©Colette Lewis 2025--Bradenton FL--Jordan Lee had a difficult 2025, with a wrist injury keeping him out of competition for more than eight months. Yet on the green clay courts of the IMG Academy, the 15-year-old wild card is back to winning again, with the 2024 16s champion advancing to the ITF J300 quarterfinals with a 6-2, 6-0 thumping of No. 4 seed Alan Wazny of Poland Thursday morning."After
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©Colette Lewis 2025--Bradenton FL--I decided to make the trip to the Legacy Hotel Courts on the West Campus of the IMG Academy, and although only 11 matches were played on the six courts, I was there for more than six hours, with three-setter after three-setter prolonging the second round of the ITF J300.Seven of those 11 matches (No. 4 seed Alan Wazny of Poland got a walkover due to Carel
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©Colette Lewis 2025--Bradenton FL-- Rain has been an infrequent visitor the first week of December at the IMG Academy International Championships and ITF J300 this decade, but a morning shower on Tuesday left the hard courts needing several hours to dry, sending the 12s divisions second round singles matches indoors and postponing the first round of doubles until Wednesday.Because the ITF J300 is
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©Colette Lewis 2025-Bradenton FL--The IMG Academy was buzzing all day Monday with over 500 players, as well as their coaches and families, on site for the first round of singles in the 12s, 14s and 16s divisions and the first day of main draw competition for the ITF J300. It didn't take long for a major upset to be recorded, with ITF No. 93 Alisa Terentyeva of Russia defeating top seed and
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©Colette Lewis 2025--Bradenton Florida--A beautiful day to end the holiday weekend was even more enjoyable for the 16 players who won two matches on the green clay to qualify for the ITF J300 Bradenton main draw, while eight players in the younger age divisions earned their spots in Monday's first round with victories on the hard courts of the IMG Academy. (A list of all 12s, 14s and 16s
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©Colette Lewis 2025--Bradenton FL--This year's qualifying for the ITF J300 at the IMG Academy in Bradenton Florida is back to being played on the ten green clay courts on the East Campus and the six green clay courts at the IMG Legacy Hotel on the West side of the sprawling sports complex. Last year, the 16s were moved to green clay due to hurricane damage to the hard courts they usually play on,
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The USTA National Indoor Championships began this morning at eight sites across the country, with two rounds of singles scheduled for the four-day tournament, which has 64-player draws.Below are the seeds for all eight divisions, along with a note if they lost a match today, although many have not yet completed their second match of the day. Click on the headers to see the draws.SEEDS:B12s
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Photo by Oxana Melis on Unsplash It's a quiet time in the tennis world, especially here in the United States, and I'll be taking tomorrow off for the Thanksgiving holiday. This lull is the perfect time to thank my sponsors at the Junior Tennis Champions Center, the Southern California Tennis Association Foundation and the John McEnroe Tennis Academy for
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This will be my last update on the Division I early signing period; my previous post, with the first batch of those signing National Letters of Intent, available here.Signings will continue in the coming weeks as programs scramble for recruits who will begin their college careers in January. Many of articles linked to below do distinguish between those starting in spring of 2026 and those who are
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Tuesday was a long day full of surprises at the Division I NCAA Championships at the USTA National Campus in Lake Nona, Florida.Top seed and ITA All-American champion Valerie Glozman of Stanford fought back from 6-3, 5-3 down against Baylor senior Na Dong, but Dong held firm for the 6-3, 6-7(1), 6-4 upset.Glozman, who hadn't played since winning the All-American title back in September, appeared
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While four Americans were winning USTA Pro Circuit Titles last week, six US juniors claimed singles titles on the ITF Junior Circuit, with Brooke Wallman earning her first singles title at the J100 in Zapopan Mexico.The 17-year-old from New York, seeded fifth, defeated No. 7 seed Jizelle Sibai of Australia 6-2, 6-4, winning all five of her matches in straight sets. Wallman, who has verbally
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Seven Americans reached four finals in this week's six USTA Pro Circuit tournaments, with three champions from the United States guaranteed with all-USA finals.The tournament title that wasn't certain to go to an American was at the M50 in Austin Texas, where Mary Stoiana, the former ITA National Player of Year while at Texas A&M, was facing No. 4 seed Mai Hontama of Japan in the final.
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The draws are out for the NCAA Division I individual tournament, which begins Tuesday November 18 and concludes Sunday November 23 at the USTA's National Campus in Orlando.With all the controversy over the men's singles seeds, the several possibly disastrous first round matches heightened the anticipation for this evening's release, but for the most part, the most damaging bullets were dodged,
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As I mentioned in my post Sunday, there was more to say on the USA's Junior Davis Cup and Junior Billie Jean King Cup titles, and I wrote this recap on the historic back-to-back titles for both genders at Tennis Recruiting Network. With both teams seeded No. 1, the pressure was on and they came through with flying colors on the South American red clay.Jack Kennedy, who was on the 2024 Junior
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Wednesday was the official National Signing Day for high school seniors as they commit in writing to the schools they have agreed to attend.I usually do several of these posts each November; I know that many of the signings have been announced on social media, but I wait until they appear on the school's website just so there is a bit more information available on the student-athlete. Not all
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The acceptances for the final two major ITF Junior Circuit events of the year were released today, with the J300 at IMG Academy in Bradenton Florida and the J500 Orange Bowl in Fort Lauderdale Florida featuring similar fields.Three Top 10 boys and two Top 10 girls have entered, with Andres Santamarta Roig of Spain, the defending champion in both events, leading the acceptance lists. Santamarta,
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With six USTA Pro Circuit tournaments this week, there's a lot to cover, and I'll start with the No. 1 seeds losing in the first round at the M15 in Orlando and the ATP Challenger 75 in Champaign Illinois.Seventeen-year-old Gavin Goode defeated No. 1 seed Toby Kodat 2-6, 7-6(4), 6-1 in the first round today at the USTA National Campus. The left-hander from Raleigh North Carolina, currently No. 40
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USTA National Campus Hosts NCAAs next weekThe seeds for next week's NCAA Division I individual championships were announced today, and although there are often a notable omission or two, this is at another level in the men's field.Defending champion Michael Zheng of Columbia, currently 185 in the ATP rankings, is not seeded. Nor is Trevor Svjada of SMU, ATP 387 and Edward Winter of
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photo of both USA teams, with Caption Georgi Rumenov,upper left and Sylvain Guichard lower rightphoto via ITFThe US girls won their fourth straight Junior Billie Jean Cup title and the US boys claimed their second consecutive Junior Davis Cup championship in dominating fashion today in Santiago Chile. Neither team dropped a point in their six victories, with the deciding doubles point in the
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