Seven Americans Reach Wimbledon Final Round Qualifying; Brady Reaches Southsea $100K Semis; Top Seeds Ousted by Qualifiers in Second Round of ITF Grade 4 International Grass Courts

I'm currently in Indianapolis for the USTA Midwest Closed 16s and 18s championships, and I will have a report on the Thursday's singles finals for the Tennis Recruiting Network this weekend, but I'll be trying to follow tomorrow's final round of qualifying at Wimbledon, with seven Americans looking to earn their way into the main draw.

After good weather this week, the men were off today, with Michael Mmoh, Bradley Klahn and Christian Harrison getting a day of rest while the women's second round was played. Four US women advanced to the final round of qualifying with wins today: Jamie Loeb, Nicole Gibbs, Claire Liu and Caroline Dolehide.

Dolehide, who qualified for the French Open but has never played at Wimbledon as a pro, defeated Jessica Pieri of Italy 6-2, 6-3. Wild card Liu, who won the Wimbledon girls title last year, defeated Lizette Cabrera of Australia 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 to reach the final round. Loeb, who lost in the second round of qualifying last year, beat Priscilla Hon of Australia 6-4, 6-4 to move one step closer to her pro debut at Wimbledon, after reaching the quarterfinals as a junior back in 2013.  Two-time NCAA champion Gibbs is the most experienced of the four US women remaining, having played in the main draw in 2015 and 2016, although she is still looking for her first Wimbledon singles win.

Claire Liu with 2017 Wimbledon Girls Trophy

Gibbs and Liu will meet to decide one of those precious main draw spots, and the two met in a thriller last year in the first round of the WTA tournament at Stanford, with Gibbs winning 4-6, 6-2, 7-6(5).

Wednesday's second round women's qualifying results involving Americans:
Claire Liu[WC] def. Lizette Cabrera(AUS) 6-4, 4-6, 6-1
Antonia Lottner(GER) def. Irina Falconi[24] 6-0, 1-6, 6-3
Jamie Loeb def. Priscilla Hon(AUS) 6-4, 6-4
Caroline Dolehide[6] def. Jessica Pieri(ITA) 6-2, 6-3
Nicole Gibbs[5] def. Martina Trevisan(ITA) 6-2, 6-3
Marta Kostyuk[23](UKR) def. Kristie Ahn 6-7(1), 6-3, 9-7

Thursday's final round qualifying matches involving Americans:

Jamie Loeb v Mona Barthel[8](GER)
Caroline Dolehide[6] v Vera Zvonareva(RUS)
Nicole Gibbs[5] v Claire Liu[WC]
Christian Harrison v Brayden Schnur(CAN)
Michael Mmoh[19] v J.P. Smith(AUS)
Bradley Klahn v Simone Bolelli(ITA)

The order of play for Thursday is here.

Former UCLA star Jennifer Brady already in the main draw at Wimbledon, and she is warming up at an unusual 16-player ITF event in Southsea England. Brady, who was unseeded, beat Magda Linette of Poland 6-4, 6-3 today to advance to the semifinals of the $100,000 tournament, where she'll play British wild card Katie Boulter. 

While most of the grass court tennis is in Europe this time of year, the ITF Grade 4 International National Grass Court Championships are taking place in Philadelphia this week, a week later than usual.  Both top seeds went out in today's second round, with qualifier Oren Vasser, a William and Mary recruit, beating Eliot Spizzirri 6-4, 7-5 and qualifier Muskan Mahajan defeating Charlotte Owensby 6-4, 3-6, 6-0.  No. 2 seeds Kailey Evans and Romania's Sebastian Gima are still alive with the quarterfinals are scheduled for Thursday. 

