Stephens, Zheng, Krueger Qualify for Roland Garros, Joining 32 Other Americans in Main Draw; Secord Advances to ITF J500 Milan Semifinals; Payne Reaches Quarters at W50 in Pelham; Wesleyan Claims Second Women's D-III Title

The singles draws for Roland Garros were revealed today, with 16 US men and 16 US women among the competitors for the year's
second major, with play beginning Sunday in Paris. As usual, I'll post the matchups the day before each is scheduled to play, although the four men and four women who play each other are noted below.

Ethan Quinn

Eliot Spizzirri v Frances Tiafoe[19]

Ben Shelton

Patrick Kypson

Brandon Nakashima[31]

Marcos Giron

Learner Tien[18]

Zachary Svajda

Jenson Brooksby

Tommy Paul[24]

Taylor Fritz[7] v Nishesh Basavareddy[WC]

Alex Michelsen

Aleks Kovacevic

Reilly Opelka

Michael Zheng[Q]

Iva Jovic[17]

Emma Navarro

Madison Keys[19]

McCartney Kessler

Jessica Pegula[5]

Coco Gauff[4] v Taylor Townsend

Akasha Urhobo[WC]

Ann Li[30]

Amanada Anisimova[6]

Sofia Kenin v Peyton Stearns

Caty McNally

Katie Volynets

Alycia Parks

Hailey Baptiste[26]

Sloane Stephens[Q]

Ashlyn Krueger[Q]

Three more Americans have already joined them via qualifying, with Michael Zheng(Columbia), Sloane Stephens and Ashlyn Krueger winning their final round qualifying matches today. 

Zheng, who qualified for the Australian Open and beat Sebastian Korda in the first round, defeated No. 1 qualifying seed Jesper De Jonge of the Netherlands 7-5, 6-3 to start his post-college career with a second straight main draw appearance at a major. 

Stephens defeated Leyre Romero Gormaz of Spain 3-6, 6-2, 6-1 today and Ashlyn Krueger[3] got past Mary Stoiana(Texas A&M) 6-7(4), 6-3, 6-1.

I inadvertently left Claire Liu out of my Roland Garros qualifying paragraph yesterday, but she is one of three Americans who will play on Day Two of the final round of qualifying Friday.

Emilio Nava[3] v Pedro Martinez[24](ESP)

Darwin Blanch v Luka Pavlovic(FRA)

Claire Liu v Lulu Sun[3](NZL)

The quarterfinals are set for the ITF J500 Trofeo Bonfiglio in Milan Italy Friday, without the top seed in the boys draw.

Luis Guto Miguel of Brazil lost to unseeded Matteo Gribaldo of Italy 5-7, 6-2, 6-3, but Gribaldo has already given a walkover in the quarterfinals to Jack Secord. Secord, who beat Juan Miguel Bolivar Idarraga of Colombia 6-4, 7-5, will play the winner of the match between No. 3 seed Thilo Behrmann of Austria and No. 9 seed Yannick Alvarez of Puerto Rico.  Alvarez avenged his 2025 Orange Bowl second round loss to Andy Johnson, beating him 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 in a two-hour battle.

No. 2 seed Jamie Mackenzie of Germany, a TCU recruit, beat Gavin Goode 6-2, 6-2 and will face No. 10 seed Nicolas Baena of Peru.

Alvarez and Secord, seeded No. 8, are through to the doubles semifinals, as are Goode and Ryan Cozad, who are in the top half, while Alvarez and Secord are in the bottom half.

Top four seeds Victoria Barros of Brazil[1], Anastasija Cvetkovic of Serbia[4], Xinran Sun[3] of China and Jana Kovackova of Czechia have advanced to the quarterfinal. 

Unseeded Melije Clarke and Isabelle DeLuccia have reached the girls doubles semifinals after beating Barros and Janae Preston 6-4, 4-6, 15-13 in the quarterfinals today. 

Free live streaming should be available Friday at the dedicated ITF video page.

Live scoring is available at the tournament's website.

There is just one USTA Pro Circuit tournament on the calendar this week, a W50 in Pelham Alabama, with University of Georgia signee Bella Payne continuing her impressive year.

The 2025 Easter Bowl 18s champion, who is 12-5 on the USTA Pro Circuit this year and is inside the WTA Top 600 in the live rankings, reached the W35 Bethany Beach semfinals last week. The 18-year-old from Florida, who defeated qualifier Carolina Bohrer Martins of Brazil 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 today, is one of five Americans through to the quarterfinals.

Top seed Katrina Scott(Tennessee) and No. 2 seed Madison Brengle have advanced, as well as unseeded Amelia Honer(UC-Santa Barbara) and Savannah Broadus(Pepperdine), who play each other.

Payne's opponent in the quarterfinals is No. 6 seed Antonia Vergara Rivera of Chile.

The Division III women's team final, which was moved indoors this afternoon due to persistent rain in Chattanooga, ended with a second NCAA women's team title for Wesleyan. Fourth-ranked Wesleyan dethroned defending champion and No. 3 Washington-St. Louis 4-1, with Agnes Guggenheim clinching for the Cardinals with a three-set win at line 2. The other two matches were in third sets.

I covered Wesleyan's first NCAA team title when the  Championships were played in Kalamazoo in 2019. That article can be found here.

The box score from today's final is available here.

The Division III men's team final between Claremont-Mudd-Scripps and Chicago is scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday, but rain remains in the forecast, so that too may end up indoors. There was no streaming on ncaa.com after the match went indoors, but live scoring should be available regardless at iOnCourt.

The individual tournament is scheduled to begin Friday, but that too may be in doubt. The only bracket currently posted at ncaa.com is women's doubles.