USTA National Clay Courts Championships Finals Results; Pareja and Ivanov Rise to ITF Junior No. 1 Spots; Wang Wins SoCal Pro Series Finale; Latest USTA Men's US Open Wild Card Challenge Rankings

I know I have a lot of tennis on the USTA Pro Circuit and ITF Junior Circuit to catch up on after covering the Wimbledon Junior Championships the past nine days, and I'll try to get to as much of that as I can in the next several days.

When Wimbledon moved a week later in the calendar, I was also not able to pay as much attention as I would like to the USTA National Clay Courts, but Tennis Recruiting Network will have their traditional recaps beginning with the 12s division Tuesday. 

Below are the results of the 16 Clay Court finals; click on the heading for a link to the draws. I'm not sure what happened in the boys 18s doubles final.

Boys 18s Delray Beach FL

Singles:
Michael Antonius[1] d. Benjamin Saltman[9]

Doubles:
Joseph Nau and Yashwin Krishmakumar[6] v Sawyer Severance and Sutton Severance 6-4, 1-0 incomplete

B16s Delray Beach FL

Singles:

Keshav Muthuvel[3] d. Mason Vaughan[4] 6-2, 6-2

Doubles:

Griffin Goode and Mason Vaughan[6] d. Ryan Corcora and Kahven Singh[2] 6-2, 6-3

Boys 14s Dothan AL

Singles:

Joshua Dolinsky[4] d. Alexander Anderson[7] 6-3. 6-1

Doubles:

Joshua Dolinsky and Kensho Ford[7] d. Joaquin Hernandez and Trishiv Premanand[8] 7-6(4), 2-6, 6-3

Boys 12s Lake Nona FL

Singles:

Jason Ye[7] d. William McGugin[3] 6-7(4) 6-4, 6-3

Doubles:

Olie Rosa Hall and Pranav Madamanchi[6] d. Evan Fan and William McGugin[1] 3-6, 6-3, 6-4

G18s Mount Pleasant SC

Singles: 

Nicole Weng[2] Janae Preston[7] 6-4, 6-7(0), 6-1

Doubles:

Lillian Santos and Jordyn Hazelitt[10] d. Francie Pate and Carlota Moreno[15] 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-3

Girls 16s Huntsville AL

Singles:

Olivia de Los Reyes d. Sylvana Jalbert[2] 6-2, 6-2

Doubles:

Enya Hamilton and Autumn Xu[5] d. Sadira Ouyang and Elle Groslimond[15] 7-5, 6-3

G14s Plantation FL

Singles:

Nikol Davletshina[8] d. Juliana Diianni[13] 6-2, 1-6, 6-2

Doubles:

London Evans and Zoe Young[2] d. Reena Alavalapati and Eugenia Alvarez[4]  7-5, 6-1

G12s Greensboro NC

Singles:

Violetta Li[17] d. Danielle Han[2] 6-2, 6-0

Doubles:

Violetta Li and Emma Li[7] d. Mikalya Noel and Jacqueline Feehan[6] 7-5, 2-6, 6-0

Sixteen-year-old Julieta Pareja moved to No. 1 in the latest ITF Junior girls rankings after advancing to the singles and doubles finals at Wimbledon. There is a new No. 1 in the boys rankings too, with Wimbledon champion Ivan Ivanov of Bulgaria moving to the top spot.

Rising Stanford freshman Tianmei Wang won her first Pro Circuit title in the seventh and final week of the SoCal Pro Series, beating top seed Kayla Day 6-4, 6-3 in the championship match of the W15  Sunday at San Diego State.  Below is the recap from Damian Secore, which features comments from Day on Julieta Pareja and her recent run on the grass.

 

Tianmei Wang Defeats Kayla Day in Women's Singles Final to Earn First Pro Championship

in the 2025 SoCal Pro Series' Concluding Event at San Diego State

 

Australian Dane Sweeny Captures Men's Singles Title in Three-Set Comeback Over San Diegan Keegan Smith;

UCLA Teammates Rudy Quan and Emon van Loben Sels Win Men's Doubles Championship to Record Their First Pro Titles

 

July 13, 2025 – Tianmei Wang is exactly the type of player USTA Southern California had in mind when it created the SoCal Pro Series and launched its spring/summer collection of $15,000-purse tournaments on the ITF World Tennis Tour and USTA Pro Circuit in May 2022. 

 

The Stanford-bound San Marino resident who just graduated from San Marino High School a little over a month ago has never played an ITF professional tournament outside of Southern California, as Wang said it would be too hard on her and her family to travel while she is attending school.

 

Of the 10 ITF pro events Wang has played, the last nine have come on the SoCal Pro Series, with her first appearance coming in a first-round defeat in Lakewood in 2023. It remains the only time she has lost in the first round and, on Sunday at the 2025 SoCal Pro Series finale at San Diego State University’s Aztec Tennis Center, her commitment and dedication to the circuit paid her the ultimate dividend.

 

Wang, 18, closed out her fifth SoCal Pro Series tournament in the past seven weeks by earning her first ever professional title in a 6-4, 6-3 victory over top-seeded Kayla Day, of Santa Barbara, in the women's singles final. Wang reached the SoCal Pro Series' singles semifinals in Week 3 at the University of San Diego and in Week 5 at Lakewood Tennis Center, losing to the eventual champion in both of those events. The SoCal Pro Series gods smiled down on her this weekend.

 

"It means so much that I came out on top out of so many great opponents," said Wang, who was supported in Sunday's crowd by her father, Xuesong, and was warmed up before Sunday's match by her future Stanford teammate and close friend, Alyssa Ahn, who lost to Day, 3-6, 3-6, in Saturday's semifinals. "This is one of my bigger tournaments that I have won. I lost in the semifinals of USD (in Week 3) and I was so mad at myself because I really wanted to play Alyssa in that final. It was (going to be), like, a win-win because it's all Cardinal. And then I was like, 'You know what, I will make it into the final of another one. I promised myself. I remember I told myself that. But I didn't really believe until it happened.

 

"Without the SoCal Pro Series, it wouldn't have given me so many opportunities to get better. It has meant so much to me because over the summer there's not a lot of tournaments that I can play. It's really amazing that USTA SoCal put together so many good tournaments with so many good players so I can train for these right after school ends. I think my game has advanced over the past seven weeks. Just knowing you have so many more opportunities and so many more matches really gets you excited on trying to improve on your game. It's nice to have tournaments right near where you live."

 

Wang overcame a 0-4 deficit in the first set and was down a break at 0-2 in the second set before she made some tactical adjustments and found her rhythm in staging her furious rallies in each set.

 

"I physically feel fine," said Wang, who played her last four SoCal Pro Series events with shin splints on her right leg. "I ran track on my high school team. It was a lot of conditioning I did for my high school, so I feel like I was pretty prepared. I feel like I was running well, moving well and getting up to short balls well. I was trying to take the ball a lot earlier. She (Day) wasn't moving that well. I think I was moving her well around the court.

