Top Seed Glozman, Second Seed Chan Among Upset Victims in Opening Round Action at NCAA Division I Singles Championships; Kennedy Beats No. 2 Seed in Tallahassee M15, Ayrault Qualifies at W35 Boca Raton, Grumet Qualifies at M25 Austin

Tuesday was a long day full of surprises at the Division I NCAA Championships at the USTA National Campus in Lake Nona, Florida.

Top seed and ITA All-American champion Valerie Glozman of Stanford fought back from 6-3, 5-3 down against Baylor senior Na Dong, but Dong held firm for the 6-3, 6-7(1), 6-4 upset.

Glozman, who hadn't played since winning the All-American title back in September, appeared to find her form in the tiebreaker and was up a break in the third set, but Dong got the break back and put pressure on Glozman in her 3-4 and 4-5 service games, getting the break to secure the improbable victory.

Unlike Glozman, men's No. 2 seed Duncan Chan of TCU had plenty of recent results, arriving in Orlando late Sunday night after losing in the final of the Drummondville ATP Challenger 75. Despite that short recovery time, Chan battled Clemson senior Roman Gales, with both players having multiple matches points before Gales finally secured the victory 6-2, 6-7(5), 7-6(10).

Although the biggest, Glozman and Chan were hardly the only seeds to exit today, with a total of seven women's seeds and four men's seeds sidelined on the first day.

No. 5 seed Aysegul Mert of Georgia had one of the toughest first rounds, facing former Oklahoma State All-American Oby Kajuru, now playing for North Carolina. Mert, the Conference Masters champion,  kept going for her shots, but missed a few too many down the stretch, with Kajuru avenging an earlier loss to Mert this fall 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.

No. 7 seed Teah Chavez of Ohio State lost to Vanderbilt's Valeria Ray 6-4, 6-3 and No. 8 seed Ashton Bowers of Auburn was beaten by Reece Carter of Washington 6-4, 6-4. Three 9-16 seeds--Vivian Yang and Annabelle Xu of Virginia and Tatum Evans of North Carolina--also went out today.

Reese Brantmeier of North Carolina, a 9-16 seed, faced a daunting deficit in her match with Vanderbilt's Bridget Stammel, but she won the last five games of the match to survive 6-1, 4-6, 7-5. 

No. 2 seed Carmen Herea of Texas, who is in Brantmeier's quarter, posted a convining 6-1, 6-4 win over Anna Zyryanova of NC State.

The three other men's seeds to lose were 9-16s, with Sebastian Eriksson of Texas beating Connor Henry Van Schalkwyk of Baylor 6-3, 6-3; Jack Anthrop of Ohio State, who won the M25 in Columbus Sunday, lost to Filip Gustafsson of Arizona 6-3, 6-0 and Trevor Svajda of SMU defeated Jeremy Jin of Florida 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, winning the final four games of the match.

Defending champion Michael Zheng of Columbia and 2024 semifinalist DK Suresh of Wake Forest, both unseeded, had little trouble in the first round matches, with Zheng defeating Hugo Car of South Florida 6-4, 6-2 and Suresh beating Matic Kriznik of Alabama 6-3, 6-4. Zheng faces Eriksson and Suresh will play No. 5 seed Devin Badenhorst of Baylor Wednesday.

Second round matches will begin at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, with doubles to follow. Cracked Racquets will be providing their CrossCourt coverage, plus two featured matches, via ESPN Select. Each of the 12 courts also has a separate feed available on ESPN Select. 

Doubles begins Tuesday afternoon, with the top four seeds below; click on the header for the draw, with times.

WOMEN:

1. Maria Sholokhova and Lucie Urbanova, Wisconsin

2. Roisin Gilheany and Gloriana Nahum, Oklahoma

3. Ange Oby Kajuru and Susanna Maltby, North Carolina

4. Sophia Webster and Celia-Belle Mohr, Vanderbilt

MEN:

1. Benito Sanchez Martinez and Petar Jovanovic, Mississippi State

2. DK Suresh and Andrew Delgado, Wake Forest

3. Isac Stromberg and Kai Milburn, Mississippi

4. Max Dahlin and Bjorn Swenson, Michigan

Live scoring is available here. There is an arrow to click to move between courts 1-6 and 7-12.

