Top-seeded Czechs Advance to Quarterfinals at Junior Davis and Billie Jean King Cups; National 18s Champions Svajda and Krueger Receive Indian Wells Wild Cards; Semifinals Set at Corpus Christi J4

The round robin stage of the ITF's 16U Billie Jean King Cup and Junior Davis Cup team competitions concluded today in Turkey, with the top three girls seeds and the top four boys seeds all advancing to the quarterfinals of the knockout stage. (The United States did not participate in the two ITF junior team events in 2021).

The Czech girls had to win the doubles over No. 5 seed Argentina when their No. 1 player Nikola Bartunkova retired from her match with an injury, leading Luciana Moyano 7-6(4), 1-2. Argentina's loss put Peru into the quarterfinals, one of four unseeded teams who advanced.

No. 4 seed Romania, Argentina, No. 6 seed Hungary and No. 8 seed Thailand all failed to advance, with Peru, Germany, Morocco and Mexico the unseeded teams moving through to the quarterfinals. 

Friday's BJK Cup quarterfinal pairings:

Czech Republic[1] v. Mexico
Morocco v Germany

Japan[7] v Peru

Canada[3] v Russia[2]

All top four seeds in Junior Davis Cup advanced, but three other seeds did not. The top-seeded Czech team lost at No. 1 singles in their meeting with No. 6 seed Japan, but both seeded teams from Group A advanced.

Not so from the other three groups, with No. 5 Brazil, No. 7 Bulgaria and No. 8 Hong Kong failing to advance. Russia, Argentina and Canada are the unseeded teams who moved into the quarterfinals.

Friday's Junior Davis Cup quarterfinal pairings:

Czech Republic[1] v Argentina

Canada v Russia

Germany[4] v Mexico[3]

Japan[6] v France[2]

For more on today's results, see this article from the ITF junior circuit website.

The BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells begins next Monday with qualifying, and today they announced the remainder of the main draw wild cards, after awarding one to US Open women's champion Emma Raducanu on Tuesday.

Both USTA National 18s champions were given main draw wild cards, although today's release from the tournament doesn't mention the titles Ashlyn Krueger and Zachary Svajda won in San Diego and Kalamazoo last month.

Other women's main draw wild cards went to Kim Clijsters, Caty McNally, Katrina Scott, Claire Liu, Katie Volynets and 2020 French Open girls champion Elsa Jacquemot of France. 

The men have only five wild cards, with Andy Murray, Jack Sock, Jenson Brooksby and Denmark's Holger Rune, the 2019 French Open boys champion, joining Svajda in the main draw.

There are five men's and six women's qualifying wild cards yet to be announced.

The top seeds have reached the semifinals at the ITF J4 in Corpus Christi. Nevena Carton, who is No. 1, and Elisabeth Jones, who No. 2, will both play unseeded opponents on Friday. Carton faces Vivian Miller and Jones meets Marley Lambert.

Top seed Joseph Phillips, who has yet to drop a set, will play last week's champion in McKinney, unseeded Landon Ardila. Roy Horovitz, who beat No. 2 seed Alexander Razeghi Wednesday, advanced to a semifinal meeting with No. 6 seed Learner Tien.

At the men's $15,000 tournament in Lubbock, three Americans have advanced to the quarterfinals: No. 4 seed Omni Kumar(Duke), No. 7 seed Keegan Smith(UCLA) and No. 8  seed Cannon Kingsley(Ohio State). 

The women's $15,000 tournament in Lubbock also features three Americans in the quarterfinals: wild card Liv Hovde, qualifier McCartney Kessler(Florida) and Adriana Reami(North Carolina State).

Four Americans are through to the quarterfinals of the $60,000 women's tournament in Berkeley: qualifiers Emma Navarro(Virginia) and Sophie Chang; Usue Arconada and Louisa Chirico.

Danielle Collins(Virginia) defeated Elise Mertens of Belgium today at the WTA 500 in Chicago to reach Friday's quarterfinals. Marcos Giron(UCLA) advanced to the quarterfinals of the ATP 250 in Sofia Bulgaria, beating No. 3 seed Alex de Minaur of Australia for the second time in two weeks.