Australian Open Champions Tien and Williams Top Seeds in Kalamazoo 18s Doubles; Lists of 12s and 14s Seeds; Wild Cards Kessler and Kingsley Advance to Quarterfinals in Lexington

Nikita Filin and Darwin Blanch check in at the Kalamazoo 18s registration desk

The 80th edition of the USTA 18s and 16s National Championships in Kalamazoo begins Friday, with the first round of 18s singles and the first and second round of 18s doubles. The tournament's draw size is back to 192 players after expanding to 224 in 2017, but the 64 seeds have been retained in singles, with none of those players in action until Saturday, when the 16s first round and 18s second round singles matches will be played.

The doubles draw size was also reduced, from 128 to 96, and only 16 teams are seeded. Below are the seeds for both the 18s and 16s doubles. The 18s doubles draw is out now; the 16s should go up later tonight.

B18s doubles seeds:
1. Learner Tien and Cooper Williams

2. Nicholas Godsick and Aidan Kim

3. Nishesh Basavareddy and Kyle Kang

4. Roy Horovitz and Alexander Razeghi

5. Kaylan Bigun and Meecah Bigun

6. Stiles Brockett and Nikita Filin

7. Alexander Frusina and Adhithya Ganesan

8. Tygen Goldammer and Charlie Spencer

9. Declan Galligan and Cyrus Mahjoob

10. Brendan Boland and Jack Ingram

11. Xander Barber and Nicholas Mangiapane

12. Dylan Jaen and Jaxson Lamb

13. Lucas Brown and Zhengqing Ji

14. Krish Arora and Rudy Quan

15. Rohan Murali and Trevor Svajda

16. Andrew Delgado and Mitchell Lee

B16s doubles seeds:

1. Maxwell Exsted and Cooper Woestendick

2. Jagger Leach and Joseph Oyebog

3. Ian Mayew and Oliver Narbut

4. Keaton Hance and Jack Kennedy

5. Noah Johnston and Benjamin Willwerth

6. Maximus Dussault and Matisse Farzam

7. Andre Alcantara and Lukas Phimvongsa

8. Sibi Raja and Tristan Stine

9. Cassius Chinlund and Jimin Jung

10. Nolan Balthazor and Simon Caldwell

11. Blake Anderson and AJ Deem

12. Andrew Ena and Mark Krupkin

13. Nathan Germino and Jack Satterfield

14. Maxim Kalinin and Nicholas Patrick

15. Yannik Alvarez and Ryan Cozad

16. Roshan Santhosh and Nischal Spurling

The only draw posted in the 12s and 14s is the B14s, but the seeds are available from the players tab so I've compiled list of the top 16 seeds. Click on the headings to go to the USTA tournament site, where the draws will be posted, I assume Friday.

B14s Top 16 seeds:

1. Colin McPeek

2. Joseph Nau

3. Tanishk Konduri

4. Erik Schinnerer

5. Safir Azam

6. Shaan Majeed

7. Rafael Lopez

8. Akshay Mirmira

9. Navneet Raghuram

10. Rowan Qalbani

11. Nicolas Pedraza

12. Ethan Sun

13. Anish Poojari

14. Andrew Johnson

15. Tabb Tuck

16. Sean Peng

G14s Top 16 seeds:

1. Anna Bugaienko

2. Janae Preston

3. Reagan Levine

4. Ellery Mendell

5. Kennedy Drenser-Hagmann

6. Lyla Middleton

7. Reiley Rhodes

8. Carolina Castro

9. Welles Newman

10. Lani Chang

11. Aarini Bhattacharya

12. Jensen Diianni

13. Emily Morgan

14. Kasia Chen

15. Sephi Sheng

16. Sasha Miroshnichenko

B12s Top 16 seeds:

1. Dylan Meineke

2. Tristan Ascenzo

3. Joshua Dolinsky

4. Daniel Gardality

5. Rex Kulman

6. Jiarui Zhang

7. Siddhant Dua

8. Nicholas Du

9. Vallab Kumar

10. Smyan Thuta

11. Sebastian Zavala

12. Jason Zhao

13. Jaden Goldman

14. Behieu Fomukong

15. Harrison Lessard

16. James Borchard

G12s Top 16 seeds:

1. Allison Wang

2. Kathryn Cragg

3. Nikol Davletshina

4. Daniela Del mastro

5. Daniela Davletshina

6. Olivia Lin

7. Juliana Diianni

8. Vibha Gogineni

9. Nadia Poznick

10. Leala Kramer

11. Adriana Khomyakova

12. Cissy Adams

13. Audrey Dussault

14. Emery Combs

15. Madeline Cleary

16. Anna Laney

The G16s draws were posted last night and the G18s draws were published tonight. Defending champions Clervie Ngounoue and Reese Brantmeier(UNC) are the top seeds in the G18s doubles.

The list of the Top 32 seeds for the singles in San Diego and Kalamazoo can be found here.

With everything's that going on with the USTA National Championships, I haven't had much time to follow the USTA Pro Circuit events this week, but wanted to note the results from today at the women's $60,000 tournament and the men's ATP Challenger 75 in Lexington Kentucky.  Wild card Mccartney Kessler(Florida) defeated No. 4 seed Katie Volynets 6-0, 6-3 to reach her third quarterfinal at a $60K this year. The other Americans advancing to the quarterfinals are Makenna Jones(UNC), who beat No. 6 seed Katie Swan of Great Britain 6-2, 6-3 and top seed Caroline Dolehide, who defeated qualifier Victoria Hu(Princeton) 6-4, 6-1.

Ohio State's Cannon Kingsley, who has one more year of eligibility remaining, reached the Challenger quarterfinal with a 6-4, 7-5 win over No. 6 seed Dane Sweeney of Australia. Kingsley will play No. 3 seed Tung-Lin Wu of China. Other Americans advancing to the quarterfinals are Aidan Mayo, Tennys Sandgren(Tennessee), Ulises Blanch and No. 2 seed Steve Johnson(USC).