Martinez Among Seven US Qualifiers at W35 in Decatur IL; Three US Collegians Qualify at Wichita KS M25; Los Angeles Hosts SoCal Pro Series Week Three; ITA D-I Regional Awards Announced

This week's USTA Pro Circuit is evenly balanced between the men and women, with a W35 in Decatur Illinois, and M25 in Wichita Kansas and Week Three of the SoCal Pro Series with men's and women's $15Ks at the Jack Kramer Club in Rolling Hills Estates.

Seven of the eight qualifiers in Decatur are Americans: 17-year-old Columbia recruit Sena Yoon, Jaedan Brown(Michigan), Piper Charney(Michigan), Sophie Williams(Florida, James Madison), Sophie Llewellyn(SMU), Sophia Holod(Notre Dame) and Texas A&M's Violeta Martinez, one of the heroes of the Aggies NCAA team title last month in Athens.

Wild cards were given to 17-year-old Carlota Moreno, 16-year-old Londyn McCord, Ashton Bowers(Texas, Auburn) and St. Louis University rising junior Aryn Walker. 

Madison Brengle and Anna Rogers(NC State) are the top two seeds.

In Wichita, three current collegians from the United States qualified for the main draw, after navigating a rare 64-player qualifying draw: Matisse Farzam(Clemson), Will Manning(NC State( and Jonah Braswell(Florida, Texas).  

Wild cards were awarded to Sebastian Gorzny(TCU, Texas); Ozan Baris(Michigan State), who beat No. 7 seed Justin Boulais(Ohio State) of Canada 6-3, 6-2 today; Cooper Woestendick(TCU) and 18-year-old Hunter Nelson.

Philip Sekulic of Australia is the No. 1 seed, with Daniel Milavsky(Harvard) the No. 2 seed.

In the M15 in Los Angeles, three of the men's qualifiers are from the United States: Karl Lee(UCLA, USC), Nathan Cox(Vanderbilt) and Avery Tallakson(New Mexico, Boise State).

Wild cards were given to Andy Johnson, who is the No. 5 seed; Lucca Liu(UC-Santa Barbara), William Kleege(San Diego State) and Spencer Johnson(UCLA), with 2024 Kalamazoo 16s champion Gus Grumet getting in as a lucky loser. 

Tanishk Konduri and Marcel Latak, the 2025 Kalamazoo 16s champion, received ITF Junior Reserved entries.

Week One Lakewood champion Kaylan Bigun(UCLA) is the top seed, with Strong Kirchheimer(Northwestern) the No. 2 seed. Last week's Lakewood champion Oliver Bonding(TCU) of Great Britain plays Arizona rising senior Alexander Rozin of Canada in first round action Wednesday.

Last week's women's champion Mayu Crossley(UCLA) is not playing this week in the W15 in Los Angeles, but Lakewood finalist Kristina Penickova is in the draw, scheduled to face top seed Sofia Shapatava of Georgia Wednesday.

Qualifying into the main draw were Kaitlyn Carnicella(Auburn, South Carolina); 17-year-old Maria Aytoyan; 16-year-old Yilin Chen; 17-year-old Natalie Kha and Simone Kay(USC). Avery Nguyen received entry into the main draw as a lucky loser.

Wild cards were given to 15-year-old Abigail Haile, who won her first round match today; 18-year-old Kaia Giribalan, who lost her opening match; 16-year-old Sophie Suh and 17-year-old Tia Messerli.

Monika Ekstrand, who just completed her freshman year at Stanford, is the No. 2 seed.

The ITA released the Division I Regional Awards today, with the men's list here and the women's list here. 

Notable that Dylan Dietrich of Virginia is not among the regional winners, although the Cavaliers took seven of the eight Atlantic Region awards. But he will be named National Player of the Year after finishing No. 1 in the final rankings.  

Lucciana Perez of Texas A&M, who will be named National Player of the Year with her No. 1 year-end ranking, did received two awards in the Texas Region.

The ITA National Awards will be announced next Tuesday.

Singh and Mendell Claim ITF J100 Guatemala Titles, Iftime Wins J60 in Champaign; Sun and Miguel Rise to No. 1 in ITF Junior Rankings; NYCC YouTube Documentary of NCAA 2026 in Athens

While most eyes were on Paris last week, many American juniors aspiring to compete in the junior slams were elsewhere collecting points, with five US players earning singles titles on the ITF Junior Circuit.

At the ITF J100 in Guatemala, Gurjot Singh swept the boys titles, while Ellery Mendell won her third J100 title in the past six weeks.

