Lee and Sesko Meet for WT Junior Final Boys Title; Sun and Pushkareva Again in Girls Championship Match; McDonald Sweeps Austin W50 Titles; Brantmeier Cruises into Saguenay W75 Singles Final; Brooksby and Blanch Reach Fort Worth Challenger Final

Four of this year's junior slam champions will play for the championship Sunday at the World Tennis Junior Finals in Chengdu China, including American Jordan Lee, who won Wimbledon as a qualifier in July.

The fourth-seeded Lee defeated No. 7 seed Vincent Reisach of Germany 6-2, 7-5 in Saturday's semifinals, and will face No. 6 seed and Australian Open champion Ziga Sesko of Slovenia, who beat No. 3 seed Keaton Hance 6-4, 6-4 to prevent an all-USA boys final. Lee, 16, and the eighteen-year-old Sesk , the only boy yet to suffer a loss, met just four days ago in group play, with Sesko winning 7-6(5), 6-7(3), 6-2. Lee is the first American boy to reach the final since Brandon Nakashima won the title in 2018. (Due to the pandemic, the event was not held in 2020, 2021 and 2022).

While Sesko and Lee have one recent meeting, top seed Xinran Sun of China and No. 3 seed Anna Pushkareva have three, playing in the Wimbledon final, the US Open final, and in group play this week. Pushkareva won the first, but the 16-year-old Sun has won the last two, including in group play Thursday, when she blitzed the 17-year-old Russian 6-2, 6-0 in less than an hour.

In the nine years of this tournament's existence, two reigning junior slam champions have never met in the final, and this year, that is the case for both the girls and boys.

The boys final is scheduled to beging at 11:30 tonight in the Eastern time zone of the United States, with the girls final to follow. Live streaming is available, with Cracked Racquets' Alex Gruskin providing commentary. Live scoring can be found here.

In the rare Saturday finish to a USTA Pro Circuit tournament, qualifier Ella McDonald of Great Britain completed her sweep of the titles at the W50 in Austin, with the LSU junior defeating No. 5 seed Madison Brengle 7-5, 6-1 in the final. McDonald, who won her 16th women's WT doubles title with Kylie Collins yesterday, had claimed three W15 titles in singles, but this is her first singles title since May of 2025.

2025 NCAA singles champion Reese Brantmeier is on track to sweep the titles this week at the W75 in Saguenay Canada, after breezing past Hiromi Abe of Japan 6-1, 6-3 in 72 minutes. The recent North Carolina graduate won the doubles title with former teammate Carson Tanguilig, with the unseeded pair defeating No. 3 seeds Jasmijn Gimbrere of the Netherlands and Michaela Bayerlova(Washington State) of Czechia 6-2, 7-6(3) in the final. 

Brantmeier is up to 231 in the live WTA rankings after reaching the final, and with no points to defend the rest of the year is looking likely to make the Australian Open women's qualifying in her first year as a professional. And she still has an opportunity to win the USTA's Australian Open wild card, with two more weeks remaining in that race. She is continuing that quest next week in the W75 in Toronto, not in the W100 in New Braunfels Texas.

Connie Ma's run in the California W35s came to an end today in the semifinals of the Bakersfield tournament, with the 23-year-old wild card falling to No. 3 seed Hanna Chang 6-4, 6-2. The 2022 NCAA singles finalist as a freshman at Stanford won her first Pro Circuit title last week's W35 in Redding California.

Chang will face wild card Jenna DeFalco, who at 23 is looking for her first title above the W15 level. DeFalco defeated No. 7 seed Lan Mi(Cal) of China 6-1, 2-6, 6-1.

Jack Anthrop will play in his second straight M15 final Sunday, after the fourth-seeded former Ohio State All-American defeated Kentucky junior Rafael Ymer of Sweden, a qualifier, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 in the Ithaca semifinals. Anthrop, who lost to Theo Papamalamis of Texas A&M in the final of the M15 in Lexington Kentucky last Sunday, will play wild card Rodrigo Fernandes of Portugal, a junior at Cornell, for the title. Fernandes beat Texas junior Oliver Ojakaar of Estonia, a qualifier, 6-4, 6-4 in today's semifinals. 

Ojakaar won't return to Austin empty-handed, winning the doubles title with Nathan Cox(Vanderbilt). Ojakaar and Cox defeated Mans Dahlberg(Virginia) of Sweden and Zsombor Velcz(Baylor) of Hungary 7-5, 7-6(7) in the final.

At the ATP Challenger 75 in Fort Worth Texas, the top two seeds will decide the title, with two Kalamazoo 18s champions squaring off Sunday.

No. 2 seed Darwin Blanch, who won the 2028 18s title and the 2022 16s title in Kalamazoo, defeated qualifier Sander Jong(TCU) of the Netherlands 7-6(5), 6-2 to advance to his third Challenger final. He will face top seed Jenson Brooksby, the 2018 Kalamazoo 18s champion, who reached the 2016 Kalamazoo 16s final. Brooksby lost a 77-minute first set to Gabriel Debru(Illinois, Texas) of France 6-7(14), but rebounded to win the second set 6-3 and the third set 6-2 to reach the final. 