Klahn, Harrison, Mmoh Advance to Final Round of Wimbledon Men's Qualifying, US Women Go 6-3 in Opening Round of Qualifying; Johnson, Woldeab Win SoCal Sectionals; Pro Circuit Update

Three American men advanced to the final round of qualifying today at Wimbledon, or more precisely at Roehampton, where the qualifying for next week's tournament is held.  Bradley Klahn, who last played in the main draw of a slam at the 2014 US Open, will have an opportunity to play in the Wimbledon main draw for the first time since that year when he plays Simone Bolelli of Italy on Thursday. The 27-year-old Stanford graduate, who won the NCAA singles title in 2010, defeated Antoine Hoang of France 6-4, 6-1 in today's second round.  Twenty-four-year-old Christian Harrison, who, like Klahn, has had his share of injuries in the past four years, has played in the main draw of a slam only once, when he qualified for the US Open in 2016, defeated Dennis Novikov 7-6(2), 4-6, 6-3 and will play former UNC star Brayden Schnur of Canada in Thursday's final round.  Twenty-year-old Michael Mmoh's previous two appearances in a main draw of a major have come as a wild card: at the US Open after he won Kalamazoo in 2016, and at the Australian Open in 2017, after winning the USTA's Wild Card Challenge. After beating Mohamed Safwat of Egypt 7-6(3), 4-6, 6-0 to close out Tuesday's qualifying action, he will face former Tennessee star JP Smith of Australia on Thursday.

The first round of women's qualifying saw six Americans advance, with 2017 Wimbledon girls champion Claire Liu advancing without the loss of a game when Amandine Hesse of France retired trailing 6-0, 2-0. Liu and 2015 Wimbledon girls champion Sofya Zhuk of Russia spoke to wimbledon.com about their transition to professional tennis after today's matches.  I had not heard that Liu had officially ruled out attending college, but that seems to have been decided after she qualified for last year's US Open.

Tuesday's second round men's qualifying results involving Americans:

Yannick Maden[20](GER) def. Stefan Kozlov 6-1, 6-3
Bradley Klahn def. Antoine Hoang(FRA) 6-4, 6-1
Christian Harrison def. Dennis Novikov 7-6(2), 4-6, 6-3
Dennis Novak(AUT) def. Donald Young[21] 6-2, 7-5
James Ward[WC](GBR) def. Bjorn Fratangelo[14] 6-4, 6-4
Hubert Hurkacz[11](POL) def. Reilly Opelka 6-3, 7-5
Michael Mmoh[19] def. Mohamed Safwat(EGY) 7-6(3), 4-6, 6-0

Tuesday's first round women's qualifying results involving Americans:

Jing-Jing Lu(CHN) def. Francesca Di Lorenzo 6-2, 6-3
Kristie Ahn def. Daniela Seguel(CHI) 6-1, 6-3
Marta Kostyuk[23](UKR) def. Lauren Davis 6-3, 6-3
Bianca Andreescu(CAN) def. Grace Min 6-2, 6-0
Irina Falconi[24] def. Tereza Martincova(CZE) 6-2, 6-2
Nicole Gibbs[5] def. Francesca Jones[WC](GBR) 6-4, 6-2
Claire Liu[WC] def. Amandine Hesse(FRA) 6-0, 2-0 ret.
Caroline Dolehide[6] def. Miyu Kato(JPN) 6-0, 7-6(3)
Jamie Loeb def. Elitsa Kostova(BUL) 1-6, 7-5, 6-1

Wednesday's second round women's qualifying matches involving Americans:

Claire Liu[WC] v Lizette Cabrera(AUS)
Irina Falconi[24] v Antonia Lottner(GER)
Jamie Loeb v. Priscilla Hon(AUS)
Caroline Dolehide[6] v Jessica Pieri(ITA)
Nicole Gibbs[5] v Martina Trevisan(ITA)
Kristie Ahn v Marta Kostyuk[23](UKR)

Thursday's final round men's qualifying matches involving Americans:

Christian Harrison v. Brayden Schnur(CAN)
Michael Mmoh[19] v J.P. Smith(AUS)
Bradley Klahn v Simone Bolelli(ITA)

The Southern California Sectional tournament finished on Monday, with No. 1 seeds winning all five girls divisions and three of the five boys divisions. I don't know what method of seeding they used, but that's an incredible level of success.  UCLA recruit Taylor Johnson won the girls 18s singles title and Siem Woldeab won the boys singles and doubles titles in the 18s.  For complete results, see the TennisLink site.

