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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

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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

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©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

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©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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©Colette Lewis 2026--Wimbledon--Experience on grass may be an advantage, but two Wimbledon debutants will play for the junior singles championships this weekend at the All England Lawn Tennis Club.Qualifier Jordan Lee, playing not only in his first Wimbledon this week, but in his first junior slam, breezed past unseeded Vincent Reisach of Germany 6-3, 6-2 today on show court 12 and will play

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©Colette Lewis 2026--Wimbledon--Sixteen-year-old Jordan Lee is making his junior slam debut a memorable one, while 15-year-old Janae Preston has fashioned a ten-match winning streak on grass, after the American pair posted straight-sets Wimbledon Junior Championships quarterfinal victories on another blistering day at the All England Lawn Tennis Club.Lee took to show court 18 first, after the

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©Colette Lewis 2026--Wimbledon--The hot and dry conditions continued for the third round of the Wimbledon Junior Championships Wednesday, with three of the six Americans in action advancing to Thursday's quarterfinals at the All England Lawn Tennis Club.Unseeded Janae Preston, who won the title last week at the J300 in Roehampton, said the cumulative effect of her nine singles matches on the

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©Colette Lewis 2026--Wimbledon--Jack Secord doesn't know their names, but the 17-year-old from Chicago appreciated the support two anonymous fans provided late in the third set of Secord's second round Wimbledon Junior Championships match with World Junior No. 1 Luis Guto Miguel. As the reliably impassioned Brazilian fans surrounded Court 6 at the All England Lawn Tennis Club erupted in "

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©Colette Lewis 2026--Wimbledon-- Melije Clarke's first competitive matches on grass were last week at the J300 in Roehampton, but few juniors have benefitted from the wisdom of coaches with pedigree that hers have. With the help of Wimbledon women's singles semifinalist Lori McNeil and women's singles finalist Zina Garrison, the 16-year-old from Houston put all their guidance on display Monday

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©Colette Lewis 2026--Wimbledon--Two American qualifiers sent the No. 5 seeds packing Sunday on a warm and sunny Sunday at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, with one needing less than an hour to complete the task and the other going winning a third set 10-point tiebreaker to reach the second round of the Wimbledon Junior Championships.Jordan Lee, the youngest player in the boys draw, was eager to

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©Colette Lewis 2026--Wimbledon--No. 3 seed Keaton Hance had failed to serve out the match at 5-3 in the third set against Simone Massellani of Italy, but his experience on the biggest stages, and his determination to continue when under the weather, proved the difference in his 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(7) victory."I have this thing called abdominal migraines, which has symptons of nausea and stomach ache,

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©Colette Lewis 2026--Roehampton, England--Janae Preston and Michael Antonius have a friendly rivalry going, after the two young Americans claimed the World Tennis J300 singes titles today at Roehampton, on a surface they approached with uncertainty.No. 15 seed Preston, who defeated unseeded Yu Jun Lin 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 in today's final, now leads Antonius four J300s to three this year, although

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Michael Antonius and Janae Preston, both of whom won multiple J300 titles early this year, are through to another J300 final in Roehampton.Antonius, the No. 6 seed, picked up a second win over Australian Open boys champion Ziga Sesko of Slovenia, with the 16-year-old from Buffalo New York posting a 6-3, 6-2 decision today in the semifinals. Antonius had beaten Sesko 6-2, 6-1 in the quarterfinals

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My monthly column for Tennis Recruiting Network on the top performances by juniors, collegians and former collegians is up today, with 19 players featured, which doesn't begin to cover all the titles claimed in June. Even with the normal exclusion now of 15K titles, there were a half dozen titles at the next level--M25 and W35--that I didn't have room for, and that's not likely to change the rest

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The boys quarterfinals at the J300 in Roehampton will feature a rematch of last month's Roland Garros final, with Michael Antonius hoping to avenge that loss on clay to Brazil's Luis Guto Miguel in Paris with a win on the grass courts of London. Antonius, the No. 6 seed, defeated wild card Vincent Fletcher of Great Britain 6-4, 6-0 to advance, while the top-seeded Miguel beat unseeded Jordan Lee