TCU teammates Cooper Woestendick and Albert Pedrico won the doubles title as wild cards, capturing their first Challenger doubles title with a walkover from James Hopper(Case Western, Virginia) of Great Britain and Shunsuke Mitsui(Tennessee) of Japan. 

My Article on Gowda's Michigan Commitment; Lee and Hance Reach Semifinals at Junior Finals; Brantmeier Claims WTA Top 100 Win at W75 in Canada; McDonald and Brengle Advance to W50 Final in Austin; Ma Ends Sharma's Winning Streak

While I was in Houston earlier this month for the World Tennis J300 Pan American Closed Championships, I had an opportunity to interview 17-year-old Thara Gowda about her decision to join the Michigan Wolverines next fall. As the No. 4 girl in the Class of 2027, Gowda obviously had her choice of schools, but the Rochester Hills resident decided to stay in Southeast Michigan, as so many of the area's top girls have done recently. My article today at Tennis Recruiting Network explains not only why she chose Michigan over other top schools, but why she came to the realization that college tennis was the next best step to reach her goal of professional tennis.

The semifinals for the World Tennis Junior Finals were determined with the completion of play Friday in Chengdu, with both Keaton Hance and Jordan Lee qualifying for the knockout round Saturday. 

Hance, the No. 3 seed, beat No. 2 seed Thilo Behrmann of Austria 6-4, 6-4 to finish second in Group B, at 2-1, behind No. 7 seed Vincent Reisach of Germany, who went 3-0.

Lee, the No. 4 seed, defeated top seed Jamie MacKenzie(TCU) of Germany 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 to finish second in his group, behind Australian Open boys champion Ziga Sesko of Slovenia, the No. 5 seed. Lee's only loss was to Sesko, who went 3-0 in Group A.

Hance will play Sesko and Lee will play Reisach in the semifinals, beginning tonight at 10:30 Eastern time.  Sesko beat Hance 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the Australian Open boys final in January; Lee beat Reisach 6-3, 6-2 in the Wimbledon boys semifinals in July.

The girls semifinals feature the top three seeds and No. 5 seed Mariia Makarova, with No. 1 Xinran Sun of China playing No. 2 seed Jana Kovackova of Czechia. Sun defeated Kovackova 6-4, 6-4 in the semifinals of the J500 in Milan this spring.

Makarova, who, like Sun, was undefeated in her group, will play fellow Russian and No. 3 seed Anna Pushkarova. They have not played in either WT women's or junior events.

Janae Preston, who lost to Makarova 6-1, 6-2 went 0-3 in group play and will be playing in the 5-8 playoffs against Ksenia Efremova of France Friday.

Live streaming is available, with Cracked Racquets' Alex Gruskin providing commentary.  Live scoring can be found here.

2025 NCAA singles champion Reese Brantmeier posted her best win by WTA ranking today at the W75 in Saguenay Canada, with the recent North Carolina graduate defeating top seed and WTA No. 69 Tatjana Maria of Germany 7-6(7), 2-6, 6-3 in just under three hours to advance to the semifinals. Brantmeier will play unseeded Hiromi Abe of Japan, whom she beat in the second round of the W50 in Quebec last week 6-4, 7-6(0). 

There are no seeds remaining in the singles, with Yuki Naito of Japan facing Ariana Arseneault(Georgia, Auburn) of Canada in the semifinal in the bottom half. Arseneault beat Ayana Akli(Maryland, South Carolina) 7-5, 6-3 in the quarterfinals.

Brantmeier is also through to the doubles final, with former teammate and 2023 NCAA doubles champion Carson Tanguilig. Brantmeier has already won three WT women's doubles titles this year, including last week's title in Quebec, with Duke freshman Mimi Xu as her partner.

LSU junior Ella McDonald of Great Britain will go for a sweep of the titles at the W50 in Austin Texas Saturday, when the qualifier faces No. 5 seed Madison Brengle for the singles championship. The 21-year-old left-hander defeated Anastasia Tikhonova of Russia 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 to reach the biggest final of her career. 

Brengle, 36, beat No. 8 seed Elli Mandlik 7-5, 2-6, 6-2 and will be trying to earn a second W50 title this year. McDonald defeated Brengle in the quarterfinals of W50 in Berkeley California last month 6-3, 1-6, 6-2.

McDonald won her 16th women's WTT doubles title today, but her first with Kylie Collins(Texas, LSU, Oklahoma State). The No. 4 seeds beat unseeded Ashley Lahey(Pepperdine) and Canada's Alexandra Vagramov(UCLA) 6-0, 6-1 in today's 53-minute final.

When Connie Ma(Stanford) and Astra Sharma of Australian met in the quarterfinals of the W35 in Bakersfield California today, one of their winning streaks was going to end, and it was Sharma's, with wild card Ma posting the 6-2, 6-3 victory. Ma, last week's champion at the W35 in Redding, has now won eight straight matches, with her last loss coming to Janae Preston in her first tournament back in her return to competitive tennis since her All-American career at Stanford ended in 2025. 

Sharma, an All-American at Vanderbilt, had won 16 matches in a row(including qualifying) with titles at the W15 in Nashville and the W50 in Lexington South Carolina. 