All first round results are below, in draw order:

WOMEN:

Na Dong, Baylor d. Valerie Glozman[1], Stanford 6-3, 6-7(1), 6-4

Gabriella Broadfoot, NC State d. Julia Garcia Ruiz, Oklahoma 7-6(5), 6-4

Mia Kupres, Texas A&M d. Tatum Evans[9-16], North Carolina 7-6(2), 6-3

Berta Passola Folch, Cal d. Mayu Crossley, UCLA 6-1, 6-1

Reece Carter, Washington d. Ashton Bowers[8], Auburn 6-4, 6-4

Irina Balus, Duke d. Eugenia Zozaya Menendez, Southern Cal 6-4, 6-3

Mia Yamakita[9-16], Vanderbilt d. Darya Schwartzman, Rice 6-2, 6-3

Kyoka Kubo, Kansas d. Kristina Paskauskas, Alabama 6-1, 4-6, 6-2

Savannah Dada-Mascoll[4], Appalachian State d. Naomi Xu, Cal 6-3, 6-3

Ria Bhakta, Clemson d. Xinyi Nong, Florida 7-5, 6-4

Anastasiia Gureva[9-16], Georgia d. Bianca Molnar, Notre Dame 6-4, 7-6(4)

Emma Charney, Southern Cal d. Alice Ferlito, Princeton 3-6, 7-5, 6-4

Valeria Ray, Vanderbilt d. Teah Chavez[7], Ohio State 6-4, 6-3

Emily Welker, Mississippi d. Lavinia Tanasie, NC State 6-2, 6-1

Stephanie Yakoff, Harvard d. Annabella Xu[9-16], Virginia 6-3, 3-6, 6-3

Lily Jones, Michigan d. Thea Rabman, North Caroina 6-4 3-6, 6-3

Mia Slama, NC State d. Nao Nishino, Ohio State 6-2, 6-2

Gabia Paskauskas[9-16], Florida d. Alyssa Ahn, Stanford 6-2, 4-6, 7-5

Jana Hossam Salah, Southern Cal d. Greta Greco Lucchina, Cal 6-3, 6-1

Ange Oby Kajuru, North Carolina d. Aysegul Mert[5], Georgia 6-4, 4-6, 6-4

Erika Matsuda, Washington d. Serafima Shashtova, Syracuse 6-2, 7-6(3)

Carolina Gomez Alonso, Arkansas d. Vivian Yang[9-16], Virgina 1-6, 6-2, 6-2

Zuzanna Kubacha, Baylor d. Liv Hovde, Duke 7-5, 6-4

Piper Charney[3], Michigan d. Emma Kamper, Utah 7-5, 6-2

Sophie Llewellyn, SMU d. Violeta Martinez, Texas A&M 4-6, 6-2, 6-1

Reese Brantmeier[9-16], North Carolina d. Bridget Stammel, Vanderbilt 6-1, 4-6, 7-5

Ava Esposito, Auburn d. Krisha Mahendran, Southern Cal 4-6, 6-2, 7-6(3)

Anastasiia Grechkina[6], Pepperdine d. Anastasiia Lopata, Georgia 6-3, 5-7, 6-3

Ni Xi, UNC-Charlotte, d. Mao Mushika, Cal 7-6(2), 6-7(3), 7-5

Luciana Perry[9-16], Ohio State d. Esha Velaga, Penn 4-6, 6-1, 6-2

Eva Shaw, Florida State d. Louise Wikander, Denver 6-4, 6-3

Carmen Herea[2], Texas d. Anna Zyryanova, NC State 6-1, 6-4

MEN:

