USTA Announces Participants for June's American Collegiate US Open Playoff; Nine Americans in Roland Garros Junior Championships Qualifying Thursday; Tu and Lee Advance to Semis at ITF J300 Belgium; Stearns, Paul and Michelsen Reach RG Third Round

I have been struggling with home internet problems the past five days, so I apologize for the delay in my NCAA D-I Athens post, but those issues are now resolved, which means I'll have it ready for tomorrow.

The USTA announced the fields for the second annual American Collegiate US Open Wild Card Playoffs, which included the surprising information that two-time NCAA champion Michael Zheng of Columbia would not be participating.

Zheng, who qualified for both the Australian Open and Roland this year, lost in the final of the inaugural Collegiate Playoffs last year. He is already assured of a spot in US Open qualifying after his run of three straight Challenger titles last summer and fall, and he has not had a stellar record against fellow collegians this spring, so he may be banking on getting his ranking, currently 146, into the Top 100 by the late July cutoff for the US Open. Last year, Arizona's Colton Smith declined his invitation to the playoff, which was won by Wake Forest's Stefan Dostanic, but Smith lost in the first round of qualifying at the US Open.

Although the committee formed to choose the participants can use other factors, all the invitees were chosen based solely on their ITA rankings. All those in the release below were the top-ranked Americans in the final ITA rankings.

STANDOUT FIELD ANNOUNCED FOR AMERICAN COLLEGIATE 

PLAYER WILDCARD PLAYOFFS

 

Top American Collegians to Compete for Six US Open Wild Card Entries June 16-18 

at the USTA National Campus

 

ORLANDO, Fla., May 27, 2026 – The USTA today announced the field of standout American collegiate players that will compete for entry into the US Open at the American Collegiate Player Wildcard Playoffs set to be held at the USTA National Campus’ Collegiate Center June 16-18.

Six wild card entries into the 2026 US Open (four singles, two doubles) will be awarded via the second-year playoff event. The winners of the four-player men’s and women’s singles playoff and four-team men’s and women’s doubles playoff will earn US Open main draw singles and doubles wild cards, respectively, while the men’s and women’s singles finalists will earn US Open Qualifying wild cards.

The full fields are below, listed by the schools with which each player or team competed in 2025-26. Players appearing in bold automatically qualified based on having reached the finals of the NCAA Singles or Doubles Championships in the fall. The remaining selections were made based on a number of criteria, including 2025-26 match record, ITA ranking, ATP/WTA ranking, professional and head-to-head results, and more.

All singles and doubles matches will be played with a best-of-three-set format featuring regular scoring, with a 10-point tiebreak at 6-all in the third set.

 

Admission is free. Cracked Racquets will provide streaming coverage.

2026 American Collegiate Player Wildcard Playoffs Field

 

Men's Singles
Trevor Svajda (SMU)
Sebastian Gorzny (Texas)
Aidan Kim (Ohio State)
*Matthew Forbes (Michigan State)

 

Michael Zheng (Columbia) automatically qualified, but declined his invitation.

 

Women's Singles
Reese Brantmeier (North Carolina)
Luciana Perry (Ohio State)
Piper Charney (Michigan)
Katrina Scott (Tennessee)

 

Men's Doubles
Brandon Carpico/Nikita Filin (Ohio State)
Alex Chang/Alex Razeghi (Stanford)
Michael Andre/Matteo Antonescu (Indiana)
Greyson Casey/Carter Pate (Northwestern)

 

Women's Doubles
DJ Bennett/Ava Esposito (Auburn)
Reese Brantmeier/Alanis Hamilton (North Carolina)
Valeria Ray/Bridget Stammel (Vanderbilt)
*Jessica Bernales/Lily Jones (Michigan)

 

* Indicates player has transferred schools for the 2026-27 season; Forbes to Ohio State and Bernales to UCLA.

