Twenty-one Americans Begin Play Sunday at Roehampton J300; All-Teen Final at Claremont W15; Johnson Plays for Another SoCal Pro Series Title at M15 Claremont; All-USA Final at Rome W35; Keys Wins Third Eastbourne Title; BBC Looks at Tennis Parenting

The World Tennis J300 Wimbledon warmup tournament begins Sunday in Roehampton, with ten US boys and 11 US girls in the main draw. Marcel Latak and Sarah Ye qualified for the main draw with wins today.

World Tennis junior No. 1 Xinran Sun of China withdrew several weeks ago, although the Roland Garros finalist is still entered at Wimbledon. Roland Garros girls champion Alisa Oktibreva, who did not enter Roehampton, withdrew from Wimbledon Juniors at the deadline Tuesday. The top girls seed at Roehampton is Ksenia Efremova of France, who won the Giorgi Armani Invitational yesterday at the Hurlingham Club in London.

Roland Garros boys champion Luis Guto Miguel of Brazil is the top seed in Roehampton, with Jamie Mackenzie of Germany the No. 2 seed.

Vihaan Reddy, who is through to Sunday’s final at the J200 in Czechia, obviously can’t play in the first round of Roehampton tomorrow, but he is still entered in Wimbledon qualifying, which begins next Thursday. Lani Chang withdrew from Roehampton, but is still entered at Wimbledon.

Americans competing in Roehampton Monday:
Jordan Lee
Michael Antonius[6]
Ryan Cozad
Andy Johnson[10]
Gavin Goode
Safir Azam
Keaton Hance[3]
Marcel Latak[Q]
Jack Secord
Tanishk Konduri

Jordyn Hazelitt[14]
Sarah Ye[Q]
Thea Frodin
Maggie Sohns[A]
Hannah Ayrault
Nancy Lee
Melije Clarke
Janae Preston[15]
Olivia Traynor
Welles Newman[16]
Anita Tu

The SoCal Pro Series in Claremont California this week, will have three new finalists and a player going for his second straight title Sunday.

The women’s W15 final will feature rising North Carolina freshman Alexis Nguyen , the No. 5 seed and rising Stanford sophomore and No. 7 seed Alyssa Ahn, the 2025 USTA Nationals 18s champion. The 19-year-old Ahn defeated unseeded Midori Castillo Meza of Mexico 6-2, 6-4 in today’s semifinal, while the 18-year-old Nguyen beat top seed Alexandra Vagramov of Canada 6-4, 6-2.

Ahn defeated Nguyen 6-1, 6-7(1), 7-5 in the semifinals in San Diego last year, but Nguyen has won both of their previous meetings during the SoCal Pro Series, in 2023 and 2025, in straight sets. It will be a first Pro Circuit title for Sunday’s champion.

Spencer Johnson, the UCLA rising senior who swept the titles in Irvine last week, defeated top seed Aidan Kim of Ohio State in Friday’s Claremont M15 quarterfinal 6-4, 3-6, 7-5. Today he took out wild card Jagger Leach, the rising Stanford sophomore, 7-6(4), 6-4, setting up a final against unseeded Sasha Rozin(Arizona) of Canada. Rozin defeated 2025 Kalamazoo 18s finalist Jack Satterfield(Vanderbilt) 6-1, 6-1 in today’s bottom half semifinal.

In the all-USA women’s doubles final today in Claremont, unseeded UCLA teammates Kayla Chung and Ahmani Guichard won their first Pro Circuit title, defeating top seeds Paola Lopez and Amy Zhu(Michigan) 6-3, 6-2.

In the men’s doubles final, unseeded Matt Kuhar(Bryant) and Henry Lieberman(Charlotte, UNC) beat the unseeded Canadian team of Jared Horwood and Rozin 5-7, 7-6(12), 10-5.

At the W35 in Rome Georgia, No. 6 seed Amelia Honer and No. 2 seed Ayana Akli will play for the first time on the Pro Circuit with the title on the line. Honer, the former UC-Santa Barbara All-American, who defeated No. 4 seed Sahaja Yamalapalli(Sam Houston) of India 6-3, 6-4 today, had beaten top seed Madison Brengle 6-5, retired in Friday’s quarterfinals. Akli defeated qualifier Jo-Yee Chan(Oregon, San Diego State) 7-6(3), 6-1.

In the doubles final today, unseeded Jaeda Daniel(Auburn, NC State) and Lily Fairclough(USC) defeated No. 2 seeds Savannah Broadus(Pepperdine) and Kylie Collins(Texas, LSU, Oklahoma State) 7-5, 6-4.

Ethan Quinn(Georgia) lost in the final of the ATP 250 in Mallorca, with Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain winning his first ATP title in his sixth appearance in a final. Davidovich Fokina’s serve was the difference in his 7-6(4), 6-3 win, making 70 percent of his first serves to Quinn’s 51 percent, and coming up with huge first serves in his last two service games to take a Quinn comeback out of the equation. For more on this final, and Davidovich Fokina’s struggles in earlier championship matches, see this article from the ATP website.

The BBC published a lengthy feature yesterday titled How To Be A Good Tennis Parent. It contains valuable information for those new to that role, and for those who might need a reminder of the best practices for encouraging and nuturing a child’s love of the sport.

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