Easter Bowl 14s Finals Videos; Kennedy Reaches First Challenger Quarterfinal in Tallahassee; In Orlando, Teens Oust Seeds at W15, Alvarez, Antonius and Stoot Advance to M15 Quarterfinals

The videos of the finals of the 14s division at last month's Easter Bowl are below; the 12s videos, which went up yesterday, can be found at my tenniskalamazoo YouTube channel.

Seventeen-year-old Jack Kennedy has advanced to his first ATP Challenger quarterfinal, with the ITF Junior No. 5 defeating Oliver Crawford(Florida) of Great Britain 7-6(4), 4-6, 7-5 this afternoon in Tallahassee. Kennedy survived 10 double faults and Crawford's 83 percent of first serves primarily by securing the final four points of the match.

Both players were holding serve easily in the final set, with only one deuce game played and neither of them facing a break point in the first 11 games of the third. Kennedy, trailing Crawford 0-30 with Crawford serving at 5-6, hit a backhand winner, forced an error with a big backhand and then earned the only break point he saw with an overhead winner, setting up a match point. Kennedy then got a forehand error from Crawford early in the rally, with the tiebreaker that seemed unavoidable suddenly not needed.

Kennedy, who won the M15 last week in Boca Raton, will face the winner of tonight's second round match between Darwin Blanch and No. 4 seed Daniil Glinka of Estonia. Kennedy and Blanch met in the Kalamazoo 18s semifinals last year, with Blanch posting 7-6(5), 6-1 victory. 

Glinka and No. 5 seed Clement Tabur of France are the only seeds remaining, with Michael Mmoh and Tyler Zink(Georgia, Oklahoma State), and possibly Blanch, joining Kennedy as unseeded Americans in the quarterfinals.

Four teenagers have advanced to the quarterfinals at the W15 in Orlando, taking out the No. 3, No. 4, No. 6 and No. 7 seeds in today's second round.

Fifteen-year-old Emery Combs defeated No. 3 seed Carla Markus of Argentina 6-4, 2-6, 6-1 and will play 16-year-old Sarah Ye, who beat No. 7 seed Jessica Hinojosa Gomez of Mexico 6-4, 7-6(4).  Eighteen-year-old qualifier Capucine Jauffret reached her second W15 quarterfinal, beating No. 6 seed Justina Maria GGonzalez Daniele of Argentina 6-3, 7-5 and will face qualifier Didi Bredberg Canizares of Spain, who defeated unseeded Maria Jose Portillo Ramirez of Mexico 7-5, 6-1. 

Fourteen-year-old Sofiia Bielinska of Ukraine, playing in just her second Pro Circuit event, with last week's tournament in Bonita Springs her first, beat No. 4 seed Luiza Fullana of Brazil 5-7, 7-6(5), 6-4. She will play Ava Markham(Wisconsin) next. The only quarterfinal without a teenager is at the top, with Kailey Evans(Texas Tech, San Diego) facing qualifier Margaux Maquet of Belgium.

At M15 in Orlando, three teenagers have advanced to the quarterfinals: 16-year-old Michael Antonius, 17-year-old Yannik Alvarez of Puerto Rico and 18-year-old qualifier Nick Stoot.

Antonius, the No. 8 seed, defeated qualifier Davide Tortora of Italy 6-3, 5-7, 6-2 and will play 22-year-old Dragos Cazacu(Tennessee), who beat No. 4 seed Will Grant(Florida) 2-6, 6-2, 6-0. Stoot defeated No. 4 seed Blu Baker of Great Britain 6-3, 6-4 to advance to his second USTA Pro Circuit M15 quarterfinal. He will play 29-year-old qualifier Justin Roberts(USF, Arizona State) of the Bahamas, who beat No. 2 seed Reda Bennani of Morocco 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in the first round.