G18s: Taylor Johnson[1] d. Kimberly Hance[5] 6-1, 6-3

G16s: Maxi Duncan[1] d. Justine Dondonay[3] 6-1, 6-4

G14s: Calissa Dellabarca[1] d. Amanda Perez[4] 6-4, 3-6, 6-3

G12s: Carla Pacot[1] d. Emily Deming[5] 7-6, 6-3

G10s: Mikayla Hickman[1] d. Julieta Pareja[2] 7-6, 6-3

B18s: Siem Woldeab[1] d. Omni Kuma[5] 6-4, 6-2

B16s: Timothy Li[1] d. Takeyasu Sekiguchi[2] 6-1, 6-3

B14s: Masato Perera[3] d. Marcus Sebastian[5] 7-6, 2-6, 6-2

B12s: Steve Nguyen[1] d. Tyler Li[9] 6-1, 6-1

B10s: Rishvanth Krishna[2] d. Alexander Basamakov[5] 6-1, 6-2

There are no women's ITF or USTA Pro Circuit events in North America this week, but there are three for the men, two at the $25,000 level and one at the $15,000 level.

At the $15,000 Futures in Pittsburgh, recent University of Michigan graduate Alexander Knight defeated top seed Emilio Gomez of Ecuador 6-3, 3-6, 7-5. Americans who qualified are Jordi Arconada(Texas A&M), Sean Sculley(Duke), Ryan Goetz(Virginia), Patrick Daciek(Virginia Tech) and Grey Hamilton(Ole Miss).  Hamilton, a recent graduate, earned his first ATP point with a main draw win today.  Gianni Ross(Virginia) and Andres Andrade(Florida) earned special exemptions into the main draw and Aidan Talcott (William&Mary), Luke Gamble(Princeton), Nathan Perrone and Axel Nefve(Notre Dame recruit) received wild cards.

The other USTA Pro Circuit Futures is a $25,000 level tournament in Tulsa, with qualifying just finishing today due to weather.  American qualifiers are Dusty Boyer(Nebraska), Logan Smith(USC), Trent Bryde (Georgia), Alex Brown(Illinois) and Felix Corwin(Minnesota).  Wild cards were given to Zeke Clark(Illinois), Aleks Kovacevic(Illinois), Joshua Goodger(Tulsa) and Jenson Brooksby(TCU recruit).  Brooksby plays Michael Redlicki, last week's champion at Wake Forest, in the first round.  Ash Marshall of usta.com talked with Redlicki about his win last week, the recent changes in his personal life that have affected his motivation and the training that helped produce his recent results.  Nik Scholtz of South Africa, the former Ole Miss star, is the top seed, with Marcos Giron seeded No. 2.

The men's circuit in Canada has moved west to British Columbia for another $25,000 Futures.  Americans Colin Markes(Texas), Nicolas Bybel(Bucknell) and Jake Douglas(Washington) were among the qualifiers. JC Aragone(Virginia) is the top seed.  Wild cards went to Canadians Alex Galarneau(NC State), Justin Boulais, Raheel Manji(Indiana) and Calvin Thalheimer.

My Conversation with Four-Time NCAA Champion Eudice Chong; Eight US Men Advance at Wimbledon Qualifying, Nine US Women Start Play Tuesday; Rybakov Earns Second Straight Futures Title

Last week I had an opportunity to talk with Eudice Chong, who this year made NCAA tennis history by becoming the first player to win four NCAA singles titles.  Chong, who graduated from Wesleyan last month, reached the semifinals of the $25,000 ITF Women's Circuit tournament in Hong Kong, where Chong grew up and now lives and trains. We spoke about her training and coaching situation, her summer schedule, why she chose Division III despite a desire to try pro tennis after graduation, among many other topics, for this Tennis Recruiting Network article. Chong will be receiving the Honda Division III Athlete of the Year award tonight in Los Angeles. The CBS Sports Network will be televising the event at 9 p.m. EDT.

The first round of Wimbledon men's qualifying was completed today at Roehampton, with US men going 8-5.  Probably the most impressive result was Stefan Kozlov's 6-3, 6-1 win over Dustin Brown of Germany, which took only 52 minutes. Brown's net-rushing game is well-suited to grass and he defeated Rafael Nadal at in the second round at Wimbledon in 2015.  Michael Mmoh and Reilly Opelka were the winners of the two all-US matches today.  2017 boys champion Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain won his opening match, beating British junior Aidan McHugh, a wild card, 6-2, 6-4.

