Ahn, Nguyen Twins Reach Rancho Santa Fe $15K Semifinals; Quan Advances to Men's Semifinal at RSF; Final Wimbledon Wild Cards Feature Five Collegiate Men; Kessler Makes WTA Nottingham Semifinals

The semifinalists are set at the SoCal Pro Series men's and women's $15,000 tournaments this week in Rancho Santa Fe, with Americans filling all the eight of those spots.

Three of the women's semifinalists are teenagers, while three of the four men's semifinalists are current college players.

The 17-year-old Nguyen twins, who are verbally committed to North Carolina for 2026, are in separate halves of the draw, so each will need to win Saturday before they will play each other. No. 4 seed Alexis defeated Thea Frodin 6-1, 6-2 to advance to her second Pro Circuit semifinal, while sister Avery, a qualifier, continued her run with a 6-2, 5-2, retired decision over qualifier Jo-Yee Chan(San Diego State). Avery, who qualified for her first Pro Circuit main draw two weeks ago in San Diego, will face No. 2 seed Eryn Cayetano, the former USC All-American in the semifinals. Cayetano defeated the last non-American player, No. 8 seed Anita Sahdiieva(Baylor, LSU) of Ukraine 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 in today's quarterfinals. 

Alexis will face unseeded Alyssa Ahn, an incoming freshman at Stanford, who defeated Klara Kosan(Pacific) 6-3, 4-6, 6-2. Ahn reached the final of the W15 last week in San Diego.

Ohio State rising senior Jack Anthrop continued his stroll through the men's draw, defeating qualifier Theo Dean(Yale, Cal) 6-1, 6-1. Anthrop, a 21-year-old from Florida, will play 19-year-old Rudy Quan, a rising sophomore at UCLA in the semifinals. Quan defeated wild card Noah Zamora(UC-Irvine) 6-3, 7-6(4).

No. 7 seed Kyle Kang, a Stanford rising junior and the only seed remaining, defeated No. 2 seed Moerani Bouzige of Australia 6-2, 6-4 to advance against Andrew Fenty(Michigan). The 25-year-old Fenty, who reached the semifinals two weeks ago in San Diego, is still seeking his first Pro Circuit singles title.

Rain has been a problem at the W35 in Wichita and the M25 in Tulsa, but Fiona Crawley, the champion at last week's W35 in Decatur Illinois, has extended her winning streak. The former North Carolina All-American defeated No. 2 seed YeXin Ma of China 6-4, 6-2 and will face No. 7 seed Sahja Yamalapalli(Sam Houston State) of India in the semifinals. Crawley was the only American to reach the quarterfinals in Wichita.

Recent Harvard graduate Daniel Milavsky has reached his first semifinal above the M15 level, with the 23-year-old from Massachusetts, seeded No. 7, getting his best win by ATP ranking today with a 6-1, 7-6(1) win over top seed Aidan Mayo. Milavsky will play No. 6 seed Alex Martinez(Oklahoma) of Spain, who beat Justin Boulais(Ohio State) of Canada 6-2, 6-4.

Due to severe weather, the quarterfinals between No. 5 seed Alex Rybakov(TCU) and No. 3 Garrett Johns(Duke) and No. 8 seed Antoine Ghibaudo(Kentucky) of France and No. 2 seed Patrick Maloney(Michigan) are scheduled for later tonight.

With the Wimbledon singles qualifying beginning Monday at Roehampton, the final wild cards were handed out today.

The LTA's Wimbledon qualifying wild card playoffs concluded today, with all four of the men who reached the semifinals receiving qualifying wild cards. All are former collegians: James Story(Memphis, South Carolina), Hamish Stewart(Tulane, Georgia), Giles Hussey(Georgia State, Tennessee), and Alastair Gray(TCU).  

Former Stanford All-American Arthur Fery, who had initially received a qualifying wild card, was upgraded to a main draw wild card today.

The two women's qualifying wild cards filled from the LTA's qualifying wild card playoffs went to Katy Dunne and Katie Swan. Dunne defeated recent University of Florida graduate Alice Dudeney 6-1, 7-5 in the semifinals, while Swan beat former Stanford star Angelica Blake 6-3, 6-1.

The updated list of Wimbledon wild cards is here.

Former University of Florida All-American McCartney Kessler qualified for Wimbledon last year, so it's not surprising that she has put together a good run this week on the grass at the WTA 250 in Nottingham. Kessler, who had a disappointing clay season, defeated top seed Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil in the first round and today took out No. 8 seed and two-time defending champion Katie Boulter of Great Britain 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, winning the final four games of the match. Kessler, who turns 26 next month, will play unseeded Rebecca Sramcova of Slovakia in the semifinals.