In the top half, Alvarez, who reached the semifinals at his first Pro Circuit tournament last week in Boca Raton, defeated Boca Raton finalist Andreja Petrovic(North Dakota, Florida State, Duke) of Norway 6-3, 6-2 and will face one of four qualifiers in the quarterfinals, Barry senior Adam Lynch. Lynch defeated No. 3 seed Ignacio Monzon of Argentina 6-4, 7-5. Toby Martin of Great Britain, the fourth qualifier to advance, beat Benjamin Willwert 6-3, 7-6(4) and will play top seed Corentin Denolly.

Just two Americans have advanced to the quarterfinals of the W35 in Zephyrhills: unseeded Lea Ma(Georgia) and No. 3 seed Akasha Urhobo.

No. 2 seed Fiona Crawley(North Carolina) lost to 18-year-old Russian qualifier Daria Egorova 7-5, 6-2, and top seed Maria Carle(Georgia) of Argentina lost to Gina Feistel(SMU) of Poland 6-3, 2-6, 6-3. 

Ma, who beat qualifier Amelia Honer(UC-Santa Barbara) 6-2, 4-6, 6-0, will play Feistel in the quarterfinals; Urhobo, who beat 17-year-old qualifier Thea Frodin 6-4, 6-3, faces unseeded Shilin Xu of China.

Easter Bowl 12s Finals Videos; Change in D-I Eligibility Rules Allows Unlimited Prize Money Prior to Enrollment; Combs and Ye Earn First Pro Circuit Wins at Orlando W15; SI Interview with Michael Antonius

After finishing the Tucson ITF J300 and San Diego J300 finals the last few days, I've processed the first two videos from last month's USTA Level 1 Easter Bowl, with the 12s finals available below. To view the other videos from my recent trip out west, see the tenniskalamazoo YouTube Channel. 

The NCAA announced today that its D-I Cabinet has adopted changes to pre-enrollment eligibility rules that will affect all sports, including tennis.

Tennis had carved out a special exemption allowing $10,000 in prize money per year prior to enrollment, without regard to expenses, but that will no longer be necessary with all sports now allowing unlimited prize money prior to enrollment.

However, the issue of student-athletes accepting prize money after enrolling has not changed, so any collegiate player who makes substantial prize money prior to January of their senior year will continue to face the prospect of declining it to retain eligibility. That was the case for Fiona Crawley of North Carolina, who qualified for the US Open in 2023 after her junior season, but could not accept the prize money if she wanted to return to Chapel Hill for her senior season, and more recently, Oliver Tarvet, who could not accept his second round Wimbledon prize money if he wished to return to San Diego for his senior year, which he did. 

The lawsuit that Reese Brantmeier filed against the NCAA is being settled, but this announcement references that settlement as pertaining only to prospects, and it will not include any carve-out for enrolled student-athletes. It appears that an initiative from the USTA, LTA or some other governing entity, allowing any prize money to be put in a trust for post-graduation use, is still the only solution to the dilemma enrolled student-athletes will continue to face.

Another key topic of discussion is an age eligibility rule, but no decision has been made on that, according to this NCAA announcement on the eligibility of prospects.

Today at the W15 in Lake Nona, 15-year-old wild card Emery Combs and 16-year-old Sarah Ye, an ITF Junior Reserved entry, earned their first wins on the USTA Pro Circuit. 

Combs defeated 19-year-old Valentina Mediorreal Arias of Colombia 6-1, 6-3 in just her second USTA Pro Circuit match; Ye beat former Michigan All-American Jaedan Brown, a qualifier, 7-5, 6-3. Eighteen-year-old qualifier Capucine Jauffret also won her first round match, beating Carolina Bohrer Martins of Brazil 6-4, 6-3. Combs will play No. 3 seed Carla Markus of Argentina next; Ye's opponent in the second round is No. 7 seed Jessica Hinojosa Gomez of Mexico.

It's unusual for any pro tennis journalist to interview a junior, but Sports Illustrated's Jon Wertheim spoke to 16-year-old Michael Antonius about his win last month at the M25 in Bakersfield California, his coaching (correction on the spelling of the last name of USTA National Coach Troy HAHN) at the USTA, his game style, his college plans, and what making Pro Circuit history means to him. As long as I've known Michael, I did not know he spoke Norwegian.

