A little over a week after Bruno Kuzuhara won the singles and doubles titles at the Australian Open Junior Championships and moved to No. 1 in the ITF Junior rankings comes the word that he has turned pro. Parsa Nemati has the details in this tweet from Tuesday.
The ATP 250 in Delray Beach Florida is next week, and Kuzuhara has been given a wild card into qualifying. 2021 Wimbledon boys finalist Victor Lilov, also 17, will join Kuzuhara in qualifying after winning his spot in a competition the tournament held last fall. For more, see this release from the tournament. Qualifying begins Saturday.
Speaking of Wimbledon, reigning boys champion Samir Banerjee picked up his first ATP point today at this week's $15,000 ITF World Tennis Tour men's tournament in the Dominican Republic. Banerjee, who used his 2021 ITF junior ranking for entry, defeated 19-year-old qualifier Jordi Garcia Mestre of Spain 6-4, 2-6, 6-2.
Although there were no Division I women's team rankings released today, all the other rankings have been published, and, as expected, the Ohio State men have moved to No. 1 after shutting out No. 1 Tennessee and No. 6 Virginia last weekend. It wasn't unanimous however, with one of the ITA's 12 voters putting Baylor No. 1 and another sticking with Tennessee. Wake Forest and Stanford also moved up significantly after last weekend's wins over Georgia and Southern California. Complete lists can be found by clicking on the headings.
ITA Division I Men's Top 10 February 9, 2022
(previous week's ranking in parentheses)
1. Ohio State (5)
2. Tennessee (1)
3. Baylor (2)
4. TCU (4)
5. Florida (3)
6. Wake Forest (10)
7. Virginia (6)
8. Stanford (12)
9. Georgia (7)
10. Kentucky (11)
The USTA voters have a different order, and have Texas and Texas A&M in their Top 10 instead of Georgia and Kentucky.
1. Ohio State (6)
2. Baylor (2)
3. Tennessee (1)
4. TCU (4)
5. Florida (3)
6. Virginia (5)
7. Stanford (13)
8. Wake Forest (11)
9. Texas A&M (10)
10. Texas (9)
In the women's team rankings by the USTA/Tennis Channel panel, changes were not dramatic. Cal moved up, but that was before
their 5-2 loss to Michigan Tuesday night in Ann Arbor. Expect many more changes next week, after all the results from the Women's Team Indoor Championships.
1. Texas (1)
2. North Carolina (2)
3. NC State (3)
4. California (6)
5. Georgia (5)
6. Pepperdine (4)
7. Virginia (7)
8. Oklahoma (9)
9. Texas A&M (10)
10. Ohio State (8)
The first ITA individual rankings since December 8th were released today, with a new No. 1 in men's singles: Arthur Fery of Stanford. The previous No. 1, August Holmgren of San Diego, fell to No. 7. NCAA champion Sam Riffice of Florida is 92. An examination of the how the ITA singles rankings compare to the UTR ratings of the top collegiate men by the Payers and Players twitter account can be found
here. Below are the Top 10; click on the heading for the full list.
1. Arthur Fery, Stanford
2. Clement Chidekh, Washington
3. Ben Shelton, Florida
4. Stefan Dostanic, Southern Cal
5. Gabriel Diallo, Kentucky
6. Matej Vocel, Ohio State
7. August Holmgren, San Diego
8. Alex Kotzen, Columbia
9. Daniel De Jonge, Pepperdine
10. Johannus Monday, Tennessee
1. Robert Cash and Matej Vocel, Ohio State
2. Justin Boulais and James Trotter, Ohio State
3. Lui Maxted and Pedro Vives Marcos, TCU
4. Stefan Dostanic and Bradley Frye, Southern Cal
5. Daniel Rodrigues and Connor Thomson, South Carolina
In the women's singles, Southern Cal's Eryn Cayetano continues to hold down the No. 1 spot. NCAA champion Emma Navarro of Virginia has gone from unranked to 45. As you can see from
this Payers and Players UTR comparison, that is not an accurate reflection of her level.
1. Eryn Cayetano, Southern California
2. Sarah Hamner, South Carolina
3. Daria Frayman, Princeton
4. Cameron Morra, North Carolina
5. Alexa Noel, Iowa
6. Irina Cantos Siemers, Ohio State
7. Reilly Tran, North Carolina
8. Lisa Zaar, Pepperdine
9. Chloe Beck, Duke
10. Mell Reasco, Georgia
1. Tatsiana Sasnouskaya and Juliia Starodubtseva, Old Dominion
2. Alicia Herrero Linana and Melany Krywoj, Baylor
3. Salma Ewing and Snow Han, Southern Cal
4. Daria Kuczer and Tenika McGiffin, Tennessee
5. Kit Gulihur and Ana Paula Melilo, North Florida
The quarterfinals are set for Thursday at the
J1 Asuncion Bowl in Paraguay, with three Americans still in the hunt for the title. Qualifier Mia Saveljic defeated No. 3 seed Nikola Daubnerova of Slovakia 5-7, 6-0, 6-3, with this week marking the first wins at the J1 level for the 17-year-old from Florida. She will play No. 8 seed Luciana Moyano of Argentina, who beat American qualifier Maya Iyengar 2-6, 6-2, 6-3.
No. 2 seed Alexis Blokhina defeated Yu-Yun Li of Taiwan 6-2, 3-6, 2-0 retired and will face unseeded Lucia Peyre of Argentina in the quarterfinals. No. 3 seeds Blokhina and Daniella Ben-Abraham have reached the doubles semifinals.
The sole US boy left is No. 6 seed Leanid Boika, who defeated Sam Baumgartner of Switzerland 6-1, 6-4 today. He will play qualifier Nicolas Villalon Valdes of Chile, who beat No. 2 seed Juan Carlos Prado Angelo of Bolivia 2-6, 6-3, 6-3. Top seed Peter Privara of Slovakia also lost today, to Joao Eduardo Schiessl of Brazil, 7-5, 3-6, 6-4. Boika also has advanced to the doubles semifinals with partner Alex Razeghi. They are the No. 4 seeds.
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