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Monday, May 26, 2025

Vanderbilt Tops Men's D-I Recruiting Class Rankings; Mareedu Claims NCAA D-III Singles Title, Women's Final Tuesday; Six More Americans Advance at Roland Garros; DeLuccia's J100 Title Among Four ITF Junior Circuit Singles Championships for Americans

The Tennis Recruiting Network's 2025 men's D-I spring recruiting class rankings were revealed today, with Vanderbilt taking the No. 1 spot. When TCU still had a verbal commitment from Jagger Leach, back in January, they were No. 1, but Leach's switch to Stanford shook up the spring rankings, and Vanderbilt's addition of another ITF Top 30 junior proved enough to send them to the top spot.

The other Top 10 teams are, in order, Illinois, Georgia, North Carolina, Penn, Columbia, Stanford, Kentucky, San Diego and Arizona State.  The complete list of 25 schools in the rankings is available at the link above.

The women's Division I spring rankings will be out next Monday.

The Division III men's singles and doubles champions were decided today in Claremont California, with top seed Advik Mareedu of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps continuing his year-long dominance with a 6-0, 6-1 win over defending finalist Kael Shah of Denison. 

The article on the C-M-S website calls Mareedu's junior season the best in Division III history, and it's hard to argue with that given his ITA Cup title in the fall, a 41-1 record (the sole loss to a Division II opponent in a third-set tiebreaker), and just four sets lost in his matches against D-III opponents, none this week in the NCAA singles draw.

The men's doubles title went to No. 2 seeds Andrei Leonov and Pat Otero of Chicago, who defeated unseeded Vuk Vuksanovic and Javier Gonzalez of Tufts 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(5) in the final.

The women's singles final Tuesday will feature No. 5 seed Jacqueline Soloveychik of Wesleyan and No. 8 seed Lindsay Eisenman of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. 

Women's semifinals results:
Jacqueline Soloveychik[5](Wesleyan) d. Jimena Menendez(NYU) 6-0, 5-7, 6-2
Lindsay Eisenman[8](CMS) d. Emily Kantrovitz[2](Emory) 6-1, 6-4

The women's doubles final Tuesday features top seeds Nina Farhat and Sahana Raman of Middlebury against No. 3 seeds and defending champions Olivia Soffer and Matia Cristiani of Babson.

Cracked Racquets will provide coverage of the finals at ncaa.com.

Six more American advanced to the second round with wins today at Roland Garros, although No. 4 seed Taylor Fritz was upset in the first round, as was No. 9 seed Emma Navarro. Twenty-two Americans have completed first round matches Sunday and Monday, with 14 reaching the second round; the remaining 12 will play Tuesday.

Monday's first round results of Americans:
Jessica Bouzas Maneiro(ESP) d. Emma Navarro[9] 6-0, 6-1
Robin Montgomery d. Diane Parry[WC](FRA) 6-2, 6-1
Bernarda Pera d. Caroline Garcia(FRA) 6-4, 6-4
Madison Keys[7] d. Daria Saville[Q](AUS) 6-2, 6-1
Elisabetta Cocciaretto(ITA) d. Taylor Townsend[LL] 6-3, 6-2
Danielle Collins d. Jodie Burrage(GBR) 7-6(1), 6-4
Elena-Gabriela Ruse(ROU) d, McCartney Kessler 7-5, 7-6(3)
Caroline Dolehide d. Greet Minnen(BEL) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4

Daniel Altmaier(GER) d. Taylor Fritz[4] 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 6-1
Sebastian Korda[23] d. Luciano Darderi(ITA) 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
Tallon Griekspoor(NED) d. Marcos Giron 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5

Tuesday's first round matches featuring Americans:

Sofia Kenin[31] v Varvara Gracheva(FRA)
Coco Gauff[2] v Olivia Gadecki(AUS)
Jessica Pegula[3] v Anca Todoni(ROU)
Alycia Parks v Karolina Muchova[14](CZE)
Hailey Baptiste v Beatriz Haddad Maia[23](BRA)
Katie Volynets v Joanna Garland[Q](TPE)
Ashlyn Krueger v Suzan Lamens(NED)
Ann Li v Maria Lourdes Carle[Q](ARG)

Learner Tien v Alexander Zverev[3](GER)
Mackenzie McDonald v Novak Djokovic[6](SRB)
Aleks Kovacevic v Federico Gomez[LL](ARG)
Ethan Quinn[Q] v Grigor Dimitrov[16](BUL)

The ITF Junior Circuit produced four American singles champions last week, led by Isabelle DeLuccia's title at the J100 in the Dominican Republic. The 16-year-old from New Jersey, seeded No. 2, defeated No. 7 seed Aishi Bisht of India in the final 7-6(2), 1-6, 6-4 for her second ITF Junior Circuit singles title.

DeLuccia also reached the doubles final with partner Carrie-Anne Hoo, but the top seeds were beaten by No. 2 seeds Sarah Ye and Ukraine's Sofia Bielinska 6-3, 2-6, 11-9.

No. 8 seed Shaan Majeed reached the boys singles final, falling to top seed Volodymyr Gurenko of Canada 6-2, 6-1. Gurkeno, 17, has won three ITF titles, two at the J100 level, since mid-April.

At the J60 in El Salvador, unseeded 15-year-old Charles Minvielle won his first ITF Junior Circuit title, beating No. 7 seed Tristan Stratton 6-3, 6-3 in the all-US final.

Top seeds Sophia Budaczek and Guatemala's Carlota Balseiro won the girls doubles title, beating No. 3 seeds Sofia Mills and Canada's Ashvini Gopalan 2-6, 6-2, 12-10 in the final. Budaczek, also the top seed in singles, lost in the final to No. 3 seed Balseiro 6-0, 6-4.

At the J30 in Great Britain, 17-year-old Maria Batinic won her first ITF Junior Circuit title, with the No. 4 seed beating unseeded Tanishka Naveen 0-6, 7-5, 6-1 in the final. 

At the J30 in Kenya, 17-year-old James Scholer won his first ITF Junior Circuit singles title. Scholer, seeded eighth, defeated unseeded Kaito Tokukura of Japan 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 in the final. 

3 comments:

Brent said...

Amazing season by Mareedu. Wow. Congrats to him. For the record, that one loss to a D2 opponent was to Austin Stone of Westmont College - 2.6, 7.6, 7.6. Definitely takes something special to beat this guy.

Brian said...

Just a heads up that both links for the recruiting rankings take you to the winter rankings article. May need to fix that fitst link so it goes to the spring article

Colette Lewis said...

Thanks for the correction!