Georgia Women, Texas Men Retain No. 1 Rankings; Kennedy Claims First ATP Top 200 Win at Tallahassee Challenger; Seven US Women Advance to Main Draw at W35 Zephyrhills; Alvarez, Antonius Advance at M15 Orlando

Two more sets of rankings are due before the NCAA tournament, but the regular season is over for three of the four Power 4 conferences, so ranking movement for those SEC, ACC and B12 teams will be based on this weekend's conference tournaments. The Georgia women, who are the No. 4 seed in the SEC tournament, stay at No. 1 in this week's ITA Division I team rankings, while the Texas men, who are the No. 1 seed in the SEC tournament, retained their No. 1 national ranking.

The ACC men's conference tournament bracket is here; the ACC women's conference tournament bracket is here; the Big 12 men's tournament bracket is here; the Big 12 women's tournament bracket is here.  The ACC tournaments are in Cary NC and the B12 tournaments are at the USTA campus in Lake Nona. The SEC women are in Norman and the SEC men play at College Station. The Big 10 has another weekend of regular season play coming up this weekend.

Division I Rankings Top 16, April 14, 2026

(last week's ranking in parentheses)

Click on the heading for the complete lists.

Men:

TEAM:

1. Texas (1)

2. Ohio State (2)

3. TCU (4)

4. Virginia (3)

5. LSU (5)

6. Mississippi State (6)

7. Wake Forest (7)

8. Oklahoma (9)

9. Arizona (10)

10. Texas A&M (8)

11. Baylor (11)

12. Georgia (13)

13. South Carolina (12)

14. UCF (15)

15. Illinois (14)

16. San Diego (16)

Singles:

1. Dylan Dietrich, Virginia

2. Trevor Svajda, SMU

3. Sebastian Gorzny, Texas

4. Jay Friend, Arizona

5. Michael Zheng, Columbia

6. Max Dahlin, Michigan

7. Benito Sanchez Martinez, Mississippi State

8. Devin Badenhorst, Baylor

9. Petar Jovanovic, Mississippi State

10. Theo Papamalamis, Texas A&M

Doubles:

1. Cosme Rolland de Ravel and Duncan Chan, TCU

2. DK Suresh and Andrew Delgado, Wake Forest

3. Brandon Carpico and Nikita Filin, Ohio State

4. Bruno Nhavene and Luis Alvarez, Oklahoma

5. Theo Papamalamis and Togan Tokac, Texas A&M

Women:

TEAM:

1. Georgia {1)

2. Texas A&M (2)

3. Auburn (4)

4. Oklahoma (7)

5. Ohio State (3)

6. North Carolina (5)

7. Virginia (8)

8. Texas (6)

9. Pepperdine (9)

10. Southern Cal (10)

11. Arizona State (11)

12. Florida (17)

13. NC State (14)

14. Vanderbilt (13)

15. LSU (12)

16. Tennessee (19)

Singles:

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. Anastasia Abbagnato, Texas

7. Evialina Laskevich, Oklahoma

8. Aysegul Mert, Georgia

9. Bridget Stammel, Vanderbilt

10. Katrina Scott, Tennessee

Doubles:

1. Roisin Gilheany and Gloriana Nahum, Oklahoma

2. Ava Esposito and DJ Bennett, Auburn

3. Deniz Dilek and Aysegul Mert, Georgia

4. Gabriella Broadfoot and Victoria Osuigwe, NC State

5. Reese Brantmeier and Alanis Hamilton, North Carolina

The four USTA Pro Circuit events this week are similar to last week's, with all four in Florida: 2 15s, 1 35 and an ATP Challenger. Unlike last week, when the Boca Raton tournaments were at different levels, this week's joint events in Lake Nona are both 15s, with a W35 in Zephyrhills and the Challenger 75 in Tallahassee.

