The final matches at the 2017 USTA National Winter Championships for the 16s and 18s age divisions, hosted by the USTA National Campus, were completed on Tuesday. Highlighting the action were the four singles championship contests, resulting in four USTA gold balls being earned.

Keshav Chopra (Marietta, Ga.) and Gianna Pielet (El Paso, Texas) completed a sweep of the boys’ and girls’ 16s divisions, respectively. A day after winning the doubles, Chopra and Pielet claimed singles titles to leave Orlando with a pair of national championships to their names.

Despite being seeded eighth in the boys’ 16s, Chopra was far and away the most dominant player in the draw. He entered Tuesday not having surrendered a set in his previous six matches, and he was able to keep up that level of play against No. 6 seed Harsh Parikh (Tucson, Ariz.). The contest did not start off in Chopra’s favor, as he fell behind a break at 3-0. However, he hung tough and rallied to claim the last four games of the set to take it 6-4. Parikh held in the first game of the second frame before Chopra strung together five consecutive games, eventually prevailing 6-2. Chopra consistently outplayed his opponents for the entire week, losing 42 games in 14 sets played.

Top seed Pielet was pushed to the limit in back-to-back matches midway through the tournament, but closed out her triumph emphatically on Tuesday. She and No. 8 seed Eryn Cayetano (Corona, Calif.) both got off to strong starts on serve with a gold ball on the line. Cayetano collected the first break to inch ahead 3-2, but the lead was short lived, as Pielet rebounded to reel off the last four games of the set that lasted over an hour. The second frame was nearly a mirror image to the first, this time seeing Cayetano hold a 3-1 advantage before Pielet steadied herself and won five straight games to close it out.

In the 18s finals, Christian Alshon (Boca Raton, Fla.) defeated Bradley Frye (Overland Park, Kan.) for the boys’ title while Fiona Crawley (San Antonio, Texas) took down Sophia Graver (Allenwood, N.J.).

Three breaks of serve kicked off the match between Alshon and Frye before Frye was able to move out in front 4-2. Alshon got momentum back on his side by holding at love in the next game, and then evened up the score when Frye double faulted on break point. Another hold gave Alshon his first lead of the contest. Frye attempted to extend the set but was broken after a lengthy 22-point game. Early breaks highlighted the start of the second frame as well. Alshon held serve for 4-3 to end a string of three consecutive breaks; however, Frye lifted his level of play to grab the last three games and force a decisive third set. Unfazed by letting the second slip away, Alshon was absolutely dominant in sweeping final frame. He won three games at love and lost just eight points total in clinching the title.

Crawley took home the girls’ 18s gold ball in less dramatic fashion. Letting Graver make most of the mistakes early on, she broke serve three times in the opening set on the way to winning it by the comfortable margin of 6-1. Graver was more solid on serve in the second, holding with ease in her first two service games. The first break of the set still went to Crawley, which kicked off a stretch of four breaks in a row. Graver appeared to take control following a love hold that gave her a 5-4 lead, but Crawley again proved to be too solid. She dropped four points over the final three games to take the victory 6-1, 7-5.

Additionally, four players took claim to USTA bronze balls by winning their respective third-place playoff – JJ Tracy (Hilton Head Island, S.C.) in the boys’ 16s, Valencia Xu (Livingston, N.J.) in the girls’ 16s, Jared Pratt (Daniel Island, S.C.) in the boys’ 18s, and Chelsea Kung (Fort Worth, Texas) in the girls’ 18s.

To view complete draws for the 16s and 18s age divisions, click here.