Kennedy beats top seeds at W15 Winston-Salem; Jones Avenges AO loss against Sonobe at Rancho Santa Fe W50; Zheng’s Challenger Winning Streak continues; Shao beats Liutova on J200 Corpus Christi; Ten reaches the first ATP final in Beijing

Kennedy is one of the three junior submitted entries, with his US Open Doubles partner Keaton Hance no. 2 Seed dk Suresh van Wake Forest, and Jangjun Kim, a second-year student in Virginia, who today lost 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 from Japan, the former Tennessee star sterest star.

Wake Forest First -year student Dominick Mosejczuk received a wildcard, just like the second -year student of Wake Forest Cornelius Shalmi and Joaquin Guineme. Mosejczuk plays colleague Demon Deacon Andrew Delgado in the first round of Wednesday, while Shalmi lost to teammate Luca Pow, a junior at Wake Forest 6-4, 7-5. Guilleme today lost his first round match against no. 4 seed Peter Bertran (Georgia, South Florida) of the Dominican Republic 6-4, 3-6, 7-5.

Louisa Chirico and Iryna Shymanovich from Wit -Russia are the top two seeds, which will play their first round games on Wednesday. The number 3 seed is the 17-year-old Emerson Jones of Australia and plays her first tournament since he lost in the last qualifying round at the US Open last month. Today she took colleague 17-year-old Wakana Sonobe, who this year had defeated her in the semi-final of the Australian Open Junior Championships on the way to the title. This time Jones came to the top and booked a 7-5, 6-2 victory.

Wild cards were given to Haley Giavara (CAL), Akasha Urhobo, Rose Marie Nijkamp (Oklahoma State) of the Netherlands and Hina Inoue. Inoue, who has just returned from a W125 in China, lost to Urhobo in a first round game today 6-2, 6-2.

Americans who have qualified for the main table today are Katrina Scott, Rasheeda McAdoo (Georgia Tech) and Victoria Hu (Princeton), with Mary Lewis (Arizona, Michigan State) who come in as a happy loser. University of Oklahoma first-year student Mika Bechnik from Israel, who received a junior exempt place in the draw on the basis of its top 20 ITF Junior Ranking, lost to Elli Mandlik 5-7, 6-2, 6-2 in the first round today. ITF World Junior No. 1 Julieta Pareja, who gained access based on her WTA ranking, will be confronted in the first round on Wednesday opposite Katherine Sebov of Canada.

In San Rafael, the first round matches are still underway, but the qualification is complete, with W35 Berkeley champion Merna Refaat, her ninth match in nine days, to the main drawing with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over-qualifying Ziva Falker of Slovenia. Refaat, a second -year student in Auburn, immediately went from winning a rain delayed the last Sunday in Berkeley to the first round of qualifying Monday in San Rafael, but continued her winning streak regardless of.

Americans on their way to the main table are Victoria Flores (Georgia Tech, Pepperdine), Kylie Collins (Texas, LSU, Oklahoma State) and Madison Brengle.

Main pulling cards were given to Jaedan Brown (Michigan), Thea Frodin, Maya Iyengar and first -year student Christasha McNeil.

Lea Ma (Georgia) is the best seed, with Alicia Herrero Linana (Baylor) from Spain the number 2 seed.

Stanford Senior Samir Banerjee, who received a wildcard, defeated Philip Sekulic from Australia 6-1, 5-7, 6-4 to continue to a second round meeting with no. 4 Seed Benjamin Hassan of Lebanon.

Las Vegas Challenger champion Abdullah Shelbayh (Florida) by Jordan defeated top seeds Juraj Rodionov of Austria for the second consecutive week, this time in the first round, instead of the quarterfinals last week, 7-6 (3), 6-4. He then plays Alfredo Perez (Florida), after Perez Wild Card Trevor Svajda 6-4, 6-4.