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

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

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

Sunday's Roland Garros first round matches featuring Americans:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Live streaming is here; live scoring is here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The full box score is available here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ethan Quinn

Eliot Spizzirri v Frances Tiafoe[19]

Ben Shelton

Patrick Kypson

Brandon Nakashima[31]

Marcos Giron

Learner Tien[18]

Zachary Svajda

Jenson Brooksby

Tommy Paul[24]

Taylor Fritz[7] v Nishesh Basavareddy[WC]

Alex Michelsen

Aleks Kovacevic

Reilly Opelka

Michael Zheng[Q]

Iva Jovic[17]

Emma Navarro

Madison Keys[19]

McCartney Kessler

Jessica Pegula[5]

Coco Gauff[4] v Taylor Townsend

Akasha Urhobo[WC]

Ann Li[30]

Amanda Anisimova[6]

Sofia Kenin v Peyton Stearns

Caty McNally

Katie Volynets

Alycia Parks

Hailey Baptiste[26]

Sloane Stephens[Q]

Ashlyn Krueger[Q]

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

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

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

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

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

Darwin Blanch v Luka Pavlovic(FRA)

Claire Liu v Lulu Sun[5](NZL)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Live scoring is available at the tournament's website.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Final 2025-2026 ITA Rankings, May 20, 2026

WOMEN:

Team Top 10

1. Texas A&M

2. Auburn

3. Georgia

4. Ohio State

5. North Carolina

6. Oklahoma

7. Virginia

8. NC State

9. Pepperdine

10. LSU

Singles Top 20

1. Lucciana Perez, Texas A&M*

2. Reese Brantmeier, North Carolina

3. Carmen Herea, Texas

4. Luciana Perry, Ohio State

5. Teah Chavez, Ohio State*

6. Aysegul Mert, Georgia*

7. Ange Oby Kajuru, North Carolina*

8. Piper Charney, Michigan

9. Irina Balus, Duke

10. Cadence Brace, LSU*

11. Katrina Scott, Tennessee*

12. Evialina Laskevich, Oklahoma*

13. Anastasia Abbagnato, Texas*

14. Bridget Stammel, Vanderbilt*

15. Anastasiia Lopata, Georgia*

16. DJ Bennett, Auburn*

17. Maria Sholokhova, Wisconsin*

18. Savannah Dada-Mascoll, Appalachian State

19. Lily Jones, Michigan

20. Mia Slama, NC State

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

Doubles Top 10

1. Roisin Gilheany and Gloriana Nahum, Oklahoma

2. Gabriella Broadfoot and Victoria Osuigwe, NC State

3. Ava Esposito and DJ Bennett, Auburn*

4. Reese Brantmeier and Alanis Hamilton, North Carolina

5. Denis Dilek and Aysegul Mert, Georgia*

6. Anastasiia Lopata and Patricija Paykstyte, Georgia*

7. Angella Okutoyi and Merna Refaat, Auburn*

8. Flora Johnson and Luciana Perry, Ohio State*

9. Melodie Collard and Vivian Yang, Virginia*

10. Ange Oby Kajuru and Susanna Maltby, North Carolina

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

MEN:

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

Singles Top 20

1. Dylan Dietrich, Virginia

2. Sebastian Gorzny, Texas*

3. Jay Friend, Arizona

4. Trevor Svajda, SMU

5. Paul Inchauspe, Princeton

6. Michael Zheng, Columbia

7. Duncan Chan, TCU*

8. Benito Sanchez-Martinez, Mississippi State*

9. Max Dahlin, Michigan

10. Devin Badenhorst, Baylor*

11. Petar Jovanovic, Mississippi State

12. Keegan Rice, Virginia

13. Lucas Andrade Da Silva, South Carolina*

14. Aidan Kim, Ohio State*

15. Oliver Tarvet, San Diego*

16. Theo Papamalamis, Texas A&M*

17. Kenta Miyoshi, Illinois

18. Gabriel Debru, Illinois*

19. Matthew Forbes, Michigan State

20. Jakub Vrba, Arkansas*

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

Doubles Top 10

1. DK Suresh and Andrew Delgado, Wake Forest

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

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

4. Brno Nhavene and Luis Alvarez, Oklahoma*

5. Arda Azkara and Santiago Giamichelle, Georgia*

6. Brandon Carpico and Nikita Filin, Ohio State

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

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

9. Mans Dahlberg and Dylan Dietrich, Virginia

10. Billy Blades and Freddy Blades, Auburn*

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

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

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

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

Sloane Stephens v Leyre Romero Gormaz(ESP)

