Seven Americans Qualify for Wimbledon; Dudeney Prepares for Wimbledon Debut; Antonius Reaches Armani Invitational Final; Leach, Gowda Advance to M15 Claremont Quarterfinals; ITF Rebrands to World Tennis

Americans had their most successful Wimbledon final round of qualifying this century today at Roehampton, with four women and three men advancing to the main draw with victories today.

In 2021 six Americans reached the main draw via qualifying, but seven is the most since eight qualified in 1993, and it is the most at any major since eight qualified at the US Open in 2017.

Two-time NCAA champion Michael Zheng, a recent Columbia graduate, is now 9-0 this year in slam qualifying, with the 2022 boys finalist returning to the All-England Club for the first time since then with his three-set win over Colton Smith(Arizona)

Tristan Boyer(Stanford), who beat No. 7 seed Pablo Llamas Ruiz of Spain 7-5, 6-7(4), 7-6(2), 6-3, and Kayla Day, a 6-2, 7-5 winner over No. 14 seed Katarzyna Kawa of Poland, will also be making their main draw debuts at Wimbledon.

Mackenzie McDonald, Ashlyn Krueger, Robin Montgomery and Claire Liu, all of whom have played the main draw at one point in the past three years, booked their returns with victories today.

Other notable qualifiers are wild cards Max Basing(Stanford) and, for the second year in a row, Oliver Tarvet(San Diego). Basing, who received a last-minute wild card into qualifying despite failing to advance to the final of the LTA's playoff, defeated Remy Bertola of Switzerland 2-6, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5, 6-2. Tarvet, who returned to San Diego for his senior year despite winning a round in the main draw last year, didn't drop a set in his three victories this week, beating Stefanos Sakellaridis of Greece 6-4, 6-2, 7-5 in today's final round of qualifying. For more on their successful qualifying runs, see this article from wimbledon.com.

Eighteen-year-old Tyra Grant, who played for the United States until a year ago, when she switched her representation to her mother's country of Italy, will make her women's Wimbledon debut after qualifying; she won the Wimbledon girls doubles title with Iva Jovic in 2024.

Thursday's final round Wimbledon qualifying matches featuring Americans:

Ashlyn Krueger[2] d. Polina Iatcenko(RUS) 7-6(8), 6-1

Alina Korneeva[3](RUS) d. Fiona Crawley 6-2, 6-0 

Leolia Jeanjean[23](FRA) d, Katie Volynets[5] 6-3, 6-4

Kayla Day[32] d. Katarzyna Kawa[14](POL) 6-2, 7-5

Claire Liu d. Elena Pridankina(RUS) 6-2, 4-6, 6-1

Robin Montgomery d. Marina Bassols Ribera(ESP) 3-6, 6-1, 6-1

Tristan Boyer d. Pablo Llamas Ruiz[7](ESP) 7-5, 6-7(4), 7-6(2), 6-3

Mackenzie McDonald[13] d. Christopher O'Connell[32](AUS) 6-3, 6-4, 6-4

Michael Zheng[26] d. Colton Smith 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3

The draw is scheduled to be announced at 10 a.m. local time Friday in London, which is 5 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. 

While collegians Tarvet and Basing were grinding through qualifying, Alice Dudeney was spared that ordeal, with the two-time doubles All-American at Florida receiving a main draw wild card. Dudeney was outside the WTA Top 1000 when she graduated from Florida last May, but in the past year has improved her ranking to a career-high of 246. In this article from the Independent, Dudeney explains why she chose the American college pathway, still not as prevalent for British girls as it has become for British boys, and how it prepared her for her steep climb in the past 12 months.

Michael Antonius is through to the final of the Giorgio Armani Junior Invitation at Hurlingham in London after defeating Yannick Alexandrescou of France today 7-6, 6-7(8), 10-5. Antonius will play Australian Cruz Hewitt, son of Lleyton Hewitt, who beat Kai Thompson of Hong Kong 6-3, 6-1.  The girls final will feature Ksenia Efremova of France and Nana Leme Da Silva of Brazil. Live streaming is available on YouTube.

