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Saturday, December 29, 2018

No. 2 Seed Nisbet, No. 3 Seeds McDaniel, Brown and Smith Fall in USTA Winter Nationals Action Saturday

At the USTA 12s and 14s Winter National Championships in Tucson,  a No. 2 seed and two of the No. 3 seeds were eliminated today.  Junior Orange Bowl 12s champion Rudy Quan, playing the 14s this week in Tucson as a No. 17 seed, defeated No. 3 seed Lucas Brown 7-6(3), 4-6, 6-4 to reach the round of 16.  The only other top 8 seed in the boys 14s to fall in the third round was No. 7 seed Ritesh Patel, who lost to No. 17 seed Brayden Michna 6-4, 6-4. 

In the girls 12s, No. 3 seed Thalia Smith was beaten by Sofya Vinogradova 6-3, 7-6(8). No. 6 seed Annika Renganathan lost to No. 17 seed Eva Oxford 7-6(4), 7-6(3) and No. 8 seed Bella Payne was beaten by unseeded Tianmei Wang 7-6(5), 6-4.  In the girls 14s, No. 2 seed Aubrey Nisbet was defeated by unseeded Theodora Rabman 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, with No. 4 seed Salma Farhat also ousted today, losing to unseeded Larissa Teramura 6-3, 6-2.  No. 7 seed Madison Weekley lost to unseeded Madeleine Jessup 7-5, 6-3 and with No. 8 seed Maeve Thornton losing in the first round and top seed Stephanie Yakoff withdrawing, only three Top 8 seeds remain in the girls 14s round of 16.

All of the top 16 boys 12s seeds have advanced to the third round, which is still underway this evening.

The first round of singles in the 16s and 18s Winter Nationals in Lake Nona Florida has concluded, with four Top 8 seeds eliminated in the 18s division.

No. 3 seed Marcus McDaniel was beaten by Ritik Sundaram 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 and No. 6 seed Keshav Chopra fell to Saiprakash Goli 6-4, 6-3. The top 4 girls 18s seeds advanced, but No. 5 seed Karina Miller lost to Cassie McLay 2-6, 6-0, 6-3 and No. 6 seed Abigail Desiatnikov went out to Allie Gretkowski 5-7, 7-5, 7-6(6).

The top 8 all came through in the boys 16s, but No. 5 seed Iris Gallo lost to Eileen Wang 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 in the first round of the girls 16s.

Streaming is available at the USTA's National Campus page.

Below is the status of the Top 16 seeds in all eight divisions:

Boys 12s (through 2 rounds):
1. Rohan Belday
2. Cooper Woestendick
3. Santiago Muhala
4. Maxwell Exsted
5. Jordan Reznik
6. Abhinav Chunduru
7. Joseph Hobbs
8. Darren Huang
9. Mason Nguyen
10. Nikita Filin
11. Alex Feies
12. Andrew Spurck
13. Cole Henceroth
14. Prathinav Chunduru
15. Emmanuel Alex
16. Kenneth Chan

Boys 14s (through 3 rounds):
1. Evan Wen
2. Sebastian Gorzny
3. Lucas Brown (out rd 3)
4. Will Mayew
5. Aidan Kim
6. Yannik Rahman
7. Ritesh Patil (out rd 3)
8. Waleed Qadir
9. Ethan Quinn
10. Eric Li
11. Kurt Miller
12. Alex Cairo (out rd 3)
13. Cooper Williams (out 1st rd)
14. Learner Tien
15. James Lian
16. Payton Young (out rd 3)

Girls 12s (through 3 rounds):
1. Amber Yin
2. Thea Latak
3. Thalia Smith (out rd 3)
4. Patricia Grigoras
5. Mariana Shulman
6. Annika Renganathan (out rd 3)
7. Kinley Vanpelt
8. Bella Payne (out rd 3)
9. Natasha Rajaram
10. Bianca Molnar
11. Polina Krumkachev (out rd 3)
12. Aspen Schuman (out rd 1)
13. Catherine Goldman (out rd 3)
14. Tianna Rangan
15. Chelsie Son (out rd 1)

Girls 14s (through 3 rounds):
1. Stephanie Yakoff (w/d after rd 1)
2. Aubrey Nisbet (out rd 3)
3. Tsehay Driscoll
4. Salma Farhat (out rd 3)
5. Kinaa Graham
6. Sia Chaudry
7. Madison Weekley (out rd 3)
8. Maeve Thornton (out rd 1)
9. Ria Bhakta
10. Teja Tirunelveli
11. Ireland Simme (out rd 2)
12. Ariel Madatali (out rd 2)
13. Karsyn Evans
14. Alexia Harmon
15. Liza Tankimovich
16. Adella Castaner (out rd 1)

Boys 16s:
1. Jack Anthrop
2. Jacob Bickersteth
3. Thomas Paulsell
4. Carter Crookston
5. Luke Casper
6. Kabir Rajpal
7. Ben Shelton
8. Dillon Blake
9. Riley Odellv (out rd 1)
10. Jameson Corsillo
11. Samir Banerjee
12. Daniel Zhou
13. Quinn Snyder
14. Nicholas Heng
15. Sam Feldman
16. Maxwell Smith

Boys 18s:
1. Leighton Allen
2. Wesley Barnett
3. Marcus McDaniel (out rd 1)
4. Logan Zapp
5. Matthew Segura
6. Keshav Chopra (out rd 1)
7. Anuj Watane
8. Michael Sun
9. Zachery Lim
10. Aryan Chaudhary
11. Anders Gibbons
12. Zachary Smith
13. Matthew Fung
14. Daniel Milavsky
15. Kenner Taylor
16. Randy Wilson (withdrew)

Girls 16s:
1. Leyden Games
2. Ava Catanzarite
3. Sonia Maheshwari
4. Jennifer Riester
5. Iris Gallo (out rd 1)
6. Mary Grace Armistead
7. Bridget Stammel
8. Nadejda Maslova
9. Julia Fliegner
10. Sophia Fornaris
11. Alexis Blokhina
12. Justine Dondonay (out rd 1)
13. Lan Mi
14. Gavriella Smith
15. Avery Durham
16. Emily Callahan (out rd 1)

Girls 18s:
1. Anessa Lee
2. Zoe Howard
3. Alana Wolfberg
4. Connie Ma
5. Karina Miller (out rd 1)
6. Abigail Desiatnikov (out rd 1)
7. Page Freeman
8. Carly Briggs
9. Anna Ross
10. Neha Velaga
11. Anna Campana
12. Gianna Pielet
13. Rosie Garcia Gross
14. Kelsey Mize (out rd 1)
15. Eryn Cayetano
16. Emma Shelton

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