Singh, an 18-year-old from New Jersey who was a finalist at the J200 in Tennessee last month, had to go through qualifying as a late entry although he had to win only one match to make the main draw, where he was the No. 1 seed.  Singh won an all-USA final for his first ITF Junior Circuit singles title, beating No. 3 seed and doubles partner Tristan Stratton 6-3, 6-2. Singh had won the doubles title with Stratton the previous day, with the top seeds defeating unseeded Antonio Castellanos of Guatemala and Indra Vergne 6-1, 6-1 in the final.

The top-seeded Mendell, a 16-year-old from Georgia, defeated unseeded Srishti Kiran of India 6-4, 6-3 in the final. Mendell won back-to-back J100 titles in Costa Rica last month, but Guatemala is the site of three of her six career singles titles on the ITF Junior Circuit.

Sarah Stoyanov reached the doubles final with Abril Cardenas Olivares of Mexico, but the No. 3 seeds lost to No. 4 seeds Eve Thibault of Canada and Hanne Estrada Cores of Mexico 7-5, 6-1.

Singh is up to 129 in the ITF Junior Rankings, while Mendell is now at 165.

At the ITF J60 in Champaign Illinois, 14-year-old Adelina Iftime won her first ITF Junior Circuit title, taking the girls singles championships with a 7-6(4), 6-0 win over No. 5 seed Aleksandra Jerkunica. Iftime, the 2025 IMG Bradenton 16s champion, didn't drop a set in her three round robin matches or in the knockout phase of the tournament. 

Jerkunica, 15, did come away with a title however, taking the doubles championship with older sister Natasha. The No. 3 seeds defeated top seeds Vibha Gogineni and Teaghan Jou An Keys 7-5, 4-6, 10-5 in the final. 

No. 4 seed Eli Kaminski lost to top seed Rafael Bote of Canada in the boys final 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. 

The unseeded team of Anish Poojari and Austin Potter claimed the boys doubles title, beating top seeds Bote and Keshav Muthuvel 7-5, 6-2 in the final. 

The other two singles titles for Americans were at the J30 level, with 15-year-old Soo-Ah Byun, who received entry via her World Tennis Number, defeating Si A Youm of Korea 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 in the final in Gimcheon Korea. It's the first ITF Junior Circuit title for Byun.

In Sukoharjo Indonesia, No. 2 seed Brandon Duan, a 16-year-old Californian, defeated No. 4 seed Rafa Jeconia Verdasco Mangunsong of Indonesia 7-5, 6-2 to capture his second ITF Junior Circuit single title. 

At the J30 in Abujia Nigeria, Elliott Awomoyi and Nigerian partner Seyl Ebenezer Ogunaskin took the doubles title, with the top seeds beating No. 3 seeds Elisha Ishaku Swange and Gbolahan Oluwajuwon Olawale of Nigeria 6-3, 6-3 in the final. It's the first ITF Junior Circuit title for the 16-year-old Awomoyi.

This week's ITF Junior Circuit tournament in the Midwest is a J100 in Bloomington Indiana. Joshua Adamson of Canada and Karlin Schock of USA are the top two seeds.

The post-Roland Garros ITF junior rankings produced two new No. 1s, with Roland Garros champion Luis Guto Miguel of Brazil and finalist Xinran Sun of China now at the top. Sun overtook 2026 Australian Open champion Ksenia Efremova of France, who lost in the first round; Miguel displaced Ivan Ivanov of Bulgaria, whose Wimbledon and US Open titles in 2025 are no longer enough to keep him in the top 5.

Girls champion Alisa Oktiabreva re-entered the junior rankings at 51; she has had no ITF junior ranking for the past 18 months. Her career-high junior ranking of 17 came in July of 2023.

Roland Garros finalist Michael Antonius has moved up to a career-high ITF junior ranking of 6, while semifinalist Keaton Hance has risen to a career-high of 3. 

Nate Walroth of NotYourCountryClub had a crew of videographers in Athens last month for the NCAA Division I Team Championships, which resulted in the documentary below. If you weren't there, it provides a great sense of the excitement at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex during the four days of competition and what it means to the teams and their fans as they contend for an NCAA title.

Liutova Wins Second Consecutive W100 in Sumter SC; Teens Bonding and Crossley Claim SoCal Pro Series Titles; Walton Earns Tyler Challenger Title; Townsend and Siniakova Capture Third Slam at Roland Garros

Although all five Americans competing in USTA Pro Circuit finals today were defeated, Sunday was a great day for teenagers, three of whom hoisted winner's trophies.

