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Sixteen-year-old Johnson wins the first USTA Pro Circuit title during M15 Sunrise; Dostanic claims first ATP Challenger title; Former colleagues Shelton and Cerundolo win ATP titles; ITF Junior Circuit update
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Sixteen-year-old Johnson wins the first USTA Pro Circuit title during M15 Sunrise; Dostanic claims first ATP Challenger title; Former colleagues Shelton and Cerundolo win ATP titles; ITF Junior Circuit update

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©Colette Lewis 2026–

Dallas Texas–

Six consolation matches were scheduled for Sunday ITA Division I Men’s Team Indoor Championshipsand I saw Mississippi State’s 4-3 win over Stanford and Florida’s 4-1 win over SMU here in Dallas (John Isner was also in attendance for the latter), with the Clemson – Arizona State game still to be completed. They had another thriller today in Waco, with Wake Forest defeating TCU 4-3 in a rematch of last year’s Team Indoor and NCAA Team finals. The match once again came down to No. 1 seed Wake’s DK Suresh in a third-set tiebreak, and this time he came out on top, beating Duncan Chan 7-6(4), 6-7(2), 7-6(6) in a nearly three-hour match.

All consolation results and individual scores can be found on the iOnSport live scoring app and page.
Monday’s semifinals begin at 3:30 PM Central with Ohio State and Virginia, followed by Baylor and Texas not before 6:30 PM. Cracked Racquets will provide the livestream, with commentary, at their location YouTube channel.
American men won all three finals played in the United States today, and I’ll start with the youngest champion, 16-year-old Southern Californian Andy Johnson. Johnson, who was granted an ITF junior reserved entry into the M15 in sunrise Florida based on his year-end junior ranking of 29, he defeated unseeded Dragos Nicolae Cazacu 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 in today’s final.

Johnson led 5-0 in the third set, but was never able to hold the lead again. He had match points on returns at 5-0 and 5-2, but never had any on serve, allowing Cazacu to break for victory at 4-5, on his sixth match point. Johnson now joins Moise Kouame of France as the only players born in 2009 to hold ITF Men’s Pro Circuit singles titles.

Unseeded John Sperle of Germany and Louis Tessa of France won the doubles title in Sunrise, as No. 4 seeds Joao Victor Couto Loureiro of Brazil and Tsz Fu Wong of Hong Kong won 6-4, 6-1 in the final.

Twenty-four-year-old qualifier Stefan Dostanic, the standout player on last year’s men’s indoor team here at SMU during Wake Forest, captured his first ATP Challenger title today at the Baton Rouge 50defeated top seed Alexis Galarneau (NC State) of Canada 6-4, 6-1 in his first Challenger final.

Dostanic was undoubtedly helped by Galarneau’s 34 unforced errors, but he served well. He only conceded one break point in the match, while converting all four break chances he had. Dostanic, who spent four years at USC before joining Wake, is on his way to a career-high ATP ranking of 354 with this title.

Another former colleague also claimed his fourth ATP title today, this one at the 250 level, with Argentina’s Francisco Cerundolo beating Italy’s Luciano Darderi 6-4, 6-2 at the IEB+ Argentina Open in Buenos Aires. The 27-year-old Cerundolo, who briefly played for South Carolina, is number 19 in the ATP rankings. To see the ATP article for more information about the final.

I usually check Americans’ ITF Junior Circuit results on Monday, but since the semifinals of the ITA Men’s Team Indoor Championships will take up all my attention, I’ll post that information tonight.

In addition to Janae Preston’s title at the ITF J300 in Peruas I reported on Saturday, three other Americans claimed the singles titles on the ITF Junior Circuit.
At the first ITF Junior Circuit event of 2026 in the United States, a J30 in Hawaii17-year-old Ashley Kurizaki won the title in her ITF Junior Circuit debut, beating Amara Ama 6-1, 6-2 in the final of the all-American final. Unseeded Lucy Graci and Ania Zabost won the doubles title, beating top seeds Quinn Sommer and Canada’s Sophia Montemurro 5-7, 7-5, 10-6 in the final. Top seeds Grant Kleppinger and Peter Nistad won the boys’ doubles title, beating No. 4 seeds Luca Sevim and Luxembourg’s Evan Palumbo 5-7, 7-6(5), 10-6.
At the J60 in Guatemalaunseeded 16-year-old Ellery Mendell won her second ITF Junior Circuit singles title, beating top seed and doubles partner Romina Dominguez Garcia of Mexico 6-1, 6-2 in the final. No. 2 seeds Dominguez Garcia and Mendell lost in the doubles final to top seeds London Evans and Italy’s Asia Sundas 6-3, 6-7(3), 10-4.

Unseeded 16-year-old Dhakshish Aryan Basavaraju won his first ITF Junior Circuit title in boys’ singles, beating No. 2 seed Harold Cotom Hidalgo of Guatemala 3-6, 7-5, 6-0 in the final.

At the ITF J200 in the Dominican RepublicUnseeded 15-year-old Hannah Ayrault, the 2025 San Diego 16s champion, reached the final, where she lost to No. 2 seed Emily Eigelsbach of Germany 2-6, 6-4, 6-0. Ayrault had defeated top seed Sofiia Bielinska of Ukraine 7-6(3), 6-2 in the quarter-finals.

No. 2 seeds Ireland O’Brien and Canada’s Andrea Cabio won the girls’ doubles title, beating top seeds Bielinska and Ophelia Korpanec Davies of Great Britain 6-2, 6-4 in the final.

No. 3 seeds Zavier Augustin and German Eric Mueller won the boys’ doubles title, beating the fourth-seeded Canadian team of Joshua Adamson and Caden Colburne 6-4, 6-2 in the championship match.

Enya Hamilton and Autumn Xu won their second girls’ doubles title in as many weeks at J60s in Mexico, with No. 6 seeds beating No. 7 seeds Valentina Galvan Solorzano and Mar Miramontes of Mexico 6-1, 6-1 in the final in Zapopan.

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