Tuesday was a long day full of surprises at the Division I NCAA Championships at the USTA National Campus in Lake Nona, Florida.
Top seed and ITA All-American champion Valerie Glozman of Stanford fought back from 6-3, 5-3 down against Baylor senior Na Dong, but Dong held on for the 6-3, 6-7(1), 6-4.
Glozman, who had not played since winning the All-American title in September, seemed to find her form in the tiebreak and led by a break in the third set, but Dong got the break back and pressured Glozman in her 3-4 and 4-5 service games, giving her the break to secure the unlikely victory.
Unlike Glozman, TCU’s Duncan Chan, the men’s No. 2, had a lot of recent results. He arrived in Orlando late Sunday night after losing in the final of the Drummondville ATP Challenger 75. Despite that short recovery time, Chan battled Clemson senior Roman Gales, with both players holding multiple match points before Gales ultimately secured the victory 6-2, 6-7(5), 7-6(10).
While Glozman and Chan were the biggest, they were far from the only seeds to leave today, with a total of seven women’s seeds and four men’s seeds sidelined on day one.
No. 5 seed Aysegul Mert of Georgia had one of the toughest first rounds, facing former Oklahoma State All-American Oby Kajuru, who now plays for North Carolina. Mert, the Conference Masters champion, continued to hit her shots but missed a few too many along the way, with Kajuru avenging an earlier defeat to Mert this fall 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.
No. No. 7 seed Teah Chavez of Ohio State lost to Vanderbilt’s Valeria Ray 6-4, 6-3 and No. 8 seed Ashton Bowers of Auburn was defeated by Reece Carter of Washington 6-4, 6-4. Three 9-16 seeds – Vivian Yang and Annabelle Xu of Virginia and Tatum Evans of North Carolina – also went out today.
North Carolina’s Reese Brantmeier, a 9-16 seed, faced a huge deficit in her match against Vanderbilt’s Bridget Stammel, but she won the final five games of the match and survived 6-1, 4-6, 7-5.
No. 2 seed Carmen Herea of Texas, who is in Brantmeier’s quarter, posted a convincing 6-1, 6-4 win over Anna Zyryanova of NC State.
The three other seeds the men had to lose were 9-16s, with Sebastian Eriksson of Texas beating Connor Henry Van Schalkwyk of Baylor 6-3, 6-3; Jack Anthrop of Ohio State, who won the M25 in Columbus on Sunday, lost to Filip Gustafsson of Arizona 6-3, 6-0 and Trevor Svajda of SMU defeated Jeremy Jin of Florida 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 to win the last four games of the match.
Defending champion Michael Zheng of Columbia and 2024 semifinalist DK Suresh of Wake Forest, both unseeded, had little trouble in the first-round matches, with Zheng defeating Hugo Car of South Florida 6-4, 6-2 and Suresh Matic Kriznik of Alabama 6-3, 6-4. Zheng faces Eriksson and Suresh plays No. 5 seed Devin Badenhorst of Baylor on Wednesday.
Doubles starts Tuesday afternoon, with the top four seeds below; click on the header for the draw, with times.
Gabriella Broadfoot, NC State d. Julia García Ruiz, Oklahoma 7-6(5), 6-4
Mia Kupres, Texas A&M d. Tatum Evans[9-16]North Carolina 7-6(2), 6-3
Berta Passola Folch, Cal d. Mayu Crossley, UCLA 6-1, 6-1
Reece Carter, Washington, d. Ashton Bowers[8]Auburn 6-4, 6-4
Irina Balus, duke d. Eugenia Zozaya Menendez, Southern Cal 6-4, 6-3
Mia Yamakita[9-16]Vanderbilt d. Darya Schwartzman, Rice 6-2, 6-3
Kyoka Kubo, Kansas, b. Kristina Paskauskas, Alabama: 6-1, 4-6, 6-2
Savannah Dada-Mascoll[4]Appalachian State d. Naomi Xu, Cal 6-3, 6-3
The Bhakta, Clemson d. Xinyi Nongyi Nongyi Nongyi Nongyi Nongyi 7-5, 6-4
Anastasia Gureva[9-16]Georgia d. Bianca Molnar, Notre Dame 6-4, 7-6(4)
Emma Charney, Southern Cal d. Alice Ferlito, Princeton 3-6, 7-5, 6-4
