Charney, Doubles Group to Compete at American Collegiate Player Wildcard Playoffs

ORLANDO, Fla. — The University of Michigan girls’s tennis group shall be well-represented on the American Collegiate Player Wildcard Playoffs, set for June 16-18 on the USTA National Campus Collegiate Center. Piper Charney will compete in singles, with Lily Jones teaming with Jessica Bernales in doubles.

Charney is coming off her second straight All-America honor, ending her junior season ranked No. 8 in singles with a 24-11 general file. She compiled a 13-8 dual-match file, going 10-4 at No. 1 singles and 3-4 at No. 2. She earned All-Big Ten first-team honors and a spot on the all-tournament group on the Big Ten Tournament.

Jones and Bernales went 18-11 as a duo this previous season, going 9-8 in twin matches collectively on the high of the lineup. The pair competed collectively within the 2024 NCAA Doubles Championship and completed this season ranked No. 22.

Six wild-card entries into the 2026 U.S. Open (4 singles, two doubles) shall be awarded by way of the second-year playoff occasion. The winners of the four-player males’s and girls’s singles playoff and four-team males’s and girls’s doubles playoff will earn U.S. Open most important draw singles and doubles wild playing cards, respectively, whereas the lads’s and girls’s singles finalists will earn U.S. Open Qualifying wild playing cards. All singles and doubles matches shall be performed in a best-of-three-set format that includes common scoring, with a 10-point tiebreak at 6-all within the third set.

The full fields are under, listed by the colleges with which every participant or group competed in 2025-26. Reese Brantmeier routinely certified primarily based on having gained the NCAA Singles Championships within the fall. The remaining alternatives had been made primarily based on a variety of standards, together with 2025-26 match file, ITA rating, ATP/WTA rating, skilled and head-to-head outcomes, and extra.

Women’s Singles

Reese Brantmeier (North Carolina)

Luciana Perry (Ohio State)

Piper Charney (Michigan)

Katrina Scott (Tennessee)

Women’s Doubles

DJ Bennett/Ava Esposito (Auburn)

Reese Brantmeier/Alanis Hamilton (North Carolina)

Valeria Ray/Bridget Stammel (Vanderbilt)

Jessica Bernales/Lily Jones (Michigan)

Competition Schedule

* All matches are scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m. every night time, topic to alter

Tuesday, June 16

Men’s and Women’s Singles Semifinals

Wednesday, June 17

Men’s and Women’s Doubles Semifinals

Thursday, June 18

Men’s and Women’s Singles Finals

Men’s and Women’s Doubles Finals

Jones completed her illustrious profession this previous season, leaving Michigan ranked fourth all-time with 117 singles wins. She was a part of 4 Big Ten championship groups and gained three Big Ten Tournament titles, highlighted by being named the Most Outstanding Player at this yr’s event. Jones completed the season ranked No. 19, going 31-10 general in singles motion. Playing on the high of the lineup alongside Charney, Jones went 4-3 at No. 1 and 10-4 at No. 2 for a 14-7 general dual-match file.

Michigan went 21-7 this previous season, profitable its fourth straight Big Ten championship and fourth Big Ten Tournament title within the final 5 years. U-M hosted the primary and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament en path to its fourth straight Sweet 16 earlier than falling 4-2 at No. 5 North Carolina this previous weekend (May 8).