Rolls Tops No. 3 Seed, Advances to ITF J500 Banana Bowl Final, Unseeded Honda Reaches Boys Final; Grant Makes First Pro Circuit Singles Final, Wins Doubles Title in Turkey; Kotseva and Nischal Claim Las Vegas J60 Titles

Katie Rolls ended the 14-match winning streak of No. 3 seed Antonia Vergara Rivera of Chile Saturday at the ITF J500 Banana Bowl in Blumenau Brazil. Seeded No. 9, the 17-year-old from Michigan, who trains in Florida, defeated Vergara 6-3, 3-6, 7-6(2) in today's semifinal. Rolls will look to end another winning streak in Sunday's final when facing No. 2 seed and defending champion Mayu Crossley of Japan. Crossley, who beat No. 4 seed Emily Sartz-Lunde of Norway 6-0, 6-4, has won 10 straight matches since losing to Vergara in the semifinals of the J300 in Paraguay last month, having taken the title at the Porto Alegre J300 last week.

Rolls and Sartz-Lunde had their winning streak in doubles snapped in today's final, with the No. 3 seeds losing to No. 4 seeds Jeline Vandromme of Belgium and Olivia Carneiro of Brazil 7-6(3), 6-7(4), 10-8. Rolls and Sartz-Lunde had won the title in Porto Alegre last week.

The boys final will feature unseeded 17-year-old Naoya Honda of Japan and No. 7 seed Oliver Bonding of Great Britain, after Honda defeated No. 8 seed Max Schoenhaus of Germany 7-5, 6-3 and the 16-year-old Bonding took out No. 2 seed Reda Bennani of Morocco 6-4, 5-7, 6-2. Honda, the 2022 Orange Bowl 16s champion, had just one win at the J500 level prior to this week; Bonding reached two J500 quarterfinals last year.

The run of 16-year-old qualifier Anna Frey at the W15 in Canada came to an end today, with No. 5 seed Catherine Harrison(UCLA) beating her 6-2, 6-2. Harrison will play No. 2 seed Jessie Aney(North Carolina), who beat 15-year-old qualifier Clemence Mercier of Canada 6-3, 6-4.

Eighteen-year-old Ashton Bowers won her first ITF women's World Tennis Tour title today in doubles, with Bowers, who has signed with Texas for this fall, and partner Zuzanna Pawlikowska of Poland, seeded No. 4, beating No. 3 seeds Jessica Bernales and Mia Yamakita 6-3, 6-3 in the final.

Fifteen-year-old Tyra Grant won her first ITF women's WTT title today too, with the 15-year-old claiming the doubles title at the W15 in Turkey with partner Aurora Zantedeschi of Italy. The unseeded Grant and Zantedeschi defeated teen wild cards Yelyzaveta Kotliar and 15-year-old Antonia Sushkova of Ukraine 6-2, 6-2 in 52 minutes. 

Grant will go for her first singles title on the women's WTT Sunday, advancing to her first final with a 6-1, 4-6, 6-3 win over qualifier Rada Zolotareva of Russia today. Grant's opponent in the final will be unseeded 18-year-old Anja Stankovic of Serbia, who beat qualifier Basak Eraydin of Turkey 6-3, 7-5.

Sixteen-year-old Darwin Blanch was rained out today at the $15K in Torello Spain, so both the semifinals and finals are scheduled for Sunday.

The ITF J60 in Las Vegas concluded today with the girls singles final, after the boys played both their semifinals and final Friday in order to accommodate qualifying at the IITF J300 in Indian Wells, which began today.

Nischal Spurling avenged his loss to Roshan Santhosh in the second round of the Orange Bowl 16s in December to earn his second ITF Junior Circuit singles title. The unseeded 16-year-old, who has verbally committed to Penn, didn't drop a set in his six victories, beating No. 6 seed Santhosh, the 2023 Easter Bowl 14s champion, 6-2, 6-0. Both Spurling and Santhosh, who were doubles partners this week, reaching the final, were scheduled to compete in the Indian Wells J300 qualifying today.

Top seeds Andre Alcantara and Xavier Calvelo won the doubles title, defeating No. 3 seeds Spurling and Santhosh 6-4, 6-2 in the final for their fourth ITF Junior Circuit doubles title as a team. 

Thirteen-year-old Raya Kotseva of Bulgaria won her first ITF Junior Circuit title, with the unseeded Las Vegas resident claiming the winner's trophy when No. 3 seed Nancy Lee retired trailing 6-2, 3-1. 

No. 6 seeds Hadley Appling and Vessa Turley won the girls doubles title, beating No. 3 seeds Amy Lee and Canada's Mariya Dobreva 6-2, 6-2 in the final. It's Appling's first ITF Junior Circuit title; Turley has nine ITF Junior Circuit doubles titles now.