 

Competition Schedule

*All matches are scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. each night, subject to change*

Tuesday, June 16
Men’s and Women’s Singles Semifinals

Wednesday, June 17
Men’s and Women’s Doubles Semifinals

Thursday, June 18
Men’s and Women’s Singles Finals
Men’s and Women’s Doubles Finals

Qualifying for the Roland Garros Junior Championships begins Thursday in Paris, with four US boys and five US girls attempting to reach the main draw.

Safir Azam, the No. 3 seed in qualifying, plays wild card Evan Giurescu of France; Agassi Rusher faces No. 5 seed John Bothma of South Africa; Navneet Raghuram plays No. 6 seed Kunanan Pantaratorn of Thailand and Michael Savano faces No. 7 seed Mustafa Ege Sik of Australia. Benjamin Azar of Canada in the top seed in qualifying. 

Sarah Ye will play No. 11 seed Alena Kharchenko of Russia, Maggie Sohns is facing No. 4 seed Emily Eigelsbach of Germany, No. 9 seed Olivia Traynor plays French wild card Mila Bastianelli, Carrie-Anne Hoo faces No. 6 seed Veronika Sekerkova of Czechia and No. 15 seed Nancy Lee plays Ilary Pistola of Italy. Yu Jun Lin of China is the top seed in qualifying. 

Neither of the two Americans in the semifinals at this week's ITF J300 in Belgium were in Roland Garros Juniors qualifying as of the freeze deadline, so it's unlikely that either Jordan Lee or Anita Tu will receive special exempts into the main draw in Paris.

Lee, who missed the ITF J300s in the US this spring due to injury, defeated Oluwaseun Ogunsakin of Nigeria 2-6, 6-1, 6-3 to advance to a semifinal meeting with top seed Arnav Papakar of India. 

Safir Azam and Navneet Raghuram had to give a walkover in their doubles semifinal match in order to play qualifying in Paris, with the two boys special exempts going to the other two singles semifinalists: Matei Chelemen of Romania and Dan Brand of Israel were entered in RG qualifying but unable to play due to their semifinal in Belgium tomorrow.

Tu, who defeated qualifier Michelle Khomich of Germany 6-4, 6-1 today in Belgium to reach her first J300 semifinal, is the highest ranked player remaining in singles who was not in Roland Garros qualifying, so she could get a special exempt, but only if she ended up getting into qualifying when today's draw was made. 

Tu will play lucky loser Sofia Barhacova of Slovakia in the semifinals. 

Only three of the eight Americans in action Wednesday reached the third round at Roland Garros, with Hailey Baptiste suffering a serious injury in the first set that resulted in her retirement and a wheelchair exit from the court. Alex Michelsen repeated his 2022 Easter Bowl 18s finals win over Nishesh Basavareddy today in the only all-US matchup in Paris, coming through by the score of 7-6(5), 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. Peyton Stearns(Texas) and Tommy Paul are the Americans joining Michelsen in the third round.

Former Old Dominion All-American Yuliia Starodubtseva of Ukraine posted the biggest upset of the first four days at Roland Garros, beating No. 2 seed and reigning Australian Open champion Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan 3-6, 6-1, 7-6(4). 

Wednesday's Roland Garros second round results of Americans:

Belinda Bencic[11](SUI) d. Caty McNally 6-4, 6-0 

Marta Kostyuk[15](UKR) d. Katie Volynets 6-7(4), 6-3, 6-3

Xiyu Wang[Q](CHN) d. Hailey Baptiste[26] 5-4, ret.

