Zheng, Brantmeier receive $100,000 Hurd Awards, Svajda and Lutkemeyer $40,000 as finalists; Qualification complete, Johnson, Clarke Top Seeds on ITF J300 Tucson

This year’s Hurd Awards were all but a foregone conclusion after North Carolina’s Reese Brantmeier and Columbia’s Michael Zheng won the NCAA singles titles in Lake Nona in November. Both Americans, both seniors, both interested in a career in professional tennis; it would have been shocking if they had not received the $100,000 grants to help them in that endeavor.

Recently, the Universal Tennis Foundation and Paula Hurd added a grant for two finalists, with this year’s $40,000 grant recipients being SMU junior Trevor Svajda, who is expected to join the pro circuit after this season, and UCLA senior Anne-Christine Lutkemeyer.

All four winners will be listed this release from UTR; The Tennis Channel segment below features former Hurd recipient Chris Eubanks explaining how the grant eased his transition to professional tennis, with UTR’s Mark Leschly and Paula Hurd adding their comments on the performances of all four winners.

The main attraction of the ITF J300 in Tucson begins Monday at the Tucson Racquet Club, although seeded players won’t take the court until Tuesday in the 48-player draws.Qualifying concluded today with six boys and six girls earning their spots in the main draw, meaning another match on Monday. The girls qualifiers are Sylvana Jalbert, Ava Quincy Brewer, Armira Kockinis, Briley Rhoden, Anjani Vickneswaran and Sophie Suh, all from the United States. The boys qualifiers are Sebastian Godoy, Canada’s Loic Massotte, Kristian Sharma, John Murphy, Keshav Muthuvel and Jack Dermenjyan.

The boy seeds:

1.Andrew Johnson

2. Gavin Goode

3. Tanishk Konduri

4. Xavier Massotte, CAN

5. Ryan Cozad

6. I hate Reddy

7. Azam sapphire

8. Agassi Rusher

9. Marcel Latak

10. Roshan Santhosh

11. Zavier Augustin

12. Cooper Kose, AUS

13. Mauricio Schtulmann Gasca, MEX

14. Jerrid Gaines Jr.

15. William Kjellberg, SWE

16. Mason Taube

The girl seeds:

1. Melia Clarke

2. Hollie Smart, GBR

3. Olivia Traynor

4. Lani Chang

5. Sarah Yes

6. Carrie Anne Hoo

7. Riyo Yoshida, JPN

8. Capucine Jauffret

9. Thara Gowda

10. Adla López

11. Karlijn Schock

12. Isabelle Deluccia

13. Hannah Ayrault

14. Mother Arora

15. Kennedy Drenser-Hagmann

16. Brooke Wallman