Clarke Topples No. 2 Seed and Australian Open Champion Efremova, Preston's Grass Surge Continues at Wimbledon Junior Championships; Fritz Advances to Quarterfinals, Fery's Dream Run Not Over Yet
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| Every junior tournament J300 or above should have a display like this one honoring its past champions |
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Michael Antonius and Janae Preston, both of whom won multiple J300 titles early this year, are through to another J300 final in Roehampton.
Antonius, the No. 6 seed, picked up a second win over Australian Open boys champion Ziga Sesko of Slovenia, with the 16-year-old from Buffalo New York posting a 6-3, 6-2 decision today in the semifinals. Antonius had beaten Sesko 6-2, 6-1 in the quarterfinals of the Roland Garros Junior Championships last month.
Antonius, who won two J300s in South America in January and February, will play qualifier Svit Suljic of Slovenia, who defeated Yannik Alvarez of Puerto Rico 7-5, 2-6, 7-5.
No. 15 seed Preston, who won three titles in Central and South America this winter (two hard and one clay) defeated No. 16 seed Welles Newman 6-1, 6-4. The 15-year-old from Henderson Nevada will face unseeded Yu Jun Lin of China, who surprised top seed and Australian Open champion Ksenia Efremova of France 7-6(4), 6-4.
In boys doubles, Jack Secord advanced to the final when he and Damir Zhalgasbay of Kazakhstan, the No. 8 seeds, defeated No. 5 seeds Alvarez and Leonardo Storck Franca of Brazil 6-3, 6-2. They will play No. 4 seeds and Roland Garros champions Jamie Mackenzie and Vincent Reisach of Germany, who beat the unseeded team of Jordan Lee and Great Britain's Rhys Lawlor 6-1, 6-2.
The girls doubles final will also feature the Roland Garros champions: No. 4 seeds Jana Kovackova and Katerina Zajickova of Czechia. They will face the unseeded British wild card team of Daniella Britton and Edie Griffiths.
The Wimbledon Junior Championships qualifying will conclude Friday, with three US boys and eight US girls playing for a spot in the main draw. At least one American is guaranteed to make the main draw, with Emery Combs facing Sarah Ye.
Yael Saffar will face top seed Ilary Pistola of Italy; Nancy Lee will play No. 2 seed Fleur De Bresser of the Netherlands; Maggie Sohns will play Iva Marinkovic of Sweden; Carrie-Anne Hoo will face Pietra Rivoli of Brazil; Hannah Ayrault faces Riyo Yoshida of Japan and Olivia Traynor plays Iulia Maria Buculei of Romania.
The three US boys competing in the final round are Vihaan Reddy, who will play Takahiro Kawaguchi of Japan; Safir Azam, who faces Kunanan Pantaratorn of Thailand, and Lee, who plays Maxi Carrascosa Diaz of Spain.
Ireland O'Brien, Marcel Latak and Agassi Rusher, who got in to qualifying as an alternate, lost their opening qualifying matches today.
The main draws have been posted, with Xinran Sun of China, who did not play Roehampton, and Luis Guto Miguel of Brazil the No. 1 seeds. I'll have more on the main draw Friday.
The US men and women went 8-4 today in their second round matches, with Ashlyn Krueger posting the most emphatic victory, beating fellow qualifier Mariam Bolkvadze of Georgia 6-1, 6-0 in under an hour. Just four years after falling in the boys final on Court One, qualifier Michael Zheng(Columbia) will play on Centre Court Friday against No. 3 seed Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada.
Thursday's Wimbledon second round results of Americans:
Jan-Lennard Struff(GER) d. Brandon Nakashima[28] v 6-4, 6-7(6), 6-7(5), 7-6(8), 7-6(7)Posted by Colette Lewis at 4:09 PM 0 comments
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My monthly column for Tennis Recruiting Network on the top performances by juniors, collegians and former collegians is up today, with 19 players featured, which doesn't begin to cover all the titles claimed in June. Even with the normal exclusion now of 15K titles, there were a half dozen titles at the next level--M25 and W35--that I didn't have room for, and that's not likely to change the rest of this summer, with collegians out competing all over the world.
Three Americans have advanced to the semifinals of the J300 in Roehampton, with 16-year-olds Michael Antonius and Welles Newman and 15-year-old Janae Preston posting wins on the grass today, along with Puerto Rico's Yannik Alvarez.