Ma will face No. 3 seed Hanna Chang, who beat Jo-Yee Chan(Oregon, San Diego State) 4-6, 6-0, 6-4. No. 6 seed Lan Mi of China, a former Cal standout, will face the winner of tonight's match between wild card Jenna DeFalco and qualifier Jana Hossam of Egypt, a junior at Florida.

Parity Reigns at World Tennis Junior Finals with Quarterfinalists to be Decided Friday; Secord Reaches First USTA Pro Circuit Quarterfinal at Ithaca M15; Ma Advances at W35 Bakersfield; Four Americans in Fort Worth Challenger Quarterfinals

The World Tennis Junior Finals have seen some upsets in the first two days of group play, but all four groups head into Friday's final day of round robin play in Chengdu China with the exact same scenarios: one defeated player, one winless player and two players with 1-1 records.

The top two finishers in each group will advance to Saturday's semifinals, and No. 3 seed Keaton Hance still has an opportunity to be one of the semifinalists after his 6-0, 6-2 win over Dimitar Kisimov of Bulgaria Thursday. Hance needs to beat No. 2 seed Thilo Behrmann of Austria, the other player in his group that is 1-1, to move on. 

No. 4 seed Janae Preston lost to No. 2 seed Jana Kovackova of Czechia 6-4, 6-4 and will not advance to the semifinals, even with a win over Group B leader Mariia Makarova of Russia. 

No. 4 seed Jordan Lee lost to No. 5 seed Ziga Sesko of Slovenia 7-6(5), 6-7(3), 6-2 to fall to 1-1, but he can qualify for the semifinals if he beats top seed Jamie Mackenzie(TCU) of Germany Friday. Sesko and Vincent Reisach of Germany, who is 2-0 in Group B, are assured of advancing regardless of their results Friday.

Top seed Xinran Sun of China is the Group A leader at 2-0, after her emphatic 6-2, 6-0 win over No. 3 seed Anna Pushkareva of Russia. Pushkareva and Sun met in the last two girls slam finals, with Pushkareva winning in three sets at Wimbledon and Sun winning in three sets at the US Open, so a match that one-sided seemed unlikely.

Live streaming begins at 10:30 tonight in the Eastern time zone with the Preston-Makarova match. Live scoring can be found here.

Eighteen-year-old Jack Secord has advanced to his first USTA Pro Circuit quarterfinal at this week's M15 in Ithaca New York. Secord, No. 19 in the WT junior rankings, received entry via the WT Junior Reserved program, with this only his third pro tournament of the year, fourth, if including the US Open men's qualifying. The Stanford recruit defeated 19-year-old Benjamin Willerth, the 2025 Australian Open boys champion, 6-2, 6-3 and will face No. 4 seed Jack Anthrop(Ohio State) in the quarterfinals Friday. 

Anthrop defeated Eli Stephenson, a senior at Kentucky, 6-0, 3-6, 6-3 in today's second round, his second win over Stephenson in the past six days. Anthrop beat Stephenson last week in the semifinals of the M15 in Lexington Kentucky 6-1, 3-6, 6-4.  Vignesh Gogineni(Yale) is the other American in the quarterfinals, with the No. 6 seed defeating Zsombor Velcz(Baylor) of Hungary 6-3, 6-2. 

At the W50 in Austin Texas, 17-year-old qualifier Thea Frodin lost to No. 5 seed Madison Brengle 7-6(2), 6-3 in today's quarterfinals. Brengle will play No. 8 seed Elli Mandlik, who beat No. 4 seed Barbora Palicova of Czechia 7-6(3), 7-6(4). In the bottom half, LSU junior Ella McDonald of Great Britain, a qualifier, has advanced to the semifinals after beating newly announced Florida recruit Rebecaa Mortensen of Denmark 4-6, 7-5, 6-1. McDonald will play unseeded Anastasia Tikhonova of Russia, who beat No. 3 seed Yeonwoo Ku of Korea 1-6, 7-5, 6-3.

McDonald will also play in the doubles final Friday, with Kylie Collins(Texas, LSU, Oklahoma State). The No. 4 seeds will play the unseeded team of Ashley Lahey(Pepperdine) and Alexandra Vagramov(UCLA) of Canada.

Rain Wednesday pushed many of the Bakersfield California W35 first round matches to today, with all of them now complete, and second round matches underway. Former Stanford All-American Connie Ma continues to post impressive results,  with last week's Redding W35 champion defeating fellow wild card Aspen Schuman 7-6(5), ret. in the first round, and then breezing past No. 5 seed Diletta Cherubini of Italy 6-0, 6-1 in the second round. In Friday's quarterfinals, Ma will play the winner of the second round match this evening between qualifier Astra Sharma(Vanderbilt) of Australia and No. 2 seed Lea Ma(Georgia).

At the ATP Challenger 75 in Fort Worth Texas, four Americans have advanced to Friday's quarterfinals.

Top seed Jenson Brooksby will play Patrick Maloney(Michigan); Aidan Mayo faces qualifier Sander Jong(TCU) of the Netherlands; No. 2 seed Darwin Blanch, the 2025 Kalamazoo 18s champion, will play fellow 19-year-old left-hander Mees Rottgering of the Netherlands, a sophomore at Wake Forest.

