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The annual ITA Cup, which serves as the fall individual championships for NCAA Division III, NAIA and Junior College schools, begins Thursday in Rome Georgia. The ITA has introduced separate NCAA Division II individual championships for the first time this year, which will be played in early November.As with the NCAA Division I National Championships, regionals are played throughout the country

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The USTA Pro Circuit is back up to post-US Open speed, with four events--two women's and two men--this week, including the W100 in Edmond Oklahoma.Although there are three WTA 125s this week in Europe, the W100 in Edmond is the biggest World Tennis tournament in the world, and the field reflects that, with two Top 100 players, Tatjana Maria of Germany and Renata Zarazua of Mexico the No. 1 and No

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The annual Les Petits As United States Playoffs are underway this week at the RPS Academies in Port St. Lucie Florida, with main draw entries into the prestigious 2027 14-and-under tournament in Tarbes France on the line.The boys competing in the USA playoffs, with seeds in brackets. Two players from each group will advance to the quarterfinals.Group AEvan Fan[1]Rishab Sakijumar[8]Keanu

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We're deep into the first wave of ITA Division I regionals, which serve as a qualifier for the NCAAs next month in Athens. Eight of the 13 men's regionals are winding down, with the remaining five coming up this weekend, while seven of the women's 13 regionals will finish in the next two days, with the remaining six starting later in the week.Most of the regionals have determined their singles

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Seventeen-year-old Annika Penickova came up just short today in her attempt to reach her third W35 final in the past three months, with the unseeded left-hander falling to No. 2 seed Francesca Pace of Italy 6-7(2), 6-4, 7-5 in Las Vegas. Pace will face Auburn senior Emma Kamper of Denmark, who has already won six matches after coming through qualifying. The 22-year-old Kamper, who spend her

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My recap of last week's World Tennis J300 Pan American Regional Championships is up today at the Tennis Recruiting Network. If you weren't able to follow my onsite coverage every day, you will have missed out on some details, but the TRN article provides an condensed overview of the singles titles for Armira Kockinis and Teodor Davidov and the doubles titles form Emery Combs and Olivia

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Janae Preston has been a main character here on Zootennis throughout most of 2026 due to her junior results, and she has continued to earn recognition this fall with her results on the USTA Pro Circuit. After reaching the final of the W50 in Berkeley last month as a qualifier, the 16-year-old from Henderson Nevada is through to the quarterfinals this week at W35 in Las Vegas, again after coming

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The annual World Tennis Tour Junior Finals are set to begin in two weeks in Chengdu China, and unlike the WTA and ATP Finals, where all who qualify are certain to play, there is always some doubt regarding which juniors will make the long trip, even when their qualification has been determined. The points awarded are the same as junior slams, with 1000 points to the winner, and there is

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It's a relatively quiet week on the USTA Pro Circuit, with no men's tournaments at all and two women's events: the W35 in Las Vegas and the W50 in Lexington South Carolina.Qualifying has concluded at both events, with two Americans advancing to the main draw, top qualifying seed Janae Preston, who beat No. 10 seed Jenna DeFalco 6-3, 6-1 and Texas A&M junior Lexington Reed, the No. 13 seed in

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World Tennis announced the player nominations for the Junior Davis Cup and Junior Billie Jean King Cups late last week, with the 16-and-under international team competition scheduled to take place in Egypt November 2nd through November 8th. The United States is the two-time defending champion in both events; the USA's Junior Billie Jean King Cup team has won the championship the past four

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As promised, the US Open Junior Championships gallery is up today at Tennis Recruiting Network, featuring all of the American juniors who competed in singles and the majority of those who played in the doubles portion of the tournament. With most of my attention focused on the WT J300 in Houston, I wasn't able to follow the five professional events in the US as closely as I would have liked,

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©Colette Lewis 2026--Spring Texas--After a week of heat and humidity, the finals of the World Tennis Pan American Closed Saturday morning were the last step for a first J300 title for all four finalists, but that achievement took a back seat to survival, according to both winners and losers.No. 5 seed Armira Kockinis's goal against No. 4 seed Emery Combs was to avoid a repeat of her quarterfinal

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©Colette Lewis 2026--Spring Texas--Before I get to the details on a long and dramatic Friday at the World Tennis J300 Pan American Closed, here's the link to my monthly column for Tennis Recruiting Network on September's notable achievements of junior, college and former college players, from the US Open to the World Tennis Junior Circuit events in Texas.Heavy rains overnight caused a slight

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©Colette Lewis 2026--Spring Texas--Carrie-Anne Hoo has had a long junior career, but the 17-year-old from New York had a new experience today in the quarterfinals of the World Tennis J300 Pan American Closed Championships today: a rain delay when she had reached match point.The second-seeded Hoo, a singles finalist at this tournament last year, had taken control of her match against No. 12 seed

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©Colette Lewis 2026--Spring Texas--The top seeds struggled in the third round of the World Tennis J300 Pan Am Closed Wednesday, with another steamy day at the Giammalva Racquet Club producing plenty of drama.Andy Johnson, the top seed and 2025 finalist, couldn't serve out the first set at 5-4 against unseeded William McEwan, and McEwan took advantage of that hiccup by Johnson to take the first

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©Colette Lewis 2026--Spring Texas--Wild card Achyuth Binu could feel the drops of rain that began when he was leading No. 3 seed Safir Azam 5-1 in the third set of their second round match at the J300 Pan American Closed.But the 17-year-old from Washington state, who won the match 7-5, 2-6, 6-1, was determined not to force the issue, continuing to stay in the long rallies until he found an

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©Colette Lewis 2026--Spring Texas--The Giammalva Racquet Club has plentiful shade and an air-conditioned clubhouse with Tennis Channel playing on mjltiple monitors, which was certainly a relief on Monday, when temperatures reached the low 90s for the first round of the World Tennis J300 Pan American Regional Closed.With 48-player draws, no seeds play until Tuesday, but there were plenty of

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Jordyn Hazelitt became the first American girl to capture the World Tennis J500 Osaka Mayor's Cup singles title, breaking a drought that extended back to the tournament's start in 1987. The 16-year-old from Nevada, seeded No. 2, defeated unseeded Miyu Nishiwaki of Japan 6-3, 6-2 in Sunday's final to add a J500 title to the J300 title she won in March in San Diego. In the girls doubles

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The finals are set for the ITA All-American Championships, with the No. 2 seeds in both the men's and women's draws facing surprising opponents for the title.No. 2 seed Luciana Perry of Ohio State, a semifinalist last year, will face wild card Mimi Xu of Duke for the title at 10 a.m. Sunday at the Cary Tennis Park. Perry, a senior, defeated No. 16 seed Rose Marie Nijkamp of Texas 2-6, 6-4, 6-3 to

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The US juniors boys have been posting impressive results all year on the USTA Pro Circuit and the World Tennis Junior Circuit, yet the three first round US Open men's qualifying wins by Michael Antonius, Jordan Lee and Andy Johnson really had the tennis world taking notice. I asked many of the American boys I interviewed at the US Open Juniors what those wins meant to them, with this article for

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The quarterfinals are set for Friday at the J500 in Osaka, with two American girls competing for a chance to play in each other in the semifinals.No. 10 seed Maggie Sohns defeated No. 7 seed Fleur De Bresser of the Netherlands 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 putting the 16-year-old in her first J500 quarterfinal. She will play No. 3 seed Renee Alame of Australia, who defeated No. 15 seed Sakino Miyazawa of Japan

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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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