Eight More Americans Advance to Roland Garros Second Round; Arun Goes Back-to-Back, De Los Reyes Wins ITF J100; Little Rock Challenger Underway: Virginia Tops Men's Recruiting Class Rankings; Cristiani Completes Undefeated D-III Season with NCAA Title

Day Two of Roland Garros added eight more Americans to the five who had already reached the second round with wins Sunday; 12 more will have a chance to join those 13 as the first round concludes Tuesday in Paris.

Nineteen-year-old wild card Akasha Urhobo acquitted herself well in her slam debut, pushing British veteran Katie Boulter to three sets before losing 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 in two hours and 20 minutes. Alycia Parks took out No. 24 seed Leylah Fernandez of Canada 6-4, 6-4; Patrick Kypson(Texas A&M) withdrew right before the start of play due to an injury.

Monday's Roland Garros first round results of Americans:

Amanda Anisimova[6] d. Tiantsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah[WC](FRA) 6-3, 6-1
Alycia Parks d. Leylah Fernandez[24](CAN) 6-4, 6-4
Katie Boulter(GBR) d Akasha Urhobo[WC] 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
McCartney Kessler d. Hanyu Guo[Q](CHN) 4-6, 7-6(1), 7-5

Ben Shelton[5] d. Daniel Merida(ESP) 6-3, 6-3, 6-4

Frances Tiafoe[19] d. Eliot Spizzirri 6-3, 6-7(5), 6-4, 6-3

Mariano Navone(ARG) d. Jenson Brooksby 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 

Patrick Kypson(withdrew) v Luca Van Assche(FRA)

Camilo Ugo Carabelli(ARG) d. Emilio Nava[Q] 7-6(10), 6-3, 6-3

Yibing Wu(CHN) d. Marcos Giron 7-5, 6-2, 6-4 

Alex Michelsen d. Alexander Shevchenko(KAZ) 6-2, 6-4, 6-2

Brandon Nakashima[31] d.Roberto Bautista Agut(ESP) 6-2, 7-5, 6-2 

Rafael Jodar[27](ESP) d. Aleks Kovacevic 6-1, 6-0, 6-4

Tommy Paul[24] d. Rinky Hijikata(AUS) 4-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-4

Tuesday's Roland Garros first round matches featuring Americans

Coco Gauff[4] v Taylor Townsend

Madison Keys[19] v Hanne Vandewinkel(BEL)

Jessica Pegula[15] v Kimberly Birrell(AUS)

Iva Jovic[17] v Alexandra Eala(PHI)

Ashlyn Krueger[Q] v Antonia Ruzic(CRO)

Claire Liu[Q] v Moyuka Uchijima(JPN)

Emma Navarro v Janice Tjen(INA)

Ann Li[30] v Shuai Zhang(CHN)

Learner Tien[18] v Cristian Garin(CHI)

Ethan Quinn v Francisco Comesana(ARG)

Zachary Svajda v Alexei Popyrin(AUS)

I didn't have an opportunity to review the ITF Junior Circuit results for the week of the NCAAs, so there's a little catching up to do today.

Gadin Arun, a 16-year-old from Arizona, won two J60 titles in Canada the past two weeks. The top seed in Halifax, Arun didn't drop a set in claiming the top spot in his round robin group, and didn't drop a set in the three matches in the knockout format, beating No. 4 seed Andreas Mjeda of Canada 6-2, 6-1 in the final. Last week in Fredericton, the second-seeded Arun did drop a couple of sets, but beat top seed Andy Tchinda Kepche of Canada 6-0, 3-6, 6-4 in the final. Arun now has three ITF singles titles, all at the J60 level.

At last week's J100 in the Dominican Republic, top seed Olivia De Los Reyes won her first ITF Junior Circuit singles title. The 15-year-old from New York, seeded No. 1, didn't drop a set in her four victories, defeating No. 2 seed Audrey Kao of Taiwan 6-1, 6-1 in the final. Top seeds Kao and Kaya Baker won the girls doubles title, beating unseeded Isabella Bosso and Adriana Khomyakova 6-0, 3-6, 10-6 in the final.

At last week's J100 in Portugal, Sean Grossman won the boys doubles title, with partner Fernando Fontan Pardo De Santayana of Spain. The No. 4 seeds defeated No. 8 seeds Daniel Eusamio of Spain and China's Jinhong Yang 6-2, 3-6, 11-9 in the final. 

Two weeks ago at the J30 in the US Virgin Islands, No. 2 seed Anna Scott Laney defended her singles title, with the 15-year-old from Alabama beating unseeded Dallas King-Ehau of New Zealand 6-3, 6-1 in the final.

Safir Azam and Navneet Raghuram won the doubles title at the J200 two weeks ago in Germany, with the top seeds defeating No. 2 seeds Cooper Kose of Australia and Agassi Rusher 6-1, 6-3 in the final.

