Easter Bowl 14s Finals Videos; Kennedy Reaches First Challenger Quarterfinal in Tallahassee; In Orlando, Teens Oust Seeds at W15, Alvarez, Antonius and Stoot Advance to M15 Quarterfinals

The videos of the finals of the 14s division at last month's Easter Bowl are below; the 12s videos, which went up yesterday, can be found at my tenniskalamazoo YouTube channel.

Seventeen-year-old Jack Kennedy has advanced to his first ATP Challenger quarterfinal, with the ITF Junior No. 5 defeating Oliver Crawford(Florida) of Great Britain 7-6(4), 4-6, 7-5 this afternoon in Tallahassee. Kennedy survived 10 double faults and Crawford's 83 percent of first serves primarily by securing the final four points of the match.

Both players were holding serve easily in the final set, with only one deuce game played and neither of them facing a break point in the first 11 games of the third. Kennedy, trailing Crawford 0-30 with Crawford serving at 5-6, hit a backhand winner, forced an error with a big backhand and then earned the only break point he saw with an overhead winner, setting up a match point. Kennedy then got a forehand error from Crawford early in the rally, with the tiebreaker that seemed unavoidable suddenly not needed.

Kennedy, who won the M15 last week in Boca Raton, will face the winner of tonight's second round match between Darwin Blanch and No. 4 seed Daniil Glinka of Estonia. Kennedy and Blanch met in the Kalamazoo 18s semifinals last year, with Blanch posting 7-6(5), 6-1 victory. 

Glinka and No. 5 seed Clement Tabur of France are the only seeds remaining, with Michael Mmoh and Tyler Zink(Georgia, Oklahoma State), and possibly Blanch, joining Kennedy as unseeded Americans in the quarterfinals.

Four teenagers have advanced to the quarterfinals at the W15 in Orlando, taking out the No. 3, No. 4, No. 6 and No. 7 seeds in today's second round.

Fifteen-year-old Emery Combs defeated No. 3 seed Carla Markus of Argentina 6-4, 2-6, 6-1 and will play 16-year-old Sarah Ye, who beat No. 7 seed Jessica Hinojosa Gomez of Mexico 6-4, 7-6(4).  Eighteen-year-old qualifier Capucine Jauffret reached her second W15 quarterfinal, beating No. 6 seed Justina Maria GGonzalez Daniele of Argentina 6-3, 7-5 and will face qualifier Didi Bredberg Canizares of Spain, who defeated unseeded Maria Jose Portillo Ramirez of Mexico 7-5, 6-1. 

Fourteen-year-old Sofiia Bielinska of Ukraine, playing in just her second Pro Circuit event, with last week's tournament in Bonita Springs her first, beat No. 4 seed Luiza Fullana of Brazil 5-7, 7-6(5), 6-4. She will play Ava Markham(Wisconsin) next. The only quarterfinal without a teenager is at the top, with Kailey Evans(Texas Tech, San Diego) facing qualifier Margaux Maquet of Belgium.

At M15 in Orlando, three teenagers have advanced to the quarterfinals: 16-year-old Michael Antonius, 17-year-old Yannik Alvarez of Puerto Rico and 18-year-old qualifier Nick Stoot.

Antonius, the No. 8 seed, defeated qualifier Davide Tortora of Italy 6-3, 5-7, 6-2 and will play 22-year-old Dragos Cazacu(Tennessee), who beat No. 4 seed Will Grant(Florida) 2-6, 6-2, 6-0. Stoot defeated No. 4 seed Blu Baker of Great Britain 6-3, 6-4 to advance to his second USTA Pro Circuit M15 quarterfinal. He will play 29-year-old qualifier Justin Roberts(USF, Arizona State) of the Bahamas, who beat No. 2 seed Reda Bennani of Morocco 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in the first round.

In the top half, Alvarez, who reached the semifinals at his first Pro Circuit tournament last week in Boca Raton, defeated Boca Raton finalist Andreja Petrovic(North Dakota, Florida State, Duke) of Norway 6-3, 6-2 and will face one of four qualifiers in the quarterfinals, Barry senior Adam Lynch. Lynch defeated No. 3 seed Ignacio Monzon of Argentina 6-4, 7-5. Toby Martin of Great Britain, the fourth qualifier to advance, beat Benjamin Willwert 6-3, 7-6(4) and will play top seed Corentin Denolly.

Just two Americans have advanced to the quarterfinals of the W35 in Zephyrhills: unseeded Lea Ma(Georgia) and No. 3 seed Akasha Urhobo.

No. 2 seed Fiona Crawley(North Carolina) lost to 18-year-old Russian qualifier Daria Egorova 7-5, 6-2, and top seed Maria Carle(Georgia) of Argentina lost to Gina Feistel(SMU) of Poland 6-3, 2-6, 6-3. 

Ma, who beat qualifier Amelia Honer(UC-Santa Barbara) 6-2, 4-6, 6-0, will play Feistel in the quarterfinals; Urhobo, who beat 17-year-old qualifier Thea Frodin 6-4, 6-3, faces unseeded Shilin Xu of China.