Ashlyn Krueger[3] v Mary Stoiana(USA)

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

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

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

Darwin Blanch v Luka Pavlovic(FRA)

Claire Liu v Lulu Sun[3](NZL)

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

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

My Recap of Virginia Men's NCAA Team Title; Wesleyan and Washington-St Louis Reach D-III Women's Final, Defending Men's Champion Denison Falls to Case Western; Second Round Begins Wednesday at ITF J500 Trofeo Bonfiglio; Nine Americans Advance in Roland Garros Qualifying

My recap of Sunday's men's NCAA Division I Team Championships final is up today at the Tennis Recruiting Network. If you missed my daily coverage of all matches that sent finalist Texas and champion Virginia to the final, this can be a quick review for you, but it can't convey the drama and excitement of each of the three days of competition in Athens. My article on the women's final will be available Wednesday.

Unlike the Texas A&M D-I women's champions, who played three straight nights and concluded their wins near or past midnight, the Division III finalists Wesleyan and Washington-St. Louis will have a day off before they meet for the title on Thursday.  

Fourth-ranked Wesleyan handed top-ranked Claremont-Mudd-Scripps their first loss of the season, beating the Athenas 4-3.. Defending champion Wash U, ranked No. 3, defeated fifth-ranked Babson 4-1. The 1 p.m. CDT final will be streamed live Thursday at ncaa.com, with Alex Gruskin of Cracked Racquets providing commentary. 

The highlight of the D-III men's quarterfinals today was No. 5 Case Western Reserve, the 2023 champions, defeating 2025 champions Denison, ranked No. 4, 4-3. Case Western will play 2024 champion Chicago tomorrow, after the top-ranked Maroons defeated No. 7 Bowdoin 4-2.

Second-ranked Claremont-Mudd-Scripps reached Wednesday's semifinals with a 4-1 victory over No. 11 Emory to set up a meeting with third-ranked Tufts, who beat No. 8 Swarthmore 4-1.

Live streaming of the men's semifinals begins at 10 a.m. CDT, with the link available here.

Rain on Monday kept the first round from completion at the ITF J500 Trofeo Bonfiglio in Milan Italy, but all the seeds with byes now have an opponent.

The US juniors competing in Wednesday's second round:

Andy Johnson[5] v Rihards Neimanis(LAT)

Melije Clarke v Mariia Makarova(RUS)

Welles Newman v Sol Ailin Larraya Guidi[6](ARG)

Lani Chang v Jana Kovackova[2](CZE)

Janae Preston[11] v Adelina Lacinova(LAT)

Thea Frodin[13] v Yu Jun Lin(CHN)

Jack Secord v Kuan-Shou Chen[8](TPE)

Michael Antonius[4] v Damir Zhalgasbay(KAZ)

Gavin Goode v Kai Thompson[16](HKG)

Live scoring is available at the tournament home page; live streaming will be here beginning with the quarterfinals matches.

American men advancing to the second round of the Roland Garros qualifying in opening round action the past two days are Michael Zheng(Columbia), Emilio Nava[3], Colton Smith(Arizona) and Darwin Blanch, who got into qualifying as an alternate.

US women reaching the second round of qualifying are Ashlyn Krueger[3], Mary Stoiana(Texas A&M), Claire Liu, Sloane Stephens and Robin Montgomery.

Dates and Automatic Qualifiers for USTA American Collegiate US Open Wild Card Competition Announced; Babson Surprises Chicago in Division III Women's Semifinals; Rain Pushes Back First Round Singles Monday at ITF J500 in Milan

After covering the NCAA D-I Team Championships in Athens, which was equal parts exhilarating and exhausting, I'm going to need to get some sleep over the next few days, but I'm planning to do a thoughts and observations post in coming days, so stay tuned for that.

I missed a lot that went on in the rest of the tennis world, but as far as results of Americans last week--and there were plenty-- make sure you sign up for the free Substack newsletter Inside American Tennis, introduced by the USTA last month.

