The new women's Division I team rankings were released today by the ITA, and Team Indoor champions North Carolina has taken over the No. 1 spot from Texas, which had been No. 1 since the preseason rankings began. Texas was never unanimous; North Carolina is this week. I believe this is the last set of rankings that are decided by coaches poll, with the computer algorithm taking over next week. With that in mind, I'm including the final Top 25 here, with there likely to be many changes, not all of them for the better, when the first computer rankings come out.
The big winners this week were the Big Ten's Michigan and Ohio State, with both in the top eight, which is the magic number for hosting the Super Regional come May. Iowa State's win over Texas saw them move up to a tie for sixth from 14. Michigan was 12 and Ohio State 11 in the previous rankings, although with Ohio State seeded No. 6 at Team Indoors, they obviously had made their jump in the week when the rankings are not released.
ITA Women's Team Rankings February 15, 2023
1. North Carolina(12)
2. Texas A&M
3. Georgia
4. Texas
5. Michigan
T6. Ohio State
T6. Iowa State
8. Duke
9. Auburn
10. NC State
11. Pepperdine
12. Stanford
13. Oklahoma
14. Virginia
15. Vanderbilt
16. Miami
17. Florida
18. San Diego
19. Central Florida
20. Arizona State
21. Oklahoma State
22. Wisconsin
23. California
T24. Tennessee
T24. Southern California
26. Washington
The
D-I Women's Team Indoor All-Tournament Team was announced today, with two singles players and one doubles team from champion North Carolina selected for the honor. The Most Outstanding Player award went to Dasha Vidmanova of Georgia, however, who went 3-0-1 at No. 2 singles for the Bulldogs. See the link above for the results of each member of the team.
No. 1 singles:
Fiona Crawley, North Carolina
No. 2 singles:
Dasha Vidmanova, Georgia
No. 3 singles:
Julia Fliegner, Michigan
No. 4 singles:
Miska Kadleckova, Iowa State
No. 5 singles:
Elizabeth Scotty, North Carolina
No. 6 singles:
Daria Smetannikov, Texas A&M
No. 1 doubles:
Carson Branstine and Mary Stoiana, Texas A&M
No. 2 doubles:
Salma Ewing and Jayci Goldsmith, Texas A&M
No. 3 doubles:
Abby Forbes and Reilly Tran, North Carolina
Wild card Kyle Kang, who turned 18 last month, earned the best win of his Pro Circuit play today at the
$15,000 USTA tournament in Weston Florida. The Stanford recruit defeated No. 2 seed Timo Stodder of Germany, a former All-American at Tennessee, 7-5, 6-3 in first round action. Stodder has an ATP ranking of 300; Kang's previous best win was over No. 475 Omni Kumar(Duke) in a $15K in last summer in California.
Of the 16 players remaining in singles, nine are teenagers: Kang, Viacheslav Bielinskyi[8] of Ukraine, wild card Aidan Kim, Victor Lilov and Bruno Kuzuhara, who will play each other for the second straight week, Georgia recruit Ignacio Buse of Peru, Harvard recruit Cooper Williams, Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez of Mexico and qualifier Juan David Velazquez of Colombia.
With 32-player draws, the tournaments can finish in five days, so the semifinalists were determined with today's matches, with two qualifiers making the final four.
No. 6 seed Andrew Ena beat top seed Stefan Regalia 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 to advance to the semifinals, where he'll face 14-year-old wild card Jack Secord. In the bottom half, 2022 Junior Orange Bowl 14s finalist Jack Kennedy will face qualifier Andrew Chang.
Top seed Thea Frodin, 14, will take on the only non-American still vying for a singles title, No. 4 seed Gian Octa of Canada. Qualifier Franchesca Brown will face unseeded Eva Oxford, who beat No. 2 seed Kayla Chung 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 in today's quarterfinals.
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