Pareja Sole US Girl to Advance to Roland Garros Juniors Third Round; Gauff and Keys to Meet in RG Quarterfinal; Stanford Tops Women's Spring Recruiting Class Rankings; Budacsek Sweeps ITF J60 Titles

After a promising start to the Roland Garros Junior Championships Sunday, American fortunes dimmed considerable Monday, with only one of the seven players competing in the second round advancing to Wednesday's round of 16.

Julieta Pareja, the No. 9 seed and J500 Milan finalist, defeated Eva Bennemann of Germany 6-2, 6-3 to keep hopes for a US title alive, with the six other American girls failing to advance. Pareja will face unseeded Victoria Barros of Brazil next, after Barros defeated No. 7 seed Jana Kovackova 4-6, 6-3, 6-3. Pareja beat Barros in their only previous meeting at an ITF J200 last spring in France.

Qualifier Capucine Jauffret, the only US girls playing a first round match today, took top seed Emerson Jones of Australia to three sets, but Jones survived 6-1, 1-6, 6-2.

With Kovackova's loss today, the only Top 8 seeds remaining in the girls draw are Jones and No. 8 Hannah Klugman of Great Britain.

All four of the US boys fell in second round action today, with Jack Satterfield's 4-6, 6-4, 7-6(7) loss to unseeded Thilo Behrmann of Austria particularly painful. Satterfield saved four break points at 4-4 in the third and broke Behrmann in the next game, but he couldn't serve it out, getting no closer than deuce in the 5-4 game. Satterfield did force the tiebreaker and had his chances, but a double fault at 6-7 was too much to recover from, with Behrmann holding on to the mini-break, converting his first match point with a forehand winner.

Qualifier Ronit Karki had No. 11 seed Alexander Vasilev of Bulgaria on the ropes with a 3-1 lead in third set, but the 18-year-old left-hander rebounded for a 1-6, 6-2, 6-4 victory.

Monday's first round junior matches featuring Americans:

Dante Pagani(ARG) d. Maximus Dussault 6-3, 6-4

Benjamin Willwerth[6] d. Ty Host(AUS) 6-3, 7-6(6)

Jack Kennedy[4] d. Kerem Yilmaz[SE](TUR) 6-1, 6-0

Emerson Jones[1](AUS) d. Capucine Jauffret[Q] 6-1, 1-6, 6-2

Monday's second round junior results of Americans:

Nikita Bilozertsev[14](UKR) d. Jack Secord 6-3 6-4 

Alexander Vasilev[11] d. Ronit Karki[Q] 1-6, 6-2, 6-4

Thilo Behrmann(AUT) d. Jack Satterfield 4-6, 6-4, 7-6(10-7)

Neils Mcdonald(GER) d. Keaton Hance[16] 6-1, 6-3 

Julieta Pareja[9] d. Eva Bennemann(GER) 6-2, 6-3

Julia Stusek[12](GER) d. Leena Friedman[Q] 6-2, 6-3

Sarah Melany Fajmonova[Q](CZE) d. Thea Frodin[15] 6-4, 6-3

Tuesday's second junior matches featuring Americans:

Jack Kennedy[4] v Thijs Boogaard(NED)

Noah Johnston v Stefan Haita[Q](ROU)

Benjamin Willerth[6] v Hitesh Chauhan[Q](IND)

Jagger Leach[5] v Kuan-Shou Chen(TPE)

Maxwell Exsted v Timofei Derepasko[10](RUS)

Madison Keys and Coco Gauff have joined Frances Tiafoe and Tommy Paul in the Roland Garros quarterfinals, but unlike Tiafoe and Paul, only one has a chance to make it to the semifinals, as they meet in Wednesday's quarterfinals. This is the fifth consecutive year that the 21-year-old Gauff has reached the Roland Garros quarterfinals; she was a finalist in 2022.

No. 3 seed Jessica Pegula was shocked by French wild card Lois Boisson 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, with Boisson facing No. 6 seed Mirra Andreeva of Russia next.

Monday's fourth round results of Americans:

Coco Gauff[2] d. Ekaterina Alexandrova[20](RUS) 6-0, 7-5

Lois Boisson[WC](FRA) d. Jessica Pegula[3] 3-6, 6-4, 6-4

Madison Keys[7] d. Hailey Baptiste 6-3, 7-5

Tuesday's quarterfinal matches featuring Americans:

Frances Tiafoe[15] v Lorenzo Musetti[8](ITA)

Tommy Paul[12] v Carlos Alcaraz[2](ESP)

The Division I women's spring recruiting class rankings poll was published today at Tennis Recruiting Network, with Stanford barely beating out Georgia for the top spot. Both received six first place votes, with Texas and UCLA getting the other two first place votes.

The top ten, in order, are Stanford, Georgia, Texas, USC, UCLA, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, LSU and Indiana.

With no ITF Junior Circuit events in the United States last week, the number of Americans in draws was not as big as usual, but there were three singles titles to note.

Sixteen-year-old Sophia Budacsek, who lost in the El Salvador J60 final two weeks ago to her doubles partner, got revenge in this week's J60 there, with the top seed defeating No. 2 seed Carlota Balseiro of Guatemala 3-6, 7-6(7), 6-3 in the final, after  they had claimed their second consecutive doubles title. The top seeds defeated No. 3 seeds Ashvini Gopalan of Canada and Myla Stoll 6-0, 6-0 in the final.

Sean Grosman, who reached the singles final, won the doubles title with Rafael Ferreira of Brazil, with the No. 2 seeds beating No. 3 seeds Alejandro Castellanos, the singles champion, and Geronimo Echeverry of Colombia 7-6(3), 7-6(4). 

The other American singles title came at the J30 in Kyrgyzstan, with 17-year-old top seed Priyanka Rana winning her second ITF Junior Circuit singles title with a 6-2, 6-0 win over unseeded Alissa Korolyova of Kazakhstan in the final. 

In addition to the J300 doubles title won by Jacob Olar and Puerto Rico's Yannik Alvarez last week in Belgium, and those in El Salvador, there were three other doubles titles for Americans last week.

At the J100 in Calgary Canada, top seeds Andre Alcantara and Theo Hegarty won the boys doubles title, beating No. 3 seeds Caden Colburne and Antoine Genereux of Canada 7-6(8), 4-6, 10-7 in the final.  Top seeds Thara Gowda and Canadian Clemence Mercier won the girls doubles title over No. 2 seeds Kaya Moe and Karlin Schock 6-3, 6-2.

At the J60 in South Africa, 17-year-old Koronayashe Rugara won the girls doubles title, with South African partner Morgan Jordaan. The top seeds defeated No. 4 seeds Allegra and Angelique van der Walt of South Africa 6-1, 6-3 in the final.