Frodin, Hance and Konduri Win Three-Setters, Johnson Claims First Wimbledon Victory on Opening Day of 2026 Junior Championships; Fritz, Keys and Krueger Reach Second Week; USTA National Clay Court Seeds, Links to Draws
©Colette Lewis 2026--
Wimbledon--
No. 3 seed Keaton Hance had failed to serve out the match at 5-3 in the third set against Simone Massellani of Italy, but his experience on the biggest stages, and his determination to continue when under the weather, proved the difference in his 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(7) victory.
"I have this thing called abdominal migraines, which has symptons of nausea and stomach ache, dizziness and it's hard to tell when it's coming," said the 18-year-old from Southern California, who did not take a medical timeout. "There's not really anything they can do, and it's happened to me before in matches. It's a tough time for that to happen, but I'm glad with how I dealt with it, feeling dizzy, seeing more than one ball, but after the second set, I tried to stay calm and not focus on it too much."
When Masellani hit several lines with Hance serving for the match at 5-3, Hance, who had beaten the 18-year-old in the third round at this year's Australian Open en route to the final, knew he had to refocus. And his patience paid off when he got the only mini break of the third set tiebreaker leading 7-6 and closed it out with a volley winner.
"I was super frustrated, but I just wanted to move on as quick as I could," said Hance, who is playing his seventh junior slam, while Masellani played his first in Australia this year. "I didn't want to dwell on it; you've played the whole match, so you don't want to throw it away because you didn't hold. In matches like that, when you're not feeling your best and it's super close, I think experience is one of the most importance things."
Thea Frodin is also a veteran of Junior Wimbledon, playing in her third and having reached the girls doubles final last year. But she had yet to win a singles match, and was feeling jittery in her 6-7(2), 6-3, 6-2 win over Ui Su Jeong of Korea.
"I was pretty nervous coming into the match," said the 17-year-old from Southern California. "The last few junior tournaments haven't gone my way and I had that in the back of my mind. But the biggest thing I have to focus on is just fighting and competing. It's easy for me to rush, make wrong decisions, so I needed to bring myself back to the basics and that was the biggest thing that helped me turn it around. I had to make more balls, make her play, and instead of me making errors, she gave me more errors and that eventually built my confidence."
While Hance and Frodin had previous Wimbledon matches to draw on, No. 12 seed Andy Johnson was making his debut at the grass of the All England Lawn Tennis Club and needed a few games to get his bearings in his 6-4, 6-4 win over Matei Todoran of Romania.
"In the first set I was just feeling him out," said the 16-year-old from Southern California, who had not faced Todoran previously. "First Wimbledon, first round, maybe he came out with a little bit of nerves, maybe I calmed down with my unforced errors."
Johnson, who made only seven unforced errors in the match, with six of those coming in the first set, escaped with some defensive wizardry serving for the opening set at 5-4, 15-30. But that point proved pivotal, as he won the next two to finish the set, and his confidence just grew from there.
"I hit a forehand cross, he hit a forehand line I barely got, took it late with a slice but he missed it," Johnson said. "I think you could definitely see momentum shifting there, him maybe getting a little upset because he had a few opportunities on the point. But he still played good tennis after that. In the second set, I just played really solid, calmed down a little bit, was thinking more clearly. In the second set, my mind was really clear on what I was going to do, this will work, this will work and I just stuck to it, got an early break in the second."
Tanishk Konduri was also making his Wimbledon debut, and he is unlikely to ever forget it, with the 17-year-old from Northern saving four match points in his 6-7(2), 6-2, 7-6(10) win over No. 10 seed Yannik Alvarez of Puerto Rico. Konduri, playing in just his third match on grass after losing in the second round at Roehampton last week, trailed 9-6 and 10-9 in the final set tiebreaker, but won six of the last seven points to close it out.
Top seeds Xinran Sun of China and Luis Guto Miguel of Brazil won their opening round matches today, with Sun beating Yu-Chen Lin of Taiwan 6-1, 6-1 in spite of having no play on grass prior to competing her. Miguel defeated British wild card Vincent Fletcher of Great Britain 6-3, 6-2.
The doubles draws have been posted, with Brazilians Victoria Barros and Nana Leme Da Silva the top seeds in the girls draw, and Miguel and Ziga Sesko of Slovenia the top seeds in the boys draw. Johnson and Michael Antonius are the No. 2 seeds.
Sunday's schedule is packed, with 14 American juniors on the schedule, after only six played today.
Saturday's Wimbledon first round junior results of Americans:
Tanishk Konduri d. Yannik Alvarez[10](PUR) 6-7(2), 6-2, 7-6(10)
Keaton Hance[3] d. Simone Massellani 6-3, 3-6, 7-6(7)
Andy Johnson[12] d. Matei Todoran(ROU) 6-4, 6-4
Dan Brand(ISR) d. Ryan Cozad 6-3, 6-2
Thea Frodin d. Ui Su Jeong(KOR) 6-7(2), 6-3, 6-2
Maia Burcescu(ROU) d. Anita Tu 4-6, 7-6(3), 6-2
Sunday's Wimbledon first round junior matches featuring Americans:
Welles Newman v Mika Stojsavljevic[12](GBR)
Carrie-Ann Hoo[Q] v Megan Knight[WC](GBR)
Lani Chang v Jana Kovackova[3](CZE)
Olivia Traynor[Q] v Nana Leme Da Silva[5](BRA)
Melije Clarke v Veronika Sekerkova(CZE)
Janae Preston v Polina Berezina(RUS)
Jordyn Hazelitt v Sofie Hettlerova(CZE)
Emery Combs[Q] v Adelina Lacinova(LAT)
Gavin Goode v Mark Ceban(GBR)
Michael Antonius v Rhys Lawlor(WC)(GBR)
Jordan Lee[Q] v Yannik Alexandrescou[5](FRA)
Safir Azam[Q] v Svit Suljic[SE](SLO)
Vihaan Reddy[Q] v Ziga Sesko[4](SLO)
Jack Secord v Matteo Gribaldo(ITA)
The last American man standing in singles at Wimbledon is Taylor Fritz, after Zachary Svajda, Marcos Giron and No. 17 seed Frances Tiafoe lost their third round matches Saturday. But qualifier Ashlyn Krueger and Madison Keys are through to the round of 16, with the five American women in the round of 16 the most at Wimbledon since 2002.
