Easter Bowl 16s Videos; Canada Shocks US in Junior BJK Cup Qualifying; Top Seeds Play for LTA 18s National Titles, Wimbledon Qualifying Wild Card; Cassone Through to Tallahassee Quarterfinals; Three Wild Cards Advance at W50 in Zephyrhills

I've continued to process the videos of the USTA Level 1 Easter Bowl finals, with the 16s finals published below. That leaves just the 18s remaining, plus photo galleries from San Diego and Easter Bowl, which will be posted at Tennis Recruiting Network. Videos of the Easter Bowl 12s and 14s finals are available at the tenniskalamazoo YouTube channel.

A big surprise was in store on Day Two of the North and Central America and Caribbean qualifying for the Junior Davis Cup, Junior Billie Jean King Cup(16U) and the World Junior Tennis competition(14) in Montreal. The United States' Junior BJK Cup team was beaten by Canada 2-1 today in round robin play, with the Penickova twins both losing their singles matches.

Annika, No. 16 in the ITF junior rankings, lost to Laurence Demers, 384 in the ITF junior rankings, 6-4, 6-4 at No. 2 singles and Kristina, No. 3 in the ITF junior rankings, lost to Charlie Celebrini, 312 in the ITF junior rankings, 6-4, 2-6, 7-5 at No. 1 singles. The Penickovas did take the doubles point, and the United States is still favored to finish second and qualify for the November finals, needing a win over Puerto Rico in the third and final day of competition Friday.

The US Junior Davis Cup team had an entirely different result, beating Guatemala 3-0 and surrendering only one game in the three matches. Andy Johnson and Vihaan Reddy won 6-0, 6-0 in their singles matches; in doubles, Michael Antonius and Reddy won 6-1, 6-0. The team needs a win over Mexico Friday to finish as the top qualifier.

The matches were closer in World Junior Tennis, with the US teams beating Canada 2-1 in both. Tristan Ascenzo won a three-set battle at line 1 and Alex Anderson clinched with a straight-set win at line 2, but they lost doubles in a match tiebreaker. They will finish top qualifier if they beat Mexico Friday.

Emery Combs won at line 2 for the girls, Caroline Shao lost at line 1 but Combs and Olivia de los Reyes took the doubles to clinch the win. They play the Dominican Republic Friday, and will finish No. 1 with a win.

The finals are set for Friday at the LTA National 18s championships, with the top two seeds in both the boys and girls draws advancing to the championship matches.

Top seed Oliver Bonding, the defending champion, will play No. 2 seed Benjamin Gusic-Wan, with Bonding beating No. 3 seed Mark Ceban 6-3, 6-1 and Gusic-Wan defeating No. 4 seed Conor Brady 6-2, 4-6, 6-4. 

US Open girls champion Mika Stojsavljevic, the top seed, will play No. 2 seed Hannah Klugman, after Stojsavljevic beat unseeded Ruby Cooling 6-1, 6-2 and Klugman defeated No. 5 seed Brooke Black 6-3, 6-2.

The winners receive a Wimbledon qualifying wild cards. Mimi Xu, who won the girls 18s title last year, lost in the first round of women's qualifying. Klugman, who received a wild card, reached the final round of qualifying. Bonding did not play men's qualifying last year.

Live streaming is available at the LTA YouTube channel.

Murphy Cassone(Arizona State), who hadn't played a Challenger match on clay until last week in Sarasota, where he lost in the first round, is through to the quarterfinals this week at the ATP Challenger 75 in Tallahassee Florida. Cassone came from 5-2 down in the second set to defeat former ITF Junior No. 1 Joel Schwaerzler of Austria 6-3, 7-6(6), and will play the winner of tonight's match between No. 6 seed Emilio Nava and Tony Wu of Taiwan Friday.

The run of 15-year-old qualifier Zaire Clarke came to an end today at the women's USTA Pro Circuit W50 in Zephyrhills Florida, with top seed Arina Rodionova of Australia posting a 6-4, 6-3 win in today's second round. 

But three American wild cards are through to the quarterfinals: Ayana Akli(Maryland, South Carolina), Jamie Loeb(UNC) and Jada Robinson. 

Akli defeated Madison Sieg(USC) 7-5, 6-2; Loeb beat qualifier Malaika Rapolu(Texa) 7-5, 6-2 and Robinson took out No. 7 seed Irina Bara of Romania 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.  Robinson will play No. 2 seed Iryna Shymanovich of Belarus, who beat Akasha Urhobo 6-2, 6-1. Rodionova and Shymanovich are the only two seeds remaining.