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It’s a quiet time in the tennis world, especially here in the United States, and I’m taking tomorrow off for Thanksgiving. This silence is the perfect time to thank my sponsors at the Junior Tennis Champions Center, the Southern California Tennis Association Foundation and the John McEnroe Tennis Academy for their continued support of my coverage of junior and college tennis. And thanks for reading my work, both here on Zootennis.com and on the Tennis recruiting network; My partnership with TRN has been instrumental in sustaining this site over the past twenty years, and I know how fortunate I am to be able to grow with them as they have continued to raise the profiles of both junior and college tennis.
I’ll be returning from Florida on Friday where qualifying has begun for the 12s, 14s and 16s divisions at the IMG Academy International Championshipsformerly known as the Eddie Herr, in Bradenton. The ITF J300 Qualifying starts on Saturday, November 29.
The ITF J500 in Merida, Mexico will wrap up the second round matches late tonight, with the quarter-finalists determined on Thursday.
Six Americans – four boys and two girls – have advanced to the third round.
Thursday’s third round matches with Americans:
Ryan Cozad[14] against Yannick Alexandrescou[1](ROU)
Keaton Hance[7] in William Rejchtman Vinciguerra[10](SWE)
Noah Johnston[9] against Jamie Mackenzie[6](DU)
Ronit Karki[5] against Oliver Sanders (CZE)
Jana Preston against Iva Marinkovic (SWE)
Yael Saffar in Sofia Hettlerova[12](JUN)
#Happy #Thanksgiving #Americans #advance #ITF #J500 #Merida