The biggest came in Sumter South Carolina, where 16-year-old Kristina Liutova won her second consecutive W100 title with a 6-4, 6-3 win over wild card Reese Brantmeier. The unseeded Liutova, who was born in Russia but has lived in the United States for many years, did not a lose a set this week, with the Indian Harbour Beach W100 champion extending her winning streak at the highest level of the ITF circuit to 10. Her WTA ranking will rise to 229, which will likely give her a spot in the US Open women's qualifying.

Brantmeier, the 2025 NCAA singles champion, had an ideal two-week warmup for the USTA's US Open Collegiate Wild Card Playoff, which begins June 16 in Lake Nona. The recent UNC graduate won the singles and doubles titles last week at the W35 in Wichita and with this final has improved her WTA ranking to 521, less than a month after completing her college career.

Two teenagers who just completed their freshmen seasons in college won the titles in week two of the SoCal Pro Series in Lakewood. 

Nineteen-year-old Mayu Crossley of Japan, seeded No. 2, defeated 16-year-old Kristina Penickova, the No. 8 seed, 6-4, 6-3 for her second USTA Pro Circuit singles title. Crossley, who lost to champion Tatum Evans last week in the Lakewood semifinals, was named the Big Ten freshman of the year at UCLA, playing at line 2 for the Bruins.

Eighteen-year-old Oliver Bonding of Great Britain avenged his 6-1, 6-3 loss last month at No. 4 singles in the NCAA team semifinals to Texas's Oliver Ojakaar, with the TCU Big 12 Freshman of the Year beating the Estonian qualifier 7-5, 7-6(1) in today's final. In another similarity with Crossley, it's also the second Pro Circuit singles title for the unseeded Bonding, who entered via the ITF's Junior Reserved program.

Steve Pratt, press aide for USTA SoCal, provides this recap of the championships matches, with comments from all the finalists.

At the ATP Challenger 75 in Tyler Texas, former Tennessee All-American Adam Walton of Australia won his fifth Challenger title. The top-seeded 27-year-old defeated unseeded Andre Ilagan(Hawaii), playing in his first Challenger final, 7-5, 6-1.

The top seeds also won the doubles title, with Rithvik Bollipalli and Ramkumar Ramanathan of India defeating unseeded Americans Wally Thane(Utah, BYU) and Zachary Fuchs(Gonzaga, BYU) 7-6(2), 7-6(4) in today's final.

No. 2 seed Emilio Nava won the ATP Challenger 100 title in Heilbronn Germany today without taking the court today, with unseeded Luka Mikrut of Croatia unable to play the final. It's the seventh Challenger title for Nava, his first this year.

Three international collegians who competed in the NCAA team championships last month won $15K titles outside the United States today.  Virginia's rising senior and ITA Player of the Year Dylan Dietrich of Switzerland won his first ITF Pro Circuit singles title in Slovenia today; Georgia rising sophomore Deniz Dilek won her first ITF Pro Circuit singles title in her home country of Turkey and 2025 NCAA singles finalist Berta Passola Folch of Spain, a graduating senior at Cal, swept the titles, her first on the ITF Pro Circuit, in Tunisia.

Taylor Townsend claimed the only Roland Garros title for an American in 2026, winning the women's doubles championship with Katerina Siniakova of Czechia. The top seeds defeated No. 2 seeds Anna Danilina(Florida) of Kazakhstan and Aleksandra Krunic of Serbia 6-2, 7-5 in today's final for their third slam title as a team. The 2024 Wimbledon and 2025 Australian Open champions will aim for the career slam in New York this summer. This year alone they have won three WTA 1000s in Indian Wells, Miami and Madrid, with their only two losses in the Australian Open quarterfinals and the Rome 1000 semifinals. 

Oktiabreva and Miguel Win Roland Garros Junior Titles; Liutova Faces Brantmeier in Sumter W100 Final: Penickova Halts Evans' Streak; Bonding vs Ojakaar in NCAA Rematch at Lakewood M15; Ilagan Reaches First Challenger Final

Luis Guto Miguel not only claimed his first junior slam title today at Roland Garros, a huge accomplishment for any young player, but the 17-year-old from Brazil also added his country's name to the record books. The top seed's 6-3, 6-4 victory over 16-year-old American Michael Antonius gave Brazil its first Roland Garros junior singles title in history.

Miguel, who will ascend to No. 1 in the ITF Junior rankings on Monday, brought his best level of the week against Antonius, with the large Brazilian crowd gathered at Court Simonne-Mathieu getting the show they were looking for. Miguel didn't face a break point in the opening set, with a break in the fifth game all he needed, although he got a second to close out the first set.  

