The acceptances for the 2026 Wimbledon Junior Championships scheduled for July 4-12, were published today, with this year's Australian Open and Roland Garros champions in the hunt for a second junior slam.Girls Roland Garros champion Alisa Oktiabreva may not end up playing, as she wasn't certain of her plans when she spoke about them last weekend, but she did enter, as did boys champion Luis
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This week's USTA Pro Circuit is evenly balanced between the men and women, with a W35 in Decatur Illinois, and M25 in Wichita Kansas and Week Three of the SoCal Pro Series with men's and women's $15Ks at the Jack Kramer Club in Rolling Hills Estates.Seven of the eight qualifiers in Decatur are Americans: 17-year-old Columbia recruit Sena Yoon, Jaedan Brown(Michigan), Piper Charney(Michigan),
While most eyes were on Paris last week, many American juniors aspiring to compete in the junior slams were elsewhere collecting points, with five US players earning singles titles on the ITF Junior Circuit.At the ITF J100 in Guatemala, Gurjot Singh swept the boys titles, while Ellery Mendell won her third J100 title in the past six weeks.Singh, an 18-year-old from New Jersey who was a finalist
Although all five Americans competing in USTA Pro Circuit finals today were defeated, Sunday was a great day for teenagers, three of whom hoisted winner's trophies.The biggest came in Sumter South Carolina, where 16-year-old Kristina Liutova won her second consecutive W100 title with a 6-4, 6-3 win over wild card Reese Brantmeier. The unseeded Liutova, who was born in Russia but has lived in the
Luis Guto Miguel not only claimed his first junior slam title today at Roland Garros, a huge accomplishment for any young player, but the 17-year-old from Brazil also added his country's name to the record books. The top seed's 6-3, 6-4 victory over 16-year-old American Michael Antonius gave Brazil its first Roland Garros junior singles title in history.Miguel, who will ascend to No. 1 in
Sixteen-year-old Michael Antonius opted to skip the Australian Open Junior Championships this year and instead played two ITF J300s on hard courts in South America. He won them both, giving him the freedom to forget about his ITF junior ranking for the year and focus on getting experience on the USTA Pro Circuit. He went 14-6 this spring in seven USTA Pro Circuit events, which included the
Keaton Hance won a nail-biter of a quarterfinal to reach his second junior slam semifinal at Roland Garros, while 16-year-old Michael Antonius breezed past the Australian Open boys champion to earn a shot at his first junior slam final in just his second appearance in one.Hance, the No. 6 seed, had to survive several distractions in his 6-3, 5-7, 7-6(6) win over No. 3 seed Jamie Mackenzie of
My monthly column highlighting the top performances of juniors, collegians and former collegians is up today at the Tennis Recruiting Network, and, as has been the case in the past several years, it's impossible to feature everyone that claimed a pro circuit title in May. With the increase in the number of W15 and M15 tournaments on the ITF World Tennis Tour, and the surge of juniors and
After no rain the first nine days of action in Paris, those playing second round junior singles matches Tuesday at Roland Garros contended with several delays, and the last first round doubles match didn't finish until 10:30 p.m. local time in Paris. The top eight seeds in the boys draw have all advanced to Wednesday's round of 16, while the only Top Eight seed missing from the girls draw is
Michael Antonius is the first US junior to reach the round of 16 of the Roland Garros Junior Championships after a quick 6-3, 6-0 victory in the second round today over Kanta Watanabe of Japan. Next up for Antonius, on Wednesday, is No. 2 seed Yannick Alexandrescou of France, in a rematch of last August's ITF J300 College Park final, which Alexandrescou won 6-0, 6-2. Alexandrescou had a
It's only May, but we know that will be no girls junior calendar slam champion in 2026, after Australian Open winner Ksenia Efremova of France lost in the first round of the Roland Garros Junior Championships today to 14-year-old qualifier Ekaterina Dotsenko of Russia. Efremova, the top seed, had not played any junior events since her Australian Open girls title, and had just one
The Roland Garros Junior Championships begin Sunday, with both Australian Open champions in the draw, four seeded US boys and one seeded US girl. In total ten US boys and eight US girls will be playing main draw matches this year and 15 of those 18 will play tomorrow. In total 24 of the 32 matches in each draw are scheduled for Sunday, with the only Americans not in action are qualifier