Qualifier Frodin Defeats Top Seed Stephens at Austin W50; Lee Sole US Winner on Opening Day of World Tennis Junior Finals; Texas Signs Former Junior No. 1 Pacheco; USA's Bille Jean King Cup Team Selected; Update for Email Subscribers

Seventeen-year-old qualifier Thea Frodin, the 2026 USTA National 18s champion in San Diego, claimed the best win of her career today at the W50 in Austin Texas, beating top seed and ATP No. 118 Sloane Stephens, the W100 champion in Edmond Oklahoma last week, 6-4, 6-4 in the second round. The 2026 Australian Open girls semifinalist will face another seeded veteran Thursday, with No. 5 seed Madison Brengle reaching the quarterfinals with a 6-3, 6-0 win over former Georgia All-American Mell Reasco of Ecuador. 

Qualifier Rebecca Munk Mortensen of Denmark, who beat No. 2 seed Akasha Urhobo in the first round, advanced to the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-1 win over qualifier Amelie Van Impe of Belgium, a sophomore at SMU. Mortensen signed with the University of Florida for the upcoming spring season, according to this announcement today.

The first matches of the WT Junior Finals are in the books, with Jordan Lee picking up the only victory for an American Wednesday. The Wimbledon boys champion, seeded No. 4, defeated No. 8 seed Yannik Alvarez of Puerto Rico 6-3, 6-4, coming from 3-0 down in the second set. Lee's opponent Thursday is No. 5 seed Ziga Sesko of Slovenia, who defeated top seed Jamie Mackenzie(TCU) of Germany 6-4, 6-4. 

No. 3 seed Keaton Hance lost to No. 7 seed Vincent Reisach 6-3, 6-4 and will face No. 6 seed Dimitar Kisimov of Bulgaria Thursday; Kisimov lost to No. 2 seed Thilo Behrmann of Austria 7-6(8), 7-6(3) Wednesday.

No. 4 seed Janae Preston, the only US girl in the field, lost to No. 7 seed Polina Skliar of Ukraine 3-6, 6-4, 6-4. Preston will pay No. 2 seed Jana Kovackova of Czechia, who was also upset in the first day of play, losing to Mariia Makarova of Russia 7-5, 7-6(8).

Top seed and US Open girls champion Xinran Sun of China defeated No. 6 seed Anastasija Cvetkovic of Serbia 7-6(1), 6-2 and will face rival Anna Pushkareva of Russia, the Wimbledon girls champion and No. 3 seed, who lost to Sun in the US Open final after beating her in the Wimbledon final. 

Live streaming, which begins at 10:30 p.m. Eastern time tonight, with Skliar vs Makarova, can be found here.  Live scoring is available here.

In addition to Mortensen, there was another big collegiate signing announced today, with former World Tennis No. 1 Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez of Mexico committing to the University of Texas.

The 21-year-old, who reached No. 1 in the world after winning the J500 in Milan in May of 2023, will join the Longhorns for the upcoming spring season, according to today's release. This signing casts doubt on the likelihood that Matej Dodig of Croatia, now 138 in the ATP rankings, will join Texas for the spring season, with his signing announced in July. Dodig has won two Challengers made the finals of three others since that announcement, which said he would join Texas this fall, but he would hardly be the first recruit to change his plans after having success on the Challenger circuit.

The USTA announced its team for the Billie Jean King Cup tie next month against Hungary, which is scheduled for November 21-22 in Delray Beach Florida.

Coco Gauff, Madison Keys, Ann Li, Taylor Townsend and Nicole Melichar Martinez will be attempting to return the USA to the field that will play for the 2027 BJK Cup after losing to Belgium in April to get knocked out of the 2026 competition.  The Hungarian team is set to include Anna Bondar, Dalma Galfi, Amarissa Toth, Fanny Stollar and Adrienn Nagy. Bondar is Hungary's only WTA Top 100 singles player.

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Twenty-two More Division I NCAA Singles Berths Filled with Completion of Regionals; Four USTA Pro Circuit Tournaments Again This Week; Stephens Takes Lead in USTA's Australian Open Wild Card Race

The Division I ITA Regional Championships concluded this afternoon, with 10 men and 12 women earning their spots in next month's NCAA singles championships in Athens Georgia. Five men's and six women's doubles teams are also heading to the University of Georgia after claiming regional titles over the past five days.

For the links to all draws in all 26 regional tournaments, visit the ITA's tournament page.

Results from all regionals are below, with the most recent first, with last week's regionals results below the dividing line.

