Tennessee's Monday, Texas A&M's Stoiana No. 1 as NCAA D-I Singles and Doubles Fields and Seeds Announced; Roland Garros Junior Championships Acceptances Include 13 Americans

The NCAA Division I fields were announced today for the singles and doubles championships next month in Stillwater Oklahoma, with the seeds also revealed. Every player listed below has now earned All-American status by virtue of receiving a seed. Those not seeded can earn All-American status by reaching the third round in the tournament or by finishing in the Top 20 of the ITA's final rankings.

In the men's singles rankings, Johannus Monday of Tennessee has overtaken Eliot Spizzirri of Texas for the No. 1 seed, and Spizzirri, who reached the doubles final last year with Cleeve Harper, is currently an alternate with Harper, the 2022 NCAA doubles champion, in doubles.

No. 1 Ohio State has no seeds in the men's singles, and 2023 singles quarterfinalist Alex Bernard did not qualify. The North Carolina women have five participants in singles, with Fiona Crawley the only seed. As was the case last year, the No. 1 seed in the women's singles will be playing No. 2 on her team. That was Crawley last year and will be Mary Stoiana this year, with Reese Brantmeier and Carson Branstine playing at the No. 1 positions in the team tournaments.

I checked the Newcomer rankings from last fall to see how many of those 10 players made the 64-player draw. Four men are in the field: Dylan Dietrich(Virginia), Edward Winter(Pepperdine), Cooper Williams(Harvard) and Jeremy Jin(Florida). Just two women on the Newcomer list are currently in the field: Luciana Perry(Ohio State) and Alexandra Vecic(Georgia). Williams is the only one seeded. 2023 Kalamazoo finalist Trevor Svajda, who started at SMU in January, is in the field as a freshman, as is 2023 Orange Bowl champion Danil Panarin of Vanderbilt, who also started in January. Esha Velaga of Penn is a freshman who made the women's field. If there are other freshmen I've overlooked, please let me know.

Reese Brantmeier of North Carolina, who is out for the season, is still listed as No. 1 in the women's doubles seedings; maybe this is due to the automatic nature of her selection, as she and Scotty remained the highest-ranked team in the ACC.

Defending NCAA women's singles champion Fangran Tian of UCLA is not seeded.

The complete list of women's selections is here. The complete list of men's selections is here.

2024 NCAA Division I Seeds:

WOMEN:

Singles:

1. Mary Stoiana, Texas A&M

2. Amelia Rajecki, NC State

3. Ange Oby Kajuru, Oklahoma State

4. Kari Miller, Michigan

5. Fiona Crawley, North Carolina

6. Connie Ma, Stanford

7. Rachel Gailis, Florida

8. Alexa Noel, Miami

9-16 seeds, alphabetical

Ayana Akli, South Carolina

Carolyn Ansari, Auburn

Savannah Broadus, Pepperdine

Sofia Cabezas, Tennessee

Celia-Belle Mohr, Vanderbilt

Irina Cantos Siemers, Ohio State

Dasha Vidmanova, Georgia

Lisa Zaar, Pepperdine

Doubles:

1. Reese Brantmeier & Elizabeth Scotty, North Carolina

2. Savannah Broadus & Janice Tjen, Pepperdine

3. Ange Oby Kajuru & Anastasiya Komar, Oklahoma State

4. Dana Guzman & Alina Shcherbinina, Oklahoma

5-8 seeds, alphabetical by institution:

Jaedan Brown & Kari Miller, Michigan

Fiona Crawley & Carson Tanguilig, North Carolina

Mia Kupres & Mary Stoiana, Texas A&M

Metka Komac & Avelina Sayfetdinova, Texas Tech

MEN:

Singles:

1. Johannus Monday, Tennessee

2. Eliot Spizzirri, Texas

3. Antoine Cornut-Chauvinc, Florida State

4. Chris Rodesch, Virginia

5. Toby Samuel, South Carolina

6. Micah Braswell, Texas

7. Oliver Tarvet, San Diego

8. Jake Fearnley, TCU

9-16 seeds alphabetical:

Ozan Baris, Michigan State

Nishesh Basavareddy, Stanford

Murphy Cassone, Arizona State

Andres Martin, Georgia Tech

Alex Martinez, Oklahoma

Radu Papoe, Cornell

Jack Pinnington Jones, TCU

Cooper Williams, Harvard

Doubles:

1. Garrett Johns, Pedro Rodenas - Duke

2. Holden Koons, Dhakshineswar Suresh - Wake Forest

3. Joshua Lapadat, JJ Mercer - Kentucky

4. Robert Cash, JJ Tracy - Ohio State

5-8 seeds alphabetical by institution:

Etienne Donnet, Natan Rodrigues - Louisville

Sebastian Dominko, Jean Marc Malkowski - Notre Dame

Angel Diaz, Johannus Monday - Tennessee

James Hopper, Inaki Montes de la Torre - Virginia

The times for this weekend's first two rounds have been posted, with the women's here and the men's here. I've spotted at least one error, so make sure you double check the school's website if you are following a particular team. All men's first round matches are Friday and second round Saturday; some women play Friday and Saturday, while other women's regionals have Saturday-Sunday dates. Cracked Racquets will be providing CrossCourt coverage this weekend on their YouTube Channel.

The acceptances for the Roland Garros Junior Championships were posted today, with eight US boys and five US girls in the main draw.

As is always the case for Roland Garros, the fields are strong, with nine of the top 10 boys and eight of the top 10 girls entering. The boy missing is No. 4 Joao Fonseca of Brazil, now up to 225 in the ATP live rankings; the two Top 19 girls missing are, like Fonseca, junior slam champions: 2023 Australian and Roland Garros girls champion Alina Korneeva of Russia, who has just had surgery, and 2023 Wimbledon champion Clervie Ngounoue. 

Both of this year's Australian Open champions have entered: No. 1 Renata Jamrichova of Slovakia and No. 2 Rei Sakamoto of Japan.

The US boys in the main draw: Kaylan Bigun, Cooper Woestendick, Jack Kennedy, Ian Mayew, Maxwell Exsted, Jagger Leach, Alexander Razeghi and Roy Horovitz.  The US girls in the main draw: Tyra Grant, Kaitlyn Rolls, Iva Jovic, Kristina Penickova and Thea Frodin. 

US players in qualifying are Matthew Forbes, Kase Schinnerer, Nikita Filin, Noah Johnston, Shannon Lam, Kate Fakih, Christasha McNeil, Monika Ekstrand and Mia Slama.

The boys cutoff for the main draw was 47; for the girls main draw it was 50. For qualifying, the boys cutoff was 73 and the girls 78.

There are two boys main draw entries that are showing not their ATP ranking but the World Tennis Number as the basis for their acceptance. Lorenzo Carboni of Italy(ATP 707) and Mae Malige(ATP 737) have high enough ATP rankings (top 750) to make the main draw under the previous rules in place; I don't see anything in the Rules and Regulations that changes that to World Tennis Number.

The same goes for Victoria Mboko of Canada, who is 338 in the WTA rankings; any girls with a ranking of 400 or better is accepted into the main draw. Mboko played her first competitive match this year at the end of March in qualifying at a W75 in France, but has not played since.

There is one girls main draw acceptance, Anna Maria Fedotova of the Dominican Republic, via this ITF regulation:

In addition, if any region – South America; North America; Central America and Caribbean; Europe; Asia; Africa; and Oceania - does not have any players accepted under a) or b) above, the highest ranked entrant from that region shall be accepted for main draw if their ranking is 80 or higher or qualifying if their ranking is 150 or higher.

Fedotova is currently 71 in the ITF junior rankings. Joaquin Guilleme of Nicaragua is 86 in the ITF junior rankings, so he received entry into the qualifying.