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San Diego Seeds; US Teams Win Again at 14-Under World Junior Tennis Event; Johnson Ousts Top Seed at Lexington Challenger; Six Americans Qualify for W100 Landisville; Kristina Penickova Beats No. 2 seed at W35 in Southaven MS
The seeds were announced today for the USTA 18s and 16s Girls National Championships in San Diego, with wild card Julieta Pareja the top seed in the 18s. Pareja, the No. 2 seed last year in San Diego, lost in the semifinals to Maya Iyengar.Girls 18s Top 32 seeds:1. Julieta Pareja2. Bella Payne3. Thea Frodin4. Janae Preston5. Kristina Penickova6. Welles Newman7. Carlota Moreno8. Jordyn Hazelitt9.
Kalamazoo Draws; Top-Seeded US Girls, Sixth-Seeded US Boys Start WJT 14U Team Event with Wins; Cairo Selected as Site for 2026 Junior Davis, BJK Cups; Berezin, Davletshina Claim WT J60 Titles; Fritz Wins ATP 500 in DC
The singles draws for the 2026 USTA Boys 18s and 16s National Championships in Kalamazoo were published this morning, with top seed Jack Kennedy, a finalist in 2024 and the bronze ball winner last year, handed a tricky eighth, with his round of 16 projected to be the winner of the fourth round match No. 17 seed Jerrid Gaines Jr and No. 11 seed Tanishk Konduri. Kennedy beat Konduri 6-4, 6-3 in the
Kalamazoo Seeds; Sixteen-year-old Qualifier Liutova Wins WTA Memphis 250; Penickova and Gogineni Claim Pro Circuit Titles; Wolf Wins ATP Challenger 125 in Canada; Eligibility Ruling Produces NCAA Chaos
The seeds have been posted for the USTA 18s and 16s National Championships, which begin this Friday, August 7, at Western Michigan University and Stowe Stadium at Kalamazoo College. As is always the case for Kalamazoo, with the different competitive environments of the top players in the field,ATP and World Tennis Junior rankings are considered, as are collegiate records, USTA rankings and World
Liutova Faces Vidmanova for Memphis WTA 250 Title; Penikcova Goes for Sweep vs Charney in Florence; 2025 USTA National 18s Doubles Champions Win Pro Circuit Titles; Baris and Gogineni Advance to Edwardsville M25 Final; Akli Reaches W75 Lexington Final
Kristina Liutova will play for the WTA 250 Memphis Open title Sunday in her first appearance in a WTA main draw, facing 2024 NCAA singles champion Dasha Vidmanova of Czechia, who also has reached her first WTA final this week.Liutova did not need a comeback in her 7-5, 6-1 semifinal win over Elvina Kalieva today, with the 16-year-old qualifier taking control of the match with a break at 5-all in
July Aces; Liutova Advances to Memphis WTA 250 Semifinal; Penickova Reaches Semis at W35 Florence; Akli and Crawley Face Off in Lexington W75 Saturday; Gogineni Makes Final Four at Edwardsville M25, Receives Cincy Qualifying Wild Card
My monthly column featuring the top performances of July is up today at Tennis Recruiting Network, with 19 juniors, collegians and former collegians winning titles last month. Collegians and juniors are so prevalent and so successful on the World Tennis Tour men's and women's circuits now that I couldn't highlight all those who won W35s, M25s, M15s or W15s. I had to quit featuring the latter two
Liutova Advances to WTA Memphis 250 Quarterfinals; Talking Top Collegiate Newcomers on No-Ad No-Problem Podcast; Crossley Beats Top Seed, Nguyen and Penickova Reach Florence W35 Quarterfinals; Baris Overcomes 5-0 Third Set Deficit to Extend M25 Winning Streak
Sixteen-year-old qualifier Kristina Liutova, who won two USTA Pro Circuit W100s in May and June, has continued to reach new heights this week at the WTA 250 in Memphis Tennessee. After outlasting top seed Ekaterina Alexandrova, who retired with a heat-related illness on Tuesday after three hours and trailing 4-5 in the third set of the first round, Liutova won another three-setter in less
US Open Junior Boys Acceptance List Features All Three 2026 Slam Champions Plus Every Top 30 Boy; WT Junior No. 1, Australian Open and Wimbledon Champions Highlight Girls Field
The acceptances lists for the US Open Junior Championships, which run from September 6th to September 12th this year, were published today, with a boys field that includes the entire top 33 in the World Tennis junior rankings. The only boy in the Top 50 who did not enter is No. 34 Thijs Boogaard of the Netherlands. With eight wild cards, eight qualifiers and two special exempt spots, the cutoff
Wild Cards for USTA 16s and 18s Nationals Include Pareja; Liutova and Hewitt Claim First WTA/ATP Wins; Zheng and Dolehide Top USTA US Open Wild Card Race; Qualifying Complete at USTA Pro Circuit W75 Lexington and W35 Florence
Seventeen-year-old Julieta Pareja lost her first round match at the WTA 500 Mubadala DC Open today after advancing to main draw via qualifying, falling to WTA No. 42 Xinyu Wang of China 7-6(3), 6-3. Pareja couldn't convert three set points with Wang serving at 5-6 in the first set, and Wang's advantage on serve, which included eight aces that helped her save nine of the 12 break points she faced,
