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The women's USTA Pro Circuit is back this week after a six-week hiatus with a W50 in Berkeley California, and just four days in, it's already been an eventful tournament.2022 NCAA singles finalist Connie Ma, who graduated from Stanford in 2025, never expressed any interest in pro tennis as a career, with medical school her next step after completing her eligibility. Ma played very little tennis,

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The ITA All-American Championships have spent the past four days deciding the 16 qualifiers who will join the 48 other Division I collegians competing for the prestigious fall title and for spots in November's NCAA championships.At the women's tournament in Cary North Carolina, Florida, Georgia and North Carolina each placed three players in the main draw, three of whom--Bella Payne and Patricija

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After the Tiburon 125 last week, ATP Challenger competition in the United States moves south for the 75 tournament at the Barnes Tennis Center in San Diego.Qualifying wrapped up today, with one current and two recent collegians from the United States moving into the main draw. Tiburon quarterfinalist Sebastian Gorzny(TCU, Texas) defeated top qualifying seed Aidan Mayo 6-3, 6-4 to reach the main

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The World Tennis Osaka Mayors Cup J500 begins Monday, with ten Americans making the trip to Japan for the only one of the seven J500s played on hard courts.The three US boys competing are Navneet Raghuram[11], Izyan Ahmad[15] and Tyler Lee.The seven US girls in the 48-player draw are Jordyn Hazelitt[2], Lani Chang[4], Maggie Sohns[10], Carrie-Anne Hoo[12], Isabelle DeLuccia[14], Scarlett Fagan

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Darwin Blanch was on a six-match losing streak prior to this week's ATP Challenger 125 in Tiburon California, but the 2025 Kalamazoo 18 champion has now won four straight matches, including this evening's 7-6(5), 7-6(9) win over top seed and defending champion Michael Zheng(Columbia).The unseeded Blanch, who saved five match points in his 6-3, 2-6, 7-6(10) first round win over Stefan Kozlov,

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My recap of last week's US Open Junior Championships is up today at Tennis Recruiting Network, and even six days later, I'm still marveling at the boys final, which I rewatched this week. Although there were peaks and valleys for both Guto Miguel and Marcel Latak in each set, it's difficult to imagine a more riveting final five games, with the deciding tiebreaker featuring even more drama. A

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After holding a match point against World Tennis Junior No. 1 Guto Miguel in the first round of the US Open Junior Championships last week, and reaching the doubles quarterfinals before falling to the eventual champions in a match tiebreaker, Daniel Malacek was undoubtedly full of confidence when he arrived in Montreal for this week's J200.The 16-year-old left-hander, seeded No. 4, avenged his

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The first major tournament of the ITA Division I fall season is coming up, with the long-running All-American Championships set to begin with pre-qualifying this weekend. The locations remain the same as in years past, with the the women in Cary North Carolina and the men in Tulsa Oklahoma.Preseason No. 1 Lucciana Perez of Texas A&M did not enter, suggesting she will again skip the

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As always seems to be the case, the World Tennis J500 junior event in Osaka Japan, the only WT J500 on hard courts, is coming up next week, and I haven't been paying attention, what with the College Park J300, the Repentigny J300 and the US Open Junior Championships.The acceptance lists, posted earlier this month, feature three US boys and seven US girls, including three girls who are also on the

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The World Tennis J300 Pan American Closed in Spring Texas is a week early this year, but there is a two-week span between the US Open and it. While that's a quick turnaround for American juniors, it's downright luxurious compared to the European Championships, a closed J300 in Austria, which began today.The fields for the European Championships, which used to be among the prestigious event on the

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Ben Shelton was unable to end the major drought for American men in the US Open singles final this afternoon on Arthur Ashe, with the 2022 NCAA champion falling to Roland Garros champion Alexander Zverev of Germany 6-3, 7-6(2), 5-7, 6-2. So the streak of no American man winning a slam singles title, last done by Andy Roddick at the 2003 US Open, continues.But one such streak is over. Marcel

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©Colette Lewis and Michael Lewis 2026--Flushing Meadows, NY--Although the women's final between the world's No. 1 and No. 2 players was on the horizon, most of the buzz on the grounds of the USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center an hour before that championship match was about the boys final.For nearly three hours, unseeded American Marcel Latak and top seed Guto Miguel of Brazil battled to a draw,

