RANCHO SANTA FE, June 21, 2025
One of the few four-year players on the SoCal Pro Series, Eryn Cayetano’s experience on the circuit last year was uncharacteristically uneven by her standards. Her 2025 SoCal Pro Series debut this week at Rancho Santa Fe Tennis Club, however, is trending toward a promising rebound.
The 2023 USC graduate finds herself pulling double duty this weekend. The No. 2 seed followed up a 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 quarterfinal triumph over eighth-seeded Ukrainian Anita Sahdiieva by partnering with her former Trojans teammate, Lily Fairclough for a 6-3, 6-3 semifinal victory over top-seeded Japanese duo Natsuho Arakawa and Nanari Katsumi on Friday in the $15,000-purse tournament on the USTA Pro Circuit and ITF World Tennis Tour.
Third-seeded Cayetano and Fairclough, the 19-year-old Australian and rising junior at USC who has won the doubles championship each of the past two weeks at the University of San Diego, will meet No. 4 seeds Sahdiieva and Canadian Scarlett Nicholson in Saturday afternoon’s women’s doubles final.
Cayetano, who was raised in Corona and Long Beach (Saint Anthony High School), holds four ITF singles titles and seven more in doubles. History shows she has a penchant for racking up her titles in bunches.
Cayetano (No. 475 WTA singles ranking) won one women’s singles title and two doubles crowns on the SoCal Pro Series over 2022 and 2023. In fact, she won the singles and doubles crowns on the same weekend at the Jack Kramer Club in Rolling Hills Estates in 2022, beating American teenage sensation Iva Jovic in singles.
In five SoCal Pro Series events last year, she made one singles semifinal appearance at the University of San Diego. Cayetano, 24, did not advance beyond the second round during the other four weeks.
Now touring the ITF circuit regularly, Cayetano’s globetrotting in 2025 has taken her across the U.S. and abroad to Georgia, Egypt and Tunisia, where she also won the $15,000 Futures singles and doubles championships on the same weekend in March.
Stanford-bound San Diegan Alyssa Ahn, 18, advanced to her second consecutive SoCal Pro Series weekend in dispatching Northern Californian Klara Kosan, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, in her quarterfinal. That result comes on the heels of Ahn avenging last week’s singles final defeat to Cal’s Mao Mushika in Thursday’s second round when Mushika retired with injury after Ahn raced to a 6-0, 3-0 lead.
Ahn is also a four-year veteran of the SoCal Pro Series and has consistently improved her performance with each year. She believes playing in her home county has given her much comfort with playing on this annual circuit.
“Being in San Diego is nice,” Ahn said. “I get to go home every night. I don’t have to stay in a hotel. It’s really nice and I get my mom’s homecooked meals every dinner. I think there’s some convenience to that. Ultimately, my biggest goal is development more than the results. It’s hard not to think about results. I just hope my game keeps progressing.”
Ahn’s semifinal foe is No. 4 seed Alexis Nguyen, a 6-1, 6-2 quarterfinal winner over Woodland Hills resident Thea Frodin, the ITF’s No. 22-ranked junior in the world. Avery Nguyen is Cayetano’s opponent in the other women’s singles semifinal which begins at 10 a.m. on Saturday
Alexis and Avery Nguyen are 17-year-old twins from El Dorado Hills, a suburb of Sacramento. Both have one year of high school remaining and are committed to play college tennis at North Carolina for the 2026-27 school year. Avery Nguyen earned her first WTA ranking point on Wednesday and ousted San Diego State senior-to-be Jo-Yee Chan, who retired while trailing 6-2, 5-2, in Friday’s quarterfinals.
In the men’s singles draw, Thousand Oaks resident Rudy Quan and Fullerton native Kyle Kang advanced to their first SoCal Pro Series semifinals. The men’s semifinals follow the women’s semifinals on Saturday’s schedule.
The beat rolls on for Quan, UCLA’s No. 1 singles player as a freshman this past season who is making his 2025 SoCal Pro Series debut this week. He eliminated San Diegan (2021 St. Augustine High School graduate) and UC Irvine ace Noah Zamora, 6-3, 7-6 (4), in his Friday quarterfinal and duels in the semifinals against Ohio State standout Jack Anthrop. UCLA knocked off host Ohio State in April’s Big Ten Tournament championship match, though the two did not face each other in NCAA play.
Quan, 19, continues to ride the momentum of a season that brought him an All-Big Ten First Team selection and the Bruins a conference championship and a NCAA Division I Tournament quarterfinal berth. Quan’s only other ITF men’s semifinal berth came in May 2024 in Florida, and he is seeking his first final in a pro tournament.
“I’m trying to treat every tournament the same, whether it’s a Challenger, a 15K, a 25K, an ATP 1000. Just going to treat every opponent with the same respect,” said Quan, who won a qualifying round at the BNP Paribas Open (ATP 1000) in Indian Wells in March. “It’s great just to get a lot of match experience, just to keep working on what I’ve been practicing. There’s been a lot of positives. Just looking to keep improving my game. Hopefully those results keep positive.”
Kang, 20, is playing for the second consecutive week on the SoCal Pro Series. He eliminated second-seeded Australian Moerani Bouzige, 6-2, 6-4, in his quarterfinal and is the only remaining seeded player (No. 7 seed). He has a semifinal meeting with former University of Michigan product Andrew Fenty.
Kang played at No. 1 singles for Stanford in three dual team matches while recently completing his sophomore season at Stanford. He was a Pac-12 Conference champion in 2024 and an Atlantic Coast Conference champion in 2025, as the Cardinal advanced to the NCAA Division I Tournament’s final four in May.
Saturday’s men’s doubles final showcases UCLA returning senior and 2025 ITA Men’s Doubles All-American Aadarsh Tripathi, 21, and fellow Northern Californian Theodore Dean in a matchup against fourth-seeded Strong Kirchheimer, a Northwestern product, and Englishman Finn Bass. Tripathi and Dean edged Fenty and Leo Vithoontien, 3-6, 6-4, 10-6 (10-point, third-set tiebreaker), in a Friday semifinal and are each seeking their first ITF professional championship.
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Remaining 2025 SoCal Pro Series tournament schedule
- June 23-29 – Lakewood Tennis Center, Lakewood
- June 30-July 6 – Jack Kramer Club, Rolling Hills Estates
- July 7-13 – San Diego State University, San Diego
