American juniors dominated the ITF J200 in Tennessee last week, with my coverage of the doubles titles in Friday’s post and the singles titles earned by Kennedy Drenser-Hagmann and Tyler Lee in Sunday’s post.
Americans also swept the singles titles at the J100 in Costa Rica last week, with Ellery Mendell going back-to-back and Sebastian Godoy sweeping the titles.
No. 2 seed Mendell, a 16-year-old from Georgia, had won the J100 two weeks ago in Costa Rica without dropping a set. The future Ohio State Buckeye did have a tough semifinal this week, beating No. 3 seed Aoi Watanabe of Japan 6-7(5), 7-6(3), 6-2, but the 2026 Easter Bowl 18s champion had no trouble in the final, beating top seed Sera Park of Korea 6-1, 6-0. With her fourth ITF singles title of the year, she has moved into the ITF Junior Top 200 for the first time.
The seventh-seeded Godoy, also 16, defeated top seed Charles Minivielle 7-5, 7-5 in the semifinals and third-seeded South African Jayden Summers 2-6, 7-6(2), 6-0 in the final for the third ITF Junior Circuit singles title of his career.
Godoy and Mason Vaughan, the No. 2 seeds, defeated No. 3 seeds Anay Kulkarni and Nicolas Pedraza 6-2, 6-4 in the final. Audrey Dussault and Canadian Payton Dith won the girls doubles title, beating No. 3 seeds Azul Lopez Vazquez R of Mexico and Aurora Lugo of Puerto Rico 6-2, 2-6, 12-10 in the final.
There were three others singles titles last week for Americans, all at the J30 level.
In the US Virgin Islands, No. 6 seed Noah Vinbaytel won his first ITF Junior Circuit title, with the 16-year-old from Florida defeating Karl Ekstrand 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the final. No. 3 seed Sofia Dvortsova won her second career singles title, with the 14-year-old from Florida defeating No. 2 seed Quinn Sommer, also 14, 6-3, 6-4 in the final.
Leyla Kilgour and the Netherlands Danica Struiken won the girls doubles title, beating the unseeded Canadian team of Maya Lazar and Mina Woodruff 6-4, 7-5 in the final. No. 3 seeds Mateo Garcia Castro and Israel’s Kai Lev won the boys doubles title, beating No. 4 seeds Amaury Blondet of Puerto Rico and David Llovera De Lasse of Mexico 6-0, 6-4.
In Cote D’Ivoire, 17-year-old Poudima Gnarou won her second ITF Junior singles title, both this year, with the top seed defeating No. 2 seed Alexie Duclair of Canada 7-6(6), 2-6, 7-6(7) in the final.
At the J200 in Austria, top seeds Olivia Traynor and Brooke Wallman won the girls doubles title, beating No. 2 seed Sofia Barhacova of Slovakia and Kristyna Dulikova of Czechia 6-4, 6-3 in the final. Top seed Traynor and Kori Montoya, the No. 5 seed, advanced to the quarterfinals in singles.
At the J100 in Canada, Ariana Morris partnered with Yelyzaveta Dovhopol of Ukraine for the girls doubles title. The No. 3 seeds defeated top seeds Elisabeth Djabourian and Elicia Lin of Canada 3-6, 6-4, 12-10 in the final.
Americans swept the doubles titles at the J60 in Nicaragua, with unseeded Dylan and Luke Jones defeating unseeded Xavier Alonso Rozada of Mexico and Jaden Chui of Hong Kong 6-3, 6-2 in the final.
No. 4 seeds Vibha Gogineni and Myna Medicetty won the girls doubles title, defeating top seeds Romina Dominguez Garcia of Mexico and Amina Nurmakhan of Kazakhstan 6-3, 6-3 in the final.
This week’s ITF J300 in Santa Croce Italy began today with two big upsets. Girls top seed Sol Ailin Larraya Guidi of Argentina lost to Maria Valentina Pop of Romania, who won last week’s J200 in Italy, 6-2, 6-0. Boys top seed Kuan-Shou Chen of Taiwan fell to wild card Mattia Logrippo of Italy 7-5, 4-6, 7-5.
Just one American is in the boys draw, Jack Secord, with Yannik Alvarez of Puerto Rico the No. 2 seed.
Four US girls were in the main draw: qualifier Hannah Ayrault, who won the J200 two weeks ago in Sumter SC; Ireland O’Brien, Nancy Lee and Carrie-Ann Hoo. O’Brien and Lee lost their opening round matches today, Hoo won her first round match and Ayrault plays hers Tuesday.
The number of top ITF juniors choosing to attend college in the United States has increased dramatically over the past several years and today another one will be taking that path this fall, with Yannick Alexandrescou of France signing with Duke for this fall. The 18-year-old, who began representing France late last year after previously competing for Romanis, is currently No. 3 in the ITF junior rankings with a career-high of No. 2.
Roland Garros announced its wild cards today, with three 17-year-olds receiving main draw wild cards: ITF World Junior No. 1 Ksenia Efremova of France, the 2026 Australian Open girls champion; Emerson Jones, who received Australia’s reciprocal wild card, and Moise Kouame of France, who is up to 313 in the ATP ranking after three ITF men’s titles this year and success on the ATP Challenger Tour. The only other teenaged wild card is 19-year-old Floridian Akasha Urhobo, who won the reciprocal wild card in the USTA’s annual competition recently.
Women’s main draw wild cards:
Clara Burel, France
Ksenia Efremova, France
Fiona Ferro, France
Leolia Jeanjean, France
Emerson Jones, Australia
Sarah Rakotomanga, France
Alice Tubello, France
Akasha Urhobo, United States
Women’s qualifying wild cards:
Eleejah Inisan, France
Selena Janicijevic, France
Tahlia Kokkinis, Australia
Manon Leonard, France
Kristina Mladenovic, France
Amandine Monnot, France
Daphnée Mpetshi Perricard, France
Chloé Paquet, France
Margaux Rouvroy, France
Men’s main draw wild cards:
Nishesh Basavareddy, United States
Titouan Droguet, France
Hugo Gaston, France
Arthur Gea, France
Moise Kouame, France
Gael Monfils, France
Adam Wilton, Australia
Stan Wawrinka, Switzerland
Men’s qualifying wild cards:
Florent Bax, France
Robin Bertrand, France
Sean Cuenin, France
Thomas Faurel, France
Antoine Ghibaudo, Kentucky
David Goffin, Belgium
Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg, France
Calvin Hemery, France
Daniel Jade, France.