Svajda and Crawley Claim USTA Pro Circuit Singles Championships; 17-Year-Olds Jovic and Blanch Earn Biggest Titles; Fritz and Diallo Kick Off Grass Season with ATP 250 Titles

A year ago, Fiona Crawley won the SoCal Pro Series $15K title in San Diego, her first tournament after completing her All-American career at the University of North Carolina. Then came a rough patch, with six consecutive first round losses at W35s and W75s and her ranking fell from 348 to 775 this spring. But the 23-year-old from Texas is back in the winner's circle now, after claiming the title today at the W35 in Decatur Illinois. The seventh-seeded Crawley defeated No. 8 seed Dasha Plekhanova of Canada 7-6(5), 6-4 for her fourth career singles title on the USTA Pro Circuit.

Another Tar Heel captured a title in Decatur, with rising UNC sophomore Susanna Maltby partnering with rising NC State junior Maddy Zampardo to take the doubles championship. Maltby and Zampardo, who won the Easter Bowl 18s doubles title in 2023, claimed their first Pro Circuit title with a 5-7, 7-5, 10-7 win over No. 3 seeds Jaeda Daniel(Auburn, NC State) and Salma Ewing(USC, Texas A&M) in last night's final.

Like Crawley, Trevor Svajda had not won a title in more than a year, with his other career title coming at an M25 in Calabasas last March. Svajda, a rising junior at SMU, has made two Challenger quarterfinals this year, but putting together five consecutive wins in his hometown of San Diego during the SoCal Pro Series has to be the highlight of his 2025. The 19-year-old, a finalist in the Kalamazoo 18s in 2023, defeated University of San Diego rising senior Stian Klaassen of the Netherlands 6-2, 6-3 in today's final.

For more on Svajda's win and an emotional Father's Day for he and father Tom, see this article from Damian Secore for SoCal Pro Series.

No. 7 seed Mao Mushika, a 19-year-old from Japan who is a rising junior at Cal, won the San Diego women's singles title, beating No. 6 seed Alyssa Ahn, an incoming Stanford freshman, 7-5, 6-3 for her second ITF women's World Tennis Tour title.

At the M25 in Wichita Kansas, No. 8 seed Hiroki Moriya of Japan won the singles title, beating No. 2 seed Andres Andrade(Florida) of Ecuador 7-6(6), 6-3 in today's final. In the doubles final, Ozan Baris(Michigan State) won his fourth USTA Pro Circuit doubles title, with New Zealand's Matthew Shearer(Tyler CC, William Carey). The unseeded pair defeated top seeds Matt Hulme(Coastal Georgia, Omaha) and Kody Pearson(Tulsa) of Australia 7-6(4), 7-6(4) in the final. Baris will be competing in the USTA's Collegiate US Open Wild Card playoff Monday in Orlando, in singles, after reaching the NCAA singles final last fall.

In Europe, two unseeded 17-year-olds collected the biggest titles of their careers, with Iva Jovic winning the WTA 125 in Ilkley England and Darwin Blanch triumphing at an M25 in Spain.

Jovic beat No. 8 seed and defending champion Rebecca Marino of Canada 6-1, 6-3 despite the 34-year-old making 84% of her first serves. Marino won only 52% of those points however, and Jovic won eight of nine on Marino's second serve, indicating her returning was a key factor today. Her previous biggest title came at a W100 this spring; she is now up to 89 in the WTA live rankings and in contention for a Wimbledon main draw wild card. Jovic reached the singles semifinals and won the doubles title at the Wimbledon Junior Championships last year.

Darwin Blanch, who has not played a junior event since last August in Kalamazoo, earned his second career title without dropping a set on the hard courts in Martos. Seeded No. 5, Blanch defeated top seed Clement Chidekh(Washington) of France 7-6(4), 6-3 in the today's final. Blanch's first title, in February of this year, came at an M15, also on hard courts in Spain. He is still eligible to play Kalamazoo this year.

Taylor Fritz won his first title of the year at the ATP 250 in Stuttgart, beating top seed Alexander Zverev of Germany 6-3, 7-6(0).  The second-seeded Fritz, who has now beaten Zverev in their last five meetings, has won nine ATP titles, with four of them coming on grass. He will return to his career-high of No. 4 in the ATP rankings Monday, and will be joined by Tommy Paul[8] and Ben Shelton(Florida)[10]. It's the first time since 2006 that three American men have been in the Top 10. Then it was Andy Roddick[4], James Blake(Harvard)[7] and Andre Agassi[10].

Former University of Kentucky All-American Gabriel Diallo of Canada won his first ATP title today at the ATP 250 in 's-Hertogenbosch, beating Zizou Bergs of Belgium 7-5, 7-6(8). The 23-year-old Diallo, who had saved two match points in his second round win over Jordan Thompson of Australia, won all four tiebreakers he played this week.  With the title, the first for a Canadian man on grass this century, Diallo will move into the ATP Top 50 for the first time.