Hance defeats no. 2 seed Woestendick, Satterfield Tops No. 4 Seed Willwerth to reach Kalamazoo 18s semi -final; Top seeds fall in B16S doubles quarterfinals; Ayrault beats 16s top seeds Moreno in San Diego; American teams reach semi -finals at ITF 2 pm World Junior Tennis

Jack Satterfield will go to the dormitories on Vanderbilt on Sunday, but he may have to postpone his journey to Nashville after reaching the last weekend in the USTA Boys 18S National Championships with a 7-6 (5), 6-4 victory over the Australian Open Boys-Finalist Benjamin Willwerth.

Sattterfield, the no. 8 Seed, took a 3-1 lead in the first set, but Willwerth, sown no. 4, recovered to go up 4-3, just to hand over the tiebreaker with a double error on 5-6.

“When he got it at 4-3, I really started to try to make some more balls, really hold,” said the 18-year-old, who has been training in Florida for several years. “It was a really tight breaker, some good tennis. It is double processed with an inch or two on the set point.”

Today marked the first day that the boys no longer call their own lines, so Satterfield was relieved when Willwerth’s second serve was called.

“I absolutely saw space, but I was happy that they called it, because I know it is probably difficult to make the right calls,” said the winner of all B. Stowe B. Stowe B. Stowe.

There were no breaks in the second set to Willwerth, who had won the last four games in his round of 16 match against Maximus Dussault on Wednesday to survive, was broken at 4-5.

“I thought I was playing a solid last game,” said Satterfield. “The last point that I was lucky on the Rekforehand -Dropper, but he had many long games, and a long grinding with Maximus yesterday, so I knew that if I had dug down, he would be more tired than I was, because I won most of my other games quite quickly.”

Satterfield was disappointed in his performance in Wimbledon and lost in the first round in both singles and Doubles, so he wanted to find his shape in Kalamazoo.

“I had a tough Wimbledon, and that’s why I really wanted to do good here,” said Satterfield, who plays his fourth consecutive year Kalamazoo. “Kzoo is the tournament where you want to play well. It’s my favorite tournament of the year, because all your friends are here, it’s a big draw, you get a lot of competitions. I remember that I came to this tournament for the first time, I thought wow, I think I made here.

The opponent of Sateterfield in Saturday’s semi-final is no. 6 Keaton Hance, who removed no. 2 seed Cooper Woetendick 6-0, 5-7, 6-3.

Hance, who reached the semi -final of the 16s last year, had only dropped one match in his round of 16 wins at no. 9 Seed Dominick Mosejczuk and he started just as well against the semi -finalist of 2024 18S.

“Yesterday and today, at least for the first sets, I certainly played very well,” said the 17-year-old from Torrance California, who is training with the USTA in Orlando. “I didn’t have many mistakes at all, and that was my goal to go in both games. They are not happy to play longer points against Dom and Cooper and they don’t like to play longer, so my goal was to make as many balls as possible and I think it really helped.”

Woestendick shook away that disappointing opening set, made fewer mistakes and served better in the second, so when Hance lost it, and spoke with his brother and coach Connor during the break of 10 minutes, the strategy was not part of the discussion.

“I was a bit frustrated, but he calmed me, especially talked to me about positivity and energy,” Hance said. “I didn’t feel that I was playing completely badly, Cooper just raised his level a lot, so I didn’t have much to change tactically, it was usually just mental and my energy.”

Hance missed a volley that led to the break that cost him the second set, but he made a critical after he had not agreed the game at his first match point with Woestendick on 2-5, ad-out.

Hance served on 5-3 before the game and went 15-30, but hit a overhead winner for 30-all and then performed a perfect backhand drop-volley winner to earn his second match point.

“That was a clutch volley,” Hance said with a smile. “I will talk to my brother about that for a while. I also don’t think he was ready for that, thinking that I made that, but I will take. It was a good link by me, a big point.”

Hance converted that second match point when Woestendick sent a forehand long and ended the two hours and 51 minutes of match that looked like it would not take that long after the first set.

Hance and Sattterfield are expecting a fight in the semi-final on Saturday, with the two Split ITF J300 matches 7-5 in the third scores, Satterfield in Costa Rica and Hance in Indian Wells.

“I just think he has a lot of variation in his game, he can do a lot,” said Hance. “But I think I do that too, so I think we have such good competitions. We can both do almost anything on a tennis court, and I look forward to doing that again.”

The semi -final of Saturday in the top half contains top seeds Darwin Blanch and 2024 finalist Jack Kennedy, the number 3 seed this year.