Women's ITA Division I Regional results, with NCAA qualifiers in bold: 

MOUNTAIN:
Sara Akid[1](Utah) d. Allison Isaacs[3](Boise State) 1-6, 7-5, 6-2
Sage Bergeson(BYU) d. Silver Bijlsma(Wyoming) 1-6, 7-6(10), 6-2

Doubles final:
Ema Bubalo and Lera Alexin[2](Colorado) d. Nikol Mircheva and Hudson Hawkins[1](UNLV) 6-3, 7-6(7)

ATLANTIC:

Anastasiia Sorska[9](Maryland) d. Vivian Yang[1](Virginia) 7-5, 6-1

Katie Rolls[2](Virginia) d. Oliwia Orlinska[4](Maryland) 7-6(7), 6-2

Doubles final:

Emma Ghirardato and Diya Challa[3](Maryland) d. Vivian Yang and Alyssa James[1](Virginia) 1-6, 6-1, 10-5

CENTRAL:

Arina Malygina[9](Oklahoma State) d. Xin Tong Wang[9](Wichita State) 6-4, 6-3

Laura Brunkel[9](Oklahoma) d. Alyssa Novoa(Tulsa) 7-5, 6-3

Doubles final:

Sara Shumate and Gloriana Nahum[1](Oklahoma) d. Chloe Noel and Laura Brunkel[5](Oklahoma) 6-0, 6-1

SOUTHWEST:

Ahmani Guichard[9](UCLA) d. Alexia Harmon(Pepperdine) 6-3, 6-7(5), 6-3

Lily Taylor[7](Arizona State) d. Sara Svetac[6](Arizona State) 2-6, 6-4, 6-1

Doubles final:

Vessa Turley and Tea Lukic[5](San Diego State) d. Polina Marakhtanova and Koronayashe Rugara(UCLA 4-6, 6-4, 10-7

CAROLINA:

Jana Stojanova(South Carolina) d. Avery Nguyen(North Carolina) 6-2, 602

Lavinia Tanasie[3](NC State) d. Kaitlyn Carnicella[2](South Carolina) 6-4, 4-6, 6-2

Doubles final:

Victoria Osuigwe and Roisin Gilheany[1](NC State) d. Tatum Evans and Alanis Hamilton[6](North Carolina) 0-6, 6-0, 10-8

NORTHEAST:

Tsehay Driscoll(Princeton) d. Isabella Chhiv[9](Princeton)4-6, 7-6(2), 7-6(2)

Kenzie Nguyen[5](Columbia) d. Pearlie Zhang[9](Princeton) 7-5, 7-6(5)

Doubles final:

Maelie Monfils and Patricia Grigoras[2](Penn State) d. Esha Velaga and Athina Schlepphorst[6](Penn) 6-2, 6-7(3), 10-5

Men's ITA Division I Regional results, with NCAA qualifiers in bold: 

SOUTHEAST:

Julian Alonso[3](Georgia) d. Noah Johnston[9](Georgia) 6-3, 6-1

Maxime Dubouch(Georgia) d. Cooper Johnson(Georgia) 6-1, 6-3

Doubles final:

Wissam Abderrahman and Mohammad Alkotop(UCF) d. Ty Host and Henry Jefferson[1](Florida) 4-6, 6-3, 10-2

NORTHWEST:

Lenn Luemkemann(Cal) d. Nicholas Godsick(Stanford) 6-1, 6-0

Gus Grumet(Stanford) d. Ronit Karki(Stanford) 6-3, 7-5

Doubles final:

Soham Purohit and Jan Chlodnicki[9](Washington) d. Maas Schotanus and Aajun Pandit(Portland State) 6-2, 4-0, ret. inj.

SOUTHWEST:

Lasse Poertner[5](Pepperdine) d. Adrien Berrut[9](San Diego) 2-6, 6-4, 6-2

David Fix[9](Pepperdine) d. Aleksa Pisaric[5](Pepperdine) 6-4, 6-2

Doubles final:

Jan Kobierski and Piotr Siekanowicz[14](San Diego State) d. Aleksa Pisaric and Lasse Poertner[1](Pepperdine) 6-4, 1-6, 10-4

MIDWEST:

Brandon Carpico[14](Ohio State) d. Preston Stearns[3](Ohio State) 6-1, 6-2

Victor Lilov[6](Ohio State) d. Adam Jilly(Illinois) 6-0, 6-2

Doubles final:

Peter Nad and Chase Thompson[7](Notre Dame) d. Adam Jilly and David Bakonyi[6](Illinois) 6-7(5), 6-3, 10-6

NORTHEAST:

Nischal Spurling(Penn) d. Andrew Ena(Columbia) 6-4, 6-1

Landon Ardila[2](Princeton) d. Damir Zhalgasbay[3](Columbia) 7-5, 6-3 

Doubles final:

Andrew Ena and Damir Zhalgasbay[5](Columbia) d. Aaron Sandler and Justin Chung[6](Penn) 6-4, 7-6(2)

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Regionals Results from previous week:

WOMEN

MIDWEST:

Piper Charney[1](Michigan) d. Ariel Madatali(Illinois) 6-1, 6-0

Ekaterina Ivanova[2](Wisconsin) d. Olivia Traynor[6](Michigan) 6-3, 6-3

Third place: 

Olivia Traynor[6](Michigan) d. Ariel Madatali(Illinois) 6-2, 6-3

(Ivanova had already qualified for NCAAs by reaching ITA All-American quarterfinals)

Doubles final:

Piper Charney and Reese Miller[1](Michigan) d. Audrey Spencer and Anna Bennett[9](Ohio State) 6-3, 6-1 

NEW ENGLAND:

Lauren Kettlewell[9](Boston U) d. Kavya Karra[9](Harvard) 7-6(5), 7-5

Stephanie Yakoff[2](Harvard) d. Monika Wojcik(Syracuse) 6-0, 6-1

Doubles final: 

