US Teams Open Junior Davis and BJK Cup Defenses with Wins; Santamarta Claims First Pro Title at Las Vegas M25; Kennedy and Antonius Advance at Charlottesville Challenger; Budacsek Sweeps J100 in Mexico; Dupere and Chernakov Earn J60 Titles in Florida

The first day of group play at the World Tennis Junior Davis Cup and Junior Billie Jean King Cup 16-and-under international team competition in Egypt didn't feature any major surprises, and both teams from the United States, who are defending champions, posted victories.

The second-seeded US girls defeated Slovakia 3-0 and the second-seeded US boys got past India 2-1.

The individual results from today for the US teams:

JDC: USA[2] d. India 2-1
Izyan Ahmad d. Hruthik Katakam 6-2, 6-3
Teodor Davidov d. Tavish Pahwa 6-7(2), 7-6(7), 6-3
Katakam and Ribhav Saroha d. Ahmad and Gadin Arun 4-6, 6-3, 10-5

JBJKC: USA[2] d. Slovakia 3-0

Hannah Ayrault d. Riana Rusnakckova 6-2, 7-5

Jordyn Hazelitt d. Viktoria Novakova 6-3, 6-2

Jordyn Hazelitt and Welles Newman d. Lilien Kubalova and Rusnackova 6-2, 6-4

Only two seeded teams lost their first matches in group play today: No. 5 Spain lost to Hungary 2-1 in Junior Davis Cup and No. 8 Colombia lost to Australia 2-1 in Junior Billie Jean King Cup.

In day two of group play, the US boys will face Kazakhstan and the US girls will play Canada.

Live scoring is available here; live streaming is here.

The singles final at the M25 in Las Vegas, delayed several times yesterday, did finish Sunday night, with University of Virginia sophomore and former WT junior No. 1 defeating JC Roddick(UCF, Texas A&M) 3-6, 6-2, 6-1 in the final for his first men's WTT singles title. The unseeded 19-year-old from Spain is now back in Charlottesville to compete at the Challenger 75 there this week, where, as a wild card, he'll play No. 5 seed Clement Chidekh(Washington) of France in the main draw.

Kalamazoo 18s champion Jack Kennedy played his first round match today in Charlottesville, beating ATP No. 277 Hynek Barton of Czechia 7-5, 1-6, 6-3. Kennedy, who received entry via the WT junior Accelerator program, will play the winner of the Chidekh-Santamarta match in the second round.

Sixteen-year-old wild card Michael Antonius won his first main draw match at the Challenger level, beating ATP No. 311 Abdullah Shelbayh(Florida) of Georgia 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. Antonius will play the winner of the match between No. 8 seed Liam Draxl(Kentucky) of Canada and Maks Kasnikowski of Poland in the second round.

Qualifying concluded today in Charlottesville with Americans Andrew Fenty(Michigan), Andres Martin(Georgia Tech), Daniel Milavsky(Harvard) and Aidan Mayo advancing to the main draw.

There were five singles titles for Americans on the World Tennis Junior Circuit, with 17-year-old Sophia Budacsek earning the biggest singles title of her career at the J100 in Queretaro Mexico last week. Seeded No. 1, the South Carolina recruit beat doubles partner Ceressa Jackson of Australian 6-2, 1-6, 6-1 in the final for her third WT Junior Circuit singles title. 

Budacsek and Jackson had already claimed the doubles title, with the top seeds defeating No. 2 seeds Sandra Talamo of Venezuela and Montserrat Temprana Falco of Mexico 6-2, 7-5. That was Budacsek's 11th WT Junior Circuit doubles title, and she has won three J100 doubles titles in Mexico in the past month.

At the J60 in Orlando, 15-year-old Michael Chervenkov won his second title and 13-year-old Lucy Dupere won her first title at a tournament featuring the round robin/knockout round format. 2026 Easter Bowl 14s champion Chervenkov, who won a J30 in Chicago in May, defeated Indra Vergne 6-1, 6-2 in the boys final. 

Dupere, the 2026 USTA 14s Clay Courts champion, defeated Daniela Davletshina of Russia 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 in the girls final. Davletshina also fell in the doubles final, with unseeded Aishi Bisht of India and Christina Li beating Davletshina and Grace Hong 6-3, 4-6, 11-9.

David Bender and Kensho Ford won the boys doubles title, beating Maddox Bose and Maksim Nekrasov 6-3, 6-4 in the final. 

This week's World Tennis Junior tournament in the United States is a J100 in Boca Raton Florida, with Skander Nsairi of Tunisia the top seed in the boys draw and Alexandra Korneeva of Armenia the No. 1 seed in the girls draw.

At the J60 in El Salvador, Myna Medicetty swept the titles, winning her first singles and second doubles title on the WT Junior Circuit. The 16-year-old Californian beat No. 3 seed Brielle Amey of Canada 2-6, 6-1, 6-1 in the singles final, after taking the doubles title with Amey. The No. 3 seeds beat top seeds Sarah Goodwin and Costa Rica's Valentina Obregon Mirambell 6-4, 6-2 in the final. 

Yet another sweep was accomplished at the J30 in the Dominican Republic, where 16-year-old Evan Puente won back-to-back titles in both singles and doubles. Puente, unseeded, beat No. 4 seed Elio Mella Cabrera of the Dominican Republic 6-0, 6-4 in the singles final for his tenth straight win, after winning his eighth straight doubles match to claim the doubles title. The unseeded Puente and Payton Yea defeated Angelo Hernandez of the Dominican Republic and Roger Rodrigo Vallejo 6-3, 6-7(2), 10-8 in the final. 

Piper Yea and Czechia's Denisa Dudlova won the girls doubles title, beating the Canadian team of Vida Gonzalez Campbell and Elle Tucci 6-3, 4-6, 16-14 in the final.