Bigun beats Sakamoto in Sumter Challenger 125; TRN’s 12s National coverage; Brown, Yli-Piipari claims ITA summer championships; Ita announces Di changes; McKenna leaves Wisconsin for SMU

The first round of the new ATP Challenger 125 in Sumter SC contained a competition between two of the four 2024 Junior Slam Champions, with Roland Garros winner Kaylan Bigun taking on the Australian Open -winner Rei Sakamoto of Japan. De 19-jarige Sakamoto, die de afgelopen acht maanden twee uitdagertitels heeft gewonnen, staat op 200 in de ATP-ranglijst, terwijl Bigun, die dit voorjaar een semester speelde bij UCLA, maar niet terugkeert naar de universiteit, op 807 is, maar er was geen bewijs van die gap vandaag, met wilde kaart met wilde kaarten, met wilde kaarten, met wilde kaarten, met wilde kaarten, met wilde kaarten, met wilde kaarten, met wilde kaarten, met wilde kaarten, met wilde kaarten, met Wild cards, with wild cards, with wild cards, with wild cards, with wild cards, with wild cards, with wild cards, with wild cards with wild Portral, with a Porte from the Porte.

Kalamazoo 18s champion Darwin Blanch, a wildcard, is on Wednesday schedule, opposite the former Arizona State All-American Murphy Cassone.

The four qualifications were decided today: Jake Fearnley (TCU) of Great -Britain, Borna Gojo (Wake Forest) from Croatia, Martin Damm and Ryan Seggerman (Princeton, UNC). They all play their first round games on Wednesday. Strong Kirchheimer (northwest) reached the main drawing as a happy loser.

The coverage of the USTA National 12S Championships tennis network has been published today, with An article from Mobile by the title of Keita Iida and An article from Peachtree Corners On the reach of the titles for Anna Victoria Sandru. Both 14s recaps are posted on Wednesday, with the 16S and 18S articles set for Thursday and Friday.

The ITA summer championships Closed today in the Leftwich Tennis Center in Memphis, with Lucas Brown from Texas and Saray Yli-Piipari from Tennessee who won the singles titles, and wildcards in the ITA all-American Championships of next month. YLI-PIIPARI also won the Doublesitels, with teammate Vanesa Suarez, where that title also provided an all-American Championships’ main attractions of a wildcard.

For more information about the Tennessee ladies’ titles, see this article from utsports.com. For more information about the title of Brown, see this article from texaslonghorns.com.

Ita Summer Championships Final Results:

Saray Yli-Piipari[3](Tennessee) d. Sophia Holod[5](Notre Dame) 6-2, 5-7, 10-4

Saray Yli-Piipari and Vanesa Suarez[1](Tennessee) d. Erica Jessel and Maia Loueiro (northwestern) 6-1, 6-1

Lucas Brown[1](Texas) d. MORITZ KUERNATSCH[3](Memphis) 6-2, 6-4

Luis Jose Ninamine and Luc Koenig[1](Baylor) d. Martin Vergara (state Tennessee) and Cody Benton[2](NC State) 6-3, 3-6, 10-6

At the beginning of this month, the ITA has announced a change in its ranking procedures in Division I.With the most important change, there are no coaches survey to start the season, and all teams and players who start every ranking do not rise. The algorithm is performed an indefinite amount of times until the cycles and an average points in the cycle will result in the ranking.

A more detailed explanation why the ranking procedure was changed, why the original algorithm was preserved and the fate of the coaches polls, including topics, is available here.

Smu announced on Monday that Kelcy McKennaThe women’s head coach at the University of Wisconsin would take over their program after the contract of Jeff Nvolo had not been extended last month. McKenna, a former all-American in the state of Arizona, recorded the main coaching position of Wisconsin in 2017 and built that program into a consistent NCAA participant, with a record of 58-21 in the past three seasons.