Miguel hit more than five times the number of winners Antonius had, with many of his 28 winners coming after he drew Antonius to the net with drop shots. But Antonius was by no means overmatched, despite the stats, staying in points primarily by getting a high percentage of first serves in and prolonging rallies. Antonius had a look at a break point in the first game of the second set, but made an unforced error, allowing Miguel to hold.

Miguel then began to take control of the rallies with often high risk winners, and he began to ride the wave of momentum, especially after a improbable tweener at the net led to a forehand volley putaway. He broke Antonius at love to to take a 4-2 lead in the second set, but Antonius dug in and forced Miguel to serve it out at 5-3. Miguel played by far his worst game of the match, making three unforced errors to put the set back on serve, but Antonius couldn't hold, double faulting his game point away for deuce. Miguel netted a backhand on his first match point, but after a net-cord winner, he got another chance and Antonius netted a drop shot to end it.

During his remarks at the trophy ceremony, an emotional Miguel addressed his coach Kike Granjeiro in the player's box, dedicating his title to him after Granjeiro lost his brother just two weeks ago. He then thanked the Brazilian fans in attendance for their support in helping him make history.

The girls final was a rematch of a February semifinal of a W35 in Tunisia, with Alisa Oktiabreva defeating Xinran Sun of China for a second time in four months by same 6-2, 6-1 score.

The first five games, all breaks of serve, were competitive as both players showed both signs of nerves and a willingness to go for their shots. But Oktiabreva was able to take advantage of Sun's ineffective second serve, as she began to find her rhythm and minimize her errors. 

Oktiabreva, who has been training in the Czechia for many years and is expected to begin representing that country soon, took a 4-0 lead in the second set before Sun finally got her only hold of serve to get on the board. Oktiabreva, who ended up with 29 winners and just 16 unforced errors, didn't give her 15-year-old opponent any hope, winning the final two games to earn the title in her first junior tournament since the 2023 Orange Bowl. 

The 17-year-old was contemplating a collegiate career in the United States prior to this result, although her WTA career-high ranking of 280 earlier this year, which gained her entry into the Roland Garros Junior Championships, means she is just a few good results from earning a spot in the US Open qualifying. 

In this ITF Junior Circuit article, Oktiabreva suggests she may play the Wimbledon Junior Championships next month, which she has not played previously. That acceptance list comes out next week, so we'll know soon.

The Roland Garros website's article on both junior singles finals, with all the trophy photos, is here.

Both the doubles finals also were decided in straight sets, 6-1, 6-4, but both got interesting at the end.

No. 8 seeds Welles Newman and Jordyn Hazelitt of the United States were a deciding point away from trailing 6-1, 5-1 to the unseeded Czech team of Jana Kovackova and Katerina Zajickova, but Newman held serve and they fought back to 4-all. Kovackova had to save two break points to win the next game, and Newman couldn't hold, losing a deciding point to end it. 

It's the third straight girls slam doubles titles for Kovackova, who won the US Open and Australian Open titles with her older sister Alena. She will be going for the career slam at Wimbledon.

Boys champions Jamie Mackenzie and Vincent Reisach of Germany, the No. 8 seeds,  were cruising along at 6-1, 5-1 with Daniel Jade serving at 15-40. But he and partner Mathys Domenc saved those three match points, and two more with Mackenzie serving at 5-2, 40-30, then held for 5-4. Reisach got down 0-15 in his attempt to serve out the match, but they ended the drama there, winning the next four points for the title.

Sunday's final at the W100 in Sumter South Carolina will end a winning streak, with 16-year-old Kristinia Liutova facing wild card Reese Brantmeier.  Liutova, who won the W100 in Indian Harbour Beach Florida early last month, defeated top seed Whitney Osuigwe 6-2, 6-4 for her ninth straight win. NCAA singles champion Brantmeier, who finished her college career at North Carolina last month and won the singles and doubles titles at the W35 last week in Wichita Kansas, defeated No. 2 seed Cadence Brace(LSU) of Canada 7-6(5), 2-6, 6-3.

In today's doubles final, No. 2 seeds Catherine Harrison(UCLA) and Alexandra Osborne(Arizona State) of Australia defeated top seeds Anna Rogers(NC State) and Allura Zamarripa(Texas) 6-4, 4-6, 10-7.