Stephanie Yakoff and Kavya Karra[1](Harvard) d. Peyton Capuano and Michela Moore[2](Dartmouth) 6-3, 6-4

NORTHWEST:

Anna-Marie Weissheim[6](Washington) d. Sofia Daryaie(Saint Mary's) 6-3, 6-2

Alyssa Ahn[2](Stanford) d. Jermine Sherif[9](Washington) 6-2, 6-2

Doubles final:

Nela Jandova and Marina Markina[6](Washington) d. Priya Nelson and Stella Remander[9](Saint Mary's) 4-6, 6-3, 10-8

OHIO VALLEY:

Julia Zhu[3](Kentucky) d. Mariia Dolzhenko(Lipscomb) 6-0, 6-1

Donna Le Roux[9](Kentucky) d. Asuncion Jadue(Kentucky) 6-7(6), 6-2, 6-4

Doubles final:

Valeria Ray and Sophia Webster[1](Vanderbilt) d. Sarah Mildren and Alyson Shannon[2](Tennessee) 6-2, 7-6(6)

SOUTHEAST:

Bella Payne[9](Georgia) d. Malwina Rowinska(Florida Atlantic) 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 

Emma Dong[6](Georgia) d. Patricija Paukstyte[9](Georgia) 6-2, 6-3

Doubles final:

Emma Dong and Ranah Stoiber[4](Georgia) d. Jantje Tilbuerger and Marta Makarova(UCF) 7-5, 6-0

SOUTHERN:

Ashton Bowers[1](Auburn) d. Addison Lanton[3](LSU) 7-5, 6-4

Alice Battesti(Ole Miss) d. Tegan Bush[9](LSU) 6-2, 3-6, 6-1

Doubles final:

Gianna Oboniye and Athina Pitta[2](Mississippi St) d. Andrea Nova and Alice Soulie[4](Ole Miss) 7-5, 7-5

TEXAS:

Divna Ratkovic[3](Rice) d. Alian Zack[5](Baylor) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3

Sofiia Mykhailets[6](TCU) d. Kori Montoya(Texas A&M) 6-3, 6-2

Doubles final:

Sofiia Mykhailets and Cristina Ramos Sierra[9](TCU) d. Na Dong and Ligaya Murray[9](Baylor) 6-4, 6-3

MEN

ATLANTIC:

Andres Santamarta[1](Virginia) d. Stiles Brockett[5](Virginia) 6-2, 3-6, 6-1

Luca Preda[3](Virginia) d. Jangjun Kim[2](Virginia) 3-6, 6-4, 6-1

Doubles final:

Jangjun Kim and Andres Santamarta[1](Virginia) d. Blake Hilsen and Eyal Shumilov[2](Virginia Tech)

CAROLINA:

Charlie Robertson[9](South Carolina) d. Chris Xu(North Carolina) 6-3, 6-4

Bruno Kuzuhara[8](Clemson) d. Ian Mayew[9](North Carolina) 6-1, 6-3

Doubles final:

Marko Mesarovic and Henrik Bladelius[4](Clemson) d. Cody Benton and Toby Kodat[8](NC State) 6-3, 6-3

CENTRAL:

Johan Rodriguez[1](Oklahoma) d. Tito Chavez[8](Oklahoma) 6-0, 6-4

Luciano Ambrogi[2](Oklahoma) d. Asahi Harazaki[4](Oklahoma) 6-4, 6-4

Doubles final:

Connor Smillie and Brendan Boland[4](Arkansas) d. Tito Chavez and Alejandro Melero[7](Oklahoma)

MOUNTAIN:

NCAA qualifiers:

Dylan Davies(Denver) d. Sep De Visser(Idaho State) 7-6(4), 6-3

Xavier Calvelo[4](Utah State) d. Matthew Upton(Montana) 6-3, 7-5

Doubles final:

Marko Maksimovic and Kemal Karakas[1](UNLV) d. Matthew Upton and Duncan McCall 7-6(4), 6-3

NEW ENGLAND:

Rodrigo Fernandes[1](Cornell) d. Eric Verdes[9](Cornell) 6-2, 6-7(2), 7-5

Rohan Murali[2](Harvard) d. Cezar Papoe[4](Cornell) 6-1, 6-2

Doubles final: 

Rushil Khosia and Rethin Senthil Kumar[2](Cornell) d. Rohan Murali and Kolos Kincses[3](Harvard) 6-3, 6-4

OHIO VALLEY:

Nour Fathalla[5](Purdue) d. Lorenzo Balducci(Purdue) 6-1, 6-3

Kyle McNally[9](Dayton) d. Aryan Saleh(Middle Tenn St) 6-2, 6-4

Doubles final:

Hamza El Amine and Lucas Bazin[13](Louisville) d. Sturle Skigelstrand and Mikkel Zinder(Dayton) 7-5, 7-5

SOUTHERN:

Igor Kudriashov[5](Ole Miss) d. Vlado Jankanj[7](Ole Miss) 7-6(5), 6-4

Niccola Baroni[2](Ole Miss) d. Manel Lazaro[8](Auburn) 4-6, 6-3, 6-0

Doubles final:

