NCAA Champion Brantmeier Leads USA's Master'U Team; Santamarta Roig Withdraws From Bradenton J300, Orange Bowl J500; Three J60 Titles for Americans on ITF Junior Circuit

Newly crowned NCAA singles champion Reese Brantmeier won't have much time to celebrate her victory in yesterday's final, with the North Carolina senior leading the USA team in next month's 18th annual Master'U BNP Paribas university championships in France.

Today, the ITA announced the team that will be representing the United States in the eight-team competition which will take place December 5-7  in Reims France. The other seven teams, who will be trying to end the United States' five-year winning streak, are Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland and Switzerland. 

The US team will consist of Samir Banerjee of Stanford, Aidan Kim of Ohio State, Nicolas Kotzen of Columbia, Luciana Perry of Ohio State, Valerie Glozman of Stanford and Brantmeier.

The United States won its fifth straight Master'U BNP Paribas international collegiate team competition last year, beating Great Britain 4-1. Gavin Young(Michigan), Sebastian Gorzny(Texas), Michael Zheng(Columbia), Mary Stoiana(Texas A&M), Amelia Honer(UC-Santa Barbara) and Savannah Broadus(Pepperdine) defeated Germany 4-1 in the quarterfinals, and France 4-1 in the semifinals in the three-day event in Riems France.

For more on each of this year's participants, see this article from the ITA.

The last two major ITF tournaments, both in Florida, are fast approaching, with the IMG International Championships J300 in Bradenton beginning a week from today and the J500 Orange Bowl in Fort Lauderdale starting a week after that. 

Unfortunately, Andres Santamarta Roig of Spain, the defending champion in both tournaments, has withdrawn, while Ksenia Efremova of France and the Czech Republic's Kovackova sisters have also withdrawn from both events. This leaves the Orange Bowl, one of the most prestigious tournaments in junior tennis, without a Top 10 player in the girls draw, and just two Top 10 boys: Yannick Alexandrescou of Romania and Jack Kennedy of the United States.

In addition to the run to the final of the J300 in Zapopan by Vihaan Reddy, which I covered last week, three other Americans had success on the ITF Junior Circuit, winning J60 tournaments.

At the J60 in San Diego, 17-year-old David Wu won his first ITF Junior Circuit title. The Harvard recruit, who is from San Diego, was unseeded in just his fourth career ITF tournament, but he dropped only one set en route to the final, then defeated unseeded Pavel Bushuev of Russia 6-4, 6-4 in the championship match.

Another San Diego resident, 16-year-old Yilin Chen, won the girls title, with the No. 4 seed defeating No. 6 seed and defending champion Amira Kockinis 6-1, 6-3 in the final. Chen also won the January J60 in San Diego, which was her first ITF Junior Circuit title.

Kockinis, 15,  won the doubles title, with Mexico's Montserrat Temprana Falco. The top seeds defeated unseeded Sydney Barnhart and Ariana Morris 3-6, 6-1, 11-9 in the final.  No. 2 seeds Jerry Han of Canada and Sean Peng won the boys doubles title, beating unseeded Adrien Abarca and Darren Wei 4-6, 7-6(3), 10-7 in the final.

The third J60 title came in Colombia, where 16-year-old Charles Minvielle won his second ITF Junior Circuit singles title. The No. 5 seed defeated No. 2 seed Rodolfo Federico De Andreis of Venezuela 3-6, 7-5, 7-6(3) in the final. 

At the J100 in Norway, top seeds Zavier Augustin and Theo Hegarty won the doubles title, defeating No. 2 seeds Sander Juuhl Sivertsen of Norway and Stan Put of the Netherlands 2-6, 6-3, 10-8 in the final. Augustin, seeded No. 5, reached the singles final, where he lost to No. 8 seed Sivertsen 6-2, 6-3.

Columbia's Zheng Goes Back-to-Back, UNC's Brantmeier Claims Women's Singles Title at NCAA Division I Championships; Stoiana Wins Second Straight W50; USTA Pro Circuit Titles for Smith, Maxted and Pace

Columbia's Michael Zheng etched his name among the greats of college tennis Sunday at the USTA National Campus in Lake Nona Florida, winning his second straight NCAA men's singles title with a 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 victory over SMU's Trevor Svajda.

Zheng didn't play particularly well in the first set, but Svajda also did not compete at the level he showed in the three previous matches, with the occasion no doubt the cause of nervous errors from both. Five of the ten games were determined by deciding points, and while Zheng won just two of them, he got the most important one, a set point serving at 5-4.

Svajda looked more comfortable in the second set, and won a key deciding point serving at 3-1 to take control of it. Zheng admitted he was willing to let that set go in order to make a fresh start in the third set.

"I thought he was hitting his forehand really well today," the 21-year-old from New Jersey told Cracked Racquets' Alex Gruskin. "After that deuce point, when I missed that mid-court forehand to get the break back for the second time, I was like, you know, maybe I just give him the second set, try to refocus and make more first serves in the third."

Zheng took a bathroom break, and his experience, with this his third straight appearance in the final, was evident from the opening game. He held at love, after losing all three of his service games in the second set, and begun holding serve more easily. Svajda, in contrast, needed deciding points on his first two service games to keep himself in the match. But his net game, so solid earlier, let him down with a missed volley at 30-40 giving Zheng the break at a 4-2 lead. That was all Zheng needed, and he held in his next two service games to win his 12th consecutive match in NCAA singles competition.

Zheng is the first player since USC's Stevie Johnson to win back-to-back titles, and is the ninth man to do that since the NCAA began sponsoring the individual intercollegiate championships in 1938. He now holds the men's modern record (since 1977) for most NCAA singles wins with 19.

Reese Brantmeier of North Carolina also won her second NCAA title with the 21-year-old senior from Wisconsin adding a singles title to the team title she earned as a freshman in 2023, with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Berta Passola Folch of Cal.

Brantmeier, a 9-16 seed, won every first set she played this week, but in four of her previous five matches she dropped the second set. Today's final started similarly, but it Passola Folch who appeared more confident in her service games to start, with Brantmeier needing to save eight break points just to keep pace. 