Ray, Vanderylt d. Tea Chavez[7]Ohio State 6-4, 6-3
Emily Welker, Mississippi, d. Lavinia Tanasie, NC State 6-2, 6-1
Stephanie Yakoff, Harvard d. Annabella Xu[9-16]Virginia 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
Lily Jones, Michigan, d. Thea Rabman, North Carolina 6-4 3-6, 6-3
Mia Slama, NC state d. Nao Nishino, Ohio State 6-2, 6-2
Gabia Paskauskas[9-16]Florida d. Alyssa Ahn, Stanford 6-2, 4-6, 7-5
Jana Hossam Salah, Southern Cal d. Greta Greco Lucchina, Cal 6-3, 6-1
Ange Oby Kajuru, North Carolina, d. Aysegul Mert[5]Georgia 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
Erika Matsuda, Washington d. Serafima Shashtova, Syracuse 6-2, 7-6(3)
Carolina Gomez Alonso, Arkansas d. Vivian Yang[9-16]Virginia 1-6, 6-2, 6-2
Zuzanna Kubacha, Baylor d. Liv Hovde, Duke 7-5, 6-4
Piper Charney[3]Michigan d. Emma Kamper, Utah 7-5, 6-2
Sophie Llewellyn, SMU d. Violeta Martinez, Texas A&M 4-6, 6-2, 6-1
Reese Brantmeier[9-16]North Carolina d. Bridget Stammel, Vanderbilt 6-1, 4-6, 7-5
Ava Esposito, Chestnut brown p. Krisha Mahendran, Southern Cal 4-6, 6-2, 7-6(3)
Anastasia Grechkina[6]Pepperdine d. Anastasiia Lopata, Georgia 6-3, 5-7, 6-3
N Xi, UNC-Charlotte, d. Mushika, Cal 7-6(2), 6-7(3), 7-5
Luciana Perry[9-16]State of Ohio d. Esha Velaga, heads 4-6, 6-1, 6-2
Eva Shaw, State of Florida, d. Louise Wikander, Denver 6-4, 6-3
Carmen Herea[2]Texas d. Anna Zyryanova, NC State 6-1, 6-4
Jay friend[1]Arizona d. Joaquin Guilleme, Wake Forest 6-4, 3-6, 6-1
Keegan Rice, Virginia, d. Oscar Lacides, Oklahoma 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
Petar Jovanović[9-16] State of Mississippi d. Preston Stearns, Ohio State 7-5, 6-3
Sebastian Gorzny, Texas, d. Ian Mayew, North Carolina 6-3, 7-6(2)
Kenta Miyoshi[6]Illinois d. Dominique Rolland, UC-Santa Barbara 6-4, 6-1
Edward Winter, Pepperdine d. Melchior Delloye, Harvard 6-2, 6-3
Trevor Svajda, SMU d. Jeremy Jin[9-16] Florida, 6-1, 4-6, 6-4
Amirkhamza Nasridinov, Chestnut brown d. Vignesh Gogineni, Yale 6-3, 7-6(11)
Matt Forbes[4]state of Michigan, d. Pablo Martinez Gomez, Vanderbilt 3-6, 7-6(3), 6-4
Cosme Rolland De Ravel, TCU d. Alex Frusina, Texas A&M 7-5, 5-7, 7-6(8)
Jack Loutit[9-16]Kentucky d. Illia Maksymchuk, UNLV 6-1, 7-5
Max Dahlin, Michigan, d. Sebastian Dominko 7-6(3), 6-3
Devin Badenhorst[5]Baylor d. Thiago Silva, Cal 6-2, 6-1
DK Suresh, Wake Forest d. Matic Kriznik, Alabama 6-3, 6-4
Filip Gustafsson, Arizona, d. Jack Antrop[9-16]Ohio State 6-3, 6-0
Martin Borisiouk, NC State d. Spencer Johnson, UCLA 6-2, 6-7(4), 7-6(1)
Luca Pow, Wake Forest d. Sam Landau, Indiana 3-6, 6-1, 6-4
Jakub Vrba[9-16]Arksas d. Peter Privara, Harvard 6-4, 4-6, 6-1
Bryan Hernandez Cortes, State of Mississippi, d. Soham Purohit, Washington 6-3, 7-6(5)
Dylan Dietrich[7]Virginia d. Luis Alvarez, Oklahoma 6-4, 6-3
Luca Liu, UC-Saint Barbara d. 3-6, 7-5, 7-6(4)
Paul Inhauspe[9-16]Princeton d. Sasha Rozin, Arizona 0-6, 7-6(4), 7-5
Will Jansen, North Carolina d. Rudy Quan, UCLA 6-7(5), 6-4, 6-2
Aidan Kim[3]State of Ohio d. Antonio Prat, Miami 7-6(7), 6-4
Ilia Snitari, UNLV d. Shu Matsuoka, Arizona State4-6, 6-3, 6-4
Eli Stephenson[9-16]Kentucky d. Luis Felipe Miguel, Florida State 6-2, 6-0
Roan Jones, North Carolina, d. Paul Barbier Gazeu, South Carolina 6-4, 1-6, 6-3
Ozan Baris[8]state of Michigan, d. Jangjun Kim, Virginia 6-2, 7-6(4)
Sebastian Eriksson, Texas, d. Connor Henry Van Schalkwyk[9-16] Baylor 6-3, 6-3
Michael Zheng, Columbia, d. Hugo Car, South Florida 6-4, 6-2
Benito Sanchez Martinez, State of Mississippi, d. The Lechno-Wasiutane fryer, Cal 6-2, 6-4
Roman Gales, Clemson d. Duncan Chan[2]TCU 6-2, 6-7(5), 7-6(10)
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