Just one more match remains tonight to complete the first round in Tallahassee. Seventeen-year-old Jack Kennedy continued his winning streak, earning his best win on the Pro Circuit with a 3-6, 6-4, 4-0, ret. victory over No. 7 seed and ATP No. 194 Lukas Neumayer of Austria. Kennedy, who won the M15 in Boca Raton last week, received entry via the ITF/ATP Accelerator Program. He will play Oliver Crawford(Florida) of Great Britain in the second round. 

Kalamazoo 18s champion Darwin Blanch advanced to the second round with a 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 win over Daniel Galan of Colombia. He will play No. 4 seed Daniil Glinka of Estonia, who defeated Sarasota Challenger finalist Stefan Dostanic(USC, Wake Forest) 6-2, 7-6(3) today. 

Liam Draxl(Kentucky) of Canada is the top seed in Tallahassee; wild card Michael Mmoh defeated No. 2 seed Federico Agustin Gomez(Louisville) of Argentina 6-2, 6-1 and will face fellow wild card Cannon Kingsley(Ohio State) in the second round. Kingsley beat Dmitry Popko of Kazakhstan 6-3, 3-6, 7-5. The third wild card went Kaylun Bigun(UCLA), who lost to Draxl 3-6, 6-2, 6-1 yesterday. 

Seven of the eight qualifiers for the W35 in Zephyrhills are American: Melije Clarke[10], Bella Payne[5], Jamilah Snells(Louisville)[8], Thea Frodin[6], Kylie Collins(Texas, LSU, Oklahoma State)[3], Amelia Honer (UC-Santa Barbara)[2] and

Dasha Ivanova[1]. The only international qualifier is 18-year-old Daria Egorova[4] of Russia.

Maria Carle(Georgia) of Argentina is the top seed, with Fiona Crawley(UNC) the No. 2 seed. Crawley defeated Victoria Hu(Princeton) 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 in a first round match today.

Wild cards were given to 15-year-old Hannah Ayrault, Akasha Urhobo, the No. 3 seed, 18-year-old Alyssa James of Jamaica, and 17-year-old Kennedy Drenser-Hagmann. Drenser-Hagmann lost in the first round today to No. 5 seed Angela Fita Boluda of Spain 6-1, 6-4. The other wild cards will play their first round matches Wednesday. 

At the W15 in Orlando, just three of the qualifiers are American: 18-year-old Capucine Jauffret, Ellie Coleman(Duke) and Jaedan Brown(Michigan). 

Wild cards were awarded to Olivia De Los Reyes, Emery Combs, Allison Wang and Orange Bowl 16s champion Priscilla Sirichantho.  De Los Reyes and Sirichantho played their first round matches today, with No. 6 seed Justina Maria Gonzalez Daniele of Argentina beating De Los Reyes 6-3, 6-2 and 14-year-old ITF Junior Reserved entrant Sofia Bielinska of Ukraine defeating Sirichantho 2-6, 6-0, 6-1. 

Lani Chang and Sarah Ye are the other junior reserved entrants.

Twenty-three-year-old Kailey Evans(Texas Tech, San Diego) defeated top seed Gergana Topalova of Bulgaria 6-3, 7-6(6) in the first round today. 

At the M15 in Orlando, just two Americans reached the main draw via qualifying: 18-year-old Nick Stoot and Barry senior Adam Lynch. 

Wild cards were given to Vihaan Reddy, Jerrid Gaines Jr., Ryan Cozad and Ronit Karki. Junior reserved spots went to Yannik Alvarez of Puerto Rico, Michael Antonius and Benjamin Willwerth.

Alvarez, who lost to Kennedy in the semifinals last week in Boca Raton, beat Gaines 6-2, 6-3 and Antonius, the No. 8 seed, beat Cozad 7-5, 7-6(2) in first round matches today. Karki lost to Dragos Cazacu(Tennessee) of Romania 6-2, 6-4. 

Corentin Denolly of France is the top seed, with 19-year-old Reda Bennani of Morocco the No. 2 seed. 