Viktorija Golubic(SUI) d. Alycia Parks 6-2, 6-2

Peyton Stearns d.  Daria Snigur(UKR) 6-4, 6-0

Tommy Paul[24] d. Lorenzo Sonego(ITA) 6-3, 6-2, 6-4

Alex Michelsen d. Nishesh Basavareddy[WC] 7-6(5), 6-3, 3-6, 6-3

Thursday's Roland Garros second round matches featuring Americans:

Learner Tien[18] v Facundo Diaz Acosta[Q](ARG)

Ben Shelton[5] v Raphael Collignon(BEL)

Frances Tiafoe[19] v Hubert Hurkacz(POL)

Brandon Nakashima[31] v Luca Van Assche(FRA)

Zachary Svajda v Adam Walton[WC](AUS)

Ann Li[30] v Diane Parry(FRA)

Iva Jovic[17] v Emma Navarro

Amanda Anisimova[6] v Julia Grabher(AUT)

Coco Gauff[4] v Mayar Sherif[Q](EGY)

McCartney Kessler v Diana Shnaider[25](RUS)

Claire Liu[Q] v Maria Sakkari(GRE)

Madison Keys[19] v Antonia Ruzic(CRO)

Twenty-one Americans Reach Roland Garros Second Round after Day Three; CMS's Mareedu Closes Career with Back-to-Back D-III Singles Titles; ITA D-I All-Americans Announced; SoCal Pro Series Returns; Qualifying Complete at W35 in Wichita

The third and final day of first round matches at Roland Garros ended with eight more Americans advancing to the second round, after five had won their opening matches on Sunday and eight had picked up wins Monday. 

Seventeen-year-old Moise Kouame, who was No. 14 in the ITF junior rankings at this time last year but hasn't played a junior event since a first round loss to Ivan Ivanov in the 2025 Roland Garros Junior Championships, defeated 37-year-old Marin Cilic of Croatia 7-6(4), 6-2, 6-2 for his first victory at a major. The 2024 Orange Bowl finalist is the youngest player to reach the second round of a major since 16-year-old Bernard Tomic advanced in Melbourne in 2009.  He will face Daniel Vallejo of Paraguay, the 2021 Orange Bowl champion, next.

Former Tennessee All-American Adam Walton of Australia, who received Australia's reciprocal wild card, defeated No. 6 seed Daniil Medvedev of Russia 6-2, 1-6, 6-1, 1-6, 6-4.  It was a day for Aussie upsets, with No. 5 seed Jessica Pegula falling to Kimberly Birrell 1-6, 6-3, 6-3.

Tuesday's Roland Garros first round results of Americans

Coco Gauff[4] d. Taylor Townsend 6-4, 6-0
Madison Keys[19] d. Hanne Vandewinkel(BEL) 6-3, 6-0
Kimberly Birrell(AUS) d. Jessica Pegula[5] 1-6, 6-3, 6-3
Iva Jovic[17] d. Alexandra Eala(PHI) 6-4, 6-2
Antonia Ruzic(CRO) d. Ashlyn Krueger[Q] 3-6, 6-2, 6-2
Claire Liu[Q] d. Moyuka Uchijima(JPN) 3-6, 6-0, 4-1, ret.
Emma Navarro d. Janice Tjen(INA) 6-4, 6-3
Ann Li[30] d. Shuai Zhang(CHN) 6-4, 6-2

Learner Tien[18] d. Cristian Garin(CHI) 6-0, 2-6, 6-0, 6-2
Francisco Comesana(ARG) d. Ethan Quinn 6-4, 7-6(8), 7-6(4)
Zachary Svajda d. Alexei Popyrin(AUS) 3-6, 6-3, 7-6(3), 7-5

Wednesday's Roland Garros second round matches featuring Americans:

Caty McNally v Belinda Bencic[11](SUI)
Katie Volynets v Marta Kostyuk[15](UKR)
Hailey Baptiste[26] v Xiyu Wang[Q](CHN)
Alycia Parks v Viktorija Golubic(SUI)
Peyton Stearns v Daria Snigur(UKR)

Tommy Paul[24] v Lorenzo Sonego(ITA)
Nishesh Basavareddy[WC] v Alex Michelsen

The final NCAA tennis matches of the season were played today in Chattanooga Tennessee, with the men's D-III individual finals. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps senior Advik Mareedu captured his second straight singles title, while the Denison team of Ethan Green and Kael Shah claimed the doubles championship.

