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©Colette Lewis 2026--Kalamazoo MI--Only one unseeded player has advanced to the fourth round of the USTA B18s and 16s National Championships, but the No. 33 seeds made their mark Sunday, with seven of them beating Top 32 seeds on the 31 courts of Stowe Stadium and Western Michigan University.The biggest upset of the day came after a 3:30 p.m. thunderstorm sent matches indoors. No. 33 seed Riley

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©Colette Lewis 2026--Kalamazoo MI--Jack Kennedy was a surprise finalist in the Kalamazoo 18s division  in 2024 and finished third last year, but he admits there's been a change in perception as he makes his final appearance in the USTA National Championships as the No. 1 seed."A lot of expectations going into this match, a lot more eyes on me this year, than in the previous years," said the

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©Colette Lewis 2026--Kalamazoo MI--My annual preview of the Kalamazoo Nationals is up today at Tennis Recruiting Network, with all the players mentioned beginning their singles tournaments on Saturday, with seeds receiving first round byes. The B18s field features four players who have won USTA Pro Circuit events this year, in addition to Jordan Lee's title last month at the Wimbledon Junior

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The semifinals are set for Friday at the annual World Tennis 14-and-under team championships in Prostejov Czechia, with the top-seeded US girls once again blanking their opponents to advance, beating No. 4 seed China. At No. 2 singles, Anna Kapanadze defeated Yanke Wang 6-2, 6-2, with Isha Manchala following at No. 1 singles with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 win over Jinyu Zhou. In a shortened doubles

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The US girls continued their fine form today at the World Tennis 14-and-under team event in Prostejov Czechia, finishing at the top of their group with a 3-0 win over No. 5 seed Korea.  The top-seeded Americans--Nadia Poznick, Isha Manchala and Anna Kapanadze--have yet to lose a match after also blanking Slovakia and Colombia.Korea did not make the quarterfinals, with Slovakia the other team

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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©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

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©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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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