This afternoon the USTA announced the dates of its second American Collegiate US Open Wild Card Playoff. Three singles competitors have already earned their spots by their performances at last November's NCAA individual championships: Reese Brantmaier, Michael Zheng, Trevor Svajda in singles and Brandon Carpico and Nikita Filin in doubles. The other two men's and three women's singles participants, as well as three of the men's doubles and all four of the women's doubles participants, will be announced May 27. The full release is below.

American Collegiate Player Wildcard Playoffs Return to USTA National Campus June 16-18

 

Top American Collegiate Players to Compete

for US Open Singles and Doubles Wild Cards

 

ORLANDO, Fla., May 18, 2026 – The USTA today announced that the second annual American Collegiate Player Wildcard Playoffs – featuring the best American men’s and women’s college tennis players competing for six total wild card entries into the US Open – will be played June 16-18 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla.

 

The winners of a four-player men’s and women’s singles playoff and a four-team men’s and women’s doubles playoff will earn US Open main draw singles and doubles wild cards, while the men’s and women’s singles finalists will earn US Open Qualifying wild cards.

All matches will be played at the USTA National Campus’ Collegiate Center each night of the event (Tuesday–Thursday), with start times to be confirmed. Admission is free. Cracked Racquets will provide streaming coverage.

The full player fields will be selected on Wednesday, May 27. Player selections will be determined by a committee made up of USTA staff, college tennis coaches and an ITA representative. This season’s American NCAA singles and doubles champions and finalists earned automatic entry on both sides: men’s singles champion Michael Zheng (Columbia) and finalist Trevor Svajda (SMU); women’s singles champion Reese Brantmeier (North Carolina); and men’s doubles finalists Nikita Filin and Brandon Carpico (Ohio State).

The remaining slots will be filled based on a number of factors, including 2025-26 match record, ITA ranking, ATP/WTA ranking, professional and head-to-head results, and more.

The second-year playoff is part of an expanded NCAA-linked wild card pilot program that guarantees at least six US Open wild cards to American collegiate players each year, coinciding with the NCAA DI Individual Championships shifting to the fall. Last year, both winning doubles teams – Brantmeier and Alanis Hamilton (UNC) and Cooper Williams and Theo Winegar (Duke) – reached the second round at the US Open.

 

American NCAA champions that have previously benefited from the US Open wild card as way to jumpstart their professional careers include Danielle Collins (Virginia – 2014, ‘16); Mackenzie McDonald (UCLA – 2016); Emma Navarro (Virginia – 2021); Ben Shelton (Florida – 2022); and Peyton Stearns (Texas – 2022).

The NCAA women's Division III quarterfinals were played today in Chattanooga Tennessee, with No. 1 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps defeating No. 11 Bowdoin 4-0; No. 4 Wesleyan beating No. 14 Washington and Lee 4-0; and No. 3 and defending champion Washington St. Louis defeating No. 8 Carnegie Mellon 4-1. The big upset was No. 5 Babson's 4-0 win over No. 2 Chicago, the 2024 D-III champions.

The men's quarterfinals are Tuesday, also in Chattanooga. All times are Central. 

Cracked Racquets' Alex Gruskin is on the call at NCAA.com.

Claremont-Mudd-Scripps[2] v Emory[11] 10:00 a.m.

Denison[4] v Case Western Reserve[5] 10:00 a.m.

Tufts[3] v Swarthmore[8] 1:00 p.m.

Bowdoin[7] v Chicago[1] 1:00 p.m.

Cracked Racquets' Alex Gruskin is on the call at NCAA.com.

Rain kept the first round singles matches from being completed at the ITF J500 Trofeo Bonfiglio in Milan Italy, but several unseeded Americans did pick up wins: Jack Secord, Gavin Goode, Lani Chang and Welles Newman. Seeded Americans Thea Frodin[13], Janae Preston[11, Andy Johnson[5] and Michael Antonius received byes. The other unseeded Americans yet to play their first round matches are qualifier Jordan Lee, Tanishk Konduri, Jordyn Hazelitt and Melije Clarke.

Brazilians Luis Guto Miguel and Victoria Barros are the top seeds.

The ITF's preview is here. Live streaming is available here: https://video.worldtennistourjuniors.com/en