 

"I'm just, overall, really happy with how I played this week. Especially with the nerves. I haven't been on this stage. I haven't been playing that many pro tournaments before because I go to school. I'm really happy with how I handled myself, especially when it got tight towards the end and I was really going for my shots. I'm really proud of myself."

 

Wang wound up eliminating the tournament's top three seeds, upending No. 2 seed Ukrainian Anita Sahdiieva, 5-7, 6-4, 6-1, in Friday's quarterfinals and ousting University of Texas-bound No. 3 seed Christasha McNeil, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2, in Saturday's semifinals after falling behind 1-4 in the first set. Wang does not plan to play any more Futures events in the next two months before moving to Stanford. She plans to take the next few weeks to rest, recover and train for the USTA Girls’ 18s National Championships in San Diego in August and has hopes of playing in the US Open Junior Championships.

 

Wang gained 15 WTA world ranking points and a $2,352 prize, while Day received 10 WTA world ranking points and a $1,470 runner-up share.

 

A five-time ITF singles champion, Day (No. 463 WTA ranking) held a career-best WTA ranking of No. 84 in April 2024. She reached the third round of the French Open in 2023. In 2024, Day competed in the main draw at the Australian Open and French Open and the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, among other WTA events, and also in the qualifying stages at Wimbledon and the US Open.

 

This week's SoCal Pro Series finale was a step in the right direction on Day's hardcourt pathway leading up to US Open qualifying in late August. Day, 25, wrapped up her eighth tournament of 2025 — all since the end of April — as she continues to progress in her recovery and match fitness from December surgery to repair a pinched nerve in her right ankle that forced her out of tournament action for nearly seven months.

 

Day cruised through the previous four rounds of the tournament, not having dropped more than three games in any set. Wang, however, was a different opponent altogether, and it was Wang who was dictating more of the points as she got comfortable with the pace of the rallies and the match went on.

 

Said Day: "I think she started reading my balls better and catching up to my pace a little bit. I think my level dropped a little bit. She was returning my serve really well, so I give her credit. As the match went on, unfortunately, she was definitely moving me more than I was moving her, which was the biggest problem, I think. And I was struggling with my movement today because I have some pretty bad blisters on my feet. It's kind of a bad combination.

 

"I'm really happy to be able to play five matches in a row — I haven't been able to do that — so it's definitely a good stepping stone. I'm sure in a couple hours I'll be looking back and feeling much happier. To win four matches in a row is definitely a confidence booster. No matter how small a big tournament, being in a final is a good feeling. I'm pretty upset right now. I feel like when you get so close, it stings a little bit more, but it's also a good thing."

 

Day's protected ranking assures her of participation in the few Challenger events she has scheduled this summer, beginning with a 100-level event in Evansville, Ind. in a week, and in US Open qualifying.

 

Of note, Day lost to Carlsbad resident Julieta Pareja, 6-7(5), 4-6, in the first round of last year’s US Open qualifying. That match was played roughly two months after Pareja became the SoCal Pro Series’ youngest singles champion, at age 15, when she won last year’s event at Rancho Santa Fe Tennis Club.

 

While Day finished as a SoCal Pro Series runner-up, Pareja finished runner-up in singles and doubles at Wimbledon’s Junior Championships on Saturday and Sunday, respectively. Pareja partnered in doubles with fellow 16-year-old Thea Frodin, a Woodland Hills resident who played in two SoCal Pro Series events over the past month.

 

Day remembers her tight match against Pareja at Flushing Meadows last August, and Pareja left an impression on her.

 

“She’s great. A young up-and-comer, and she played really well,” Day said of Pareja. “I’ve seen she’s had some really good results, so I’m happy for her. I saw she won the (Wimbledon) warm-up event (J300 Roehampton) as well. And she did well at a WTA (WTA 250 in Bogota, Colombia) earlier this year; she made the semis.”

 

In Sunday's men’s singles final, San Diego native Keegan Smith, a 2017 Point Loma High School and 2021 UCLA graduate, faded after a fast start in losing, 6-1, 3-6, 2-6, to No. 2 seed Dane Sweeny, of Australia, on Saturday afternoon. Sweeny, 24, won a round of qualifying at January's Australian Open and won his eighth ITF singles crown on Sunday. His previous seven Futures wins came within Australia in 2022 and 2023.

 

Smith (No. 497 ATP ranking), 27, was aiming to win the first and last singles tournaments of the 2025 SoCal Pro Series. He beat University of San Diego graduate student Savriyan Danilov in Week 1 at Barnes Tennis Center, and he put himself in position to play for a fourth ITF singles title after knocking off Topanga resident and recent UC Santa Barbara graduate Gianluca Brunkow, 6-3, 6-4, in Saturday's semifinals.

 

Playing with a bone bruise and some inflammation in his right foot during his 2025 SoCal Pro Series stint, which limited him to playing only three of the seven tournaments, Smith initially did not sign up to play in this concluding tournament but changed his mind after accepting a wild card offer from USTA Southern California. 

 

"I had only practiced a few days — I took three weeks off. I was pretty happy with how I did. I was right there in that second set to win it," Smith said. "The first set, I was just trusting it and going for it. I felt like maybe I got a little more tentative. I started grinding a little bit and that's not really my game, and that plays into him, for sure. I think, over time, he's going to win that. I got a little tired, started missing first serves. The first set, I was hitting my spots seamlessly. Little nerves, a little fatigue, all that stuff kind of plays in. He started getting his mojo. I think he's in better shape than me right now, too, and he's probably a little bit better than me from the back."

 

Smith will take another week at home in San Diego for recovery and family time before heading to Europe to play events for the majority of the remainder of the summer. He said he would be open to returning to play on the circuit next year even if by then he is playing at a Challenger Tour level, which is his hope.

 

"I got a lot of points, a lot of confidence, a lot of good matches," Smith said of his 2025 SoCal Pro Series experience. "It was cool that I just got to stay at home and see my family. It was a lot of fun. I really enjoy tennis and hopefully I can keep working hard and staying focused and can make it to the next level one day."

 

Sweeny (No. 575 ATP ranking) reached the SoCal Pro Series final for the second consecutive week after registering a 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 semifinal win over Ladera Ranch resident and UCLA returning junior Spencer Johnson.

 

Sweeny collected 15 ATP singles ranking points and a $2,160 winner’s prize. Smith received eight ATP ranking points and a $1,272 check as runner-up.

 

All four participants in Saturday's men's doubles final sought their first ITF men's professional championship, and it was UCLA returning sophomore and No. 1 player Rudy Quan, of Thousand Oaks and Bruins teammate Emon van Loben Sels triumphantly tallying a 6-4, 6-3 victory over twins and San Diego residents Jayson and Michael Blando, graduates of Rancho Bernardo High School and the University of Utah.

 

Quan and van Loben Sels earned 15 ATP doubles ranking points each and split a $930 champion’s prize, while the Blando brothers collected eight ATP doubles ranking points each and split a $540 check.

 

Saturday's women's doubles final saw Sahdiieva collect her fourth SoCal Pro Series doubles crown of 2025, and her second with partner Kylie Collins, in a 6-4, 6-0 victory over former University of Arizona teammates Midori Castillo-Meza, a 21-year-old Tijuana, Mexico native, and Brandelyn Fulgenzi.