"She was stepping up and taking it to me in those return games," Brantmeier told Gruskin. "I think my first serve percentage was definitely dwindling a little bit, so she was getting a lot of second serve looks and really putting the pressure on me. I was just trying to approach it one point at a time; when you're down 0-40 on your serve multiple times, and you start counting those break points, it's not ideal. Winning one point on my serve feels more manageable than having to rattle off three or four in a row."

After getting the first break to go up 4-3, Brantmeier pulled herself out of one of those 0-40 holes and then broke at love, to end the set with eight consecutive points.

The second set was close until 3-3, but Passola Folch could not convert the two break points she had, ending 0-10 in that department, with Brantmeier taking the final three games to win the Tar Heels' second NCAA women's singles title. 

After all her injuries and the ongoing lawsuit she has filed against the NCAA, Brantmeier has had plenty of adversity and distraction in her career at North Carolina, but this week she was able to bring herself back from the brink, playing her best when it mattered most. Down 5-2 in the final set in the first round against Bridget Stammel  of Vanderbilt, Brantmeier is now the 2025 NCAA women's singles champion, an accomplishment she rates just below her team title.

"This is so incredibly meaningful to me," Brantmeier said. "Obviously, there's recency bias, but this is up there. I think the team title takes the cake for sure, but doing it here in singles is a full circle moment. It's just a credit to the amazing people I get to surround myself with everyday, all credit to Carolina and the amazing staff and my team."

The doubles titles both went to unseeded teams, with Dylan Dietrich and Mans Dahlberg of Virginia defeated Ohio State's Nikita Filin and Brandon Carpico 7-6(3), 6-2 in the men's final.

Dietrich and Dahlberg took out top seeds Benito Sanchez Martinez and Petar Jovanovic of Mississippi State in the second round and had no letdown, losing only one set en route to the University of Virginia's fourth NCAA men's doubles title. 

The North Carolina State team of Victoria Osuigwe and Gabriella Broadfoot won the Wolfpack's second NCAA women's doubles title, beating No. 4 seeds Celia-Belle Mohr and Sophia Webster of Vanderbilt 7-5, 6-4. 

Mohr and Webster were up 3-1 in the second set, but freshman Osuigwe and junior Broadfoot claimed five of the next six games to earn the title. 

Singles and doubles draws for the women's tournament can be found here; singles and doubles draws for the men's tournament are here.

Former ITA Player of the Year Mary Stoiana, a 2025 graduate of Texas A&M, won her second consecutive W50, this one in Chihuahua Mexico. 

After the 22-year-old from Connecticut, who won the M50 in Austin last week, won her third ITF women's Pro Circuit title last night in a three-hour battle with LSU sophomore Kayla Cross of Canada. Stoiana, the No. 6 seed, defeated No. 2 seed Cross 7-6(2), 6-7(6), 6-2, her second win over Cross this month.

With the 50 points, Stoiana moves to a career high of 228 and is close to the likely cutoff for the 2026 Australian Open qualifying, which will be announced next month.

Top seeds Anna Rogers(NC State) and Dalayna Hewitt won the doubles title, beating Ariana Arseneault(Georgia, Auburn) and Raphaelle Lacasse(Kansas, Nebraska) of Canada 6-3, 6-0 in the final.

There is just one more event on the USTA Pro Circuit calendar for 2025, a W35 in Daytona Beach Florida the first week of December, so the men are done for the year with the M15 in Tallahassee Florida and the M25 in Austin Texas ending today.

Keegan Smith added the singles title to the doubles title he won Friday in Tallahassee, with the top seed and former UCLA All-American defeating No. 4 seed Ryan Fishback(Virginia Tech) 6-3, 6-3.

Great Britain's Lui Maxted, who, like Smith, is a former NCAA doubles champion, added a singles title to his doubles title in Austin, with the No. 5 seed beating qualifier Andreja Petrovic(North Dakota, Florida State, Duke) 6-2, 6-3 in the final. The recent TCU grad has now won three singles and five doubles titles on the ITF men's Pro Circuit since graduating this spring.

At the W35 in Boca Raton Florida, 18-year-old Akasha Urhobo, the No. 5 seed, lost to No. 3 seed Francesca Pace of Italy 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the final. Pace, who also defeated Urhobo in three sets last month at a W35 in California, is the daughter of former WTA Top 20 player Irina Spirlea of Romania.

Zheng Faces Svajda for Second Straight NCAA Singles Title; Brantmeier Reaches Women's Final; Urhobo Seeks Second Title at W35 Boca Raton; Reddy Falls in ITF J300 Zapopan Final

Americans will play for all four NCAA titles Sunday, led by defending  champion Michael Zheng of Columbia, who is making history with every win he records at the Division I individual championships this week at the USTA National Campus in Lake Nona Florida.

For the second straight match, the 21-year-old senior needed a third set to keep his winning streak alive, but he took control after dropping the second set to beat 9-16 seed Paul Inchauspe of Princeton 6-3, 5-7, 6-2. 

Zheng is only the second player to reach three consecutive NCAA finals, equaling the result of Virginia's Somdev Devvarman, who reached the 2006 final his sophomore year and won the title in 2007 and 2008. (Records showing finalists extend back to 1977). If Zheng matches Devvarman with a second title tomorrow, he will be the seventh man to go back-to-back since the NCAA began sponsoring the national championships in 1938; Steve Johnson of USC is the last to do it, in 2011 and 2012. Zheng can also set the record for most NCAA wins; Devvarman lost in the second round in his freshman year, while Zheng advanced to the round of 16 when he was a freshman.

Zheng's opponent in the final can also make history, with Trevor Svajda of SMU having an opportunity to become the first Mustang to win an NCAA tennis title. The 19-year-old Californian equaled the performance of 1986 finalist Richey Reneberg when he sailed past Martin Borisiouk of North Carolina State 6-2, 6-0.

Svajda has dominated on serve in his last three matches and although stats are not available for these matches, his first serve percentage today was extraordinarily high. Alex Gruskin of Cracked Racquets asked him about that enhancement to his game in the post-match interview.

