My recap of Sunday’s men’s NCAA Division I Team Championships final is up today at the Tennis Recruiting Network. If you missed my daily coverage of all matches that sent finalist Texas and champion Virginia to the final, this can be a quick review for you, but it can’t convey the drama and excitement of each of the three days of competition in Athens. My article on the women’s final will be available Wednesday.
Unlike the Texas A&M D-I women’s champions, who played three straight nights and concluded their wins near or past midnight, the Division III finalists Wesleyan and Washington-St. Louis will have a day off before they meet for the title on Thursday.
Fourth-ranked Wesleyan handed top-ranked Claremont-Mudd-Scripps their first loss of the season, beating the Athenas 4-3.. Defending champion Wash U, ranked No. 3, defeated fifth-ranked Babson 4-1. The 1 p.m. CDT final will be streamed live Thursday at ncaa.com, with Alex Gruskin of Cracked Racquets providing commentary.
The highlight of the D-III men’s quarterfinals today was No. 5 Case Western Reserve, the 2023 champions, defeating 2025 champions Denison, ranked No. 4, 4-3. Case Western will play 2024 champion Chicago tomorrow, after the top-ranked Maroons defeated No. 7 Bowdoin 4-2.
Second-ranked Claremont-Mudd-Scripps reached Wednesday’s semifinals with a 4-1 victory over No. 11 Emory to set up a meeting with third-ranked Tufts, who beat No. 8 Swarthmore 4-1.
Live streaming of the men’s semifinals begins at 10 a.m. CDT, with the link available here.
Rain on Monday kept the first round from completion at the ITF J500 Trofeo Bonfiglio in Milan Italy, but all the seeds with byes now have an opponent.
The US juniors competing in Wednesday’s second round:
Andy Johnson[5] v Rihards Neimanis(LAT)
Melije Clarke v Mariia Makarova(RUS)
Welles Newman v Sol Ailin Larraya Guidi[6](ARG)
Lani Chang v Jana Kovackova[2](CZE)
Janae Preston[11] v Adelina Lacinova(LAT)
Thea Frodin[13] v Yu Jun Lin(CHN)
Jack Secord v Kuan-Shou Chen[8](TPE)
Michael Antonius[4] v Damir Zhalgasbay(KAZ)
Gavin Goode v Kai Thompson[16](HKG)
Live scoring is available at the tournament home page; live streaming will be here beginning with the quarterfinals matches.
American men advancing to the second round of the Roland Garros qualifying in opening round action the past two days are Michael Zheng(Columbia), Emilio Nava[3], Colton Smith(Arizona) and Darwin Blanch, who got into qualifying as an alternate.
US women reaching the second round of qualifying are Ashlyn Krueger[3], Mary Stoiana(Texas A&M), Claire Liu, Sloane Stephens and Robin Montgomery.