 

Overall, it was the ninth ITF Futures doubles win for Sahdiieva and the fifth for Collins. Sahdiieva and Collins tallied 15 WTA doubles ranking points each and split a $955 winner’s check. Meza and Fulgenzi received 10 WTA doubles ranking points each and split a $515 runner-up prize.

 

 

Match of the Week

Men’s Singles, Quarterfinals – Gianluca Brunkow d. Kyle Kang, 7-5, 3-6, 6-2

Topanga resident Brunkow, who finished his career as UC Santa Barbara's No. 1 player during the 2024-25 NCAA season and was named an All-Big West First Team selection in singles and doubles, smoothly segued to play in his third USTA Pro Circuit and SoCal Pro Series main draw. He achieved his first ATP ranking point and advanced to his first pro semifinal in the same week after outlasting Fullerton native Kang, who returns to Stanford for his junior year in September after having won his first ITF pro singles crown the week before (Week 6) on the SoCal Pro Series at Jack Kramer Club in Rolling Hills Estates. The 2025 SoCal Pro Series served up breakthrough moments for both Southern Californians.

The second week of the USTA's men's US Open Wild Card Challenge saw Stanford rising senior Samir Banerjee move to the top of the race, with Patrick Kypson(Texas A&M), after his title at the M25 in Dallas. 

 

US Open Wild Card Challenge Standings Update

 

Orlando, Fla., July 14, 2025 – Former Wimbledon junior champion and current Stanford star Samir Banerjee joined Patrick Kypson in the co-lead of the men's US Open Wild Card Challenge after a Week 2 that saw Banerjee win his second pro singles title, at the USTA Pro Circuit M25 in Dallas. Dallas finalist Alex Rybakov, a former junior and TCU standout, rose to No. 3 by reaching the final. The current men's standings after Week 2 of 6: 

 

Men's Standings:

(Player's current ranking in parentheses)

 

T1. Patrick Kypson (218) -- 25

T1. Samir Banerjee (637) -- 25

3. Alex Rybakov (343) -- 20
4. Michael Zheng (455) -- 18
T5. Darwin Blanch (410) -- 16

T5. Adhithya Ganesan (575) -- 16

 

The men's wild card will go to the American with the highest cumulative total of ATP singles ranking points earned from their best four results over six weeks. The Men's Challenge counts outdoor and indoor hard-court events at the M25-level and above around the world. 

 

The Women's Challenge begins with events the Week of July 21. The women's wild card will go to the American with the highest cumulative total of WTA singles ranking points earned from their best two results over three weeks. The Women's Challenge counts outdoor and indoor hard-court events at the W35-level and above around the world. 

 

For both the men and the women, results from the first two rounds of the Cincinnati Open will be included if those rounds are completed by the end of the day on Monday, August 11. If all second round matches are not completed by that deadline, then only first-round results will be considered.

 

Both main draw and qualifying points earned count toward each player’s Challenge total.

 

Americans who otherwise earn direct entry into the US Open are not eligible, including those who can enter with a protected ranking. Should the player with the highest number of Challenge points earn direct entry into the US Open, the wild card will go to the next eligible American in the Challenge points standings. In the event of a tie, the player with the best ATP or best WTA singles ranking on Monday, August 11, will earn the wild card.

Turkey Announced as Host for November's Junior Davis and Billie Jean King Cups; TRN's Recaps of USTA Clay Court Nationals; Seven Americans Reach USTA Pro Circuit Semifinals; All-USA Final Four at ATP 250 Newport

The location of the 2024 ITF Junior Davis Cup and Junior Billie Jean Cup competitions was announced today, with the two 16-and-under world team championships returning to Turkey after last year's one-off in Spain.  The two tournaments, which are traditionally held at the same venue at the same time, were split last year, but both will be November 11-17 in Antalya Turkey this year.

The fields have yet to be completed, with the European Summer Cups next month determining five of the 16 teams, but the United States has already qualified both its boys and girls teams. Shannon Lam, Thea Frodin and Kristina Penickova were the US girls who played in April's qualifying; Carel Ngounoue, Jack Secord and Keaton Hance were the boys who earned the US a place in the finals. These players may or may not be named to the teams that will compete in Turkey in November. The other six teams that have qualified can be found in today's ITF release.

Tennis Recruiting Network wrapped up its coverage of last week's USTA National Clay Courts Championships with today's recaps of the 18s tournaments, won by Dylan Long and Claire Hill. The links to TRN's eight articles are below.  Harvey Fialkov, a former Sun-Sentinel reporter who lives in Plantation and plays tennis at the Veltri Tennis Center, home of the Girls 14s Clays, filed this in-depth look at Allison Wang's title run for Florida Tennis.

Girls 18s: Hill Stays Confident, Secures First Gold Ball at Girls 18s Clays

Boys 18s: Long Goes the Distance for Gold Ball at Boys 18 Clays

Girls 16s: Traynor Wins First Ball, Captures Gold at USTA Girls 16 Clays

Boys 16s: Grumet Nets First Gold Ball in Familiar Final at Clay Court 16s

Girls 14s: Wang Secures Another Gold Ball with Girls 14s Clay Title

Boys 14s: Vaughan Claims Double Gold at Boys 14 Clay Courts

Girls 12s: Poznick Pockets Gold Ball at USTA Girls 12 Clay Nationals

Boys 12s: Double Gold for Gardality at USTA Boys 12 Clay Championships

The semifinals are set at the three USTA Pro Circuit tournaments this week, with current collegians contending for titles.

At the women's $75,000 tournament in Evansville Indiana, ITA Player of the Year Mary Stoiana(Texas A&M) defeated top seed Sachia Vickery 6-1, 0-6, 5-4 retired to earn the second WTA Top 150 win of her career and a place in the semifinals against 2022 NCAA singles champion Tian Fangran(UCLA).  Tian, who is 15-5 this summer, has beaten Fiona Crawley(UNC), No. 7 seed Liv Hovde and in today's quarterfinals, No. 4 seed Hanna Chang, dropping only 15 games in the process. In the bottom half, unseeded Sophie Chang will face No. 5 seed Iryna Shymanovich of Belarus.

In East Lansing, two unseeded rising sophomores have reached the semifinals of the men's $25,000 tournament, with Aidan Kim(Florida, Ohio State) posting a 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 win over Alex Kotzen(Columbia, Tennessee) and Kyle Kang(Stanford) defeating No. 2 seed Cannon Kingsley(Ohio State) 6-2, 7-6(5).  Kim will face top seed Aidan McHugh of Great Britain, who beat No. 5 seed and hometown favority Ozan Baris(Michigan State) 6-2, 2-6, 6-4, while Kang will face No. 6 seed Johannus Monday  (Tennessee) of Great Britain, who beat Joshua Sheehy(Abilene Christian) 6-2, 6-4.

