Antonius Wins ITF J200; J100 Titles for Caldwell and Schuman; First Round Continues Tuesday at J500 in Milan; Five Americans Advance in Roland Garros Qualifying; NCAA Division III Team Championships Quarterfinals Underway

On Saturday I recapped the two titles for Jack Kennedy at the ITF J300 in Santa Croce Italy, but Kennedy was far from alone, as six other Americans won singles titles at every level on the ITF Junior Circuit last week.

Fifteen-year-old Michael Antonius won his fourth ITF singles title and the biggest at the J200 in Hanover Germany. The No. 5 seed defeated No. 3 seed Linus Lagerbohm of Finland 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 in the final. Antonius, the only American in the boys draw, has moved up to 71 in the ITF junior rankings with the title; he is the only boy born in 2010 in the ITF Top 100.

Top-seeded Americans swept the singles titles at the J100 in the Dominican Republic, with Aspen Schuman taking the girls title with a 6-0, 6-4 win over Sarah Ye in the all-US final. Seventeen-year-old Simon Caldwell won the boys title in another all-US final, beating 14-year-old Izyan Ahmad 7-5, 7-5. 

Unseeded Nicolas Pedraza and Erik Schinnerer won the doubles title, beating Ahmad and Shaan Majeed 4-6, 6-2, 10-6 in the final. Sixteen-year-old Adelie Osher partnered with Canadian Eve Thibault for the girls doubles title, with the unseeded pair beating No. 2 seeds Ye and Ukraine's Sofiia Bielinska 6-4, 4-6, 11-9 in the final.

Top seed Sarah Stoyanov won her first ITF Junior Circuit title above the J30 level at the J60 in Nicaragua, with the 16-year-old from New York beating No. 3 seed Kaya Baker 3-6, 6-0, 6-4 in an all-US final.  Sofia Mills and Canadian partner Ashvini Gopalan won the doubles title, with the No. 2 seeds beating top seeds Lisa Anzai of Japan and Baker 6-4, 5-7, 10-1.

Americans swept all four titles at the J30 in the US Virgin Islands, with 14-year-old Anna Scott Laney, seeded No. 4, claiming her first ITF Junior Circuit title with a 6-0, 7-5 win over 13-year-old top seed London Evans in the all-US girls final.

Seventeen-year-old Graeme Angus defending his 2024 title in Saint Croix, with the No. 2 seed beating No. 3 seed Pedro Vargas 6-0, 6-1 in the all-US boys final.

Angus also won the doubles title, with Yared Alfred of the Virgin Islands. The top seeds defeated No. 2 seeds David Bvunzawabaya and Sebastian Godoy of the US 6-2, 7-6(4) in the final.

Evans won the doubles title with Canadian Camille Michel, with the top seeds beating the unseeded Italian team of Asia and Sofia Sundas 6-3, 6-4 in the final. 

The Trofeo Bonfiglio, the ITF J500 in Milan Italy began today, with 22 Americans in the main draw. 

Four US boys are seeded: Jagger Leach[2], who did get from Orlando to Italy despite a late quarterfinal match at the M15 on Friday; Benjamin Willerth[3], Jack Kennedy[7] and Keaton Hance[15]. Willwerth and Kennedy won their opening round matches today, but Hance lost. Leach plays Tuesday. The other American boys in the draw are Noah Johnston, Maxwell Exsted, Jack Satterfield, Dominick Mosejczuk, Ryan Cozad, Maximus Dussault, Jack Secord, Ronit Karki and qualifier Jacob Olar. Mosejczuk and Dussault lost their opening round matches today.

The US girls are much fewer in number, with just eight in the main draw and two seeded: No. 8 Thea Frodin and No. 11 Julieta Pareja. The unseeded Americans include three qualifiers: Welles Newman, Adla Lopez and Ireland O'Brien. Rounding out the US contingent are Leena Friedman, Kaitlyn Rolls and Ishika Ashar. Rolls and Ashar lost their first round matches today.

The big surprise on day one was the loss of No. 2 seed Jana Kovackova of the Czech Republic, who was beaten by Italian wild card Carla Giambelli 2-6, 7-5, 7-6(5).

Live scoring is available at the tournament website.

Qualifying began today for Roland Garros, with a total of 20 Americans vying for spots in the main draw. The first round of qualifying continues on Tuesday with eight matches featuring Americans. Tennis Channel is no longer covering the event, which has moved to TNT and TBS, with Max streaming providing coverage of all qualifying matches.

First round results of Americans Monday:

Andrea Collarini(ARG) d. Nishesh Basavareddy[3] 7-5, 5-7, 6-4

James Trotter(JPN) d. Brandon Holt[5] 6-1, 6-4

Nicolas Moreno de Alboran d. Fabio Fognini[7](ITA) 6-3, 6-2

Stefano Napolitano(ITA) d. Colton Smith 6-4, 4-6, 6-2

Zachary Svajda d. Beibit Zhukayev(KAZ) 7-5, 6-3

Ethan Quinn[11] d. Mark Lajal(EST) 7-5, 7-5

August Holmgren(DEN) d. Murphy Cassone 6-2, 6-3

Tristan Boyer[16] d. Daniel Rincon 7-6(5), 6-4

Carson Branstine(CAN) d. Whitney Osuigwe 6-4, 6-2

Tamara Korpatsch(GER) d. Louisa Chirico 6-4, 4-6, 6-3

Marina Stakusic[24](CAN) d. Lauren Davis 6-4, 6-4

Antonia Ruzic[14](CRO) d. Hina Inoue 6-1, 6-1

Varvara Lepchenko[16] d. Taylah Preston(AUS) 6-4, 7-5

Tuesday first round qualifying matches featuring Americans:

Michael Mmoh v Calvin Hemery(FRA)

Christopher Eubanks[9] v Jurji Rodionov(AUT)

Mitchell Krueger v Sumit Nagal(IND)

Eliot Spizzirri[15] v Hugo Grenier(FRA)

Emina Bektas v Astra Sharma(AUS)
Taylor Townsend[5] v Sara Saito(JPN)
Hanna Chang v Leonie Kung(SUI)

The NCAA Division III Team Championships final site matches in Claremont California began today with the men's quarterfinals. Because of the time difference, I'm not going to be able to follow the late matches there, which begin at 8 p.m. Eastern, but the first two semifinalists have been decided, with Denison facing Tufts tomorrow. Tufts beat Emory 4-0, but Denison had to win a third-set tiebreaker to beat Johns Hopkins, with freshman Nick Meyers saving three dual match points late in the third in his 6-7, 6-1, 7-6(5) win over Zahari Stoimenov that secured Denison's 4-3 victory.

The women's quarterfinals and men's semifinals are Tuesday. Cracked Racquets is providing coverage at ncaa.com.