Liutova Wins Indian Harbour Beach W100; Barros and Mackenzie Claim ITF J500 Offenbach Titles; Lee and Drenser-Hagmann Crowned Champions at ITF J200 College Grove; Favorites Sail Into D-III Quarterfinals

Sixteen-year-old wild card Kristina Liutova boosted her WTA ranking to the Top 300 today on the USTA Pro Circuit at the W100 in Indian Harbour Beach, beating No. 8 seed Julia Riera of Argentina 6-1, 6-7(4), 6-3 in the final.

The Russian-born Seattle-area resident won her first USTA Pro Circuit tournament at a W35 in Las Vegas in February, but earning a title at a W100, the highest level of the ITF women's World Tennis Tour, is an impressive accomplishment, given her age and inexperience at that level. The ITF junior No. 52, who won the ITF J300 in College Park Maryland in August and the IMG ITF J300 in Bradenton in December, picked up her first two WTA Top 200 wins this week. Now that she is inside the WTA Top 400, she will receive direct entry into both the Wimbledon and US Open Junior Championships, should she decide to enter. She has not yet played in a junior slam.

At the W35 in Boca Raton Florida, qualifier Carson Tanguilig(UNC) lost to unseeded Justina Gonzalez Daniele of Argentina 6-4, 6-4.

At the M15 in Vero Beach Florida, the improbable run of qualifying alternate came to a triumphant conclusion Sunday, with Joaquim Almeida of Brazil defeating top seed Alex Rybakov(TCU) 6-2, 1-6, 6-3 to claim his first pro singles title. The 24-year-old Almeida, who played college tennis at VCU and Liberty, was playing just his second tournament of the year this week, but he beat three seeds and former ATP No. 39 JJ Wolf(Ohio State) in his dream week.

The singles titles were decided today in Offenbach Germany with Victoria Barros of Brazil and Jamie Mackenzie of Germany winning their first J500 titles. 

The top-seeded Barros, 16, defeated No. 2 seed Anastasija Cvetkovic of Serbia 6-2, 6-4 in the girls final. No. 3 seed Mackenzie, 18, beat No. 4 seed Dimitar Kisimov of Bulgaria 6-4, 6-3 in the boys final. Mackenzie has signed with TCU for this fall.

In the doubles finals Saturday, the girls title went to No. 3 seed Polina Skliar of Ukraine and Mariella Thamm of Germany, and the boys title to Eric Mueller and Vincent Reisach of Germany. Skliar and Thamm defeated the unseeded team of Polina Berezina of Russia and Barbar Kostecka of Poland 6-4, 7-5. Mueller and Reisach won the battle of unseeded teams, beating Marko Bekeni of Slovakia and Patrick Valentin Moise of Germany 6-3, 6-3.

On the red clay at the ITF J200 in College Grove Tennessee, No. 5 seed Kennedy Drenser-Hagmann added a first ITF Junior Circuit singles title to the doubles championship she won Friday, and unseeded Tyler Lee won his first ITF Junior Circuit singles title today.

The 17-year-old Drenser-Hagmann, who came through qualifying as a late entry, defeated No. 4 seed Carlota Moreno 6-4, 6-4 in today's final; all six of her matches came in straight sets.

The unseeded Lee, 16, who took out top seed Agassi Rusher in the first round, had a tougher path, coming from a set down in the quarterfinals and semifinals, but had no need for another comeback in today's final, beating unseeded Gurjot Singh 6-1, 6-2.

After a long weekend of preliminary play, the Division III quarterfinals are set for May 18th(women) and 19th(men) with the top four teams in both the men's and women's ITA rankings advancing. The matchups are below, with the rankings in brackets (seeds are not used in Division III). Times will be posted to the draws, with the men's here, and the women's here.

Women's D-III quarterfinals:

Claremont-Mudd-Scripps[1] v Bowdoin[11]

Emory[7] v Wesleyan[4]

Chicago[2] v Babson[5]

Carnegie Mellon[8] v Washington-St. Louis[3]

Men's D-III quarterfinals:

Claremont-Mudd-Scripps[2] v Emory[11]

Denison[4] v Case Western Reserve[5]

Tufts[3] v Swarthmore[8]

Bowdoin[7] v Chicago[1]