At the $15,000 men's tournament in Rochester New York, rising Stanford junior Samir Banerjee, seeded No. 7, defeated top seed Colin Sinclair(Cornell) of Northern Mariana Islands 6-2, 6-1 and will play Ohio State rising junior Alex Bernard, who is unseeded. In the bottom half, recent Oklahoma State graduate Tyler Zink beat No. 2 seed Matias Descotte of Argentina 7-5, 6-3 and will face No. 8 seed Benjamin George(Western Michigan) of Canada.

For the first time since 1985, and the last time ever, the ATP 250 Hall of Fame Open in Newport Rhode Island will feature all-USA semifinals. The tournament will leave the ATP calendar after this year and hold a joint event in 2025, consisting of a men's ATP Challenger 125 and a WTA women's tournament at the same level.

In the top half semifinal, wild card Reilly Opelka will face 2023 finalist  and No. 3 seed Alex Michelsen, and in the bottom half, Chris Eubanks(Georgia Tech), seeded No. 4, plays Marcos Giron(UCLA), the No. 2 seed. See this ATP article for more on today's wins by Eubanks and Giron.

McNeil and Ji Take USTA Clay Court 18s Titles; Michelsen Wins Chicago Challenger; Brantmeier and Dostanic Close out SoCal Pro Series with First Pro Singles Titles; Americans Sweep at Dallas $25k

My onsite coverage of the Wimbledon Junior Championships has kept me from following the tennis going on in the United States as much as I would like, but I hope to catch up on that as well as the results from the ITF Junior Circuit.

The USTA National Clay Court Championships concluded yesterday, with the results of the singles and doubles finals listed below. Tennis Recruiting Network will have articles on all eight divisions beginning Tuesday with the 12s. (Update: the USTA has announced that 18s champions McNeil and Ji have received wild cards into the US Open Junior Championships with their titles).

USTA National Clay Court Championships

B12s Lake Nona FL

Singles final:

Dylan Meineke[1] d. Tristan Ascenzo[2] 7-6(4), 4-6, 6-4

Doubles final:

Adrian Sharma and Dylan Meineke[3] d. Sebastian Zavala and Tristan Ascenzo[5] 6-1, 6-4

B14s Dothan AL

Singles final:

Tanishk Konduri[5] d. Shaan Majeed[17] 6-0, 6-4

Doubles final:

Joseph Nau and Tanishk Konduri[1] d. Jerrid Gaines and Erik Schinnerer[7] 2-6, 6-4, 7-6(4)

B16s Delray Beach FL

Singles final:

Jack Satterfield[7] d. Ronit Karki[10] 7-6(7), 6-1

Doubles final:

Nicholas Patrick and Oliver Narbut[2] d. Tristan Stine and Sibi Raja[4] 7-5, 1-6 7-5

B18s Delray Beach FL

Singles final:

Zhengqing Ji[8] d. Cyrus Mahjoob[9] 6-4, 6-1

Doubles final:

Stiles Brockett and Cassius Chinlund d. Tygen Goldammer and Charlie Spencer[7] 7-5, 6-2

Girls 12s Greensboro NC

Singles final:

Daniela Davletshina[10] d. Sofia Kedrin[14] 7-5, 6-3

Doubles final:

Zoe Young and Olivia De Los Reyes[2] d. Juliana Diianni and Aleksandra Jerkunica 6-2, 6-2 

Girls 14s Plantation FL

Singles final:

Janea Preston[8] d. Anna Bugaienko[1] 6-4, ret. inj.

Doubles final:

Sasha Miroshnichenko and Kennedy Drenser-Hagmann[1] d. Maria Navarro and Chelsea Casapu 6-1, 6-4

G16s Huntsville AL

Singles final:

Christina Lyutova[1] d. Bella Payne[2] 2-6, 6-0, 6-3

Doubles final:

Reagan Mulberry and Carrington Brown d. Elena Zhao and Bella Payne 1-6, 6-3, 6-4

G18s Charleston SC

Singles final:

Christasha McNeil d. Claire Shao 6-4, 6-3

Doubles final:

Piper Charney and Jessica Bernales[2] d. Ahmani Guichard and Mia Yamakita 6-3, 6-4

Eighteen-year-old Alex Michelsen won his first Challenger title yesterday at the 75 level tournament in Chicago, finishing a third set of his semifinal with Jerry Shang of China in the morning, then beating unseeded Yuta Shimuzu of Japan 7-5, 6-2 in the final. It's looking increasingly unlikely that Michelsen will join the Georgia Bulldogs, now that he has broken into the Top 200 of the ITF rankings. For more on Michelsen's win, see this article from the ATP.

Mikelis Libietis of Latvia, the 2014 NCAA doubles champion at  Tennessee, and Skander Mansouri(Wake Forest) of Tunisia defeated top seeds Yunseong Chung of Korea and Andrew Harris(Oklahoma) of Australia 7-6(5), 6-3 in the doubles final.

The SoCal Pro Series wrapped up on Sunday, and the qualifying wild cards to the 2024 BNP Paribas Open were awarded, with 21-year-old Stefan Dostanic(USC) and 22-year-old Haley Giavara(Cal) booking their spots in Indian Wells next spring.

Dostanic won the final event of the seven-tournament circuit in Lakewood, his first pro title in singles. Seeded No. 3, Dostanic defeated last week's champion Andre Ilagan(Hawaii) 6-7(1), 6-2, 7-5 in the final.

No. 2 seed Giavara lost in the women's $15,000 tournament in Lakewood, to UNC rising sophomore Reese Brantmeier, 6-4, 6-4, but her title two weeks ago in Irvine helped her seal the wild card.

The 18-year-old Brantmeier, seeded No. 3, has two USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles, but yesterday's championship was her first in singles.

Brantmeier and teammate Fiona Crawley lost to Savannah Broadus(Pepperdine) and Anita Sahdiieva(Baylor/LSU) of Ukraine 6-3, 6-3 in the doubles final.

Ryan Seggerman(Princeton/UNC) and Patrick Trhac(Idaho State/Utah) won their second straight doubles title in Lakewook, beating No. 2 seeds Jack Anthrop and Bryce Nakashima(Ohio State) 7-5, 6-2 in the final.

For more on the Lakewood finals, see this article from SoCal Pro Series media aide Steve Pratt.

The fourth event last week on the USTA Pro Circuit was a men's $25,000 tournament in Dallas, with Mitchell Krueger taking the title. Seeded No. 2, Krueger defeated No. 4 seed Aidan Mayo 6-4, 6-0 in the final. 

No. 2 seeds George Goldhoff(Texas) and Tyler Zink(Georgia/Oklahoma State) defeated Matt Hulme(Nebraska) of Australia and Franco Ribero(Texas Tech) of Argentina 4-6, 6-3, 10-8 in the final.

Teens Shelton, Krueger, Quinn, Sieg and Mboko Reach Pro Circuit Semifinals; Kuzuhara Faces Johnson in Atlanta Open Qualifying; Recap of 18s Clay Court Championships; Stowe Stadium Resurfacing Underway

Teenagers continue to post impressive results this week in North America, with at least one advancing to the semifinals of this week's USTA and ITF Pro Circuit tournaments.

