Jovic wins WTA 500 title, reached Top 40; Pinnington Jones wins the second challenger in Winston-Salem; Vasilev Clouten Promotion for Bulgaria; LAM makes the first W15 final

IVA Jovic had a number of dramatic competitions this week at the WTA 500 in Guadalajara MexicoWinning three three-sided letters and saving a match point in the third set Tiebreaker of her 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (6) Quarter-final victory over Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva by Andorra.

The non-seeded 17-year-old from southern California, who had not reached a WTA quart finale in her short professional career until this week, managed to avoid similar tension in the final of this afternoon and defeated Emiliana Arango from Colombia 6-4, 6-1 in slightly more than an hour and a half.

With the title, Jovic goes to 36 in the WTA Live ranking, for McCartney Kessler, with her previous career-high ranking 73. She is the youngest player in the Top 100, with the only teenagers who are scared for her 18-year-old Mirra Andreeva and 19-year-old Victoria Mboko. Prior to today’s title, her biggest title came on a W100 on Green Clay and a WTA 125 on grass this spring.

Former Pepperdine All-American Janice Tjen lost in the final of the WTA 250 in BrazilWith 19-year-old TiantSsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah of France who cut off her surprising run with a 6-3, 6-4 victory today. She moves to 131 in the WTA Live ranking, with her ranking 214 when the tournament started. She has won three W15 titles, with her fourth and largest for today, a W50 in Peru last year.

Jack Pinnington Jones, who left TCU for Pro Tennis in May, has since won his second Challenger title ATP Challenger 75 in Winston-Salem North Carolina. Pinnington Jones, who won a Challenger 50 on grass in July, defeated SMU Junior Trevor Svajda 6-2, 6-2, and saved all four breakpoints with which he was confronted, although the first serve percentage was lower than 50. The 22-year-old from Great Britain is now on an ATP Carrière-High List of 171.

The United States lost their second round qualifying draw in Davis Cup last night at the Czech Republic, in which Jakub Mensik Frances Tiafoe beat 6-1, 6-4 to win the 3-2 victory for the visitors. See this article for more information about the draw The ATP website.

On Friday I mentioned the big win for DK Suresh van Wake Forest Senior, with India who placed a 3-1 decision about host Switzerland in Davis Cup. Sumit Nagal achieved the victory in World Group I with a 6-1, 6-3 victory on 2025 Australian Open Boys champion Henry Bernet. India will now play in the qualification of the first round of February 2026, which is also the starting point for the United States after their loss last night.

While Bernet was not successful in his Davis Cup debut, the American open finalist Alexander Vasilev was the hero for Bulgaria this weekend in their world group that I connect with Finland. Vasilev won both singles matches and defeated ATP 141 Otto Virtanen with 6-3, 7-5 on the first day, and former ATP No. 37 Emil Ruusuvuori 7-6 (5), 6-4 in the decisive match today. Ruusuvuori had defeated Wimbledon and US Open Boys champion Ivan Ivanov in Singles in Singles the first day, but Bulgaria took the double point to take a 2-1 lead. Finland won the first reverse singles match on Sunday with Eero Vasa (Cornell, Pepperdine) that Yanaki Milev defeated, leaving it until the 26-year-old Ruusuvuori and the 18-year-old Vasilev to decide the winner, with the inexperienced left side that is currently standing.

For more information about the victory of Bulgaria and others in World Group I, see This article of the Davis Cup site.

Seventeen-year-old Shannon Lam, who played the ITF junior circuit until April of this year, spent the summer playing ITF women’s circuit tournaments instead of junior events. She played San Diego and lost in the round of 32 against Julieta Pareja, but then she returned to the ITF women’s circuit. This week, on one W15 in SpainLam qualified and reached the final, her first on the pro circuit. She lost to fellow qualification match Shiyu Ye and 18-year-old from China, 7-6 (6), 6-1.