Sixteen-year-old Kristina Penickova is into the final of her first tournament back after more than six months away due to an injury. The former ITF World No. 1 ended the winning streak of last week's W15 Lakewood champion Tatum Evans(North Carolina) with a 6-3, 6-4 victory in the semifinals of Week 2 at Lakewood. Penickova, the No. 8 seed, will play 19-year-old Mayu Crossley of Japan, the former ITF Junior No. 5. The No. 2 seed, Crossley defeated No. 3 seed Dasha Plekhanova of Canada 6-0, 4-6, 7-6(2).

Steve Pratt, press aide for USTA SoCal, spoke to Penickova after her quarterfinal win yesterday for this recap; she likely will be moving on from junior competition after playing San Diego Nationals this August.

Top seeds Ava Hrastar(Georgia Tech, Ole Miss, Auburn) and Victoria Mulville(South Carolina, Kansas) defeated No. 2 seeds Kailey Evans(Texas Tech, San Diego) and Lily Taylor(Arizona State) of Australia 6-3, 2-6, 11-9 for the women's doubles title.

The M15 final Sunday at Lakewood will be a rematch of last month's match between Oliver Bonding of Great Britain and Oliver Ojakaar of Estonia in the NCAA semifinal between TCU and Texas in Athens Georgia. Ojakaar, a sophomore at Texas, defeated Bonding, a freshman at TCU, 6-1, 6-3 at line 4 in that match, which Texas won 4-3.  Today, the unseeded Bonding defeated No. 4 seed Dmitry Popko of Kazakhstan 6-2, 7-6(4), while Ojakaar beat fellow qualifier Iiro Vasa(San Diego) of Finland 6-7(4), 7-5, 6-3 in a three-hour and nine-minute semifinal.

Unseeded Mikael Arseneault(Kentucky) and Volodymyr Gurenko of Canada won the men's doubles title, beating No. 2 seeds Reece Falck(Fresno State, UNC-Wilmington) and Matthew Shearer(William Carey, Nebraska) of New Zealand 6-3, 5-7, 10-8 in today's final.

At the ATP Challenger 75 in Tyler Texas, 25-year-old Andre Ilagan, a former All-American at Hawaii, has reached his first ATP Challenger final after falling in five previous semifinal appearances. The unseeded Ilagan defeated qualifier Karl Poling(Princeton, UNC) 3-6, 6-1, 7-6(8) and will face top seed Adam Walton(Tennessee) of Australia. Walton defeated No. 3 seed Liam Draxl(Kentucky) of Canada 6-4, 6-4.

Antonius Faces Top Seed Miguel for Roland Garros Boys Title; Sun and Oktiabreva Play for Girls Championship; Newman and Hazelitt Reach Girls Doubles Final; Evans, Brantmeier, Liutova Extend Winning Streaks; Poling Advances to Tyler Challenger Semis

Sixteen-year-old Michael Antonius opted to skip the Australian Open Junior Championships this year and instead played two ITF J300s on hard courts in South America. He won them both, giving him the freedom to forget about his ITF junior ranking for the year and focus on getting experience on the USTA Pro Circuit. 

He went 14-6 this spring in seven USTA Pro Circuit events, which included the title at the M25 in Bakersfield, where he claimed the distinction as the youngest American to win a Pro Circuit event. 

Antonius played only one junior event to prepare for Roland Garros, the J500 in Milan, where he lost in the second round, which as the No. 4 seed, was his first match.

So his run to the boys final at Roland Garros is both a surprise and not a surprise, given his lack of experience at junior slams but also his obvious accomplishments and trajectory this year.

Today in Paris, the 13th-seeded Antonius continued his domination of more experienced seeds, beating Australian Open boys finalist Keaton Hance 6-3, 6-1, with no drama and no indication his form is tailing off. 

After beating the No. 2 seed Yannik Alexandrescou, the No. 5 seed and Australian Open boys champion Ziga Sesko and No. 6 seed Hance, Antonius now faces top seed Luis Guto Miguel of Brazil, who is aiming to make history for his country.

Miguel, 17, came from 2-0 down in the third set to end the run of wild card Leonardo Storck Franca of Brazil 6-1, 3-6, 6-2. Unlike Antonius Miguel has been challenged in the last two rounds, but he will be the favorite, given his seeding and his experience on clay.

Miguel lost to Antonius the only time they've played in an ITF-sanctioned junior event, but that was nearly three years ago in the ITF World Junior Tennis competition in the Czech Republic, where the 13-year-old Antonius beat the 14-year-old Miguel 6-1, 6-0 in the 5th-8th playoff. The following year, Antonius, Jordan Lee and Teodor Davidov won the title at the WJT, with Antonius, Lee and Andy Johnson then claiming last fall's Junior Davis Cup title in Chile.