Waelti and Anikina Win European 14s Titles; Meineke Sweeps J30 Titles for Second Straight Week; Minvielle Claims Both TItles at J100 in Colombia; New Memphis WTA 250 Underway
The European 14s championships concluded Sunday in Most Czechia, with Jonas Waelti of Switzerland and Elizaveta Anikina of Estonia claiming the titles. No. 7 seed Waelti, who won the boys Wimbledon 14-and-under title two weeks ago, had no trouble in his return to clay, beating top seed Richard Mitchell, also of Switzerland, 6-2, 6-1 in the final. Elizaveta Anikina 2026 Les Petits Asphoto
Michelsen, Dolehide, Rapolu and Bynoe Claim USTA Pro Circuit Titles; Pareja, Svajda, Martin and Cruz Qualify for Mubadala DC Open 500s
Americans swept all four USTA Pro Circuit singles titles today, with only Bloomfield Hills ATP Challenger 125 champion Alex Michelsen doing so as the top seed.Michelsen overcame a 4-0 first set deficit to end the nine-match winning streak of No. 8 seed Jacob Fearnley(TCU) of Great Britain with a 7-6(4), 6-3 victory in this afternoon's final. Michelsen, who wasn't broken in his three-set semifinal
Fearnley and Michelsen Reach Bloomfield Hills Challenger 125 Final; Pareja Earns Washington WTA 500 Qualifying Win; Dolehide, Bynoe, Inoue and Rapolu In Pro Circuit Finals; Two Pairs of Teenaged Sisters Claim Doubles Titles
Top seed Alex Michelsen will have an opportunity to avenge his recent Wimbledon first round loss and end Jake Fearnley's Challenger winning streak Sunday in the final of the Cranbrook Tennis Classic.Great Britain's Fearnley, who received a wild card after his ranking had fallen outside the Top 100, came from two sets down to beat Michelsen 3-6, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 last month. Both played the
My Recap of Manchala's Title at Wimbledon 14U Tournament; Eight Questions with Bloomfield Hills Challenger Semifinalist Michael Zheng; Pareja Receives Qualifying Wild Card for WTA 500 in Washington DC
The European 14s championships are underway in Most Czechia this week, and after covering the Wimbledon 14-and-under event two weeks ago, I recognize quite a few of the names. Three of the four boys semifinalists competed at Wimbledon and are making a quick surface change back to clay, including champion Jonas Waelti of Switzerland.The Wimbledon 14-and-under girls finalist Mariia Kocherzhenko of
Wimbledon Boys Champion Lee, Finalist Hewitt Receive Qualifying Wild Cards for ATP 500 in Washington DC; Baris and Chang Lead US Open Wild Card Race after Week 1; Quarterfinals Friday at Bloomfield Hills Challenger, W100 Evansville, W35 Santa Fe and M25 Champaign
The Mubadala DC Open, a joint WTA/ATP 500, announced yesterday that both boys who appeared in the Wimbledon boys final ten days ago have received wild cards into the ATP 500 Washington DC qualifying draws. Champion Jordan Lee, who has never competed above the M15 level and has an ATP ranking of 1769, will be making his ATP-level debut; finalist Cruz Hewitt of Australia has played Australian
My Wimbledon Junior Championships Recap; Kalamazoo and San Diego Acceptances; US Teams Announced for August's World Junior Tennis 14U Team Competition
My article on the Wimbledon Junior Championships is up today at Tennis Recruiting Network, so if you weren't able to follow along with my daily reports from the All England Lawn Tennis Club, this is your opportunity to get an overview of the nine-day event in abbreviated form. I also wrote a notebook-emptying post last Friday about the junior grass tournaments, with my observations on items big
ELC Goes Down, 2025 Finalist Martin Saves Match Point at Bloomfield Hills ATP Challenger 125; Twenty-eight Americans Receive Direct Entry into US Open
©Colette Lewis 2026--Bloomfield Hills MI--My already brief visit to the ATP Challenger 125 Cranbrook Tennis Classic was truncated even further today by several delays, with the first due to a malfunction in the Electronic Line Calling system, and then rain delays as afternoon showers popped up.This is the first year Challengers have regularly used ELC, with the Bolt6 system approved for the top
Zheng Returns to Bloomfield Hills Challenger After Making Third Round at Wimbledon; Meineke Sweeps Titles at World Tennis J30; Tiley Begins Tenure as USTA CEO
©Colette Lewis 2026--Bloomfield Hills MI--I was fortunate that Michael Zheng, the two-time NCAA champion while a student at Columbia, was on Monday's schedule at the ATP Challenger 125 Cranbrook Tennis Classic, because I'm only here for a brief visit and often miss the marquee matches. I watched the final round of qualifying and the three first round singles matches(more on that later), one of
Antonius Claims Second USTA Pro Circuit Title at M15 in Rochester; Baris Wins Louisville M25; Chang Holds Off Shcherbinina to Earn Dallas W35 Title; Bloomfield Hills ATP Challenger 125 Begins Monday
