Illinois's Miyoshi Repeats, Duke's Yu Sweeps at ITA National Summer Championships; USTA Pro Circuit Features Men's and Women's $15,000 Tournaments in Huntsville, W100 in Cary

The US Open wild cards, which I had hoped would be announced today, were not, and after checking my posts from the last two years, I see that Wednesday of the week following the USTA National Championships has been the preferred day for the announcement, so check back tomorrow for that information.

The ITA National Summer Championships are often held the same week as the USTA National Championships, meaning that I have no time to track them, as I try to cover Kalamazoo, the other National Championships and the World Junior Tennis 14U team competition, but this year the schedule shifted a bit making more coverage possible.

The tournament concluded today, with Eleana Yu of Duke and Kenta Miyoshi of Illinois winning the singles titles at the new Leftwich Tennis Center in Memphis.

Yu, the 2022 USTA Girls 18s National Champion, committed to Stanford late that year, but she played very little during her freshman season and became the rare Stanford player to leave the program this spring, entering the portal. After selecting Duke as her next stop, the 19-year-old from Mason Ohio, played two ITA Summer Series events last month to qualify for the National Summer Championships. The No. 3 seed, Yu defeated No. 4 seed Taylor Cataldi of Wisconsin 6-0, 7-5 in the final, after beating top seed Lily Jones of Michigan 7-6(3), 6-1 in the semifinals. No. 2 seed Emma Jackson of Duke lost in Saturday's first round to Addison Lanton, a rising freshman at LSU, who was the No. 13 seed in the San Diego 18s last week. 

Yu and Jackson won the doubles title, with the top seeds beating the unseeded Wisconsin team of Ellison Reynoldson and Ariel Johnson 6-3, 6-3 in the final.

Top seed Miyoshi and No. 2 seed James Connel of Florida State met for the second straight year in the ITA Summer National Championships final, and again Miyoshi took the title, beating Connel 6-3, 6-3. 

The men's doubles title also went to the top seeds, with Baylor's Oskar Poulsen and Mark Miladinovic defeating the unseeded Texas A&M team of Grant Lothringer and Ethan Silva 6-4, 6-2 in the final.

All four of the champions receive wild cards into next month's ITA All-American Championships, which will serve as a qualifier for the NCAA individual championships scheduled for November in Waco.

Complete draws from the event can be found here. The ITA's recap of today's finals can be found here.

The three USTA Pro Circuit tournaments this week are at different ends of the spectrum, with the W100 in Cary North Carolina and the joint $15,000 tournaments in Huntsville Alabama. All tournaments this week, including the ATP Challenger 100 in Cary, had a Sunday start and will conclude on Saturday, in deference to the upcoming US Open.

At the W100 event in Cary, which features eight women in the WTA Top 120, the only qualifier from the United States was Hina Inoue, although Victoria Hu(Princeton) did receive entry into the main draw as a lucky loser. 

The top seed is WTA No. 76 Viktorija Golubic of Switzerland, with Renata Zarazua of Mexico the No. 2 seed.

Wild cards were given to Alana Smith(NC State), 14-year-old Kristina Penickova and Maria Mateas(Duke). Smith and Penickova lost their first round matches today, but rain has interrupted play several times and the first round is not yet complete.

In Huntsville, the top seed in the men's $15K is Colin Sinclair(Cornell) of the North Mariana Islands, with the No. 2 seed Tristan McCormick(Notre Dame, Georgia), who lost in the first round today to Ryan Dickerson(Duke, Baylor) 7-5, 6-2.

All qualifiers are Americans: Kian Vakili(Penn), Carson Baker(Wake Forest), Boris Kozlov(LSU, Tennessee), Matthew Thomson(Wake Forest), Ron Hohmann(LSU, Michigan State),  Ryan Colby(USC, Georgia), Aidan Kim(Florida, Ohio State) and David Saye(Michigan State).

Five-star high school junior Woodson McMillin of Knoxville Tennessee received a wild card, as did Vincent Rettke(Alabama), reigning Easter Bowl 18s champion William Manning(NC State), and Georgia rising sophomore Cyrus Mahjoob, who was playing in the Kalamazoo feed-in consolation draw on Saturday. 

At the W15 in Huntsville, Maria Fernanda Navarro of Mexico is the top seed, with NC State recruit Victoria Osuigwe the No. 2 seed.

As with the men, all women qualifiers are American: Kari Miller(Michigan), Sydni Ratliff(Ohio State), 5-star high school senior Riley Crowder, Camille Kiss(UC-Santa Barbara), Julie Bedard(Auburn), Violeta Martinez(Illinois), McKenna Schaefbauer(South Carolina) and Brianna Baldi(Wake Forest).

Wild cards were awarded to 5-star high school senior Alston Myatt, 14-year-old blue chip Lyla Middleton, Carly Briggs(Tennessee, Florida) and five-star high school junior Olivia Traynor. All four won their first round matches today. Seventeen-year-old Christasha McNeil, No. 56 in the ITF junior rankings, defeated No. 3 seed Carolina Bohrer Martins of Brazil, who is 16, 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 in the first round.