Monday's Wimbledon first round men's singles qualifying results featuring Americans:

Christian Harrison def. Goncalo Oliveira(POR) 6-3, 6-1
Dennis Novikov def. Calvin Hemery[18](FRA) 5-1, ret.
Ruben Bemelmans[2](BEL) def. Christopher Eubanks 6-4, 6-4
Donald Young[21] def. Max Purcell(AUS) 6-3, 6-2
Luca Vanni(ITA) def. Kevin King 6-2, 6-2
Adam Pavlasek[26](CZE) def. Evan King 6-3, 6-4
Stefan Kozlov def. Dustin Brown(GER) 6-3, 6-1
Michael Mmoh[19] def. Noah Rubin 7-6(6), 6-2
Reilly Opelka  def. Mitchell Krueger 5-7, 6-3, 6-4
Bjorn Fratangelo[14] def. Hiroki Moriya(JPN) 7-6(5), 6-1
Bradley Klahn def. Ricardo Ojeda Lara(ESP) 6-3, 6-2

The first round of women's singles qualifying matches are first up on Tuesday, with none of the nine Americans playing another American.

Francesca Di Lorenzo v Jing-Jing Lu(CHN)

Kristie Ahn v Daniela Seguel(CHI)

Lauren Davis v Marta Kostyuk[23](UKR)

Grace Min v Bianca Andreescu(CAN)

Irina Falconi[24] v Tereza Martincova(CZE)

Nicole Gibbs[5] v Francesca Jones[WC](GBR)

Claire Liu[WC] v Amandine Hesse(FRA)

Caroline Dolehide[6] v Miyu Kato(JPN)

Jamie Loeb v Elitsa Kostova(BUL)

Tuesday's men's second round qualifying matches featuring Americans:

Stefan Kozlov v Yannick Maden[20](GER)

Bradley Klahn v Antoine Hoang(FRA)

Christian Harrison v Dennis Novikov

Donald Young[21] v Dennis Novak(AUT)

Bjorn Fratangelo[14] v James Ward[WC](GBR)

Reilly Opelka v Hubert Hurkacz[11](POL)

Michael Mmoh[19] v Mohamed Safwat(EGY)

Tuesday's schedule is available here.

I posted last night before I knew if the final of the $15,000 Futures in Rochester New York was going to be finished after a rain interruption, but it was, and Alex Rybakov finished off his second straight Futures title with a 6-1, 7-6(6) win over unseeded Markos Kalovelonis of Russia. Serving at 5-6 in the second set, Rybakov was down 0-40, but he saved all three sets points to get into the tiebreaker, which he won after falling behind 5-2. After winning the $25,000 Futures in Buffalo last week, the TCU rising senior should now break into the ATP Top 500 for the first time when the points are added next week. 

Kwiatkowski, Redlicki, Sharma Take Pro Circuit Titles; Thirteen US Men Begin Wimbledon Qualifying Monday

Michael Redlicki defeated top seed and defending champion Tommy Paul 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 to claim his first USTA Pro Circuit singles title today at the $25,000 Futures in Winston-Salem North Carolina. The 24-year-old left-hander, who finished his MBA at Arkansas at the end of last year, had reached the finals of last week's first $25,000 Futures at Wake Forest, falling in three sets to 2018 NCAA champion Petros Chrysochos of Cyprus.  Redlicki's results the past two weeks will not only boost his current ATP and get him out of Futures qualifying, but will help him next year as well. From my understanding, only ATP points earned in $25,000 finals will convert to ATP points next year; all the other ATP points accumulated this year will become ITF Transition Tour points.

2017 NCAA champion Thai Kwiatkowski won his fourth career Futures title and the first at the $25,000 level with two victories today in Calgary. With rain forcing postponement of the semifinals until today, the 23-year-old Virginia graduate, seeded No. 3, beat top seed Steven Diez of Canada 7-6(2), 6-4 in the first match, then took out unseeded Paul Oosterbaan 6-4, 6-3 in the final. The 22-year-old Oosterbaan, who left the University of Georgia in the middle of his senior season, had not reached a Pro Circuit final before today. He defeated Texas A&M rising sophomore Juan Carlos Aguilar of Bolivia 7-5, 3-6, 7-5 in the earlier semifinal match. 

