Americans Headline U.S. Open Junior Championship Field

August 3, 2015 | By New York Tennis Magazine Staff
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World number one junior Taylor Fritz, Wimbledon Boys Champion Reilly Opelka, French Open Boys Champion Tommy Paul and reigning ITF World Junior Champion CiCi Bellis headline the Americans entered into the boys and girls singles fields at the 2015 U.S. Open Junior Championships, which will be played Sept. 6-13 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y.

Top-10 world-ranked juniors Michael Mmoh, a 2015 French Open boys semifinalist, and William Blumberg, who reached the boys singles quarterfinals at Wimbledon and the boys doubles final at Roland Garros this year, are also entered into a U.S. Open boys field that included 24 of the Top 25 juniors in the world when the International Tennis Federation released the entry lists last week.

Bellis, the breakout star of the 2014 U.S. Open with her upset of Dominika Cibulkova in the first round of the women’s draw, headlines a girls field that includes other top American prospects, such as Katerina Stewart, Sofia Kenin, Usue Arconada and Claire Liu, among others, along with Wimbledon girls champion Sofya Zhuk of Russia, and Australian Open Girls Champion Tereza Mihalikova of Slovakia. Tornado Alicia Black, a 2013 U.S. Open Girls Singles Finalist, is entered into qualifying.

The full list of Americans entered into the U.S. Open Junior Championships:

Boys–Main Draw
Taylor Fritz
Michael Mmoh
Reilly Opelka
William Blumberg
Tommy Paul 
Nathan Ponwith
Ulises Blanch
Sam Riffice

Boys–Qualifying
Emil Reinberg

Girls–Main Draw
CiCi Bellis
Usue Arconada
Sofia Kenin
Michaela Gordon
Raveena Kingsley
Francesca Di Lorenzo
Ingrid Neel
Claire Liu
Katerina Stewart

Girls–Qualifying
Kayla Day
Alexandra Sanford
Tornado Alicia Black


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