Crawley Goes for Second Straight W35 Title in Wichita; First-time Champion Guaranteed at M15, Cayetano Eyes Sweep at W15 in Rancho Santa Fe; Kessler Aims for Third WTA Title, Wimbledon Seed in Nottingham Final

A rematch of last week's semifinals at the USTA Pro Circuit W35 in Decatur will decide this week's champion at the W35 in Wichita Kansas when Fiona Crawley takes on Mayu Crossley of Japan. 

The 23-year-old Crawley, a former North Carolina All-American, won their meeting last week 2-6, 6-1, 7-5, then went on to claim her first title of 2025 with a 7-6(5), 6-4 win over Dasha Plekhanova of Canada. Crossley, who won her first title on the USTA Pro Circuit last month at the W15 in Orlando, had the more straightforward win today. The 19-year-old incoming UCLA freshman defeated 34-year-old Hiroko Kuwata of Japan 6-2, 7-6(4), posting her second Pro Circuit win over Kuwata in the past 14 months.

Crawley was down 6-3, 3-0 with No. 7 seed Sahaja Tamalapalli(Sam Houston State) of India serving, but fought back to earn a 3-6, 7-6(3), 6-2 victory, her ninth straight. 

In the doubles final today, the unseeded team of Maria Berlanga Bandera(Tulsa) of Spain and Julie Garcia(Oklahoma) of Mexico defeated top seeds Catherine Harrison(UCLA) and Christina Rosca(Vanderbilt) 7-5, 7-5 for their first title as a team. Harrison, who has been as high as 69 in the WTA doubles rankings, had not played since last year's US Open, so a final this week is certainly a positive step.

At the USTA Pro Circuit M25 in Tulsa Oklahoma, No. 5 seed Alex Rybakov(TCU) will face No. 6 seed Alex Martin(Oklahoma) of Spain for the singles title Sunday.

Rybakov, who has yet to drop a set this week, defeated No. 2 seed Patrick Maloney(Michigan) 6-4, 6-4, while Martinez got by No. 7 seed Daniel Milavsky(Harvard) 6-3, 3-6, 7-6(3). Martinez is seeking his first pro title, having lost in a M15 final in 2022 and an ATP Challenger 50 final, as a qualifier, last July.

The men's final at the SoCal Pro Series in Rancho Santa Fe California will produce a first-time champion, with unseeded Jack Anthrop facing unseeded Andrew Fenty in Sunday's championship match.

Anthrop, a rising senior at Ohio State, continued his straight-sets run through the competition this week, beating unseeded UCLA rising sophomore Rudy Quan 6-2, 6-3 to reach the third singles final of his career on the USTA Pro Circuit. Fenty, an All-American at Michigan, will be playing in his first USTA Pro Circuit final after he defeated No. 7 seed Kyle Kang(Stanford) 6-3, 6-4.

Former University of Southern California All-American Eryn Cayetano kept the 17-year-old Nguyen twins from meeting in Sunday's women's final of the W15 in Rancho Santa Fe, defeating qualifier Avery 6-1, 6-0 in today's semifinals. No. 4 seed Alexis Nguyen defeated incoming Stanford freshman Alysaa Ahn, last week's W15 finalist, 6-4, 6-2 to reach her first USTA Pro Circuit final, while the 24-year-old Cayetano, seeded No. 2, will be seeking her fifth title, all of them at the $15K level.

Cayetano won her eighth Pro Circuit doubles title this afternoon, partnering with former teammate Lily Fairclough of Australia. The No. 3 seeds defeated No. 4 seeds Scarlett Nicholson(Georgia Tech) of Canada and Anita Sahdiieva(Baylor, LSU) of Ukraine 6-3, 7-5 in the final. Fairclough has now won three straight SoCal Pro Series doubles titles, with three different partners.

Former University of Florida All-American McCartney Kessler will play for her third WTA title tomorrow at the 250 in Nottingham, after defeating unseeded Rebecca Sramkova of Slovakia 6-4, 6-2 in today's semifinals. She will face unseeded Dayana Yastremska of Ukraine, who beat No. 6 seed Magda Linette 6-4, 6-4. Kessler will move inside the WTA Top 40 with this run, and still has a chance to be seeded at Wimbledon if she wins the title and Xinyu Wang of China loses in the W500 final in Berlin.