Swan and Liu Return to Easter Bowl Finals; Riffice Shocks Blumberg to Reach Boys Final Against Fritz

©Colette Lewis 2015--
Indian Wells, CA--

When Katie Swan and Claire Liu step onto the court Sunday for the final of the ITF Grade B1 Closed at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, both are likely to experience déjà vu. Swan lost in the final last year to CiCi Bellis, while Liu also fell one match short of an Easter Bowl title, losing to Katerina Stewart in the 16s championship match.

Swan, the No. 2 seed, defeated unseeded Kylie McKenzie 6-2, 6-3, while Liu, the No. 12 seed, avenged her two recent losses to No. 4 seed Raveena Kingsley 6-4, 6-1.

Liu, 14, will be looking for revenge again on Sunday, after dropping her only previous meeting to Swan 7-6(5), 6-2, in the first round of the US Open Junior Championships last September.

Against Kingsley, Liu said the conditions and her own effectiveness on serve made for a different result.

"At College Park (International Hard Courts) she trained there, they were her home courts," Liu said, explaining her two losses to Kingsley last summer and fall. "At Tulsa (Pan American Closed) it was indoors, so I think that helped her a little bit. "

Liu also said she was determined to get first serves in play, knowing that was necessary against Kingsley.

"You really need a good first serve against her, because she attacks every ball," said Liu, who won her first title at a pro tournament last month. "I think I was solid and I was getting every ball back. I also had a really good first serve percentage."

Liu was up 3-1 early, but Kingsley got the break back for 4-4, only to get broken to drop the set.  Liu won a six-deuce game, breaking Kingsley for a 2-0 lead and kept the pressure on, building a 5-0 lead until Kingsley finally won a game, much too little too late.

Against Swan, Liu knows she must return well.

"She has a really good serve, getting a lot of free points off that," Liu said. "I need to make as many returns as I can."

Liu has seen her confidence improve since September, especially with her recent results.

"Winning that pro event helped me," said Liu. "Last year I lost in the finals, so I'm going to try to win it this year."

If Liu's confidence has increased this year, so too has Swan's after reaching the Australian Open girls final this year and winning her first pro event in Egypt last month.

Against McKenzie, Swan took an early lead in the first set, with McKenzie having difficulty finding her form on both her serves and ground strokes, with at least six double faults in the first set.

McKenzie found her rhythm in the early stages of the second set, taking a 3-1 lead, but McKenzie couldn't hold it, with three more double faults in her last two service games helping to seal her fate.

"She made quite a lot of unforced errors from the beginning," said Swan, who lives in Wichita, Kansas, but is a citizen of Great Britain. "In the beginning of the second set, she came out firing and was playing at a really high level. But when I broke back at 3-2, I think she was a little gone mentally too, so I took advantage of that."

Swan said she did feel some pressure, knowing one more win would put her back in the final, although her reason for playing the tournament was not based on a certain result.

"I wasn't really looking at it that I had to get to the final," said Swan, 16. "I love being here, I love this place, and I just wanted to play my best, and knowing if I do, I can compete with pretty much anyone in the juniors. Hopefully tomorrow I can get the win, but I'll just play my best and see how it goes."

One player willing to admit surprise at being in the final is No. 14 seed Sam Riffice, who defeated No. 2 seed William Blumberg 6-2, 6-0, ending the Carson champion's ten match winning streak, which included a win over Riffice last week.

"No," Riffice said when asked if he envisioned an appearance in the final. "This is what I've been training for the whole year, trying to get some results like this and it came."

Riffice said he knew an aggressive strategy was necessary if he were to reverse the result in Carson.

"He's a very good player and I knew if I let him play his game it wasn't going to be too good for me," said the 16-year-old from Sacramento, who is training with the USTA in Boca Raton. "So for this week, I tried to be a lot more offensive and dictate off the first point, because last week, he was being a lot more aggressive than I was, and I was running side to side."

"I thought I really dictated, executed all my shots, and on all the big points I thought I came up with some really big shots," said Riffice, who admitted he didn't sleep well Friday in anticipation of the match. "I was really on today. That was definitely one of the best matches I've played. I didn't make many errors and I was playing the right way the whole match."

Blumberg struggled with his backhand, and with Riffice forcing the action, didn't have much of an opportunity to work out his problems.
He also had difficulty overcoming some line calls he objected to. Serving at 0-1 in the second set, Blumberg saw a call on the far sideline well out and dropped his racquet to the ground when it wasn't called. Riffice continued playing, and the chair awarded him the point, calling the racquet drop a hindrance to Riffice.

After Blumberg continued to argue, he was instructed to play, but by the time he returned to serve again, he was given a code violation for delay of game, at which time Blumberg requested the ITF referee.  She upheld the ruling, and Blumberg calmed down and continued to play, but he was broken at love, and won only five points after that.

None of it fazed Riffice, who waited out the discussion without comment, then closed out the match with a spectacular backhand winner off a Blumberg smash.

"It's 50-50, you've just gotta guess one way," Riffice said.

Another key backhand winner helped top seed Taylor Fritz reach the final, who defeated No. 4 seed Nathan Ponwith 7-6(5), 6-0.

After failing to serve out the set at 6-5, Fritz earned his first three sets points of the match at 6-3 in the tiebreaker.  But two dazzling forehand winners by Ponwith made it 6-5 erase two on them, and Ponwith was serving to save the third.

"He hit it deep so I knew I had to fall away from it," Fritz said. "I knew he came to the net, so I'd just get one chance to pass him. I couldn't handle not serving out the set, then losing a 6-3 lead when I had two serves. I just had to win that point."

Once he secured the first set, Ponwith needed to stay with Fritz, but he couldn't convert his two game points serving at 0-1 and never got another, as Fritz began forcing errors and Ponwith, who had played an outstanding first set, began to make unforced errors as well.

With Ponwith winning the past three matches they'd played, Fritz was not likely to take him lightly, and Fritz said his own improvement on the backhand side helped him in this match.

"It used to be I was just all forehands, and really no backhand," said Fritz, who declared himself over the jet lag after his trip from China last Monday. "When he went big to my backhand, I felt I could stay in the point still, while a while ago, when he'd just rip to my backhand, I'd give him an easy ball and that would be it. I think I've improved my backhand a lot in the past year or so. It's a lot more solid, and I'm moving a lot better, so that's what made the difference."

Riffice and Fritz played last October in the second round of the Grade B1 Pan American Closed, with Fritz winning 6-3, 6-2, but Fritz is not putting much stock in that result.

"He's so much better now," said the 17-year-old from Rancho Santa Fe. "He won Eddie Herr and Orange Bowl (16s) and has a lot more confidence, and he just beat Will. Will's been playing great lately, so it'll be interesting."

While Ponwith was unable to reach the singles final for the second straight year, he did capture the doubles title, with Cameron Klinger.

The unseeded pair defeated No. 6 seeds Riffice and Vasil Kirkov 6-2, 6-3.

Ponwith and Klinger were firmly in control of the match with four points to take a 6-2, 5-0 lead, but lost that fifth game of the second set on a deuce point, lost the next game, also on a deuce point, and then were broken to put the set back on serve. Kirkov was broken in the next game however, and in the next game, Klinger had to save a break point to get to a deciding point. Ponwith came through with a backhand winner up the middle to end the suspense.

"It was a lot of fun," said Klinger, who had last played with Ponwith in Kalamazoo in 2012. "Sam and Vasil played great, so it was a fun match."

Ponwith and Klinger got together this week at the last minute, when their originally scheduled partners decided not to play the doubles portion of the tournament.

"Destiny found us," said Ponwith.

As for what makes them a good team, Ponwith had a ready answer.

