November Aces; USA’s Borchard, Dmytrenko, Iftime and Evans reach Saturday’s IMG Academy International Singles Finals, crowned doubles champions; Fifteen-year-olds Lee and Liutova advance to the semi-finals at ITF J300 Bradenton; Orange Bowl J500 Wild Cards

The singles finals are scheduled for the 12s, 14s and 16s divisions, with four Americans advancing to Saturday morning’s championship matches.

In the girls 16s, a U.S. champion is guaranteed, with No. 11 seed Adelina Iftime of Florida taking on unseeded London Evans in the final, with both girls being 14 years old.

In the boys 12s, reigning Easter Bowl champion James Borchard will play for another prestigious title on Saturday after the No. 5 seed defeated Minchan Kwon of Korea 6-4, 6-1. His opponent is unseeded Rui He of China, who defeated top seed Oliver Baker in the third round and another Australian, No. 3 seed Jobe Dikkenberg, 6-2, 6-1 in today’s semi-final.

Singles semi-final results:

B12s:
Rui He (CHN) d. Jobe Dikkenberg[3](AUS) 6-2, 6-1
James Borchard[5] (US) d. Minchan Kwon[16] (KOR) 6-4, 6-1

B14s:
Mohammed Genidy [1] (A) D. Tristan Ascenzo[3] (USA) 7-5, 6-2
Ignacio Mejias[16] (VEN) d. Akhmadi Makhanov[10] (KAZ) 6-2, 6-1

B16s:
Artem Dmytrenko[9] (US) d. Mason Vaughan[1] (USA) 7-6(6), 1-6, 7-6(5)
Jan Junseo[14] (KOR) d. Colter Amey (USA) 2-6, 6-4, 6-1

G12s:
Choi (KOR) d. Xiaooke Li (CHN) 7-5, 6-4
Fangqiao Zou[4] (CHN) d. Seungyeon Seo[5] (AUS) 6-2, 6-1

G14s:
Konstantin Volonaki[5] (GRE) d. Adriana Khomyakova[13] (USA) 6-3, 6-1
Ayaka Iwasa[9] (JPN) d. Zihao Han[4] (CHN) 6-4, 1-6, 6-4

G16s:
Adelina Iftime[11] (US) d. Samvrutha Jawahar[7] (USA) 6-1, 6-4
London Evans (USA) d. Tanvi Pandey[6] (USA) 6-3, 6-2

The doubles semi-finals and finals were played today, with photos of the finalists and the results of the championship match below:

G16s: Grace Hong & Vibha Gogineni (USA)[4] D. Masaki Yamagishi (JPN) & Kiana Smith (USA)[3] 6-2, 6-4

B14s: Raku Yohimoto & Agui Nanato (JPN) p. Francisco Sardhina (POR) & Miguel Baquero (DOM) 6-3, 7-6(4)

G14s: Zhao Han & Jiayi Lu (CHN) [4] d Sara Sara Avelaneda (COL) & Maria Baena (USA) 6-0, 6-1

B12s: James Borchard (USA) & Evan Fan (USA) [1] D. Oliver Baker & Lennox Kelly (AUS) [4] 6-2, 7-5

Gai2 H Notic & & Modid: 6-19, 6-33.

The ITF J300 quarter-finals featured several impressive comebacks, with wildcard Jordan Lee, last year’s 16s champion, bouncing back from 3-0 down in the third set to beat France’s Daniel Jade 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 to reach his first J300 semi-final.

Jade began to show signs of fatigue after two grueling attempts to take that 3-0 lead, and Lee felt he had a chance, although he also felt the effects of the physically demanding points.

“We both pushed each other to the limit,” said the 15-year-old from Florida, who returned to competition last month after a wrist injury kept him out for eight months. “We gave it everything we had and a huge amount of respect for him for pushing himself and me so much. I feel like it’s part of the sport: you’re tired, but it’s what you’re willing to do to get through it.”

Lee will face 17-year-old Thijs Boogaard of the Netherlands, who lost the first set in short order to No. 13 seed William Rejchtman Vinciguerra of Sweden but bounced back for a 1-6, 6-2, 6-4 win. Rejchtman Vinciguerra was annoyed by several incidents during the match and did not accept Boogaard’s offer of the post-match handshake.

The lower semi-final will feature two unseeded players, with 16-year-old Juan Miguel Bolivar Idarraga of Colombia and 17-year-old Dimitar Kisimov of Bulgaria reaching their first ITF J300 semi-finals with wins in straight sets.

Bolivar Idarraga ended series wildcard Jerrid Gaines Jr. 7-6(6), 6-3, while Kisimov this week stopped the six-match winning streak of qualifier Tim Vaisman of Israel 6-2, 6-4.

This two-week stretch of green clay events marks Kisimov’s first time visiting the United States, and he is quickly adapting to the surface.

