College Park J1 Girls Draw Minus Top Seed Fruhvirtova, ITF's No. 1 and No. 2 Shang and Banerjee Lead Boys Field; Johnson and Krajicek Reach Cincinnati Doubles Final; Gleason Earns First WTA Top 100 Win in Chicago 250 Qualifying

I'm not accustomed to having the draws for the College Park ITF J1 before the qualifying is complete, but they were published tonight, with no No. 1 seed. Linda Fruhvirtova of the Czech Republic was expected to be the top seed, but the 16-year-old got into the qualifying at the new WTA 250 event in Cleveland and won her match today against 33-year-old Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan 6-2, 7-6(3). She will play former Michigan star Emina Bektas in the final round of qualifying.

Other top juniors who were entered but will not be playing due to wild cards into the US Open women's qualifying next week are Reese Brantmeier, Elvina Kalieva and Clervie Ngounoue, so the girls field has no Top 10 players. 

In the boys draw, Bruno Kuzuhara and Aidan Mayo were late withdrawals, but the ITF's top 2 junior boys, Jerry Shang and Samir Banerjee, are in the draw.

Girls seeds:

1. withdrew

2. Madison Sieg(USA)
3. Alexandra Yepifanova(USA)

4. Dana Guzman(PER)

5. Laura Hietaranta(FIN)

6. Solana Sierra(ARG)

7. Alexis Blokhina(USA)

8. Mirra Andreeva(RUS)

9. Jana Kolodynska(BLR)

10. Annabelle Xu(CAN)

11. Victoria Mboko(CAN)

12. Chelsea Fontenel(SUI)

13. Brenda Fruhvirtova(CZE)

14. Lucija Ciric Bagaric(CRO)

15. Ya Yi Yang(TPE)

16. Kayla Cross(CAN)

Boys seeds:

1. Juncheng Shang(CHN)

2. Samir Banerjee(USA)

3. Victor Lilov(USA)

4. Gonzalo Bueno(PER)

5. Dali Blanch(USA)

6. Mark Lajal(EST)

7. Alexander Bernard(USA)

8. Ozan Colak(USA)

9. Adolfo Vallejo(PAR)

10. Petr Nesterov(BUL)

11. Alvaro Guillen Meza(ECU)

12. Ignacio Buse(PER)

13. Ethan Quinn(USA)

14. Max Westphal(FRA)

15. Kalin Ivanovski(MKD)

16. Coleman Wong(HKG)

The final round of qualifying is set for Sunday at the Junior Tennis Champions Center in College Park after two rounds today.

The draws and the order of play for Sunday can be found at the ITF Junior site.

Steve Johnson and Austin Krajicek, who received a wild card into the men's doubles field at the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati, are through to Sunday's final, where they will play No. 2 seeds Marcel Granollers of Spain and Horacio Zeballos of Argentina for the title. Johnson and Krajcek defeated the third-seeded Colombian team of Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah 7-6(5), 6-7(8), 10-3 in the semifinals. Farah and Johnson played together on the USC teams that won the 2009 and 2010 NCAA titles.

Quinn Gleason in Charleston 2021

In addition to the new WTA 250 in Cleveland, Chicago is also hosting a WTA 250 next week, with the first round of qualifying underway there today as well. Former Notre Dame star Quinn Gleason picked up her first ATP Top 100 win, beating top qualifying seed and WTA 87 Anastasia Potapova of Russia 6-1, 2-6, 6-3. The 26-year-old Gleason will face Makoto Ninomiya of Japan for a place in the main draw. 

Both Americans lost in today's semifinals at the WTA 125 in Chicago to 18-year-olds, with Emma Raducanu of Great Britain beating Claire Liu 7-6(3), 4-6, 6-1 and Clara Tauson of Denmark defeating No. 3 seed Ann Li 7-6(5), 6-1.

At the ATP Winston-Salem Open, Denis Kudla and Noah Rubin(Wake Forest) have advanced to the final round of qualifying.