ITF J300 San Diego Finals Videos, Gallery; McCord Claims Another J100, One of Five ITF Junior Circuit Singles Titles for Americans Last Week; Urhobo, Dostanic Lead Roland Garros Wild Card Race After Week Two

Barnes Tennis Center is one of my favorite junior tennis venues, and for the past two years, the finals of the ITF J300 there in March have been back-to-back, rather than simultaneous, with the latter being the norm at many junior events. The stadium court at Barnes allows videos to be taken from behind the court, which makes it much easier for me and gives viewers a better feel for the points. The boys final was played at a high level throughout and although both finals were two sets, you'll see many good points in each match.

My photo gallery from the San Diego ITF J300 is now up at the Tennis Recruiting Network, with all 51 photos taken by Paul Ballard for Zootennis.com.

Spring is a busy time for the ITF Junior Circuit, and last week five Americans won singles titles, with Londyn McCord winning her second J100 title in the past three weeks in South America. As the top seed in the J100 in Luque Paraguay, the 16-year-old blue chip from Atlanta won three three-setters, including in the final, where she beat No. 5 seed Hanne Estrada Cortes of Mexico 7-5, 4-6, 6-2 for her fifth ITF title, all this year and all on clay. McCord, who leads the ITF Junior Circuit with 31 wins this year, is up to 127 in the ITF Junior rankings.

At the J60 in Trinidad and Tobago, 17-year-old Nicolas Pedraza won his first ITF Junior Circuit singles title and his eighth doubles title. The top-seeded Pedraza, returning to competition after a two-month injury layoff, defeated No. 2 seed Nicolas Moravec of Czechia 6-3, 7-5 in the final. In the doubles final, Pedraza and Yared Alfred of the US Virgin Islands, seeded No. 3, defeated top seeds Moravec and Kale Dalla Costa of Trinidad and Tobago 6-3, 6-4.

Grace Dollar reached the girls singles final and won the doubles title, with Taylor Burke of Australia. The unseeded pair defeated No. 2 seeds Romina Dominguez Garcia of Mexico and Anvika Saraswathi of Canada 6-3, 6-4 in the final.

The boys singles final at the J60 in the Dominican Republic was an all-USA contest, with 17-year-old Vincent Weaver, the No. 4 seed, beating top seed and Easter Bowl 16s champion Anay Kulkarni 6-2, 6-0. It's the third ITF Junior Circuit singles title for Weaver, with all coming in the Dominican Republic. 

Kaya Baker and partner Valentina Garcia Rojas of Colombia won the girls doubles title, with the top seeds beating No. 4 seeds Abril Goded Luna and Zoe Levresse Zavala of Mexico 6-4, 2-6, 10-8 in the final. No. 7 seed Adriana Khomyakova lost in the girls singles final.

At the J30 in Ghana, Poudima Anne-Marie Bre-Naam Gnarou swept the titles, her first on the ITF Junior Circuit. The 17-year-old, seeded No. 2, beat unseeded Destiny Asantewaa Tuffour of Germany 6-4, 6-1 in the singles final. Unseeded in doubles with Rebecca Gurghean of Italy, Gnarou claimed the final with a 6-2, 6-0 win over No. 2 seeds Goodnews Eyinjuoluwa Aina of Nigeria and Liv Windschall of Germany 6-2, 6-0.

Closer to home, the United States' new ITF Junior Circuit on clay began last week with a J30 in Raleigh North Carolina, which featured the new round robin/quarterfinal knockout format. Sixteen-year-old Johnny Wolf of Raleigh won his first ITF Junior Circuit title, beating Daniil Berezin 6-4, 6-3 in the final.

Top seeds Kayden Colombo and Griffin Goode won the boys doubles title, beating unseeded Noah Bayon and Maddox Iliescu 7-5, 7-5 in the final. 

Alina Vysochenko of Ukraine won the girls singles title, beating 14-year-old Caroline Cox of Cary NC, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(5) in the final.  Top seeds Vysochenko and Sarah Delgado won the doubles title, beating unseeded Pauline Bui and Russia's Taisiya Sorokina 7-5, 6-3 in the final. 

At the J200 in Canada, Americans swept the doubles titles, but lost both singles finals to Canadians.