At the ATP Challenger 80, a new tournament in Indianapolis sponsored by the Rajeev Ram Foundation, NCAA singles Ben Shelton defeated Wimbledon doubles champion Max Purcell of Australia 7-6(5), 6-4 to reach the semifinals, a week after he advanced to the final of the Challenger in Rome Georgia. The 19-year-old, who is a rising junior at Florida, will face Aleks Kovacevic(Illinois) in Saturday's semifinals; in Rome, the two met in the quarterfinals with Shelton winning the tense and well-played match 7-6(2), 7-5.  Kovacevic defeated No. 5 seed Dominik Koepfer(Tulane) of Germany 7-5, 7-6(5) in the quarterfinals today. 

The other semifinal will feature Rome champion Yibing Wu of China and Yatsutaka Uchiyama of Japan, with Wu defeating Alex Rybkov 6-3, 6-3, and Uchiyama getting the better of No. 8 seed Chris Eubanks(Georgia Tech) 7-6(3), 6-7(4), 6-4. None of the semifinalists are seeded.

Play begins at 2 p.m. tomorrow, with free live streaming, available at the ATP Challenger website. Mike Cation is providing commentary.

After two rounds of singles today, the $60,000 USTA Women's Pro Circuit tournament in Evansville Indiana is back on schedule, after heat and humidity sent all matches indoors for the past two days.  2021 USTA National 18s champion Ashlyn Krueger won two matches today, with the 18-year-old Texan beating Alexa Glatch and qualifier Vicky Duval in straight sets.  Krueger will play unseeded Catherine Harrison, who has continued the form she displayed at Wimbledon, where she qualified and reached the second round. Harrison defeated qualifier Maegan Manasse(Cal) and Katherine Sebov of Canada in straight sets today to reach the semifinals. The other semifinal will feature Elli Mandlik and No. 5 seed Sachia Vickery.

As with the women in Evansville, the men in the semifinals at the $25K in Champaign are all Americans. Ethan Quinn, who made the semifinals of the $15K in Lakewood last week, reached his second $25K semifinal with a 7-5, 7-5 victory over Kareem Al Allaf(Iowa) of Syria. The 18-year-old Georgia freshman will face No. 8 seed Cannon Kingsley(Ohio State), who beat Eduardo Nava(Wake Forest) 4-6, 6-1, 6-3. The other semifinal has 2017 Kalamazoo 18s champion Patrick Kypson(Texas A&M) meeting qualifier Stefan Dostanic(USC). Kypson defeated No. 5 seed Peter Bertran(South Florida) of the Dominican Republic 6-4, 6-4, while Dostanic won his third consecutive three-setter today, beating No. 2 seed Omni Kumar(Duke)5-7, 6-1, 7-6(0). Kingsley is the only seed remaining.

At the $25,000 ITF World Tennis Tour women's tournament in Saskatoon Canada, both 15-year-old Canadian Victoria Mboko and 19-year-old Madison Sieg(USC) are through to the semifinals. Mboko defeated No. 5 seed Stacey Fung of Canada 6-2, 6-3 and will play No. 6 seed Elysia Bolton(UCLA), who beat No. 4 seed Jessie Aney(North Carolina) 6-3, 6-3. 

Sieg needed three hours and eight minutes to get past 17-year-old Marina Stakusic 5-7, 6-4, 7-6(4). Sieg will play No. 3 seed Hurricane Tyra Black, who beat 16-year-old qualifier Teah Chavez of Canada 6-2, 6-0.

The US Open Series begins tomorrow with qualifying for the Atlanta Open, and Bruno Kuzuhara will be first up. The 2022 Australian Open boys singles and doubles champion, who received a wild card into qualifying, will face Steve Johnson(USC) on the Stadium Court beginning at 10:00 a.m. The other all-USA qualifying match will feature Donald Young, who won a wild card tournament, and JJ Wolf(Ohio State).  Other Americans in action Saturday are Stefan Kozlov, Chris Eubanks and Ernesto Escobedo.

The Tennis Recruiting Network wrapped up its USTA National Clay Court Championships coverage today with article on the boys 18s title for Nicholas Heng and the girls 18s title for Bridget Stammel.

The photo below is for those of you making your way to Kalamazoo in the next week or ten days to compete at the Nationals. The Stowe Stadium courts are being completely resurfaced for the first time in quite a few years, so they are likely to be slower than they were for last year's tournament. 

The USTA wild card meeting for the Nationals was today, but it will be several days before those names will be released.

Quarterfinals Set at European Championships; Recaps of 16s Clay Courts; Quinn Reaches Champaign $25K Quarterfinals; Shelton Will Make ATP Debut at Atlanta Open, Kuzuhara Receives Qualifying Wild Card

The quarterfinals are set for Friday at the 14s, 16s and ITF European championships, with four of the six No. 1 seeds still alive for the singles titles. 

The top seed in the girls 16s draw, Tereza Valentova of the Czech Republic, withdrew before the tournament began. Boys 14s top seed Ivan Ivanov of Bulgaria lost today. B16s No. 1 seed Martin Landaluce of Spain, G14s top seed Alena Kovackova of the Czech Republic, ITF top seeds Jakub Mensik of the Czech Republic and Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva of Andorra won their round of 16 matches today.

The British girls have been impressive all week, with both Hannah Klugman and Mika Stojsavljevic reaching the quarterfinals in the 14s, Mingge Xu reaching the quarterfinals in the 16s and Ella McDonald advancing to the final eight in the ITF tournament. Stojsavelijevic beat No. 2 seed Eliska Forejtkova of the Czech Republic by the delightful score of 6-0, 6-7, 6-0 today, and Xu beat No. 2 seed and Wimbledon girls doubles champion Rose Nijkamp of the Netherlands 7-6(3), 6-3. The unseeded McDonald has yet to drop a set in her three victories.

Klugman wasn't seeded, despite reaching the final at Les Petits As this year. Even worse, boys champion Thijs Boogard of the Netherlands wasn't seeded either, and he too is in the quarterfinals. Klugman plays Kovackova of the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals, which is not ideal, for either player. The quarterfinal matchups are below; Tennis Europe is providing a live blog daily here.

