Penickova won two junior slam doubles titles this year and finished second at the Australian Open Junior Championships, but her biggest singles title of 2025 came at the J300 in San Diego in March. She narrowly defeated US Open singles and World Junior Tennis Finals champion Jeline Vandromme of Belgium, with less than 110 points separating the two in the rankings. Wimbledon girls finalist Julieta Pareja, at No. 5, is the other American in the Top 10 of the year-end rankings.
Penickova was at the Orange Bowl supporting the twins Annika, wearing a wrist brace on her left hand; she is the right-handed of the sisters.
This is the rule for receiving an end-of-year ranking: To be eligible for a 2025 year-end ranking, a junior must have played at least six individual junior singles tournaments, including at least three Grand Slam and/or J500 tournaments and at least three ranking tournaments outside his/her home country. Each Grand Slam or J500 tournament won counts as two tournaments played. Each Grand Slam or J500 tournament won counts as one foreign tournament played.
Ivanov won both the Wimbledon and US Open boys’ titles, so he finished more than 500 points ahead of ITF World Junior Finals champion Max Schoenhaus of Germany. Jack Kennedy and Benjamin Willwerth are the two Americans in the year-end Top 10 rankings, at 6th and 7th. The Top 10 is especially important for the boys as it qualifies them for the main draw Challenger wildcards in 2026.
Andy Johnson and Michael Antonius do not appear in the year-end rankings, although they are 28 and 29 in the final rankings, because they did not play enough slams or J500s this year.
The top four seeds will go head-to-head in the boys 12s, with a rematch of the IMG final between Rui He and James Borchard earlier this year.
The girls 12s semifinals feature just one seed, with IMG champion and top seed Fangqiao Zou of China looking for back-to-back titles.
IMG 14s champions Mohamed Genidy of Egypt and Ayaka Iwasa of Japan also still live in Coral Gables. Iwasa will take on Greece’s Konstantina Volonaki, with Volonaki hoping to avenge her loss to Iwasa in the IMG finals.
Junior Orange Bowl quarterfinal results:
B12s:
Rui He[1](CHN) d. Yeseong Lee (KOR) 6-3, 6-1
James Borchard[4](US) d. William McGugin[5](USA_ 6-3, 6-2
Evan Fan[3](US) d. Ethan Wang[6](AUS) 6-3, 6-1
Olivier Bakker[1](AUS) d. Miner Kwon(KOR) 3-6, 6-4, 6-4
B14s:
Mohammed Genidy[1](EGY) d. Aguy Nanato (JPN) 6-2, 6-4
Siyun Kim[4](KOR) d. Denis Karabulut (CAN) 6-2, 6-4
Smyan Thuta (USA) d. Akhmadi Makhanov (KAZ) 4-6, 6-1, 6-4
Tristan Ascenzo[2](US) d. Max Neumann (USA) 6-3, 6-1
G12s:
Fangqiao Zou[1](CHN) d. Inie Toli[6](USA) 6-1, 6-1
Own That (CHN d. Seo (AUS) 6-2. 6-2
Xiaooke Li (CHN) d. Choi(KOR) 6-0, 6-2
Annie Tan (USA) d. Mio Ohta (JPN) 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
G14s:
Nikol Davletshina[1](US) d. Olivia Lin[5](USA) 4-6, 6-4, 6-0
Isabella Jan[4](KAN) D. Jerin Lim[6](KOR) 6-4, 6-0
Konstantina Volonaki(GRE) d. Tanvi Pandey[3](USA) 3-6, 1-0 ret. inj
Ayaka Iwasa[7](JPN) d. Isha Manchala[2](USA) 7-5, 3-0 ret. inj.
The doubles semi-finals have not yet been decided. Some quarter-finals are scheduled for Tuesday morning, before the semi-finals in the afternoon.
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