Learner Tien won his first round match today at the ATP Challenger 75 in Lexington, beating Rio Noguchi of Japan 6-4, 6-1, and shortly thereafter withdrew from the USTA National Championships in Kalamazoo. As the defending champion coming into last year's tournament, Tien was the top seed, and he would have been again this year, with his ATP ranking of 242 the best of any player competing in Kalamazoo this century.
Without Tien, the top seed goes to 2023 finalist Trevor Svajda, the only other player in the draw who has won an ITF Pro Circuit title. 2022 16s champion Darwin Blanch, a $15K finalist two weeks ago in Tunisia, is the No. 2 seed, followed by Roland Garros boys champion Kaylan Bigun. Jagger Leach, who was projected as a top eight seed, withdrew today with an elbow injury.
The 18s top 16 seeds:
1. Trevor Svajda
2. Darwin Blanch
3. Kaylan Bigun
4. Cooper Woestendick
5. Alexander Razeghi
6. Maxwell Exsted
7. Ian Mayew
8. Jack Kennedy
9. Alex Frusina
10. Adhithya Ganesan
11. Dylan Long
13. Ronit Karki
13. Cyrus Mahjoob
14. Mitchell Lee
15. Saahith Jayaraman
16. Krish Arora
The 16s top 16 seeds:
1. Gus Grumet
2. Gavin Goode
3. Jack Secord
4. Yannik Alvarez
5. Ryan Cozad
6. Keaton Hance
7. Zavier Augustin
8. Andrew Johnson
9. James Quattro
10. Nikolas Stoot
11. Arjun Prabhakar
12. Justine Riley Anson
13. Micah Ward
14. Patel Shaan
15. Tanishk Konduri
16. Arin Pallegar
The 16s draw has been posted and can be found
here. The 18s draw may yet be posted tonight, but is not up as of 9 p.m. My annual preview of the tournament for Tennis Recruiting Network will be out Friday, the first day of play for 18s singles and 18s and 16s doubles.
The US Open qualifying acceptances were revealed today, with 219 the ranking cutoff for both men and women. Eleven
US men are currently on the list, including Mackenzie McDonald, who is the first player on the alternate list and will get in with any withdrawal between now and the start of the qualifying tournament. There are 15
US women on this initial acceptance list, with Louisa Chirico, at 219, the last direct qualifying entry.
Once Kalamazoo begins on Friday, I won't have much time to track the three USTA Pro Circuit tournaments this week, including the ATP Challenger in Lexington, the women's W75 in Lexington and the men's
$25,000 tournament in Edwardsville Illinois.
Although they have been dealing with rain and heat delays this week, the qualifying was completed on time today in Edwardsville, with six of the qualifiers Americans: Braden Shick(NC State), Aadarsh Tripathi(UCLA), Michael Zheng(Columbia), William Mroz(Illinois), Nicolas Kotzen(Columbia) and Gavin Young(Michigan).
Wild cards were awarded to Oliver Okonkwo(Illinois), Kyle Kang(Stanford), Adam Neff[8](UNC, SMU) and Preston Stearns(Ohio State). The top seed is Andres Martin(Georgia Tech), with Colin Sinclair(Cornell) of the Northern Mariana Islands the No. 2 seed. Only two main draw matches were played today, with No. 4 seed Will Grant(Florida) and Kenta Miyoshi(Illinois) of Japan advancing to the second round.
At the
W75 tournament in Lexington, four of the eight qualifiers are Americans: Katrina Scott, Whitney Osuigwe, Jessica Failla(USC, Pepperdine) and Lea Ma(Georgia).
Just two wild cards were awarded to Fiona Crawley(North Carolina) and Elizabeth Stevens(Kentucky), with Robin Anderson(UCLA) getting a special exempt spot after reaching the finals of the W50 in Dallas. Stevens lost to top seed Lily Miyazaki(Oklahoma) of Great Britain 6-3, 6-1 this evening. In another first round match today, recent Michigan graduate Kari Miller, using one of her ITA/ITF Accelerator entries, defeated No. 3 seed and WTA 166 Talia Gibson of Australia 7-6(2), 6-0 for her first main draw USTA Pro Circuit victory since 2022. Rebecca Marino of Canada is the No. 2 seed this week in Lexington.
At the
WTA 500 in Washington DC, 18-year-old wild card Clervie Ngounoue played 2022 NCAA singles champion Peyton Stearns in the first round, with the former Texas Longhorn earning a hard-fought 6-3, 7-6(3) victory.
Two-time NCAA champion Danielle Collins(Virginia) is the only American woman to advance to the singles quarterfinals of the
Paris Olympics; Tommy Paul and Taylor Fritz are through to the third round in men's singles. Today's results of Americans and Wednesday's schedule, from the USTA:
RESULTS - (TUESDAY, JULY 30, 2024)
Donna Vekic (CRO) def. (2) Coco Gauff (USA) 76(7) 62
(7) Taylor Fritz (USA) def. Jack Draper (GBR) 67(3) 63 62
(3) Coco Gauff/Taylor Fritz (USA) def. Nadia Podoroska/Maximo Gonzalez (ARG) 61 67(6) (10 5)
(9) Danielle Collins (USA) def. Camila Osorio (COL) 60 46 63
(4) Danielle Collins/Desirae Krawczyk (USA) def. Despina Papamichail/Maria Sakkari (GRE) 61 63
(9) Tommy Paul (USA) def. Jakub Mensik (CZE) 63 61
Qinwen Zheng(6) (CHN) d. (11) Emma Navarro (USA) 67(7), 76(4), 61
(3) Taylor Fritz/Tommy Paul (USA) def. Felix Auger-Aliassime/Milos Raonic (CAN) 76 (14) 64
(4) Austin Krajicek/Rajeev Ram (USA) vs Alex De Minaur/Alexei Popyrin (AUS) 62 63
TOMORROW’S ORDER OF PLAY (WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 2024)
(4) Austin Krajicek/Rajeev Ram (USA) vs Rafael Nadal/Carlos Alcarez (ESP) - Court Philippe-Chatrier – 19:00
(9) Tommy Paul (USA) vs Corentin Moutet (FRA) – Court Suzanne-Lenglen – 1st match
(9) Danielle Collins (USA) vs (1) Iga Swiatek (POL) – Court Suzanne-Lenglen – 2nd match
(4) Danielle Collins/Desirae Krawczyk (USA) vs Lyudmyla Kichenok/Nadiia Kichenok (UKR) – Court Suzanne-Lenglen 5th match
(3) Coco Gauff/Taylor Fritz (USA) vs Gabriela Dabrowski/Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN) - Court Simonne-Mathieu – 5th match
(7) Taylor Fritz (USA) vs (11) Lorenzo Musetti (ITA) – Court 14 – nb 1:00
(1) Coco Gauff/Jessica Pegula (USA) vs Karolina Muchova/Linda Noskova (CZE) – Court 14 – 2nd match
(3) Taylor Fritz/Tommy Paul (USA) vs Robin Haase/Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) – Court 14 – 3rd match
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