"We have a really aggressive games style on the dubs court," he said. "Cameron volleys and serves so well and I'm more of a baseliner, and I think we cover each other well."

"I hop on Nathan's back from time to time," Klinger joked.

Although Ponwith and Klinger had some history together, top seeds Swan and Sonya Kenin were playing together for the first time, but they came from behind to defeat Carson champions Ena Shibahara and Caroline Dolehide 4-6, 6-4, 10-6.

"I think one of the things we do together is fight really hard," said Swan. "They were a really tough team to play against. They won Carson and had a really good tournament here, but we kept fighting at got through it, played really well."

"Ena has really good volleys and Caroline has a really big serve," said  Kenin. "If her serve is in a groove, it's tough, because Ena's right there at the net, and her touch is very good."

Even with no history together, Swan and Kenin felt comfortable from the first match of the tournament, and plan to play together at Roland Garros this summer.

"We felt we had good chemistry, and started off well together," Swan said. "Each match, I'd say got better and better and today was our best, which is always good."

Sunday's singles finals will begin at 10 a.m. with the girls match, followed by the boys match, not before noon.
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Boys' 18 Singles (Semifinal Round)

Taylor Fritz (1) (Rancho Santa Fe, CA) def. Nathan Ponwith (4) (Scottsdale, AZ) 7-6(5), 6-0

Sam Riffice (14) (Roseville, CA) def. William Blumberg (2) (Greenwich, CT) 6-2, 6-0

Boys' 18 Doubles (Final Round)

Cameron Klinger (Elk Grove, CA) / Nathan Ponwith (Scottsdale, AZ) def. Vasil Kirkov (Tampa, FL) / Sam Riffice (6) (Roseville, CA) 6-2, 6-3

Girls' 18 Singles (Semifinal Round)

Claire Liu (12) (Thousand Oaks, CA) def. Raveena Kingsley (4) (Fulton, MD) 6-4, 6-1

Katie Swan (2) (Wichita, KS) def. Kylie McKenzie (Anthem, AZ) 6-2, 6-3

Girls' 18 Doubles (Final Round)

Sonya Kenin (Pembroke Pines, FL) / Katie Swan (1) (Wichita, KS) def. Caroline Dolehide (Hinsdale, IL) / Ena Shibahara (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA) 4-6, 6-4, 10-6

Crawford, Martinelli Claim Easter Bowl 16s Titles; Unseeded McKenzie Ousts Carson Champion Kenin in ITF Quarterfinals

©Colette Lewis 2015--
Indian Wells, CA--

Top seed Oliver Crawford came through a daunting draw in the early rounds of the Easter Bowl 16s tournament, completing an impressive two weeks with back-to-back titles by defeating No. 11 seed Brian Cernoch 6-2, 6-1 Friday morning at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.

Crawford was in an opening foursome that included Andrew Fenty, who Crawford beat in the International Spring Championships finals last Saturday, Keenan Mayo, who had upset the top seed in Carson, and Christian Alshon, who went on to win the Easter Bowl consolation tournament.  Crawford defeated both Mayo and Alshon is straight sets, as he did his next four opponents, but said the difficulty of his opening matches helped him.

"It was a bit tough, but I played well from the beginning," said Crawford,  who won 12 singles matches in the past 12 days, losing only one set, to Fenty, in the Carson final.  "It was for sure good to have a few good matches at the beginning of the tournament."

With Jose Higueras, USTA Director of Coaching, and Jay Berger, USTA Head of Men's Tennis, looking on, Crawford dominated Cernoch, although Crawford was broken once, after taking a 3-1 lead in the first set, when the outcome was still in doubt.  But Crawford broke right back, saved two break points in a five-deuce game to go up 5-2, and Cernoch could manage only one game after that.

"I didn't play my best, but he played an unbelievable match," said Cernoch, a 15-year-old left-hander, who trains at the Junior Tennis Champions Center in College Park, Maryland. "He dictates with his forehand very well and makes you play very far back from the baseline. He is more aggressive."

Crawford said his approach to the Easter Bowl final differed from his final in Carson.

"I played a bit more confidently today, I feel," said Crawford, who works with Anthony Stewart at the Carolina Country Club in Spartanburg, SC and Furman men's coach Kelly Jones. "I was a bit nervous in the final before, just because I had never played in one of those, so I was a bit more confident and I kept the confidence from last week to this week."

With two major 16s titles now secured, Crawford, who turns 16 later this month, will move into the 18s in USTA tournaments and begin playing ITF Junior tournaments, starting with the Florida Grade 4s coming up.

While Crawford was able to secure the Carson-Easter Bowl double, Natasha Subhash fell one match short of becoming the first girl to accomplish that, falling to No. 2 seed Samantha Martinelli 7-5, 6-3.

Martinelli was down 4-2 in the opening set, but she got the break back and took the set with another break of the Subhash serve in a long, tough game.

Martinelli, a 16-year-old from Colorado who trains with Tim Blenkiron at the No Quit Tennis Academy in Las Vegas, Nevada, said a renewed commitment to her game six months ago was responsible for her title.

"The last six months I've just been training my butt off," said Martinelli, who also won the doubles title on Thursday, with Delaney Nothaft. "Four hours a day, pretty much nothing else but playing, and it's finally paying off, all the hard work. It feels good. I was surprised at how good I felt throughout the week, because normally, by the end, I'm limping and staggering around, but I felt pretty good for the match. I guess it was all the training.  I always wanted to win one of these, so it feels really, really good. I'm kind of shaky right now, really excited."

Subhash, who is just 13, said Martinelli did everything better than she did in the final.

"Her ground strokes were good and she could hit them anywhere she wanted to," Subhash said.

Subhash, who won 11 matches in a row over the past two weeks, said she was most proud of her two wins over Victoria Flores, whom she defeated in the Carson final and again in the quarterfinals in the Easter Bowl.

"My wins against Vicky were really good, because just a few months ago, in my opinion, she was a lot better than me, so it was really surprising to me that I could put up a fight and beat her twice."

With the 16s finals complete, the attention this weekend will turn completely to the ITF Grade B1 tournament, which decided its singles semifinalists and doubles finalists on Friday.

Top seed Taylor Fritz needed another comeback to advance, although it wasn't quite as dramatic as his win over Patrick Kypson on Thursday, when he came back from 6-4, 5-0 down.  Against unseeded Cameron Klinger, Fritz served for the match twice, at 6-0, 5-4 and 6-5, and was up 40-15 in his second attempt, but ended up needing a third set comeback to post a 6-0, 6-7(5), 63 victory.  Klinger won the last four points of the 12th game to force a tiebreaker, which he dominated, going up 6-0, only to see Fritz come back to make it 6-5.  But on his sixth set point, Klinger converted to send the match to a third set.

Fritz was broken the first two times he served, but from 3-1 down, he won the final five games of the match to set up a meeting with 2014 finalist Nathan Ponwith, who has a 3-0 record against Fritz in USTA events, although the most recent result was in 2013.

Ponwith, the No. 4 seed, defeated No. 7 seed Hady Habib 6-2, 6-4.

Carson champion and No. 2 seed William Blumberg had his work cut out for him Friday against No. 8 seed Catalin Mateas, but he managed to keep it to two sets, albeit long ones, for a 7-6(3), 6-4 victory.  The first set took 85 minutes to complete, and serving for the second set at 5-3, Blumberg was broken, but he broke Mateas to secure the win.

Blumberg will play No. 14 seed Sam Riffice for the second time in two weeks, after Riffice defeated No. 10 seed Mwendwa Mbithi 6-1, 7-5.  Blumberg and Riffice met in the third round at the ITF Grade 1 last week in Carson, with Blumberg winning 7-6(4), 6-4.