Jay Friend[1], Arizona d. Joaquin Guilleme, Wake Forest 6-4, 3-6, 6-1

Keegan Rice, Virginia d. Oscar Lacides, Oklahoma 4-6, 6-3, 6-4

Petar Jovanovic[9-16] Mississippi State d. Preston Stearns, Ohio State 7-5, 6-3

Sebastian Gorzny, Texas d. Ian Mayew, North Carolina 6-3, 7-6(2)

Kenta Miyoshi[6], Illinois d. Dominique Rolland, UC-Santa Barbara 6-4, 6-1

Edward Winter, Pepperdine d. Melchior Delloye, Harvard 6-2, 6-3

Trevor Svajda, SMU d. Jeremy Jin[9-16] Florida, 6-1, 4-6, 6-4

Amirkhamza Nasridinov, Auburn d. Vignesh Gogineni, Yale 6-3, 7-6(11)

Matt Forbes[4], Michigan State d. Pablo Martinez Gomez, Vanderbilt 3-6, 7-6(3), 6-4

Cosme Rolland De Ravel, TCU d. Alex Frusina, Texas A&M 7-5, 5-7, 7-6(8)

Jack Loutit[9-16], Kentucky d. Illia Maksymchuk, UNLV 6-1, 7-5

Max Dahlin, Michigan d. Sebastian Dominko 7-6(3), 6-3

Devin Badenhorst[5], Baylor d. Thiago Silva, Cal 6-2, 6-1

DK Suresh, Wake Forest d. Matic Kriznik, Alabama 6-3, 6-4

Filip Gustafsson, Arizona d. Jack Anthrop[9-16], Ohio State 6-3, 6-0

Martin Borisiouk, NC State d. Spencer Johnson, UCLA 6-2, 6-7(4), 7-6(1)

Luca Pow, Wake Forest d. Sam Landau, Indiana 3-6, 6-1, 6-4

Jakub Vrba[9-16], Arkansas d. Peter Privara, Harvard 6-4, 4-6, 6-1

Bryan Hernandez Cortes, Mississippi State d. Soham Purohit, Washington 6-3, 7-6(5)

Dylan Dietrich[7], Virginia d. Luis Alvarez, Oklahoma 6-4, 6-3

Luca Liu, UC-Santa Barbara d. Niels Ratiu, North Carolina 3-6, 7-5, 7-6(4)

Paul Inchauspe[9-16], Princeton d. Sasha Rozin, Arizona 0-6, 7-6(4), 7-5

Will Jansen, North Carolina d. Rudy Quan, UCLA 6-7(5), 6-4, 6-2

Aidan Kim[3], Ohio State d. Antonio Prat, Miami 7-6(7), 6-4

Ilia Snitari, UNLV d. Shu Matsuoka, Arizona State4-6, 6-3, 6-4

Eli Stephenson[9-16], Kentucky d. Luis Felipe Miguel, Florida State 6-2, 6-0

Roan Jones, North Carolina d. Paul Barbier Gazeu, South Carolina 6-4, 1-6, 6-3

Ozan Baris[8], Michigan State d. Jangjun Kim, Virginia 6-2, 7-6(4)

Sebastian Eriksson, Texas d. Connor Henry Van Schalkwyk[9-16] Baylor 6-3, 6-3

Michael Zheng, Columbia d. Hugo Car, South Florida 6-4, 6-2

Benito Sanches Martinez, Mississippi State d. Fryderyk Lechno-Wasiutynski, Cal 6-2, 6-4

Roman Gales, Clemson d. Duncan Chan[2], TCU 6-2, 6-7(5), 7-6(10)

Because I was following the NCAAs for 12 hours today, I don't have the time to do the usual deep dive into the three USTA Pro Circuit tournaments this week, so I'll just briefly mention that Jack Kennedy defeated No. 2 seed Toby Kodat 6-2, 6-4 at the M15 in Tallahasse and San Diego 16s champion Hannah Ayrault, still just 14, qualified into the main draw of the W35 in Boca Raton. The third tourament is an M25 in Austin, where 2024 Kalamazoo 16s champion Gus Grumet qualified.