Waelti and Anikina Win European 14s Titles; Meineke Sweeps J30 Titles for Second Straight Week; Minvielle Claims Both TItles at J100 in Colombia; New Memphis WTA 250 Underway

The European 14s championships concluded Sunday in Most Czechia, with Jonas Waelti of Switzerland and Elizaveta Anikina of Estonia claiming the titles. No. 7 seed Waelti, who won the boys Wimbledon 14-and-under title two weeks ago, had no trouble in his return to clay, beating top seed Richard Mitchell, also of Switzerland, 6-2, 6-1 in the final. 

Elizaveta Anikina 2026 Les Petits As
photo credit: Richard van Loon, toptennis.photos

No. 16 seed Anikina, the finalist at Les Petits As this year, defeated Wimbledon 14-and-under finalist Mariia Kochezhenko of Ukraine, the No. 1 seed this week, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.

Top seeds Oskar Laskowski and Liam Sharkey of Great Britain took the boys doubles title, defeating No. 7 seeds Pablo Jimenez Roman and Jorge Mateo Moreno of Spain 6-1, 7-6(5) in the final.

No. 2 seeds Olivia Serena Conticello and Giulia Luchetti of Italy captured the girls doubles title, beating the unseeded Swiss team of Liv Bretscher and Lilly Falkenberg 6-4, 6-1 in the final.

All draws can be found here.

For the second consecutive week, Dylan Meineke swept the titles at a J30 in Jamaica.  The top seed last week in Kingston, the 15-year-old Texan defeated doubles partner Vaclav Barina of Czechia, the No. 2 seed 7-6(5), 6-1 in the singles championship match. The top-seeded Meineke and Barina, who had also won the doubles title in Ocho Rios two weeks ago, defeated unseeded Petru Cotoman and Cyprus's Andreanos Kyriakides 7-5, 6-0 in the final.

Charles Minvielle claimed his second J100 singles title last week in Cali Colombia, and added the doubles title as well. The 17-year-old from Florida, seeded No. 2, defeated top seed Riku Nakamoto of Japan 6-4, 6-2 to cap a straight-sets run to the title. The second-seeded Minvielle and partner Alejandro Pena, who had won the doubles title at the J100 in Medellin earlier in the month, defeated top seeds Nakamoto and Thomas Piot of France 3-6, 7-6(5), 10-1 in the final.

At the J60 in Providence Rhode Island last week, No. 3 seeds Sebastian Bielen and Omar Rhazali earned the boys doubles title, beating the second-seeded Canadian team of Pierre-Olivier Hay and Randy Manoela Rakotonavahy 7-6(6), 6-4 in the final.

The unseeded Rhazali lost in the singles final to No. 2 seed Rafael Bote of Canada 2-6, 6-3, 7-6(5).

Fifteen-year-old Daniela Davletshina, who has lived in Florida for years but is unaffiliated in World Tennis junior competition due to her Russian background, swept the girls titles, her first two titles on the WT junior circuit. Davletshina's younger sister Nikol, who won the Girls 16s Clay Courts title earlier this month, gave Daniela a walkover in the semifinals; in the final, Daniela defeated 14-year-old Evija Thoresen of Atlanta 6-2, 6-2. Nikol and Daniela defeated Masha Semenova and Stephanie Smart-Abbey 7-5, 6-4 to claim the girls doubles title.

The other WT junior title last week for an American was at the J30 in the country of Georgia. Seventeen-year-old Lucas Lukosik of Florida won his first WT junior circuit title, taking the boys doubles with Richard Lutak of Slovakia. The unseeded pair defeated unseeded Tudor Stefan Ionescu and Florin Robert Pantelimon of Romania 4-6, 7-5, 12-10 in the final.

This week's World Tennis junior tournament in the United States is a J60 in Medford New Jersey. 

In addition to the ATP/WTA 500 Mubadala DC Open this week, there is a new WTA 250 event in Memphis Tennessee. Unfortunately, extreme heat has been an issue, and they have been playing most of the matches at night. No Americans made it through qualifying, with wild card Kennedy Drenser-Hagmann falling to top seed Tatiana Prozorova 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 in the final round last night.

Sixteen-year-old Seattle resident Kristina Liutova did advance to the main draw with a 6-3, 2-6, 7-6(4) win over Mariia Kozyreva(St. Mary's). She will face top seed Ekaterina Alexandrova in the first round.

Katie Volynets won her first round match today, beating No. 3 seed Viktorija Golubic of Switzerland 7-5, 1-6, 7-6(3). Wild cards Whitney Osuigwe and Reese Brantmeier(UNC) lost their opening matches tonight, with Maya Joint of Australia beating Osuigwe 6-4, 6-1 and qualifier Iryna Shymanovich defeating Brantmeier 6-4, 6-3. 

McCartney Kessler(Florida) is the No. 2 seed, with Caty McNally[6] and Peyton Stearns[7] the other seeded Americans. Stearns will face Mary Stoiana(Texas A&M) in the first round. 

Sloane Stephens received a wild card and will play No. 8 seed Yuliia Starodubtseva(Old Dominion) of Ukraine; the fourth wild card, Cadence Brace(LSU) of Canada, plays No. 4 seed Zeynep Sonmez of Turkey.