Just eight days after competing for the Wimbledon boys doubles title in London, 16-year-old Michael Antonius won his second USTA Pro Circuit singles title at the M15 on clay in Rochester New York.Antonius had to win two matches today, with yesterday's semifinals postponed due to rain midway through the opening set.The second-seeded Antonius, who lives in Buffalo New York when not traveling or
Drenser-Hagmann Sweeps J200 Titles in Bogota; Baris and Rottgering Meet in Louisville M25 Final; Shcherbinina Reaches Fifth Final in Six Weeks; M15 Rochester Semis Postponed to Sunday
At this week's World Tennis J200 in Bogota Colombia, 17-year-old Kennedy Drenser-Hagmann swept the titles, claiming the doubles championship with Olivia De Los Reyes yesterday, then defeating De Los Reyes in today's singles final. In the All-USA doubles final, the No. 2 seeds defeated top seeds Scarlett Fagan and Ireland O'Brien 7-5, 6-4; in the singles final, No. 3 seed Drenser-Hagmann
My Thoughts on the 2026 Wimbledon Junior Championships
Last year's post-Wimbledon article of opinions and observations helped me put a bow on the gift of covering my 12th Junior Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis Club(I covered 2021 remotely) and also drew a surprisingly large number of readers. In year 13, I also had a variety of items that didn't make it into the daily posts, so at the risk of repeating myself (the schedule, the schedule,
UCLA's Johnson Reaches Lincoln Challenger Quarterfinals; Qualifiers Advance to Quarterfinals in Dallas and Louisville; Bennett Joins Auburn's Coaching Staff, Kane to Lead Cal Women; Three US Girls Make J200 Bogota Semifinals
The 2026 version of my Wimbledon Thoughts and Observations will be out tomorrow as a stand-alone post, so tonight I'll focus on the USTA Pro Circuit, college news and notable US junior results (don't forget to check Tennis Recruiting Network each day for their National Clay Courts recaps).Last night at the ATP Challenger 75 in Lincoln Nebraska, UCLA rising senior Spencer Johnson advanced to his
Forbes Defeats Gorzny at Lincoln Challenger; Retirements Abound at Louisville M25; Antonius Advances, First ATP Points for Syed and Columbo at M15 in Rochester; Qualifier Reed Ousts No. 3 Seed at Dallas W35
It didn't take long for Matt Forbes to avenge his loss last month to Sebastian Gorzny(TCU, Texas) in the USTA's US Open Collegiate Playoff, with the soon-to-be Ohio State junior defeating playoff champion Gorzny 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 in the first round of the ATP Challenger 75 in Lincoln Nebraska. 2024 Kalamazoo 18s champion Forbes, who announced his transfer from Michigan State to Ohio State in May,
Kockinis Claims Back-to-Back World Tennis Junior Titles in Mexico, Reaches Top 100; Shick Wins First Challenger Title, Nakashima Earns First Singles Title on Pro Circuit
While I was covering the World Tennis J300 in Roehampton and Wimbledon Juniors, which produced three American champions, five other Americans won singles titles in the first two weeks of July, with 16-year-old Armira Kockinis of Southern California earning two of them, and with those results rising to the Top 100 in the World Tennis junior rankings.Unseeded at the J200 in Monterrey Mexico two
USTA National Clay Court Championships Final Results; Svajda, Pareja and Johnson Claim USTA Pro Circuit Titles
It's been a long travel day after 10 fantastic days of tennis on the grass courts of London, so I'll keep this post short with the weekend's USTA Clay Courts finals results, and a brief review of the USTA Pro Circuit winners. I'll try to catch up on the World Tennis junior results and other significant results from the holiday weekend earlier in the month in posts this week.USTA Clay Court
Qualifier Lee's Wimbledon Debut Ends with Comeback Win Over Hewitt; Manchala Claims Girls 14U Title on Championship Sunday at Wimbledon
©Colette Lewis 2026--Wimbledon--For the first six games of the Wimbledon boys final, 16-year-old Jordan Lee looked as if the seven-victory journey to the championship match had taken its toll, falling behind 5-1 in the opening set against Australian Cruz Hewitt, before rebounding to claim the title in a tense two-hour battle 4-6, 6-4, 7-5.As the crowd, eventually in excess of 9000, continued to
Thinking Less and Winning More, Pushkareva Claims Wimbledon Girls Championship; Kovackova Makes Junior Tennis History with Doubles Title; Sesko and Miguel Earn Boys Crown; Manchala Reaches 14U Final; Patten Claims Second Men's Doubles Title
©Colette Lewis 2026--Wimbledon--Anna Pushkareva has learned that thinking on court doesn't help her play her best tennis, so on one of the biggest stages of the sport Saturday afternoon, the 17-year-old from Moscow cleared her mind and raised her level to defeat top seed and World Tennis No. 1 Xinran Sun 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 to capture the Wimbledon girls title."My biggest secret is actually that I just
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