ITF Junior Davis Cup, Junior Billie Jean King Cup Teams called; Qualification Complete, ITA All-American Championships start on Wednesday in Tulsa and Cary; Cal’s Augustus retires; Stoiana beats top seeds at Templeton W75

Today the ITF announced the participants for the Junior Davis Cup and Junior Billie Jean Cup 16h matches, which will be held in Santiago Chile on 3-9 November.

The teams from the United States, who took both titles last year, look particularly strong, where the three girls compete for the US Julieta Pareja, Kristina Penickova (both in last year’s champion team) and Annika Penickova. Annika has been from an injury since Roland Garros, but has entered the coming ITF Junior Circuit events in Texas, so she seems ready to return. USTA National Coach Georgi Rumenov is the team captain.

Captain Sylvain Guichard, Teodor Davidov, Jordan Lee and Michael Antonius, 2024 World Junior Tennis Champions

The three boys representing the United States have two of the players who led the US to the 2 pm World Junior Tennis Championship last August: Jordan Lee and Michael Antonius. Just like Annika Penickova, Lee is on his way with an injury, with his interruption that extends until February, so it’s good to see him in a position to start competing again. US Open Boys Quarter finalist Andrew Johnson is the only 16-year-old on Team USA. USTA National Coach Sylvain Guichard is the team captain.

2024 Orange Bowl -finalist Moise Koume has been appointed as the French team. He has not played a junior event since July since Roland Garros and no other sanctioned tournament. I am surprised to see that Luis Miguel is not in the Brazilian team.

The list of girls representing the 16 competing of countries is here; The boys list is here.

The qualification was closed today for the ITA All-American Championships, with the Men start playing in Tulsa OK on Wednesday morning and the Women start their tournament on Wednesday morning in Cary NC.

Because the draws do not designate the qualifications, the list of those who have collected winning on Monday and Tuesday is here to reach the main table. Four of the qualifications of the women and five of the men’s qualifications are qualified in advance, which means that they have already won five games to reach the main table.

Women to head:

Alyssa Ahn[17]. Stanford
Lavinia tanasia[17]NC State
Emma Matches, Utah (pre-qualificator)
Salakthip Ounmang[17]Oklahoma
Nao Nishino[5]Ohio State
Prisca Abbas, UNC-Charlotte (pre-qualifier)
Berta Passola Folch, CAL

Columbus Challenger champion Michael Zheng from Columbia withdrew, just like Rafael Jodar from Virginia. Anastasia Lopata from Georgia, who has been introduced, is injured and withdrew.

Head head coach Kris Kwinta takes over as the interim head coach.

With the recent retirement of Lele Forood in Stanford and Sheila Mcinerney in the state of Arizona and now Augustus, there is no denying that there is a trend in this departure, which can be partially due to the downfall of the PAC-12 conference and the many other changes in collegial athletics in the past five years. And while everyone who retires has their own reasons and does not owe the sport more than everything they have already given, College Tennis has a number of very large shoes to fill while this retirement continues.

Chirico was one of the three seeds to lose in the first round game today, with no. 6 Seed Fiona Crawley (North Carolina) fell to Emina Bektas (Michigan) 6-2, 6-1 and no. 8 Seed Valeriya Strakhova van Ukraine who dropped a 6-2, 6-0.

Wild cards were given to Salma Ewing (USC, Texas A&M), Jenna Delalco and Katrina Scott. Dalco lost today to Eyn Cayetano (USC) 6-2, 6-4.

Julieta Pareja plays in her first tournament since the US Open Juniors; She will be confronted with no. 7 Seed Olivia Gadecki from Australia in the first round on Wednesday.