Auburn Women Move to No. 1 in Latest Rankings, Texas Men Stay at Top Spot; Kennedy Advances at Savannah Challenger; Fagan Ousts Top Seed at Orlando W15
The Division I rankings released today by the ITA are the last one before next Monday's draw is released for the NCAA tournament, although there is still a week of competition remaining. The rankings that will be released on April 30, the last ones before the NCAAs, will be available to the committee as they go through their calculations. To track what might change in the rankings and how the NCAA committee might change the order due to head-to-head results, etc., go to collegetennisranks.com and check out the options in the rankings tab.
The women's Division I selection show is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Eastern on Monday April 27 at ncaa.com. The men's Division I show will follow at 5 p.m.
Below are the top 16 rankings, with the Auburn dislodging Georgia from their No. 1 position after winning the SEC conference tournament Sunday. The Texas men stayed at No. 1 after their SEC tournament title, with TCU moving to No. 2 with their Big 12 tournament title.
ITA Division I rankings April 21, 2026
(last week's ranking in parentheses)
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Women:
1. Auburn (3)
2. Georgia (1)
3. Texas A&M (2)
4. Oklahoma (4)
5. Ohio State (5)
6. North Carolina (6)
7. Virginia (7)
8. Texas (8)
9. LSU (15)
10. NC State (14)
11. Pepperdine (9)
12. Southern California (10)
13. Vanderbilt (14)
14. Florida (12)
15. Arizona State (11)
16. Duke (18)
1. Lucciana Perez, Texas A&M
2. Reese Brantmeier, North Carolina
3. Carmen Herea, Texas
4. Luciana Perry, Ohio State
5. Teah Chavez, Ohio State
6. Anastasia Abbagnato, Texas
7. Aysegul Mert, Georgia
8. Cadence Brace, LSU
9. Evialina Laskevich, Oklahoma
10. Katrina Scott, Tennessee
1. Roisin Gilheany and Gloriana Nahum, Oklahoma
2. Ava Esposito and DJ Bennett, Auburn
3. Deniz Dilek and Aysegul Mert, Georgia
4. Gabriella Broadfoot and Victoria Osuigwe, NC State
5. Ange Oby Kajuru and Susanna Maltby, North Carolina
Men:
1. Texas (1)
2. TCU (3)
3. Ohio State (2)
4. Wake Forest (7)
5. Virginia (4)
6. Mississippi State (6)
7. LSU (5)
8. Arizona (9)
9. Oklahoma (8)
10. Texas A&M (10)
11. Baylor (11)
12. Georgia (12)
13. South Carolina (13)
14. Illinois (15)
15. UCF (14)
16. San Diego (16)
1. Dylan Dietrich, Virginia
2. Sebastian Gorzny, Texas
3. Trevor Svajda, SMU
4. Jay Friend, Arizona
5. Michael Zheng, Columbia
6. Benito Sanchez Martinez, Mississippi State
7. Paul Inchauspe, Princeton
8. Max Dahlin, Michigan
9. Duncan Chan, TCU
10. Devin Badenhorst, Baylor
1. DK Suresh and Andrew Delgado, Wake Forest
2. Theo Papamalamis and Togan Tokac, Texas A&M
3. Arda Azkara and Santiago Giamichelle, Georgia
4. Cosme Rolland De Ravel and Duncan Chan, TCU
5. Brandon Carpico and Nikita Filin, Ohio State
The three American teenagers who competed in the first round of the ATP Challenger 75 in Savannah were all involved in extremely competitive matches, but only Jack Kennedy, an Accelerator Program entrany, was able to advance. The 17-year-old New Yorker, who reached the semifinals of the Tallahassee Challenger last week, came back to defeat Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg of France 5-7, 6-0, 6-1 and on Wednesday will face former ATP No. 5 Kei Nishikori, who is more than twice his age at 36. Nishikori beat No. 5 seed Colton Smith(Arizona) 6-2, 6-3 last night.
Wild card Michael Antonius had a match point in the second set against Mitchell Krueger at 7-6(3), 5-4, but the 16-year-old from Buffalo New York sent a backhand long and Krueger ended up winning the three-hour and five-minute match 6-7(3), 7-6(4), 6-4.
Sixteen-year-old qualifier Andy Johnson kept No. 2 seed Nishesh Basavareddy(Stanford) on the court for two hours and 55 minutes, before Basavareddy finally earned a match point and converted it for a 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 victory. Johnson led 5-1 in the second set, but lost that game and his 5-3 service game before breaking Basavareddy to force a third set. Basavareddy got the first break of the third set and served for it at 5-4, but two of his 14 double faults kept Johnson in the game and he broke for 5-all. Basavareddy then broke Johnson and on his second opportunity, served out the match.