Both Azam and Raghuram are both playing the J300 in Belgium this week; Azam took out No. 2 seed Hyu Kawanishi of Japan 6-2, 6-3 in the first round today; Raghuram, a qualifier, also advanced to the second round, as did qualifiers Kamil Stolarczyk, Jerrid Gaines Jr., and Jordan Lee. US girls had less success, with only No. 6 seed Olivia Traynor and Anita Tu earning first round victories.  The No. 2 seed in the girls draw also exited today, with Anna Pircher of Austria beating Nadia Lagaev of Canada 6-2, 7-5.

The newly regionalized Midwest portion of the US ITF Junior Circuit has begun in Chicago, with a J30 using the round robin/knockout underway.

Qualifying for the ATP 75 Challenger in Little Rock Arkansas is complete, with just one American Ron Hohmann(LSU, Michigan State) the only American to advance to the main draw. 

Wild cards were given to Daniel Milavsky(Harvard), Braden Shick(NC State), and Dakotah Bobo(Southern Miss, LSU). Trevor Svajda(SMU) received a Next Gen entry and Timo Legout(Texas) is using one of his ATP Accelerator entries from finishing in the Top 10 in the ITA rankings last year.  Dane Sweeny of Australia and Nicolas Mejia of Colombia are the top two seeds.

Five first round matches were played today, with Andre Ilagan(Hawaii) and Michael Mmoh[5] the Americans advancing; Bobo lost to No. 8 seed Fajing Sun of China 6-2, 6-1. 

The Tennis Recruiting Network men's spring recruiting class rankings were announced today, with Virginia's class of Jack Kennedy and Luca Preda voted No. 1, although they were far from the unanimous choice, with three other schools also receiving first place votes. 

The NCAA champion Cavaliers lose only Mans Dahlberg from their starting lineup, so expect them to retain the top spot in the ITA rankings for quite some time in 2027. Virginia is followed by Princeton, Texas A&M, Georgia, Arizona State, Michigan, Stanford, Duke, Harvard and UCF. 

The women's rankings will be out next week. 

The Division III women's individual tournament concluded today in Chattanooga, with top seed Matia Cristiani of Babson winning the program's first NCAA singles championship with a 6-1, 6-1 victory over unseeded Lia Melvin of Johns Hopkins. Cristiani finished the season undefeated, going 37-0 in singles. 

Cristiani was unable to capture her third straight doubles title however. She and partner Alessandra Sikharulidze, the top seeds, lost to the second-seeded Claremont-Mudd-Scripps team of Lindsay Eisenman and Rebecca Kong 6-1, 2-6, 7-6(3).

For a detailed account of Cristiani's final day of collegiate tennis, see this article from the Babson athletics website.

The men's Division III individual tournament ends Tuesday, with Claremont-Mudd-Scripps senior Advik Mareedu attempting to clain back-to-back singles titles. The top seed defeated No. 6 seed Mark Kneiss of Bowdoin 6-4, 6-2 in the semifinals; he will face No. 2 seed Michael Melnikov of Swarthmore in the final. Melnikov defeated unseeded Andreas Sillaste of Amherst 6-2, 6-2.

The men's doubles final will feature Denison's Ethan Green and Kael Shah, the No. 4 seeds, against unseeded Gage Gohl and Tyler Haddorff of Gustavus Adolphus. 

Streaming for both 10 a.m. EDT finals will be available at ncaa.com.

Mackenzie and Sun Capture ITF J500 Trofeo Bonfiglio Titles; Basavareddy Upsets Fritz at Roland Garros; Brengle Wins Pelham W50; Flagler Men Claim First NCAA Division II Title; Babson's Cristiani Plays for Both D-III Women's Titles Monday

The Roland Garros Junior Championships begin a week from today with Sunday's ITF J500 Milan champions reaffirming their status as threats to add a junior slam title to their already considerable accomplishments.

Eighteen-year-old Jamie Mackenzie of Germany won his second ITF J500 title this month, with the No. 3 seed beating No. 2 seed Thilo Behrmann of Austria, who won last month's J500 in Cairo, 6-4, 6-4 in the final. TCU recruit Mackenzie, who won the J500 in Offenbach two weeks ago, did not drop a set all week.

No. 3 seed Xinran Sun of China, the 2025 Orange Bowl champion, defeated No. 7 seed Mariia Makarova of Russia 6-2, 7-5, and she also took the title without dropping a set. The 15-year-old, who like Mackenzie reached the Australian Open junior quarterfinals this year, won a J300 in Bulgaria at the beginning of this month, so both she and Mackenzie have proven again their skill on the surface.

In a note on the Roland Garros field, Julieta Pareja withdrew two days ago; she had reached the quarterfinals in Paris last year. Lani Chang has moved into the main draw.