Igor Kudriashov and Kai Milburn(Ole Miss) d. Aleksander Blus and Theo Hegarty(Alabama) 6-3, 7-6(4)

TEXAS:

Tomasz Berkieta[9](Texas) d. Niksa Arsic(Texas Tech) 6-2, 6-4 

Ilia Snitari[9](Texas A&M) d. Erik Schiessl[9](Baylor) 3-6, 6-3, 7-6(5)

Doubles final:

Albert Pedrico and Cooper Woestendick[1](TCU) d. Connor Van Schalkwyk and Erik Schiessl[2](Baylor) 6-1, 6-3

Thirty-six of the NCAA's 64 spots in singles and 18 of the NCAA's 32 spots in doubles have now been filled, with the remaining 28 singles entrants determined at the ITA Sectional Championships and the Conference Masters Championships, both of which will be played November 5-8.

For more on who will have a final opportunity to qualify for the NCAAs via the Sectional Championships, see collegetennisranks.com's Championship Tracker page.

The USTA Pro Circuit again has four tournaments this week, with the ATP Challenger 75 in Fort Worth Texas the one providing the most points.

The first round is complete, with eight Americans through to the second round: top seed Jenson Brooksby, Patrick Maloney(Michigan), qualifier Alex Rybakov(TCU), No. 5 seed JJ Wolf(Ohio State), qualifier Kaylan Bigun(UCLA), Aidan Mayo, Daniel Milavsky(Harvard) and No. 2 seed Darwin Blanch.

Half of the seeds lost their first round matches: No. 6 seed Murphy Cassone(Arizona State) to lucky loser Kenta Miyoshi(Illinois) of Japan; No. 3 Braden Shick(NC State), to Texas sophmore Gabriel Debru of France; No. 4 Colton Smith to Mayo; and No. 8 Max Rehberg of Germany to Mees Rottgering(Wake Forest) of the Netherlands.

Wild cards Trevor Svajda(SMU) and Sebastian Gorzny(TCU, Texas) both lost, but the third wild card, Austin M25 champion Cosme Rolland de Ravel(TCU) of France beat Ozan Baris(Michigan State) to advance to a meeting with Rottgering.

The other men's event is an M15 in Ithaca New York, with qualifying completed today. Three Americans reached the main draw through qualifying: 19-year-old Connor Plunkett, Drew Van Oderlain and Jonah Braswell(Florida, Texas).

The three junior reserved spots went to Joshua Adamson and Felix Roussel of Canada and Jack Secord. Secord played his first round match today and defeated No. 8 seed Matt Forbes(Michigan State, Ohio State) 7-6(4), 6-4.  Eli Stephenson is showing as a junior exempt on the draw, but that's certainly an ATP Accelerator spot, as Stephenson is 21 years old. 

Wild cards were given to Cornell senior Felipe Pinzon, Cornell junior Rodrigo Fernandes of Portugal, Cornell senior Eric Verdes of Romania and Liam Krall(SMU). Verdes and Fernandes will meet in the first round Wednesday. 

Alec Dekers of the Netherlands in the top seed.

Edmond W100 champion Sloane Stephens is the top seed at the W50 in Austin Texas, which started a day earlier than the standard USTA Pro Circuit women's event. That means the first round was completed today, with Stephens, a wild card, and 17-year-old qualifier Thea Frodin setting up a second round meeting with wins today.

Stephens got by former Pepperdine All-American Ashley Lahey 6-3, 5-7, 6-1, while Frodin beat Oklahoma freshman Reina Goto of Japan 6-3, 6-1.

Luciana Perry, a senior at Ohio State, received a wild card and lost today to No. 4 seed Barbora Palicova of Czechia 6-2, 6-4.  TCU senior Raquel Caballero Chica of Spain, the third wild card, lost to No. 5 seed Madison Brengle 6-0, 7-5. Qualifier Rebecca Munk Mortensen of Denmark beat No. 2 seed Akasha Urhobo 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.

The W35 in Bakersfield is on the traditional USTA Pro Circuit women's schedule, with qualifying completed today and just four first round matches complete.

Somehow Astra Sharma is still in qualifying, despite winning her last two tournaments, and she reached the main draw with two routine wins. 

Seventeen-year-old Natalie Kha, a USC recruit, advanced to the main draw, as did 16-year-olds Maggie Sohns and Sophie Suh. The fourth American to qualify was Brandy Walker(Northern Arizona).

Wild cards were awarded to Duke sophomore Aspen Schuman and Redding W35 champion Connie Ma(Stanford) and they will play each other Wednesday. The other wild cards went to Jenna DeFalco and Cal freshman Nika Hurkacz of Poland, the sister of Hubert Hurkacz, currently No. 30 in the ATP rankings. Hurkacz lost to No. 3 seed Hanna Chang in the first round today 6-4, 6-1. 

Vivian Wolff(Georgia, UCLA) and Lea Ma(Georgia) are the top two seeds.

After the first two weeks of the women's Australian Open Wild Card Challenge, Sloane Stephens has taken the lead, with three more weeks to go. The men's race begins this week and will also extend for five weeks, with the three best results counting.

