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Monday, August 16, 2021

Replays of Sunday's Kalamazoo Finals Now Available; Bickersteth, Adams Win ITA National Summer Championships; ITF Junior Circuit Titles for Miller, Blanch, Tindera and Kuruvilla

Tennis Analytics, who provided the live streaming throughout the 2021 Boys 16s and 18s National Championships for the first time, has a library of nearly every match played during the tournament,  available for purchase by contacting the company here.

They have made the replays of the singles finals available to everyone, and they are embedded below. The dartfish version of the 18s final is available via this link and the dartfish version of the 16s final can be found here.


Additional coverage of Zach Svajda's 18s title can be found in this article from the Kalamazoo Gazette.

In the midst of the USTA National Championships last week, I wasn't able to follow the ITA National Summer Championships, held this year at Florida State, but the results of the finals are below. The winners receive wild cards into this fall's ITA All-American Championships, while the finalists receive qualifying wild cards for those events, being played this year in Tulsa(men) and Charleston(women).

Michigan sophomore Jacob Bickersteth, the No. 3 seed, won the men's singles title, defeating Florida senior Lukas Greif, seeded No. 8, 6-3, 6-3 in the final. 

Central Florida's Trey Hilderbrand and Nebraska's Henry Patrick Cacciatore won the men's doubles title, defeating Wisconsin's Jared Pratt and Sebastian Vile 8-5.

The women's singles title went to unseeded Julia Adams of Furman, who beat Auburn's Carolyn Ansari, the No. 4 seed, 6-3, 0-6, 10-8 in the final. 

Abigail Rencheli and Jaeda Daniel of North Carolina State defeated Katherine Duong and Josie Frazier of Illinois 8-1 to claim the women's doubles title.

Complete draws for the tournament can be found here.


On the ITF Junior Circuit the past two weeks, four Americans claimed titles, with Kurt Miller winning the J4 in Colombia, Krystal Blanch capturing the J3 in Poland, Leah Kuruvilla taking the doubles title at the J5 in the Dominican Republic and Elizabeth Tindera winning the doubles in Colombia.

No. 4 seed Miller, 16, defeated unseeded Juan Pablo Patino Velasco of Colombia 6-3, 6-1 to earn his first ITF singles title, after winning two doubles titles earlier this year.

In the girls doubles final, Tindera and her partner Isabella Benavides Jaramillo of Colombia defeated Mia Popovic and her partner Valeria Centeno Mendoza of Colombia 6-1, 6-0. Neither team was seeded.

Blanch, the sister of Ulises, Dali and Darwin Blanch, who was the No. 8 seed in Poland, defeated unseeded Sonja Zhiyenbayeva of Germany 6-7(9), 6-3, 6-3 to claim her second ITF singles title. That result moved the 16-year-old into the top 200 of the ITF rankings for the first time.

In Santo Domingo, the 17-year-old Kuruvilla won her fifth ITF Junior Circuit doubles title with her fourth different partner, this time pairing with Ana Carmen Zamburek of the Dominican Republic. The No. 1 seeds defeated unseeded Karolina Lincer and her partner Alexia Jacobs of Canada 6-4, 6-4 in the final.

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