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©Colette Lewis and Michael Lewis 2026--Flushing Meadows NY--Marcel Latak's surprise at reaching the boys final at the US Open Junior Championships is exceeded only by his surprise at how he's done it. After defeating No. 2 seed Jamie Mackenzie of Germany 6-3, 7-6(2) Saturday afternoon, Latak was still struggling to comprehend that he hasn't dropped a set this week at the USTA Billie Jean King

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©Colette Lewis and Michael Lewis 2026--Flushing Meadows NY--Marcel Latak and Melije Clarke, two unseeded 17-year-olds from the United States, are relatively inexperienced at the highest level of the World Tennis junior circuit compared to the other competitors this week at the US Open Junior Championships. But that hasn't kept them from reaching their first junior slam semifinals with impressive

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©Colette Lewis and Michael Lewis 2026--Flushing Meadows NY--Marcel Latak had no trouble exceeding his own expectations at this U.S. Open.That’s because he had none.The 17-year-old Chicago native who has verbally committed to Stanford for 2027, is thrilled to be in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open boys singles draw, but he didn’t expect to be here.“It’s surreal. I can’t even find the right words

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©Colette Lewis and Michael Lewis 2026--Flushing Meadows NY--Two Jacks who know each other well will play for the second time in a month tomorrow on Louis Armstrong Stadium, where they both picked up straight-sets win in the second round of the US Open Junior Championships on yet another sunny day at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.Kalamazoo 18s champion and No. 5 seed Jack Kennedy

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©Colette Lewis and Michael Lewis 2026--Flushing Meadows NY--The second day of the US Open Junior Championships were full of surprises, with Americans on both sides of the ledger: those who pulled off the unexpected, and those who were upset victims.Unseeded Marcel Latak has had an eventful ten days: winning his first J300 title in Canada on Friday, hitting with Tommy Paul on Arthur Ashe Stadium

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©Colette Lewis and Michael Lewis 2026--Flushing Meadows NY--Top seed Guto Miguel may not have expected to need over two hours and the support of the always raucous Brazil fans in his first round match today at the US Open Junior Championships, but the 17-year-old Brazilian came to the realization early that qualifier Daniel Malacek wasn't intimidated by facing the Roland Garros champion in his

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You may have noticed that Michael Lewis(no relation) has been contributing interviews to Zootennis during the US Open and, I'm happy to say he will continue to provide articles here throughout the Junior Championships. Michael has been writing about the juniors for the US Open for the World Tennis(ITF) website for several years, but they are not posting daily articles this year, so we hope to

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My monthly look back at the highlights of juniors, collegians and former collegians for August is out today at Tennis Recruiting Network, with 18 players featured, from a Masters 1000 champion to first-time J300 winners. I always learn a lot when researching this article, and I hope it shines a spotlight on those who may not be as famous as Ben Shelton, but still deserve applause for their

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The first day of the US Open Junior Championships qualifying ended this evening with nine Americans advancing to the final round. Three boys and six girls won their matches today, and at least two US girls will qualify with two all-USA matches Friday.After play had begun, the USTA sent a press release announcing that two of the courts at the Cary Leeds Tennis Center in the Bronx would have live

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My recap of the World Tennis J300 tournament in College Park for Tennis Recruiting Network is available today, which condenses my week-long coverage into one article about the major warmup event for the US Open Junior Championships.Videos of the singles finals are below; a full replay of both singles finals, with additional coverage of the doubles finals, can be found at the Cracked Racquets

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After Thea Frodin won the USTA National 18s title last month in San Diego she was asked if she would rather face a qualifier on an outside court or a seed on Ashe at the US Open and she replied: "I'm going with seeded player on Arthur Ashe. I want it all. Bring it on!"When she was drawn to play WTA No. 2 and reigning Australian Open champion Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan, ten years her senior

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It's been 14 years since one of the USTA's NCAA collegiate wild cards won a match at the US Open, but that drought ended today in dramatic fashion, with Sebastian Gorzny saving five match points to defeat Raphael Collignon of Belgium 3-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6(9) to advance to the second round. The match took four hours and was played over two days, with Gorzny, who won the USTA's Collegiate US

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The US Open kicked off today with 14 Americans in action, but rain this evening kept the schedule from being completed.Kalamazoo 18s champion Jack Kennedy lost to qualifier Lloyd Harris of South Africa, and Michael Lewis was on the scene to file the article below for Zootennis. Special to Zootennis.comby Michael J. LewisNEW YORK – Jack Kennedy had played pro matches at the U.S. Open twice before

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