Four Americans have reached the main draw after posting wins today at the Roland Garros Junior Championships qualifying. Sarah Ye saved three match points with No. 2 seed Maria Pop of Romania serving for the match at 5-4 in the third set, but the 16-year-old from New Jersey won the last three games of the match for a 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 victory that puts her in her first junior slam main
Sixteen-year-old Jordan Lee is through to his second ITF J300 final, while 17-year-old Anita Tu has reached her first with victories today at the 61st Astrid Bowl in Belgium.Lee, who like Tu is unseeded, beat top seed Arnav Papakar of India 6-3, 6-4 and will meet No. 6 seed Dan Brand of Israel, who beat Matei Cheleman of Romania 6-4, 6-1 in the bottom half semifinal.Tu defeated lucky
As promised here are a few random thoughts and observations, big and small, about returning to Athens for the NCAA championships this month. I covered the 2007, 2010, 2012 and 2014 championships held there, all of which were 16-team events, along with the individual championships that followed. I was not there in 2017, and with any bids for hosting not considered by the committee until a
I have been struggling with home internet problems the past five days, so I apologize for the delay in my NCAA D-I Athens post, but those issues are now resolved, which means I'll have it ready for tomorrow.The USTA announced the fields for the second annual American Collegiate US Open Wild Card Playoffs, which included the surprising information that two-time NCAA champion Michael Zheng of
The third and final day of first round matches at Roland Garros ended with eight more Americans advancing to the second round, after five had won their opening matches on Sunday and eight had picked up wins Monday. Seventeen-year-old Moise Kouame, who was No. 14 in the ITF junior rankings at this time last year but hasn't played a junior event since a first round loss to Ivan Ivanov in the
Day Two of Roland Garros added eight more Americans to the five who had already reached the second round with wins Sunday; 12 more will have a chance to join those 13 as the first round concludes Tuesday in Paris.Nineteen-year-old wild card Akasha Urhobo acquitted herself well in her slam debut, pushing British veteran Katie Boulter to three sets before losing 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 in two hours and 20
The Roland Garros Junior Championships begin a week from today with Sunday's ITF J500 Milan champions reaffirming their status as threats to add a junior slam title to their already considerable accomplishments.Eighteen-year-old Jamie Mackenzie of Germany won his second ITF J500 title this month, with the No. 3 seed beating No. 2 seed Thilo Behrmann of Austria, who won last month's J500 in Cairo,
Ten of the 37 Americans who are in the main draw in singles at Roland Garros will play their first matches Sunday, including two matches that are between players from the US. Although TNT is will provide coverage via streaming/cable, in order to have access to all matches you will need an HBO/Max subscription, which can be purchased by the month.The weather forecast calls for sunshine and
Two more Americans earned spots in the main draw at Roland Garros, with Emilio Nava and Claire Liu joining Ashlyn Krueger, Sloane Stephens and Michael Zheng(Columbia) as qualifiers. With those five, there are now 19 US women and 18 US men in the main draw, with playing beginning Sunday.No. 3 seed Nava, who finished second to Nishesh Basavareddy(Stanford) in the USTA's annual reciprocal Wild Card
The singles draws for Roland Garros were revealed today, with 16 US men and 16 US women among the competitors for the year'ssecond major, with play beginning Sunday in Paris. As usual, I'll post the matchups the day before each is scheduled to play, although the four men and four women who play each other are noted below.Ethan QuinnEliot Spizzirri v Frances Tiafoe[19]Ben SheltonPatrick
My recap of Sunday's NCAA Division I women's final, featuring Texas A&M collecting their second title in program history with a 4-1 win over Auburn, is available now at the Tennis Recruiting Network. What the Aggies did over those three days was a remarkable accomplishment; battling through the physical and mental hurdles of back-to-back 4-3 victories, the second over top seed Georgia in
My recap of Sunday's men's NCAA Division I Team Championships final is up today at the Tennis Recruiting Network. If you missed my daily coverage of all matches that sent finalist Texas and champion Virginia to the final, this can be a quick review for you, but it can't convey the drama and excitement of each of the three days of competition in Athens. My article on the women's final will be
After covering the NCAA D-I Team Championships in Athens, which was equal parts exhilarating and exhausting, I'm going to need to get some sleep over the next few days, but I'm planning to do a thoughts and observations post in coming days, so stay tuned for that.I missed a lot that went on in the rest of the tennis world, but as far as results of Americans last week--and there were plenty-- make