Trevor Svajda conquers Calabasas for first ITF World Tennis Tour title
Trevor Svajda won his first ITF World Tennis Tour singles title on Sunday in an all-American final at M25 Calabasas in California, defeating Nishesh Basavareddy 6-4, 6-1 in the final.
With a combined age of just under 37 years old, the battle between Svajda, 17, and Basavareddy, 18, represented the youngest all-American men’s singles final on the ITF World Tennis Tour since records began in 1990.
Henrik Wiersholm and Alex Rybakov contested the previous youngest all-American final at USA F33 Futures in Pensacola, Florida, in 2015, when both men were 18 years old with a combined age of over 37.
Svajda is the first American teenager to win a men’s singles title on the ITF World Tennis Tour in 2024.
He entered M25 Calabasasas a wild card with a ranking of world No. 1053, before winning the tournament dropping just one set in five matches.
All five of Svajda’s opponents were ranked higher than him, including Top 500 players and fellow Americans Omni Kumar and Basavareddy.
He has a blueprint to emulate in older brother Zachary Svajda, 21, a Top 200 talent who currently sits at world No. 136 with four ATP Challenger titles and three ITF World Tennis Tour titles to his name.
Elsewhere on the men’s tour, Romania’s Filip Cristian Jianu, 22, continued his success in 2024 with a fourth title this season, defeating Austrian Joel Schwaerzler 6-1, 6-2 in the final at M15 Antalya in Turkey.
Jianu sits equal with Dmitry Popko and Jaime Faria for most men’s singles titles on the ITF World Tennis Tour in 2024, and he leads the tour in match-wins with a win-loss record of 32-5 this year.
Schwaerzler, 18, is the current junior world No. 1, and was contesting his first professional singles final in the title match against Jianu.
Meanwhile, Clement Chidekh defeated Maxime Janvier in an all-French final at M25 Toulouse-Balma, in France, while Daniel Dutra de Silva defeated fellow Brazilian Mateus Alves in the final at M25 Maceio in Brazil.
Chidekh, 22, has now won three singles titles in 2024, two on the ITF World Tennis Tour and his first ATP Challenger title at Glasgow, UK, in February.
The Frenchman holds a combined 25-6 win-loss record in 2024 on the ITF World Tennis Tour and ATP Challenger Tour.
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