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Rodriguez Qualifies for W100 in Macon; Ilagan Beats No. 2 Seed Cassone at Lincoln Challenger; Bakersfield W35 Disrupted by Rain; Mandlik Leads After Week One of USTA Australian Open Women's Wild Card Challenge

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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Ngounoue Wins Back-to-Back ITF J100s, Stratton, Jalbert, Malacek Claim ITF Junior Circuit Singles Titles; First Wave of Regionals Produces Additional NCAA D-I Qualifiers

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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Friend Wins All-Qualifier Challenger Final in Fairfield; Mandlik Claims Biggest Title of Career at W100 in Edmond; Vacherot's Improbable Shanghai Title; Gauff Wins Wuhan 1000

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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Little Mo Mixed Doubles Champions Antonius and Clarke Claim ITF J300 Pan American Closed Titles Six Years Later

©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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Johnson and Antonius Reach ITF J300 PanAm Closed Final; Clarke and Hoo Meet for Girls Title; Doubles Champions Crowned; Kennedy Advances to M15 Lexington Semifinals

©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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Top Four Boys Seeds Advance to ITF J300 Pan Am Semifinals; Sohns and Hoo Oust Second and Third Seeds to Reach Girls Final Four; Kennedy Moves into Quarterfinals of M15 in Lexington

©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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Qualifier Suh, Unseeded Stoot Join Top Seeds in ITF J300 Pan American Closed Quarterfinals; Pareja Defeats No. 2 Seed at W100 in Oklahoma

©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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Penickova and Clarke Return with Victories; Latak Ousts One of Eight Boys Seeds to Fall in Second Round of ITF J300 Pan American Closed

©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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August's San Diego Final Opens Door to North Carolina for Wygodzki; Top Seeds Penickova and Goode Begin Play Tuesday at ITF J300 Pan American Closed

©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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