Florida and USTA Southern squared off across four age divisions at the Florida Southern Team Challenge, held October 23 through the 25 in Florida and Tennessee. The 12s and 14s took place at the Champions Club Tennis Complex in Tennessee, while the 16s and 18s battled it out at the Florida Tennis Center in Daytona Beach.
The event pitted the two sides against each other in a head-to-head team format, with each squad fielding 16 to 17 players, typically eight boys and eight girls per division.
Competition spanned more than 90 matches in each age group, covering boys’ and girls’ singles, boys’ and girls’ doubles, and mixed doubles, with all doubles contested as one-set matches. Teams earned one point for every match won.
The two sides split the four divisions. Southern took the younger age groups while Florida claimed both of the older ones.
Así se desarrolló cada división.
12s Division
Southern set the tone early in the youngest division, controlling play across the board to take the 12s by a comfortable margin. Florida’s squad picked up 29 points over the course of the competition but could not keep pace with a Southern side that won better than two-thirds of the matches contested.
Resultado: Southern 12s defeated Florida 12s, 67-29
Florida 12s Roster: Clara Barnhart (Orlando), Bobby Bryan (Sunny Isles Beach), Anastasia Denisova (Boca Raton), Nikola Havlat (Boca Raton), Bence Leber (Delray Beach), Noah Lee (Orlando), Dominique Mateus (Naples), Andrei Novikov (Miami), Luke Pehar (Lakeland), Lorenzo Pirari (Coral Gables), Nicholas Ramirez (Wesley Chapel), Adiva Rosenberg (Surfside), Nicholas Rybak (Palm Coast), Sophia Smith (Orlando), Savina Somrock (Delray Beach), Angela Xue (Boynton Beach)
14s Division
The 14s followed a similar script. Southern again built a decisive lead, closing out the division 64-32. Florida doubled its point total from the 12s but was unable to close the gap against a deep Southern lineup.
Resultado: Southern 14s defeated Florida 14s, 64-32
Florida 14s Roster: Keanu Agbulos (Orlando), Taylor Amberg (Naples), Alexander Arias (Miami), Gaston Bigan (Miami), Leonardo Bigan (Miami), Quinn Canales (Orlando), Sofia Cannon (Boca Raton), Jacqueline Feehan (Boca Raton), Emma Goth (Boca Raton), Hartley Milne (Saint Petersburg), Sofia Petruta (Orlando), Mila Rukosuev (Altamonte Springs), Michael Rybak (Palm Coast), Jean-Luc Santos (Boca Raton), Miguel Valencia (Pinecrest), Helena Xue (Boynton Beach)
16s Division
Florida flipped the script in the 16s, and did so emphatically. The home side produced the most dominant performance of the entire challenge, winning 69 of the 96 matches contested to take the division 69-27. It was the largest margin of victory recorded by either side across the four age groups.
Resultado: Florida 16s defeated Southern 16s, 69-27
Florida 16s Roster: Myla Abraham (Lutz), Nathan De Croos, Sebastian Graff (Weston), Adam Harrah (Pompano Beach), Mehar Kaur (Boca Raton), Katie Mann (Port Saint Lucie), Siddharth Mantha (Saint Johns), Victoria Narti (Palm Beach Gardens), Ashley Narath (Orlando), Matias Navarro (Palm Beach Gardens), Micaela Navarro (Palm Beach Gardens), Blake Okoh (Tampa), Geet Pondala (Pembroke Pines), Payton Seidle-Lubowitz (Weston), Sohith Tella (Orlando), Natalie Thelemaque (Delray Beach), Sophie Zakrzewski (Naples)
18s Division
The 18s delivered the most competitive division of the challenge. Southern pushed Florida harder than in any other age group, but the home side held firm down the stretch to win 55-40 and close out the weekend with a second straight division title.
Resultado: Florida 18s defeated Southern 18s, 55-40
Florida 18s Roster: Daven Aga (Boca Raton), Charlotte Ballarin (Boca Raton), Isabella Bosso (Safety Harbor), Samuel Church-Schulman (Miami), Luke Conner (Wesley Chapel), Krish Ferwani (Orlando), Zara Frljak (Winter Garden), London Jennings (Naples), Brooke Martin (Ormond Beach), Braylen Michelsen (Fort Myers), Maria Navarro (Palm Beach Gardens), Samuel Rosales Stephen (Weston), Ivan Rybak (Palm Coast), Kyndall Smith (Sanford), Chukwunoneeru Smarty (Oneco), Luca Torres-Sigler (Riverview), Ivan Urbanovich (Winter Garden), Jose Vasquez (Boca Raton)
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