Lee and Sesko Meet for WT Junior Final Boys Title; Sun and Pushkareva Again in Girls Championship Match; McDonald Sweeps Austin W50 Titles; Brantmeier Cruises into Saguenay W75 Singles Final; Brooksby and Blanch Reach Fort Worth Challenger Final

Four of this year's junior slam champions will play for the championship Sunday at the World Tennis Junior Finals in Chengdu China, including American Jordan Lee, who won Wimbledon as a qualifier in July.

The fourth-seeded Lee defeated No. 7 seed Vincent Reisach of Germany 6-2, 7-5 in Saturday's semifinals, and will face No. 6 seed and Australian Open champion Ziga Sesko of Slovenia, who beat No. 3 seed Keaton Hance 6-4, 6-4 to prevent an all-USA boys final. Lee, 16, and the eighteen-year-old Sesk , the only boy yet to suffer a loss, met just four days ago in group play, with Sesko winning 7-6(5), 6-7(3), 6-2. Lee is the first American boy to reach the final since Brandon Nakashima won the title in 2018. (Due to the pandemic, the event was not held in 2020, 2021 and 2022).

While Sesko and Lee have one recent meeting, top seed Xinran Sun of China and No. 3 seed Anna Pushkareva have three, playing in the Wimbledon final, the US Open final, and in group play this week. Pushkareva won the first, but the 16-year-old Sun has won the last two, including in group play Thursday, when she blitzed the 17-year-old Russian 6-2, 6-0 in less than an hour.

In the nine years of this tournament's existence, two reigning junior slam champions have never met in the final, and this year, that is the case for both the girls and boys.

The boys final is scheduled to beging at 11:30 tonight in the Eastern time zone of the United States, with the girls final to follow. Live streaming is available, with Cracked Racquets' Alex Gruskin providing commentary. Live scoring can be found here.

In the rare Saturday finish to a USTA Pro Circuit tournament, qualifier Ella McDonald of Great Britain completed her sweep of the titles at the W50 in Austin, with the LSU junior defeating No. 5 seed Madison Brengle 7-5, 6-1 in the final. McDonald, who won her 16th women's WT doubles title with Kylie Collins yesterday, had claimed three W15 titles in singles, but this is her first singles title since May of 2025.

2025 NCAA singles champion Reese Brantmeier is on track to sweep the titles this week at the W75 in Saguenay Canada, after breezing past Hiromi Abe of Japan 6-1, 6-3 in 72 minutes. The recent North Carolina graduate won the doubles title with former teammate Carson Tanguilig, with the unseeded pair defeating No. 3 seeds Jasmijn Gimbrere of the Netherlands and Michaela Bayerlova(Washington State) of Czechia 6-2, 7-6(3) in the final. 

Brantmeier is up to 231 in the live WTA rankings after reaching the final, and with no points to defend the rest of the year is looking likely to make the Australian Open women's qualifying in her first year as a professional. And she still has an opportunity to win the USTA's Australian Open wild card, with two more weeks remaining in that race. She is continuing that quest next week in the W75 in Toronto, not in the W100 in New Braunfels Texas.

Connie Ma's run in the California W35s came to an end today in the semifinals of the Bakersfield tournament, with the 23-year-old wild card falling to No. 3 seed Hanna Chang 6-4, 6-2. The 2022 NCAA singles finalist as a freshman at Stanford won her first Pro Circuit title last week's W35 in Redding California.

Chang will face wild card Jenna DeFalco, who at 23 is looking for her first title above the W15 level. DeFalco defeated No. 7 seed Lan Mi(Cal) of China 6-1, 2-6, 6-1.

Jack Anthrop will play in his second straight M15 final Sunday, after the fourth-seeded former Ohio State All-American defeated Kentucky junior Rafael Ymer of Sweden, a qualifier, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 in the Ithaca semifinals. Anthrop, who lost to Theo Papamalamis of Texas A&M in the final of the M15 in Lexington Kentucky last Sunday, will play wild card Rodrigo Fernandes of Portugal, a junior at Cornell, for the title. Fernandes beat Texas junior Oliver Ojakaar of Estonia, a qualifier, 6-4, 6-4 in today's semifinals. 

Ojakaar won't return to Austin empty-handed, winning the doubles title with Nathan Cox(Vanderbilt). Ojakaar and Cox defeated Mans Dahlberg(Virginia) of Sweden and Zsombor Velcz(Baylor) of Hungary 7-5, 7-6(7) in the final.

At the ATP Challenger 75 in Fort Worth Texas, the top two seeds will decide the title, with two Kalamazoo 18s champions squaring off Sunday.

No. 2 seed Darwin Blanch, who won the 2028 18s title and the 2022 16s title in Kalamazoo, defeated qualifier Sander Jong(TCU) of the Netherlands 7-6(5), 6-2 to advance to his third Challenger final. He will face top seed Jenson Brooksby, the 2018 Kalamazoo 18s champion, who reached the 2016 Kalamazoo 16s final. Brooksby lost a 77-minute first set to Gabriel Debru(Illinois, Texas) of France 6-7(14), but rebounded to win the second set 6-3 and the third set 6-2 to reach the final. 

TCU teammates Cooper Woestendick and Albert Pedrico won the doubles title as wild cards, capturing their first Challenger doubles title with a walkover from James Hopper(Case Western, Virginia) of Great Britain and Shunsuke Mitsui(Tennessee) of Japan.