ITF J300 European Championships Quarterfinals set; USA team reaches the semi -final of Billie Jean King Cup; Five Americans, two seeds continue to the quarterfinals of Columbus Challenger; Eriksson survives Braswell on M15 Fayetteville

The quarterfinals have been set for that week European championships in Oberpullendorf Austria, an ITF J300 tournament Who again moved this year from his traditional place in July on the schedule to September.

Top Girls Seeds Charo Esquiva Banuls Of Spain and Nellie Taraba Wallberg from Sweden were lost by the quarterfinals, just like boys No. 1 Seed Yannick Alexandrescou van Romania, but no. 2 Seed Oskari Paldanius of Finland from undesirable Sergio Hernandez of Sperella Hernandez of Sperella Hernandez of Sperella Hernandez of Sperella Hernandez of Sperella Hernandez of Sperella Hernandez of Sperella Hernandez of Sperella Hernandez Hernandez. (The boys have a draw of 128, the girls drawing is 64). There was rain earlier in the week, but the tournament is back on schedule with the quarterfinals for Friday. In both treks, two unguided players belong to the last eight in singles.

Charo Esquiva Banuls[1](In particular) in the Amelie of the Governors[10](Jun)
Ophelie Boulay (FRA) 5 Line Bajraliu[11](SWE)
Amy Suchaa (CZE) against Sonja Zhenikhovah[4](Ger)
Ruby Cooling[12](GBR) in Nellie Taraba Wallberg[2](SWE)

Yannick Alexandrescou[1] In Johan Oscar Lien[11](Neither)
Ziga Sesko[4](Slo) V Oliver Majdandzik (Ger)
William Rejchtman Vinciguerra[6](Swe) v Niels McDonald[3](Ger)
Stefan Haita[8](Rou) V Odysseas Geladaris (GRE)

Links to trekkings, live streaming and live scoring can be found on the Tennis Europe Tournament Update Site.

The European 16S championships are in Parma, Italy next week.

I completely missed the European 14S championships at the end of July. A summary of that tournament here.

The Billie Jean King Cup This week is underway in China, making it difficult to follow for those of us in the eastern time zone, but the women of the United States went to the semi-final for the first time since 2021, with a 2-1 win over Kazakhstan. Emma Navarro saved match points in her victory over Yulia Putintseva, Jessica Pegula lost in Singles to Elena Rybakina, with Pegula and Taylor Townsend who supplied the clinching point with double extraction on Putseva and Rybakina.

Billie Jean King Cup Finals

September 16-21, 2025

Shenzhen Bay Sports Center Arena

Shenzhen, China

Result

Quarter -finals

US 2, Kazakhstan 1

Thursday, September 18

Emma Navarro (US) D. Yulia Putintseva (Kaz), 7-5, 2-6, 7-6 (6)

Elena Rybakina (Kaz) d. Jessica Pegula (US), 6-4, 6-1

Pegula/Taylor Townsend (US) D. Rybakina/Putintseva, 6-2, 7-6 (1)

The United States will play Great -Britain in the semi -final on Saturday, with the other semi -final with Ukraine and Italy.

Stanford Senior Samir Banerjee, who participates in only his fourth career -seconder, is one of the two qualifications that will continue to the quarterfinals. Banerjee defeated Kalamazoo 18s champion Darwin Blanch 6-0, 3-6, 6-3 to reach his first challenger quarterfinals, where he will meet Tyler Zink (Georgia, Oklahoma State). Zinc reached his second challenger quarterfinals with a 6-4, 7-6 (6) victory over Abdullah Shelbayh (Florida) from Jordan.

Qualification Daniel Masur van Germany defeated No. 6 Seed andres Martin (Georgia Tech) 3-6, 7-5, 6-3 and plays the University of Virginia second-year Rafael Jodar van Spain, who defeated Alex Rybakov (TCU) 6-3, 6-4.

The only two seeds that stay behind each other, with Martin Damm[7] Play James Trotter[3](Ohio State) of Japan.

Friday’s schedule for the quarterfinals of the singles and the semi -finals:

Qualification Alex Kotzen (Columbia, Tennessee) and no. 3 Seed Keegan Smith (UCLA) are the other two Americans in the quarterfinals.