The semifinal in the top half of the girls draw will be a rematch of the ITF Grade B1 Pan American Closed final last October, with No. 4 seed Raveena Kinglsey trying to defeat No. 12 seed Claire Liu for a third time since last summer.

Liu defeated unseeded Abi Altick 6-1, 6-2, while Kingsley avenged her Eddie Herr quarterfinal loss to Caroline Dolehide, seeded eighth, 6-4, 6-4.

Kingsley, who did not play the Carson ITF, where she was a finalist in 2014, believes she is a much improved player from the one who lost in the first round of the Easter Bowl last year.

"I've just been working on every aspect of my game," said the 16-year-old Kingsley, who was seen hitting with Taylor Dent, her current coach, after her Thursday match. "I think I've improved so much since Carson and Easter Bowl last year, and I'm more fit."

Last year's finalist Katie Swan, the No. 2 seed this year, trailed No. 9 seed Kayla Day in the opening set, but came back to post a 7-5, 6-3 victory.

Swan will play unseeded Kylie McKenzie, who shocked Carson champion and No. 3 seed Sonya Kenin 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.

McKenzie's confidence grew as the match wore on, with Kenin struggling with her serve, and McKenzie's power off the ground too much for even Kenin's stout defense.

"I don't think I played my best in the first set, I thought I was a little tight, not hitting out on the ball as much," said McKenzie, who, like Ponwith, works in Arizona with former Arizona State coach Lou Belkin. "I was making more loose errors than I would like to. So in the second set I focused on getting extra physical with my legs, being more consistent in a good way, and getting my rhythm back to being more aggressive at the end."

The USTA 16s champion, whose ITF ranking is 279, compared to Kenin's ranking of 11, said she's seen noticeable improvements in her game the past few months.

"This year, I have been playing better, training a lot, and I think the last few weeks I've really seen myself playing better, my game coming together a little more," said McKenzie, who also trains with the USTA in Boca Raton. "I've physically gotten stronger too, so all in all, I'm doing better."

There will be live streaming of two of Saturday's semifinals at easterbowl.com. Ken Thomas, the voice of radiotennis.com, is doing the commentary.

The doubles finals will be played on Saturday, with three of the singles semifinalists going for titles.  Top seeds Swan and Kenin will play Carson champions Ena Shibahara and Caroline Dolehide, who are unseeded, in the girls final. Riffice and Vasil Kirkov, the No. 6 seeds, will play unseeded Ponwith and Klinger in the boys final.
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Boys' 18 Singles (Quarterfinal Round)
Taylor Fritz (1) (Rancho Santa Fe, CA) def. Cameron Klinger (Elk Grove, CA) 6-0, 6-7(5), 6-3
Nathan Ponwith (4) (Scottsdale, AZ) def. Hady Habib (7) (Bradenton, FL) 6-2, 6-4
Sam Riffice (14) (Roseville, CA) def. Mwendwa Mbithi (10) (Deerfield Beach, FL) 6-1, 7-5
William Blumberg (2) (Greenwich, CT) def. Catalin Mateas (8) (Braintree, MA) 7-6(3), 6-4

Girls' 18 Singles (Quarterfinal Round)
Claire Liu (12) (Thousand Oaks, CA) def. Helen Altick (Monroe, LA) 6-1, 6-2
Raveena Kingsley (4) (Fulton, MD) def. Caroline Dolehide (8) (Hinsdale, IL) 6-4, 6-4
Kylie McKenzie (Anthem, AZ) def. Sofia Kenin (3) (Pembroke Pines, FL) 3-6, 6-3, 6-2
Katie Swan (2) (Wichita, KS) def. Kayla Day (9) (Santa Barbara, CA) 7-5, 6-3
Boys' 18 Doubles (Semifinal Round)
Cameron Klinger (Elk Grove, CA) / Nathan Ponwith (Scottsdale,
AZ) def. Jake DeVine (Los Altos Hills, CA) / Patrick Kypson (Greenville, NC) 6-4, 6-4
Vasil Kirkov (Tampa, FL) / Sam Riffice (6) (Roseville, CA) def. Trent Bryde (Suwanee, GA) / Emil Reinberg (5) (Atlanta, GA) 7-6(5), 6-3

Girls' 18 Doubles (Semifinal Round)
Sonya Kenin (Pembroke Pines, FL) / Katie Swan (1) (Wichita, KS) def. Morgan Coppoc (Tulsa, OK) / Alexandra Sanford (8) (Westerville, OH) 7-6(6), 6-3
Caroline Dolehide (Hinsdale, IL) / Ena Shibahara (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA) def. Usue Arconada (Rio Piedras, PR) / Francesca Di Lorenzo (2) (New Albany, OH) 6-7(9), 6-4, 10-8



Boys' 16 Singles (Final Round)
Oliver Crawford (1) (Spartanburg, SC) def. Brian Cernoch (11) (North Bethesda, MD) 6-2, 6-1

Boys' 16 Singles Consolation (Semifinal Round)
Brady Draheim (Omaha, NE) def. Conrad Russell (Palo Alto, CA) 6-2, 6-3
Christian Alshon (Boca Raton, FL) def. Steven Sun (Boca Raton, FL) 6-3, 6-3

Boys' 16 Singles Consolation (Final Round)
Christian Alshon (Boca Raton, FL) def. Brady Draheim (Omaha, NE) 6-1, 6-0

Boys' 16 Singles (Playoff Final)
Danny Thomas (Pickerington, OH) def. Abhijeet Joshi (6) (Millington, NJ) 6-3, 6-2

Boys' 16 Singles (Playoff)
Jason Lui (7) (Bellevue, WA) def. Sean Sculley (3) (Hilton Head Island, SC) 6-3, 6-4

Girls' 16 Singles (Final Round)
Samantha Martinelli (2) (Denver, CO) def. Natasha Subhash (Fairfax, VA) 7-5, 6-3

Girls' 16 Singles Consolation (Semifinal Round)
Taylor Bridges (Mesa, AZ) def. Nadia Gizdova (5) (Columbia, MD) 6-3, 4-6, 10-4
Isabella Lorenzini (10) (Clarendon Hills, IL) def. Dalayna Hewitt (Pepper Pike, OH) 4-6, 7-6(2), 10-7

Girls' 16 Singles Consolation (Final Round)
Isabella Lorenzini (10) (Clarendon Hills, IL) def. Taylor Bridges (Mesa, AZ) 1-6, 6-1, 10-6

Girls' 16 Singles (Playoff Final)
Victoria Flores (4) (Fort Dodge, IA) def. Victoria Emma (12) (Naples, FL) Wo (inj)

Girls' 16 Singles (Playoff)
Hannah Lairmore (14) (Mobile, AL) def. Stephanie Schrage (Millburn, NJ) 6-3, 6-4

 

Recap of Last Week's ITF Grade 1 International Spring Championships

Before today's Easter Bowl 16s finals and ITF quarterfinals, here's my look back at last week's International Spring Championships for the Tennis Recruiting Network.

Top Seed Fritz Battles Back from 6-4, 5-0 to Beat Kypson in Easter Bowl ITF Third Round; Crawford, Subhash Go for Back-to-Back Titles in 16s

©Colette Lewis 2015--

Indian Wells, CA--

Down 6-4, 5-0 and being thoroughly outplayed by 15-year-old qualifier Patrick Kypson, top seed Taylor Fritz managed keep alive the hope that the physical toll he was exacting by continuing to compete could help him work his way into the match.  That, and Kypson's inexperience at the top levels of the junior game, proved Fritz right, and the world's fourth-ranked boy recorded the most improbable of comebacks to earn a 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 victory and a place in the quarterfinals.

