Kotseva and Dollar Claim J100 Titles; Wild Cards for 2027 Australian Open and Roland Garros Awarded; WTT Junior Finals Groups Announced

Five American players secured singles titles last week on the World Tennis Junior Circuit, including two J100 championships. Notably, there were no J300 events and only two J200 tournaments. In one of these, Adla Lopez reached the girls' final in Bolivia but lost to 15-year-old Sofiia Bielinska of Ukraine, with a score of 6-1, 6-3.

In Dubrovik, Croatia, 15-year-old Raya Kotseva from Las Vegas, who has been training in Europe, won her second J100 title of the year. The top seed defeated unseeded Sofia Kocisova of Slovakia 6-4, 6-3 in the final. Following this win, Kotseva improved her WT junior ranking to 207, having previously peaked at 114 after reaching the final of a J300 in San Diego in March 2025.

Eighteen-year-old Grace Dollar achieved her first WT junior singles title at the J100 in Metepec, Mexico, defeating No. 8 seed Vera Iamina of Russia with a score of 6-2, 6-3. Alongside her, Sophia Budacsek, who lost to Iamina in the semifinals, won the doubles title with Mexican partner Azul Lopez Vazquez R, defeating the fourth-seeded duo of Dollar and Elsa Sahandi 6-1, 6-0.

At the J60 in Panama, 14-year-old Sofia Dvortsova captured her third and most significant WT junior singles title this year, beating No. 2 seed Miranda Fernandez Figueroa of Mexico 6-1, 6-3. Similarly, 15-year-old Norah Davoodi won her first WT junior circuit title at the J60 in Victoria, Canada, after triumphing over Kendra Zhang 6-4, 6-0 in the final.

Seventeen-year-old Jaidyn Finley reached the boys’ singles final and won the doubles title alongside Cayden Laughton, defeating the unseeded Canadian team of Ilya Sherifali and Alden Yu 6-4, 6-2. Also in doubles, Enya Hamilton and Autumn Xu secured their fourth title of the year, besting Gwyneth Britton and Kingsley Wolf 6-3, 6-1.

The sole American boy to win a singles title last week was unseeded Macksimus Malhotra, who claimed the championship at the J60 in the Dominican Republic with a win over No. 2 seed Thiago Silveira of Brazil, 7-5, 6-2.

After a two-week break, the World Tennis Junior Circuit will resume in the United States for the next five weeks, featuring two J60s, two J100s, and one J200, all on green clay.

In related developments, the first wild cards for the 2027 Australian Open Junior Championships and the 2027 Roland Garros Junior Championships were awarded this weekend. In São Paulo, Brazil, 16-year-old Livas Damazio and 16-year-old Maria Eduarda Carbone emerged victorious in the Australian Open Junior Series South America playoffs. Damazio defeated fellow Brazilian Davi Sousa 6-2, 6-3, while Carbone overcame 14-year-old Sofia Cuoco of Argentina 6-4, 6-3.

In Tokyo, 16-year-old Yui Komada of Japan defended her title to earn a wild card for the 2027 Roland Garros Junior Championships via the Asia Junior Series. Komada defeated Natsuki Irokawa of Japan 6-4, 3-6, 6-4. Dongjae Kim, also 16 and from Korea, secured the boys' wild card by defeating Shintaro Ogaki of Japan 6-4, 1-6, 6-2. Kim, currently ranked No. 124 in the WT junior rankings, may need the wild card for entry in 2027.

The World Tennis Tour Junior Finals are scheduled to begin in Chengdu, China, on Wednesday, with American participants Janae Preston, Jordan Lee, and Keaton Hance competing. Groups for the first three days of play have been announced.