Although three Brazilian boys have won junior slam titles--Tiago Fernandes(2010 Australian Open), Thiago Seyboth Wild(2018 US Open) and Joao Fonseca(2023 US Open)--a Brazilian has never won the Roland Garros boys title. Antonius, by contrast, would be the eighth American boy to win it, with Kaylan Bigun accomplishing that just two years ago.

In this article from the ITF Junior Circuit website, Antonius explains how his two wins over Bigun on the USTA Pro Circuit this spring have given him confidence as he tries to equal Bigun's accomplishment.

The girls final will feature another chance at history, with No. 2 seed Xinran Sun of China seeking her country's first junior singles title at Roland Garros. Today, Sun defeated No. 3 seed Victoria Barros of Brazil 6-2, 6-3, the same score of their Orange Bowl semifinal in December. Sun will face No. 12 seed Alisa Oktiabreva, who received entry and her seeding by virtue of her WTA ranking of 309. Oktiabreva had four set points with No. 4 seed Jana Kovackova serving at 3-5 in the first set, but she couldn't convert, with Kovackova winning the final four games of the set. But despite that disappointment, the 17-year-old Russian bounced back from a 2-0 deficit in the second set to claim a 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 victory, improving on her 2023 semifinal finish in Paris as a 14-year-old.

Sun and Oktiabreva have played recently, in the semifinals of February's W35 in Tunisia, with Oktiabreva, who won the title, beating Sun 6-2, 6-1. In this article from the ITF Junior Circuit website, Oktiabreva explains why she is not expecting a similar scoreline in Saturday's final.

In addition to Antonius, two other Americans will play for a Roland Garros junior title Saturday, with Welles Newman and Jordyn Hazelitt reaching the girls doubles final with a win today.

No. 8 seeds Newman and Hazelitt, who won a W35 title early this month in Florida, defeated No. 4 seeds Sun and Ruien Zhang of China 6-4, 6-3. They will face the unseeded team of Kovackova, last year's US Open doubles champion and Roland Garros finalist, and partner Katerina Zajickova of Czechia. Zajickova and Kovackova, who reached three junior slam finals with sister Alena, including this year's Australian Open, defeated the unseeded team of Luna Cinalli of Argentina and Ha Eum Lee of Korea 6-3, 6-1.

The boys doubles final will also feature an unseeded team, with Daniel Jade and Mathys Domenc of France defeating No. 2 seeds Hance and Jack Kennedy, the 2025 US Open boys doubles champions, 6-3, 6-4. Domenc and Jade will play No. 8 seeds Jamie Mackenzie and Vincent Reisach of Germany, who defeated No. 6 seeds Jack Secord and Yannik Alvarez of Puerto Rico 7-5, 6-2.

The winning streaks for University of North Carolina teammates Tatum Evans and Reese Brantmeier continued, with rising senior Evans and recent graduate Brantmeier reaching the semifinals at two different USTA Pro Circuit tournaments.

Brantmeier, who won the W35 last week in Wichita, received a wild card into the W100 in Sumter South Carolina and she has advanced to the semifinals, beating qualifier Kylie Collins(Texas, LSU, Oklahoma State) 6-2, 7-5. Brantmeier had beaten No. 5 seed Katrina Scott(Tennessee), fellow USTA American Collegiate US Open Playoff participant later this month, 6-2, 6-2 in the second round. Brantmeier will face another collegian in the semifinals, with LSU sophomore Cadence Brace of Canada, the No. 2 seed, reaching the the semifinals with a 6-0, 7-5 win over wild card Malaika Rapolu(Texas). Brace beat Brantmeier last summer in the first round of the W100 in Cary NC 6-1, 7-6(5).

In the top half, 16-year-old Kristina Liutova has extended her W100 winning streak to eight matches, with the Russian-born Seattle resident earning a tough 7-6(2), 7-5 win over Eryn Cayetano(USC) to set up a meeting with top seed Whitney Osuigwe. Osuigwe, who defeated former Georgia star Mell Reasco of Ecuador 6-4, 6-4, will try to end the run of Indian Harbour Beach W100 champion Liutova in Saturday's semifinals.

Evans, who won the W15 in Lakewood California last week as a qualifier, earned a special exempt spot this week in Lakewood to avoid qualifying, and she immediately took out the top seed. Today Evans defeated No. 5 seed Kailey Evans(Texas Tech, USD) 7-6(2), 6-0 to post her tenth consecutive win in the past 12 days. She will play No. 8 seed Kristina Penickova, the former ITF junior number 1, who has returned from a six-month injury layoff in impressive form. The 16-year-old, currently No. 8 in the ITF junior rankings, beat No. 4 seed Rachel Gailis (Florida) 6-2, 6-1.