"The first set and a half I was just playing like awful," said Fritz, who admitted the full impact of his trip from China on Monday hit him Wednesday night. "But I don't know if it really would have made a difference, the way he was playing, so tough. He was playing me really smart, moving me a lot. He was mixing up the serve a lot, never let me get a feel, especially the second serve. He wouldn't let me run around and attack it at all."

"But the way he was playing, he was doing a lot of running and digging out a lot of balls, and I just knew eventually--he could probably play like that all day--his body would stop him from playing at that level, just because he's younger. I was doing a lot of moving him, and so I felt like eventually he would slow down a little bit. And I played a lot better when I got all the way down, stuck with it."

After getting broken serving at 4-5 in the first set, Kypson won six straight games, using his drop shot effectively and staying with Fritz in all of the baseline rallies.  Fritz held for 5-1, so Kypson would need to serve it out.

He was broken at love, but with Fritz serving at 2-5, he made two backhand errors to go down 0-30, but he picked up his serving at that crucial moment and held for 5-3. 

Serving for the match a second time, Kypson again failed to reach match point, with Fritz hitting a delicate lob winner to make it 15-30 and Kypson double faulting for 15-40. Kypson saved one break point when Fritz's forehand went wide, but the second went to Fritz courtesy of an anything-you-can-do-I-can-do-better backhand drop shot winner.

That shot produced a roar of 'come on' from Fritz and some enthusiastic support from the crowd, almost all of whom were squarely in his corner, not the underdog's, due to Fritz's local connections. Fritz held at love, and a shaken Kypson immediately went down 15-40 on his serve. He gathered himself to save those two break points, but a line call on a return at deuce, which Kypson called out, much to Fritz's disgust, seemed to add even more adrenaline to Fritz's game. He broke for a 6-5 lead and held at love, and although another set remained to be played, Kypson's window had closed.

Fritz had to save a break point in his first service game of the third set, but after that he lost only three points on serve and he ended the match with a 120 mph ace.

As for his decision to come straight from China to play in the tournament, Fritz said his didn't have extremely high expectations, but

"I wanted to just come here to see if I could do it, prove it to myself, so down 6-4, 5-0, I'm thinking, I haven't come back like that in forever and I just want to do it for myself. That's what kept me in it."

Next up for Fritz is unseeded Cameron Klinger, who defeated John Jorgeson 6-1, 7-5.  

The other boys quarterfinal match in the top half is No. 4 seed and 2014 finalist Nathan Ponwith, who will play No. 7 seed Hady Habib. Ponwith outlasted No. 16 seed Vasil Kirkov 6-3, 1-6, 6-2, while Habib defeated unseeded JJ Wolf 6-3, 6-2.

No. 2 seed and last week's International Spring Championships winner Will Blumberg cruised to a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Nicolas Moreno de Alboran and will play No. 8 seed Catalin Mateas in the quarterfinals. No. 10 seed Mendwa Mbithi received a walkover from Jacob Brumm, due to a wrist injury sustained in a fall in his second round match. Mbithi will play No. 14 seed Sam Riffice, who took out No. 3 seed Ulises Blanch 6-1, 3-6, 6-2.

"The key was just to be aggressive," said the 16-year-old from Northern California. "In the first set, I did a really good job of executing that, attacking short balls. He had a really good forehand, and he was pushing me back in the second set and I wasn't doing enough with it, and he was just stepping in, being a lot more aggressive. It was really close in the beginning of the third and I thought I stepped up my game, a lot more aggressive in finishing the points at the net."

Mbithi and Riffice played in the Grade 4 in Coral Gables, Florida last year, with Mbithi taking a 7-6(5), 4-6, 7-5 decision.

"He has a really big forehand and a good serve," said Riffice. "So the key is to get the first ball, be aggressive off the first ball, so I can dictate."

In the girls draw, No. 4 seed Raveena Kingsley and No. 8 seed Caroline Dolehide will play in another Grade 1 quarterfinal, with Dolehide winning the first 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(4) last December at the Eddie Herr. Dolehide defeated her doubles partner Ena Shibahara 6-3, 6-0 and Kingsley downed Caroline Lampl 6-0, 7-6(1).

After defeating top seed Usue Arconada on Wednesday, 13-year-old wild card Caty McNally was unable to follow up on that win, falling to Abi Altick 6-2, 6-7(3), 6-1.  Altick will play No. 12 seed Claire Liu, who defeated No. 7 seed Ingrid Neel 7-5, 6-1.

No. 2 seed Katie Swan continued her outstanding play this week, defeating Meible Chi 6-2, 6-1 to set up a quarterfinal meeting with No. 9 seed Kayla Day.  Day downed unseeded Emma Higuchi 7-5, 6-3.

Carson champion Sonya Kenin, the No. 3 seed, was hit off the court in the first set by No. 14 seed Sofia Sewing, but the Orange Bowl champion fought back to claim a 1-6, 6-4, 6-1 victory.  Kenin will play unseeded Kylie McKenzie, who eliminated No. 6 seed Francesca Di Lorenzo 5-7, 6-3, 6-2.

"I was up 4-1 in the first set, finishing off the points pretty quickly, returning serve, first ball," said the 16-year-old from Arizona, who is the reigning 16s USTA National champion. "But she's a good fighter, she gets a lot back, heavy topspin, so she's tough to play, especially with the way I play, so aggressive. I backed off a little bit, but in the second set, I played pretty strong, really worked the points to finally get my rhythm again and in the end be attacking."

McKenzie closed out Di Lorenzo in the final game, which is not easy to do, with her serve, keeping Di Lorenzo out of the points, and finished with a huge ace.

The 16s singles finals are set for Friday morning with Oliver Crawford and Natasha Subhash, the Carson champions last week, going for back-to-back titles.

Crawford, the top seed, defeated No. 7 seed Jason Lui 6-1, 6-1, and will play No. 11 seed Brian Cernoch, who downed Sean Sculley 7-6(6), 6-3 in a considerable longer contest, with the first set alone lasting nearly 90 minutes.

Subhash, who is unseeded this week, beat unseeded Stephanie Schrage 2-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the semifinals, and will play No. 2 seed 

Samantha Martinelli, who downed No. 14 seed Hannah Lairmore 6-2, 6-0.

One of the 16s finals will be live streamed at easterbowl.com, starting at 9 a.m. PDT.

The 16s doubles champions were crowned on Friday, with Martinelli assuring herself of at least one title this week. She and Delaney Nothaft, the No. 4 seeds, defeated Victoria Flores and Madeline Meredith, seeded third, 8-4.

Bryce Pereira and Ivan Thamma won the boys doubles title, beating Peter Conklin and Matthew Lord  8-2.

Boys' 18 Doubles (Quarterfinal Round)
Jake DeVine (Los Altos Hills, CA) / Patrick Kypson (Greenville, NC) def. Taylor Fritz (Rancho Santa Fe, CA) / Catalin Mateas (1) (Braintree, MA) 6-3; 6-2
Cameron Klinger (Elk Grove, CA) / Nathan Ponwith (Scottsdale, AZ) def. Zeke Clark (Tulsa, OK) / Nathan Perrone (7) (Bluffton, SC) 6-4; 6-4
Trent Bryde (Suwanee, GA) / Emil Reinberg (5) (Atlanta, GA) def. Alex Ross (La Grange, IL) / Eric Rutledge (Fort Worth, TX) 6-3; 7-5 

Vasil Kirkov (Tampa, FL) / Sam Riffice (6) (Roseville, CA) def. Ulises Blanch (Deerfield Beach, FL) / Liam Caruana (2) (New Braunfels, TX) 7-6(0); 6-2

Boys' 18 Singles (Round of 16)
Taylor Fritz (1) (Rancho Santa Fe, CA) def. Patrick Kypson (Greenville, NC) 4-6; 7-5; 6-2 

