USTA Winter National Championships Begin Thursday in Texas and Florida; List of Top 16 Seeds in all Eight Divisions

The USTA Winter National Championships begin bright and early Thursday morning, with the draws released this evening.

The 12s and 14s are in San Antonio Texas for the first time, while the 16s and 18s continue at their usual location on the USTA National Campus in Lake Nona Florida.This year the boys and girls 16s are on Har-Tru; the boys and girls 18s are on hard courts.

Several players who competed in their own age group at the Orange Bowl and Junior Orange Bowl this month play up a division at the Winter Nationals, but Junior Orange Bowl boys 14s champion Andrew Johnson elected to play the 14s, where he is the No. 7 seed. Given his dominant play in Coral Gables, that seems low; he was the No. 2 seed in an international tournament two weeks ago and I had understood that the seeding criteria was the same in both events. Junior Orange Bowl 14s finalist Jerrid Gaines Jr is playing the 16s and is unseeded; Daniela Del Mastro and Tristan Ascenzo, Junior Orange Bowl 12s quarterfinalists, are the top seeds in the 12s in San Antonio.

USTA Winter Nationals Seeds

B12s:
1. Tristan Ascenzo
2. Smyan Thuta
3. Daniel Gardality
4. Rex Kulman
5. Jiarui Zhang
6. Andres Quijada
7. Vallab Kumar
8. Luke Jones
9. Anthony Kirchner
10. Kensho Ford
11. Sebastian Zavala
12. Jason Zhao
13. Dani Lagarija
14. Jaden Goldman
15. Ashton Morey
16. James Borchard

G12s:

1. Daniela Del Mastro

2. Nikol Davletshina

3. Cissy Adams

4. Olivia Lin

5. Anna Scott Laney

6. London Evans

7. Isha Manchala

8. Madeline Cleary

9. Daniella Sales

10. Savannah Schmitz

11. Kareena Cross

12. Roxanne Luu

13. Violetta Mamina

14. Tanisha Reddy

15. Anna Kapanadze

16. Olivia De Los Reyes

B14s:

1. Safir Azam

2. Izyan Ahmad

3. Sean Peng

4. Rowan Qalbani

5. Tristan Stratton

6. Tyler Lee

7. Andrew Johnson

8. James Ross

9. Keshav Muthuvel

10. Tabb Tuck

11. JiHyuk Im

12. Julian Zhang

13. Owen Conley

14. Aditya Pandey

15. Luca Sevim

16. Mikaeel Alibaig

G14s:

1. Bella Arwood

2. Raya Kotseva

3. Kayden Johnson

4. Bailey Scott

5. Aarini Bhattacharya

6. Anjani Vickneswaran

7. Ava Beltran

8. Camilla Kostik

9. Elana Zaretsky

10. Sophia Budacsek

11. Sylvana Jalbert

12. Jordyn Hazelitt

13. Emma Prose

14. Raina Kim

15. Adelyn Gross

16. Filipa Delgado

B16s:

1. Nicholas Mekhael

2. Jon Gamble

3. Gus Grumet

4. Nischal Spurling

5. Gavin Goode

6. Shaan Patel

7. Gregory Bernadsky

8. Yannik Alvarez

9. Nathaniel Suh

10. Ethan Chung

11. Muyang Yi

12. Micah Ward

13. Gordon Gallagher

14. Sklar Phillips

15. David Wu

16. Avner Wong

G16s:

1. Nicole Weng

2. Bella Payne

3. Sobee Oak

4. Isabelle DeLuccia

5. Carrie-Anne Hoo

6. Brooke Kwon

7. Audrey Feng

8. Ava Rodriguez

9. Olivia Traynor

10. Sarah Ye

11. Alyson Shannon

12. Calla McGill

13. Anna Bugaienko

14. Brooke Wallman

15. Elena Zhao

16. Rachel Gee

B18s:

1. William Manning

2. Shaurya Bharadwaj

3. Braeden Gelletich

4. Ronin Kasday

5. Jimin Jung

6. Krish Gupta

7. Aidan Atwood

8. Xavier Calvelo

9. Lachlan Gaskell

10. Kaveh Taheri

11. Maxim Kalinin

12. Simon Caldwell

13. Troy Kudrjavtsev

14. Edward Liao

15. John Cross

16. Jaden Brady

G18s:

1. Capucine Jauffret

2. Aspen Schuman

3. Kayla Chung

4. Sari Woo

5. Alana Boyce

6. Campbell Ricci

7. Sophia Holod

8. Nadia Valdez

9. Sabrina Lin

10. Shannon Lam

11. Emily Deming

12. Anita Tu

13. Kristina Penickova

14. Blair Gill

15. Addison Bowman

16. Avery Nguyen