This week’s USTA Pro Circuit is evenly balanced between the men and women, with a W35 in Decatur Illinois, and M25 in Wichita Kansas and Week Three of the SoCal Pro Series with men’s and women’s $15Ks at the Jack Kramer Club in Rolling Hills Estates.
Seven of the eight qualifiers in Decatur are Americans: 17-year-old Columbia recruit Sena Yoon, Jaedan Brown(Michigan), Piper Charney(Michigan), Sophie Williams(Florida, James Madison), Sophie Llewellyn(SMU), Sophia Holod(Notre Dame) and Texas A&M’s Violeta Martinez, one of the heroes of the Aggies NCAA team title last month in Athens.
Wild cards were given to 17-year-old Carlota Moreno, 16-year-old Londyn McCord, Ashton Bowers(Texas, Auburn) and St. Louis University rising junior Aryn Walker.
Madison Brengle and Anna Rogers(NC State) are the top two seeds.
In Wichita, three current collegians from the United States qualified for the main draw, after navigating a rare 64-player qualifying draw: Matisse Farzam(Clemson), Will Manning(NC State( and Jonah Braswell(Florida, Texas).
Wild cards were awarded to Sebastian Gorzny(TCU, Texas); Ozan Baris(Michigan State), who beat No. 7 seed Justin Boulais(Ohio State) of Canada 6-3, 6-2 today; Cooper Woestendick(TCU) and 18-year-old Hunter Nelson.
Philip Sekulic of Australia is the No. 1 seed, with Daniel Milavsky(Harvard) the No. 2 seed.
In the M15 in Los Angeles, three of the men’s qualifiers are from the United States: Karl Lee(UCLA, USC), Nathan Cox(Vanderbilt) and Avery Tallakson(New Mexico, Boise State).
Wild cards were given to Andy Johnson, who is the No. 5 seed; Lucca Liu(UC-Santa Barbara), William Kleege(San Diego State) and Spencer Johnson(UCLA), with 2024 Kalamazoo 16s champion Gus Grumet getting in as a lucky loser.
Tanishk Konduri and Marcel Latak, the 2025 Kalamazoo 16s champion, received ITF Junior Reserved entries.
Week One Lakewood champion Kaylan Bigun(UCLA) is the top seed, with Strong Kirchheimer(Northwestern) the No. 2 seed. Last week’s Lakewood champion Oliver Bonding(TCU) of Great Britain plays Arizona rising senior Alexander Rozin of Canada in first round action Wednesday.
Last week’s women’s champion Mayu Crossley(UCLA) is not playing this week in the W15 in Los Angeles, but Lakewood finalist Kristina Penickova is in the draw, scheduled to face top seed Sofia Shapatava of Georgia Wednesday.
Qualifying into the main draw were Kaitlyn Carnicella(Auburn, South Carolina); 17-year-old Maria Aytoyan; 16-year-old Yilin Chen; 17-year-old Natalie Kha and Simone Kay(USC). Avery Nguyen received entry into the main draw as a lucky loser.
Wild cards were given to 15-year-old Abigail Haile, who won her first round match today; 18-year-old Kaia Giribalan, who lost her opening match; 16-year-old Sophie Suh and 17-year-old Tia Messerli.
Monika Ekstrand, who just completed her freshman year at Stanford, is the No. 2 seed.
The ITA released the Division I Regional Awards today, with the men’s list here and the women’s list here.
Notable that Dylan Dietrich of Virginia is not among the regional winners, although the Cavaliers took seven of the eight Atlantic Region awards. But he will be named National Player of the Year after finishing No. 1 in the final rankings.
Lucciana Perez of Texas A&M, who will be named National Player of the Year with her No. 1 year-end ranking, did received two awards in the Texas Region.
The ITA National Awards will be announced next Tuesday.