"I change something in my technique like, once a month," Svajda said. "It's not because it's not working, I just get bored with the same techniques over and over. I figure out something new and I'm like, oh wait I like that, I'm serving harder, or I have a better kick serve and it helps me have fun still with it...this is the longest I've stuck with a technique, it's been over a month."

Zheng and Svajda have not played, but Zheng has noticed the results Svajda has posted on the Pro Circuit and in college this summer and fall.

"It's obviously not going to be an easy match," Zheng told Gruskin. "He's playing some really good tennis and I think he's looked really good his last couple of matches, winning in pretty dominant fashion. Obviously, he's had a great summer as well, making his first Challenger final....I think he's in form right now so it's going to be a tough one. I'll give it my best and hopefully walk away with the title."

This is just the second time in history (again, records from 1977 to the present) that the men's final will feature two unseeded players; the first was just 18 months ago, when Zheng lost to Filip Planinsek of Alabama in the Stillwater Oklahoma final.

Both Svajda and Zheng have now qualified for the USTA's US Open Collegiate Playoff next summer.

North Carolina's Reese Brantmeier won the NCAA team title as a freshman on the same National Campus courts in 2023; the senior can now win a second NCAA title when she faces unseeded Berta Passola Folch of Cal for the singles championship.

Brantmeier, a 9-16 seed, won her fourth three-set match of the week today, beating unseeded Jana Hossam Salah of Southern California 6-3, 5-7, 6-2.  

"Luckily I've gotten a lot of practice at that this week," the 21-year-old from Wisconsin told Gruskin. "So coming out for the third I was prepared. It's tough, seeing the finish line a little bit. She clawed her way back, did a great job of making me play a lot of balls... but I had my chances in the second set, so I just needed to reset....honestly, I'd be concerned if it wasn't three sets at this point."

Brantmeier is aiming for North Carolina's second NCAA singles title, with Jamie Loeb's title in 2015 the first. She has also qualified for the USTA US Open Collegiate Playoff.

Passola Folch was the only woman who had reached the semifinals without losing a set, but the senior from Spain had to save a match point to get past Emily Welker of Mississippi 6-2, 4-6, 7-6(7).

Passola Folch served for the match at 5-4 in the third, but couldn't close it out, and also struggled in the subsequent tiebreaker, which she led 5-1. Up 6-4, Passola Folch couldn't convert either of those match points, with Welker hitting a winner on the first and Passola Folch missing an overhead on the second. Welker took a 7-6 lead for her match point, but made a backhand error, and Passola Folch stepped up her aggression in the next two points, hitting a slice approach that drew an error from Welker to earn a third match point, which she converted with a big forehand in the corner that forced an error.

"I think I took a bit of a step back, I wasn't as aggressive," the 20-year-old said when Gruskin asked how the second set slipped away from her. "I started out the second set well, but took that step back, which was not the right thing to do in that moment. I just got too defensive and obviously, you lose your rhythm a little bit. But I'm glad I was able to step back in that third set and close it out, somehow."

Passola Folch is the first Cal player to reach the NCAA singles final since Lynn Chi, also unseeded, lost to Danielle Collins of Virginia in the 2014 championship match in Athens Georgia. The last Cal champion is Jana Juricova, who won the 2011 title at Stanford.

Brantmeier and Celia-Belle Mohr and Sophia Webster of Vanderbilt are the only seeds remaining in contention for a title, with the No. 4 seeds defeating No. 2 seeds Roisin Gilheany and Gloriana Nahum of Oklahoma 6-3, 6-2. Mohr and Webster will play for Vanderbilt's first NCAA women's doubles title against unseeded Victoria Osuigwe and Gabriella Broadfoot, who beat unseeded Daniela Borruel and Lily Fairclough of Southern Cal 6-4,  6-7(3), 10-3. NC State's sole NCAA doubles title came in 2022, when Jaeda Daniel and Nell Miller won in Champaign.

Ohio State's dominance in men's doubles continues, with the Buckeyes having a team in the championship match four of the past five years. This year it is unseeded Nikita Filin and Brandon Carpico, who defeated unseeded Manfredi Graziana and Aaron Sandler of Penn 7-6(2), 6-4. Filin and Carpico have now won 11 straight matches, which includes a title at last week's M25 in Columbus, and have not dropped a set in any of those 11 victories.

In 2023, James Trotter and Andrew Lutschaunig won the title and in May of 2024 Robert Cash and JJ Tracy won the title to give Ohio State two of the last three men's doubles championships. Filin and Carpico, as an all-American team, have qualified for the USTA's US Open Collegiate Wild Card playoffs.

Their opponents in the final are the unseeded Virginia pair of Mans Dahlberg and Dylan Dietrich, who dismissed unseeded Tanapatt Nirundorn and Henry Jefferson of Florida 6-1, 6-4.

Virginia's last NCAA men's doubles title was claimed by Jarmere Jenkins and Mac Styslinger in 2013.

The singles finals are scheduled for 11 a.m. Sunday, with the doubles final to follow, not before 12:30 p.m.

The ESPN streaming links are here; the live scoring is here.  Interviews with all the singles semifinalists can be viewed at the Cracked Racquets YouTube Channel.

At the W35 in Boca Raton, 18-year-old Akasha Urhobo is through to her fifth USTA Pro Circuit women's final, after the fifth seed defeated No. 6 seed Gergana Topalova of Bulgaria 6-2, 6-2 today.

Urhobo, who is 1-3 in her previous finals, will face No. 3 seed Francesa Pace of Italy, who beat No. 2 seed Victoria Hu(Princeton) 4-6, 6-1, 7-6(3). Pace beat Urhobo in three sets  last month in the semifinals of the W35 in Redding California.

Urhobo lost in today's doubles final, with No. 3 seeds Ema Burgic(Baylor) of Bosnia and Anita Sahdiieva(Baylor, LSU) beating No. 2 seeds Urhobo and Rasheeda McAdoo(Georgia Tech) 1-6, 7-6(5), 11-9.

