Before the Division I Regionals began the college tennis community was shocked by the news of the demise of the Arkansas tennis programs. After a relatively predictable regional weekend, with 29 of the 32 seeds advancing to the Super Regionals, another off-court surprise was announced, with Harry Jadun departing as the head coach of the Michigan State men after four years leading the program.
After making history this year with the Spartans, featuring their first regular season conference title since 1967 and beating Ohio State twice, including in the Big Ten conference tournament final just ten days ago, Jadun is leaving college coaching. According to this afternoon’s release from Michigan State, the former All-American and Spartan alum is leaving college coaching, with another alum, Mike Flowers, taking over.
Flowers, who has been an assistant at Michigan State since July of 2022, takes over a program that has risen dramatically in those years under Jadun’s leadership. With a new facility thanks to a transformational gift from Joan Secchia in 2024, the program has become more relevant each year, with local star Ozan Baris, recruited by Jadun when Jadun was an assistant at MSU, also providing historic accomplishments during his four years. Baris is graduating, and the word is that 2024 Kalamazoo 18s champion Matt Forbes, a sophomore, has entered the transfer portal, so Flowers will face immediate challenges as he attempts to maintain that momentum.
The USTA today confirmed the news that I reported over the weekend with Nishesh Basavareddy(Stanford) and Akasha Urhobo claiming its Roland Garros wild cards after the five-week window to earn ATP/WTA points closed Sunday. The complete release is below:
Akasha Urhobo and Nishesh Basavareddy Earn French Open Main Draw Wild Cards by Winning Roland Garros Wild Card Challenges
ORLANDO, Fla., May 4, 2026 – Akasha Urhobo and Nishesh Basavareddy have earned singles main draw wild cards into the French Open later this month by winning the USTA’s Roland Garros Wild Card Challenges. The USTA and FFT have a reciprocal agreement to exchange main draw wild cards for the 2026 French Open and US Open, and the USTA uses this Challenge format to award its Roland Garros wild cards.
Urhobo, 19, has been one of the fastest-rising players on tour this year and clinched the wild card on Saturday by advancing to the singles final of the USTA Pro Circuit W100 in Bonita Springs, Fla. To date in 2026, Urhobo has compiled a 29-7 singles record, won three USTA Pro Circuit singles titles and improved her ranking from No. 332 at the beginning of January to No. 183 on Monday. This will mark her singles main draw debut at a Grand Slam event after playing US Open qualifying each of the last two years. She is currently coached by USTA National Coach Jermaine Jenkins.
Basavareddy, who turned 21 on Saturday, will be making his French Open main draw debut after competing in Roland Garros qualifying last year. A former world No. 99 who qualified and reached the second round at the Australian Open in January, Basavareddy used the 75 points earned from winning the Challenger title in Savannah, Ga., two weeks ago to overtake and outlast second-place finisher Emilio Nava, who fell one victory short last week from retaking the lead.
The final standings:
Women’s Standings
(Player’s current ranking in parentheses)
1. Akasha Urhobo (183) — 161
2. Mary Stoiana (149) — 87
3. Kayla Day (148) — 81
Men’s Standings
(Player’s current ranking in parentheses)
1. Nishesh Basavareddy (154) — 112
2. Emilio Nava (108) — 103
3. Jack Kennedy (433) — 64
Should the player with the highest number of Challenge points earn direct entry into the French Open main draw, the wild card will go to the next eligible American in the Challenge points standings. The Challenge counted ranking points earned from each player’s best three results at all clay-court pro events (at the W35 level and above for the women and the M25 level and above for the men) over the last five weeks.
Previous Americans to earn wild cards into the French Open via the Challenge and how far they advanced at Roland Garros are below, including Amanda Anisimova, Frances Tiafoe, Tommy Paul and Emma Navarro.