No. 6 seed Felix Roussel defeated No. 8 seed Mason Taube 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 in the boys singles final and top seed Nadia Lagaev beat No. 6 seed Thara Gowda 6-1, 6-3 in the girls singles final.

No. 2 seeds Isabelle DeLuccia and Adla Lopez won the girls doubles, beating unseeded Gowda and Elicia Lin of Canada 6-1, 7-5; top seeds Jack Secord and Ford McCollum beat No. 4 seeds Izyan Ahmad and Erik Schinnerer 6-3, 7-5 in the boys doubles final. 

Week Two in the USA's ITF clay court swing is in Kennesaw Georgia, a J60 also using the new round robin/quarterfinal knockout format.

The latest standings in the USTA's annual Roland Garros Wild Card Challenge were released today:

Standings Update -- Roland Garros Wild Card Challenge

 

Akasha Urhobo and Stefan Dostanic Lead After Week 2

 

ORLANDO, Fla., April 13, 2026 – Former college all-American Stefan Dostanic took the men's lead and Akasha Urhobo maintained the women's lead after Week 2 of the Roland Garros Wild Card Challenge. 

 

The 24-year-old Dostanic, who last year led Wake Forest to the NCAA team title and earned a wild card into the US Open by winning the American Collegiate Wild Card Playoff, reached the final of the USTA Pro Circuit ATP Challenger 75 in Sarasota, Fla. Emilio Nava, last year's RG Wild Card Challenge winner, earned 40 points from qualifying at the ATP Masters 1000 in Monte Carlo and sits in second while currently ranked No. 112. 

 

The 19-year-old Urhobo leads the women's side of the Challenge for the second consecutive week. Former world No. 84 Kayla Day, 26, now only trails by five points after winning the USTA Pro Circuit W35 in Boca Raton, Fla. 

 

The top of the standings after Week 2 of 5: 

 

Women's Standings

(Player's current ranking in parentheses)

 

1. Akasha Urhobo (235) -- 65

2. Kayla Day (158) -- 60

3. Varvara Lepchenko (149) -- 54

 

Men's Standings

(Player's current ranking in parentheses)

 

1. Stefan Dostanic (270) -- 44

2. Emilio Nava (112) -- 40

3. Nishesh Basavareddy (174) -- 37

Kennedy and Tanguilig Win First Pro Circuit Singles Titles; Day Claims Third Title of 2026 at Boca Raton W35; Dostanic Falls in Sarasota Challenger Final; Virginia Women Earn No. 1 Seed in ACC Conference Tournament after Win Over NC State

Jack Kennedy won his first pro tournament today at the USTA Pro Circuit M15 in Boca Raton Florida, with the 17-year-old New Yorker, seeded No. 6, defeating No. 7 seed Andreja Petrovic(North Dakota, Florida State, Duke) 6-3, 6-4 in the final. 

Kennedy, who had reached the semifinals at four other USTA Pro Circuit tournaments since last May, is the fifth player born in 2008, and first American, to win a ITF men's World Tennis Tour singles title. Currently 864 in the ATP rankings, Kennedy should move into the ATP Top 750 for the first time when the points are added.

Kennedy will be playing the Tallahassee Challenger next week, after receiving a main draw spot via the ITF Junior Accelerator Program. 

Petrovic did come away with a title this week, taking the doubles title with partner Alex Kotzen(Columbia, Tennessee). The unseeded pair beat unseeded Will Grant(Florida) and Jeffrey Fradkin(UCLA) 3-6, 6-3, 10-2 in today's final.

At the women's W35 in Boca Raton, top seed Kayla Day won her third title of 2026, beating No. 2 seed Mary Stoiana(Texas A&M) 6-3, 6-1. The 26-year-old Day, who won a W35 in January and a W50 in February, will move up just a few spots in the WTA rankings with the title, going from 158 to around 150, but she boosts her total in the USTA's Roland Garros Wild Card Challenge after earning 25 points for qualifying at last week's WTA Charleston 500, she now has 60 points with three weeks remaining in the race.