Top seed Keegan Smith(UCLA) and No. 4 seed Ryan Fishback(Virginia Tech) will play for the singles title at the M15 in Tallahassee after Smith defeated qualifier Noah Zamora(UC-Irvine) 6-3, 6-2 and Fishback beat No. 7 seed Maik Steiner(Western Michigan) of Germany 7-6(2), 6-3. Smith will be going for the sweep, after winning the doubles title Friday with Evan Bynoe.

At the M25 in Austin, former TCU All-American Lui Maxted of Great Britain will go for the sweep after the No. 5 seed defeated top seed Garrett Johns(Duke) 6-0, 6-2 in today's semifinals. He will face qualifier Andreja Petrovic(North Dakota, Florida State, Duke) of Norway, who defeated No. 4 seed Aidan McHugh of Great Britain 7-5, 4-6, 7-5. Maxted has won two pro singles titles since graduating in May; it's the first pro final for Petrovic. 

Maxted won his six Pro Circuit doubles title today, with partner Pranav Kumar(Texas A&M, SMU). The top seeds beat No. 2 seeds Abraham Asaba(Monmouth, Virginia Tech) of Ghana and Alex Martinez(Oklahoma) of Spain 6-7(5), 6-5, 10-8 in the final.

The J300 in Zapopan Mexico concluded today, with No. 2 seed Stefan Haita of Romania defeating unseeded 15-year-old Vihaan Reddy 6-1, 6-4 for the boys title. 

No. 2 seed Jana Kovackova of the Czech Republic won the girls title, beating No. 8 seed Maia Burcescu of Romania 6-4, 7-6(6) in the final.

Kovackova also won the doubles title, with sister Alena; the top seeds defeated fellow Czechs Tereza Hermanova and Sofie Hettlerova, the No. 4 seeds, 6-2, 6-1 in the final.

No. 7 seeds Jakub Kusy of the Czech Republic and Mustafa Ege Sik of Turkey won the boys doubles title, beating No. 3 seeds Aaron Gabet and Daniel Jade of France 6-4, 2-6, 10-5 in the final.

Qualifying is underway for the ITF J500 in Merida Mexico next week; the qualifying draws have many open spots, and one win, in some instances, will be enough to qualify.

Zheng's NCAA Singles Title Defense Continues; Brantmeier Lone Seed in Women's Semifinals; Urhobo Reaches Boca Raton W35 Singles Semifinals, Doubles Final: Reddy Beats Top Seed Miguel at J300 Zapopan

Rebounds from first set losses were the theme of the singles quarterfinals Friday at the NCAA Division I Championships in Lake Nona Florida, with five of the eight semifinalists taking that route.

Three of the four men's semifinalists posted comebacks, including defending champion Michael Zheng of Columbia, who dropped his first set of the tournament before defeating No. 8 seed Ozan Baris 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. The unseeded Zheng now has a ten-match winning streak in the NCAA tournament, with his forehand just too much for Baris in the third set, after Baris had played controlled and error-free first set to take the lead in the rematch of the 2024 NCAA final. 

Zheng's opponent in the semifinal is the only seeded player remaining in the men's draw: fellow Ivy Leaguer Paul Inchauspe of Princeton. Inchauspe, a junior from France. Inchauspe, who saved match points in his second win over Lucca Iu of UC-Santa Barbara, came from a set down for the third time this week to beat unseeded Luca Pow of Wake Forest 4-6, 6-4, 6-2. 

Zheng and Inchauspe played once in Ivy League conference play in 2024, with their match going unfinished.

The other men's semifinal Saturday will feature two unseeded players, with Trevor Svajda of SMU facing Martin Borisiouk of NC State. Svajda, a junior, has found his form this week after two three-set wins on Tuesday and Wednesday, posting the only straightforward men's victory today with a 6-3, 6-2 decision over Petar Jovanovic of Mississippi State, a 9-16 seed.  Svajda is the first SMU player to reach the semifinals since 1986.

Borisiouk, who had his 9-16 seed removed when Jack Loutit of Kentucky received entry as an alternate, ended the undefeated start to Michigan redshirt freshman Max Dahlin's collegiate career with a 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 victory. 

It will be the first meeting between the 25-year-old Borisiouk and the 19-year-old Svajda.

The women's semifinals will feature three new faces and one seed: Reese Brantmeier of North Carolina.

Brantmeier, a 9-16 seed, won a 74-minute first set over No. 2 seed Carmen Herea of Texas, with her 5-1 lead evaporating. She saved set points in her 5-6 service game and in the tiebreaker, but the 21-year-old senior took control in the second set against an error-prone Herea to post a 7-6(8), 6-0 victory. 

She will play Southern Cal sophomore Jana Hossam Salah, who beat Carolina Gomez Alonzo of Arkansas 3-6, 7-5, 6-0. Hossam, who is just 18 years old, will face her first seed of the week when she plays Brantmeier.

The top half has Cal senior Berta Passola Folch facing Mississippi's Emily Welker in an unexpected semifinal, after Passola Folch beat Kyoka Kubo of Kansas 7-5, 6-2 and Welker upset No. 4 seed Savannah Dada-Mascoll of Appalachian State. 

Welker, a 25-year-old graduate student from Germany, saved a match point on a deuce point serving at 3-5 in third set, and Dada-Mascoll couldn't get to match point serving at 5-4. Welker went up 6-5 by again winning a deciding point and broke Dada-Mascoll to secure her place in the semifinals. Welker is only the third Ole Miss woman to reach the NCAA semifinals, with the last to do it 2018 NCAA champion Arianne Hartono. Passola Folch is the first Cal player to reach the semifinals since Lynn Ch, also unseeded, reached the 2014 final.

With all the chaos in the singles, at least in regards to seeds, one of the women's doubles semifinals will actually feature two teams that were seeded to be there.

No. 4 seeds Sophia Webster and Celia-Belle Mohr of Vanderbilt will face No. 2 seeds Roisin Gilheany and Gloriana Nahum of Oklahoma for a place in the final.

All four men's teams are unseeded, and no players have advanced to both semifinals, with Brantmeier and Dahlin both losing in the doubles quarterfinals today.