ITF JB1

Boys:
Jakub Mensik[1](CZE) v. Edas Butvilas[5](LTU)
Dino Prizmic[4](CRO) v. Alexandre Blockx[12](BEL)
Gilles Bailly[2](BEL) v. Henrique Rocha(POR)
Kilian Feldbausch[2](SUI) v. Iliyan Radulov(BUL)

Girls:

Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva[1](AND) v. Nikola Daubnerova[5](SVK)

Brenda Fruhvirtova[3](CZE) v. Ariana Geerlings ESP)

Celine Naef[4](SUI) v. Ella McDonald (GBR)

Joelle Steur[11](GER) v. Raquel Gonzalez Vilar[14](ESP)

G14s

Alena Kovackova([1](CZE) v. Hannah Klugman(GBR)

Laura Samsonova[3](CZE) v. Sona Depesova[8](SVK)

Charo Esquiva Bañuls[12](ESP) v. Veronika Sekerkova[4](CZE)

Mia Pohankova[9](SVK) v. Mika Stojsavljevic[13](GBR)

B14s

Diego Dedura-Palomero(GER) v Ziga Sesko[11](SLO)

Matei Todoran[4](ROU) v. Filip Kosarko[5](CZE)

Vito Antonio Darderi(ITA) v. Thijs Boogard (NED)

Timeo Trufelli[10](FRA) v. Marko Dragovic[13](SRB)

G16s

Emily Sartz-Lunde[13](NOR) v. Yoana Konstantinova[5](BUL)

Marta Soriano Santiago(ESP) v. Sarah Iliev(FRA)

Mia Ristic[6](SRB) v. Artemis Aslanisvili[15](GRE)

Luca Urbanova[12](CZE) v. Mingge Xu[14](GBR)

B16s

Martin Landaluce[1](ESP) v. Nicolai Budkov Kjaer[6](NOR)

Jan Kumstat(CZE) v. Theo Papamalamis[10](FRA)

Joel Schwaerzler[5](AUT) v. Andreas Timini(CYP)

Antonio Voljavec[8](CRO) v. Federico Cina[2](ITA)

The Tennis Recruiting Network's recaps of the 16s Clay Court Championships were published today. Stiles Brockett won the boys title and Natasha Rajaram claimed the girls singles championship, with both picking up their first gold balls.

Ethan Quinn(Georgia) advanced to the quarterfinals of the $25,000 USTA men's Pro Circuit tournament in Champaign Illinois today, beating No. 6 seed Makoto Ochi of Japan 5-7, 6-1, 6-4. Quinn will face unseeded Kareem Al Allaf(Iowa) of Syria, who advanced when top seed Pedja Krstin of Serbia retired trailing 6-3, 4-1.

The first round of singles at the $60,000 USTA women's Pro Circuit tournament in Evansville Indiana finally finished indoors today, after heat and humidity had disrupted the schedule the past two days. Katrina Scott defeated No. 2 seed Robin Anderson(UCLA) 6-1, 5-7, 6-4 and Ashlyn Krueger beat No. 3 seed Caroline Dolehide 6-4, 6-4. After one round, No. 4 seed Carol Zhao(Stanford) of Canada is the top seed remaining, with top seed Alycia Parks losing two days ago. The schedule for Friday is for two rounds of singles, followed by the doubles quarterfinals, all indoors.

Ben Shelton advanced to the quarterfinals of the ATP Challenger 80 in Indianapolis when No. 2 seed Tim van Rijthoven of the Netherlands retired leading 7-6(7), 2-1. Rijthoven had treatment on his back after the tiebreaker, then went up 2-0 in the second set. But when Shelton broke him for the first time in the match to get back on serve, Rijthoven retired. Shelton will face Wimbledon doubles champion Max Purcell of Australia, who is also unseeded, in Friday's quarterfinals.

Shelton will be making his ATP debut next week at the Atlanta Open, after he was announced as a wild card recipient by the tournament today. Shelton, who did play, and win a round at the US Open qualifying last year, spent his childhood in Atlanta when his father Bryan coached the Georgia Tech women. 

The tournament also announced that Bruno Kuzuhara was receiving a qualifying wild card. Currently No. 3 in the ITF junior rankings and expected to compete in Kalamazoo next month, Kuzuhara also just signed a sponsorship deal with FILA.  The tournament release is incorrect that Kuzuhara will be making his ATP debut in Atlanta; he was given a qualifying wild card into Delray Beach back in February. I spoke with him about that experience for this Tennis Recruiting Network article.

Coco Gauff will be playing an exhibition at the Atlanta Open on Sunday July 24th and Monday July 25th. Originally US Open finalist Leylah Fernandez of Canada was going to be her opponent, but Fernandez has been injured and withdrew with Taylor Townsend now taking her place. Gauff did a media zoom conference to promote the event, which can be viewed here.

US Open Entries Announced; No More Service Lets for Women in College Tennis; Stearns, Wolf and McNally Awarded Cincinnati Qualifying Wild Cards; 14s Clay Court Recaps; Quinn, Williams Advance at Champaign $25K

The USTA released the entry lists for the US Open today, with the rankings from Monday used to determine who makes the main draw (the qualifying field is based on the rankings from August 1).

The United States has the most competitors of any country, and this is before wild cards, with 15 women and 13 men. The cutoffs, as of today, are 99 for women (with six players using a protected rankings) and 101 for men (with four players using a protected ranking). Jack Sock, Stefan Kozlov and JJ Wolf are 3, 4 and 5 on the alternate list, so they should get in. As of today, unvaccinated non-citizens can't enter the United States, so if this doesn't change, at least one man, Novak Djokovic, will have to withdraw.

The men's list is here; the women's list is here.

The ITA announced the rule changes for the upcoming 2022-23 season and the big news is that women will now play service lets (if the serve hits the net and goes into the proper service box, the ball is in play)..  The men have been treating a let serve as any other shot for years now, but the women stuck with the pro standard until today. Juniors on the ITF Circuit have been playing service lets since 2018 and I prefer it; Wimbledon is the only junior slam that didn't adopt that change and found I have little patience for that do-over now; so as far as I'm concerned, this is a positive step for college tennis, not least because both genders have the same rule.

It's obvious from the number of rules addressing it that bench and support staff sportsmanship was a problem last year, and several of the changes are an attempt to reign that in. 

Sportsmanship overall has been deemed a Point of Emphasis for the upcoming season with "stricter enforcement of all sportsmanship-related ITA rules including unsportsmanlike conduct rules for on-court players, unsportsmanlike conduct rules for coaches and bench player harassment rules."

In yet another release I received today, the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati announced that qualifying wild cards are being awarded to three players from Ohio: Caty McNally, JJ Wolf(Ohio State) and NCAA singles champion Peyton Stearns(Texas). The player lists for the main draw of the tournament, which begins with qualifying on Saturday August 13, is here.

The Tennis Recruiting Network's articles on the 14s Clay Court Championships went up today, with this recap of Jack Kennedy's sweep of the boys titles, and Julieta Pareja's victory in the girls singles.

Two juniors advanced to the second round of the $25,000 USTA Men's Pro Circuit tournament in Champaign today, with 18-year-old Ethan Quinn(Georgia) defeating lucky loser Alex Brown(Illinois) 2-6, 6-1, 6-2 and 17-year-old Harvard recruit Cooper Williams, a qualifier, beating Tristan McCormick(Georgia) 7-6(2), 6-4. It's Williams second main draw win on the Pro Circuit and the first on the $25K level; Quinn now has 16 singles wins on the men's Pro Circuit this year.

The $60,000 USTA Women's Pro Circuit tournament in Evansville Indiana has been plagued by heat and humidity, with only two matches completed this morning before the heat index went to and remained over 100 degrees all day. With first round matches yet to be played, they are moving indoors Thursday, according to the order of play.

