Women's Indoor Champion North Carolina Rises to No. 1, Ohio State Stays Atop Men's Rankings; Women's Team D-I Indoor All-Tournament Team; Bernard, Colak, Zheng Advance at Naples $15K

The latest Division I women's rankings are out and as is customary, the ITA Women's Team Indoor champion North Carolina has moved into the top spot, with finalist Oklahoma going from No. 8 to No. 2. 

The ITA rankings are still being determined by a poll of 12 coaches, but there aren't significant differences between them and the other poll of college tennis experts conducted by the USTA, which was also released today. The only teams not in both Top 10s are Southern Cal and Ohio State.

Below are the Top 10 in the women's rankings this week; click on the headings to see the entire Top 25.

ITA Women's Division I Top 10 February 16, 2022 (previous ranking in parentheses)

1. North Carolina (2)
2. Oklahoma (8)
3. Texas (1)
4. NC State (6)
T5. Pepperdine (5)
T5. Virginia (7)
7. Cal (4)
8. Georgia (3)
9. Texas A&M (8)
10. Southern Cal (10)

USTA/Tennis Channel Women's D-I Top 10 February 16, 2022

1. North Carolina (2)

2. Oklahoma (8)

3. NC State (3)

4. Texas (1)

5. Pepperdine (6)

6. Virginia (7)

7. Georgia (5)

8. Texas A&M (9)

9. Ohio State (10)

10. Cal (4)

The only men's poll this week is from the USTA/Tennis Channel, with the ITA not publishing a poll due to this weekend's Team Indoor Championships. The top 5 is the same as last week; Virginia dropped a bit due to their two losses to Baylor and TCU. If you compare this list to the Top 8 seeds at the Men's Team Indoor, you'll see the USTA voters not as high on Kentucky and Wake Forest, who received the No. 7 and No. 8 seeds for this weekend's competition, while they are 12 and 13 in the USTA poll.

USTA/Tennis Channel Men's Top 10 February 16, 2022

1. Ohio State (1)

2. Baylor (2)

3. Tennessee (3)

4. TCU (4)

5. Florida (5)

6. Stanford (7)

7. Texas A&M (9)

8. Virginia (6)

9. Georgia (11)

10. Texas (10)

Women's Team Indoor Most Outstanding Player Ivana Corley
(photo courtesy ITA)

The All-Tournament team was released today by the ITA, and in something of a departure, the Most Outstanding Player was not from the champions. Ivana Corley of Oklahoma went 8-0, winning all four of her singles and all four of her doubles matches (with sister Carmen) to receive that honor. 

Women's Team Indoor All Tournament Team:

No. 1 singles: Peyton Stearns, Texas

No. 2 singles: Elizabeth Scotty, North Carolina

No. 3 singles: Ivana Corley, Oklahoma

No. 4 singles: Fiona Crawley North Carolina

No. 5 singles: Carson Tanguilig, North Carolina

No. 6 singles: Anika Yarlagadda, North Carolina

No. 1 doubles: Carmen Corley/Ivana Corley, Oklahoma

No. 2 doubles: Jaeda Daniel/Nell Miller, NC State

No. 3 doubles: Alle Sanford/Reilly Tran, North Carolina

Most Outstanding Player: Ivana Corley, Oklahoma

For more on the results from each player/team selected, see this article from the ITA.

In today's first round action at the USTA Men's $15,000 Pro Circuit tournament in Naples Florida, three juniors advanced: wild card Alex Bernard and junior reserved entrants Ozan Colak and Michael Zheng. Bernard defeated Murkel Dellien of Bolivia 4-6, 6-2, 6-2, while Colak denied 18-year-old qualifier Sebastian Gorzny his first ATP point with a 6-3, 6-4 victory. Bernard and Colak will play in Thursday's second round, with Bernard holding a 2-0 edge in recent meetings. Bernard defeated Colak in the fourth round at Kalamazoo last August and in the third round of the ITF JB1 Pan American Closed in 2019. 

Zheng defeated Alexander Cozbinov(UNLV) of Moldova 6-2, 6-4 to set up a second round meeting with No. 7 seed Strong Kirchheimer(Northwestern).  Top seed Yu Hsiou Hsu of Taiwan bowed out after retiring from his match with qualifier Kiranpal Pannu(Columbus State) of New Zealand at 4-4 in the first set.