There is a J300 this week in Belgium, but sandwiched in between Milan and Roland Garros, the fields includes just one ITF Top 20 player: Mariella Thamm of Germany.

Thirty-six-year-old Madison Brengle, whose ranking had fallen outside the WTA Top 1000 in 2024, is up to 241 in the live rankings after winning the USTA Pro Circuit W50 in Pelham Alabama today. Brengle, the No. 2 seed, defeated top seed Katrina Scott(Tennessee) 6-1, 6-4 in the final. It's the first title of the year for Brengle, who has been as high as 35 in the WTA rankings. 

Opening day at Roland Garros saw five of the ten Americans on the schedule advancing to the second round.  The biggest surprise came from former Stanford All-American Nishesh Basavareddy, who beat No. 7 seed Taylor Fritz 7-6(5), 7-6(5), 6-7(9), 6-1. Basavareddy's drop shot was particularly effective against Fritz, who was playing just his second match on clay due to a chronic knee injury. It's the first Top 10 win for 21-year-old, who won the USTA's reciprocal wild card to gain entry into the main draw.

The women's USTA wild card recipient, 19-year-old Akasha Urhobo of Florida, faces Katie Boulter of Great Britain Monday in her debut in the main draw of a major.

ITF Junior No. 1 Ksenia Efremova of France, who received a main draw wild card, lost to No. 18 seed Sorana Cirstea of Romania 6-3, 6-1. Cirstea, at 36, is more than twice as old as the 17-year-old Australian Open girls champion.

Hailey Baptiste saved two match points in her win over 2021 Roland Garros champion Barbora Krejcikova of Czechia.

Sunday's Roland Garros first round results of Americans:

Hailey Baptiste[26] d. Barbora Krejcikova(CZE) 6-7(7), 7-6(6), 6-2
Katie Volynets d. Clara Burel[WC](FRA) 6-3, 6-1
Caty McNally d. Ajla Tomljanovic(AUS) 3-6, 7-6(5), 6-3
Peyton Stearns d. Sofia Kenin 6-3, 6-3
Sara Bejlek(CZE) d. Sloane Stephens[Q] 6-3, 6-2

Nishesh Basavareddy[WC] d. Taylor Fritz[7] 7-6(5), 7-6(5), 6-7(9), 6-1

Dino Prizmic(CRO) d. Michael Zheng[Q] 6-1, 6-1, 6-3

Federico Cina[Q](ITA) d. Reilly Opelka 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 6-7(6), 6-4

Monday's Roland Garros first round matches featuring Americans:

Amanda Anisimova[6] v Tiantsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah[WC](FRA)

Alycia Parks v Leylah Fernandez[24](CAN)

Akasha Urhobo[WC] v Katie Boulter(GBR)

McCartney Kessler v Hanyu Guo[Q](CHN)

Ben Shelton[5] v Daniel Merida(ESP)

Eliot Spizzirri v Frances Tiafoe[19]

Jenson Brooksby v Mariano Navone(ARG)

Patrick Kypson v Luca Van Assche(FRA)

Emilio Nava[Q] v Camilo Ugo Carabelli(ARG)

Marcos Giron v Yibing Wu(CHN)

Alex Michelsen v Alexander Shevchenko(KAZ)

Brandon Nakashima[31] v Roberto Bautista Agut(ESP)

Aleks Kovacevic v Rafael Jodar[27](ESP)

Tommy Paul[24] v Rinky Hijikata(AUS)

The NCAA Division II team championshipsconcluded today in Surprise Arizona, with No. 6 seed Flagler winning the program's first D-II title with a 4-3 victory over top seed Barry.  Not only was it a 4-3 thriller, but the championship came down to a third-set tiebreaker at line 4.  For more on the Flagler title, see this article from flaglerathletics.com.

The women's Division III singles and doubles championships are Monday in Chattanooga, with top seed Matia Cristiani of Babson playing in both. Cristiani defeated No. 4 seed Sarena Biria of Chicago 6-3, 6-1 in today's semifinals and will face unseeded Lia Melvin of Johns Hopkins for the singles title. Cristiani and Alessandra Sikharulidze, the No. 1 seeds, will play No. 2 seeds Lindsay Eisenman and Rebecca Kong of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps in the doubles final after singles. Cristiani is going for her third consecutive NCAA doubles title, with a new partner this year, after winning the titles in 2024 and 2025 with Olivia Soffer. 

The men's Division III semifinals are Monday, with the finals set for Tuesday.  Defending champion and top seed Advik Mareedu of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps will play No. 6 seed Mark Kneiss of Bowdoin; unseeded Andreas Sillaste of Amherst will face No. 2 seed Michael Melnikov of Swarthmore.