At the $25,000 tournament in Saskatoon Canada, Victoria Mboko won the battle of Canadian teens, defeating wild card Kayla Cross 6-4, 6-1. Two other teenagers advanced to the quarterfinals with wins today: 17-year-old Canadian Maria Stakusic and 19-year-old Madison Sieg.  Stakusic, who beat No. 2 seed Elvina Kalieva 6-4, 6-1 last night, defeated qualifier Hibah Shaikh(Virginia) 6-3, 6-3 today. Sieg, the rising freshman at USC, defeated No. 7 seed Ena Shibahara(UCLA) of Japan 6-3, 6-4.

Three Americans have advanced to Friday's quarterfinals at the ATP Challenger 80 in Indianapolis with wins today. Aleks Kovacevic(Illinois) defeated qualifier Sho Shimabukuro of Japan 6-3, 6-4; No. 8 seed Chris Eubanks(Georgia Tech) beat qualifier Jerry Shang of China 7-5, 6-3 and wild card Alex Rybakov(TCU) defeated Alexis Galarneau(North Carolina State) 6-4, 5-7, 6-3. Ben Shelton is the only American in singles action on Thursday; he plays No. 2 seed Tim van Rijthoven of the Netherlands for a place in the quarterfinals.

Mboko Earns WTA Top 200 Win; Qualifying Complete at Evansville $60K, Champaign $25K; Shelton Leads USO Wild Card Challenge, But Won't Need It; Clay Court 12s Recaps; NCAA D-I Update

Canadian Victoria Mboko, who turns 16 next month, defeated top seed and WTA 190 Valentini Grammatikopoulou of Greece 6-7(1), 6-1, 6-3 today in the first round of the $25,000 ITF World Tennis Tour women's tournament in Saskatoon Saskatchewan. Mboko, who reached the semifinals at Wimbledon earlier this month, is currently No. 13 in the ITF junior rankings. In the second round, she will face longtime doubles partner Kayla Cross, who received a wild card into the main draw and beat fellow Canadian 17-year-old Cadence Brace in the first round yesterday.

Americans playing in Saskatoon this week include Elvina Kalieva[2], Hurricane Tyra Black[3], Jessie Aney[4](UNC), Elysia Bolton[6](UCLA) and Madison Sieg(USC).

The reason for so many Americans in Canada this week is that there is only one tournament for women on the USTA Pro Circuit, a $60,000 tournament in Evansville Indiana. Temperatures in the upper 90s have delayed the completion of two of the four first round matches today, but the qualifying is complete, with six Americans advancing to the main draw: Vicky Duval, Chanelle Van Nguyen(UCLA), Christina Rosca(Vanderbilt), Reese Brantmeier(North Carolina), Maegan Manasse(Cal) and Ava Markham(Wisconsin). 

Alycia Parks was the top seed, but she lost in the first round today to Katherine Sebov of Canada 6-2, 6-0. Robin Anderson(UCLA) is the No. 2 seed, and she will face 18-year-old Katrina Scott Wednesday.

Wild cards were given to Peyton Stearns(Texas), Eryn Cayetano(USC), Hina Inoue and Kollie Allen(Ohio State).

The men's USTA Pro Circuit events this week are the new ATP Challenger 80 in Indianapolis and a $25,000 tournament in Champaign Illinois.

In Champaign, the wild cards were given to Ryan Harrison and three University of Illinois players: Hunter Heck, Alexander Petrov and Karlis Ozolins of Latvia. 

Americans advancing to the main draw through qualifying are Stefan Dostanic(USC) and Harvard recruit Cooper Williams, with Alex Brown(Illinois) getting in as a lucky loser. 2021 NCAA Division III singles and doubles champion Leo Vithoontien(Carleton) of Japan also reached the main draw with two qualifying victories.

The top two seeds are Pedja Krstin of Serbia and Omni Kumar(Duke).

At the Indianapolis Challenger, 17-year-old wild card Nishesh Basavareddy stayed with top seed Peter Gojowczyk of Germany throughout, but fell 7-6(4), 7-6(3). Basavareddy, ranked No. 6 in the ITF juniors was down a break in both sets, but got that break back immediately each time. In the tiebreakers however, ATP No. 93 Golowczyk gave away no points, while Basavareddy couldn't get the first serves he needed when it mattered.

The only American to pick up a win today in Indianapolis was Florida rising junior Ben Shelton, who beat former North Carolina star Rinky Hijikata of Australia 6-3, 6-4. The 2022 NCAA singles champion, who plays No. 2 seed Tim Van Rijthoven of the Netherlands in the second round, joins Alex Rybakov(TCU), Chris Eubanks(Georgia Tech) and Aleks Kovacevic(Illinois), as Americans who won their first round matches. 

After reaching the final last week at the Rome Challenger, Shelton leads the USTA's US Open Wild Card Challenge, but according to the release the USTA sent out last week, he won't need it, as they are confirming that he will receive a main draw wild card as the NCAA singles champion. From Monday's release:

Standings Update -- US Open Wild Card Challenge   Orlando, Fla., July 18, 2022 – If it were possible to earn two singles wild cards into the US Open in the same year, Ben Shelton would be well on his way.    The 19-year old Floridian leads the Men's US Open Wild Card Challenge after Week 1, with 54 points from reaching the final at the USTA Pro Circuit Challenger 80 in Rome, Ga. Shelton, though, won't need the wild card bestowed upon the Challenge's victor, as the University of Florida product won the 2022 NCAA men's singles title and will receive a wild card into the US Open as such. Should Shelton end up winning the Challenge, the wild card would go to the next eligible player in the standings.    The standings after Week 1 of 5 for the men are as follows:   *1. Ben Shelton -- 54 T2. J.J. Wolf -- 16 T2. Aleks Kovacevic -- 16 T2. Bjorn Fratangelo -- 16   *Will receive WC as NCAA singles champion

The Tennis Recruiting Network is publishing recaps of all eight of the USTA Clay Court National Championships this week, kicking things off today with articles on Jordan Lee's win in the boys 12s, and Hannah Ayrault's title in the girls 12s.

John Parsons has an update on last month's NCAA Division I Tennis Committee meeting, with news that the move of the NCAA individual tournament to the fall will be voted on in August, after the ITA completes a survey of coaches this month. For more on that, and on the push to get college tennis on TV, the duration of the Super Regional experiment, bracket integrity and other issues see John's post at his No-ad, No Problem blog.

Stammel Captures G18s Clay Court Championship, Heng Wins B18s; First ATP Titles for Cressy and Cerundolo; Han, Seelig, Navarro Claim Pro Circuit Titles

Rain is always part of the story when it comes to the USTA Clay Court Championships, but all twelve of the gold balls scheduled to be awarded today were distributed, despite several lengthy weather delays. 

Bridget Stammel, G18s USTA Clay Court Champion

Bridget Stammel earned her first gold ball in singles at the Girls 18s in Mount Pleasant South Carolina, defeating 14-year-old Shannon Lam 6-4, 6-2, but the final was hardly as straightforward as the score might suggest.

For Stammel, the No. 16 seed, the rain interruption came at an inopportune time.

"In the first set I was actually down 4-2, then went up 6-4, 2-1, and then we had the rain delay," said the 18-year-old from Dallas Texas. "I had won like six of the last seven games or something like that, so definitely the momentum was with me. It was a pretty long rain delay, three or four hours, so definitely I could feel the nerves."