In the bottom half, UCLA freshman Mayu Crossley of Japan, the No. 2 seed, will face No. 3 seed Dasha Plekhanova of Canada. Plekhanova defeated No. 6 seed Ava Hrastar(Georgia Tech, Ole Miss, Auburn) 6-4, 6-0, while Crossley beat Jo-Yee Chan(Oregon, San Diego State) 6-4, 6-2.

There are no Americans remaining in the semifinals of the M15 in Lakewood, with Marko Mesarovic(Clemson) and Ozan Baris(Michigan State) losing in today's quarterfinals. Unseeded Oliver Bonding of Great Britain, who just completed his freshman season at TCU, defeated qualifier Mesarovic 6-4, 6-2 and will face No. 4 seed Dmitry Popko of Kazakhstan in the semifinals. Baris lost to Iiro Vasa(San Diego) of Finland 6-3, 6-4 to set up a meeting with fellow qualifier Oliver Ojakaar(Texas) of Estonia. Ojakaar beat No. 2 seed Kento Miyoshi(Illinois) of Japan 7-6(3), 6-2.

At the ATP Challenger 75 in Tyler Texas, rain continues to cause delays, but three of the four semifinalists have been determined. Top seed Adam Walton(Tennessee) of Australia defeated Tim Legout(Texas) of France 6-2, 6-2 in today's quarterfinals and will play No. 3 seed Liam Draxl(Kentucky) of Canada. Draxl beat qualifier Braden Shick(NC State) 6-2, 6-3.

Qualifier Karl Poling, who played at Princeton and then as a graduate student at UNC, is through to his first ATP Challenger semifinal after beating 2023 Wimbledon boys champion Henry Searle of Great Britain 7-6(2), 3-6, 6-3. He will play the winner of the match between Andre Ilagan(Hawaii) and Yuta Shimizu of Japan, with a third set necessary to decide it after the recent rain delay.

Antonius and Hance Meet Friday For Spot in Roland Garros Boys Final; Oktiabreva and 2, 3 and 4 Seeds Advance to Girls Semifinals; Three US Pairs Reach RG Junior Doubles Semifinals

Keaton Hance won a nail-biter of a quarterfinal to reach his second junior slam semifinal at Roland Garros, while 16-year-old Michael Antonius breezed past the Australian Open boys champion to earn a shot at his first junior slam final in just his second appearance in one.

Hance, the No. 6 seed, had to survive several distractions in his 6-3, 5-7, 7-6(6) win over No. 3 seed Jamie Mackenzie of Germany.  After starting out with a nearly flawless first, Hance didn't face a break point until 5-all in the second set, but Mackenzie finally got his chances in that game and converted his third break point opportunity, then held to even the match. 

Hance fell behind in the third set, after getting broken at 1-all, but he broke back in a ten-minute four deuce game on his fourth break point. With Hance serving at 15-all in the next game, Mackenzie sat down in a chair in the corner after winning the point, although on the replay there was no indication of what might have led to that abrupt call for the trainer. The trainer looked at his right ankle, but no treatment ensured, and after six minutes the game resumed, with Hance holding for a 3-2 lead.

Mackenzie then left the court for treatment at the changeover and four minutes later, with Hance shadow serving while his opponent was gone, Mackenzie returned. He then began to press on his left shoulder and even tried an underhand serve in that game, but managed to hold serve without incident, as did Hance, for a deciding tiebreaker. Mackenzie continued to indicate he was having problems with his shoulder, but got it to 6-all in the tiebreaker before Hance locked down, winning the final four points to earn his spot in the semifinals.

In contrast, No. 13 seed Antonius kept the drama to a minimum, getting 75% of his first serves in, converting half of his 10 break points and never looking threatened in a rally.  After defeating No. 2 seed Yannick Alexandrescou of France yesterday and the reigning Australian Open champion today, in straightforward fashion, Antonius will now play Hance, who is two years older and much more experienced given his run to the Australian Open final in January, but his current form will be a challenge for anyone to overcome.

The USTA's Inside American Tennis has comments from both Hance and Antonius about their matches today and facing each other in the semifinals. 