Live streaming is available at ncaa.com

And while we're on the subject of Division III tennis, four-time NCAA women's champion Eudice Chong(Wesleyan) of Hong Kong won her first WTA title in doubles yesterday in Rabat Morocco. Chong partnered with Magali Kempen of Belgium, with the unseeded pair beating top seeds Aldila Sutjiadi(Kentucky) of Indonesia and Vera Zvonareva of Russia 6-3, 2-6, 10-6 in the final. Chong, who was playing in her fourth WTA doubles final, is now at a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 71.

Ten Americans Open Play Sunday at Roland Garros; Tien and Navarro Claim ATP, WTA Titles; All-USA Final Set at W50 in Pelham Alabama; Secord Falls in Milan Singles Semis, Doubles Final; Nova Southeastern Women Win D-II Title, Men's D-II Final Sunday

Ten of the 37 Americans who are in the main draw in singles at Roland Garros will play their first matches Sunday, including two matches that are between players from the US. Although TNT is will provide coverage via streaming/cable, in order to have access to all matches you will need an HBO/Max subscription, which can be purchased by the month.

The weather forecast calls for sunshine and temperatures in the low 90s for the first week, unusually warm for this time of year.

Sunday's Roland Garros first round matches featuring Americans:

Hailey Baptiste[26] v Barbora Krejcikova(CZE)
Katie Volynets v Clara Burel[WC](FRA)
Caty McNally v Ajla Tomljanovic(AUS)
Sofia Kenin v Peyton Stearns
Sloane Stephens[Q] v Sara Bejlek(CZE)

Taylor Fritz[7] v Nishesh Basavareddy[WC]
Michael Zheng[Q] v Dino Prizmic(CRO)
Reilly Opelka v Federico Cina[Q](ITA)

Two Americans, both former collegians, will arrive in Paris as champions, with Learner Tien(USC) and Emma Navarro(Virginia) earning titles today.  

Two-time Kalamazoo 18s champion Tien added to his "youngest American" list, with his title today at the ATP 250 in Geneva Switzerland. The 20-year-old lefthander, seeded No. 4, defeated unseeded Mariano Navone of Argentina 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 in two and a half hours to claim his second ATP title. Tien, who will move to a career-high ranking of 18 and is the No. 18 seed in Paris, is the youngest American to win a title on European clay since his coach Michael Chang won Roland Garros as a 17-year-old in 1989.

For more on Tien's win, see this article from the ATP website.

Navarro, the 2021 NCAA singles champion, won the WTA 500 in Strasbourg France while unseeded, beating top seed Vicky Mboko of Canada 6-0, 5-7, 6-2 in the final. It's the third WTA title for Navarro, her first since March of last year, and her first on clay. Although it comes too late for seeding in Paris, this result will move her to No. 25 in next week's WTA rankings, up from 39. For more on Navarro's win, see this article from the WTA website.

After the completion of Friday's rain-delayed quarterfinals, the semifinals were also played today at the women's USTA Pro Circuit W50 in Pelham Alabama, with the top two seeds reaching Sunday's final. 

University of Georgia signee Bella Payne made her second consecutive USTA Women's Pro Circuit semifinal with a 6-3, 6-2 win over No. 6 seed Antonia Vergara Rivera of Chile, but lost to No. 2 seed Madison Brengle 7-6(7), 7-5.  Savannah Broadus(Pepperdine) defeated Amelia Honer(UC-Santa Barbara 6-7(1), 7-5, 6-4, in a match that spanned two days and over three hours. Broadus then lost to top seed Katrina Scott(Tennessee) 6-4, 3-6, 6-2. 

Top seeds Alicia Herrero Linana(Baylor) of Spain and Anna Rogers(NC State) won the doubles title, beating the wild card team of Capucine Jauffret and Kaitlyn Carnicella(Auburn, South Carolina) 6-2, 6-1 in the final.

The singles finals are set at the Trofeo Bonfiglio ITF J500 in Milan, with the winner of the last two J500s facing off in the boys final. No. 3 seed Thilo Behrmann of Austria, who won April's J500 in Cairo, will play No. 2 seed Jamie Mackenzie of Germany, who won the J500 in Offenbach two weeks ago. Behrmann defeated unseeded Jack Secord 6-3, 3-6, 7-6(5), while Mackenzie beat wild card Filippo Alfano of Italy 7-6(3), 6-3. The 18-year-olds played two years ago at a J100, with Mackenzie winning three sets.

Orange Bowl champion Xinran Sun of China, seeded No. 3, defeated No. 2 seed Jana Kovackova of Czechia 6-4, 6-4 and will face No. 7 seed Mariia Makarova of Russia, who beat compatriot Felitsata Dorofeeva-Rybas 6-2, 7-6(1). The 16-year-old Makarova and 15-year-old Sun have not played before.

