Kalamazoo Draws Posted; Black Top Seed in San Diego, Seeds in 12s and 14s Posted; Ryan Shane Feature

The draws for the Kalamazoo tournament, which starts on Friday, are now available at ustaboys.com.  With such a strong group of seeds there was always going to be some tough, tough quarterfinals, and No. 2 Fritz versus No. 5 Mmoh and No. 1 Tiafoe versus No. 6 Opelka are certainly two of them, provided they all make it that far, of course.

Last year the top eight seeds in the 18s all reached the quarterfinals for the first time since 1976. Could it happen two years in a row after a nearly 40-year gap?

The draws for the other age groups are not yet posted--I'm told the San Diego draws will be out Thursday--but the seeds have all been announced.  Below are the Top 16 seeds in the 12s, 14s, and the girls 16s and 18s.  The 17-32 seeds are available via a link back to the TennisLink site. All 32 of the Kalamazoo 16s and 18s seeds are here.

Girls 18s:

1  Tornado Alicia Black

2  Usue Arconada

3  Sofia Kenin

4  Michaela Gordon

5  Raveena Kingsley

6  Francesca Dilorenzo

7  Ingrid Neel

8  Claire Liu

9  Kayla Day

10  Alexandra Sanford

11  Alexa Graham

12  Ellyse Hamlin

13  Ena Shibahara

14  Rebecca Weissmann

15  Mia Horvit

16  Kelly Chen

17-32

Girls 16s

1  Natasha Subhash

2  Victoria Flores

3  Hannah Lairmore

4  Nicole Mossmer

5  Elysia Bolton

6  Clarissa Hand

7  Taylor Johnson

8  Anna Brylin

9  Carson Branstine

10  Hannah Zhao

11  Victoria Emma

12  Caroline Dunleavy

13  Meg Kowalski

14  Ally Bojczuk

15  Whitney Osuigwe

16  Sydney Jones

17-32

Girls 14s

1  Alexa Noel

2  Katie Volynets

3  Victoria Hu

4  Lea Ma

5  Angelica Blake

6  Reilly Tran

7  Kacie Harvey

8  Chloe Beck

9  Maggie Cubitt

10  Emma Navarro

11  Naomi Cheong

12  Hailey Baptiste

13  Addison Guevara

14  Gabriella Price

15  Cori Gauff

16  Lauren Stein

17-32

Girls 12s

1  Brooke Theis

2  Kenadee Semenik

3  Jenna DeFalco

4  Emma Jackson

5  Rachel Arbitman

6  Bridget Stammel

7  Sydni Ratliff

8  Maria Rizzolo

9  Tyra Richardson

10  Tara Malik

11  Hibah Shaikh

12  Madison Sieg

13  Elise Wagle

14  Ellie Pittman

15  Carrie Beckman

16  Katrina Scott

17-32

Boys 14s

1  William Grant

2  Cannon Kingsley

3  Daniel Sharygin

4  Nathan Han

5  Ronan Jachuck

6  Connor Nisbet

7  Harry Yang

8  Stefan Leustian

9  Evin McDonald

10  Leighton Allen

11  Hunter Heck

12  Andrew Dale

13  Nicholas Garcia

14  Spencer Gray

15  Richard Bell

16  Thomas Yu

17-32

Boys 12s

1  Hugo Hashimoto

2  Karl Lee

3  Saud Alhogbani

4  Phillip Deaton

5  Benjamin Kittay

6  Griffin Daehnke

7  Samuel Landau

8  Eric Perkowski

9  Daniel Dunac

10  Nishesh Basavareddy

11  James Delgado

12  Sam Reichbach

13  Andrew Chang

14  Tonmye Nirundorn

15  Gavin Young

16  Teddy Truwit

17-32

NCAA champion Ryan Shane of Virginia is back competing after an injury layoff following his title in Waco in May.  After going 1-1 in the Lexington Challenger qualifying, Shane will be in action this weekend at the qualifying for the ATP event in Washington DC.  In anticipation of that, Kelyn Soong wrote this feature on Shane for the Washington Post, which contains some interesting background on how Ryan and older brother Justin started playing the sport.

In other University of Virginia news, assistant men's coach Dustin Taylor will be accompanying the USTA Collegiate Team to Italy for two $15,000 Futures events there beginning next week. 

The Aptos Challenger, a $100,000 event that begins in two weeks, could decide the US Open men's Wild Card Challenge. Here's a preview from the Santa Cruz Sentinel.