Jagger Leach, who just completed his freshman year at Stanford, is playing his first non-collegiate event this week at the SoCal Pro Series M15 in Claremont California. The 19-year-old, who was out with an elbow injury for the second half of 2025, is through to the quarterfinals after defeating No. 6 seed Luca Pow(Wake Forest) of Great Britain 7-5, 6-3. Leach will face qualifier Oliver Ojakaar(Texas) of Estonia Friday.  Last week's Irvine M15 winner Spencer Johnson(UCLA), repeated his win over Bryce Nakashima(Ohio State) in that final today, by a 6-4, 6-3 score. Johnson will face another Buckeye in the quarterfinals in top seed Aidan Kim.

Recent Yale graduate Vignesh Gogineni is through to the quarterfinals after taking out No. 2 seed Kenta Miyoshi(Illinois) of Japan 6-2, 6-4.

In the SoCal Pro Series W15 in Claremont, 17-year-old lucky loser Thara Gowda has advanced to the quarterfinals, after beating No. 6 seed Anita Sahdiieva(Baylor, LSU) of Ukraine 6-3, 7-5 in the first round yesterday, Gowda defeated Caroline Driscoll(Denver, Stanford) 6-3, 7-6(3) today.

For more on Wednesday's first round action in Claremont, featuring comments from Leach, his mother Lindsay Davenport, 16-year-old qualifier Brooke Kwon and former Arizona standout Midori Castillo Meza, see this article from the USTA SoCal website.

The International Tennis Federation has changed its name, and will now be known as World Tennis. It will certainly take me some time to get used to this, as I've been using ITF to designate the organization for more than twenty years, but I'm going to try to use World Tennis in its place. If you see WT in a Zootennis headline, know that it refers to what was formerly known as the International Tennis Federation.

Top Doubles Seeds Advance to USTA US Open Collegiate Wild Card Finals; Southern California Popular Choice in ITA D-I Women's Kickoff Draft; ITA Announces All Player of Year Awards; Lumpkin Robinson Tapped to Lead Illinois; Top Seeds Out in Irvine $15Ks

Doubles competition took center stage today at the USTA's American Collegiate US Open Wild Card Playoffs at the National Campus in Lake Nona, with the two favorites posting impressive straight-sets victories. There was again a delay in the start due to rain, but it was less than an hour in duration.

Defending champions Reese Brantmeier and Alanis Hamilton of North Carolina defeated Vanderbilt's Valeria Ray and Bridget Stammel 6-3, 6-2 to return to the final. A familiar face will be across the net Thursday evening in Auburn's DJ Bennett, who reached the doubles final in last year's playoff with Ava Hrastar. This year Bennett is playing with Ava Esposito, and the No. 2 seeds reached the final with a nearly three-hour, 6-3, 2-6, 7-6(5) victory over Michigan's Jessica Bernales and Lily Jones.  Last year's final was even longer, with Brantmeier and Hamilton coming away with a 4-6, 7-6(4), 7-6(5) victory over Bennett and Hrastar in three-hours and 35-minutes.

With Brantmeier also playing in the singles final, the schedule has been adjusted, with the women's singles final, men's singles final and men's doubles final all at 5:30 p.m. Brantmeier and Hamilton will then play the women's doubles final, not before 6:30 p.m., and most likely, significantly later than that.

2025 NCAA doubles finalists Brandon Carpico and Nikita Filin of Ohio State, the top seeds, defeated Northwestern's Greyson Casey and Carter Pate 6-3, 6-2 to advance to the men's doubles final. They will face another Big Ten team in Indiana's Michael Andre and Matteo Antonescu, who defeated No. 2 seeds Alex Chang and Alexander Razeghi 7-6(4), 6-4. 

Filin, the 2024 Kalamazoo 18s champion (with Razeghi), will be looking to return to New York with another wild card into men's doubles, while Brantmeier will be aiming for her third main draw appearance in women's doubles, after winning the 2022 San Diego 18s title and last year's playoff.

Thursday's schedule:
5:30 p.m.
Women's singles final:
Reese Brantmeier[1](UNC) v Katrina Scott[2](Tennessee)

Men's singles final:

Trevor Svajda[1](SMU) v Sebastian Gorzny[2](Texas)

Men's doubles final:

Brandon Carpico and Nikita Filin[1](Ohio State) v Michael Andre and Matteo Antonescu(Indiana)

Not before 6:30 p.m:

Women's doubles final:

Reese Brantmeier and Alanis Hamilton[1](UNC) v DJ Bennett and Ava Esposito[2](Auburn)

Cracked Racquets is providing streaming at their YouTube channel.

