Eight American Men Begin Wimbledon Qualifying Monday; Wolf, Johnson and Shcherbinina Earn USTA Pro Circuit Titles; Tiafoe Defeats Fritz, Wins Biggest ATP Title in Halle; Vidmanova Claims ATP 125 Title in Portugal

Wimbledon qualifying begins Monday at Roehampton, with eight American men in action. Just two are seeded--No. 13 Mackenzie McDonald(UCLA) and No. 26 Michael Zheng(Columbia)--but only one of the six others plays a seed in the first round. Below are the matchups for the Americans; the women's qualifying draw has yet to be released, with only men playing Monday.

Wimbledon first qualifying matches featuring Americans:

Michael Mmoh v Vilius Gaubas[14](LTU)
Mackenzie McDonald[13] v Felipe Meligeni Alves(BRA)
Darwin Blanch v Ugo Blanchet(FRA)
Tristan Boyer v Genaro Alberto Olivieri(ARG)
Keegan Smith v Juan Pablo Ficovich(ARG)
Michael Zheng[26] v Henri Squire(GER)
Colton Smith v Andy Andrade(ECU)
Nicolas Moreno de Alboran v Harold Mayot(FRA)

Former UCLA All-American Keegan Smith, who won a Challenger 50 last month in India after playing most of the spring in Asia, will be making his slam debut. Smith, who turns 28 Tuesday, is at his career-high of 244 in the ATP rankings.

In other Wimbledon news today, the final women's main draw wild card was awarded to Serena Williams, who was previously granted a doubles wild card with her sister Venus.

JJ Wolf won his second USTA Pro Circuit title of the year today at the M25 in Tulsa Oklahoma, and the former Ohio State All-American certainly earned it. The unseeded wild card, a former ATP Top 40 player, won his last three matches in a third set, coming from a set down in both the quarterfinals and today's final against unseeded Gavin Young(Michigan). 

Wolf, who was out most of 2025 due to injury, defeated Young 5-7, 6-2, 7-6(5), saving a match point when serving at 4-5 in the third set. Wolf won his first title this year, an M15 in Naples, in his return to the Pro Circuit, yet winning this three-hour and five-minute battle might be more impressive given that he retired in his last tournament in early May.

UCLA rising senior Spencer Johnson won his first USTA Pro Circuit title yesterday, winning the doubles championship at the M15 in Irvine California with teammate Emon van Loben Sels. It took him less than 24 hours to earn his second title, with the unseeded 22-year-old from Utah beating wild card Bryce Nakashima(Ohio State) 6-3, 7-6(1) in today's singles final. 

Alina Shcherbinina(Baylor, Oklahoma) of Russia ran her SoCal Pro Series winning streak to 11 with a title at the W15 in Irvine. Shcherbinina, who won last week's W15 in Los Angeles as a qualifier, received a special exempt entry into this week's tournament, and completed another impressive run witha 6-2, 6-4 win over No. 2 seed and Stanford rising sophomore Monika Ekstrand. Shcherbinina did not drop a set in her five victories, and has lost only one set in the past two weeks.

The SoCal Pro Series moves to Claremont for week five, with San Diego and Rancho Santa Fe closing out the seven-week schedule. As is the case for all these tournaments, the men and the women compete in 15Ks at the same site.

Five Americans were in ATP and WTA grass court finals today, but only one emerged with a title: Frances Tiafoe. Tiafoe, who hadn't beaten Taylor Fritz since Indian Wells in 2016, losing seven straight times, ended that futility with a 6-4, 6-4 victory at the ATP 500 in Halle Germany. Tiafoe, the first American to claim the Halle title, now has four ATP titles, with this the first above the 250 level. He is now back into the ATP Top 20.

At the ATP 500 in London, Tommy Paul lost to Francisco Cerundolo(South Carolina) of Argentina 6-7(4), 6-4, 6-3. It was the second straight match in which the 27-year-old had trailed by a set and a break to an American; he beat Brandon Nakashima in the semifinals yesterday 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-4.

Both Emma Navarro(Virginia) and Jessica Pegula lost in three sets in their finals today. No. 4 seed Marie Bouzkova of Czechia beat No. 3 seed Navarro 7-6(5), 4-6, 6-2 to win the title at the WTA 250 in Nottingham England.

Pegula, the No. 3 seed, lost to No. 8 seed Linda Noskova of Czechia 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 in the final of the WTA 500 in Berlin.

2024 fall NCAA singles champion Dasha Vidmanova made it three titles for Czechs Sunday, with the 23-year-old University of Georgia superstar winning her biggest title at the WTA 125 in Portugal with a 6-2, 6-3 win over Ayla Aksu of Turkey. Vidmanova, who won the NCAA doubles title in the spring of 2024 and the NCAA team title in 2025, will now head to London, where she'll make her Wimbledon debut in qualifying this coming week. She has reached the WTA Top 100 for the first time with this hard court title, now at 90 in the live rankings.