Number 1 seed and defending champion Shaan Patel of Boys 18 will face number 17 seed Siddharth Bharadwaj and number 2 seed Ronit Karki will face number 17 seed John Gentek.
Daniel Malacek, the top seed in the boys 16s, will play No. 13 seed Joshua Dolinsky.
Girls 18s No. 1 Carlota Moreno will play last year’s champion Paige Wygodzki, who is unseeded this year in the 18s.
In the girls 16s, top seed Sylvana Jalbert will face 17 seed Ella Lin, while No. 2 seed Shristi Selvan plays unseeded Audrey Dussault.
Another intriguing round of 16 matches in the girls 16s features two IMG Academy champions, with 2024 12s champion Nikol Davletshina, the No. 5 seed, taking on 2025 16s champion Adelina Iftime, who was unseeded this week.
In the girls 14s, top seed Ava Chua will play unseeded Zhongyi Zhou and No. 2 seed Eleanor Armistead will face No. 13 seed Natalia Martinez.
Girls 12 seed Anna Sandru will play No. 13 seed Lucy Jiang and No. 2 seed Mary Podkhyneychenko will play No. 14 seed Audrey Yang.
In the boys 12s, No. 1 seed Dmitriy Flyam will play No. 14 seed Jesse Goldman for a spot in the quarterfinals, while No. 2 seed William Zhang will face No. 12 seed Zephyr Zwicker.
In the boys 14s, top seed Sebastian Zavala will play unseeded Nathan Lee and No. 2 seed Jiarui Zhang will face unseeded Jerry Qi.
While all the top seeds in singles remain, the No. 1 seed in boys 18 doubles lost in the second round today, with Rowan Qalbani and Ilias Bouzoubaa defeating top seeds Austin He and John Gentek 6-4, 6-3.
The draws for the 16s and 18s in Lake Nona are here; the draws for the 12s and 14s are in San Antonio here.
When FILA ended their sponsorship deal with the BNP Paribas Open, there was no reason to believe they would continue to sponsor the ITF J300 played there in the second week of the Masters 1000 in Indian Wells. When that became clear this fall, the USTA began looking for an alternative to that event, which was held in Indian Wells in 2023, 2024 and 2025. I heard at the Orange Bowl that the new location is the Tucson Racket Club in Arizona, and it is now listed on the ITF Junior Calendar. The 48-player draw tournament, which runs from March 9 to 14, will be followed by the San Diego J300 North American Regional, which begins on March 16.
The ITF event in Las Vegas that normally precedes these two events is not yet on the ITF calendar, but I’m told it will be a J200 event this year.
The downside to the first quarter 2026 calendar is that the ITF has moved the J300 and J500 in Brazil from late February/early March to the same two weeks as the J300s in the United States.
Next month I will have an article for the Tennis Recruiting Network about the USTA’s 2026 commitment to increasing opportunities for U.S. juniors by expanding the number of ITF Junior Circuit tournaments in the United States.
Online education has been popular among top juniors for as long as I’ve been covering the sport, which has been 20 years and counting, and it shows no signs of slowing down. This articlewhich first appeared in The Guardianlooks at the trend and what it could mean for the athletic, academic and social development of young tennis players.
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