czech Republic, and No. 2 seed Maggie Sohns, who faces unseeded Katerina Zajickova of the Czech Republic.

The only US boy in the quarterfinals so far is unseeded Agassi Rusher, who defeated Marko Bekeni of Slovakia 6-4, 7-6(5) today. Qualifier Daniel Malacek, who beat No. 2 seed Benjamin Azar of Canada in the first round, Zavier Augustin and No. 6 seed Marcel Latak are the American boys playing their second round matches later today.

The second ITA Division I coaches polls of the 2026 season were released today, and while there were no changes in the women's Top 10, the men's Top 10 was a different story, with Virginia moving up from No. 5 to No. 2 after the Cavaliers wins over TCU and Texas last week. 

Again, these polls have no bearing on the computer rankings that will kick in when more matches have been played, but are merely a look at the opinions of the 13 members of the ITA rankings committees. Click on the headings to see the entire list of ranked teams.

ITA Division I Coaches Poll January 21, 2026

Men's Top 10

(first place votes in brackets, last week's ranking in parentheses)

1. Wake Forest[10] (1)

2. Virginia[3] (5)

3. Stanford (4)

4. Texas (2)

5. TCU (3)

6. Ohio State (6)

7. Mississippi State (7)

8. San Diego (8)

9. NC State (9)

10. UCLA (12)

Women's Top 10

1. Georgia[12] (1)

2. Texas A&M (2)

3. North Carolina[1] (3)

4. Auburn (4)

5. LSU (5)

6. Oklahoma (6)

7. Michigan (7)

8. Duke (8)

9. Stanford (9)

10. Oklahoma State (10)