Michael Augsberger
- Sep 7
- 4 min read

Mills rolls into Tour Championship weekend

The Road to THE TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP 2023

Sept 2: 12U & 18U UTR - Tennis Curator Cup

Sept 3: 15U Singles & Doubles UTR - Sweet Spotter Cup

There are still a few hours to apply to play in the Tour Championship! Sign up here. Registration closes at 9 pm on Thursday, Sept 7.

View the full rankings here

Carter Mills had already qualified for the 14U Tour Championship next weekend, but it never hurts to prepare in style. Much like the pros at New Haven, he tweaked his game in the last week leading up to the major and came away with another title.

More important may be confidence and hot play heading into the Tour Championship. Mills had to defeat the No. 1 ranked player on tour, Jon Ozenci, to capture the Sweet Spotter Cup championship, 4-2, 4-2.

Shed no tears for Ozenci, however. He has multiple options to compete and with his finals performance regained the No. 1 position in the 16U rankings over Solomon Ravitz, who he had trailed by eleven points before the Sweet Spotter Cup. He'd already held No. 1 in 14U and 18U and now is consolidating his holdings.

Zander Abramson emerged the victor after coming back from a set down to capture a tight tiebreak against Zachary Mills 1-4, 4-1, 10-8. That coupled with his default win to make Abramson 2-0 and the champion. But Kidd was able to oust Mills for second place, 4-2, 4-1. It would have been chaos had the last tiebreak points gone Mills' way.

One interesting note from the weekend---Zachary Mills, a Junior Circuit tournament champion in the past, may have endured a heart-wrenching loss. But the five points he earned in competing at the 12U level means he debuts on that tour at 22nd.

Not only that, but he improved enough in the 10U rankings to earn an invitation as an alternate to the Tour Championship, which he has converted.

Tour Championship tickets have been punched. Players are listed where they have qualified, but some changes in age division will be made for those who have aged out of their group, as well as next-qualified players added in place of those with injuries.

There are still a few hours to apply to play in the Tour Championship! Sign up here. Registration closes at 9 pm on Thursday, Sept 7.

18U Boys

Michael Fleming

Benjamin Kaufman

Jonah Treitler

Aryan Dhiman

AJ Mangin

Tanish Rayan

18U Girls

Honor Sax

Daniela Corona Shturman

Atlee Hilliard

Adelaide Houston

Mia Payson

Ariana Sartip

16U Boys

Solomon Ravitz

Alvaro Orlove

Diego Levi

Spencer Weiss

Anton Grib

Jack Jaffee

16U Girls

Taylor Shen

Caroline Peterson

Zahra Doriwala

Paisley Fromer

Riece Grimes-Thomas

Sofia Gerhardt

14U Boys

Jon Ozenci

Ilan Faraci

Braden Walter

David Gong

Carter Mills

William van Horne

14U Girls

Serena Provinse

Daphne Dunlap

Zoe Taylor

Cornelia Touw

Lily Venzke

Annie Lippard

12U Boys

Kiran Mathura

Archer Pollak

Deniz Ozenci

Sajan Chandela

Arnav Nadikatla

Rohan Bhagat

12U Girls

Shritha Adapala

Julia Urbanowska

Likitha Gaddipati

Stella Dybczakova

Sandhya Lakshmanan

Elizabeth Agbomson

10U Boys

Shiloh Auzoux

Finn Jackson

Abir Kedar

Devin Leung

Pierson Holahan

Nicolas Kidd

10U Girls

Siena Auzoux

Lara Dabney

Shannon Bu

Petrina Bailey

Kamsiyonna Udejiofor

Isabelle Savvas

Remember the newly added feature to the rankings: the Plus / Minus, which will tell you how far up or down the player has moved within the last week.

Champions

9/2 UTR 12U: Zander Abramson

9/3 UTR 15U: Carter Mills

The full tables now look like this.

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2023 Tour Schedule

March

Mar 18: USTA L7 Boys and Girls 12U

Mar 19: USTA L7 Boys and Girls 14U

April

Apr 8: UTR 14U - Sweet Spotter Open

Apr 16: USTA L7 Boys and Girls 12U

Apr 16: USTA L7 Boys and Girls 14U

Apr 23: UTR 14U and 16U - Potomac Spring Tennis Festival Open

Apr 29: 15U UTR - Teen World Open Classic

Apr 30: 12U UTR - Anguilla Service Trips Open

Apr 30: 10U Green Dot UTR - Anguilla Service Trips Open