The third US boys in the quarterfinals, Jack Kennedy, had a disappointing 18th birthday, falling to wild card Leonardo Storck Franca of Brazil 6-3, 7-6(1). The 17-year-old Storck Franca, who has a one-handed backhand, was down a break twice in the first set, but Kennedy immediately gave those breaks back and then lost serve for the third straight time to give Storck Franca the chance to serve out the set, which he did.

The second set featured eight service holds to start, with Kennedy the first one broken at 4-all, but Storck Franca could not serve out the match. Despite that inability to close out a big win over a top seed, Storck Franca didn't fade, holding to force a tiebreaker, and then playing much better than Kennedy, who couldn't find any way to put pressure on his opponent.

Storck Franca will face top seed Luis Guto Miguel in the all-Brazil semifinal, after Miguel defeated No. 7 seed Thilo Behrmann of Austria 6-4, 1-6, 6-3. Although both are 17, Storck Franca has been in Guto Miguel's shadow for many years, but he is proving this week that he deserves time in the spotlight as well. That semifinal is the subject of this ITF Junior website article.

The girls quarterfinal featured just one three-setter, with No. 3 seed Victoria Barros of Brazil beating unseeded Ha Eum Lee of Korea 2-6, 6-1, 6-4. Barros will face No. 2 seed Xinran Sun of China, who cruised past No. 6 seed Anastasija Cvetkovic of Serbia 6-0, 6-2 in less than an hour. Sun and Barros met in the semifinals of the Orange Bowl last December, with Sun winning 6-2, 6-3. 

No. 12 seed Alisa Oktiabreva ended the run of 14-year-old qualifier Ekaterina Dotsenko in the all-Russian quarterfinals, earning a 6-3, 6-4 victory and her second trip to the Roland Garros semifinals, with her first in 2023. 

She will play No. 4 seed Jana Kovackova of Czechia, who zipped past No. 9 seed Charo Esquiva Banuls of Spain 6-0, 6-2.

The doubles semifinals are scheduled for Friday, with both top seeds ousted today. No. 8 seeds Jordyn Hazelitt and Welles Newman, who won a W35 doubles title last month, beat No. 1 seeds Barros and Paola Pinera Celorio of Spain 4-6, 7-6(4), 10-8, saving a match point on a deciding point at 5-6 in the second set.

They will play No. 4 seeds Sun and Ruien Zhang of China in the semifinals.

The other girls doubles semifinal will be between two unseeded teams, with Kovackova and Katerina Zajickova of Czechia facing Lee and Luna Cinalli of Argentina. Kovackova and Zajickova beat No. 3 seeds Cvetkovic and Thea Frodin 6-3, 6-1.

Although technically Yannick Alvarez represents Puerto Rico, which has a separate federation from the USTA, he lives in the United States and has competed in USTA events for many years, including winning the Kalamazoo 16s doubles title in 2024. He and Jack Secord have been playing together regularly for the past year, making the Wimbledon quarterfinals and US Open semifinals, where they lost to eventual champions Hance and Kennedy.

Today Alvarez and Secord came back to defeat top seeds Miguel and Sesko 2-6, 6-2, 10-6 and will face No. 8 seeds Mackenzie and Vincent Reisach of Germany in the semifinals.

Second seeds Hance and Kennedy, who won a M25 doubles title last month in Spain, defeated No. 5 seeds Nicolas Baena of Peru and Tito Chavez of Spain 6-3, 6-4 in an evening quarterfinal match; they will play unseeded Mathys Domenc and Daniel Jade of France, who beat Safir Azam and Dan Brand of Israel 3-6, 6-2, 10-7.

Friday's order of play is here.

In today's mixed doubles final, Evan King(Michigan) and Gabriela Dabrowski of Canada, playing together for the first time, fell to defending champions and top seeds Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori of Italy 4-6, 6-3, 10-4. For more on the final, see this article from the Roland Garros website.

One American and three former collegians remain in the men's and women's doubles draws, with top seeds Taylor Townsend and Czechia's Katerina Siniakova playing No. 4 seeds Dabrowski and Luisa Stefani(Pepperdine) of Brazil in tomorrow semifinals. In the bottom half, No. 2 seed Aleksandra Krunic of Serbia and Anna Danilina(Florida) of Kazakhstan will play unseeded Shuko Aoyama of Japan and En-Shuo Liang of Taiwan.

No. 2 seeds Henry Patten(UNC-Asheville) of Great Britain and Harri Heliovaara of Finland reached the final today and will play the winner of tomorrow's semifinal between top seeds Marcel Granollers of Spain and Horacio Zeballos of Argentina and No. 5 seeds Vavassori and Simone Bolleli of Italy.