Jordan Lee Claims Boys Title, Xinran Sun Captures Girls Championship at World Tennis Junior Finals; Brantmeier Sweeps Titles at W75 in Canada; Brooksby, Chang Win USTA Pro Circuit Events; Pan Am J300 Photo Gallery

Two 16-year-olds claimed their country's second 2026 World Tennis Junior Finals titles Sunday in Chengdu China, with American Jordan Lee avenging his group play loss to Ziga Sesko of Slovenia in the boys final and Xinran Sun of China defeating Anna Pushkareva of Russia for the third time in the past six weeks to earn the girls title.

Sun's 6-2, 6-0 win over Pushkareva in Thursday's group play proved to be the outlier in their four meetings since July, with the 17-year-old Pushkareva winning the Wimbledon final 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 and Sun claiming the US Open final 6-4, 4-6, 6-0. Today's final, Sun's seventh in her eight junior tournaments played this year, was similar to their match in New York, with Sun taking it 6-3, 5-7(4), 6-1.  Shilin Xu of China won the first World Junior Finals tournament in 2015, back when it was played in April. With this title Sun will lock up the year-end title of World Tennis Girls Junior Champion.

Wimbledon boys champion Lee, the first American to win the Junior Finals title since Brandon Nakashima in 2018, had lost to Australian Open boys champion Sesko 7-6(5), 6-7(3), 6-2 in group play Thursday. Another three-setter looked likely when the 18-year-old Sesko served for the second set in today's final, but Lee won the last four games for a 6-3, 7-5 victory. Lee served well throughout, with seven aces, and made very few unforced errors when it mattered.

Lee will move to No. 2 in the junior rankings when these 1000 points are added, and earned $21,250 in travel grants with his performance this week. Sun, who won all five of her matches, received $23,000.

Lee is, by a few days, the youngest of the nine boys to win the title, with Holger Rune of Denmark also 16 when he won it in 2019. Rune's birthday is April 29, Lee's in May 4 and the this year's tournament started two days earlier this year than it did in 2019.

Sun is not the youngest girl, with Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine 15 years old when she won the title in 2017.

Janae Preston, who did not win a match in group play, rebounded to take her two placement matches and finished fifth overall. Keaton Hance finished fourth, after not competing in the match for third place. 

All results can be found here. Replays of matches are available here.

Reese Brantmeier, who turned 22 earlier this month, won the biggest title of her brief pro career today at the W75 in Saguenay Canada. The 2026 University of North Carolina graduate and NCAA singles champion defeated Yuki Naito of Japan 7-6(8), 7-6(7) today to add to the doubles title she won yesterday with former teammate Carson Tanguilig.

Brantmeier, who won a W35 just days after finishing her UNC career, is now up to 217 in the WTA live rankings and will move near the top in the USTA's Australian Open Wild Card Challenge standings with two weeks left in that race.

At the ATP Challenger 75 in Fort Worth Texas, top seed Jenson Brooksby defeated No. 2 seed Darwin Blanch 6-1, 6-4 to earn his first Challenger title since 2021. Brooksby, who had fallen out of the ATP Top 100 in the past few weeks, is back up to 94 in the live rankings and is the top seed, as a special exempt, in next week's Challenger 100 in Sioux Falls South Dakota. He'll play wild card Bryce Nakashima, a senior at Ohio State, in the first round.

Hanna Chang won the other all-USA final on the USTA Pro Circuit today, with the No. 3 seed beating wild card Jenna DeFalco 6-3, 7-5 at the Bakersfield W35.  It's the 28-year-old Chang's fourth W35 title of the year.

No. 3 seeds Lily Fairclough(USC) and Anne Christine Lutkemeyer(UCLA) won the doubles title, beating top seeds Ema Burgic(Baylor) of Bosnia and Briana Szabo of Romania 6-2, 6-3 in last night's final.

At the M15 in Ithaca New York, 19-year-old wild card Rodrigo Fernandes of Portugal, a junior at Cornell, won his first singles title on the men's WTT, beating No. 4 seed Jack Anthrop(Ohio State) 6-3, 6-1 in today's final. Fernandes qualified for the NCAA singles tournament when he reached the New England regional final earlier this month.

My latest photo gallery is up today at the Tennis Recruiting Network, with 54 photos from the J300 Pan American Regional Closed three weeks ago in Spring Texas. All photos were taken by Paul Ballard.