Cameron Klinger (Elk Grove, CA) def. John Jorgeson (Bradenton, FL) 6-1; 7-5
Nathan Ponwith (4) (Scottsdale, AZ) def. Vasil Kirkov (16) (Tampa, FL) 6-3; 1-6; 6-2 

Hady Habib (7) (Bradenton, FL) def. Jeffrey Wolf (Cincinnati, OH) 6-3; 6-2

Mwendwa Mbithi (10) (Deerfield Beach, FL) def. Jacob Brumm (Rancho Santa Fe, CA) Wo (inj)
Sam Riffice (14) (Roseville, CA) def. Ulises Blanch (3) (Deerfield Beach, FL) 6-1; 3-6; 6-2
Catalin Mateas (8) (Braintree, MA) def. Nicholas Borchenko (Studio City, CA) 6-4; 6-1
William Blumberg (2) (Greenwich, CT) def. Nicolas Moreno de Alboran (13) (London, Surrey) 6-2; 6-1

Girls' 18 Doubles (Quarterfinal Round)

Sofia Kenin (Pembroke Pines, FL) / Katie Swan (1) (Wichita, KS) def. Meghan Kelley (Falmouth, ME) / Gabriella Pollner (6) (Boca Raton, FL) 7-6(4); 6-4
Morgan Coppoc (Tulsa, OK) / Alexandra Sanford (8) (Westerville, OH) def. Jessica Failla (Ramona, CA) / Jada Hart (Colton, CA) 6-4; 6-1 Caroline Dolehide (Hinsdale, IL) / Ena Shibahara (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA) def. Annette Goulak (Oak Park, CA) / Alaina Miller (Saratoga, CA) 6-1; 6-3
Usue Arconada (Rio Piedras, PR) / Francesca Dilorenzo (2) (New Albany, OH) def. Andie Daniell (Douglasville, GA) / Emma Higuchi (Los Angeles, CA) 6-3; 6-3

Girls' 18 Singles (Round of 16)
Helen Altick (Monroe, LA) def. caty mcnally (Cincinnati, OH) 6-2; 6-7(3); 6-1
Claire Liu (12) (Thousand Oaks, CA) def. Ingrid Neel (7) (Bradenton, FL) 7-5; 6-1
Raveena Kingsley (4) (Fulton, MD) def. Caroline Lampl (Bluemont, VA) 6-0; 7-6(1)

Caroline Dolehide (8) (Hinsdale, IL) def. Ena Shibahara (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA) 6-3; 6-0 

Kylie McKenzie (Anthem, AZ) def. Francesca Dilorenzo (6) (New Albany, OH) 5-7; 6-3; 6-2 

Sofia Kenin (3) (Pembroke Pines, FL) def. Sofia Sewing (14) (Doral, FL) 1-6; 6-4; 6-1
Kayla Day (9) (Santa Barbara, CA) def. Emma Higuchi (Los Angeles, CA) 7-5; 6-3
Katie Swan (2) (Wichita, KS) def. Meible Chi (Weston, FL) 6-2; 6-1

Boys' 16 Singles (Semifinal Round)

Oliver Crawford (1) (Spartanburg, SC) def. Jason Lui (7) (Bellevue, WA) 6-1, 6-1

Brian Cernoch (11) (North Bethesda, MD) def. Sean Sculley (3) (Hilton Head Island, SC) 7-6(6), 6-3

Boys' 16 Doubles (Final Round)

Bryce Pereira (San Gabriel, CA) / Ivan Thamma (San Diego, CA) def. Peter Conklin (Fairfield, CT) / Matthew Lord (Bloomfield, CT) 8-2

Boys' 16 Doubles (Playoff)

Jackson Suh (Bellevue, WA) / Danny Thomas (Pickerington, OH) def. Robert Baylon (Buena Park, CA) / Andrew Ton (Milpitas, CA) 8-6

Boys' 16 Singles Consolation (Third Round)

William Woodall (Washington, DC) def. Charles Deng (Temple City, CA) 7-6(5), 6-2

Conrad Russell (Palo Alto, CA) def. Ajai Shekhera (16) (Campbell, CA) Wo (inj)

Brady Draheim (Omaha, NE) def. Matthew Lord (5) (Bloomfield, CT) 6-2, 7-5

Paul Barretto (12) (Tiburon, CA) def. Mac Kiger (10) (Katonah, NY) 6-3, 6-2

Steven Sun (Boca Raton, FL) def. Austen Huang (2) (Elk Grove, CA) Wo (ill)

Kevin Ma (San Ramon, CA) def. Sam Turchetta (14) (Pound Ridge, NY) Wo (ill)

Jackson Suh (15) (Bellevue, WA) def. Spencer Brown (Spartanburg, SC) 6-3, 6-2

Christian Alshon (Boca Raton, FL) def. Bryce Pereira (San Gabriel, CA) 6-4, 4-6, 10-5

Boys' 16 Singles Consolation (Quarterfinal Round)

Conrad Russell (Palo Alto, CA) def. William Woodall (Washington, DC) 7-5, 7-6(5)

Brady Draheim (Omaha, NE) def. Paul Barretto (12) (Tiburon, CA) 6-3, 6-4

Steven Sun (Boca Raton, FL) def. Kevin Ma (San Ramon, CA) 6-3, 3-6, 10-7

Christian Alshon (Boca Raton, FL) def. Jackson Suh (15) (Bellevue, WA) 6-3, 6-2

Boys' 16 Singles (Playoff Semifinal)

Danny Thomas (Pickerington, OH) def. Daunte Harris (Lomita, CA) 6-2 Ret (inj)

Abhijeet Joshi (6) (Millington, NJ) def. Chambers Easterling (Spartanburg, SC) Wo (inj)

Girls' 16 Doubles (Final Round)

Samantha Martinelli (Denver, CO) / Delaney Nothaft (4) (Tempe, AZ) def. Victoria Flores (Fort Dodge, IA) / Madeline Meredith (3) (Vestavia, AL) 8-4

Girls' 16 Doubles (Playoff)

Cameron Corse (Baltimore, MD) / Nadia Gizdova (2) (Columbia, MD) def. Ally Bojczuk (Franklin, TN) / Madison Hwang (Frisco, TX) 8-5

Girls' 16 Singles (Semifinal Round)

Natasha Subhash (Fairfax, VA) def. Stephanie Schrage (Millburn, NJ) 2-6, 6-4, 6-3

Samantha Martinelli (2) (Denver, CO) def. Hannah Lairmore (14) (Mobile, AL) 6-2, 6-0

Girls' 16 Singles Consolation (Third Round)

Hannah Zhao (8) (San Diego, CA) def. Meg Kowalski (15) (La Grange, IL) 6-2, 6-3

Nadia Gizdova (5) (Columbia, MD) def. Nicole Mossmer (La Jolla, CA) 4-6, 6-0, 10-7

Tatum Rice (Hot Springs, AR) def. Ann Li (Devon, PA) 6-2, 6-2

Taylor Bridges (Mesa, AZ) def. Rachel Lim (11) (Briarcliff Manor, NY) 7-5, 7-5

Taylor Johnson (Redondo Beach, CA) def. Ally Bojczuk (7) (Franklin, TN) 6-3, 6-1

Dalayna Hewitt (Pepper Pike, OH) def. Carolyn Campana (Hillsborough, CA) 6-1, 6-3

Abigail Chiu (16) (Austin, TX) def. Delaney Nothaft (Tempe, AZ) 7-5, 6-3

Isabella Lorenzini (10) (Clarendon Hills, IL) def. Janice Shin (9) (Houston, TX) 6-3, 6-4

Girls' 16 Singles Consolation (Quarterfinal Round)

