Day, Townsend, Vidmanova and McDonald qualify for BNP Paribas Open; Herea, Dietrich takes over the top spots in the ITA DI Singles rankings; Losing numbers 3 and 4 in both draws at J200 Las Vegas; WTA tournament returns to Memphis this summer

Kayla Day, who only received a wildcard into qualifying when Elvina Kalieva didn’t need hers when she entered her own rankings, beat two seeds to advance. The 26-year-old southpaw defeated No. 17 seed Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus 6-2, 7-5 in the first round and No. 9 seed Darja Semenistraja of Latvia 6-2, 6-1 in today’s final qualifying round. She will play against Francesca Jones of Great Britain, whom she defeated in the second round of the Wimbledon Junior Championships in 2016.

Taylor Townsend won the battle of the players competing in Sunday’s final, with the ATX Open finalist and doubles champion beating Arcadia W35 winner Akasha Urhobo 6-0, 7-6(5) this afternoon.

2024 NCAA singles champion Dasha Vidmanova (Georgia) will make her Masters 1000 debut, with the 23-year-old Czech beating Priscilla Hon of Australia 7-5, 7-6 (4) to qualify. Vidmanova will face Cristina Bucsa from Spain in the first round, who won the WTA 500 in Mexico last week.

Mackenzie McDonald (UCLA) and wild card Trevor Svajda (SMU) were the only two American men to advance to the final round of qualifying and they played each other tonight, with McDonald earning a 6-4, 6-2 win. Svajda had defeated No. 12 seed and ATP No. 135 Luca Nardi of Italy 4-6, 7-6(2), 6-3 in Monday night’s first qualifying round.

An even dozen Americans are sown in Indian Wells:

Today’s ITA Division I release includes both team and individual rankings; the No. 1 teams remain the same, with the Georgia women and Ohio State men continuing to hold the top spot since the computer rankings took over three weeks ago. But when the previous singles No. 1s both lost on Sunday — North Carolina’s Reese Brantmeier fell 6-1, 6-2 to SMU’s Amelie Van Impe and SMU’s Trevor Svajda was defeated by Virginia’s Dylan Dietrich 3-6, 6-1, 6-3 — they fell to No. 2. Dietrich moved up to No. 1, while Carmen Herea of ​​Texas took over the top spot. Brantmeier.

When the NCAA singles and doubles championships took place in the spring, the rankings were important for entry into those events, but now the rankings are only intended to determine All-American status (a top 20 season ending) and the ATP and to a lesser extent the ITF Accelerator programs. Of course, they are also part of a player’s legacy in their program, which is also important.

Girls No. 3 seed Olivia Traynor lost to Carlota Moreno, who reached the semifinals of a W15 last month, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 today, while Canada’s Charlize Celebrini defeated No. 4 seed Capucine Jauffret 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. Celebrini is the younger sister of NHL San Jose Sharks star Macklin Celebrini, a member of the Canadian Olympic hockey team.

Top girls seed Nancy Lee defeated Ava Quincy Brewer 1-6, 6-3, 6-0 to advance to a meeting with No. 14 seed Caroline Shao. Top boys seed Ryan Cozad defeated Ilhan Basar Senel of Turkey 7-6(3), 6-4 and will face 16s Orange Bowl champion Matias Reyniak, the No. 15 seed, in the round of 16.