Doubles quarterfinal results:

Mans Dahlberg and Dylan Dietrich, Virginia d. Aidan Kim and Bryce Nakashima[5-8], Ohio State 6-7(4), 7-6(5), 10-5

Tanapatt Nirundorn and Henry Jefferson, Florida d. Max Stenzer and Sean Daryabeigi, South Carolina 6-4, 6-2

Aaron Sandler and Manfredi Graziani, Penn d. Andrew Delgado and DK Suresh[2], Wake Forest 6-7(3), 7-5, 10-7

Nikita Filin and Brandon Carpico, Ohio State d. Max Dahlin and Bjorn Swenson[4], Michigan 6-2, 6-1

Daniela Borruel and Lily Fairclough, Southern Cal d. Leena Friedman and Orly Oglivy, Yale 6-1, 6-4

Victoria Osuigwe and Gabriella Broadfoot, NC State d. Oby Kajuru and Susanna Maltby[3], North Carolina 5-7, 6-1, 12-10

Sophia Webster and Celia-Belle Mohr[4], Vanderbilt d. Annabelle Xu and Martina Genis Salas[5-8], Virginia 6-0, 6-4

Roisin Gilheany and Gloriana Nahum[2], Oklahoma d. Reese Brantmeier and Alanis Hamilton, North Carolina 6-3, 4-6, 10-5

All four singles semifinals are scheduled for 10 a.m. and all four doubles semifinals are scheduled for 1 p.m.

Live scoring is here and the ESPN Select streaming links are here. The link to draws is here.

Randy Walker has an article on the NCAA's move to the fall at his World Tennis Magazine website, with comments from Reese Brantmeier.

John Parsons has been posting daily podcasts from the NCAAs at No-Ad, No-Problem. 

And Cracked Racquets has posted their post-match interviews with players on their YouTube Channel.

Eighteen-year-old Floridian Akasha Urhobo has reached her sixth career Pro Circuit semifinal after the No. 5 seed defeated Sofia Cabezas(Iowa State, Tennessee) of Venezuela 6-2, 7-6(5) today at the W35 in Boca Raton. Urhobo will face No. 6 seed Gergana Topalova of Bulgaria, who advanced to the semifinals when Bella Payne retired trailing 6-1, 1-0.

No. 3 seed Francesa Pace of Italy and No. 2 seed Victoria Hu(Princeton) will meet in the bottom half semifinal after Pace defeated No. 8 seed Rasheeda McAdoo(Georgia Tech) 7-5, 6-4 and Hu beat Kylie Collins(Texas, LSU, Oklahoma State) 6-1, 6-2.

Urhobo and McAdoo will play for the second Boca Raton W35 doubles title as a team tomorrow, with the No. 2 seeds facing No. 3 seeds Ema Burgic(Baylor) of Bosnia and Anita Sahdiieva(Baylor, LSU) of Ukraine in the final. Urhobo and McAdoo, who won the April W35 Boca Raton doubles title, beat unseeded Ingrid Neel(Florida) of Estonia and Abigail Rencheli(NC State) 6-1, 7-5, while Burgic and Sahdiieva defeated top seeds Pace and Martha Matoula of Greece 6-1, 6-3.

Top seed Keegan Smith is through to the semifinals of the M15 in Tallahassee, with the former UCLA All-American beating No. 6 seed Victor Lilov, an Ohio State signee, 6-3, 6-4. Smith will play qualifier Noah Zamora(UC-Irvine), who beat qualifier James Connel(Florida State) 7-5, 7-6(4).

In the bottom half semifinal, No. 7 seed Maik Steiner(Western Michigan) of Germany will play No. 4 seed Ryan Fishback(Virginia Tech) after Steiner defeated Mario Martinez Serrano(Mississippi State) of Spain 6-4, 7-6(5) and Fishback beat Stijn Paardekooper(St. Bonaventure, Utah State) of the Netherlands 6-4, 6-3.

Smith and Evan Bynoe won the doubles title, beating Mississippi State teammates Niccolo Baroni of Italy and Martinez Serrano 6-2, 6-2 in the final. Neither team was seeded.

At the M25 in Austin, top seed Garrett Johns(Duke) will play recent TCU graduate Lui Maxted of Great Britain in the semifinals, with Aidan McHugh and qualifier Andreja Petrovic(North Dakota, Florida State, Duke) of Norway meeting in the bottom half.

Johns defeated No. 7 seed Micah Braswell(Texas) 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(2), while the fifth-seeded Maxted beat Arizona State senior Mathis Bondaz of France 6-1, 6-3.

Maxted, last fall's NCAA doubles champion, will play in the doubles final Saturday, with Pranav Kumar(Texas A&M, SMU). The top seeds will face No. 2 seeds Abraham Asaba(Monmouth, Virginia Tech) of Ghana and Alex Martinez(Oklahoma) of Spain.

Fifteen-year-old Reddy defeated top seed and US Open boys semifinalist Luis Guto Miguel of Brazil today to advance to the final of the ITF J300 in Zapopan Mexico. The unseeded Reddy, who reached his first ITF J300 quarterfinal this week, took out the ITF Junior No. 14 6-0, 6-7(5), 7-5. Next up for Reddy is No. 2 seed Stefan Haita of Romania, who beat unseeded Amaury Abbas of France 7-5, 7-5.

The girls singles final will feature No 8 seed Maia Burcescu of Romania and No. 2 seed Jana Kovackova of the Czech Republic. 

Reddy and partner Navneet Raghuram lost in the doubles semifinals today to No. 7 seeds Jakub Kusy of the Czech Republic and Mustafa Ege Sik of Turkey 6-3, 6-4.

Seeds Sparse in Friday's NCAA D-I Singles Quarterfinals; Top Seeds Out in Men's Doubles; Reddy Reaches ITF J300 Semis in Zapopan; Urhobo and Payne Advance to W35 Boca Raton Quarterfinals

Only three seeds from both the men's and women's singles have reached Friday's NCAA Division I quarterfinals at the USTA National Campus in Lake Nona Florida, although after the first two days of upsets, there weren't many seeds left to lose during today's round of 16.