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Michael Zheng, who reached the Wimbledon boys final in 2022, had a triumphant return to the All England Lawn Tennis Club today, with the two-time NCAA singles champion outlasting the British No. 1 Cameron Norrie 6-7(7), 6-2, 6-7(2), 6-3, 7-6(4) in a four-hour battle on Court No. 2. Zheng, a recent Columbia graduate, who won three qualifying matches last week, had 74 winners, including

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The SoCal Pro Series continues to provide opportunities for milestones in the budding careers of Californians, with Alexis Nguyen winning her first Pro Circuit title today in Claremont and UCLA rising senior Spencer Johnson adding another singles title to his sweep last week in Irvine.The fifth-seeded Nguyen, an 18-year-old from Northern California who will join the Tar Heels of North Carolina

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The World Tennis J300 Wimbledon warmup tournament begins Sunday in Roehampton, with ten US boys and 11 US girls in the main draw. Marcel Latak and Sarah Ye qualified for the main draw with wins today.World Tennis junior No. 1 Xinran Sun of China withdrew several weeks ago, although the Roland Garros finalist is still entered at Wimbledon. Roland Garros girls champion Alisa Oktibreva, who did not

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With school out and  the Level I tournaments coming up soon, the USTA junior circuit is in full swing now, and I took the opportunity to cover the Boys 18s and 16s Midwest Closed Tuesday in Byron Center, less than an hour from my Kalamazoo home.It was the first time I've been to a USTA tournament below a Level 2 in several years, but I enjoyed getting to watch several of the top players in

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Americans had their most successful Wimbledon final round of qualifying this century today at Roehampton, with four women and three men advancing to the main draw with victories today.In 2021 six Americans reached the main draw via qualifying, but seven is the most since eight qualified in 1993, and it is the most at any major since eight qualified at the US Open in 2017.Two-time NCAA champion

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Keeping up with all the Americans in the final round of Wimbledon qualifying won't be easy, with six women and four men playing for main draw spots Thursday at Roehampton.Last year only three Americans reached the final round of qualifying, all women, with Iva Jovic and Taylor Townsend reaching the main draw. The third, Robin Montgomery, is back at that stage again this year, after making it

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The first round of Wimbledon women's qualifying concluded this evening in London with nine of the 15 Americans in action advancing to Wednesday's second round. Fiona Crawley, 2024 NCAAsAll five of the seeded Americans won, and former North Carolina All-American Fiona Crawley defeated a seed, beating No. 19 Himeno Sakatsume of Japan 7-5, 4-6, 7-6(8). Crawley was down 5-1 in the third set, and

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My coverage of the USTA's American Collegiate Player Wildcard Playoff last week at the National Campus in Lake Nona Florida is up today at the Tennis Recruiting Network. Although we were both undoubtedly up way past our bedtime when Reese Brantmeier spoke to me over the phone at 12:30 a.m. Friday, I appreciated her insight on her singles victory and how she's eager for her seventh appearance at

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Wimbledon qualifying begins Monday at Roehampton, with eight American men in action. Just two are seeded--No. 13 Mackenzie McDonald(UCLA) and No. 26 Michael Zheng(Columbia)--but only one of the six others plays a seed in the first round. Below are the matchups for the Americans; the women's qualifying draw has yet to be released, with only men playing Monday.Wimbledon first qualifying matches

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Mason Vaughan won his first ITF Junior Circuit singles titles today, with the No. 12 seed defeating 15-year-old Teodor Davidov, the No. 13 seed, 6-0, 6-4 in the ITF J200 final in Mason Ohio. The 16-year-old from Dallas did not drop a set in his five victories.In the all-Canadian girls final, 16-year-old Avery Alexander, the No. 4 seed, defeated 18-year-old Clemence Mercier, the No. 15 seed, 6-4,

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