Champions of tennis, close to home
Wake County UTR · Junior Circuits District Slam
Not every trophy lives under a stadium roof.
Some of them show up on a Saturday in Angier, when parents fold chairs under the shade and kids bounce between courts with water bottles that never stay full. The Junior Circuits by Asics Summer District Slam (Aug 29–30, 2026) wrapped the way good junior weekends should: hard matches, honest draws, and names you can check on UTR.
Here are the main-draw champions and runners-up, plus the consolation finalists, from UTR event 381597 (club 12785). Big NC Tennis keeps the same list on bignctennis.com/news.
Main draw
- Division 1 — Champion Hunter Harris · Runner-up Zizhan Shangguan
- Division 2 — Champion Daniel Butenko · Runner-up Abhiram Muppavarapu
- Division 3 — Champion Kenan Aghajanian · Runner-up Arnav Reddy Choudepally
Consolation
- Division 1 — Ashrith Karnam · Finalist Devansh Rath
- Division 2 — Quincy Bull · Finalist Charvik Penjarla
- Division 3 — Brady Nolan · Finalist Avery Hopkins
That is the heart of it. A champion is not only the person holding a Slam cup on TV. It is also the junior who closed a long day in the heat, shook hands, and made the draw sheet mean something for a whole family carpool.
If you coach or parent around Wake and Harnett, this is the reminder worth posting on the fridge: keep showing up. Full local notes stay on our Local desk and on Big NC Tennis.
Tennis gets loud at the majors. It stays true at places like Angier.
Source: UTR Sports event 381597.