Stoiana and Glozman, Dostanic and Zheng Advance to Wednesday's Collegiate US Open Wild Card Playoff Finals; Traynor Sweeps Titles at ITF J100 in Guatemala, Grosman Claims Second Straight J60 Title in Mexico

The finals of the USTA's Collegiate US Open Wild Card Playoff are set for Wednesday, with all four winners of today's semifinals already assured of a trip to New York. The matches on Wednesday will decide who will be going as a qualifying wild card and who will join the top players in the world in the main draw.

None of the four matches today were dramatic with all finishing in straight sets in under two hours, even with the regular scoring that was used, not the no-ad collegians usually play. Top seed Mary Stoiana, the recent Texas A&M graduate, defeated DJ Bennett, a rising senior at Auburn 6-3, 6-3, after they had split their two SEC matches this spring.

Stoiana will face 18-year-old Valerie Glozman, a rising sophomore at Stanford, who defeated Amelia Honer, a recent UC-Santa Barbara graduate 6-1, 6-2. Honer was the No. 2 seed, due to her WTA ranking, but Glozman's unique style, with two-hands on both sides, is difficult to counter when she's on, and she was on tonight.

This year will be Glozman's fourth in women's qualifying, a remarkable number for an 18-year-old. She earned two of the qualifying wild cards as the runner-up in at the 18s Nationals in San Diego in 2022 and 2024; in 2023 she lost in the San Diego semifinals, but was given a qualifying wild card that year too. She has won a match in all three qualifying appearances; The 22-year-old Stoiana, who received US Open qualifying wild cards in both 2023 and 2024, won her first qualifying match last year.

If she should lose Wednesday, Glozman will have another chance to win a US Open main draw wild card, as she is still eligible to play San Diego this August.

In the men's semifinals, Columbia's rising senior Michael Zheng defeated Aidan Kim, a rising junior at Ohio State, 7-5, 6-2, a result which avoids the worst-case scenario of this new Playoff, with the NCAA champion, who previously always got a main draw US Open wild card if American, being shut out of any wild card in New York. At the least, Zheng, who won the title in Baylor last November, will get a qualifying wild card, which he had received in 2023, and also in 2024, when he reached the NCAA singles final in Stillwater. 

Zheng, who was the No. 2 seed, will face top seed Stefan Dostanic, who completed his final year of eligibility at Wake Forest in May, leading the Demon Deacons to the NCAA Team title. Dostanic defeated 2024 fall runner-up Ozan Baris of Michigan State 6-4, 6-4 tonight to set up a fourth meeting between he and Zheng in 2025.  Zheng won their first match in a dual match early in the season, but Dostanic has won the last two: in Baylor at the NCAA team quarterfinals, and two weeks ago in the first round of the ATP Challenger in Tyler Texas. Dostanic is the only one of the four to have not played in US Open qualifying; the only match he's played at the US Open came in 2018, when he received a wild card into the US Open Junior Championships and lost to Lorenzo Musetti of Italy in the first round.

Tuesday's four matches will be the doubles semifinals, with Bennett and Ava Hrastar(Auburn) versus Sarah Hamner and Kaitlyn Carnicella(South Carolina) and Reese Brantmeier and Alanis Hamilton(UNC) verse Olivia Center and Kate Fakih(UCLA) making up the women's field.

The men's field will feature Zheng and Nicolas Kotzen(Columbia) versus Nicholas Godsick and Hudson Rivera(Stanford) and Cooper Wiliams and Theo Winegar(Duke) versus Trevor Svajda and Louis Cloud(SMU).

Cracked Racquets is providing coverage of all matches at their YouTube channel, beginning at 5 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday.

The ITF Junior Circuit results from last week were highlighted by a sweep of the J100 titles in Guatemala for Olivia Traynor and a second straight J60 title for Sean Grosman in Mexico.

Traynor, a 17-year-old from New York, won her third J100 title of year, all since May, and is up to 152 in ITF junior rankings. The No. 2 seed defeated 14-year-old Janae Preston, the No. 4 seed, 6-4, 6-3 in the final, reversing the result of the final two weeks ago at another J100 in Guatemala, which Preston won, leading Traynor 6-2, 3-2 when Traynor was defaulted.

In doubles, top seeds Traynor and Shaya Jovanovic defeated unseeded the unseeded Preston and Emery June Martin 6-2, 6-3 in the final for their first title as a team. It's also two J100 doubles titles in a row for Traynor.

Grosman, a 16-year-old from New York, won back-to-back singles titles at J60s in Mexico, adding last week's title in Veracruz to the one he claimed in Tabasco two weeks ago. The No. 3 seed beat No. 8 seed Nicolas Rivera Paz of Mexico 7-6(4), 6-3 in the final. Grosman has not lost a set in his 10-match winning streak this month in Mexico.

Kalista Papadopoulos, who reached the final in singles, won the girls doubles title with Bethania Bonaguro La Roche of Venezuela. The No. 4 seeds defeated No. 2 seeds Ga Hyun Song Kwon and Natalia Varela Herrera of Mexico 7-6(2), 6-0 in the final. 

Kamil Stolarczyk won the boys doubles title, with Luis Flores Avila of Mexico. The top seeds defeated the unseeded Mexican pair of Paolo Garcia Cavallari and Ignacio Ruiz Marquinez 5-7, 6-4, 11-9 in the final.

At the new J60 last week in Cincinnati, Americans swept all four titles.

Qualifier Carlota Moreno, a 16-year-old from Tennessee, won her first ITF Junior Circuit title without dropping a set all week. The 2025 Easter Bowl 16s bronze ball winner defeated four seeds in her five matches including top seed Reiley Rhodes in the semifinals 6-3, 6-3 and No. 2 seed Sophia Budacsek 6-4, 6-1 in the final. 

Seventeen-year-old top seed Mason Taube won his third title, with the Georgia Tech recruit beating No. 5 seed, 15-year-old Matias Reyniak 6-3, 6-2 in the boys final. Taube didn't have to play his second round or quarterfinal match due to a retirement and a walkover.

No. 3 seed Graeme Angus and Omar Rhazali won the doubles title, beating top seeds Owen Guistwite and France's Romain Azais 6-3, 6-3 in the final. 

Top seeds Rhodes and Olivia De Los Reyes won the girls doubles title, beating unseeded Lily Bazemore and Prisha Lingam 6-3, 3-6, 10-8 in the championship match.

At the J30 in Ottawa Canada, 15-year-old Tristan Stratton of New York won his second ITF J30 title, both coming this year. The 2025 Easter Bowl 16s finalist and top seed defeated No. 5 seed  and doubles partner Kayden Colombo 6-3, 6-4 in the all-USA final. 

For the third straight week at J60s in Pretoria South Africa, Koronayashe Rugara lost to Allegra van der Walt of South Africa, the last two losses in the singles finals. But in those two weeks, the 17-year-old defeated Allegra and sister Angelique in the doubles finals, both times with Morgan Jordaan of South Africa as her partner. Last week's encounter ended with a 6-2, 5-7, 10-7 win for Rugara and Jordaan.

At the J30 in Congo, 15-year-old David Beckles won the doubles title with Hugo Agnes of France. Agnes and Beckles defeated Eric Engunga Escartin of Congo and USA's Gabriel Karam 6-2, 6-2 in the final.