The ITA Women's Division I Kickoff Draft was held today, with teams ranked 17-84 at the recent season's end deciding which of the 14 host sites they would like to travel to as they look to earn a spot in the 2027 ITA Team Indoor Championships in February.

Because hosts Michigan and Ohio State finished the year inside the Top 16, neither host needed the automatic qualification, giving No. 17 Arizona State the first choice among the 14 sites. The Sun Devils chose the University of Southern California, as did No. 18 Florida, with No. 25 Clemson the fourth team traveling to Los Angeles. Despite that formidable quartet of teams, USC, which finished the season ranked 13, was not the first host site to fill up. That honor belongs to crosstown rival UCLA, ranked 15th, who had No. 20 UCF, No. 21 TCU and No. 22 Cal elect to head to Westwood. 

No. 16 Vanderbilt will also host three Top 35 teams, with No. 19 Tennessee, No. 28 Stanford and No. 33 Arizona heading to Nashville.

Three Top 50 seeds passed, electing not to participate in the Kickoff Weekend and therefore not eligible to play the Team Indoor Championships: No. 31 Notre Dame, No. 43 Ole Miss and No. 47 Iowa.

Top teams who were not attractive to those in draft postitions were NC State(No. 8), Pepperdine(No. 9) and Auburn (No. 2), and many teams passed rather than go as a No. 4 seed to a top team, with No. 84 North Alabama the last participant, as the No. 4 seed at North Carolina.

The complete list of women's teams that will be competing at the 16 sites January 22-24, 2027, can be found here.

The men's draft begins Thursday at noon, and can be followed here.

The Division I ITA Player of Year Awards, which weren't included in yesterday's announcement, were confirmed today in the ITA's release of its POY winners in all divisions: wheelchair, community college, California community college, NAIA, Division III, Division II and Division I. The complete list can be found here.

One of the few Division I head coaching positions open this spring has been filled, with the University of Illinois announcing Elizabeth Lumpkin Robinson as the new leader of the women's program in Champaign Urbana. Lumpkin Robinson, who played at UCLA, spent the past three years as head coach at University of Illinois-Chicago; before that she was an assistant/associate head coach at Oregon. 

Both top seeds were upset today in Irvine California, the fourth stop on the seven-week SoCal Pro Series joint $15K tournaments.

Kaylan Bigun(UCLA), who won the M15 titles in Week One in Lakewood and Week Three in Los Angeles, was beaten in the first round today by recent Yale graduate Vignesh Gogineni 3-6, 6-4, 6-1.

In the first round of the W15, Sofia Shapatava of Georgia, who was also the top seed last week and also lost in the first round in Los Angeles, dropped a 7-5, 6-1 decision to 18-year-old Isabella Marton of Canada today.

Svajda and Gorzny, Brantmeier and Scott Advance to USTA's Collegiate US Open Wild Card Finals; Wimbledon Wild Cards; ITA D-I National Awards; Qualifying Complete at M25 Tulsa, SoCal Pro Series in Irvine

After a 90-minute delay for rain and lightning, the USTA American Collegiate Player US Open Wild Card Playoffs got underway under the lights at the National Campus in Lake Nona. All four semifinals, played concurrently, had their twists and turns except perhaps No. 2 seed Sebastian Gornzy's 6-4, 6-2 win over Matt Forbes of Ohio State.

Gorzny got the only break of the first set at 4-all and held for the first set, then extended his streak of games to seven by taking a 4-0 lead in the second set. The recent Texas graduate, who reached Sunday's final at the M25 in Wichita, told Cracked Racquets Alex Gruskin that he slept in the Atlanta airport Sunday night, but he did get to Orlando Monday and said he got plenty of rest Monday night prior to the match. 

Gorzny will play top seed Trevor Svajda of SMU, who came back to defeat Aidan Kim of Ohio State 2-6, 6-3, 7-6(3). Svajda lost his break in the third set, but took control in the tiebreaker, which, like the US Open, was to ten points, not seven.