“I like it, and I think I will get better,” said Kisimov, who liked his form and his prospects for success this week after skipping the events in Mexico to train. “I’m very happy that I reached the semi-finals. The weather is nice, nice atmosphere, everything is great here.”

Kisimov said he is friends with the other top Bulgarian juniors: ITF No. 1 and two-time junior slam champion Ivan Ivanov and Alex Vasilev, who lost to Ivanov in the US Open final in September.

“I know them well, we have played so many times,” Kisimov said. “I beat Ivan once, but he beat me ten times.”

Two unseeded girls advanced to the semi-finals but, unlike two of the boys, they will not play each other, with Antonina Sushkova of Ukraine facing No. 5 seed Anastasija Cvetkovic of Serbia and Kristina Liutova against No. 4 seed Sol Ailin Larraya Guidi of Argentina.

Sushkova defeated Alyssa James 7-5, 6-3, while Cvetkovic came back from a set and a break down to beat unseeded Hollie Smart of Great Britain 2-6, 6-4, 6-3.

Larraya Guidi defeated No. 9 seed Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi of India 7-5, 7-6(3), with Liutova recording a second win in the last three months over No. 8 seed Xinran Sun of China by a score of 6-1, 7-6(10).

Liutova had defeated Sun in the semifinals of the ITF J300 in College Park in August after dropping the first set, but today she was the one who got off to a fast start. However, Sun immediately turned the tables and led 5-1 in the second set before Liutova found her form.

“I started missing a little bit more and she’s obviously a great player, so she came back into the game,” said the 15-year-old, who lives and trains in the Seattle area. “My legs slowed down a little bit, so getting that back was the most important thing.”

Sun served for the set at 5-2 and 5-4, but Liutova would not concede the set, leading to a tiebreak.

Liutova led 4-2 and 5-3, but Sun got the mini-break back until Liutova earned her first match point at 6-5 with a sharply angled backhand winner.

But the 15-year-old Sun forced an error with a good forehand to save the first match point, and a second at 7-6 with a perfectly executed drop shot. At 8-7, Liutova failed to convert a third match point, missing a backhand, and match point No. 4, at 9-8, was a riveting rally of more than 25 shots that Sun eventually won with a clean forehand winner.

Sun eventually earned a set point with a return error from Liutova, but she made a backhand error early in the rally for 10-10. Liutova forced an error with her backhand for match point No. 5 and this time Sun blinked. She worked throughout the rally to get a weak short ball inside the service line, but scored with her forehand swing volley.

“She came with aggressive play, and it’s a credit to her for such a fight,” Liutova said of all the match points saved. “She just let herself play and made some great shots, so I have nothing to complain about. I was looking forward to the match, she’s a great player, a fighter and I love the competition.”

Although she often trains indoors or on hard courts, Liutova is a big fan of any color of clay.

“I like clay,” said Liutova, who was practicing again on the Stadium Field on Friday evening. “I like sliding around, I like the surface. Green is different to red, red is slower, this is a little bit more slippery, but I adapted quite quickly in the first days of my training and I was excited to play on clay.”

All semifinal matches, scheduled for 9 a.m. due to the possibility of rain later in the day, will be the first meetings.

The boys’ doubles final will also take place at 9 a.m., pitting No. 6 seeds Yannik Alvarez of Puerto Rico and Ziga Sesko of Slovenia against No. 2 seeds Oskari Paldanius of Finland and Alan Wazny of Poland.

Alvarez and Sesko defeated No. 4 seeds Andy Johnson and Michael Antonius 7-6(3), 6-2, while Paldanius and Wazny defeated No. 7 seeds Rejchtman Vinciguerra and Norway’s Johan Oscar Lien 6-3, 6-3.

No. 2 seeds Cvetkovic and Larraya Guidi will play No. 3 seeds Sun and Japan’s Kanon Sawashiro for the girls’ doubles championship; Now that Cvetkovic and Larraya Guidi are both still playing in singles, that match will not take place before noon. Cvetkovic and Larraya Guidi defeated No. 4 seeds Melije Clarke and Ha Eum Lee of Korea 6-2, 6-4, while Sun and Sawashiron defeated the unseeded team of Rira Kosaka and Aoi Watanabe of Japan 6-4, 6-1.

Qualifying for the Orange Bowl J500 starts on Saturday, while the final qualifying round for the 16s tournament ends tomorrow.

Jordan Lee and Kristina Liutova received special exemptions from the main event by reaching the semifinals here in Bradenton. Isabelle Deluccia, Janae Preston, Nigeria’s Oluwaseun Peter Ogunsakin and Vihaan Reddy advanced to the main draw after qualifying due to withdrawals. The wildcards for the J500 are below:

Girls:

Lffe

Kathryn Cragg

London Evans

Scarlett Fagan

Yael Saffar

Allison Wang

Nicole went

Boys:

Azam sapphire

Teodor Davidov

Jerrid Gaines Jr.

Marcel Latak

Tyler Lee

Agassi Rusher

Nikolas Stout

Kamil Stolarczyk