Leach Changes College Commitment to Stanford; Atawo Named Purdue Women's Head Coach; Three USTA Pro Circuit Tournaments This Week; Spizzirri Advances in Roland Garros Qualifying; Defending Champion Chicago Falls in D-III Women's Quarterfinals

Rumors were flying at the NCAAs this year suggesting that Jagger Leach, currently No. 5 in the ITF junior rankings, had de-committed from TCU. Those rumored were confirmed today when Parsa Nemati announced that the nation's No. 1 recruit had signed with Stanford for this fall.

Leach is currently competing in the ITF J500 in Milan, where he is the second seed, advancing to the second round with a 6-1, 3-6, 6-1 win over Italian wild card Edoardo Cecchetti. Leach is scheduled to play the J300 in Belgium and the Roland Garros Junior Championships the next two weeks. 

In other college tennis news, Raquel Atawo, who has spent the last four seasons as head coach at Washington State, was announced as the new women's head coach at Purdue Monday. Atawo, who was a five-time All-American at Cal as Raquel Kops-Jones, went on to a stellar career on the WTA Tour, reaching the Top 10 in doubles, while advancing to the semifinals in women's doubles twice at Wimbledon and once at the Australian Open.  Atawo, 42, replaces Laura Glitz, who was the Boilermakers head coach for 18 seasons.

Three USTA Pro Circuit tournaments are on this week's schedule, with men's and women's $25,000 tournaments in Orlando and a women's W50 in Pelham Alabama.

The qualifying is still going on in Orlando, but it's complete in Pelham, where four Americans have advanced to the main draw: veteran Madison Brengle, Illinois rising senior McKenna Schaefbauer, Kallista Liu(Maryland) and Salma Ewing(USC, Texas A&M). 

Elvina Kalieva is the top seed, with Anna Rogers(NC State) the No. 2 seed. Wild cards were given to Tori Kinard, 15-year-old Maggie Sohns and Auburn rising senior DJ Bennett. Both Sohns and Bennett played their first round matches today, with Bennett losing 6-4, 1-6, 6-1 to Haley Giavara(Cal) and Sohns falling to No. 6 seed Victori Hu(Princeton) 6-3, 6-2. 

At the W35 in Orlando, Jenny Durest of Switzerland is the top seed, with Katrina Scott, a wild card, the No. 2 seed. The other three wild cards were given to juniors: Bella Payne, Olivia Traynor and Capucine Jauffret. Payne and Traynor were drawn to play each other. 

The top seed at the M25 in Orlando is Santiago Rodriguez Taverna of Argentina, with 1999 NCAA singles champion Paul Jubb(South Carolina) the No. 2 seed. Wild cards were given to Florida State rising senior Corey Craig, Michigan State rising sophomore and 2024 Kalamazoo 18s champion Matthew Forbes, Evan Bynoe and 17-year-old Gavin Goode. 

At Roland Garros, four more Americans advanced to Wednesday's second round of qualifying, with former Texas All-American Eliot Spizzirri among them. Below are today's results and Wednesday's matchups for the nine Americans through to the second round.

Tuesday's first round qualifying matches:

Michael Mmoh d. Calvin Hemery(FRA) 6-7(3), 7-5, 6-3

Jurji Rodionov(AUT) d. Christopher Eubanks[9] 7-6(4), 6-3

Sumit Nagal(IND) d. Mitchell Krueger 6-1, 6-1

Eliot Spizzirri[15] d. Hugo Grenier(FRA) 7-6(8), 4-6, 7-6(6)

Astra Sharma(AUS) d. Emina Bektas 6-0, 6-0 

Taylor Townsend[5] d. Sara Saito(JPN) 7-6(1), 7-6(6)

Hanna Chang d. Leonie Kung(SUI) 6-4, 6-0

Wednesday's second round qualifying matches featuring Americans:

Vavara Lepchenko[16] v Jana Fett(CRO)

Taylor Townsend[6] v Hanna Chang

Tristan Boyer[16] v Vilius Gabuas(LTU)

Zachary Svajda v Matteo Gigante(ITA)

Eliot Spizzirri[15] v Giulio Zeppieri(ITA)

Ethan Quinn[11] v Bernard Tomic(AUS)

Nicolas Moreno de Alboran v Lukas Klein(SVK)

Michael Mmoh v Federico Arnaboldi(ITA)

There were two big upsets today in the women's NCAA Division III quarterfinals, with defending champion University of Chicago suffering their first D-III lost of the season, with Washington University-St. Louis ending top-ranked Chicago's season short of its fourth straight final with a 4-3 victory. Host and second-ranked Claremont-Mudd-Scripps also was on the wrong end of a 4-3 score, with Johns Hopkins moving into the semifinals against Wash U.  The other women's semifinal Wednesday will feature third-ranked Pomona-Pitzer, a 4-0 winner over Wesleyan, and fourth-ranked Emory, who beat Bowdoin 4-1. 

The men's semifinals are tonight, with second-ranked Denison taking on third-ranked Tufts and top-ranked Claremont-Mudd-Scripps facing fourth-ranked Case Western. The men have Wednesday off, with their final Thursday. The women have Thursday off, with their final Friday.

Cracked Racquets is providing coverage of the Division III tournament at ncaa.com.