Nadia Gizdova (5) (Columbia, MD) def. Hannah Zhao (8) (San Diego, CA) 7-5, 6-4

Taylor Bridges (Mesa, AZ) def. Tatum Rice (Hot Springs, AR) 2-6, 7-5, 10-1

Dalayna Hewitt (Pepper Pike, OH) def. Taylor Johnson (Redondo Beach, CA) 5-7, 6-2, 12-10

Isabella Lorenzini (10) (Clarendon Hills, IL) def. Abigail Chiu (16) (Austin, TX) 6-3, 7-5

Girls' 16 Singles (Playoff Semifinal)

Victoria Flores (4) (Fort Dodge, IA) def. Anna Brylin (Short Hills, NJ) 6-3, 2-6, 10-7

Victoria Emma (12) (Naples, FL) def. Salma Ewing (Long Beach, CA) 6-1, 7-6(3)

McNally Upsets Top Seed Arconada; Neff, Osuigwe Stage Impressive Comebacks to Take 14s Easter Bowl Titles; Price, Heck Win 12s Championships

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Thirteen-year-old wild card Caty McNally took out top seed Usue Arconada in second round play at the ITF Grade B1 Easter Bowl Wednesday, while champions were crowned in the 12s and 14s divisions under the sunny skies of the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.

The 14s finals provided the drama of the day, with both champions digging out of deep holes to claim the titles. Third seed Adam Neff survived from 6-1, 4-1 down to No. 10 seed Jaycer Calleros, at one point borrowing a racquet from someone in the crowd after having broken strings on all five of his racquets, while No. 14 seed Whitney Osuigwe saved two match points and came from 5-2 down to beat top seed Alexa Noel 4-6, 6-0, 7-6(4).

Neff looked down and out against Calleros, who played confident and aggressive tennis from the outset, while Neff was making too many errors to provide a challenge.  But the 13-year-old from Bradenton changed his strategy, which helped him take a dramatic 1-6, 6-4, 6-4 victory.

"I said, just change your game plan, just try and grind, not try to outhit him," said Neff, who deemed the comeback the best of his junior career. "And that ended up working, and I found my rhythm more, and then I could go back to my old game plan, so it [getting behind by that much] was really a blessing in disguise. Changing the game plan was really the turning point in that match."

After winning the final five games of the second set, Neff got an early break in the third, but Texan Calleros got it right back. Neff got a second break to go up 5-3 and he completed the comeback by holding to secure the title.

Neff, who had an injury that kept him out for four months, was able to mount his comeback despite breaking a string five times during the match.

"I had popped five strings in the match, and I ended up having to use some person in the crowd's racquet," Neff said. "I ended up being up 2-1 in the third with that racquet, and then I got [his racquet, restrung) and lost two straight games. I couldn't find the rhythm with my normal racquet.  I was using a Blade, but I don't know what strings were in it," Neff added, whose racquet of choice is a Wilson Pro Staff 95.

As for celebrating his victory, Neff hoped to share his good news with Go4theGoal Foundation, a pediatric cancer charity he supports and tries to raise awareness for.

In the girls 14s final, which took nearly three hours to complete, Junior Orange Bowl 12s champion Osuigwe looked to be on her way to defeat when she was broken to give Noel a 5-2 to lead in the third set. Noel gave the break back to make it 5-3, but she had two match points with Osuigwe serving, losing both on unforced errors.

Noel's self-talk is loud and uniformly negative and after failing to convert the second match point, she wailed "I'm going to lose this match."

She lost her second chance to serve for the match without getting to match point, but at 5-5, Osuigwe was broken again, with her overhead letting her down twice.

The points--long and often included moonballing--were more often ended by errors than winners, and in her third attempt to serve out the match, Noel, a 12-year-old from New Jersey, was broken again, meaning a tiebreaker would decide the match.

Despite her troubles with her overhead previously, Osuigwe continued to commit to them when appropriate and she hit two winners in that fashion in the tiebreaker, the second to give herself two match points.

She only needed one, crushing a forehand winner to seal the improbably comeback, and erase some bad memories from last year's Easter Bowl.

"It was long and hard," said Osuigwe, who will be 13 later this month. "I was up 5-2 last year in the 12s, in the quarterfinals, and [Kacie Harvey, the eventual champion] came back on me, so I kind of used that as a learning lesson of how she came back."

As for Noel's outbursts, Osuigwe had a simple view of all the drama.

"It doesn't help her, so it helps me," said the IMG Academy student. "I think I still have the match in my hands and I can go on and win it."

The 12s finals were more straightforward, with top seed Gabby Price cruising to a 6-1, 6-2 win over unseeded Emma Jackson.

Price, who was invited to participate in the World Tennis Day exhibition in Madison Square Garden last month with Cori Gauff, was obviously not overwhelmed by the occasion, which included the live streaming of her match.

"I played before Federer played, with Monica Seles and Gabriela Sabatini," said Price, a New Yorker who now trains with Rick Macci in Florida. "So today was kind of like the same, but of course, not as many people. But they had my name on the scoreboard, so that was really cool."

Price, who said she was more excited than nervous in the final, was able to capitalize on Jackson's problems with her serve throughout the match.

"I feel I played pretty well," the 11-year-old Price said. "She was missing a lot, so I took advantage of her serve, because she was double faulting a lot. I was just trying to be consistent and be aggressive at the same time."

No. 6 seed Hunter Heck took the boys 12s title, defeating No. 2 seed Jameson Corsillo 6-3, 6-2.

Heck, a seventh grader from Minnesota, said he began the match with some nerves, but overcame them quickly.

"I definitely was [nervous] going into the match, but usually after a couple of games, I lose the nerves and just start playing well, playing freely," said Heck, whose only outdoor tennis this spring in Minnesota was as a member of his local high school team.

Heck, playing in his second Easter Bowl, said taking the title felt "amazing. It's really fun.  It was really hot last year, but the weather's nice and it's fun to play in."

While the younger players were getting their time in the spotlight, McNally, not much older than those competing in the 12s and 14s, was posting an major upset in the ITF Grade B1 tournament, defeating top seed Usue Arconada, No. 6 in the world junior rankings, 6-4, 7-5.

McNally served for the match at 5-4, but was broken at love. If she had any doubt about her ability to complete the upset after that game she didn't show it, immediately breaking back for a 6-5 lead. Given a second chance, she took it, as Arconada was not able to put any pressure on McNally when she hit a second serve.

"I played really well," said McNally. "I got out to a really good lead in the first set and I think she was really tight. She fought back, playing more aggressive, and she's a really good player."

"My serve was a really big factor," McNally said. "Last week in Carson it wasn't too good. So it really helped me in my match, serve plus one."

McNally traces her confidence to compete with the older, more experienced girls to her trip to Europe this past winter, where she won the prestigious Nike Teen Tennis tournament in England.

"I got to go out of the country and play international tournaments and I won one," said McNally, who is playing in just her second ITF tournament. "That gives me a lot of confidence, shows me I can play with all these other girls."

The only other girls seed to lose in Wednesday's second round was No. 11 seed Jessica Ho, who fell to Kylie McKenzie 6-2, 6-3, although No. 5 seed Michaela Gordon was forced to withdraw with an injury, giving Emma Higuchi a walkover.

The boys draw saw No. 5 seed Emil Reinberg eliminated by Jacob Brum 6-1, 7-5, No. 12 seed Anudeep Kodali go out to JJ Wolf 6-2, 6-3, and No. 15 seed Zeke Clark fall to Patrick Kypson 4-6, 6-1, 6-3. The boys also lost a seed to injury, with No. 11 Robert Levine unable to play, giving Nicholas Borchenko a walkover in the third round.

Top seed Taylor Fritz and No. 2 seed Will Blumberg lost a total of five games between them in reaching the third round.

