Big Ten Sophomores Win ITA National Summer Championships; Tennis Recruiting Network Begins Its USTA National Championship Recaps; Johnson and Day Claim US Open Wild Cards in USTA's Annual Challenge
The ITA Tennis Point National Summer Championships concluded today on the Florida State campus in Tallahassee Florida, with Michigan's Lily Jones and Illinois's Kenta Miyoshi claiming the titles, along with wild cards into this fall's ITA All-American Championships.
The third-seeded Jones, the Big Ten freshman of the year last season, defeated No. 8 seed Adeline Flach of Auburn 6-4, 7-6(2) in today's women's final.
Rising sophomore Miyoshi, the No. 4 seed, defeated No. 3 seed Jamie Connel of Florida State 2-6, 6-4, 10-7 to take the men's singles title.
Flach and Connel receive qualifying wild cards into the All-American Championships.
No. 4 seeds Flach and Ali Despain won the women's doubles title, beating Wisconsin's Ellison Reynoldson and Ariel Johnson, the No. 3 seeds, 8-0.
The final in the men's doubles was a walkover, with top seeds Connel and Thomas Kennedy of Furman winning the title over Indiana's Ekansh Kumar and Richmond's Davis Wiley.
Flach and Despain will receive a main draw wild card into the women's All-American Championships, with the finalists getting a qualifying wild card. Because the four men's doubles finalists are not from the same school, they will not receive wild cards to the men's All-American Championships.
Interesting to note that the World Tennis Number is being now being used and is posted on the draws. Points for the transparency, but when Nicholas Herdoiza, WTN 12.0, is beating top seed Jacob Bickersteth, WTN 4.0, 7-6(3), 6-4 in the round of 16, maybe it's rolling out a little too early.
The Tennis Recruiting Network has published the first pair of its recaps of last week's USTA National Championships, for the boys 12s and girls 12s divisions. My review of the boys 16s will be up on Thursday and my 18s recap will follow on Friday.
The USTA announced the winners of this summer's US Open Wild Card Challenge, with Steve Johnson(USC) and Kayla Day earning main draw entries into the US Open by accumulating the most points in designated weeks of competition across all hard court events at or above the $25K level. Johnson won the Bloomfield Hills and Lexington Challenger 75s, to post 150 points, finishing ahead of Nicolas Moreno De Alboran, who reached the semifinals of a Challenger 100 in Spain and the final last week at the Challenger 75 in Cary for 86 points.
Day won the ITF $100,000 tournament in Canada for 140 of her 171 points; she also qualified for the Masters 1000 in Montreal last week to earn the additional 31 points. She finished ahead of Madison Brengle, who after several recent withdrawals, is now the next player into the main draw.
The US Open wild cards are typically announced on the Wednesday after the Junior Nationals; there are now three men's wild cards that have yet to be determined, with Michael Mmoh, John Isner, Maxime Cressy, Aleks Kovacevic, Moreno De Alboran and Alex Michelsen all being considered, I'm sure.
1. French reciprocal2. Australian reciprocal
3. Ethan Quinn, NCAA champion
4. Learner Tien, National 18s champion
5. Steve Johnson, wild card challenge winner
The announcement in June of the wild card for Caroline Wozniacki leaves three unannounced wild cards for the women.
1 comments:
Any announcement of wildcards for the qualifying draw. Last year 9 American women received wildcard into qualies. Looks like Svajda and Hui will get wildcard into qualifying so far. That leaves about eight spots for possible wild cards into qualifying. In order to receive wildcard into qualifying I believe that the players must A) have an overall winning record in 2023 on itf/wta tour b) have won at least one professional event (ideally in 2023). At least any player looking for a wildcard that has gotten one in past should have to meet that criteria in my opinion. You also want to see players that have wins against other players in the current tournament field this year.
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