The unseeded Brazilian team of Luis Guto Miguel and Leonardo Storck Franca won the boys doubles title, beating Secord and Puerto Rico's Yannik Alvarez, the No. 8 seeds, 6-3, 6-1 in the final. 

No. 3 seeds Charo Esquiva Banuls of Spain and Nauhany Leme Da Silva of Brazil took the girls doubles title, beating top seeds Anastasija Cvetkovic of Serbia and Sol Ailin Larraya Guidi of Argentina 6-4, 6-4.

Live streaming is here; live scoring is here.

For the second time in three years Nova Southeastern has claimed the women's NCAA Division II team championship, with the No. 3 seeds defeating No. 4 seeds Catawba 4-1 for the title in Surprise Arizona. Nova Southeastern lost the doubles point, as they did in the two teams' previous meeting in February, but rebounded in singles. Catawba's only two losses this season were to Nova Southeastern. The box score can be found here.

In the Division II men's semifinals today, top seed Barry beat No. 5 seed Catawba 4-0, but there will be no rematch of February's ITA Team Indoor Championships in Sunday's final, with No. 6 seed Flagler ousting No. 2 seed West Florida 4-2. The final will be streamed on ncaa.com.

Nava and Liu Qualify at Roland Garros; Kennedy Beats Hance to Reach M25 Semi in Spain; Rain Delays W50 Pelham Quarterfinals; Chicago Claims Third D-III Title 4-3 over Claremont-Mudd-Scripps; D-II Women's Final Set

Two more Americans earned spots in the main draw at Roland Garros, with Emilio Nava and Claire Liu joining Ashlyn Krueger, Sloane Stephens and Michael Zheng(Columbia) as qualifiers. With those five, there are now 19 US women and 18 US men in the main draw, with playing beginning Sunday.

No. 3 seed Nava, who finished second to Nishesh Basavareddy(Stanford) in the USTA's annual reciprocal Wild Card Challenge, defeated Pedro Martinez of Spain, the No. 24 seed in qualifying, 6-3, 6-3. It's the second time he's made the main draw via qualifying in Paris, with 2023 the other year. He won the USTA's wild card race last year and reached the second round.

Claire Liu, who won an ITF WTT W75 last week in Slovakia, defeated No. 5 seed Lulu Sun(Texas) of New Zealand 6-1, 6-0 in less than an hour. The unseeded 25-year-old, who lost just six games in her three victories, plays Moyuka Uchijima of Japan in the first round.  An interview with Liu is available now at Inside American Tennis. Nava, who also did not drop a set in getting through qualifying, will face Camilo Ugo Carabelli of Argentina in the opening round.

Reigning Kalamazoo 18s champion Darwin Blanch, the third American in today's final round of qualifying, lost to Luka Pavlovic of France 6-2, 6-4.

Jack Kennedy and Keaton Hance, who won a doubles title last week at an M25 in Spain, played today in the singles quarterfinals of another M25 in that country, with Kennedy winning a three-hour battle 7-6(2), 2-6, 7-5. Kennedy has now won all three of their meetings on the Pro Circuit and the last two times they met in ITF juniors, but except for a walkover in juniors and one blowout by Kennedy last November at an M15 in Orlando, they have all gone three sets, with this the closest one they've played. No. 2 seed Kennedy plays No. 3 seed Alex Marti Pujolras of Spain in his fourth M25 semifinal of the year; he also reached the singles semifinals last week.

The 2025 US Open boys doubles champions also reached a second consecutive doubles final, but saw their winning streak come to an end to No. 4 seeds Pavel Lagutin of Russia and Younes Lalami of Morocco 6-3, 6-4.

Rain in Pelham Alabama, the site of a women's USTA Pro Circuit W50, kept the quarterfinals from being completed, although one quarterfinalist is known, with No. 2 seed Madison Brengle getting a 2-0 retired walkover from Dana Guzman(Oklahoma) of Peru. Top seed Katrina Scott(Tennessee) and Bella Payne had both won their first sets; Savannah Broadus and Amelia Honer(UC-Santa Barbara) were in a first-set tiebreaker when the rain arrived. The semifinals are also scheduled for Saturday.

Capucine Jauffret has reached the doubles final via a walkover from Guzman. The Florida recruit and partner Kaitlyn Carnicella(Auburn, South Carolina) await their opponents, which will be either top seeds Alicia Herrero Linana(Baylor) of Spain and Anna Rogers(NC State) or Jaedan Brown(Michigan) and Megan Heuser(Illinois).

The University of Chicago men won their third NCAA Division III team title today, indoors in the rain-plagued tournament in Chattanooga, beating Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 4-3.

Chicago might have been expected to be more comfortable indoors than CMS, but CMS had claimed the ITA Men's Team Indoor title in February with a 4-1 win over Chicago. 