Mareedu has had a remarkable career at CMS, but his last two seasons have established him as a Division III legend. He has gone 84-3 as a junior and senior, with one loss last year and two this year. He avenged both losses in this month's NCAAs, including today's 6-3, 6-1 win in the final over No. 6 seed Michael Melnikov of Swarthmore, who had beaten Mareedu 6-4, 6-7, 6-4 at the ITA National Team Indoor Championships. Mareedu did have to survive a tough first round match, the day after his team lost to Chicago in the final, but he survived against Maximo Llamas of Kenyon 4-6, 7-6(5), 7-5 and was his usual dominant self thereafter.

Mareedu is just the third back-to-back men's D-III singles champion and the first since Matt Seeberger of UC-Santa Cruz in 2004 and 2005. 

For more on the final and his outstanding career at CMS, see this article from cmsathletics.org

No. 4 seed Green and Shah played five tiebreakers in their first two matches, winning three of them, but then left the drama behind, with a 6-3, 6-3 win in the semifinals over No. 2 seed Ruilin Feng and Ajay Kartik of Emory and a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Gage Gohl and Tyler Haddorff of Gustavus Adolphus in this morning's final. Green and Shah close out their careers at Denison with the 2025 team title and the program's first NCAA individual title.

Although I highlighted the Division I ITA All-Americans last Wednesday when the final rankings came out, the official chart is now available, with the women's 2026 singles and doubles All-Americans listed here and the men's listed here.

Week One of the seven-week SoCal Pro Series has begun, with the qualifying completed today at the men's and women's $15Ks in Lakewood California.

In the men's event, three Americans qualified: Karl Lee(UCLA, USC), Marko Mesarovic(Clemson) and Will Mayew(Louisville, UNC).

Wild cards were given to William Kleege(San Diego State), Alexander Guajardo(UC-Irvine), Lucca Liu(UC-Santa Barbara) and Miles Clark(NC Central).

Clark lost to Spencer Johnson(UCLA) 6-2, 7-5 and Liu lost to No. 4 seed Amit Vales. Kleege and Guajardo play each other Wednesday.

Noah Johnston, who just completed his freshman year at Georgia, received an ITF Junior Reserved entry and he defeated No. 3 seed Matt Kuhar(Bryant) 6-2, 6-3. The other Junior Reserved entrant, Vanderbilt rising freshman Roshan Santhosh, lost to No. 8 seed Noah Zamora(UC-Irvine) 6-4, 6-3.

Kaylan Bigun(UCLA) and Dmitry Popko of Kazakhstan are the top two seeds.

The wild cards for the W15 are 15-year-old Abigail Haile, Olivia Center(UCLA), and 16-year-olds Sophie Suh and Armira Kockinis. Haile lost to No. 7 seed Kallista Liu(Maryland) of Hong Kong 6-1, 6-3; Center defeated 2023 US Open girls champion Katherine Hui(Stanford) 6-1, 6-4.

Americans qualifying are Allison Wang, Claire Hill(UNC), Tatum Evans(UNC), UNC recruit Avery Nguyen and Virginia Crocker(Oregon). 

The top seeds are UCLA rising sophomore Mayu Crossley of Japan and Dasha Plekhanova of Canada.

A W35 is also on the calendar this week in Wichita Kansas, with three Americans advancing to the main draw via qualifying: Ava Catanzarite(UCLA, Oklahoma), incoming Auburn freshman Kaya Moe and incoming Wake Forest freshman Lillian Santos.

Wild cards were given to Xin Tong Wang of China, a junior at Wichita State; NC State rising sophomore Tori Osuigwe, Jenna Dean and 2025 NCAA singles champion Reese Brantmeier(UNC).

Carolyn Ansari(Auburn) is the top seed; 19-year-old Clervie Ngounoue, playing in just her second tournament this year, with her first coming two weeks ago, is the No. 2 seed.

Ngounoue defeated Dean 6-3, 6-0 in a first round match today; Wang and Ansari are playing tonight.

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[5] 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.