The only top 8 seed remaining in the men's draw is No. 8 Ozan Baris of Michigan State, who reached the final last November in Waco. In that final, he faced Michael Zheng of Columbia, losing 6-2, 4-6, 6-2; tomorrow will be a rematch of that championship match after Baris defeated Ilia Snitari of UNLV 6-4, 7-6(5) and the unseeded Zheng beat Romain Gales of Clemson 6-3, 6-2.

The winner of that quarterfinal will play the winner of the match between Wake Forest's Luca Pow and Princeton's Paul Inchauspe, a 9-16 seed. Pow, who played at lines 5 and 6 for the 2025 NCAA team champions, took out No. 7 seed Dylan Dietrich of Virginia 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, while Inchauspe got his first uncompicated win with a 6-2, 6-4 decision over Will Jansen of Georgia.

In the top half, Petar Jovanovic of Mississippi State, a 9-16 seed, defeated Keegan Rice of Virginia, who had beaten top seed Jay Friend of Arizona in Wednesday's second round. Jovanovic will face Trevor Svajda of SMU, who had his first victory this week in straight sets, beating No. 6 seed Kenta Miyoshi of Illinois 6-2, 6-4.

The only quarterfinal with two unseeded players will feature Max Dahlin of Michigan against Martin Borisiouk of North Carolina State. Dahlin, a redshirt freshman, who has yet to lose a match in his college career in singles or doubles, defeated No. 4 seed Matt Forbes of Michigan State 7-5, 1-6, 7-6(3). Borisiouk, who was initially seeded 9-16 but had that taken from him when Jack Loutit of Kentucky got in as an alternate and took that seed, continued to have the key to beating DK Suresh of Wake Forest. Borisiouk, the first NC State player to reach the NCAA quarterfinals since John Sadri in 1978, is now 3-0 against Suresh this year after a convincing 6-4, 6-1 victory today.

Only seven round of 16 matches were played today in the women's draw, with Lily Jones of Michigan giving an injury walkover to Emily Welker of Mississippi. Welker will face No. 4 seed Savannah Dada-Mascoll of Appalachian State, who came from 3-0 down in the third set to defeat Emma Charney of Southern Cal 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.  Dada-Mascoll, a senior from Great Britain, makes history for her school with every win, as the program had never had an NCAA participant, let alone an All-American or an NCAA quarterfinalist.

Charney's younger sister Piper, the No. 3 seed from Michigan, lost to Carolina Gomez Alonzo of Arkansas 6-2, 6-2. Gomez Alonzo will play Jana Hossam Salah of Southern Cal in one of the two all-unseeded quarterfinals, after Hossam Salah defeated Mia Slama of North Carolina State 6-4, 6-0.

The other all-unseeded quarterfinal will feature Berta Passola Folch of Cal and Kyota Kubo of Kansas. Passola Folch defeated Gabriella Broadfoot of North Carolina State 6-4, 6-3 and Kubo breezed past Duke's Irina Balus 6-4, 6-1. The winner of that match plays the winner of the Dada-Mascoll-Welker quarterfinal.

The only match between two seeds has No. 2 Carmen Herea of Texas facing North Carolina's Reese Brantmeier, a 9-16 seed. Herea rebounded from a first-set loss to Ohio State's Luciana Perry, a 9-16 seed, just as she had done in the semifinals of the ITA All-American Championships in September, earning a 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 victory. Brantmeier dropped the second set for the third straight match, but defeated Auburn's Ava Esposito 6-2, 3-6, 6-1.

All eight singles quarterfinal matches are scheduled for 10 a.m., which is frustrating for those of us who would like to watch more tennis throughout the day. With only Brantmeier and Dahlin still in both singles and doubles, there was an opportunity to play four of the quarterfinals later in the day, which would be much more fan-friendly than this choice. All the doubles are scheduled for 1 p.m. or 2 p.m., so it's likely there will be no tennis at all for any fans who would like to watch NCAA tennis after work on Friday.

The doubles draws have not been immune to all the upsets this week, with the top seeds and ITA All-American champions in the women's draw losing in the first round yesterday and the top seeds and ITA All-American champions in the men's draw losing in the second round today.

Benito Sanchez Martinez and Petar Jovanovic of Mississippi State lost to Mans Dahlberg and Dylan Dietrich of Virginia 6-3, 7-6(3), leaving only one seeded team in the top half of the draw. Below are the results from today's second round of doubles, with all the winners earning All-American status. The results are shown in draw order, with draws available by clicking on the links.

WOMEN:

Leena Friedman and Orly Oglivy, Yale d. Charlotte Kempenaers-Pocz and Gianna Oboniye, Mississippi State 6-4, 3-6, 10-6

Daniela Borruel and Lily Fairclough, Southern Cal d. Stanislava Shulzhenko and Maria de la Paz Alberto, Iowa State 7-6(2), 7-6(5)

Oby Kajuru and Susanna Maltby[3], North Carolina d. Andrea Nova and Emily Welker, Mississippi 7-5, 4-6, 10-5

Victoria Osuigwe and Gabriella Broadfoot, NC State d. Melodie Collard and Vivian Yang[5-8], Virginia 6-4, 6-4

Annabelle Xu and Martina Genis Salas[5-8], Virginia d. Krisha Mahendran and Jana Hossam Salah, Southern Cal 6-3, 2-6, 10-4

Sophia Webster and Celia-Belle Mohr[4], Vanderbilt d. Liv Hovde and Shavit Kimchi, Duke 1-6, 6-3, 10-8

Reese Brantmeier and Alanis Hamilton, North Carolina d. Grace Levelston and Kendall Kovick, BYU 6-3, 7-6(6)

Roisin Gilheany and Gloriana Nahum[2], Oklahoma d. Anet Koskel and Carolina Gomez Alonso, Arkansas 6-0, 6-3

MEN:

Mans Dahlberg and Dylan Dietrich, Virginia d. Benito Sanchez Martinez and Petar Jovanovic[1], Mississippi State 6-3, 7-6(3)

Aidan Kim and Bryce Nakashima[5-8] d, Karim Al-Amin and Onrej Horak, Middle Tennessee State 6-3, 4-6, 13-11

