All-US Boys Final, All-Canada Girls Final at ITF J200 Mason; Current and Former Collegians Earn Final Wimbledon Qualifying Wild Cards; American Champion Assured at Tulsa M25; Last Week's SoCal Pro Series W15 Finalists Advance in Irvine

An American boys champion and a Canadian girls champion will be crowned Saturday at the ITF J200 in Mason Ohio after semifinal action concluded today, with both unseeded US girls falling in the quarterfinals. 

No. 4 seed Avery Alexander defeated unseeded Reiley Rhodes 6-2, 6-3 to advance to the final against No. 15 seed Clemence Mercier, who avenged her J100 loss last fall to unseeded Anastasia Pleskun 6-3, 6-3.

The boys champion was going to be American after the second round with all eight quarterfinalists from the United States. Two double-digit seeds will play for the title Saturday after straight-sets wins today, with No. 12 Mason Vaughan beating qualifier Kahven Singh 6-3, 6-1 and No. 13 seed Teodor Davidov defeating No. 16 seed Kayden Colombo 6-3, 6-3.

In the all-US boys doubles final today, unseeded Robert McAdoo and William McEwan defeated No. 2 seeds Tyler Lee and Erik Schinnerer 0-6, 6-3, 11-9. It's their second title as a team, with the first back in January at a J60 in Costa Rica.

Top seeds Isabelle DeLuccia and Ireland O'Brien won the girls doubles title, beating No. 7 seeds Ciara Harding and Carlota Moreno 6-4, 1-6, 10-4.

The LTA playoffs for Wimbledon qualifying wild cards concluded today, with two current and six former collegians securing their spots in the draw.

TCU rising sophomore Oliver Bonding, who won the SoCal Pro Series M15 title in Lakewood at the beginning of the month, returned home to compete in the event and won his spot with a win over Anton Matusevich. Bonding, who turned 19 yesterday, received a men's qualifying wild card last year as the British 18s champion. 2019 NCAA champion Paul Jubb(South Carolina) also earned his qualifying wild card, beating former Stanford star Max Basing. Matusevich and Basing ended up receiving spots in qualifying despite their losses, after Oliver Crawford(Florida) and Jay Clarke moved into qualifying on their own rankings. 

Twenty-year-old Ella McDonald, a rising sophomore at LSU, was among the four women who received entry via the playoff competition. The two other players with collegiate ties to earn wild cards are Esther Adeshina(Tennessee) and Amelia Rajecki(NC State).

Wimbledon qualifying begins Monday at Roehampton.  The only wild cards yet to be awarded are two men's doubles wild cards and one women's main draw singles wild card.

For the second consecutive week, an American will win the singles title an M25, with four former collegiate All-Americans advancing to the semifinals in Tulsa Oklahoma. 

Top seed Andres Martin(Georgia Tech) defeated unseeded Dmitry Popko of Kazkhstan 6-2, 2-6, 6-1 and will face wild card JJ Wolf(Ohio State), who beat No. 8 seed Christian Langmo(Miami) 6-2, 4-6, 6-4. 

Former University of Michigan teammates Gavin Young and Andrew Fenty will meet in the bottom half semifinal after Young put an end to the run of TCU rising sophomore Maximus Dussault, a qualifier, 6-3, 7-5 and Fenty defeated No. 2 seed Braden Shick(NC State) 6-3, 6-4. 

Young and Fenty played No. 1 doubles for Michigan in 2023, and finished No. 5 in the ITA rankings, but they are not playing together this week in Tulsa. Young, a two-time All-American in doubles, and Canadian Justin Boulais(Ohio State) are the No. 2 seeds this week, and they will face unseeded Axel Nefve(Notre Dame, Florida) and Jack Vance for the title Saturday.

Last week at the W15 in Los Angeles, Alina Shcherbinina(Baylor, Oklahoma) and fellow qualifier Kaitlyn Carnicella(Auburn, South Carolina) met in the final, with Shcherbinina claiming her first pro title with a 6-0, 6-7(4), 7-5 win. Both received special exempt spots in the main draw and both have advanced to the semifinals this week at the W15 in Irvine, with Shcherbinina beating unseeded Isabella Marton of Canada 6-3, 6-2 and Carnicella defeating No. 8 seed Veronika Miroshnichenko(Loyola Marymount) of Russia 4-6, 7-5, 6-3.

Shcherbinina will face No. 7 seed Midori Castillo Meza(Arizona) of Mexico, who beat No. 4 seed Alexis Nguyen 7-6(5), 6-4. Carnicella will play No. 2 seed Monika Ekstrand(Stanford) for the second straight week, with Carnicella beating Ekstrand in the Los Angeles semifinals 0-6, 6-4, 6-4.

The semifinals are not yet decided at the M15 in Irvine, with both quarterfinals in the top half being played tonight. The winner of the match between Rudy Quan(UCLA) and No. 4 seed Kenta Miyoshi(Illinois) of Japan will face the winner of quarterfinal between wild card Bryce Nakashima(Ohio State) and No. 8 seed Ronit Karki. 

The bottom half semifinal is set, with unseeded Spencer Johnson(UCLA) meeting No. 2 seed Strong Kirchheimer(Northwestern). Johnson defeated qualifier Neo Niedner(San Diego) of Germany 6-3, 7-5 and Kirchheimer beat No. 5 seed Noah Zamora(UC-Irvine) 6-3, 6-4.