Michelsen Reaches ATP Final in Newport with Win Over Isner; Kingsley Advances to Champaign $25K Final; Quinn's ATP Atlanta Open Wild Card Upgraded; Clay Court Recaps

Alex Michelsen won his ninth straight match today in the semifinals of the ATP 250 Infosys Hall of Fame Open in Newport Rhode Island, defeating four-time Newport champion John Isner(Georgia) 7-6(6), 6-4 to reach his first ATP Tour final.

Isner hit 20 aces to Michelsen's 5, but Michelsen saved all three break points he faced, and made his break of Isner in the first game of the second set hold up. Serving for the match at 5-4, Michelsen closed it out at love, making all four first serves.

The 18-year-old from Southern California, who won the Chicago Challenger last week, will face No. 2 seed Adrian Mannarino of France for the title Sunday. For more background on Michelsen, see this feature article from the ATP, written prior to today's match.

Top seeds Nathaniel Lammons(SMU) and Jackson Withrow(Texas A&M) will face Will Blumberg(UNC) and Max Purcell of Australia in the doubles championship prior to the singles final. Blumberg is aiming for his third straight Newport title, with a third different partner.

Cannon Kingsley, who has one more year of eligibility remaining at Ohio State, has reached his third final on the USTA Pro Circuit, and first at the $25,000 level at this week's tournament in Champaign Illinois. Kingsley, the fifth seed, defeated top seed Evgeny Donskoy of Russia, ranked as high as 65 on the ATP Tour previously, 7-6(5), 6-0 in today's semifinals. Kingsley will attempt to capture his first singles title when he meets No. 2 seed Aidan Mchugh of Great Britain. Mchugh defeated No. 3 seed Naoki Nakagawa of Japan 6-4, 6-4 today. Mchugh has a 5-0 record in his meetings with Kingsley, with the last one coming at the Bloomfield Hills Challenger earlier this month. Mchugh took that second round match 7-5, 7-5.

Kingsley fell short of his second USTA Pro Circuit doubles title this afternoon. He and teammate Jack Anthrop lost to No. 2 seeds Trey Hilderbrand and Noah Schachter, both Texas A&M Aggies, 6-4, 7-5. It's the sixth Pro Circuit doubles title for Schachter and Hilderbrand in the past 12 months.

The two American semifinalists at the women's $60,000 USTA Pro Circuit tournament in Evansville Indiana both lost today, with top seed Madison Brengle falling 7-5, 6-0 to No. 4 seed Yuliia Starodubtseva(Old Dominion) of Ukraine and qualifer Mccartney Kessler(Florida) going out to No. 3 seed Karman Thandi of India 6-4, 7-5.

Kessler and Starodubtseva lost in the doubles final today, with the title going to Russia's Maria Kononova(North Texas) and Veronika Miroshnichenko(Loyola Marymount) 6-3, 2-6, 10-8.

The two American men in the semifinals at the $15,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Rochester New York lost today, with No. 2 seed Darian King of Barbados defeating qualifier Tyler Stice(Auburn) 6-1, 6-3 and top seed Ignacio Monzon of Argentina beating No. 6 seed AJ Catanzariti(Texas A&M) 7-6(2), 6-7(4), 6-1.

Top seeds Monzon and Juan Carlos Aguilar(Texas A&M/TCU) of Canada won the doubles title over the unseeded team of Stice and Miguel Angel Cabrera of Chile 7-6(3), 7-6(4).

Kayla Day[3] is through to the final of the $100,000 ITF World Tennis Tour event in Canada after she defeated another USTA National girls 18s champion, Ashlyn Krueger[2] 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 today. Day will play No. 5 seed Katherine Sebov, who won the all-Canadian semifinal with top seed Rebecca Marino 4-6, 6-4, 6-2.

Ivana and Carmen Corley(Oklahoma) lost in the doubles final to No. 2 seeds Marcela Zacarias and Renata Zarazua of Mexico 6-3, 6-3.

Saturday featured the first round of qualifying for the ATP 250 Atlanta Open after a lot of last minute shuffling of entries in the main draw. With Alex Michelsen and John Isner both reaching the semifinals in Newport, they were eligible for the two Special Exempt spots in the main draw. Isner had been a main draw wild card recipient, but he didn't need that, so it was awarded to NCAA champion Ethan Quinn(Georgia), who had been announced earlier as a recipient of a qualifying wild card. The other two main draw wild cards went to Georgia Tech's Andres Martin and Gael Monfils of France. 

Quinn has drawn former University of Illinois star Aleks Vukic of Australia as a first round opponent and Martin plays former Georgia Tech star and No. 5 seed Chris Eubanks, the recent Wimbledon quarterfinalist. Michelsen will have a first round rematch with Maxime Cressy(UCLA) whom he beat in the first round of Newport early this week.

Taylor Fritz and Alex de Minaur of Australia are the top two seeds.

Michael Mmoh, the top seed in qualifying, advanced to Sunday's final round with a 4-6, 7-6(8), 6-4 win over Tennys Sandgren(Tennessee). Mmoh is the only American to reach the final round of qualifying.

Tennis Recruiting Network has finished posting its recaps of the USTA Clay Court Championships; links to all eight articles can be found here.