Svajda and Cayetano Complete Sweeps at SoCal Pro Series in Lakewood; Qualifiers Jauffret and Matisse Among Ten US Juniors Advancing at Roehampton ITF J300; Fifteen Americans in Action Monday at Wimbledon; ITF Success for Collegians; Ngounoue Wins W50 in Spain

Eryn Cayetano and Trevor Svajda swept the titles today at the SoCal Pro Series in Lakewood California, adding a second straight singles title to the doubles titles they each won on Saturday.

The 24-year-old Cayetano, a former All-American at USC, defeated UCLA rising senior Anne Christine Lutkemeyer, a qualifier, 6-3, 7-5 in the women's final for her 17th-consecutive victory in the past two weeks(she and Haley Giavara had a bye in the first round of doubles this week). 

The 19-year-old Svjada, who played the SoCal Pro Series $15K in San Diego two weeks ago, then this week in Lakewood, defeated UCLA rising junior Spencer Johnson, a qualifier, 6-4, 6-4 in today's men's final for his tenth consecutive singles win during the SoCal Pro Series. 

Svajda had to withdraw from today's first round of qualifying for the  ATP Challenger 75 in Cary North Carolina, and he is representing the United States in the World University Games next month in Germany, but he will play the M25 on his college home courts in Dallas before that trip.

Ten American juniors won their opening round matches today at the ITF J300 in Roehampton, including qualifiers Capucine Jauffret and Matisse Farzam.  Jauffret defeated No. 6 seed Julia Stusek of Germany, one of six girls seeds to lose in today's first round, 6-4, 6-3; Farzam defeated William Rejchtman Vinciguerra of Sweden 6-3, 6-4. The third American qualifier, Gavin Goode, came oh so close to a major upset, with top seed Jacopo Vasami of Italy, playing a junior event on grass two days after playing the semifinals of an ATP Challenger on clay, emerging with a 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(4) victory.

Ronit Karki defeated Kuan-Shou Chen of Taiwan 7-6(1), 6-2; No. 3 seed Jagger Leach defeated Ziga Sesko of Slovenia 7-6(1), 6-2; Dominick Mosejczuk defeated lucky loser Dimmitar Kisimov of Bulgaria 6-4, 7-5; Noah Johnston beat No. 12 seed Timofei Derepasko of Russia 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 and No. 5 seed Benjamin Willwerth defeated British wild card Conor Brady 7-6(3), 6-2.  Four seeded boys lost in today's first round, including No. 16 seed Keaton Hance.

No. 3 seed Julieta Pareja beat British wild card Flora Johnson 6-4, 6-3; No. 15 seed Thea Frodin beat Lorena Solar Donoso of Spain 6-3, 7-6(8) and No. 2 seed Kristina Penickova defeated Mia Pohankova of Slovakia 6-2, 6-2.

Live scoring can be found at the LTA's tournament site.

A few miles from Roehamption, players practiced and spoke to the media at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, with the first Wimbledon opening round matches less than ten hours away. Fifteen Americans are on Monday's schedule, including the third meeting in the past 12 months between 19-year-old Learner Tien and 20-year-old Nishesh Basavareddy. 

Monday's first round matches featuring Americans:

Taylor Fritz[5] v Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard(FRA)

Brandon Holt v Alejandro Davidovich Fokina[26](ESP)

Mackenzie McDonald v Karen Khachanov[17](RUS)

Ethan Quinn v Henry Searle[WC](GBR)

Learner Tien v Nishesh Basavareddy

Jenson Brooksby v Tallon Griekspoor[31](NED)

Frances Tiafoe[12] v Elmer Moller(DEN)

McCartney Kessler[32] v Marketa Vondrousova(CZE)

Ann Li v Viktorija Golubic(SUI)

Peyton Stearns v Laura Siegemund(GER)

Madison Keys[6] v Elena-Gabriela Ruse(ROU)

Bernarda Pera v Linda Noskova[30](CZE)

Amanda Anismiova[13] v Yulia Putintseva(KAZ)

Ashlyn Krueger[31] v Mika Stojsavljevic[WC](GBR)

2023 Wimbledon girls and USTA National 18s champion Clervie Ngounoue had been out nearly two months after retiring from a match in April, but came back to reach the semis of a W50 in Portugal earlier in the month and today won her second W50 title, both coming this year. The 18-year-old top seed defeated No. 5 seed Eva Vedder 6-1, 6-4 in the final tonight in Spain, and will break into the WTA Top 200 for the first time when the points are added next month. 

In preparing my upcoming June Aces column for the Tennis Recruiting Network, I monitor all the ITF men's and women's tournaments and, as usual lately, there are way too many junior and current collegian champions on the $15K level to include each month.  A partial list of junior 15K singles winners this month include Mariella Thamm(GER), Timofei Derepasko(RUS), Tahlia Kokkinis(AUS) and Laima Vladson(LTU). Current or incoming collegians winning 15K singles titles this month, in addition to Svajda, include Oklahoma's Edda Mamedova(RUS), Princeton's Paul Inchauspe(FRA), Oklahoma State's Luca Udvardy(HUN) and Rose Marie Nijkamp(NED) and Georgia's Aysegul Mert(TUR) and Patricija Paukstyte(LTU).

Two Americans picked up titles this month in Monastir Tunisia,  with Sofia Rojas, the rising senior at Georgia winning her second ITF women's singles title earlier this month, then making a final the next week, losing to Kokkinis. Duke rising junior Cooper Williams won his first singles title today, with the unseeded 20-year-old New Yorker beating unseeded Marcus Walters of Great Britain 6-3, 6-1.