At the $25,000 Women's USTA Pro Circuit event in Baton Rouge, recent Vanderbilt graduate Astra Sharma of Australia picked up her first title at that level and fourth overall, beating Duke recruit and No. 5 seed Maria Mateas 6-2, 6-1. Sharma, the No. 7 seed and the NCAA team championship's Most Outstanding Player last month, lost only one set, back in the second round, in her march to the title.

Gail Brodsky won her first Pro Circuit title since 2015 at the $15,000 ITF Women's Circuit event in Victoria British Columbia. The 27-year-old, who now lives in the Pacific Northwest, defeated qualifier Maegan Manasse, a recent Cal graduate, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 in the final.

TCU rising senior Alex Rybakov is a set away from his second consecutive Futures title, but rain has kept the final of the $15,000 tournament in Rochester from being completed. Rybakov leads unseeded Markos Kalovelonis of Russia 6-1, 3-2.

Wimbledon qualifying begins at Roehampton Monday with the men's first round. Thirteen Americans are in the draw, with two all-US matches on the schedule: 2016 Kalamazoo champion Michael Mmoh against 2014 Kalamazoo champion Noah Rubin and Reilly Opelka against Mitchell Krueger.  Denis Kudla was given a main draw wild card, giving the US 11 men in the main draw before qualifying.  Monday's complete schedule is here.  Monday's first round matches involving US men (in bold):

Christian Harrison v Goncalo Oliveira(POR)
Dennis Novikov v Calvin Hemery[18](FRA)
Christopher Eubanks v Ruben Bemelmans[2](BEL)
Donald Young[21] v Max Purcell(AUS)
Kevin King v Luca Vanni(ITA)
Evan King v Adam Pavlasek[26](CZE)
Stefan Kozlov v Dustin Brown(GER)
Noah Rubin v Michael Mmoh[19]
Mitchell Krueger v Reilly Opelka
Bjorn Fratangelo[14] v Hiroki Moriya(JPN)
Bradley Klahn v Ricardo Ojeda Lara(ESP)

Rybakov Reaches Second Straight Futures Final; All-US Finals in Canada and Winston-Salem; McDaniel, Edwards Win WCs at USTA College Combine; Wimbledon Wild Card Update

Alex Rybakov defended his title at last week's $25,000 Futures in Buffalo and has now extended his winning streak to nine matches by reaching the final at the $15,000 Futures this week in Rochester New York.  The 21-year-old rising senior at TCU, seeded No. 4, defeated Florida rising sophomore Andres Andrade, a wild card, 6-1, 6-4 in today's semifinal.  Rybakov, 2-2 in Futures finals, will face unseeded Markos Kalovelonis of Russia in the final, after Kalovelonis defeated qualifier Gianni Ross 7-6(6), 7-5.

Michael Redlicki will also be appearing in his second consecutive Futures final, with last week's runner-up advancing to the championship match in the second of two $25,000 Futures at Wake Forest with a 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 win over wild card Skander Mansouri of Tunisia.  The 24-year-old Redlicki, who lost in the final to Mansouri's teammate Petros Chrysochos last week, will meet top seed Tommy Paul, making his return to competition this week after months off with an injury.  Paul came back to defeat unseeded Henry Craig 6-7(3), 6-2 6-4 to earn a shot at defending the title he won in Winston-Salem last year.  I didn't realize when I mentioned Wimbledon qualifying in a post a few days ago that Paul had withdrawn from that earlier this month, and will instead play the $25,000 Futures in Tulsa next week.

Another all-US final is scheduled for the $15,000 ITF Women's Pro Circuit event in Victoria British Columbia, with Gail Brodsky facing Maegan Manasse.  Brodsky, a semifinalist last week in Sumter South Carolina, defeated No. 7 seed Alexa Graham 6-2, 4-6, 6-1 to reach her first Pro Circuit final since she won the Victoria event, then a $10,000 tournament, back in 2015.  Manasse, who served as an undergraduate assistant coach at Cal this past season after completing her eligibility in 2017, will be playing in her first Pro Circuit singles final. 

At the $25,000 USTA Women's Pro Circuit tournament in Baton Rouge, 18-year-old Maria Mateas will face recent Vanderbilt graduate Astra Sharma of Australia in the final.  No. 5 seed Mateas will be making her first appearance in a Pro Circuit final after defeating unseeded Ashley Lahey 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. Sharma, the No. 7 seed, beat No. 8 seed Nika Kukharchuk of Russia 6-3, 6-2 to reach her sixth Pro Circuit final. She has won three single titles, two of which came last year.