Stammel didn't miss a beat when play resumed, building a 5-2 lead, but she needed eight match points before she final shut the door on Lam, a No. 17 seed.

"I was up 40-0 in that game and the game just kept going, her ad, my ad, back and forth for a long time," said Stammel, who won a gold ball in doubles at the 2019 Winter Nationals. "I've never won a singles gold ball before and it's always been a goal of mine, so I was really happy and proud of myself."

Stammel admitted that playing against a 14-year-old created extra stress.

"I thought she was really mature, she acted pretty professional for as young as she was, but I kind of felt the pressure the whole tournament, because I'm definitely one of the older ones here," said Stammel, who turns 19 in October. "I used to be the young, getting to play those older and that's definitely easier, because you pretty much have nothing to lose. But I was just happy with myself that I was able to stay focused and not let the pressure get to me too much."

After her victory today, Stammel was awarded a wild card into the $25,000 USTA Women's Pro Circuit tournament in Dallas, which begins on July 25th. She is playing the USTA National Championships in San Diego, then starts classes at Vanderbilt in late August.

In the Girls 18s doubles final, top seeds Natalie Block and Piper Charney defeated No. 2 seeds Vivian Miller and Maddy Zampardo 7-5, 7-5.

After losing in the final last year to Ryan Colby, Nicholas Heng took the next step at this year's B18s Clay Courts in Delay Beach Florida, with the No. 4 seed defeating No. 2 seed Jelani Sarr 6-4, 6-3. 

Although the 18s Clay Court singles champions receive a main draw wild card to the US Open Junior Championships, neither Stammel or Heng are age eligible by ITF rules, with both turning 19 this year.

In the boys 18s doubles final, No. 7 seeds Nikita Filin and Alexander Razeghi defeated top seeds Lucas Brown and Landon Ardila 6-3, 5-7, 10-5. Filin and Razeghi beat the top 3 seeds, with their last four wins this week coming in match tiebreakers. Normally, the semifinals and finals of a Level 1 are not decided in match tiebreakers, but the rain forced a format change.

At the Girls 16s in Huntsville Alabama, top seed Natasha Rajaram defeated unseeded Katie Spencer 6-3, 6-2 in the singles final. No. 4 seeds Kayla Chung and Alanis Hamilton won the doubles title, beating top seeds Saray Yli-Piipari and Kayla Schfke 7-6(5), 4-6, 6-4.

At the B16s in Delray Beach Florida, Stiles Brockett won the battle of 17 seeds in the singles final, beating Mikel Anderson 6-1 6-3. In the doubles final, No. 15 seeds Krish Gupta and Evan Burnett defeated No. 7 seeds Nicholas Snyder and Cole Henceroth 6-4, 6-1.

No. 5 seed Julieta Pareja won the G14s singles title in Plantation Florida, defeating top seed Aishi Bisht 6-7(2), 6-3, 6-1 in the final. Top seeds Sara Shumate and Bella Payne won the doubles title, beating No. 11 seeds Georgia Kulevich and Zosia Henryson-Gibbs 6-4, 6-0 in the final. 

Jack Kennedy swept the titles at the B14s in Dothan Alabama. Seeded No. 17 in singles, Kennedy defeated No. 6 seed Gus Grumet 6-2, 6-4 in the championship match. In the doubles final, Kennedy and Sebastian Bielen, the No. 6 seeds, defeated No. 3 seeds Yannik Alvarez and Ryan Cozad 6-3, 6-3.

The 12s titles were decided earlier this weekend.  No. 3 seed Jordan Lee defeated No. 4 seed Vihaan Reddy 6-1, 6-3 in singles and top seeds Akshay Mirmira and Safir Azam defeated No. 6 seeds Diego Custodio and Daniel Patsula 6-0, 6-1 in doubles at the B12s in Lake Nona.

At the G12s in Boca Raton, No. 7 seed Hanna Ayrault beat No. 2 seed Welles Newman 6-3, 6-3 in the singles final, with top seeds Shaya Jovanovic and Daniela Navarro defeating No. 5 seeds Madeleine Bridges and Reiley Rhodes 7-5, 5-2 for the doubles title.

It was a banner day for college tennis today, with three ATP 250 titles and a host of others around the world. At the Hall of Fame Open in Newport Rhode Island, No. 4 seed Maxime Cressy(UCLA) came from 6-3, 2-0 down to defeat No. 3 seed Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan 2-6, 6-3, 7-6(3) and earn his first ATP title in his third final, all this year. Cressy, who was outside the ATP Top 100 at this time last year, will move to a career-high of 33 in Monday's rankings. For more on the final, see this article from the ATP website.

The Newport men's doubles title also went to former collegians, with No. 4 seeds Will Blumberg(North Carolina) and Steve Johnson(USC) defeating top seeds Raven Klaasen of South Africa and Marcelo Melo of Brazil 6-4, 7-5. It's the second ATP doubles title for both Blumberg and Johnson, with Blumberg winning Newport last year with Jack Sock and Johnson earning his title with Sam Querrey in Geneva in 2016.

Argentina's Francisco Cerundolo, who played one semester at South Carolina, won his first ATP title at the Nordea Open in Bastad Sweden. The unseeded Cerundolo, who beat top seed Casper Ruud in the second round, defeated No. 8 seed Sebastian Baez of Argentina 7-6(4), 6-2 in the final. Cerundolo, who started the year ranked 127, will move to a career-high of 30 in Monday's ATP rankings.

2022 NCAA singles champion Ben Shelton(Florida) fell short in his bid for a first ATP Challenger title, falling to Yu Wibing of China 7-5, 6-3 in the championships match today in Rome Georgia. Both are playing the ATP Challenger in Indianapolis next week, each getting a special exemption into the main draw. Local junior Nishesh Basavareddy received a main draw wild card and will play top seed and ATP 91 Peter Gojowczyk of Germany in the first round.

2021 NCAA singles champion Emma Navarro won her first title since turning pro last month. A week after reaching the finals of a $60,000 tournament in the Netherlands, Navarro won the championship at a $60,000 ITF World Tennis Tour women's tournament in Latvia. The former Virginia Cavalier, seeded No. 5, defeated No. 2 seed Yue Yuan of China 6-4, 6-4 and will move to 155 in Monday's WTA rankings.

USC's redshirt sophomore Snow Han won her second Pro circuit title today at the $15,000 tournament in Lakewood California, the last of the six tournaments on the SoCal Pro Circuit. No. 5 seed Han, a 20-year-old from China, defeated top seed Dabin Kim of Korea 7-5, 7-5 in the final.

No. 3 seed Jaimee Floyd Angele of France took the men's title in Lakewood, defeating No. 4 seed Nathan Ponwith(Arizona State) 6-2, 7-5. 

For more on today's finals, see this article from USTA SoCal press aide Steve Pratt.

At the $15,000 USTA men's Pro Circuit tournament in Pittsburgh, top seed Kyle Seelig(Ohio State) won his second pro title, defeating No. 7 seed AJ Catanzariti 6-4, 6-3 in the championship match.