USTA Summer Collegiate Team Announced; Cecil Wins on Pro Circuit and More
I'm still trying to get a handle on all I missed while I was covering the NCAAs in Tulsa, and I've come up with several items that I don't want to skip over.
- The USTA selects the Summer Collegiate Team, with a dozen Americans offered the chance to travel to Pro Circuit events in the next few months with coaches Rance Brown (women) and Kyle Spencer (men). Marcia Frost of collegeandjuniortennis.com has photos of them here. Except for Ohio State's Bryan Koniecko, the selections all follow the final ITA rankings.
- Mallory Cecil, who was injured this spring and unable to use the qualifying wild card to the WTA Family Circle event that she had earned at the SMASH Jr. Cup, won the $10,000 Pro Circuit event in her home state of South Carolina last weekend. Cecil defeated former Stanford star Theresa Logar in a three-set final. For complete draw, see the Pro Circuit results page.
- Sachia Vickery turned 13 less than a month ago, which meant she is eligible for ITF junior events. In her first outing, Vickery won the Grade 5 in Costa Rica as an unseeded qualifier (although she had to win only one qualifying match). For results, see the ITF junior site.
- At the ITF in Waco last month, Florida's Olivia Janowicz earned her first ITF singles title. The boys title went to Russian Artem Ilyushin. See the TennisLink site for complete draws.
- The wrestling team at Arizona State has raised enough money to be restored, but the men's swimming and tennis teams are still in limbo while searching for five million dollar endowments. The East Valley Tribune explains the dilemma here.
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Did Koniecko choose not to participate or did they just pick Aubone over him? Thanks.
If they chose not to pick him thats twice he has been screwed over by the ita or federation in some way. . Firstly when Inglot got seeded over him while ranked lower at NCAA's and now this. I dont know though about this it could have been his choice
Does anyone know the deal with the ITA draft for the Team Indoors? I read about it on the ITA website but have no idea just how it worked. It is an interesting concept to get teams to qualify for indoors instead of just picking top teams from the previous year. Should open things up to have some new teams there. Will it be played like regionals, with the 15 winners advancing to indoors? And why did some top seeds not host? It seems to me they might wait until the fall to seed the teams and do this, because you don't know how teams will be ranked with transfers, players lost to graduation, injuries, incoming freshmen, etc.
I really hope Florida's women compete at Indoors this year. I assume they will since they are in this draw. I think not competing and seeing the best teams the last 4 years has really hurt them come NCAA's. They last time they competed at Indoors, they went on to win the NCAA title outdoors. I don't think it was a coincidence.
BTW, does anyone if Diana Srebrovic is going to try and get a medical redshirt for next season or is her career done?
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