NCAA D-I Individual Championships Begin Tuesday in Waco Texas: ITA Announces USA's Master'U Team; Goode Wins ITF J100 Title in Mexico, Johnson and Kockinis Claim J60 San Diego Titles; Final AO Wild Card Standings
The NCAA Division I championships begin at 10 a.m. Central Eastern time Tuesday at Baylor's Hurd Tennis Center in Waco Texas, with 64 men and 64 women taking aim at the singles and doubles championships. This is the debut of the D-I individual championships in the fall, after the traditional spring edition of the event was held in May of this year in Stillwater Oklahoma.
The draws can be found here; Cracked Racquets will be providing their CrossCourt coverage, plus a featured Match of the Day, at ESPN+.
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NCAA Division I Seeds:
WOMEN:
Singles:
1. Mary Stoiana, Texas A&M
2. Dasha Vidmanova, Georgia
3. Maria Sholokhova, Wisconsin
4. Elza Tomase, Tennessee
5. Valerie Glozman, Stanford
6. Ange Oby Kajuru, Oklahoma State (withdrew)
6. Connie Ma, Stanford
7. Julia Fliegner, Michigan
8. Sofia Johnson
9-16 seeds (alphabetical)
Savannah Broadus, Pepperdine
Julie Garcia Ruiz, Oklahoma
Amelia Honer, UC-Santa Barbara
Sofia Johnson, Old Dominion (now seeded 8)
Luciana Perry, Ohio State
Theadora Rabman, North Carolina
Bridget Stammel, Vanderbilt
Emilija Tverijonaite, Arizona State
Sarah Hamner, South Carolina moves into seed group
Doubles:
1. Kimmi Hance and Elise Wagle, UCLA
2. Gabriella Broadfoot and Maddy Zampardo, NC State
3. Avelina Sayfetdinova and Mariia Hlahola, Texas Tech
4. Savannah Broadus and Vivian Yang, Pepperdine
5-8 (alphabetical by institution)
Liubov Kostenko and Cristina Tiglea, Baylor
Carson Tanguilig and Susanna Maltby, North Carolina
Jade Otway and Isabel Pascual, TCU
Olivia Center and Kate Fakih, UCLA
MEN:
Singles:
1. Sebastian Gorzny, Texas
2. Michael Zheng, Columbia
3. Colton Smith, Arizona
4. Carl Overbeck, Cal
5. Jay Friend, Arizona
6. Lui Maxted, TCU
7. Oliver Tarvet, San Diego
8. Aidan Kim, Ohio State
9-16 seeds
Jonah Braswell, Texas
Corey Craig, Florida State
Timo Legout, Texas
Shunsuke Mitsui, Tennessee
Thomas Paulsell, Georgia
Braden Shick, NC State
DK Suresh, Wake Forest
Pedro Vives, TCU
Doubles:
1. Oliver Tarvet and Stan Klaassen, San Diego
2. Marko Miladinovic and Oska Brostrom Poulsen, Baylor
3. Petar Jovanovic and Benito Sanchez Martinez, Mississippi State
4. Luciano Tacchi and Luca Pow, Wake Forest
5-8 seeds
Zsombor Velcz and Devin Badenhorst, Baylor
Cooper Williams and Theo Winegar, Duke
Youcef Rihane and Alex Bulte, Florida State
Pedro Vives and Lui Maxted, TCU
The ITA announced the six players who will compete for the United States at the Master'U BNP Paribas international team competition later this month in France: Savannah Broadus (Pepperdine), Sebastian Gorzny (Texas), Amelia Honer (UCSB), Mary Stoiana (Texas A&M), Gavin Young (Michigan), and Michael Zheng (Columbia).
All six are competing this week at the NCAA championships. Zheng, Gorzny and Honer are new members of Team USA; Stoiana, Young and Broadus were on last year's championship team. Robin Stephenson of Washington and Andrew Rueb of Harvard are coaching the team.
When I spoke to Maya Joint, the Texas freshman, earlier this month in Midland, she told me she is playing for the Australian team this year.
The ITA's announcement, with comments from Stoiana and Honer, is here.