Hayley Carter and Ena Shibahara won the doubles title in Baton Rouge, with the unseeded pair beating Sharma and her partner Gabriela Talaba of Romania 6-3, 6-4 in the final.  Carter and Shibahara didn't drop a set all week, with Shibahara, a rising junior at UCLA earning her first Pro Circuit title. For Carter, who is returning to competition after a season as an assistant coach at Oklahoma State, the doubles title is her second, with the first coming back in 2014.

In other doubles news, Stanford's Emily Arbuthnott won a $25,000 title in Sweden, Maria Sanchez(USC) and Asia Muhammad took the title at the $100,000 tournament in Ilkley and Austin Krajicek(Texas A&M) and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan(Washington) of India were the men's doubles champions at the ATP Challenger in Ilkley.

At the $25,000 Futures in Calgary, Thai Kwiatkowski(Virginia), Paul Oosterbaan(Georgia) and Bolivia's Juan Carlos Aguilar(Texas A&M) are through to the semifinals, as is top seed Steven Diez of Canada. Rain delayed the completion of the quarterfinals, so the semifinals and finals are on Sunday's schedule.

Canadians Benjamin Sigouin(North Carolina) and Alex Galarneau(NC State) won the doubles title in Calgary, with the unseeded pair defeating No. 2 seeds Alexios Halebian and Canada's Samuel Monette(Indiana) 7-5, 7-6(4) in the final.

The USTA's second annual All-American College Combine was completed Thursday, with 16-year-olds Marcus McDaniel and Sophia Edwards the overall winners, who will receive a main draw wild card to a $15,000 USTA Pro Circuit event.  Several photos of the event are available here. All results are available at the UTR's tournament page.

Wimbledon released another wild card statement today, but there are still several TBAs on it despite qualifying beginning on Monday.  They did release four of the men's main draw wild cards to the next direct acceptances, which included Mackenzie McDonald, who will be making his Wimbledon main draw debut, and Alex DeMinaur of Australia, who had been given a wild card, but no longer needed it.  That still leaves two men's main draw wild cards open, but Denis Kudla, who lost to Roger Federer today 7-6(1), 7-5 in the Halle semifinals, was not announced as a recipient.

The pre-qualifying tournament that was to determine two of the qualifying wild cards for both men and women finished yesterday, with former Texas star Lloyd Glasspool and former Northwestern star Samantha Murray now in the qualifying fields. Freya Christie and Dan Evans also are in qualifying based on their performance in that event, with one women's qualifying wild card still to be announced. There is also one women's main draw wild card still to be determined.  The up-to-date wild card list is available here.

Kenin, Kudla, Mmoh Advance on European Grass; Mandlik Reaches Semifinals at ITF Grade 1 in Germany; Kingsley and McNally Claim Pro Circuit Doubles Title

Nineteen-year-old Sonya Kenin's ranking trajectory has consistently tracked toward the Top 100, with the 2015 USTA Girls 18s National Champion's ranking going from 624 at the end of that year to 108 at the end of 2017.  Today Kenin, a qualifier, earned her first Top 10 win at the WTA International event in Mallorca, reaching her first WTA semifinal with a 6-3, 6-3 win over top seed Caroline Garcia of France.  Kenin, who plays Tatjana Maria of Germany in Saturday's semifinals, has been in the Top 100 since March and will reach a career-high ranking in the 70s, regardless of her result tomorrow.  For more on Kenin's breakthrough week, see this article from the WTA website.

While Kenin hasn't had much success on grass prior to this week, Denis Kudla, also a qualifier, has a reputation for excelling on the surface and today he reached the semifinals of the ATP 500 in Halle, beating Yuichi Sugita of Japan 6-2, 7-5. Kudla, who has yet to face a seed or lose a set, will play top seed Roger Federer in Saturday's semifinal.  The 25-year-old from Virginia, who has reached one other ATP semifinal, is back in the Top 100 now, although still some results away from his career-high ATP ranking of 53 two years ago. With five Wimbledon main draw wild cards still yet to be distributed, Kudla's case is a strong one.