The current women's Top 5:

(Player's current ranking in parentheses)
1. Sloane Stephens (118) -- 100
2. Elvina Kalieva (113) -- 61
3. Julieta Pareja (228) -- 39
4. Annika Penickova (482) -- 37
5. Connie Ma (NR) -- 35

Kotseva, Dollar Win World Tennis J100 Titles; First 2027 Australian Open and Roland Garros Junior Wild Cards Awarded; Round Robin Groups for WTT Junior Finals Revealed, Play Begins Wednesday in Chengdu

After a couple of slow weeks on the World Tennis Junior Circuit for Americans, five players from the United States took singles titles last week, including two J100 titles. There were no J300s last week, and just two J200s, with Adla Lopez reaching the girls singles final at the J200 in Bolivia, losing to 15-year-old Sofiia Bielinska of Ukraine 6-1, 6-3.

At the J100 in Dubrovik Croatia, 15-year-old Raya Kotseva of Las Vegas, who has been training in Europe and hasn't played in a junior event in the US since the qualifying of last year's US Open, won her second J100 title of the year. Seeded No. 1, Kotseva defeated unseeded Sofia Kocisova of Slovakia 6-4, 6-3 in the final. Kotseva is now up to 207 in the WT junior rankings after the title; her career-high is 114, which came after she made the final of the J300 in San Diego in March of 2025.

Eighteen-year-old Grace Dollar won her first WT junior singles title last week at the J100 in Metepec Mexico as the No. 6 seed. She defeated No. 8 seed Vera Iamina of Russia 6-2, 6-3 in the final. Sophia Budacsek, who lost to Iamina in the singles semifinals, won the doubles title with Mexican partner Azul Lopez Vazquez R. The top seeds beat No. 4 seeds Dollar and Elsa Sahandi 6-1, 6-0 for their second straight title; they also won the doubles championship at the J100 two weeks ago in Metepec.

At the J60 in Panama, 14-year-old Sofia Dvortsova won her third, and biggest WT junior singles title of the year. The 14-year-old top seed defeated No. 2 seed Miranda Fernandez Figueroa of Mexico 6-1, 6-3 in the final.

Fifteen-year-old Norah Davoodi won her first WT junior circuit title at the J60 in Victoria Canada, beating Kendra Zhang of Canada 6-4, 6-0 in the girls singles final. Seventeen-year-old Jaidyn Finley reached the boys singles final and won the doubles title with Cayden Laughton, with the unseeded pair defeating the fourth-seeded Canadian team of Ilya Sherifali and Alden Yu 6-4, 6-2 in the final. Enya Hamilton and Autumn Xu won their fourth doubles title of year and their second in the past two weeks, with the top seeds beating Gwyneth Britton and Kingsley Wolf 6-3, 6-1 in the final.

The sole US boy to win a singles title last week was unseeded Macksimus Malhotra, who took the championship at the J60 in the Dominican Republic. The 16-year-old from Massachusetts defeated No. 2 seed Thiago Silveira of Brazil 7-5, 6-2 in the final for his third career singles title.

After a two-week hiatus, the World Tennis Junior Circuit returns to the United States for the next five weeks, with two J60s, two J100s and one J200, all on green clay.

This week's event is a J60 at the USTA National Campus in Lake Nona.

The first wild cards for both the 2027 Australian Open Junior Championships and the 2027 Roland Garros Junior Championships were determined this weekend.

In São Paulo Brazil, Brazilians Livas Damazio and Maria Eduarda Carbone won the Australian Open Junior Series South America playoffs. Damazio, 16, defeated Davi Sousa, also from Brazil, 6-2, 6-3 in the final and the 16-year-old Carbone beat 14-year-old Sofia Cuoco of Argentina 6-4, 6-3.

For more on the event, see this article from TenisBrazil.

In Tokyo, 16-year-old Yui Komada of Japan defended her 2025 title to earn a wild card into the 2027 Roland Garros Junior Championships via the Asia Junior Series. Komada is No. 64 in the WT junior rankings, so it remains to be seen if she will need the wild card when acceptances come out in the spring, but she is assured of her place now after defeating Natsuki Irokawa of Japan 6–4, 3–6, 6–4 in the final.

Dongjae Kim of Korea, also 16, won the boys wild card, defeating Shintaro Ogaki of Japan 6–4, 1–6 ,6–2 in the final. Kim is No. 124 in the WT junior rankings right now, so he is more likely to need a wild card for entry in 2027.

新王者誕生。次はパリの赤土へ🏆🇫🇷 Crowned in Tokyo. Destination: Paris. Huge congratulations to our 2026 champions who punched their ticket straight to the 2027 Roland-Garros Juniors Tournament 🧡✨ Girls' Champion: Yui KOMADA (JPN) Boys' Champion: Dongjae KIM (KOR) See you in Paris 👋🏛️ #RolandGarros #RGJapan

— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) October 18, 2026

A reminder that the World Tennis Tour Junior Finals begin Wednesday in Chengdu China, which will be tomorrow night here in the United States, Janae Preston, Jordan Lee and Keaton Hance are the Americans participating.

The groups for the first three days of play are here.

The WT media notes are here. The live streaming, which will feature commentary by Alex Gruskin of Cracked Racquets, will be available here.