Blanch defeated Wimbledon Boys finalist Ronit Karki 6-2, 6-2 and said he is in shape now that he has had five games at the Stewe Stadium courts.

“I feel that I have played every game better, so I am happy with that,” said 17-year-old Floridian, who is training in Spain. “I think yesterday was a little better and then it was even better today. My goal was just to concentrate on getting my level higher every game.”

Blanch knew that Karki had a great run to the Wimbledon final last month as a qualifying match, but was not really familiar with his game.

“I know him for four years and he came to where I train three years ago in Spain for about a month,” said Blanch. “But I hardly saw him playing. I saw him for three games yesterday. But I just concentrated on my Lefty game; I knew I was an more aggressive player than he, so I just played aggressively and that is all I did today.”

Kennedy spent 45 minutes longer on the field than Blanch and dropped his first set of the tournament to no. 22 Seed Matisse Farzam before he recovered for a 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 victory.

“It wasn’t easy,” said 17-year-old New Yorker. “We both started nerves, it’s a big moment, quarterfinals. I was a bit used to the pressure, because I was previously in this phase. I think he relaxed a little in the second, got the new balls, who helped his serve. He stepped on his game, play for free, with pressure on me.”

Kennedy admitted that the 10-minute break was favorable, because he did not allow the on-Court coaching that the ITF now allows in his Junior Tournament, where the USTA only allowed coaching during that break.

“It has been different, we both get used to not coaching between points,” said Kennedy about coach Greg Lumpkin. “Ik denk dat na de tweede dat 10 minuten me echt heeft geholpen. Het vertraagde zijn momentum een beetje en ontspande me een beetje een beetje in de airconditioning-dit is de hele week een van de heetste dagen-en met mij en Greg zei dat ik gewoon slecht speelde, hij was gewoon met de goederen en om de storm te doorstaan en om de storm te weerstaan en om de storm te doorstaan en de storm te doorstaan en om de storm te doorstaan en te doorgaan met de goederen en om de Storm to endure and endure and to endure the storm and continue with the goods and to endure the storm and to endure and endure the storm and to endure the storm and to endure the storm and to endure the storm and endure the goods.

Kennedy has some fame with Blanch of incidental practices in Orlando, but Blanch has been playing pro -events for almost two years now, so their paths did not come to the ITF Junior Circuit.

“I didn’t see him too much, compared to Ronit,” said Kennedy. “But preparing the body and just focusing on myself is certainly the most important thing. Then what they bring, you get answers and problem solution.”

The 16s play their quarterfinals on Friday, starting at 10.30 am, with the double semi -finals in both the 16S and 18s planned for the afternoon. The remaining double matches are played with full third sets instead of match tractors.

The double quarterfinals in the 16s were played this afternoon, with top seeds Michael Antonius and Roshan Santhosh fall on no. 7 seeds Lucas Smith and Shane Majeed 6-2, 7-6 (5).

Smith and Majeed will be confronted with no. 15 seeds Marcel Latak and Vihaan Reddy, who beat Unseededed Kamil Stolarczyk and Griffin Goode 7-6 (3), 4-6, 11-9.

Non-faded Jerrid Gaines JR and Sebastian Bielen went to the semi-final with a 7-6 (6), 7-5 victory over no. 6 seeds Anish Poojari and Soren Swenson. Gaines and Bielen play no. 2 seeds Andrew Johnson and Mason Vaughan, who defeated the unwased Sebastian Godoy and Akshay Mirmira 6-4, 4-6, 10-7.

At the Girls 16S in San Diego, 14-year-old Hannah Ayrault Top Zaad Carlota Moreno defeated to continue to the semi-final of Friday, which saved five match points in her 6-4, 0-6, 7-5 victory

“I stayed positive and my attitude was super good. I played aggressively. I was able to take off this game because of my attitude,” Ayrault said the press help of the Fred Sidhu tournament. “I know her (Moreno) forever, she is a friend and clearly a great player. It felt great to go out and play and win some great tennis.”

Below are the results of the quarterfinals of the other USTA National Championships, except for the G12s and G18s, which have planned their quarterfinals for Friday. Click on the head to go to the draws.

Both teams from the United States went on to the semi -final of Friday of the ITF World Junior Tennis 14 hours championships in the Czech Republic.

The American girls beat Taiwan 3-0 and play Sweden, who beat 2-1 with 2-1 on Thursday.

The American boys defeated Japan 2-1 and will play Korea, a 2-1 winner about Venezuela.