Michael Mmoh hadn't won a professional level match on grass until this week at the €127,000 ATP Challenger in Ilkley England, but he now has three wins on the surface after the 20-year-old seventh-seed defeated No. 3 seed Thomas Fabbiano of Italy 6-1, 6-2. Mmoh will face No. 8 seed Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine, who beat top seed Jordan Thompson of Australia today in the quarterfinals 6-4, 6-4. Mmoh should move inside the ATP Top 120 with his results this week.

Mmoh's friend and junior rival Frances Tiafoe lost today in the quarterfinals of the Queens Club ATP 500 to France's Jeremy Chardy 6-4, 6-4.

Elli Mandlik reached the final of the ITF Grade 1 last week in Offenbach Germany and she is through to the semifinals of the second Grade 1 in Germany this week as the No. 11 seed. Mandlik defeated No. 4 seed Taisya Pachkaleva of Russia 6-3, 6-1 in today's quarterfinals, with No. 10 seed Oksana Selekhmeteva of Russia next up on Saturday. Top seed Margaryta Bilokin of Ukraine, who trains at IMG and has committed to Duke, is through to the semifinals in the top half.

Fifteen-year-old qualifier Connie Ma's run came to an end at the $25,000 USTA Women's Pro Circuit event in Baton Rouge Louisiana, but it took over three hours for No. 8 seed Nika Kukharchuk of Russia to earn her 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-4 quarterfinal victory.  Kukharchuk will face recent Vanderbilt graduate Astra Sharma of Australia, who beat Julia Elbaba 6-3, 6-2.  The other semifinal features unseeded Ashley Lahey of Pepperdine and Duke recruit Maria Mateas, the No. 5 seed.

The main event at the $25,000 Futures in Winston-Salem figured to be this afternoon's match between 2018 NCAA champion Petros Chrysochos of Cyprus and Wake Forest teammate Skander Mansouri of Tunisia.  Unfortunately Chrysochos's oral surgery disrupted that quarterfinal and he gave a walkover to Mansouri. Although the walkover counts as neither a win or a loss on the two players' records, the streak of 36 straight wins is considered over for Chrysochos, who won last week's Futures at Wake Forest.  Mansouri will play Michael Redlicki in the bottom half semifinal, with top seed Tommy Paul facing Henry Craig in the top half.  JC Aragone(Virginia) and Harrison Adams(Texas A&M) won the doubles title, with the No. 3 seed beating Wake Forest's Ian Dempster and Christian Seraphim of Germany 7-5, 6-7(4), 10-3 in the final.

At the $15,000 Futures in Rochester New York, No. 4 seed Alex Rybakov is the only seed to reach the semifinals. The rising TCU senior will play wild card Andres Andrade, the rising Florida sophomore, who beat wild card Ryan Goetz 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.  Virginia rising sophomore Gianni Ross, a qualifier, advanced to the second Futures semifinal of his career with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Collin Johns to earn a meeting with unseeded Russian Markos Kalovelonis of Russia.

Wild cards Cannon Kingsley and John McNally won the Rochester doubles title, beating No. 2 seeds Alejandro Gomez of Colombia and Pavel Krainik of Canada 6-4, 6-4 in tonight's final. It's the first Pro Circuit title for both the 17-year-old Kingsley, who has committed to Ohio State for 2019, and the 19-year-old McNally, a rising sophomore at Ohio State.

The $25,000 men's Futures in Calgary was not able to complete its quarterfinals, I assume due to rain, but the women's $15,000 tournament in British Columbia couldn't have that problem as its the rare June tournament played indoors.  The semifinals are set there, with just one seed remaining, No. 7 Alexa Graham, the North Carolina rising junior. Graham will play 27-year-old Gail Brodsky, who is back competing regularly on the Pro Circuit after having two children.  The other semifinal features two former Pac-12 stars: Cal's Maegan Manasse, a qualifier, and UCLA's Pamela Montez. Until this year, the 27-year-old Montez hadn't played on the Pro Circuit since 2010 and the 23-year-old Manasse had, prior to this month, played only one Pro Circuit event since the summer of 2016.

Brodsky and Brynn Boren (USC) won the doubles title, with the unseeded pair beating No. 2 seeds Safiya Carrington and Alana Smith 6-1, 6-2 in the final.