The 16s age division will move to the Indian Wells Tennis Garden with the semifinals scheduled for Thursday and the finals to be held on Friday.

Links to the draws and live streaming can be found at the easterbowl.com website.

Boys' 18 Singles (Round of 32)

Taylor Fritz (1) (Rancho Santa Fe, CA) def. Connor Hance (Torrance, CA) 6-2, 6-1

Patrick Kypson (Greenville, NC) def. Zeke Clark (15) (Tulsa, OK) 4-6, 6-1, 6-3

Cameron Klinger (Elk Grove, CA) def. Jakub Wojcik (Delray Beach, FL) 7-5, 6-0

John Jorgeson (Bradenton, FL) def. Agustin Moreno 6-4, 6-2

Nathan Ponwith (4) (Scottsdale, AZ) def. Chase Colton (Pompano Beach, FL) 6-2, 6-1

Vasil Kirkov (16) (Tampa, FL) def. Tyler Schick (Short Hills, NJ) 6-0, 6-2

Catalin Mateas (8) (Braintree, MA) def. Riley Smith (Long Beach, CA) 6-3, 6-1

Nicholas Borchenko (Studio City, CA) def. Robert Levine (11) (Bedford, NY) Wo (inj)

Nicolas Moreno de Alboran (13) (London, Surrey) def. Oliver Sec (New York, NY) 6-0, 6-2

William Blumberg (2) (Greenwich, CT) def. Alexander Keyser (Danville, CA) 6-0, 6-2

Jeffrey Wolf (Cincinnati, OH) def. Anudeep Kodali (12) (Durham, NC) 6-2, 6-3

Hady Habib (7) (Bradenton, FL) def. Trent Bryde (Suwanee, GA) 6-7(2), 7-5, 6-2

Jacob Brumm (Rancho Santa Fe, CA) def. Emil Reinberg (5) (Atlanta, GA) 6-1, 7-5

Mwendwa Mbithi (10) (Deerfield Beach, FL) def. Alex Ross (La Grange, IL) 6-3, 6-1

Sam Riffice (14) (Roseville, CA) def. Kyrylo Tsygura (North Potomac, MD) 6-4, 6-3

Ulises Blanch (3) (Deerfield Beach, FL) def. Sami Kirberg (Ft Lauderdale, FL) 6-1, 6-1

Boys' 18 Doubles (Round of 16)

Taylor Fritz (Rancho Santa Fe, CA) / Catalin Mateas (1) (Braintree, MA) def. Alafia Ayeni (San Diego, CA) / Nicholas Borchenko (Studio City, CA) 6-1, 6-3

Jake DeVine (Los Altos Hills, CA) / Patrick Kypson (Greenville, NC) def. Connor Hance (Torrance, CA) / Alexander Lebedev (Island Park, NY) 3-6, 6-2, 14-12

Cameron Klinger (Elk Grove, CA) / Nathan Ponwith (Scottsdale, AZ) def. John McNally (Cincinnati, OH) / Gianni Ross (La Grange, IL) 6-3, 6-4

Zeke Clark (Tulsa, OK) / Nathan Perrone (7) (Bluffton, SC) def. Pedro Fernandez del Valle (Wesley Chapel, FL) / Agustin Moreno 6-3, 6-4

Trent Bryde (Suwanee, GA) / Emil Reinberg (5) (Atlanta, GA) def. Zac Brodney (Los Angeles, CA) / Pietro Rimondini (Boca Raton, FL) 7-5, 6-7(3), 12-10

Alex Ross (La Grange, IL) / Eric Rutledge (Fort Worth, TX) def. Mwendwa Mbithi (Deerfield Beach, FL) / Nicolas Moreno de Alboran (4)

(London, Surrey) 6-2, 6-7(4), 10-5

Vasil Kirkov (Tampa, FL) / Sam Riffice (6) (Roseville, CA) def. Emanuel Llamas (El Paso, TX) / Jakub Wojcik (Delray Beach, FL) 6-0, 6-2

Ulises Blanch (Deerfield Beach, FL) / Liam Caruana (2) (New Braunfels, TX) def. Caleb Chakravarthi (Irvine, CA) / William Genesen (Tulsa, OK) 7-5, 6-3

Girls' 18 Singles (Round of 32)

Caty McNally (Cincinnati, OH) def. Usue Arconada (1) (Rio Piedras, PR) 6-4, 7-5

Helen Altick (Monroe, LA) def. Carson Branstine (Orange, CA) 7-6(1), 1-6, 4-2 Ret (inj)

Claire Liu (12) (Thousand Oaks, CA) def. Chiara Lommer (skokie, IL) 5-7, 6-2, 6-1

Ingrid Neel (7) (Bradenton, FL) def. Raquel Pedraza (Claremont, CA) 6-2, 7-5

Raveena Kingsley (4) (Fulton, MD) def. Christina Rosca (Princeton, NJ) 6-3, 6-1

Caroline Lampl (Bluemont, VA) def. Meghan Kelley (Falmouth, ME) 4-6, 6-4, 6-2

Emma Higuchi (Los Angeles, CA) def. Michaela Gordon (5) (Saratoga, CA) Wo (inj)

Kayla Day (9) (Santa Barbara, CA) def. Andie Daniell (Douglasville, GA) 6-2, 6-3

Meible Chi (Weston, FL) def. Jessie Aney (Rochester, MN) 6-1, 6-3

Katie Swan (2) (Wichita, KS) def. Morgan Coppoc (Tulsa, OK) 6-1, 6-0

Ena Shibahara (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA) def. Alaina Miller (Saratoga, CA) 6-2, 7-5

Caroline Dolehide (8) (Hinsdale, IL) def. Alexis Nelson (Saint Paul, MN) 6-2, 6-0

Francesca Dilorenzo (6) (New Albany, OH) def. Jessica Failla (Ramona, CA) 6-2, 6-3

Kylie McKenzie (Anthem, AZ) def. Jessica Ho (11) (Naples, FL) 6-2, 6-3

Sofia Sewing (14) (Doral, FL) def. Taylor Russo (Deerfield Beach, FL) 7-5, 6-1

Sofia Kenin (3) (Pembroke Pines, FL) def. Maddie Pothoff (Tucson, AZ) 6-3, 6-2

Girls' 18 Doubles (Round of 16)

Sofia Kenin (Pembroke Pines, FL) / Katie Swan (1) (Wichita, KS) def. Kenya Jones (Memphis, TN) / Ndindi Mwaruka 6-0, 6-3

Meghan Kelley (Falmouth, ME) / Gabriella Pollner (6) (Boca Raton, FL) def. Summer Dvorak (Laguna Beach, CA) / Gabrielle Schuck

(Colorado Springs, CO) 6-1, 7-6(7)

Jessica Failla (Ramona, CA) / Jada Hart (Colton, CA) def. Jade Lewis (Hilton Head Island, SC) / caty mcnally (Cincinnati, OH) 4-6, 6-4,

10-8

Morgan Coppoc (Tulsa, OK) / Alexandra Sanford (8) (Westerville, OH) def. Meible Chi (Weston, FL) / Taylor Russo (Deerfield Beach, FL)

6-4, 7-6(6)

Annette Goulak (Oak Park, CA) / Alaina Miller (Saratoga, CA) def. Carson Branstine (Orange, CA) / Kylie McKenzie (Anthem, AZ) Wo

(inj)

Caroline Dolehide (Hinsdale, IL) / Ena Shibahara (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA) def. Caroline Lampl (Bluemont, VA) / Melissa Lord

(Bloomfield, CT) 7-5, 6-1

Andie Daniell (Douglasville, GA) / Emma Higuchi (Los Angeles, CA) def. Hanna Chang (Fontana, CA) / Risa Nakagawa (Rancho Palos

