Wild Cards Johnson and Newman reach a round of 16 on US Open Junior Championships; Kennedy and Klugman deserve three set of victories in Armstrong; Alternates Spurling and McCollum End Junior Slam Run of Wazny and Maldanius; Cash and tracy forward to men’s dubbles quarterfinals

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Fifteen-year-old Welles Newman has saved a match point with Tahlia Kokkinis from Australia who served at 6-5 in the second set before he returned to earn a 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4 victory. Newman, who was lost in the ITF J500 in the ITF J500 in three sets in the ITF J500 this spring, played the US Open Junior qualification last year, but did not reach Billie King National Tennis Center until this year. On Monday she also came from a set of Down and Kali Supova from Slovakia hit 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.

Andrew Johnson, who turned 16 ten days ago, defeated 3 seed Yannick Alexandrescou from a set down on Sunday; Today he was confronted with fellow wildcard Matisse Farzam in stands, and although the DJ perhaps invaded his concentration before he managed to win a 6-4, 7-5 victory.

UP 4-1, who served in the first set, was not used to all the distractions accompanied by competing at a large court at the US Open.

“I may have lost a bit of focus,” said Johnson. “On 4-1 on the couch the music went and I was jamming, trying to have fun, staying loose. I am not sure if there had anything to do with it, but maybe I am too loose. I will discuss it with my coaches later, but I certainly don’t want to do that again.”

After Johnson had dropped his serve on 4-all in the second set, Farzam served for the set and had a set point, but Johnson saved it, converted his third breaking point, held and broke again for the victory.

Johnson took a heavy loss in the final of Kalamazoo 16s and fell to Marcel Latak after led 5-1 in the third set, but he has made progress when dealing with that disappointment.

“It will always be there, it was heartbreaking, 5-1 in the third,” said Johnson. “It is something you have to pass by and I will have many more opportunities in the future. Maybe it has lit a little fire in me, I think it did that. Stay on, play nothing loose, keep the foot on the pedal.”

Johnson’s opponent In the third round is another American, no. 15 seed Ronit Karki, who defeated Ludvig from Sweden 6-3, 3-6, 6-4. They have never played with Karki almost two years older, but Johnson will still have to win an unexpected victory to achieve his goal.

“It’s pretty much a dream, you know?” Said Johnson. “One of my goals for this tournament is to reach the quarters. It is a personal goal and everything can happen, but it is definitely the goal I want.”

While Johnson played in stands, no. 9 sperm Jack Kennedy at Louis Armstrong Stadium, a special experience for the 17-year-old from Long Island. He was challenged by ungusted Flynn Thomas van Switzerland, but took control of the third set for a 6-2, 1-6, 6-3 victory.

“It was incredible,” said Kennedy, who lost in the first round in his US Open debut last year. “This morning walking on the field for Warming -Ups, the huge stadium of the stadium, a top five stadium in our sport. But when I walked on the field, I had the feeling that I heard there. I think it was on Ashe last year helped me. I felt like I was playing well and my game kept playing.

Kennedy will be confronted with an unwanted 16-year-old Luis Guto Miguel van Brazil, last week’s ITF J300 champion in Canada, who ended the run of qualifying Simon Caldwell 6-4, 6-2. That will also be met for the first time, with Kennedy, who reached the 16 -year -old Junior SLAM level last year, now at the stage of confronted with players who are younger than he is.

While Kennedy played on a large stage for the first time in the slam of his home country, the Hannah Klugman of Great -Britain, who followed him at Armstrong, is a veteran of that specific circumstance.

Last year, at the age of 15, Klugman reached the last round of Wimbledon’s Women’s Qualifying and lost to Alycia Parks. This year she received a main table Wildcard, where Leylah Fernandez hit her in the first round.

The no. 2 Seed this tournament, Klugman knows that she is the hunter at De Jager in Junior Events, but they managed to tackle the pressure of that and loss of the first set, to defeat the 16-year-old Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi of India 6-7 (1), 6-4, 6-3.

One of the most important improvements that Klugman now sees in her game compared to a year ago is a capacity to win Ugly, as she did today, although the third set was at a much higher level than the first two.

“I struggled to get through games that didn’t play well,” said Klugman, the Roland Garros Girls finalist this year. “Just like today, I didn’t play well, but I found a way to win, and to have that feature is huge. I couldn’t accept that I was playing badly, and if I played badly, I would lose. I couldn’t find a way to win, but now I think ways.”

Klugman plays Unseededed Julie Pastikova of the Czech Republic, who today no. 16 Seed Thea Frodin 6-2, 6-1 beat in stands.

The first round of Junior Doubles was completed today with two major disturbances. The biggest was undoubtedly the loss of Roland Garros and Wimbledon Champions and no. 4 seeds Oskari Paldanius of Finland and Alan Wazny van Polen, who lost from American alternatives Niseal Spurling and Ford McCollum 7-6 (11), 6-4.

Thilo Behrmann of Austria, who withdrew from his first round Singles game on Sunday, played with Flynn Thomas, withdrew from Doubles and with Spurling and McCollum the only team that registered as alternatives, they got their chance. (Jack Sattterfield and Ronit Karki won by Walkover van Luis Miguel and Andres Santamarta Roig, the no. 5 seeds, without other alternatives available). A late break in the second set gave Spurling the opportunity to put an end to the ten match Junior Slam Winning Streak by Wazny and Maldanius and he hit four first services to help close the upset with a lovehold.

Top seeds Yannick Alexandrescou of Romania and Ryo Tabata from Japan lost to Karim Bennani of Morocco and William Rejchtman Vinciguerra van Sweden 7-6 (4), 6-7 (5), 10-8.

While the boys are Roland Garros champions, the girls are double winners in Paris until the second round, with ungusted Eva Bennemann and Sonja Zhenikhova of Germany who beat no. 8 seeds Ksenia Ephremova of France and Elizara Yaneva van Bulgari 6-2, 6-2.

2024 NCAA Spring Doubles Champions Robert Cash and JJ Tracy went to their first big gentlemen Double Quarterfinals tonight, in a larger court and with much less drama than their 6-7 (4), 7-6 (2), 7-6 (8) Second round Labor Day victory on no. SIDONY OP THE ITALY BOLELLI.

In Louis Armstrong Stadium, the former state stars of the state of Ohio No. 10 seeds Maximo Gonzalez and Andrea Molteni from Argentina 6-3, 6-3. They will be confronted with no. 15 seeds Sadio Doumbia (Georgia) and Fabien Reboul of France in the quarterfinals of Wednesday.

No. 8 Seed Amanda Anisimova will be confronted with no. 2 Seed Iga Swiateek from Poland in a rematch of the Wimbledon -final on Ashe on Wednesday afternoon.