Michelsen, Dolehide, Rapolu and Bynoe Claim USTA Pro Circuit Titles; Pareja, Svajda, Martin and Cruz Qualify for Mubadala DC Open 500s

Americans swept all four USTA Pro Circuit singles titles today, with only Bloomfield Hills ATP Challenger 125 champion Alex Michelsen doing so as the top seed.

Michelsen overcame a 4-0 first set deficit to end the nine-match winning streak of No. 8 seed Jacob Fearnley(TCU) of Great Britain with a 7-6(4), 6-3 victory in this afternoon's final. Michelsen, who wasn't broken in his three-set semifinal win over lucky loser DK Suresh, was broken three times today, but ultimately had a better serving day than Newport Challenger 125 champion Fearnley, with 10 aces and some outstanding defense the keys to his first title since April of 2025.

Michelsen now heads to the ATP 500 in Washington DC, where he'll play wild card Jack Draper of Great Britain in the first round.

Caroline Dolehide won her first title in more than three years at the W100 in Evansville Indiana. The unseeded 27-year-old from Illinois, who reached a WTA career-high of 41 in January of 2024, defeated unseeded Yeonwoo Ku of Korea 7-6(3), 7-6(5) in today's final.

At the W35 in Santa Fe New Mexico, 23-year-old Malaika Rapolu(Texas) won her fourth Pro Circuit singles title, with the No. 5 seed defeating top seed Hina Inoue, also of the United States, 6-2, 6-0 in the final. The only set Rapolu lost this week was the first one she played; after beating Lexington Reed(Texas A&M) 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the first round, she didn't drop more than four games in any set.

The M25 in Champaign Illinois produced a first-time winner, with former Cornell standout Evan Bynoe earning his first pro singles title with a 6-2, 7-6(5) victory over No. 5 seed Naoya Honda of Japan. Bynoe, 27, had not reached a Pro Circuit final until this week, but he won three of the four tiebreakers he played this week and three three-setters to claim the long-awaited title.

Seventeen-year-old wild card Julieta Pareja lost in the second round of the W100 in Evansville this week to Mary Stoiana(Texas A&M), but that freed her to compete in the qualifying for the WTA 500 in Washington DC this weekend, and she made the most of it, with her win today getting her into the main draw.  Pareja, a former World Tennis junior No. 1, saved three match points in her 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 win over 34-year-old Heather Watson of Great Britain; two came with Pareja serving at 3-5, and the third with Watson serving at 5-4. Pareja, who received a main draw wild card to the US Open last year, will be making her debut in the main draw of a WTA 500 event; last year she reached the semifinals of a WTA 250 in Colombia.

Alana Smith(NC State) lost to No. 2 seed Daria Kasatkina of Australia 4-6, 6-4, 6-0 and No. 7 seed Varvara Lepchenko fell to No. 4 seed Polina Kudermetova of Russia 4-6, 7-6(7), 6-4.

Another wild card, 2025 NCAA singles finalist Trevor Svajda(SMU), also advanced to the main draw in Washington DC with the 20-year-old from San Diego defeating 2021 Washington ATP 500 finalist and No. 6 seed Mackenzie McDonald(UCLA) 6-4, 6-4 today. Svajda will face No. 7 seed Jakub Mensik of Czechia in the first round of the main draw.

Andres Martin's third-set tiebreaker loss to lucky loser DK Suresh(Wake Forest) in the Bloomfield Hills Challenger on Friday obviously didn't shake his confidence, with the former Georgia Tech immediately heading to Washington DC for the qualifying and picking up two wins to reach the main draw. Martin defeated No. 7 seed Moes Echargui(Nevada) of Tunisia 6-2, 7-5 to book a first round encounter with Ugo Humbert of France.

Wimbledon boys finalist Cruz Hewitt of Australia advanced to the main draw when top seed and two-time Kalamazoo 18s champion Zachary Svajda, Trevor's older brother, retired trailing the 17-year-old son of Lleyton Hewitt 1-6, 7-6(3), 2-0. Hewitt will face fellow qualifier Marcos Giron(UCLA), while Svajda received the lucky loser spot and will play qualifier Aleks Vukic(Illinois) of Australia in the first round.