Carson Tanguilig, early in her first full year of professional tennis following an All-American career at North Carolina, won her first singles title today at the W15 in Bonita Springs Florida. The unseeded 22-year-old from Georgia, who won the 2023 NCAA doubles title with Fiona Crawley, defeated No. 6 seed Ellie Schoppe(Furman, Florida State), 7-5, 6-4 in today's singles final, after claiming the doubles title on Saturday.

At the ATP Challenger 75 in Sarasota(Bradenton), top seed Yibing Wu of China defeated unseeded Stefan Dostanic(USC, Wake Forest) 6-1, 4-6, 6-3 in this afternoon's final. Dostanic fought back in the second set and was even at 3-all in the third against the ATP No. 115, but dropped the next three games.

With this final, Dostanic is up to a career-high ATP ranking of 270 and the 44 points will earn him contender status in the USTA's Roland Garros Wild Card Challenge, which continues for three more weeks. Dostanic is entered in the ATP Challenger 75 in Tallahassee, where he is scheduled to play No. 4 seed Daniil Glinka of Estonia in the first round.

The conclusion of the regular season for the SEC, ACC and Big 12 conferences was scheduled for today, although rain has forced several of the conference matches scheduled for this afternoon into the evening. The final weekend of Big 10 competition is next week.

The ACC women did complete their schedule, with the University of Virginia claiming the regular season championship and the top seed in the next week's conference tournament with the No. 8 Cavaliers beating No. 14 NC State 4-2 today in Charlottesville. Virginia, who had never won an outright ACC regular season title, went 12-0 in conference play this year, with a win over North Carolina elevating them above the Tar Heels in the final standings.

North Carolina is No. 2, NC State No. 3 and Duke No. 4 in the ACC conference tournament seedings, with those teams getting byes into the quarterfinals. The full schedule for the tournament, again held in Cary North Carolina, is available here.

The other conference tournament brackets have not been posted, but should be available in by Monday at ACC men's tennis, SEC men's tennis, SEC women's tennis, Big 12 men's tennis, and Big 12 women's tennis.

Kennedy Reaches First Pro Circuit Final; Dostanic Plays for Second Challenger Title; All-USA Finals in Women's USTA Pro Circuit Events; Behrmann and Wobker Claim J500 Cairo Titles; USA Falls to Belgium in BJK Cup

Since last spring, Jack Kennedy had made four USTA men's Pro Circuit semifinals, but had not made an appearance in a final at those three M15s and one M25 tournament. That streak ended today at the Boca Raton M15, with the University of Virginia recruit, seeded sixth, beating fellow 17-year-old Yannik Alvarez of Puerto Rico, who was competing in his first pro event this week, 7-6(5), 6-7(4), 6-3. 

Kennedy will face No. 7 seed Andreja Petrovic(North Dakota, Florida State, Duke) of Norway, who beat No. 8 seed Jacob Brumm(Cal, Baylor) 5-7, 6-2, 6-2, and will also be playing for his first pro title.

Petrovic also won his doubles quarterfinal match today, and is still on the schedule to play his semifinal, with partner Alex Kotzen(Columbia, Tennessee) tonight. Due to rain early in the week, the first round of doubles wasn't completed until yesterday.

At the ATP Challenger 75 in Sarasota(Bradenton), unseeded Stefan Dostanic advanced to his second Challenger final with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Andy Andrade(Florida) of Ecuador today at the IMG Academy. The former USC and Wake Forest All-American, who won his first Challenger title in February and claimed an M25 title late last month in Greece, will face top seed Yibing Wu of China in the final. Wu defeated reigning Kalamazoo 18s champion Darwin Blanch 6-3, 7-5 in the other semifinal.

The doubles title went to the unseeded team of Martin Damm and Czech Hynek Barton, who beat unseeded Garrett Johns(Duke) and Theo Winegar(Columbia, Duke) 6-2, 6-1 in today's final.

The top two seeds will decide the title at the women's W35 in Boca Raton, with No. 1 seed Kayla Day facing No. 2 seed Mary Stoiana(Texas A&M). Day defeated No. 3 seed Claire Liu 6-4, 6-1, her fourth consecutive win over her fellow Southern Californian on the pro circuit, although the first since 2019.  