Saturday's Wimbledon third round results of Americans:
Madison Keys[26] d. Amanda Anisimova[6] 3-6, 6-2, 6-3
Marta Kostyuk[12](UKR) d. Emma Navarro[23] 6-2, 4-6, 6-1
Ashlyn Krueger[Q] d. Daria Snigur(UKR) 6-3, 6-2
Alexander Zverev[2](GER) d. Marcos Giron 6-3, 7-6(4), 6-4
Alexander Bublik[10](KAZ) d. Frances Tiafoe[17] 4-6, 7-6(5), 7-6(11), 4-6, 6-3
Taylor Fritz[6] d. Lorenzo Sonego(ITA) 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6(5)
Alex de Minaur[5](AUS) d. Zachary Svajda 6-2, 5-7, 6-2, 6-4
Sunday's Wimbledon fourth round matches featuring Americans:
Jessica Pegula[4] v Iva Jovic[16]
Coco Gauff[7] v Belinda Bencic[11]
After a very disappointing first week for British players, wild card Arthur Fery, the former Stanford All-American, has buoyed spirits, making the second week with a 2-6, 7-5, 2-6, 7-6(3), 7-6(5) win over Zizou Bergs of Belgium. Fery will face fellow wild card Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria in the fourth round Monday.
The USTA National Clay Court Championships begin this weekend at seven locations across the country. I obviously will not be able to provide much coverage, but the Top 16 seeds in each division are are below, with the links to the draws in the headings.
1. Zen Uehling
2. William Freshwater
3. Peter Jorniak
4. Omar Rhazali
5. Hunter Nelson
6. Siddharth Bharadwaj
7. William McEwan
8. Eli Kaminski
9. Kahven Singh
10. Anish Poojari
11. Tristan Stratton
12. Jacob Hewitt
13. Joseph Lee
14. Jack Reis
15. Arjun Prabhakar
16. Ryan Bedwick
1. Ivan Rybak
2. Advay Singh
3. Ethan Turunen
4. Lennart Hammargren
5. Mikaeel Alibaig
6. Rafael Pawar
7. Akshay Mirmira
8. Zachary Szymanski
9. Joshua Dolinsky
10. Maddox Iliescu
11. Antanas Daugis
12. Burbaaz Narang
13. Aayush Vartak
14. Michael Cervenkov
15. Sebastian Zavala
16. Connor Feehan
1. Nathan Lee
2. Pranav Vignesh
3. Rex Kulman
4. Evaan Mohan
5. Matthew Finn
6. Krish Advani
7. Jason Ye
8. Cavan Donnelly
9. Sebastian Cheaney
10. Tony Xu
11. Wyatt Markham
12. Reyansh Pant
13. Selwyn Olufemi-Owoeye
14. Daniel Gardality
15. Blount Williams
16. Liam Dent
1. Miguel Valencia
2. Milan Nair
3. William Zhou
4. William Zhang
5. Zephyr Zwicker
6. Jesse Goldman
7. Samuel Harley
8. Lleyton Bruneau
9. Zachary Burunov
10. Aiden Zhang
11. Dylan Kivov
12. Leonardo Bigan
13. Aleksander Denisov
14. John Benedict
15. Allen Hou
16. Louie Lu
1. Calla McGill
2. Carolina Castro
3. Lauren Nolan
4. Addison Lindsay
5. Molly Widlansky
6. Alaina Lisanti
7. Maria Navarro
8. Estela Loureiro
9. Meher Rao
10. Autumn Xu
11. Kaiden Greer
12. Samaya Smith
13. Addy Rogin
14. Shristi Selvan
15. Kaylee Hill
16. Reese Frank
1. Nikol Davletshina
2. Olivia Lin
3. Natalie Frisbie
4. Corinne Winningham
5. Helena Seiken
6. Braylen Michelsen
7. Chukwunoneeru Smarty
8. Rachel Immordino
9. Ella Lin
10. Michelle Lee
11. Juliana Diianni
12. Alexa Mendoza
13. Evelynn Kwak
14. Adelyn Gross
15. Charlotte Ballarin
16. Jasmine Taylor
1. Ava Chua
2. Reese Ellingson
3. Kyndall Noel
4. Gavrielle Villegas
5. Lucy Dupere
6. Jessie Janiak
7. Emma Li
8. Christina Li
9. Daniella Yogumyan
10. Mary Podkhyneychenko
11. Zhongyi Zhou
12. Anna Sandru
13. Sarah Goodwin
14. Cydney Crocker
15. Noa Boar
16. Mila Mikoczi Spivey
1. Lindy Zhou
2. Valentina Singh Carvaljal
3. Evita Barjolo
4. Ayenxavia Calugay
5. Aya Iwata
6. Catherine Chan
7. Anna Rico
8. Audrey Yang
9. Lerong Yao
10. Jordyn Cheung
11. Laila McGregor-Green
12. Lolita Paley
13. Grace Goode
14. Hana Nilsson
15. Ryan Wilson
16. Nandika Singamala
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