The finals are set at the ATP Challenger 75 in Lincoln Nebraska, with University of Virginia sophomore Rafael Jodar facing No. 8 seed Martin Damm after both posted straight-sets victories today.Jodar, who beat top seed Brandon Holt(USC) in last night's quarterfinal 6-0, 7-5 took out No. 4 seed Patrick Kypson(Texas A&M) 6-3, 6-3 today to reach his second ATP Challenger final.Damm, who saved
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My recap of last week's ITF J300 Pan American Closed Championships in Spring Texas is up today at the Tennis Recruiting Network, so if you missed my daily coverage here, it's an opportunity to get caught up on how one of the five J300 ITF Junior Circuit events in the United States played out. Below are videos of all four of the singles finalists. A Tennis Recruiting Network Photo Gallery is
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The eight under-14s who will represent the United States at the prestigious Les Petits As event next January in Tarbes France were decided today at Tropical Park in Miami Florida.The semifinalists assured themselves no worse than a qualifying wild card, and the two boys and two girls who won the semifinal matches today are already guaranteed a place in the main draw.Tara Guhan defeated top seed
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The annual USA Playoffs for the 14U Les Petits As tournament, which is scheduled for the last week of January 2026, is underway this week in Miami, with the quarterfinals now set after today's completion of round robin play. Only one of the boys quarterfinalists is unseeded, Evan Fan, while all eight of the girls seeds advanced to the quarterfinals. Quarterfinalists at Les Petits As USA
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Three USTA Pro Circuit events taking place this week, two one of them a 100-point event, with the women outdoors in Macon Georgia and the men indoors in Lincoln Nebraska.The qualifying for the ATP Challenger 75 in Lincoln concluded yesterday, with University of Florida junior Adhithya Ganesan, former University of Michigan All-American Andrew Fenty, former Ohio State All-American Cannon
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Even after Americans swept all four Pan American ITF J300 titles having guaranteeing that result with all singles quarterfinalists and doubles semifinalists from the United States, four other Americans captured titles on the ITF Junior Circuit last week.Carel Ngounoue of Washington DC won his second consecutive J100 in Ghana, with the 17-year-old top seed beating unseeded Jesse Clarkson of Great
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After a week in Texas devoted to high-level junior tennis, I've got some catching up to do on the USTA Pro Circuit and on the WTA and ATP Asian Swing in tonight's post.Jay Friend and his All-American trophy last month in TulsaJay Friend, a senior at the University of Arizona, continued the level that saw him claim the ITA All-American Championships in Tulsa last month, capturing his first
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©Colette Lewis 2025--Spring, Texas--When Michael Antonius defeated Andrew Johnson 6-4, 6-3 in the ITF J300 Pan American Closed boys final on an adjacent court Saturday morning, Chukwumelije Clarke was down a set to Carrie-Anne Hoo in the girls final. But the No. 6 seed had an unlikely source of motivation to begin a comeback: keeping up with her Little Mo 9-and-under mixed doubles teammate."I was
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©Colette Lewis 2025--Spring, Texas--Saturday's singles finals at the ITF J300 Pan American Closed Championships are rematches, with No. 6 seed Chukwumelije Clarke and No. 5 Carrie-Ann Hoo reprising their contest in the USTA Winter Nationals 18s final back in January, and No. 4 seed Andrew Johnson and No. 3 seed Michael Antonius meeting for the second consecutive week, after all four posted
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©Colette Lewis 2025--Spring, Texas--Three comebacks were necessary, but when the boys quarterfinals concluded after noon Thursday at the ITF J300 Pan American Closed Championships, the four top seeds had advanced.The only quarterfinal in which the winner won the opening set No. 4 seed Andrew Johnson's 6-2, 6-3 win over No. 10 seed Tanishk Konduri, a rematch of last Saturday's Corpus Christi J200
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©Colette Lewis 2025--Spring, Texas--The top three seeds in both the girls and boys draws at the ITF J300 Pan American Closed advanced to Thursday's quarterfinals at the Giammalva Racquet Club, but four unseeded players will join them, including 15-year-old qualifier Sophie Suh.Suh, playing in just her fourth ITF Junior Circuit tournament and the first outside of her home section of Southern
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©Colette Lewis 2025--Spring, Texas--Top seed Annika Penickova and No. 9 seed Zaire Clarke returned to competition after long injury layoffs today in the second round of the ITF J300 Pan American Closed, and both came away with victories on the hard courts of the Giammalva Tennis Center in suburban Houston.Penickova, who has been out since Roland Garros with a tibia stress fracture, used her
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©Colette Lewis 2025--Spring, TexasAlthough those living in South Texas scoffed at the suggestion that it was more like summer than fall today for the opening round of the ITF J300 Pan American Closed, but temperatures in the low 90s with little breeze did challenge many of those engaged in long three-set battles at the Giammalva Racquet Club outside Houston. But New Yorker Paige Wygodzki was
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