No. 2 seed Stoiana defeated unseeded Madison Sieg(USC) 7-6(5), 6-3 to reach her first final of the year. Day beat Stoiana 6-3, 0-6, 7-6(4) in the quarterfinals of February's W50 in Orlando, which Day went on to win.

The doubles semifinals and finals were played today, with No. 3 seeds Savannah Broadus(Pepperdine) and Abigail Rencheli(NC State) defeating No. 2 seeds Sofia Cabezas(Iowa State, Tennessee) of Venezuela and Anna Rogers(NC State) 6-4, 3-6, 10-3 in the final. It's the ninth pro doubles title for Broadus, 23, all with different partners, and the 11th for Rencheli, with 10 different partners.

At the W15 in Bonita Springs, former UNC All-American Carson Tanguilig will play in her second career singles final, with the unseeded 22-year-old taking on 24-year-old Ellie Schoppe, a former standout at Furman and Florida State.  Schoppe, 24, beat No. 1 seed Gergana Topalova of Bulgaria 2-6, 6-2, 7-5 to reach her first Pro Circuit final; Tanguilig beat unseeded Margaux Maquet of Belgium 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 in the semifinals. 

Tanguilig already has captured a title, winning the doubles today with Kylie Collins(Texas, LSU, Oklahoma State). The No. 3 seeds defeated the wild card pairing of juniors Nadia Valdez and Carlota Moreno 6-2, 6-3 in the final. Tanguilig now has three pro doubles titles, with Collins, 23, picking up her sixth.

The J500 in Cairo Egypt concluded today, with No. 2 seed (and qualifier) Thilo Behrmann of Austria defeating No. 12 seed Valentin Gonzalez-Galino of Spain 6-2, 6-3 for the boys title and No. 3 seed Ida Wobker of Germany beating No. 7 seed Felitsata Dorofeeva-Rybas 7-5, 6-4 for the girls title. 

No. 8 seeds Jakub Kusy of Czechia and Vincent Reisach of Germany won the boys doubles title, beating No. 6 seeds Connor Doig of South Africa and Oluwaseun Peter Ogunsakin of Nigeria 7-6(2), 6-3 in the final.

Top seeds Tereza Hermanova of Czechia and Sonja Zhenikhova of Germany won the girls doubles title, beating No. 7 seeds Maja Pawelska of Poland and Polina Skliar of Ukraine 6-2, 7-5 in the final.

The USA Billie Jean King Cup Team will not be playing in the finals this fall in China, after losing to Belgium 3-1 in Belgium in this weekend's qualifying round.

The USTA release from this weekend's competition:

Billie Jean King Cup Qualifying

Friday 

Hanne Vandewinkel (BEL) d. Iva Jovic (USA), 7-6(3), 6-3

Elise Mertens (BEL) d. McCartney Kessler (USA), 7-6(3), 2-6, 3-3, ret.

 

Saturday

Caty McNally/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) d. Mertens/Magali Kempen (BEL), 6-4, 6-2

Greet Minnen (BEL) d. Iva Jovic (USA), 7-5, 6-3

 

The U.S. Billie Jean King Cup team fell to Belgium, 3-1, in its Qualifying tie played Friday and Saturday on indoor red clay in Ostend, Belgium. An untimely injury to McCartney Kessler that forced her to retire while deadlocked in the third set vs. Elise Mertens and inspired performances from Hanne Vandewinkel and Greet Minnen led the Belgians to advance to the 2026 Finals in front of their home crowd inside the Coretec Dome. 

 

The American team will next play in the Playoff round the week of November 16 with the goal of returning to the Qualifying pool for 2027. Nations competing in the home-and-away Playoffs include the seven losing nations from this weekend's Qualifying -- including Japan, Australia, Slovenia, Canada and Poland -- and the seven best-performing nations from regional Group I events also being played this weekend.

 

The USA's opponent and site for the November playoff will be determined via draw held Thursday, April 23, at 6 a.m. ET.