San Diego ITF J300 Begins Monday with Lagaev and Johnson Top Seeds; Newman Falls in J300 Final in Brazil; Nine Americans Competing in J500 Banana Bowl; Losses for Top-Ranked Ohio State Men and Georgia Women; Quinn Wins Phoenix Challenger

The players have made their way six hours west for the second of the J300s this month, although the San Diego tournament, as an ITF Regional Closed event, allows only players from Canada and the United States. Most of the boys seeds are the same as last week's in Tucson, although three of them did not play last week: Canadians Dani Szabo and Joshua Adamson and New Yorker Izyan Ahmad.

The top two girls seeds did not play in Tucson: Nadia Lagaev of Canada and Jordyn Hazelitt of Nevada. 

San Diego J300 North American Regional Championships Seeds:

Girls:
1. Nadia Lagaev (CAN)
2. Jordyn Hazelitt
3. Olivia Traynor
4. Lani Chang
5. Sarah Ye
6. Carrie-Ann Hoo
7. Capucine Jauffret
8. Thara Gowda
9. Adla Lopez
10. Karlin Schock
11. Isabelle DeLuccia
12. Hannah Ayrault
13. Andrea Cabio (CAN)
14. Avery Alexander (CAN)
15. Kennedy Drenser-Hagmann
16. Brooke Wallman

Boys:

1. Andy Johnson

2. Gavin Goode

3. Ryan Cozad

4. Tanish Konduri

5. Xavier Massotte (CAN)

6. Vihaan Reddy

7. Safir Azam

8. Agassi Rusher

9. Marcel Latak

10. Dani Szabo (CAN)

11. Roshan Santhosh

12. Joshua Adamson (CAN)

13. Ford McCollum

14. Zavier Augustin

15. Izyan Ahmad

16. Jerrid Gaines Jr

The qualifiers from today's final round include just one Canadian, with the rest from the United States:  Sylvana Jalbert, Rose Biria, Daniela Del Mastro, Ava Quincy Brewer, Enya Hamilton, Lyla Messler, Arjun Krishnan, Loic Massotte(CAN), Gabriel Jessup, Keshav Muthuvel, Jacob Hewitt and Advay Singh. Anthony Dry received entry as a lucky loser.

Play begins Monday for the unseeded players, with the seeds beginning play on Tuesday. Tucson champion Camille Allegre and finalist Allison Wang are both in action Monday, with Allegre playing wild card Armira Kockinis and Wang facing Ciara Harding, who did not play Tucson.

Tucson produced American singles champions yesterday and today at the J300 in Porto Alegre, Brazilians took the winners' trophies. No. 3 seed Nauhany Leme Da Silva defeated No. 4 seed Welles Newman 6-1, 7-5 in the girls final for her second J300 title this year, while unseeded Pedro Henrique Chabalgoity won his first career title above the J60 level, ending the winning streak of Paraguay J300 champion Damir Zhalgasbay of Kazakhstan with a 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(5) decision in the final. 

The ITF J500 Banana Bowl begins Monday with one US boy and eight US girls in the 48-player draws, all but two of them seeded: Jack Secord[4], Londyn McCord, Nancy Lee[10], Maggie Sohns[12], Anita Tu[16], Kori Montoya, Yael Saffar[13], Welles Newman[5] and Ireland O'Brien[15].

Yannick Alvarez of Puerto Rico is the top boys seed, with Victoria Barros of Brazil the girls top seed after taking a wild card into the event.

The ITF preview of the tournament is here.

The Division I college season has been difficult to get a handle on all year, and since the Team Indoor Championships it has been more confusing with each passing weekend. Yesterday the No. 1 Georgia women lost to No. 9 Texas 4-1 in Austin, with the Bulldogs taking their second loss in SEC play. Today No. 2 Ohio State lost to No. 12 USC 4-1 in Los Angeles, after the Buckeyes had lost 4-0 to No. 6 Pepperdine on Wednesday.

The men's side hasn't been any easier to understand, with No. 1 Ohio State losing 4-3 to No. 46 Michigan State today in Columbus, with 2024 Kalamazoo 18s champion Matt Forbes clinching for the Spartans at line 1 over Jack Anthrop. It's the first regular season conference loss in Columbus for the Buckeyes since 2003.

2026 Team Indoor Champion Texas, currently No. 3 in the rankings, has now loss three of its last four matches, falling to No. 28 Oklahoma 4-1 today in Austin.

See CollegeTennisRanks.com's Week Ahead and Week Behind tabs to follow all the results as the upsets are becoming so frequent that it's to know whether that term actually fits.

Ethan Quinn, the 2023 NCAA singles champion for the University of Georgia, won the ATP Challenger 175 in Phoenix today, the biggest title of his pro career. The 22-year-old from California, seeded No. 8, defeated No. 7 seed Marcos Giron, the 2014 NCAA singles champion for UCLA,  7-6(1), 4-6, 7-5 in the final. Quinn moves to a career-high ATP ranking of 56 with the title. 

In the doubles, unseeded Patrik Trhac(Idaho State, Utah) and Diego Hidalgo(Florida) won the title, beating top seeds Hugo Nys of Monaco and Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France 6-7(6), 6-3, 10-4 in the final.