No. 6 seed Antonius defeated top seed and World Tennis junior No. 1 Luis Guto Miguel of Brazil 6-3, 1-6, 6-2, avenging his 6-3, 6-4 loss in the Roland Garros boys final last month. Antonius will face No. 4 seed Ziga Sesko of Slovenia, whom he beat 6-2, 6-2 in the Roland Garros quarterfinals, but I suspect this one will be closer, as the Australian Open champion prefers faster surfaces. Sesko defeated No. 10 seed Andy Johnson 6-3, 6-3 today.
No. 2 seed Jamie Mackenzie of Germany also lost today, with qualifier Svit Suljic making it two Slovenians in the semifinals with his 6-3, 7-5 win over the incoming TCU freshman. Suljic will face No. 9 seed Alvarez, who got a walkover from No. 3 seed Keaton Hance.
Preston and Newman have guaranteed an American finalist on Friday, as they advanced to face each other Thursday.
Preston, the No. 15 seed, defeated unseeded Yihan Qu of China 6-2, 4-6, 6-1; No. 16 seed Newman beat No. 5 seed Anastasija Cvetkovic of Serbia 7-6(1), 6-3. Preston and Newman have not played on the World Tennis Junior Circuit.
Top seed Ksenia Efremova advanced to the semifinals with a 6-0, 6-4 win over Mariia Makarova of Russia and will face unseeded 16-year-old Yu Jun Lin of China, who beat Denisa Zoldakova of Czechia 1-6, 6-4, 6-2.
Two Americans are through to the semifinals in the boys doubles. Jack Secord and his partner from Kazakhstan, Damir Zhalgasba, seeded No. 8, defeated No. 3 seeds Antonius and Johnson 6-4, 7-6(3). Secord will face his Roland Garros doubles partner Alvarez in the semifinals, with Alvarez and Leonardo Storck Franca of Brazil the No. 5 seeds.
Unseeded Rhys Lawlor of Great Britain and Jordan Lee will play Roland Garros champions Mackenzie and Vincent Reisach, after the fourth-seeded Germans repeated their Roland Garros doubles final victory over No. 7 seeds Mathys Domenc and Daniel Jade of France 6-0, 6-4.
Lee will be playing in the doubles semifinals and the Wimbledon Junior qualifying tomorrow at Roehampton, with his first round qualifying match at 10:30 a.m. and the time for the doubles to be announced.
Lee is one of four US boys in the qualifying draw, with Vihaan Reddy, who won the J200 last week on clay in Czechia, the No. 1 seed based on that result. Lee is the No. 7 seed, Safir Azam is the No. 5 seed and Marcel Latak is unseeded.
Nine US girls are in the Wimbledon Junior qualifying, with Anita Tu, who was first out at the freeze deadline, moving into the main draw. The American girls are: Yael Saffar, Nancy Lee[9], Emery Combs, Sarah Ye[11], Maggie Sohns[10], Carrie-Anne Hoo[15], Ireland O'Brien, Hannah Ayrault[7] and Olivia Traynor[8]. The top seed in the Wimbledon girls qualifying is Ilary Pistola of Italy.
I don't recall if live scoring is available for the junior qualifying, but the Roehampton J300 live scoring link is here.
Seven Americans have advanced to the third round of Wimbledon, including qualifier Claire Liu, who won the Wimbledon girls title in 2017: https://tenniskalamazoo.blogspot.com/2017/07/liu-defeats-li-to-claim-wimbledon.html
The 26-year-old South Californian defeated Zeynep Sonmez of Turkey 7-5, 6-3 to reach the third round of Wimbledon for the first time. Liu is not the only American qualifier to reach the third round; Michael Zheng(Columbia) defeated Nico Mejia of Colombia 6-7(4), 7-6(8), 6-1, 6-4 to reach the third round of a major for the first time. Liu is not the only former Wimbledon junior champion to qualify and advance to the third round for the first time, with Shintaro Mochizuki of Japan, the 2019 boys champion, beating last week's Mallorca finalist Ethan Quinn(Georgia) 6-2, 7-6(6), 7-5.
Brandon Nakishima's second round match was again suspended due to darkness, as was his first round match, so he will be playing for a fourth consecutive day Thursday.
Aryna Sabalenka[1](BLR) d. McCartney Kessler 6-1, 7-6(9)
Coco Gauff[7] d. Solana Sierra(ARG) 6-3, 3-6, 7-6(7)
Jessica Pegula[4] d. Sara Sorribes Tormo(ESP) 7-6(6), 6-1
Iva Jovic[16] d. Tatjana Maria(GER) 6-1, 6-2
Mananchaya Sawangkaew[Q](THA) d. Alycia Parks 7-5, 6-0
Claire Liu[Q] d. Zeynep Sonmez(TUR) 7-5, 6-3
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