This afternoon, CMS took a 2-1 lead by getting the doubles point and a win from 2025 NCAA singles champion Advik Mareedu, but Chicago had taken No. 6 singles and then added No. 4 and No. 5 for a 3-2 lead. The other two matches went to third sets, with Henry Wilson of CMS closing out Alexander Ekstrand(older brother of Monica) at line 3 to make it 3-3. At that stage, Chicago's Emil Grantcharov, who had been up 5-1 over Warren Pham at line 2, was struggling in his attempt to close out the championship. Grantcharov had a match point/deciding point with Pham serving at 1-5, and had two match points serving at 5-3, 40-30. Serving for it for a second time, Grantcharov finally got over the finish line at 40-30 to deliver another NCAA championship trophy. The Maroons won their first NCAA title in 2022 and their second in 2024. 

The full box score is available here.

The D-III men's individual tournament is scheduled to begin Saturday, but there are thunderstorms in the forecast all weekend. CMS's Mareedu is the No. 1 seed, with Michael Melnikov of Swarthmore seeded No. 2 in singles.

The D-III women were scheduled to play two matches today as their individual tournament began, but only the first round results have been posted. Matia Cristiani of Babson, who won the doubles title last year, is the top seed in singles. No. 2 seed Maegan Deng of Redlands lost in the first round today 6-3, 6-0 to Saina Deshpande of MIT.

The final is set for the D-II women's team championship in Surprise Arizona, with No. 4 seed Catawba beating No. 1 seed Mississippi College 4-3 and No. 3 seed Nova Southeastern defeating No. 2 seed Grand Valley State 4-2. The final is set for 4 p.m. Eastern and will be streamed at ncaa.com.

The men's D-II semifinals Saturday feature No. 1 seed Barry versus No. 5 Catawba and No. 2 West Florida versus No. 6 Flagler. Those matches are scheduled for noon Eastern and will also be streamed at ncaa.com.

Stephens, Zheng, Krueger Qualify for Roland Garros, Joining 32 Other Americans in Main Draw; Secord Advances to ITF J500 Milan Semifinals; Payne Reaches Quarters at W50 in Pelham; Wesleyan Claims Second Women's D-III Title

The singles draws for Roland Garros were revealed today, with 16 US men and 16 US women among the competitors for the year's
second major, with play beginning Sunday in Paris. As usual, I'll post the matchups the day before each is scheduled to play, although the four men and four women who play each other are noted below.

Ethan Quinn

Eliot Spizzirri v Frances Tiafoe[19]

Ben Shelton

Patrick Kypson

Brandon Nakashima[31]

Marcos Giron

Learner Tien[18]

Zachary Svajda

Jenson Brooksby

Tommy Paul[24]

Taylor Fritz[7] v Nishesh Basavareddy[WC]

Alex Michelsen

Aleks Kovacevic

Reilly Opelka

Michael Zheng[Q]

Iva Jovic[17]

Emma Navarro

Madison Keys[19]

McCartney Kessler

Jessica Pegula[5]

Coco Gauff[4] v Taylor Townsend

Akasha Urhobo[WC]

Ann Li[30]

Amanda Anisimova[6]

Sofia Kenin v Peyton Stearns

Caty McNally

Katie Volynets

Alycia Parks

Hailey Baptiste[26]

Sloane Stephens[Q]

Ashlyn Krueger[Q]

Three more Americans have already joined them via qualifying, with Michael Zheng(Columbia), Sloane Stephens and Ashlyn Krueger winning their final round qualifying matches today. 

Zheng, who qualified for the Australian Open and beat Sebastian Korda in the first round, defeated No. 1 qualifying seed Jesper De Jonge of the Netherlands 7-5, 6-3 to start his post-college career with a second straight main draw appearance at a major. 

Stephens defeated Leyre Romero Gormaz of Spain 3-6, 6-2, 6-1 today and Ashlyn Krueger[3] got past Mary Stoiana(Texas A&M) 6-7(4), 6-3, 6-1.

I inadvertently left Claire Liu out of my Roland Garros qualifying paragraph yesterday, but she is one of three Americans who will play on Day Two of the final round of qualifying Friday.

Emilio Nava[3] v Pedro Martinez[24](ESP)

Darwin Blanch v Luka Pavlovic(FRA)

Claire Liu v Lulu Sun[5](NZL)

The quarterfinals are set for the ITF J500 Trofeo Bonfiglio in Milan Italy Friday, without the top seed in the boys draw.

Luis Guto Miguel of Brazil lost to unseeded Matteo Gribaldo of Italy 5-7, 6-2, 6-3, but Gribaldo has already given a walkover in the quarterfinals to Jack Secord. Secord, who beat Juan Miguel Bolivar Idarraga of Colombia 6-4, 7-5, will play the winner of the match between No. 3 seed Thilo Behrmann of Austria and No. 9 seed Yannick Alvarez of Puerto Rico.  Alvarez avenged his 2025 Orange Bowl second round loss to Andy Johnson, beating him 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 in a two-hour battle.