Verdes, CA) 6-1, 6-3

Usue Arconada (Rio Piedras, PR) / Francesca Dilorenzo (2) (New Albany, OH) def. Jessie Aney (Rochester, MN) / Ingrid Neel (Bradenton,

FL) 6-2, 6-2

Boys' 16 Singles (Round of 16)

Oliver Crawford (1) (Spartanburg, SC) def. Paul Barretto (12) (Tiburon, CA) 6-3, 6-2

Danny Thomas (Pickerington, OH) def. Matthew Lord (5) (Bloomfield, CT) 7-5, 6-0

Daunte Harris (Lomita, CA) def. Ajai Shekhera (16) (Campbell, CA) 1-6, 7-6(8), 6-2

Jason Lui (7) (Bellevue, WA) def. William Woodall (Washington, DC) 6-2, 6-3

Abhijeet Joshi (6) (Millington, NJ) def. Bryce Pereira (San Gabriel, CA) 6-3, 4-6, 6-0

Sean Sculley (3) (Hilton Head Island, SC) def. Jackson Suh (15) (Bellevue, WA) 6-0, 6-3

Chambers Easterling (Spartanburg, SC) def. Sam Turchetta (14) (Pound Ridge, NY) 7-6(4), 3-6, 6-3

Brian Cernoch (11) (North Bethesda, MD) def. Austen Huang (2) (Elk Grove, CA) 7-5, 4-6, 6-3

Boys' 16 Singles (Quarterfinal Round)

Oliver Crawford (1) (Spartanburg, SC) def. Danny Thomas (Pickerington, OH) 6-0, 6-1

Jason Lui (7) (Bellevue, WA) def. Daunte Harris (Lomita, CA) 6-3, 6-1

Brian Cernoch (11) (North Bethesda, MD) def. Chambers Easterling (Spartanburg, SC) 3-1 Ret (inj)

Sean Sculley (3) (Hilton Head Island, SC) def. Abhijeet Joshi (6) (Millington, NJ), 6-1, 6-1

Girls' 16 Singles (Round of 16)

Stephanie Schrage (Millburn, NJ) def. Taylor Bridges (Mesa, AZ) 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(1)

Anna Brylin (Short Hills, NJ) def. Tatum Rice (Hot Springs, AR) 6-3, 6-4

Victoria Flores (4) (Fort Dodge, IA) def. Nicole Mossmer (La Jolla, CA) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3

Natasha Subhash (Fairfax, VA) def. Hannah Zhao (8) (San Diego, CA) 6-1, 6-0

Salma Ewing (Long Beach, CA) def. Isabella Lorenzini (10) (Clarendon Hills, IL) 6-3, 1-6, 6-3

Hannah Lairmore (14) (Mobile, AL) def. Delaney Nothaft (Tempe, AZ) 6-0, 6-0

Victoria Emma (12) (Naples, FL) def. Carolyn Campana (Hillsborough, CA) 6-4, 6-1

Samantha Martinelli (2) (Denver, CO) def. Taylor Johnson (Redondo Beach, CA) 6-3, 7-6(5)

Girls' 16 Singles (Quarterfinal Round)

Stephanie Schrage (Millburn, NJ) def. Anna Brylin (Short Hills, NJ) 6-2, 6-3

Natasha Subhash (Fairfax, VA) def. Victoria Flores (4) (Fort Dodge, IA) 0-6, 6-4, 6-3

Hannah Lairmore (14) (Mobile, AL) def. Salma Ewing (Long Beach, CA) 6-1, 5-7, 6-3

Samantha Martinelli (2) (Denver, CO) def. Victoria Emma (12) (Naples, FL) 7-5, 4-6, 6-2

Boys' 14 Singles (Final Round)

Adam Neff (3) (Bradenton, FL) def. Jaycer Calleros (10) (San Antonio, TX) 1-6, 6-4, 6-4

Boys' 14 Singles Consolation (Semifinal Round)

William Grant (14) (Santa Barbara, CA) def. Jenson Brooksby (8) (Carmichael, CA) 6-3, 6-1

Govind Nanda (1) (Redlands, CA) def. Daniel Baturyn (San Leandro, CA) 6-3, 6-2

Boys' 14 Singles (Playoff Final)

Garrett Johns (Atlanta, GA) def. Cannon Kingsley (6) (Northport, NY) 7-6(5), 1-6, 10-7

Boys' 14 Singles (Playoff)

Joshua Xu (5) (Chandler, AZ) def. Brandon Nakashima (2) (San Diego, CA) Wd (inj)

Girls' 14 Singles (Final Round)

Whitney Osuigwe (14) (Bradenton, FL) def. Alexa Noel (1) (Summit, NJ) 4-6, 6-0, 7-6(4)

Girls' 14 Singles Consolation (Semifinal Round)

Naomi Cheong (Las Vegas, NV) def. Chloe Beck (Watkinsville, GA) 6-1, 6-2

Abigail Forbes (3) (Raleigh, NC) def. Jillian Taggart (8) (Fair Oaks, CA) 7-5, 6-4

Girls' 14 Singles Consolation (Final Round)

Naomi Cheong (Las Vegas, NV) def. Abigail Forbes (3) (Raleigh, NC) 6-1, 6-4

Girls' 14 Singles (Playoff Final)

Lea Ma (5) (Dix Hills, NY) def. Imani Graham (St Johns, FL) 6-2, 6-2

Girls' 14 Singles (Playoff)

Kacie Harvey (6) (Braintree, MA) def. Katie Volynets (4) (Walnut Creek, CA) 6-4, 6-2

Boys' 12 Singles (Final Round)

Hunter Heck (6) (New Brighton, MN) def. Jameson Corsillo (2) (Boca Raton, FL) 6-3, 6-2

Boys' 12 Singles Consolation (Final Round)

Hugo Hashimoto (4) (San Jose, CA) def. Dominick Cuchran (Bloomingdale, IL) 6-2, 7-6(2)

Boys' 12 Singles Consolation (Semifinal Round)

Hugo Hashimoto (4) (San Jose, CA) def. Tauheed Browning (Philadelphia, PA) 6-1, 7-5

Dominick Cuchran (Bloomingdale, IL) def. JC Roddick (5) (San Antonio, TX) 6-3, 6-3

Boys' 12 Singles (Playoff Final)

Sam Feldman (3) (Brookline, MA) def. Benjamin Kittay (7) (Potomac, MD) 5-7, 7-6(2), 10-7

Boys' 12 Singles (Playoff)

Aidan Mayo (1) (Roseville, CA) def. Martin Damm (Bradenton, FL) Wo (inj)

Girls' 12 Singles (Final Round)

Gabriella Price (1) (Montebello, NY) def. Emma Jackson (LA Grange Park, IL) 6-1, 6-2

Girls' 12 Singles Consolation (Semifinal Round)

Skyler Grishuk (15) (Newport Beach, CA) def. Kenadee Semenik (4) (Las Vegas, NV) 6-1, 6-3

Bridget Stammel (13) (Dallas, TX) def. Jacque Dunyon (12) (South Ogden, UT) 6-7(5), 6-3, 11-9

Girls' 12 Singles Consolation (Final Round)

Skyler Grishuk (15) (Newport Beach, CA) def. Bridget Stammel (13) (Dallas, TX) 6-2, 6-0

Girls' 12 Singles (Playoff Final)

Jennifer Kida (8) (Wilmington, CA) def. Muskan Mahajan (San Ramon, CA) 6-2, 6-0

Girls' 12 Singles (Playoff)

Nina Gulbransen (3) (Boca Raton, FL) def. Savannah Broadus (2) (Carrollton, TX) 6-1, 6-2