At the W15 in Orlando this week, 15-year-old wild card Scarlett Fagan won her second match on the Pro Circuit today, beating top seed Gergana Topalova of Bulgaria 6-3, 6-2. Fagan, whose previous victory was in her tournament debut last May at the W50 in Indian Harbour Beach, lost last week in qualifying at the W15 in Orlando to eventual champion Margaux Maquet of Belgium.
Six of the winners in today's final round of qualifying are Americans: Malkia Ngounoue(Kansas), Ellie Coleman(Duke),
Isabelle Barrera Aguirre and teens Annika Penickova, Yael Saffar and Orange Bowl 16s champion Priscilla Sirichantho. Penickova is competing in her first tournament of the year, after an injury; twin sister Kristina has been out since the week after the USA's Junior Billie Jean King Cup title in early November.
In addition to Fagan, wild cards were given to Florida recruit Capucine Jauffret, a semifinalist last week in Orlando; Sarah Ye, who lost in the first round today to Justina Maria Gonzalez Daniele of Argentina 6-2 6-1; and Orlando finalist Emery Combs. Combs will face Sirichantho in the first round. Junior reserved spots went to Janae Preston, Welles Newman and Jordyn Hazelitt.
As was the case last week, Orlando is a joint event, and it's great to see the USTA National Campus hosting more Pro Circuit tournaments at that facility this year.
Five Americans, four of them teenagers, qualified for the men's Orlando M15 today: 16-year-old Safir Azam, who will be making his Pro Circuit main draw debut Wednesday, 16-year-old Vihaan Reddy,
18-year-old Gus Grumet and 18-year-old Nick Stoot. Matthew Segura is the fifth American to reach the main draw via qualifying. Dakota Bobo(LSU, Southern Miss) received entry as a lucky loser.
Wild cards were given to Gavin Goode, Teodor Davidov, Tomas Laukys and Izyan Ahmad. Ahmad lost to Christopher Li(UNC, Tennessee, Ohio State) 6-4, 6-2 in first round action today.
The ITF Junior Reserved spots went to Benjamin Willwerth, who plays top seed Cannon Kingsley(Ohio State) Wednesday, Keaton Hance, who beat Jacob Brumm(Cal, Baylor) 6-2, 6-4 today and Ryan Cozad, who lost to No. 5 seed Hunter Heck(Illinois) 6-1, 6-4.
The biggest event of the week is in Charlottesville Virginia, with a W100 there attracting an impressive field.
Qualifying from the United States are Madison Brengle, Victoria Hu(Princeton) and Alana Smith(NC State). Sixteen-year-old Seattle resident Kristina Liutova also is through to the main draw after two easy qualifying wins; she will face wild card Sofia Johnson(Old Dominion) of Great Britain in the first round Wednesday.
In addition to Johnson, wild cards were given to Madison Sieg(USC), Thea Frodin and Eryn Cayetano(USC). Although there are several current collegians competing, including Tennessee's Katrina Scott and SEC finalists LSU's top three of Cadence Brace and Kayla Cross of Canada and Ella McDonald of Great Britain, there are no Virginia Cavaliers among the wild cards. Jennifer Brady(UCLA), using a protected ranking, defeated Brace 4-0 retired today.
No. 3 seed Kayla Day and No. 4 seed Mary Stoiana(Texas A&M) won their first round matches today in straight sets. WTA No. 84 Renata Zarazua of Mexico and Arantxa Rus of the Netherlands are the top two seeds.
Last week's Zephyrhills W35 champion Akasha Urhobo is playing for the fourth week in a row and will take on Agnela Fita Boluda of Spain in the first round, a rematch of Sunday's Zephyrhills final.
The fifth USTA Pro Circuit event this week is a W35 in Charlotte North Carolina, where five Americans won their final round qualifying matches today: Avery Nguyen (North Carolina signee), Catherine Rennard (Wake Forest signee), Jaedan Brown (Michigan), Brandy Walker (Northern Arizona) and Paola Lopez.
The wild cards were given to Emma Jackson (Duke), Charlotte resident Sara Shumate (Oklahoma signee), Carson Tanguilig(North Carolina) and Claire Hill(North Carolina). Jackson won her first round match today, beating University of Texas newcomer Anastasia Abbagnato of Italy 7-6(4), 6-1.
Eva Vedder of the Netherlands in the top seed, with Lea Ma(Georgia) the No. 2 seed. Seventeen-year-old Hannah Klugman of Great Britain lost to Veder in the first round today 6-4, 6-0.
Bella Payne, Maya Iyengar and Alexis Nguyen are other teens with direct entry into the main draw.
Current collegians set to compete in the NCAA team tournament in less than two weeks are Abbagnato, Hill, Germany's Carolina Kuhl(LSU) and Slovakia's Irina Balus(Duke).
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