The University of San Diego hosts Week 2 (June 5-11) of the SoCal Pro Series – seven consecutive week-long professional men’s and women’s tennis events on the USTA Pro Circuit and ITF World Tennis Tour, organized by USTA Southern California, and played throughout San Diego, Los Angeles and Orange counties. Men’s and women’s singles qualifying concluded while main draw play in men’s and women’s singles (32-player draws) and men’s and women’s doubles (16-team draws) began on Tuesday.

San Diego’s Haley Giavara Eliminates No. 2 Seed in First Round of Women’s Singles

San Diego resident Haley Giavara, the 2023 Pac-12 Women’s Tennis Scholar-Athlete of the Year who recently completed her senior season at California (UC Berkeley), advanced to the second round in the women’s singles draw after second-seeded Sara Daavettila retired due to injury while trailing, 6-1, 4-1. Giavara reached the semifinals in last week’s SoCal Pro Series tournament in Rancho Santa Fe.

SoCal Pro Series Champs Win First-Round Doubles Matches

Rancho Santa Fe’s Jacob Brumm, a 2017 Torrey Pines High School graduate, returning SoCal Pro Series champion at the University of San Diego, opened his title defense with a new partner, Chilean Matias Soto, and the third-seeded duo rolled past Americans Jared Thompkins and Brian Battistone, 6-4, 6-4. Meanwhile Ohio State-bound San Diego teenager Bryce Nakashima, who won his first SoCal Pro Series doubles title last week in Rancho Santa Fe, partnered with University of Michigan player Bjorn Swenson to defeat El Cajon resident Elijah Strode and Harvard-bound Santee resident Rohan Murali, 3-6, 6-3, 10-7 (third-set tiebreaker). Brumm-Soto will duel against Nakashima-Swenson in Thursday’s quarterfinals. Tuesday served as an ITF men’s tournament debut for Murali, the 2023 CIF-San Diego Section singles champion from Santana High School who qualified for the men’s singles draw earlier on Tuesday and will face San Diego teenager Trevor Svajda in Wednesday’s first round.

San Diegans Spoil ITF Doubles Debut of Cassius Chinlund, USTA’s No. 1-ranked Junior

For the second consecutive year, the SoCal Pro Series showcased the top-ranked American junior player as Los Angeles resident and 2023 Easter Bowl Boys’ 18s singles champion Cassius Chinlund, 16, made his ITF World Tour and USTA Pro Circuit debut alongside 2023 Easter Bowl Boys’ 18s doubles champion and Georgia Tech recruit Krish Arora, of Newport Beach, in doubles on Tuesday. However, San Diego native and outgoing University of Utah senior Patrik Trhac (2017 Del Norte High School graduate) and El Cajon resident Isaiah Strode, 25, cut their week short in Tuesday’s first round, surviving one match point against to edge Chinlund and Arora, 6-3, 1-6, 12-10 (third-set tiebreaker).

Daily Competition Schedule:

Wednesday – Singles & doubles first round
Thursday – Singles second round; Doubles quarterfinals
Friday – Singles quarterfinals; Doubles semifinals
Saturday – Singles semifinals; Doubles finals
Sunday – Singles finals

Top Seeds in Singles:

Men

1. Govind Nanda (USA; Redlands, CA); ATP ranking No. 434
2. Alfredo Perez (USA; Coral Gables, FL); ATP ranking No. 496
3. Jaimee Floyd Angele (FRA); ATP ranking No. 520
4. Gage Brymer (USA; Irvine, CA); ATP ranking No. 532

Women

1. Samantha Crawford (USA; Tamarac, FL); WTA ranking No. 614
2. Sara Daavettila (USA; Williamston, MI); WTA ranking No. 661
3. Eryn Cayetano (USA; Long Beach, CA; USC senior); WTA ranking No. 747
4. Eleana Yu (USA; Mason, OH); WTA ranking No. 772