Tanapatt Nirundorn and Henry Jefferson, Florida d. Isac Stromberg and Kai Milburn[3], Mississippi 6-3, 6-3

Max Stenzer and Sean Daryabeigi, South Carolina d. Ian Mayew and Kase Schinnerer, North Carolina 7-6(2), 6-4

Nikita Filin and Brandon Carpico, Ohio State d. Alex Chang and Alex Razeghi, Stanford 6-4, 6-4

Max Dahlin and Bjorn Swenson[4], Michigan d. Spencer Johnson and Emon van Loben Sels, UCLA 7-5, 4-6, 10-7

Aaron Sandler and Manfredi Graziani, Penn d. Cosme Rolland De Ravel and Albert Pedrico, TCU 6-4, 6-4

Andrew Delgado and DK Suresh[2], Wake Forest d. Zsombor Velcz and Connor Henry Van Schalkwyk, Baylor 7-6(5), 6-2

Live scoring is here; ESPN Select's Friday schedule for streaming is here.

Fifteen-year-old Vihaan Reddy is through to the singles and doubles semifinals at the ITF J300 in Zapopan Mexico. Reddy defeated Agassi Rusher 6-3, 6-3 in today's quarterfinals and will play top seed Luis Guto Miguel of Brazil for a place in the finals.

Reddy and Navneet Raghuram advanced to the doubles semifinals with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Jack Dermeniyan and Mexico's Valentino Arjona.

No. 4 seed Annika Penickova lost to No. 6 seed Renee Alame of Australia 6-2, 4-6, 6-2.  Top seed Alena Kovackova of the Czech Republic was beaten today by No. 8 seed Maia Burcescu of Romania.

After defeating top seed Alexis Blokhina(Stanford) in the first round yesterday, 18-year-old Bella Payne breezed past Jessica Bertoldo of Italy 6-1, 6-3 to reach the quarterfinals of the W35 in Boca Raton Florida. Payne will face No. 6 seed Gergana Topalova of Bulgaria, who beat Payne's future Georgia teammate Ava Rodriguez 6-0, 6-3 today.

Eighteen-year-old Akasha Urhobo, the No. 5 seed, defeated Lara Smejkal(Florida Atlantic) of Slovenia 6-0, 6-4 and will face former Tennessee All-American Sofia Cabezas of Venezuela in the quarterfinals.

Other Americans advancing to the quarterfinals are No. 2 seed Victoria Hu(Princeton), who will play Kylie Collins(Texas, LSU, Oklahoma State), and No. 8 seed Rasheeda McAdoo(Georgia Tech), who faces No. 3 seed Francesca Pace of Italy.

At the M15 in Tallahassee, Jack Kennedy lost to Mississippi State senior Mario Martinez Serrano of Spain 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 and Ronit Karki lost to No. 6 seed Victor Lilov(Ohio State) 3-6, 7-6(2), 7-5.

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After the second round, the singles draws at the NCAA Division I Championships in Orlando bear no resemblance to the seeding projections, and that will continue throughout the rest of the tournament with two more Top 4 upsets today in the men's draw and just three Top 8 seeds remaining in the women's draw.

Top seed and ITA All-American champion Jay Friend of Arizona followed the off ramp taken by women's top seed and ITA All-American Valerie Glozman Tuesday, losing to Keegan Rice of Virginia 7-6(4), 6-4. Friend was not at his best today, and was unable to take advantage of his opportunities against Rice, failing to break the Cavalier sophomore, who is not known for his big serve. Rice held from 0-40 down at 5-all in the first set, and again when serving at 2-1 in second, with Friend unable to convert any of the at least ten break points he had. Friend couldn't rattle Rice, who stayed composed throughout the match and it was Friend who made the unforced errors at 30-all with Rice serving for the match. Rice will face Petar Jovanovic of Mississippi State, a 9-16 seed, who beat Sebastian Gorzny of Texas 6-3, 0-6, 6-3.

No. 3 seed Aidan Kim of Ohio State, the ITA All-American finalist, was beaten by former teammate Will Jansen 7-5, 6-2. Jansen played last year at Ohio State before transferring to North Carolina.

The other men's match I watched closely on ESPN select was Wake Forest senior DK Suresh's 7-6(4), 6-4 win over No. 5 seed Devin Badenhorst of Baylor. Badenhorst was one of the draw losers, with Suresh obviously one of the strongest players in the field; Suresh was No. 3 in the preseason rankings, behind Michael Zheng and Rafael Jodar, and he had done nothing this fall to tarnish that lustre. But because he withdrew after qualifying for the NCAAs by making the All-American quarterfinals and didn't play a college match after that, he wasn't seeded this week.

The points were generally longer than I had anticipated in this match, with the first set decided by the smallest of margins. Suresh got a mini break to take a 4-2 lead at the change of ends, and that was the difference.

The second set started off with 2-0 and 3-1 leads for Suresh, but Badenhorst got the break back and held for 3-all. But the Baylor junior succumbed to the pressure of serving down 4-5 and Suresh, the 2024 NCAA semifinalist, broke for the win.

Of the four Top 8 seeds remaining in the men's draw, two are from Michigan State, with No. 4 seed Matt Forbes and No. 8 seed Ozan Baris winning in straight sets today.

There are six seeds remaining in the men's draw, but none of the eight third round matches will feature more than one seed. An unseeded quarterfinalist is guaranteed, with Suresh playing Martin Borisiouk of NC State, who had his seed revoked when Jack Loutit of Kentucky got in as an alternate, and Zheng of Columbia facing Romain Gales of Clemson, who beat No. 2 seed Duncan Chan of TCU in the first round.

The women's third round will feature one match that was projected by the seeding, with No. 2 seed Carmen Herea of Texas facing Ohio State's Luciana Perry, a 9-16 seed. Herea defeated Eva Shaw of Florida State 6-3, 7-5 and Perry got past Ni Xi of UNC-Charlotte 6-0, 1-6, 6-1.