American juniors won four ITF Junior Circuit singles titles last week, with unseeded 16-year-old Gavin Goode winning the biggest one: the J100 in Zapopan Mexico. Goode defeated No. 6 seed Yubel Ubri 6-0, 1-0 ret. in the all-USA final for his second singles title on the ITF Junior Circuit; the first was at the J60 last month in South Carolina. He is up to 257 in the latest ITF junior rankings.
The ITF J300 in Zapopan is underway, with Oliver Bonding of Great Britain and Mika Buchnik of Israel the top seeds. The seeds begin play Tuesday. This is the warmup event for the J500 in Merida, which is next week, followed by the J300 in Bradenton and the J500 Orange Bowl, which closes out the 2024 ITF junior calendar.
At the J60 in San Diego last week, 15-year-old Andrew Johnson won his third ITF singles title, all this fall, with just one loss, in the second round of the ITF J300 Pan Am, in the 18 matches he's played since the beginning of October. Johnson, the top seed, beat qualifier Tyler Lee 6-7(4), 6-2, 6-3 in the final. Johnson is now up to 275 in the ITF junior rankings.
Fourteen-year-old wild card Armira Kockinis, the reigning USTA National 14s champion, won her first ITF Junior Circuit title in just her third tournament, defeating UCLA recruit Kayla Chung, the top seed, 6-3, 2-6, 6-0 in the final.
Chung and Elena Zhao, who were unseeded, won the doubles title, beating unseeded Kara Garcia and Sephi Sheng 7-6(5), 6-2 in the final. It's Chung's tenth ITF Junior Circuit doubles title with seven different partners.
The boys doubles title was won by Adrien Abarca and Andre Alcantara, who defeated Lee and Justin Riley Anson 2-6, 6-4, 13-11 in the final. It's the seventh ITF Junior Circuit doubles title for Alcantara and the first for Abarca.
Fifteen-year-old Shaan Majeed won his second J30 title in as many weeks in Montego Bay Jamaica, with the No. 3 seed defeating top seed Matthew Shapiro 7-5, 6-2 in the all-US final. Majeed has now won ten consecutive matches, all in straight sets, in the past two weeks.
Shapiro and Jake Khera, the No. 2 seeds, won the boys doubles title, beating unseeded Nishith Rajesh and Kamil Stolarczyk 7-6(11), 6-3 in the all-US final.
At the J30 in Lima Peru, 16-year-old Alessia Franco won her second ITF Junior Circuit doubles title, with partner Olivia Chela of Poland. The No. 3 seeds defeated unseeded Samantha Alvarez of Chile and Luciana Trigosso of Bolivia 6-0, 7-6(3) in the final.
The USTA issued the final update on their annual Australian Open wild card challenge race. Today's release:
ORLANDO, Fla., November 18, 2024 – Nishesh Basavareddy’s fifth ATP Challenger Tour final of the 2024 season this past week in Champaign, Ill., proved to be enough to catapult the 19-year-old to the top of the final men’s Challenge standings.
Basavareddy fell to fellow American Ethan Quinn in the final of the USTA Pro Circuit Challenger 75 event, which moved him past Chris Eubanks and Nicolas Moreno de Alboran. Quinn finished fourth.
Basavareddy will likely be joined by fellow American teenager Iva Jovic in the main draw in Melbourne next year.
See below for the final standings:
Final Men's Standings
(Player's current ranking in parenthesis)
1. Nishesh Basavareddy (152) -- 110
2. Chris Eubanks (107) -- 93
3. Nicolas Moreno de Alboran (109) -- 91
4. Ethan Quinn (110) -- 87
5. Aidan Mayo (362) -- 81
Final Women's Standings
(Player's Nov. 18 ranking in parenthesis)
1. Sofia Kenin (86) -- 395
2. Hailey Baptiste (92) -- 240
3. Caroline Dolehide (81) -- 164
4. Bernarda Pera (75) -- 149
5. Iva Jovic (207) -- 141
6. McCartney Kessler (68) -- 117
7. Ann Li (97) -- 104
The USTA and Tennis Australia have a reciprocal agreement in which main draw wild cards for the 2025 Australian Open and US Open will be exchanged.
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