Zheng and Bennett Top ITA Preseason Rankings; Former Florida Women's Coach Thornqvist Named Men's Coach at D-III Wesleyan; US Open Women's Doubles Wild Cards and Draw; Tuesday's First Round Results
The ITA published its preseason rankings today, along with its newcomer rankings. I don't know the basis for these rankings, which used to be basically the rankings from the previous May with those no longer eligible removed, but with all the newcomers included in these rankings that is obviously no longer true.
There are some top players who are not in the rankings however, including Stanford's Samir Banerjee, UCLA's Rudy Quan and Florida's Adhithya Ganesan; San Diego's Oliver Tarvet had already announced this summer that he was not playing the fall season. For the women, missing from the preseason rankings are NC State's Michaela Laki and Maddy Zampardo and Oklahoma State's Melissa Ercan.
With the computer rankings no longer using the preseason rankings as a baseline with the newly adopted rankings procedure, these rankings will have little impact, but it does help in identifying who is at what school now after all the portal activity has concluded.
Top 10 singles and newcomers and Top 5 doubles rankings are below. Click on the headings for the complete lists.
ITA Division I preseason rankingsMen's Top 10 singles:
1. Michael Zheng, Columbia
2. Rafael Jodar, Virginia
3. DK Suresh, Wake Forest
4. Aidan Kim, Ohio State
5. Jay Friend, Arizona
6. Kenta Miyoshi, Illinois
7. Ozan Baris, Michigan State
8. Corey Craig, Florida State
9. Dylan Dietrich, Virginia
10. Sebastian Dominko, Notre Dame
1. Benito Sanchez Martinez and Petar Jovanovic, Mississippi State
2. Kenta Miyoshi and Gabriel Debru, Illinois
3. Michael Zheng and Nicolas Kotzen, Columbia
4. Albert Pedrico Kravtsov and Cosme Rolland de Ravel, TCU
5. Devin Badenhorst and Luc Koenig, Baylor
1. Gabriel Debru, Illinois
2. Johan Rodriguez, Oklahoma
3. Erik Arutiunian, LSU
4. Pedro Rodrigues, Central Florida
5. Nicolas Arseneault, Kentucky
6. Gustavo Ribeiro de Almeida, Pepperdine
7. Sefano D'Agostino, Mississippi
8. Paul Barbier Gazeu, South Carolina
9. Andreas Timini, Florida
10. Adam Jilly, Illinois
1. DJ Bennett, Auburn
2. Celia-Belle Mohr, Vanderbilt
3. Reese Brantmeier, North Carolina
4. Cadence Brace, LSU
5. Luciana Perry, Ohio State
6. Valerie Glozman, Stanford
7. Nicole Khirin, Texas A&M
8. Maria Sholokhova, Wisconsin
9. Anastasiia Lopata, Georgia
10. Piper Charney, Michigan
1. Reese Brantmeier and Alanis Hamilton, North Carolina
2. Irina Balus and Liv Hovde, Duke
3. DJ Bennett and Ashton Bowers, Auburn
4. Anastasiia Gureva and Patricija Paukstyte, Georgia
5. Anastasiya Komar and Rose Marie Nijkamp, Oklahoma State
1. Mayu Crossley, UCLA
2. Luca Udvardy, Oklahoma State
3. Monika Ekstrand, Stanford
4. Evialina Laskevich, Oklahoma
5. Sonja Zhiyenbayeva, Pepperdine
6. Carolina Kuhl, LSU
7. Lavinia Tanasie, NC State
8. Ziva Falkner, Pepperdine
9. Anastasiia Gureva, Georgia
10. Tianmei Wang, Stanford
A note on the newcomers: there are no Americans in the 20 players on the men's list and just five on the women's list, As I said, I'm not privy to the criteria used, but it seems odd that Jagger Leach, who has been as high as No. 2 in the ITF junior rankings this year, is not among them. The recruiting trend has been toward much older international players now, among the men and women, but previously the very top American juniors made the list (San Diego champion Alyssa Ahn not included either). Again, these lists are for PR more than anything, and on-court results will provide the real data, with these lists fading as that information accumulates.
In other college news, former University of Florida women's head coach Roland Thornqvist, who abruptly left his position early in the 2024 fall season, has been hired as men's head coach at Division III Wesleyan in Connecticut. For more on Thornqvist's new position and why Bill Belichick is endorsing it, see this article.
The US Open announced the women's doubles wild cards this evening, which include the USTA collegiate playoff champions Reese Brantmeier and Alanis Hamilton of North Carolina and the USTA 18s San Diego champions Kristina Penickova and Thea Frodin, who play each other in the first round. Carmen and Ivana Corley, who played at Oklahoma, received a wild card last year as well, advancing to the second round.
Venus Williams and Leylah Fernandez(CAN)
Hailey Baptiste and Whitney Osuigwe
Reese Brantmeier and Alanis Hamilton
Kristina Penickova and Thea Frodin
Carmen Corley and Ivana Corley
Clervie Ngounoue and Iva Jovic
Julieta Pareja and Akasha Urhobo
Carmen Corley and Ivana Corley
Clervie Ngounoue and Iva Jovic
Julieta Pareja and Akasha Urhobo
The women's doubles draw is here.
Two matches featuring Americans are still underway,(updated Wednesday morning) but the results of the other first round matches of US players and Wednesday's second round contests featuring Americans are below. The overall first round record for Americans was 23-25.
Tuesday's US Open first round results of Americans:
Coco Gauff[4] d. Ajla Tomljanovic(AUS) 6-4, 6-7(2), 7-5
Amanda Anisimova[8] d. Kimberly Birrell(AUS) 6-3, 6-2
Ashlyn Krueger d. Sofia Kenin[26] 5-7, 6-4, 6-2
Suzan Lamens(NED) d. Valerie Glozman[WC] 6-4, 6-2
Xinyu Wang(CHN) d. Caroline Dolehide 2-6, 6-4, 6-2
Jaquelin Cristian(ROU) d. Danielle Collins 6-2, 6-0
Hailey Baptiste d. Katerina Siniakova(CZE) 7-5, 6-3
Nuno Borges(POR) d. Brandon Holt 6-4, 6-2, 6-3
Tommy Paul[14] d. Elmer Moller(DEN) 6-3, 6-3, 6-1
Wednesday's US Open second round matches featuring Americans:
Zachary Svajda[Q] v Novak Djokovic[7](SRB)
Taylor Fritz[4] v Lloyd Harris[Q](RSA)
Ben Shelton[6] v Pablo Carenno Busta(ESP)
Frances Tiafoe[17] v Martin Damm[Q]
Marcos Giron v Benjamin Bonzi(FRA)
Brandon Nakashima[30] v Jerome Kym[Q](SUI)
Eliot Spizzirri[WC] v Luciano Darderi[32](ITA)
Jessica Pegula[4] v Anna Blinkova(RUS)
Iva Jovic v Jasmine Paolini[7](ITA)
Emma Navarro[10] v Caty McNally[WC]
McCartney Kessler[32] v Marketa Vondrousova(CZE)
Taylor Townsend v Jelena Ostapenko[25](LAT)
Ann Li v Belinda Bencic[16](SUI)
1 comments:
Colette, Thank you for providing the colleges for the newcomers and the top ranked players. Why the ITA cannot provide that info on their main rankings page is beyond me. For newcomers, the ITA asks me to click 20 times to find out a player’s college. That’s absurd. I follow college tennis relatively closely but I don’t know most foreign newcomers much less all the ranked players. Can’t imagine how a casual fan uses their rankings pages. One needs to click 100+ times to figure out who plays where.
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