Four of the women's quarterfinalists will be unseeded after four more seeds lost today. Ava Esposito of Auburn eliminated No. 6 seed Anastasiia Grechkina of Pepperdine 6-4, 6-3 and will face North Carolina's Reese Brantmeier, a 9-16 seed. Brantmeier was again taken to three sets, but defeated Sophie Llewellyn of SMU 6-2, 4-6, 6-2.

Three pairs of sisters were in his year's field, but only the Charneys remain after today. No. 3 seed Piper of Michigan defeated Zuzanna Kubacha of Baylor 6-4, 7-6(5) and older sister Emma of Southern Cal defeated 9-16 seed Anastasiia Gureva of Georgia 6-3, 7-5.

All players who won their second round singles matches today have earned All-American status. A top 20 ITA ranking at the end of the dual match season is now the only remaining option for becoming an All-American, with ITA All-American champions Glozman and Friend already receiving the honor when they claimed those titles.

In doubles, the women's draw lost its top-seeded team, with Mississippi State's Charlotte Kempenaers-Pocz and Gianna Oboniye defeating Wisconsin's Maria Shokolova and Lucie Urbanova, the ITA All-American champions, 4-6, 7-6(2), 10-4.

Men's top seeds and ITA All-American champions Benito Sanchez Martinez and Petar Jovanovic of Mississippi State advanced to the second round with a 6-4, 6-4 win over UCLA's Rudy Quan and Aadarsh Tripathi. 

NCAA second round singles results, in draw order. Links to draws, with times, in the headers.

MEN:

Keegan Rice, Virginia d. Jay Friend[1] Arizona 7-6(4), 6-4

Petar Jovanovic[9-16], Mississippi State d. Sebastian Gorzny, Texas 6-3, 0-6, 6-3

Kenta Miyoshi[6], Illinois d. Edward Winter, Pepperdine 7-6(2), 6-0

Trevor Svajda, SMU d. Amirkhamza Nasridinov, Auburn 6-3, 2-6, 6-0

Matt Forbes[4], Michigan State d. Cosme Rolland De Ravel, TCU 6-1, 6-4

Max Dahlin, Michigan d. Jack Loutit[9-16], Kentucky 6-4, 6-3

DK Suresh, Wake Forest d. Devin Badenhorst[5], Baylor 7-6(4), 6-4

Martin Borisiouk, NC State d. Filip Gustafsson, Arizona 6-4, 6-3

Luca Pow, Wake Forest d. Jakub Vrba[9-16], Arkansas 6-3, 6-3

Dylan Dietrich[7], Virginia d. Bryan Hernandez Cortes, Mississippi State 6-4, 6-4

Paul Inchauspe[9-16], Princeton d. Lucca Liu, UC-Santa Barbara 2-6, 7-6(4), 6-1

Will Jansen, Georgia d. Aidan Kim[3], Ohio State 7-5, 6-2

Ilia Snitari, UNLV d. Eli Stephenson[9-16], Kentucky 6-7(4), 6-2 6-3

Ozan Baris[8], Michigan State d. Roan Jones, North Carolina 6-2, 7-5

Michael Zheng, Columbia d. Sebastian Eriksson, Texas 6-3, 6-3

Romain Gales, Clemson d. Benito Sanchez Martinez, Mississippi State 6-3, 7-6(4)

WOMEN:

Gabriella Broadfoot, NC State d. Na Dong, Baylor 6-3, 7-5

Berta Passola Folch, Cal d. Mia Kupres, Texas A&M 6-3, 6-2

Irina Balus, Duke d. Reece Carter, Washington 6-4, 4-6, 6-1

Kyoka Kubo, Kansas d. Mia Yamakita[9-16], Vanderbilt 2-6, 7-6(5), 6-3

Savannah Dada-Mascoll[4], Appalachian State d. Ria Bhakta, Clemson 6-3, 6-0

Emma Charney, Southern Cal d. Anastasiia Gureva[9-16], Georgia 6-3, 7-5

Emily Welker, Mississippi d. Valeria Ray, Vanderbilt 2-6, 6-0, 6-3

Lily Jones, Michigan d. Stephanie Yakoff, Harvard 2-6, 6-4, 7-6(6)

Mia Slama, NC State d. Gabia Paskauskas[9-16], Florida 6-3, 6-1

Jana Hossam Salah, Southern Cal d. Oby Kajuru, North Carolina 6-3, 6-2

Carolina Gomez Alonso, Arkansas d. Erika Matsuda, Washington 6-4, 6-0

Piper Charney[3], Michigan d. Zuzanna Kubacha, Baylor 6-4, 7-6(5)

Reese Brantmeier[9-16] d. Sophie Llewellyn, SMU 6-2, 4-6, 6-2

Ava Esposito, Auburn d. Anastasiia Grechkina[6], Pepperdine 6-4, 6-3

Luciana Perry[9-16], Ohio State d. Ni Xi, UNC-Charlotte 6-0, 1-6, 6-1

Carmen Herea[2], Texas d. Eva Shaw, Florida State 6-3, 7-5

Live scoring is here; Thursday's schedule for ESPN Select coverage is here.

At the W35 in Boca Raton Florida, 18-year-old Bella Payne defeated top seed Alexis Blokhina(Stanford) 1-6, 6-4, 6-4 in first round action today. Georgia signee Payne, who received a special exempt entry after reaching the final of the W15 in Clemson last week, will play Jessica Bertoldo of Italy in the second round Thursday.

Three Americans have advanced to the quarterfinals of the ITF J300 this week in Zapopan Mexico: No. 4 seed Annika Penickova, Vihaan Reddy and Agassi Rusher.

Penickova defeated No. 16 seed Tea Kovacevic of Bosnia 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 and will play No. 6 seed Renee Alame of Australia in Thursday's quarterfinals.

Reddy, 15, defeated doubles partner Navneet Raghuram 7-6(1), 6-4 to reach his first J300 quarterfinal. The 17-year-old Rusher beat No. 9 seed Aaron Gabet of France 6-0, 6-2, also advancing to his first J300 quarterfinal.

Reddy and Raghuram reached the doubles quarterfinals with a 7-6(0), 6-1 win over the No. 2 seeds Rihards Neimanis of Latvia and Daniel Tazabekov of Kazakhstan.