No. 2 seed Jamie Mackenzie of Germany, a TCU recruit, beat Gavin Goode 6-2, 6-2 and will face No. 10 seed Nicolas Baena of Peru.

Alvarez and Secord, seeded No. 8, are through to the doubles semifinals, as are Goode and Ryan Cozad, who are in the top half, while Alvarez and Secord are in the bottom half.

Top four seeds Victoria Barros of Brazil[1], Anastasija Cvetkovic of Serbia[4], Xinran Sun[3] of China and Jana Kovackova[2] of Czechia have advanced to the quarterfinal. 

Unseeded Melije Clarke and Isabelle DeLuccia have reached the girls doubles semifinals after beating Barros and Janae Preston 6-4, 4-6, 15-13 in the quarterfinals today. 

Free live streaming should be available Friday at the dedicated ITF video page.

Live scoring is available at the tournament's website.

There is just one USTA Pro Circuit tournament on the calendar this week, a W50 in Pelham Alabama, with University of Georgia signee Bella Payne continuing her impressive year.

The 2025 Easter Bowl 18s champion, who is 12-5 on the USTA Pro Circuit this year and is inside the WTA Top 600 in the live rankings, reached the W35 Bethany Beach semfinals last week. The 18-year-old from Florida, who defeated qualifier Carolina Bohrer Martins of Brazil 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 today, is one of five Americans through to the quarterfinals.

Top seed Katrina Scott(Tennessee) and No. 2 seed Madison Brengle have advanced, as well as unseeded Amelia Honer(UC-Santa Barbara) and Savannah Broadus(Pepperdine), who play each other.

Payne's opponent in the quarterfinals is No. 6 seed Antonia Vergara Rivera of Chile.

The Division III women's team final, which was moved indoors this afternoon due to persistent rain in Chattanooga, ended with a second NCAA women's team title for Wesleyan. Fourth-ranked Wesleyan dethroned defending champion and No. 3 Washington-St. Louis 4-1, with Agnes Guggenheim clinching for the Cardinals with a three-set win at line 2. The other two matches were in third sets.

I covered Wesleyan's first NCAA team title when the  Championships were played in Kalamazoo in 2019. That article can be found here.

The box score from today's final is available here.

The Division III men's team final between Claremont-Mudd-Scripps and Chicago is scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday, but rain remains in the forecast, so that too may end up indoors. There was no streaming on ncaa.com after the match went indoors, but live scoring should be available regardless at iOnCourt.

The individual tournament is scheduled to begin Friday, but that too may be in doubt. The only bracket currently posted at ncaa.com is women's doubles.

My Article on Texas A&M Women's NCAA Title; Perez and Dietrich Finish No. 1 in D-I Singles Rankings; CMS and Chicago Reach D-III Men's Final; Seven Americans Make Roland Garros Qualifying Final Round; Three US Boys Advance to ITF J500 Milan Round Three

My recap of Sunday's NCAA Division I women's final, featuring Texas A&M collecting their second title in program history with a 4-1 win over Auburn, is available now at the Tennis Recruiting Network. What the Aggies did over those three days was a remarkable accomplishment; battling through the physical and mental hurdles of back-to-back 4-3 victories, the second over top seed Georgia in front of the Bulldogs massive fan base, then recovering in time for a 4-1 victory over No. 2 Auburn, is not something we're likely to see again in college tennis.

The final Division I rankings of 2025-26 were published today, with NCAA champions Virginia and Texas A&M at the top spots. Their No. 1  singles players finished No. 1 in the final singles rankings, ensuring that undefeated Lucciana Perez and once-beaten Dylan Dietrich will be named ITA Player of the Year when those awards are announced.

All-American status is earned by a Top 20 ranking, so I've included that extended list here. About half of the Top 20 will have already earned All-American status by reaching the round of 16  at the NCAA last fall, but the other half have received the accolade by final rankings.  The A-A criteria for doubles is quarterfinals at the NCAAs and Top 10 in the final ranking. 

Top 20 is also an important achievement for the ATP Accelerator program; for women, a Top 5 ranking is necessary for ITF Accelerator wild cards. The details of the Accelerator Programs are here.

