Another rain delay extended Thursday until nearly 9:00 p.m. at the 2018 USTA Boys’ 12s National Clay Court Championships, part of the USTA adidas Junior Championship Series. But eventually, all matches were completed, whittling the singles main draw down to the quarterfinals while a quartet of teams remains in the hunt for the doubles title.

A total of four players will head into Friday with the opportunity of taking home a Gold Ball in both singles and doubles still on the table – Rudy Quan (Sacramento, Calif.) Alexander Razeghi (Humble, Texas), Andrew Salu (Sarasota, Fla.) and Adam Sun (Glendale, Ariz.).

Singles top seed Quan and No. 2 Salu continued to ease their way through the draw. On Thursday, Quan put a stop to unseeded Mikel Anderson’s (Hillsboro Beach, Fla.) run, defeating him 6-2, 6-1; the three games are the most Quan has dropped in a match so far this week. Salu posted his fifth 6-0 set of the event en route to his 6-2, 6-0 win against another unseeded hopeful, Cole Henceroth (Midlothian, Va.).

Maximus Dussault (Leesburg, Va.), who now has taken out a seed in three consecutive rounds, is next up for Quan. Dussault’s effort on Thursday was his most impressive, as he cruised past seventh seed Dylan Charlap (Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.) 6-3, 6-1. Meanwhile, Salu will clash with his first seeded competitor in the quarterfinals in the form of No. 6 Lucas Coriaty (Long Beach, Calif.). Coriaty was on the brink of elimination in his encounter with No. 11 Santiago Muhala (Katy, Texas), having to come from a set down and survive a second set tiebreak to prevail 3-6, 7-6(3), 6-1.

In the other quarterfinal contests, fourth seed Razeghi will face No. 5 Sun and unseeded Zhengqing Ji (La Jolla, Calif.) will take on Siddharth Moturi (Monterey, Calif.). Razeghi tore through his match with ninth seed Thomas Faurel (Alpharetta, Ga.) without dropping a game, while Sun outlasted No. 16 Rohan Belday (West Orange, N.J.) 6-3, 3-6, 6-1. Ji came through with his third triumph over a seed in straight sets, handling No. 21 Paris Pouatcha (Alpharetta, Ga.) 6-3, 6-1. Moturi toughed out a 7-6(3), 4-6, 6-3 result versus third-seeded Alexander Frusina (Conroe, Texas), who entered the match having surrendered only 11 games through three rounds.

Two rounds of doubles were completed on Thursday. No. 11 seeds Maxwell Exsted (Savage, Minn.) and Quan advanced out of the first quarter of the draw, overcoming Abhinav and Prathinav Chunduru (Plano, Texas) 6-3, 6-0 in the round of 16 before defeating Moturi and Steve Nguyen (Anaheim, Calif.) 6-1, 7-6(6). The fourth-seeded duo of Razeghi and Cooper Woestendick (Olathe, Kan.) made sure the top half of the draw stayed intact, besting the unseeded duo of Matteo Antonescu (Mountain View, Calif.) and William Semler (Portland, Ore.) in their first matchup and following that up with a 7-6(5), 6-3 win versus No. 10 Nikita Filin (Wilmette, Ill.) and Declan Galligan (West Des Moines, Iowa).

The only tandem outside of the top four seeds to make the semifinals is the eighth-seeded team of Salu and Sun. They posted a 7-5, 6-2 result over Alexander Di Staulo (Weston, Fla.) and Roy Horovitz (Key Biscayne, Fla.); Salu and Sun closed out Thursday’s slate of matches by breezing past No. 3 Maxim Michaels (Marlboro, N.J.) and Santiago Muhala (Katy, Texas) 6-1, 6-0. The second seeds Charlap and Mitchell Lee (Oakland, Calif.) were too strong for two seeded pairs, taking down No. 14 Henceroth and Joseph Hobbs (Virginia Beach, Va.) 6-1, 6-4 and then surviving No. 6 Soham Purohit (Kirkland, Wash.) and Vincent Yang (Kirkland, Wash.) 6-2, 4-6, 10-3.

Friday’s slate of matches will kick off at 8:00 a.m.

Among the previous singles champions are current pros Donald Young (2001), Jack Sock (2005), and Tommy Paul (2009). Former doubles champions include collegiate head coaches at BYU (Brad Pearce – 1978), Ohio State (Ty Tucker – 1982), and UCF (Bryan Koniecko – 1999) along with MaliVai Washington (1981), Denis Kudla (2004), Jack Sock (2004 and 2005), and Tommy Paul (2009).

For more information on the 2018 USTA Boys’ 12s National Clay Court Championships, click here. Additionally, the singles final will be broadcast live on Sunday, July 22 at 9:00 a.m. here.