Former collegians took all four titles today on the USTA Pro Circuit, with Lea Ma, Ozan Baris, and Kaylan Bigun claiming their second career singles titles on the Pro Circuit, and Russia’s Alina Shcherbinina earning her first title.
The third-seeded Ma, a 25-year-old who was an All-American at Georgia in 2023, defeated top seed Madison Brengle 6-3, 7-6(3) in the final of the W35 in Decatur Illinois. Ma won her first title in September of 2024 at an W35 in Redding California. She should move into the WTA Top 300 for the first time when the points are added.
Michigan State’s Baris, who has had great success in his career in Wichita Kansas, swept the titles at the M25 this week, beating Sebastian Gorzny(TCU, Texas) 7-6(5), 6-4 in today’s final between recent graduates entered as wild cards. The 22-year-old Baris, who was a doubles All-American in 2023 and a singles All-American in 2024, 2025 and 2026, won his first title at an M15 East Lansing in 2023. After winning the doubles title yesterday with Matt Shearer(William Carey, Nebraska), Baris has six Pro Circuit doubles titles, with half of them coming in Wichita.
Twenty-year-old Kaylan Bigun, who played for UCLA for one semester last year, picked up his second SoCal Pro Series singles titles in the past three weeks today at the M15 in Los Angeles. The top-seeded Bigun, who won the M15 in Lakewood in the opening week of seven-week swing in Southern California, defeated 16-year-old Andy Johnson 6-1, 7-5 in today’s final. Johnson, playing at his home club with the crowd’s support, overcame a slow start, coming back from 6-1, 2-0 down to take a 4-3 lead in the second set. But Bigun, the 2024 Roland Garros boys champion, kept the pressure on with his forehand, and although Johnson leveled the match by breaking Bigun serving for it at 5-4, he lost serve again at 5-all and Bigun closed out the title.
At the W15 in Los Angeles, Shcherbinina won the battle of the qualifiers, with the former standout at Baylor and Oklahoma defeating South Carolina rising senior Kaitlyn Carnicella 6-0, 6-7(4), 7-5 in a nearly three-hour final. The 22-year-old Russian failed to qualify for the Lakewood W15 in week one, but she now has her first pro title.
Far away from the hard courts in the United States, three Americans claimed titles, with Ben Shelton earning his first title on grass, Robin Montgomery winning her first WTA title and Ashlyn Krueger claiming the WTA 125 in Ilkley England.
Shelton, the 2022 NCAA singles champion while a sophomore at Florida, defeated defending champion Taylor Fritz 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 in today’s final of the ATP 250 in Stuttgart Germany for his sixth ATP title overall and his third this year. Shelton won all four of his matches this week in straight sets and saved a total of three match points en route to the final. He remain at a career-high ATP ranking of No. 5.
Montgomery, the 2021 US Open girls champion, spent the second half of 2025 and the first three months of 2026 recovering from a wrist injury, so this was just her eighth tournament of the year. The 21-year-old from Washington DC had to qualify for the WTA 250 in ‘s-Hertogenbosch the Netherlands but did not have to play the final, with Barbora Krejcikova of Czechia unable to take the court due to illness. With her first WTA title, Montgomery moves back into the WTA Top 200.
The eighth-seeded Krueger, who won the 2021 USTA Nationals 18s and US Open girls doubles titles with Montgomery, won her second WTA 125 title on grass with a 7-5, 6-2 victory over qualifier Celine Naef of Switzerland in Ilkley. Krueger, who won a WTA 250 title back in 2023, had fallen out of the Top 100 prior to this title, and will have to play qualifying at Wimbledon.
Former Pepperdine All-American Savannah Broadus has won four of her 12 ITF women’s World Tennis Tour doubles titles this year, but she had not won a singles title since her graduation in 2025 until today. Broadus qualified at the W50 in Portugal by beating her doubles partner Abigail Rencheli(NC State), then beat two seeds in reaching the final, where she took out a third, No. 5 Aliona Falei of Belarus, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4. Broadus, whose previous title was at a W15 in 2024, had already won the doubles title with Rencheli. The No. 4 seeds, who didn’t drop a set all week, beat No. 2 seeds Viktoria Hruncakova and Katarina Kuzmova of Slovakia 6-3, 6-4 in the final.
Broadus is now up to a career-high 456 in the WTA live rankings with this title.
In more news on the Reese Brantmeier lawsuit with the NCAA, Matt Forbes, the 2024 Kalamazoo 18s champion, has been added as a plaintiff in the case. A judge’s review of the settlement is expected next week, and Forbes was added to ensure an active NCAA student-athlete was included, now that Brantmeier has graduated. According to this article at the Carolina Journal:
To gain college eligibility, Forbes gave up $55,587 in prize money he won after competing in the 2024 United States Open. “His addition should address any concern the Court may have regarding standing and adequacy for the injunctive relief class,” Brantmeier’s lawyers wrote.
The prize money for the first round that year was $100,000, so Forbes came up with substantial expenses to get to that number down to $55,587, but even if he does get that amount reimbursed, Forbes may again be in the position of having to forgo his US Open prize money if he wins his semifinal match against Sebastian Gorzny Tuesday at the USTA’s American Collegiate USO Wild Card Playoff, which would guarantee him a spot in the men’s qualifying. The terms of the settlement allow prize money to be accepted prior to enrollment, but not as a student-athlete.