Wimbledon Junior Championships Acceptance Lists Feature All Four 2026 Junior Slam Champions, Twelve Americans; UTR Pro Tennis Tour Results Update
The acceptances for the 2026 Wimbledon Junior Championships scheduled for July 4-12, were published today, with this year's Australian Open and Roland Garros champions in the hunt for a second junior slam.
Girls Roland Garros champion Alisa Oktiabreva may not end up playing, as she wasn't certain of her plans when she spoke about them last weekend, but she did enter, as did boys champion Luis Guto Miguel of Brazil, who lost in the second round of the Wimbledon Junior Championships last year.
Australian Open boys champion Ziga Sesko of Slovenia, who took out the top seed last year at Wimbledon in his first junior slam appearance, reached the quarterfinals at Roland Garros; Australian Open girls champion Ksenia Efremova of France, who lost to eventual champion Mia Pohankova in the second round of Wimbledon last year, lost in the first round at Roland Garros.
Nine girls eligible for Wimbledon did not enter, including three in the Top 10: No. 5 Alena Kovackova(CZE), No. 6 Pohankova(SVK) and No. 9 Kristina Penickova(USA). 2025 finalist Julieta Pareja(USA) did not enter, nor did Hannah Klugman of Great Britain.
One surprise girls entry is Mika Stojsavljevic of Great Britain, the 2024 US Open girls champion, who lost in the Wimbledon Juniors first round last year to Pohankova. The 17-year-old, who hasn't played any juniors events since last year's US Open, received entry based on her WTA ranking of 261, and she will likely be seeded based on that ranking, if she ends up playing. Kristina Liutova also received entry based on her WTA ranking, but she has not played outside the United States in years, so I don't expect she'll make the trip to London.
Five US girls are on the main draw acceptance list, which had a cutoff of 53: Janae Preston, Jordyn Hazelitt, Welles Newman, Thea Frodin and Melije Clarke. Seven US girls were accepted for qualifying: Lani Chang, Anita Tu, Olivia Traynor, Hannah Ayrault, Nancy Lee, Maggie Sohns and Sarah Ye.
The girls qualifying cutoff was 82, with Jahnie Van Zyl of South Africa at No. 96, getting into qualifying as the regional representative of Africa.
Two ITF Top 10 boys did not enter: 2025 champion Ivan Ivanov of Bulgaria and Jack Kennedy. I was a little surprised that Kennedy did not enter after playing Roland Garros juniors, but Wimbledon is in the middle of the US hard court Challenger swing, which Kennedy may want to focus on in the leadup to Kalamazoo.
US boys who have entered include junior slam finalists Keaton Hance(Australia) and Michael Antonius(Roland Garros), Andy Johnson, Jack Secord, Ryan Cozad, Gavin Goode and Tanishk Konduri. Konduri, at 47, was the last boy accepted.
South Africa's Connor Doig at 49 received main draw entry as the Africa regional representative, which requires a top 75 ranking.
And in another surprise, Australian Cruz Hewitt, the son of Lleyton Hewitt, entered and was accepted based on his ATP ranking of 376. Hewitt played the Wimbledon Junior Championships last year, falling in the second round.
Americans on the qualifying acceptance list are Safir Azam, Jordan Lee, Marcel Latak and Vihaan Reddy, with Azam the only one of the four who competed at Roland Garros. The boys qualifying cutoff was 74.
The withdrawal date is June 23, so I'll revisit the fields around that time to check on movement in the acceptance lists.
The entry deadline for ITF J300 in Roehampton the week before the Wimbledon Junior Championships was also yesterday, but as of tonight, the lists have not been posted. They usually are very similar to those of the Wimbledon Juniors, because there are so few options for grass play for juniors prior to Wimbledon.
Below is the latest update from the UTR Pro Tennis Tour-Americas, with the subcategory Summer Slams, which are shorter $12.5K events on college campuses, now filling many of the dates on the calendar.
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April 5 Newport Beach CAMaciej Rajski d. Karl Kazuma Lee 6-3, 7-5
April 20 Newport Beach CA
Madhav Binu d. Miles Clark 6-3, 6-4
April 21 Clemson SC*
Joaquin Benoit d. Yannic Nittmann 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-2
April 27 Newport Beach CA
Maxim Groysman d. Tomas Quesdada Perez 6-1, 2-6, 6-2
May 4 Concord NH
Aleksa Ciric d. Santiago Perez 6-3, 6-4
May 11 Newport Beach CA
Maciej Rajski d. Noah Zamora 6-4, 7-6(9)
May 18 Newport Beach CA
Blu Baker d. Xavier Calvelo 2-6, 6-2, 6-1
May 19 Tuscaloosa AL*
Aleks Ciric d. Enzo Aguiard 3-6, 7-6(2), 6-2
May 19 Madison WI*
Drew Fishback d. Alberto Altur Fernandez 6-1, 6-4
May 26 San Luis Obispo CA*
Tomas Jirousek d. Sean Hill 6-4, 6-0
June 1 Newport Beach CA
Vasco Prata d. Matic Kriznik 6-7(7), 7-5, 1-1 ret.
June 2 Philadelphia PA*
Callum Markowitz d. Kase Schinnerer 4-6, 7-5, 6-1
*$12.5K prize money
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