Jovic Reaches Ilkley WTA 125 Final; Crawley Advances to W35 Decatur Championship Match; Svajda and Ahn into San Diego $15K Finals; Top Seeds Win Grass Court 14s Tournament, Wimbledon Berths

Seventeen-year-old Iva Jovic is through to her first WTA 125 final, with the Southern Californian having her most straightforward win yet in defeating No. 2 seed and ATP Viktorija Golubic of Switzerland 6-0, 6-2 in the semifinals on the grass courts of Ilkley. Jovic, who had needed three sets to advance in her first three victories, didn't face a break point in the match.  Now at 97 in the WTA live rankings, Jovic will move up another ten spots if she can defeat No. 8 seed Rebecca Marino of Canada, the defending champion, in Ilkley. Marino, who at 34, is twice as old as Jovic, defeated 19-year-old qualifier Celine Naef of Switzerland 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 in the other semifinal today.

Qualifier Zachary Svajda lost in the semifinals of the ATP Challenger 125 in Ilkley, with No. 7 seed Tristan Schoolkate of Australia earning a 6-4, 7-6(6) victory today. TCU's Jack Pinnington Jones, a wild card, defeated Shintaro Mochizuki of Japan 7-6(5), 6-4 to make his first Challenger final. He also is making his case for a main draw wild card into Wimbledon with his results this week.

No. 7 seed Fiona Crawley, who completed her All-American career at the University of North Carolina in May of 2024, is through to her first final since last June, after defeating UCLA incoming freshman Mayu Crossley of Japan, the No. 6 seed seed 2-6, 6-1, 7-5 in today's semifinals at the USTA Pro Circuit W35 in Decatur Illinois. Crawley's opponent in the final will be No. 8 seed Dasha Plekhanova of Canada, who beat unseeded Katie Swan of Great Britain 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 today.

The singles final at the USTA Pro Circuit M25 in Wichita Kansas will feature No. 8 seed Hiroki Moriya of Japan and No. 2 seed Andres Andrade(Florida) of Ecuador. Moriya beat top seed Nicolas Mejia of Colombia 1-6, 6-0, 7-5, while Andrade also came through in three sets, beating unseeded Justin Boulais(Ohio State) of Canada 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.

While his older brother Zach lost in Ilkley today, closer to home 19-year-old Trevor Svajda reached his second Pro Circuit final at the SoCal Pro Series $15,000 tournament in San Diego. The rising junior at SMU ended an impressive winning streak, with University of San Diego rising senior Oliver Tarvet of Great Britain retiring after winning the first set from Svajda 6-3, but down 0-3 in the second set. Tarvet had not lost a match on the USD courts since March 17, 2023, when Princeton’s Thomas Bosancic beat him during his freshman season with the Toreros.

Svajda will face another rising senior at San Diego in the final, after qualifier Stian Klaassen defeated teammate and fellow qualifier Savriyan Danilov of Russia 7-5, 4-6, 7-5 in the other semifinal. 

After their singles semifinal, Klaassen and Danilov teamed up to take the doubles titles, beating last week's champions and No. 2 seeds Keshav Chopra(Georgia Tech) and Philip Jordan(South Carolina, UC-Santa Barbara) 6-4, 6-7(7), 15-13 in Saturday evening's final.

Eighteen-year-old Alyssa Ahn, a rising freshman at Stanford, has reached her first Pro Circuit final, with the No. 6 seed from San Diego beating No. 4 seed Stefania Rogozinska Dzik of Poland 7-5, 7-6(4) in the women's $15,000 tournament in San Diego. Ahn will play No. 7 seed Mao Mushika(Cal) of Japan, who beat Tianmei Wang 6-2, 7-6(5) to advance to her first final this year, after falling in the semifinals of the SoCal Pro Series the first two weeks.

The unseeded Australian team of Lily Fairclough, a USC rising junior,  and Lily Taylor, a rising Arizona State sophomore, won the doubles title, beating unseeded Kristina Nordikyan(USC) and Anita Sahdiieva(Baylor, LSU) 2-6, 6-2, 10-4. Fairclough and Taylor had lost in the final to Haley Giavara(Cal) and Sahdiieva in the first week of the SoCal Pro Series in May; Fairclough then partnered with Sahdieeva to beat Mushika and Nodikyan for the title last week, before reuniting with Taylor for their first title as a team this week.

Top seeds Rafael Pagonis of Greece and Sakino Miyazawa of Japan claimed the titles today at the Tennis Europe Category 1 Lexus Junior International Raynes Park, a grass court event that serves as qualifying for the Wimbledon 14U tournament during the second week of the Championships in July. Pagonis, who is on a 23-match winning streak in major Tennis Europe 14s tournaments, defeated No. 2 seed Moritz Frietag of Austria 7-5, 4-6, 6-3. The 13-year-old Miyazawa, the 2024 Junior Orange Bowl champion, who is already 304 in the ITF Junior rankings, defeated wild card April Sackflame of Great Britain 6-0, 6-3 in the final. Both the champions and runners-up receive invitations to the Wimbledon 14U tournament.