The U.S. girls defeated Austria, with ITF Junior No. 1 Kristina Penickova playing No. 2 singles, beating Lea Haider-Maurer 6-3, 6-1, and Julieta Pareja, playing No. 1 singles, beating Anna Pircher 6-3, 6-2. Kristina and Annika Penickova won the doubles match, beating Kara Fronek and Pircher 1-6, 6-3, 10-8.
On Tuesday they face Peru, who lost 3-0 to Poland today.
The American boys defeated Germany, with Andrew Johnson beating Jannik Soetebier 6-1, 6-0 in No. 2 singles and Michael Antonius beating Eric Dylan Mueller 7-5, 6-1 in No. 1 singles.
Jordan Lee, playing in his first match since February, teamed with Johnson for a 6-2, 6-3 doubles win over Jakob Joggerst and Soetebier.
On Tuesday they play against Slovakia, which lost 2-1 to Brazil today.
All eight seeded Junior Billie Jean King Cup teams won their opening matches; lost two Junior Davis Cup seeds: Spain defeated No. 6 seed Canada and Egypt defeated No. 8 seed Turkey, both 2–1.
Americans claimed three singles titles on the ITF Junior Circuit last week, all at the J60 level, as well as a J100 doubles title.
Unseeded Rose Biria and Emily Morgan won the girls’ doubles title, beating top seeds Ariana Ikwueme and Britain’s Athina Schlepphorst 6-0, 6-2 in the final.
The boys’ champion in Boca Raton was top seed Avner Wong, with the 18-year-old beating unseeded Robert McAdoo 6-4, 6-2 in the final for his first singles title on the ITF Junior Circuit.
The boys’ doubles title went to No. 5 seeds Tim Kohl and Leo Scheffer of Germany, who defeated No. 3 seeds Joaquin Blanch and Matthew Shapiro 6-4, 7-6(5) in the final.
In Knoxville, Murphy Cassone, who entered late and was forced to play qualifying, advanced to the main event with a 6-2, 6-0 victory today over University of Tennessee senior Alejandro Moreno. The Americans Cooper Williams (Harvard, Duke), Keegan Smith (UCLA), Jack Kennedy and Quinn Vandecasteele (Oregon) all lost their qualifying matches in the final round today.
Main draw wildcards were given to Andrew Fenty (Michigan) Alex Kotzen (Columbia, Tennessee) and Dominique Rolland (Arizona, UC-Santa Barbara), with Rolland losing to Stefan Kozlov tonight 7-6(1), 2-6, 6-1. James Trotter (Ohio State) of Japan and Jay Clarke of Great Britain are the top two seeds.
In Austin, all four qualifiers were Americans: Claire Liu, Mary Lewis (Arizona, Michigan State), Vivian Wolff (Georgia, UCLA) and University of Texas freshman Christasha McNeil.
Iva Jovic is the top seed, with Alycia Parks the second seed. Wild cards were given to Texas alumnus Malaika Rapolu, Texas sophomore Carmen Herea of Romania, and Jennifer Jackson.
Herea, the ITA All-American finalist, defeated Alana Smith (NC State) 7-6(4), 6-1 in the first round today.
College tennis fans were once again treated to a meeting of the top players from the past two seasons of college tennis, with Mary Stoiana (Texas A&M) facing No. 8 seed Dasha Vidmanova (Georgia) in the opening round today. Stoiana and Vidmanova, who had split their four meetings in the 2024-2025 dual meet season and their two meetings on the USTA Pro, Circuit, had another battle today, with Stoiana emerging with a 2-6, 6-1, 7-5 victory. This keeps Stoiana alive in the USTA’s Australian Open Wild Card Race, and this is the last week for the women to collect points.
Elli Mandlik, who reached the semi-finals of a W100 in Mexico last week, has taken the lead from Claire Liu, but the women’s race is wide open with 125 points up for grabs in Austin and Mandlik, Liu and Stoiana all competing.
Eliot Spizzirri also climbed back to top spot last week with his quarter-final result at the Challenger 125 in Bratislava, but it looks increasingly likely he won’t need a wildcard into the Australian Open main draw. After qualifying and winning his first round today at the ATP 250 in Athens, the former Texas All-American is ranked 86th in the live rankings. Patrick Kypson is now in second place; he’s playing this week in the Challenger 125 in Helsinki, Finland.
The men then have another week to collect points in the race.
Women’s Ranking – through week 4 of 5
(Player’s current ranking in brackets)
1. Elizabeth Mandlik (202) – 140
2. Claire Liu (221) – 117
3. Elvina Kalieva (203) – 106
4. Anna Rogers (233) – 95
5. Katie Volynets (89) – 90
6. Maria Stoiana (327) – 77
Men’s standings – up to and including week 3 of 5
(Player’s current ranking in brackets)
1. Eliot Spizzirri (96) – 129
2. Patrick Kypson (146) – 122
3. Martin Damm (173) – 102
4. Matthew Forbes (929) – 25
5. Keegan Smith (485) – 24
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