Roland Garros Wild Card Challenge Winners:
2025: Iva Jovic (2R); Emilio Nava (2R)
2024: Sachia Vickery (1R); Nicolas Moreno de Alboran (1R)
2023: Emma Navarro (2R); Patrick Kypson (1R)
2022: Katie Volynets (2R); Michael Mmoh (1R)
2019: Lauren Davis (2R); Tommy Paul (1R)
2018: Taylor Townsend (2R); Noah Rubin (1R)
2017: Amanda Anisimova (1R); Tennys Sandgren (1R)
2016: Taylor Townsend (2R); Bjorn Fratangelo (2R)
2015: Louisa Chirico (1R); Frances Tiafoe (1R)
2014: Taylor Townsend (3R); Robby Ginepri (1R)
2013: Shelby Rogers (2R); Alex Kuznetsov (1R)
2012: Melanie Oudin (2R); Brian Baker (2R)
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This week on the USTA Pro Circuit looks an awful lot like last week, with the men’s only tournament a 15K and the women competing at a W100 and W35, all in Florida.
At the M15 in Vero Beach, the talk of the final round qualifying match between 15-year-old Teodor Davidov and 45-year-old Ryan Haviland(Stanford). Davidov is the youngest player with an ATP ranking and Haviland is the oldest. Haviland prevailed 6-7(2), 6-3, 10-6 to advance to the main draw.
The other four Americans advancing to the main draw are 18-year-old Illinois signee Jon Gamble, Brigham Young junior Tygen Goldammer, Preston Brown and Matthew Segura.
Wild cards were awarded to JJ Wolf(Ohio State), Hunter Heck(Illinois), Jordan Lee and Patrick Daciek(Virginia Tech). Wolf and Lee would meet in the second round with wins Wednesday. The only Junion Reserved entrant this week is Gavin Goode, who plays No. 3 seed Aidan McHugh of Great Britain. All first round singles matches are scheduled for Wednesday.
Alex Rybakov(TCU) and Raphael Perot(Texas A&M) of France are the top two seeds.
At the W35 in Boca Raton, Americans who qualified today are Paola Lopez, Adriana Reami(NC State), Kailey Evans(Texas Tech, San Diego) and Carson Tanguilig(UNC).
Four main draw matches were played today, with top seed Lea Ma(Georgia) already out, falling to Justina Gonzalez Daniele of Argentina 6-2, 6-3 and No. 4 seed Monika Ekstrand(Stanford) losing to Carla Markus of Argentina 3-6, 6-3, 7-5.
Wild cards were given to Ariana Ikwueme, who lost to fellow 17-year-old Hannah Klugman of Great Britain 7-5, 6-4, Capucine Jauffret and Annika Penickova.
At the W100 in Indian Harbour Beach, five Americans qualified for the main draw: 17-year-old Thea Frodin, Ellie Coleman (Duke), Allura Zamarripa(Texas), Eryn Cayetano(USC) and Alana Smith(NC State).
Wild cards were given to Madison Sieg(USC), who lost to No. 6 seed Eli Mandlik 6-4, 7-6(4) in a first round match today, Kristina Liutova, who reached the semifinals of the Indian Harbour Beach W50 a year ago as a 15-year-old, and Amelia Honer(UC-Santa Barbara) who will try to extend her 10-match winning streak whe she faces No. 2 seed Elvina Kalieva in the first round Wednesday.
NCAA 2024 fall singles champion Dasha Vidmanova(Georgia) is the top seed and will face last week’s W100 Bonita Springs champion Angela Fita Boluda of Spain in the opening round Wednesday.
The top two seeds in both the girls and the boys draw were beaten in the first round today on the red clay at the ITF J200 in College Grove Tennessee.
Tyler Lee defeated No. 1 Agassi Rusher 6-2, 6-0 and Tristan Stratton beat No. 2 seed Roshan Santhosh 6-4, 6-2.
London Evans took out girls No. 1 seed Camille Allegre 6-3, 6-1 and Audrey Kao of Taiwan defeated second seed Londyn McCord 3-6, 6-2, 6-4.
That leaves 15-year-olds Izyan Ahmad and Emery Combs as the highest remaining seeds heading into Wednesday’s second round of singles.
The fields for the NCAA Division II championships were announced last night, but unlike Division I and Division III, there is no national draw, but rather 16 regional draws. The 16 winners of those regionals, played this weekend will advance to the final site, this year in Surprise Arizona, May 19-24. The list of the 48 women’s D-II teams competing in the regionals is here; the list of the 48 men’s D-II teams competing in the regionals is here.
Valdosta State is the defending men’s champion; Barry is the defending women’s champion.