USTA Nationals Wild Cards; Teams Announced for Girls ITF World Junior Tennis 14U Competition; Seeds Exit at Bloomfield Hills Challenger 100; Friend, Samuel, Meri, Okutoyi and Kajuru Reach World University Games Finals

The ITF released the names of the participants for the girls World Junior Tennis team event next month in Prostejov, with Wimbledon 14U champion Sakino Miyazawa not among them, although Japan was one of the 16 teams to qualify. Yeri Hong of Korea is also not on her country’s team. Great Britain is fielding a strong team of Megan Knight, Liv Zingg and Grace Watson. 

The USA team is Emery Combs, Carol Shao and Olivia de los Reyes, who won the 16s Clay Courts while Combs and Shao were competing at the Wimbledon 14U event. USTA National Coach Celeste Frey is the the team captain.

The announcement for the boys is here.

Only one seed has advanced to the quarterfinals at the ATP Challenger 100 in Bloomfield Hills: No. 5 Eliot Spizzirri, who won a third-set tiebreaker yesterday over Michael Zheng. The three seeds in action today all lost, with two qualfiers, former Stanford All-American Arthur Fery of Great Britain and Tony Wu of Taiwan, making Friday’s quarterfinals. None of the four doubles semifinalists are seeded with the four seeded teams all losing in the quarterfinals today.

Men’s Singles – Round of 16
Yu Hsiou Hsu (TPE) d [Q] Aidan Mayo (USA) 63 62
[Q] Tung-Lin Wu (TPE) d [7] Li Tu (AUS) 36 76(2) 64
[Q] Arthur Fery (GBR) d [3] Alexander Blockx (BEL) 64 63
Mark Lajal (EST) d [6] August Holmgren (DEN) 61 62

Men’s Doubles – Quarterfinals
[WC] Stefan Dostanic (USA)/Benjamin Kittay (USA) d [2] Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND)/Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) 46 64 10-7
Jason Jung (TPE)/Reese Stalder (USA) d [3] Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND)/Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) 61 62
Yu Hsiou Hsu (TPE)/Tsung-Hao Huang (TPE) d [1] Blake Bayldon (AUS)/Trey Hilderbrand (USA) 06 64 10-2
[WC] Theodore Winegar (USA)/Michael Zheng (USA) d [4] Patrick Harper (AUS)/Joshua Sheehy (USA) 63 46 10-7

ORDER OF PLAY – FRIDAY, 25 JULY 2025
Center Court – start 11:00
[5] Eliot Spizzirri (USA) vs [NG] Yi Zhou (CHN)
[WC] Andres Martin (USA) vs Alexis Galarneau (CAN)
Yu Hsiou Hsu (TPE) vs [Q] Tung-Lin Wu (TPE)
[Q] Arthur Fery (GBR) vs Mark Lajal (EST)

Court 2 – start 15:00
[WC] Theodore Winegar (USA) / Michael Zheng (USA) vs [WC] Stefan Dostanic (USA) / Benjamin Kittay (USA)

Not Before 16:00
After Rest – Yu Hsiou Hsu (TPE) / Tsung-Hao Huang (TPE) vs Jason Jung (TPE) / Reese Stalder (USA)

Three current and one former Division I collegians will play for titles at the World University Games in Germany, with Arizona rising senior Jay Friend of Japan playing in the men’s singles and the mixed doubles finals in the next two days.  No. 13 seed Friend defeated Florida State’s Jamie Connel of Great Britain 6-3, 6-4 in the singles semifinals, and will play another British player, former South Carolina All-American Toby Samuel, in Saturday’s final. Samuel advanced with a 7-6(4), 6-3 win over VASQUEZ Alessio Vasquez of Germany. 

Ange Oby Kajuru of Japan, who has left Oklahoma State to join North Carolina as a graduate transfer this fall, will play for the women’s doubles title with partner Kanon Yamaguchi. Draws, schedules and individual match statistics can be found here.