Final 2025-2026 ITA Rankings, May 20, 2026

WOMEN:

Team Top 10

1. Texas A&M

2. Auburn

3. Georgia

4. Ohio State

5. North Carolina

6. Oklahoma

7. Virginia

8. NC State

9. Pepperdine

10. LSU

Singles Top 20

1. Lucciana Perez, Texas A&M*

2. Reese Brantmeier, North Carolina

3. Carmen Herea, Texas

4. Luciana Perry, Ohio State

5. Teah Chavez, Ohio State*

6. Aysegul Mert, Georgia*

7. Ange Oby Kajuru, North Carolina*

8. Piper Charney, Michigan

9. Irina Balus, Duke

10. Cadence Brace, LSU*

11. Katrina Scott, Tennessee*

12. Evialina Laskevich, Oklahoma*

13. Anastasia Abbagnato, Texas*

14. Bridget Stammel, Vanderbilt*

15. Anastasiia Lopata, Georgia*

16. DJ Bennett, Auburn*

17. Maria Sholokhova, Wisconsin*

18. Savannah Dada-Mascoll, Appalachian State

19. Lily Jones, Michigan

20. Mia Slama, NC State

*named All-America due to this final Top 20 ranking

Doubles Top 10

1. Roisin Gilheany and Gloriana Nahum, Oklahoma

2. Gabriella Broadfoot and Victoria Osuigwe, NC State

3. Ava Esposito and DJ Bennett, Auburn*

4. Reese Brantmeier and Alanis Hamilton, North Carolina

5. Denis Dilek and Aysegul Mert, Georgia*

6. Anastasiia Lopata and Patricija Paykstyte, Georgia*

7. Angella Okutoyi and Merna Refaat, Auburn*

8. Flora Johnson and Luciana Perry, Ohio State*

9. Melodie Collard and Vivian Yang, Virginia*

10. Ange Oby Kajuru and Susanna Maltby, North Carolina

*named All-America due to this final Top 10 ranking

MEN:

Team Top 10
1. Virginia
2. Texas
3. Wake Forest
4. TCU
5. Ohio State
6. Mississippi State
7. Arizona
8. LSU
9. Oklahoma
10. Baylor

Singles Top 20

1. Dylan Dietrich, Virginia

2. Sebastian Gorzny, Texas*

3. Jay Friend, Arizona

4. Trevor Svajda, SMU

5. Paul Inchauspe, Princeton

6. Michael Zheng, Columbia

7. Duncan Chan, TCU*

8. Benito Sanchez-Martinez, Mississippi State*

9. Max Dahlin, Michigan

10. Devin Badenhorst, Baylor*

11. Petar Jovanovic, Mississippi State

12. Keegan Rice, Virginia

13. Lucas Andrade Da Silva, South Carolina*

14. Aidan Kim, Ohio State*

15. Oliver Tarvet, San Diego*

16. Theo Papamalamis, Texas A&M*

17. Kenta Miyoshi, Illinois

18. Gabriel Debru, Illinois*

19. Matthew Forbes, Michigan State

20. Jakub Vrba, Arkansas*

*named All-America due to this final Top 20 ranking

Doubles Top 10

1. DK Suresh and Andrew Delgado, Wake Forest

2. Theo Papamalamis and Togan Tokac, Texas A&M*

3. Cosme Rolland De Ravel and Duncan Chan, TCU*

4. Brno Nhavene and Luis Alvarez, Oklahoma*

5. Arda Azkara and Santiago Giamichelle, Georgia*

6. Brandon Carpico and Nikita Filin, Ohio State

7. Paul Barbier Gazeu and Lucas Andrade Da Silva, South Carolina*

8. Benito Sanchez Martinez and Petar Jovanovic, Mississippi State*

9. Mans Dahlberg and Dylan Dietrich, Virginia

10. Billy Blades and Freddy Blades, Auburn*

*named All-America due to this final Top 10 ranking

The Division III men's final is set for Friday, with top-ranked Chicago facing No. 2 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. Chicago defeated No. 3 Tufts 4-1 in today's semifinal and CMS beat No. 5 Case Western Reserve 4-2.

The D-III women's final between defending champion Washington-St. Louis, ranked third, and fourth-ranked Wesleyan is tomorrow at 11 a.m. EDT. Live streaming can be found here.

Seven Americans have reached the final round of qualifying at Roland Garros, with four playing their matches Thursday.

Sloane Stephens v Leyre Romero Gormaz(ESP)

Ashlyn Krueger[3] v Mary Stoiana(USA)

Michael Zheng v Jesper De Jong[1](NED)

The other three play their final round qualifying matches on Friday.

Emilio Nava[3] v Pedro Martinez[24](ESP)

Darwin Blanch v Luka Pavlovic(FRA)

Claire Liu v Lulu Sun[3](NZL)

The second round of the ITF J500 Trofeo Bonfiglio in Milan was completed today, with three US boys advancing to the third round: Jack Secord, Andy Johnson[5] and Gavin Goode.

Secord's round of 16 opponent is unseeded Juan Miguel Bolivar Idarraga of Colombia; Johnson faces No. 9 seed Yannik Alvarez of Puerto Rico and Goode will play J500 Offenbach champion and No. 2 seed Jamie Mackenzie of Germany. Live scoring is here.