USTA Nationals
Wang Adds Second Gold Ball With 12s Singles Title
by James Hill, 15 August 2023
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Top-seeded Allison Wang (San Jose, California) brought home her second USTA gold ball by winning the Girls 12s National Singles Championship.
Singles Champion Allison Wang
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Wang, who won the Winter Championship last January in Tucson, Arizona, defeated fifth-seeded Daniela Davletshina (Lake Worth, Florida) 6-4, 6-2 in the title matchup in Peachtree Corners, Georgia. Davletshina was coming off a tournament victory last month at the Clay Courts.
“I had a good tournament preparation,” Wang said. “That helped me be able to handle different situations in the matches.”
The 15th-seeded doubles team of Davletshina, and younger sister, Nikol, won the tandem competition with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over No. 8 Emily Bennington (Apex, North Carolina) and Sophia Khomoutov (Chicago, Illinois). In the Clay Courts, the sisters took third place.
“We would stay together, even if we were losing,” Nikol Davletshina said. “We were both playing good and it was a lot better than the last time we played.”
The singles semifinals were both three-set battles. Wang outlasted No. 3 Nikol Davletshina 6-4, 2-6, 6-4. Daniela Davletshina was a 6-1, 1-6, 6-2 winner over No. 4 Daniela Del Mastro (Maple Grove, Minnesota).
Third place went to Nikol Davletshina, a 6-2, 6-4 winner over Del Mastro.
The Davletshinas advanced to the championship matchup with a 6-2, 6-4 semifinal victory over the No. 5 team of Madeline Cleary (Moorpark, California) and Olivia Lin (Lexington, Massachusetts). Bennington and Khomoutov beat top seeds Adriana Khomyakova (Port St. Lucie, Florida) and Olivia De Los Reyes (Scarsdale, New York) 4-6, 6-4, 7-5.
Doubles Champions Daniela and Nikol Davletshina
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Khomyakova and De Los Reyes defeated Cleary and Lin 6-4, 7-6 (7-0) in the third-place playoff.
De Los Reyes, who won the Clay Courts doubles with Zoe Young (Spring, Texas), was selected as the overall Sportsmanship Award recipient.
Other singles winners:
West – Abigail Haile (Los Angeles, California)
North – Leala Kramer (Short Hills, New Jersey)
South – Lucy Dupere (Wake Forest, North Carolina)
Northeast – Juliana Diianni (Marietta, Georgia)
Northwest – Eugenia Alvarez (San Antonio, Texas)
Southwest – Ella Lin (Westfield, New Jersey)
Southeast – Sophia Shipway (Northville, Michigan)
Silver – Emery Combs (Conway, South Carolina)
Gold – Vibha Gogineni (Mason, Ohio)
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About James Hill
James Hill is the Assistant Sports Information Director at Trinity
University in San Antonio and a freelance writer. He has covered all
levels of tennis competition.