Top seed Reese Brantmeier needed 80 minutes to take the first set from Michigan's Piper Charney, but the recent North Carolina graduate found her form in the second set to post a 7-5, 6-2 victory. The 2025 NCAA singles champion, who, like Gorzny has had notable success in her first events this month as a pro, will face No. 2 seed Katrina Scott of Tennessee. Scott trailed Ohio State's Luciana Perry 4-2 in the third set, but won the final four games for a 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 victory.

All four winners have earned a trip to New York, with Thursday's finalists receiving qualifying wild cards; the winners, of course, are given main draw wild cards.

The doubles semifinals are Wednesday, with all four scheduled for 6 p.m. Reese Brantmeier will be back in action, with Alanis Hamilton, as the defending champions.

Men's Doubles Semifinals:
[1] Brandon Carpico/Nikita Filin (Ohio State) vs. [4] Greyson Casey/Carter Pate (Northwestern)

[3] Michael Andre/Matteo Antonescu (Indiana) vs. [2] Alex Chang/Alex Razeghi (Stanford)

Women's Doubles Semifinals:
[1] Reese Brantmeier/Alanis Hamilton (North Carolina) vs. [3] Valeria Ray/Bridget Stammel (Vanderbilt)

[4] Jessica Bernales/Lily Jones (Michigan) vs. [2] DJ Bennett/Ava Esposito (Auburn)

Cracked Racquets will have coverage of the doubles semifinals on their YouTube Channel.

Wimbledon announced its first batch of wild cards, with qualifying beginning next Monday at Roehampton.

Men's main draw:

Grigor Dimitrov(BUL)
Stan Wawrinka(SUI)
Jacob Fearnley[TCU](GBR)
Arthur Fery[Stanford](GBR)
Jack Pinnington Jones[TCU](GBR)
Toby Samuel[South Carolina](GBR)

TBA

TBA

Women's main draw:

Maja Chwalinska(POL)

Harriet Dart(GBR)

Katie Swan(GBR)

Alicia Dudeney[Florida](GBR)

Hannah Klugman(GBR)

Mimi Xu(GBR)

Mika Stojsavljevic(GBR)

TBA

As you can see, all four of the British main draw wild cards for men were given to former collegians, while Dudeney is the only former collegian receiving a main draw women's wild card. Hannah Klugman and Mika Stojsavljevic, who are still eligible for ITF junior competition, received main draw wild cards for the second straight year; Stojsavljevic is also entered in the Wimbledon Junior Championships.

Men's qualifying:

Mark Ceban(GBR)

Ivan Ivanov(BUL)

Henry Searle(GBR)

Oliver Tarvet[San Diego](GBR)

Johannus Monday[Tennessee](GBR)

TBA

TBA

WC Playoff

WC Playoff

Women's qualifying:

Daniella Britton(GBR)

Jodie Burrage(GBR)

Lily Miyazaki[Oklahoma)(GBR)

Mia Pohankova(SVK)

TBA

WC Playoff

WC Playoff

WC Playoff

WC Playoff

Ceban and Britton earned their qualifying wild cards by winning the British National 18s titles; Ivanov and Pohankova received qualifying wild cards as the 2025 Wimbledon Junior champions.

The official list of the wild cards, including doubles wild cards, is here.

The ITA announced its Division I National Award winners today, which are shown below. For some reason, the National Player of the Year awards are not included in these releases, but that award is always given to the player ranked No. 1 at year-end, so it will go to Lucciana Perez of Texas A&M and Dylan Dietrich of Virginia.

