Pro Circuit Round-up: Brooksby, Min win singles titles

In two adjacent states in Middle America, Jenson Brooksby and Grace Min claimed USTA Pro Circuit titles.

Brooksby (pictured above), 18, ventured to Champaign, Ill., from his native California to win the ITF World Tennis Tour M25 event, defeating University of Florida rising junior Oliver Crawford, 6-2, 6-1, in the final. Min, 25, won her 11th ITF singles title at the W25 event in Evansville, Ind., about 400 miles from her native Atlanta (where American Taylor Fritz reached the ATP 250 final).

There was also a pair of American doubles champions on the week, as Sanaz Marand and Caitlin Whoriskey took home the trophy at the W60 event in Ashland, Ky.

Brooksby, who reached the US Open boys’ singles semifinals in 2018, doubled his ITF title count with his result; he also won the M25 singles title in Bakersfield, Calif., in March. As the No. 3 seed in Champaign, he dropped just one set in five wins—the opening set of his second-round encounter with Govind Nanda. His title run also took him past former Fighting Illini teammates Keenan Mayo (quarterfinals) and Aleksandar Kovacevic (semis).

Ohio State commit and former Top-10 ITF junior Cannon Kingsley also reached the Champaign quarterfinals. 

Min, a former WTA Top-100 player who trains at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla., won her first title of 2019. She has now won at least one ITF title each year since 2014, with the biggest win coming at a $60,000 event in Lexington, Ky., in 2017. She won two three-setters as the No. 6 seed in Evansville, including a 7-6, 4-6, 7-5 final victory over top-seeded Deniz Khazaniuk of Israel.

Natasha Subhash reached the semifinals in Indiana, while Kate Fahey and Elli Mandlik were singles quarterfinalists. Pamela Montez reached the doubles final. 

Other American highlights on the ITF Tour include:

Men:

• Ernesto Escobedo was the singles champion at the ATP Challenger 90 event in Granby, Canada. With the result, he charged into first place in the USTA's US Open Wild Card Challenge.
• Mitchell Krueger reached the singles semis at the USTA Pro Circuit/ATP Challenger 80 event in Binghamton, N.Y., where Maxime Cressy was a quarterfinalist. JC Aragone and Alex Lawson teamed up to reach the doubles final.
• Dennis Uspensky was a singles finalist at the ITF WTT M15 event in Telavi, Georgia, where Maksim Tikhomirov reached the quarters.
• Christian Langmo won the singles title at the ITF WTT M15 event in Cancun, Mexico. Gage Brymer reached the semifinals, while Felix Corwin, Connor Farren and Aron Pierce reached the quarters. Corwin was also a doubles finalist at the event.
• Miles Jones reached the singles quarterfinals at the ITF WTT M15 event in Tabarka, Tunisia.

Women:

• Francesca Di Lorenzo was a singles quarterfinalist at the ITF WTT W80 event in Granby, Canada, where Quinn Gleason and Ingrid Neel reached the doubles final.
• Robin Anderson reached  the single semis at the USTA Pro Circuit/ITF WTT W 60 event in Ashland, Ky. Hanna Chang, Ann Li and Maegan Manasse were all singles quarterfinalists.
• Elle Christensen was a singles finalist at the ITF WTT W15 event in Cancun, Mexico, where Madison Appel and Jwany Sherif reached the quarters.

Wheelchair:

• Dana Mathewson reached the women’s open singles quarterfinals at the British Open ITF Super Series event in Nottingham, England.
• Joanna Nieh reached the women’s open singles final at the Kamloops Legacy Games ITF Futures event in Kamloops, Canada. Jason Keatseangsilp reached the men’s open semis.