Duke's Xu and TCU's Pascual Head List of Seeds for NCAA Singles Championships; Budasek Sweeps J100 Titles in Mexico for Second Straight Week; Kim Claims First WT Junior Title at J100 in Boca Raton

The seeds are out for next week's NCAA Division I Singles and Doubles Championships in Athens Georgia, with ITA All-American Champion Roger Pascual of TCU the men's top seed and All-American finalist Mimi Xu of Duke the women's top seed. 

Although the World Tennis Number is the starting point for seeding, other metrics can be used, as they are for the team event, with strength of schedule, head-to-head results and record against common opponents among the considerations. Although Ohio State's Luciana Perry defeated Xu in the final of the All-American Championships, that wasn't enough to move her ahead of Xu.

The complete list of participants, including alternates, is available here for the men, and here for the women. As I mentioned last night, I will have a preview of the tournaments for the Tennis Recruiting Network this Friday. Draws will be published Sunday evening.

WOMEN:

Singles:
1. Mimi Xu, Duke
2. Amelie Van Impe, SMU
3. Lexington Reed, Texas A&M
4. Luciana Perry, Ohio State
5. Nao Nishino, Ohio State
6. Rose Marie Nijkamp, Texas
7. Kaitlyn Carnicella, South Carolina
8. Emma Dong, Georgia

9-16, alphabetical:

Irina Balus, Duke

Sophia Cisse-Ignatiev, Ohio State

Arina Malygina, Oklahoma State

Alexis Nguyen, North Carolina

Salakthip Ounmang, Oklahoma

Bella Payne, Georgia

Katie Rolls, Virginia

Lavinia Tanasie, NC State

Doubles:

1. Teah Chavez and Sophia Cisse-Ignatiev, Ohio State

2. Rose Maris Nijkamp and Carmen Herea, Texas

3. Lexington Reed and Kristina Paskauskas, Texas A&M

4. Patricija Paukstyte and Bella Payne, Georgia

5-8, alphabetical by school

Sara Svetac and Lily Taylor, Arizona State

Emma Dong and Ranah Stoiber, Georgia

Luciana Perry and Flora Johnson, Georgia

Salakthip Ounmuang and Zoie Epps, Oklahoma

MEN:

1. Roger Pascual, TCU

2. Keegan Rice, Virginia

3. Luca Preda, Virginia

4. Theo Papamalamis, Texas A&M

5. Aidan Kim, Ohio State

6. Dominick Mosejczuk, Wake Forest

7. Nikita Filin, Ohio State

8. Tomasz Berkieta, Texas

9-16, alphabetical

Luciano Ambrogi, Oklahoma

Nicolas Arsenault, Kentucky

Rodrigo Fernandes, Cornell

Toby Kodat, NC State

Bruno Kuzuhara, Clemson

Johan Rodriguez, Oklahoma

Andres Santamarta, Virginia

Ilia Snitari, Texas A&M

Doubles:

1. Nikita Filin and Brandon Carpico, Ohio State

2. Aidan Kim and Bryce Nakashima, Ohio State

3. Albert Pedrico and Cooper Woestendick, TCU

4. Noa Vukadin and Viktor Markov, Clemson

5-8, alphabetical by school

Chris Xu and Niels Ratiu, North Carolina

Mortiz Kudernatsch and Pietro Pampanin, Ole Miss

Lasse Poertner and Aleksa Pisaric, Pepperdine

Paul Barbier Gazeu and Charlie Robertson, South Carolina

Last week produced two American singles champions at J100 events, with Sophia Budacsek earning a second straight sweep in Guadalajara and Atticus Kim winning his first World Tennis junior title in Boca Raton.

Budacsek, seeded No. 4, defeated No. 2 seed Eve Thibault of Canada 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in the final to claim her tenth straight singles victory. The 17-year-old from Illinois, has now reached a final, a semifinal and won two titles in her four J100 tournaments since the beginning of October, with her WT junior ranking now up to 179.

She has also won all four doubles titles at those four J100s, and now has six doubles title this year. Last week she partnered with Ana Avramovic, with the top seeds defeating No. 2 seeds Grace Dollar and Mexico's Romina Dominguez Garcia 6-2, 6-3 in the final.

Sebastian Godoy and South Africa's Jayden Summers won the boys doubles title, with the top seeds defeating No. 7 seeds Macksimus Malhotra and Italy's Niccolo Magagnin 6-3, 7-6(4) in the final. Malhotra also reached the singles final, losing to No. 3 seed Felipe Mamede of Brazil 7-6(4), 6-3.

In Boca Raton, another 17-year-old from Illinois prevailed in the boys singles, with the unseeded Kim beating No. 16 seed Indra Vergne 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 in the final. Kim, who has played only a handful of WT junior events in the past year, has more than halved his ranking with the title, which is up to 550.

Qualifier Amy Gray of Australia won the girls singles title, beating unseeded 14-year-old Evija Thoresen 7-6(3), 6-1 in the final. 

Unseeded Lyla Middleton and Emily Morgan won the girls doubles title, beating Capri Butera and Gabrielle Villegas, also unseeded, 6-3, 6-2 in the all-USA final. 

In another all-unseeded, all-USA doubles final, Gurbaaz Narang and Aryan Ponugoti defeated Alexander Lerman and Peter Nistad 7-5, 4-6, 10-2.

This week's WT junior tournament in the United States is another J100 on clay, in Coral Gables Florida. Mason Vaughan and Aarini Bhattacharya are the top seeds.

At the J30 in Jamaica, two 16-year-olds won their first titles on the WT junior circuit. Karan Shanker claimed his when Cavan Donnelly retired trailing 6-0, 1-0, and wild card Jaiya Siffrard, the top seed, defeated No. 2 seed Daniela Rangel Ramos of Mexico 6-4, 6-2 for her first title.

Rangel and American partner Emelie Valdes won the girls doubles, with the top seeds defeating Siffrard and Raquel Delarosa, the No. 2 seeds, 4-6, 6-2, 10-8 in the final.

Donnelly and Krish Advani won the boys doubles titles beating Isaac Llovera De Lasse of Mexico and Stanley Salmon of Great Britain 6-4, 6-2 in the final.

At the J30 in Barbados, Enya Neagu and China's Jiarui Li, the top seeds, won the girls doubles title, defeating Rylee Cherry and the Cayman Islands' Ava Pierre 7-5, 6-7(5), 10-7 in the final.