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During the tournaments with this innovation, the first three days of the tournaments will be spent on Round Robin Play between the eight groups of four players. Those who end up at the top of the group will continue to the quarterfinals, which will then be a single elimination.

There are no details in the announcement about the method of placing players in the Round Robin groups, although there is an extra part of the release that says that the world tennis number will be used in combination with this change. “Although most direct acceptations will still be determined by ITF World Tennis Tour Junior Rankings, part of the direct acceptances in qualifying and main trekkings are granted singles on J30 and J60 events to players based on their WTN alone.”

Whether the WTN will be used for sowing or placing the group is not specifically announced, nor is there a statement about how ITF Junior Rankings will be granted for those who do not come from the Ronde Robin groups.

This of course offers more matches per tournament for each player, which is an admirable goal, given the costs of traveling to compete in those events; I will be interested in seeing how this can influence participation in these events.

I have never loved Round Robin game because of the mathematical calculations that often produce results that do not reflect the actual Head-to-Head matches played; You can beat someone, but they can win the group if the calculations of the number of games and sets are in their favor. But I am willing to be open and I look forward to learning the details about how this will be structured.

The third item in the release deals with the 16-and-under regional reserved program, which is being extended to all regions, not only South America and Europe, where WTN plays an important role in determining those spots.

As the case, regardless of the location, Americans dominate the access lists, although it is open to all players in North and South America.

Wimbledon Boys -finalist Ronit Karki Head The Acceptance List released today, with eight ITF Top 100 Boys, All Americans: Karki, Maximus Dussault, Dominick Mosejczuk, Gavin Goode, Ryan Cozad, Michael Antonius and Roshan Santhosh. The main reduction is 330.

Seven ITF top 100 girls, all Americans, have arrived: Annika Penickova, who was injured, Capucine Jauffret, Welles Newman, Nancy Lee, Ishika Ashar, Ava Rodriguez and Kori Montoya. The most important branch for girls is 287.

I am surprised to see that Dussault and Mosejczuk came in, because both first -year students are at TCU and Wake Forest respectively; We will see if they are withdrawing to next Tuesday’s deadline.

Alfredo Perez (Florida) reached the second round when Top Seed Juan Pablo Ficovich of Argentina went 4-0 with 4-0 in the first set. Andrew Ilagan (Hawaii) defeated the qualification Sebastian Dominko, a senior at Notre Dame, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4; Ilagan plays Columbia Senior Michael Zheng, who defeated no. 8 seed Garret Johns (Duke) 6-0, 6-4.

Other Americans are progress at no. 7 Seed Martin Damm, no. 6 Seed Andres Martin (Georgia Tech), Alex Rybakov (TCU) and Patrick Maloney (Michigan).

Kalamazoo 18s champion Darwin Blanch defeated no. 5 seed Johannus Monday (Tennessee) of Great Britain with 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (5) and plays qualifying Samir Banerjee, a senior in Stanford, who defeats Christian Langmo (Miami) 7-6 (2), 6-2.

Tyler Zink (Georgia, Oklahoma State) defeated Wild Card Alexander Bernard (all three the state of Ohio State lost in the first round) and plays Abdullah Shelbayh (Florida) by Jordan, who plays no. 2 seed Murphy Cassone (Arizona State) 6-4, 6-4.

Qualification Preston Stearns, a junior of the state of Ohio, will be confronted with Daniel Masur from Germany in a first round game, with no. 4 seed Nicolas Mejia from Colombia from the University of Virginia Sophomore Rafael Jodar of Spain in the other first round game on Wednesday.

Qualification was concluded today, with two Americans on the main drawing: Alex Kotzen (Columbia, Tennessee) and Noah Zamora (UC-Irvine). Qualification is also Timo Legout from France, who ended last season at number 1 after his first season in Texas. Legout, which is registered, hopes to be eligible for the spring season for another year.

Andrew Fenty (Michigan) is the best seed, and he won his first round game today, with Micah Braswell (Texas) the number 2 seed. Braswell returns to the competition after he has been gone since February, probably because of an injury.

All four wildcards went to Arkansas players: second -year students Arsene Pougault, Gabriel Elicha Navas and Jakub VRBA and Junior Lukas Palovic.