ITA Division I Women's National Awards:

ITA/Dunlop Coach of the Year:

Mark Weaver, Texas A&M

ITA Assistant Coach of the Year:

David Secker, NC State

ITA Arthur Ashe Leadership & Sportsmanship:

Reese Brantmeier, North Carolina

ITA Cissie Leary Sportsmanship:

Sarah Millard, Arkansas State

ITA Rookie of the Year:

Victoria Osuigwe, NC State

ITA Most Improved Player:

Savannah Dada-Mascoll, Appalachian State

ITA Player to Watch:

Lucciana Perez, Texas A&M

ITA Senior Player of the Year:

Reese Brantmeier, North Carolina

ITA Division I Men's National Awards:

ITA/Dunlop Coach of the Year:

Andres Pedroso, Virginia

ITA Assistant Coach of the Year:

Benjamin Becker, Texas

ITA Arthur Ashe Leadership & Sportsmanship:

Phillip Deaton, Air Force

ITA Rafael Osuna Sportsmanship:

Sebastian Dominko, Notre Dame

ITA Rookie of the Year:

Max Dahlin, Michigan

ITA Most Improved Player:

Duncan Chan, TCU

ITA Player to Watch:

Trevor Svajda, SMU

ITA Senior Player of the Year:

Sebastian Gorzny, Texas

The three USTA Pro Circuit tournaments this week are an M25 in Tulsa Oklahoma and the M15 and W15 SoCal Pro Series events in Irvine.

Americans who qualified today in Tulsa are Will Manning(NC State), Ilyas Fahim(Virginia Tech), Maximus Dussault(TCU) and Jonah Braswell(Florida, Texas).

Wild cards were given to Matisse Farzam(Clemson), Axel Nefve(Notre Dame, Florida), JJ Wolf(Ohio State) and Alejandro Jacome Jaramillo(Wichita State). Wolf defeated Nefve 7-6(5), 6-4 in first round action today.

The top seeds are Andres Martin(Georgia Tech), who beat Farzam 6-7(2), 6-2, 6-1, and Braden Shick(NC State). Schick will play his former teammate Manning in the first round Wednesday.

Last week's champion in Wichita as a wild card, Ozan Baris(Michigan State), received a special exemption into the main draw this week.

At the men's tournament in Irvine, Americans who qualified today are Aardash Tripathi(UCLA), Karl Lee(UCLA, USC) and Nathan Cox(Vanderbilt).

Wild cards were awarded to Bryce Nakashima Ohio State, 

Alexander Guajardo UC Irvine, William Kleege San Diego State

and Kelly Giese(Lubbock Christian, Nebraska).

Three juniors received entry via the ITF Junior Reserved program: Marcel Latak, Tanishk Konduri and Felipe Vazquez of Uruguay. 2025 Kalamazoo 18s finalist Jack Satterfield, a rising sophomore at Vanderbilt, received an ITF junior reserved entry, available to him after finishing 2025 in the Top 30 of the ITF junior rankings. He defeated No. 7 seed Tristan Stringer 6-2, 6-4 in first round action today.

Last week's champion Kaylan Bigun(UCLA), playing his fourth straight SoCal Pro Series tournament, is the No. 1 seed; Strong Kirchheimer(Northwestern) is the No. 2 seed.

In the women's event in Irvine, seven of the eight qualifying are Americans: Maria Aytoyan, Tatum Evans(UNC), Thea Rabman(UNC), 16-year-old Yilin Chen, Kaia Giribalan, Bianca Molnar(Notre Dame) and Simone Kay(USC).

Wild cards were given to Sophia Webster(Vanderbilt), 14-year-old Tanvi Pandey, Camille Allegre and Olivia Center(UCLA). 

Junior reserved entries went to Lani Chang and Emery Combs; Combs, 15, defeated No. 6 seed Ingrid Carolina Millan Acosta of Mexico 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 in first round action today.

Last week's finalists in Los Angeles, Kaitlyn Carnicella(Auburn, South Carolina) and Russia's Alina Shcherbinina(Baylor, Oklahoma) received special exempt entries.

The top two seeds are Sofia Shapatava of Georgia, and Stanford rising sophomore Monika Ekstrand.

Singh and Mendell Claim ITF J100 Guatemala Titles, Iftime Wins J60 in Champaign; Sun and Miguel Rise to No. 1 in ITF Junior Rankings; NYCC YouTube Documentary of NCAA 2026 in Athens

While most eyes were on Paris last week, many American juniors aspiring to compete in the junior slams were elsewhere collecting points, with five US players earning singles titles on the ITF Junior Circuit.

At the ITF J100 in Guatemala, Gurjot Singh swept the boys titles, while Ellery Mendell won her third J100 title in the past six weeks.

Singh, an 18-year-old from New Jersey who was a finalist at the J200 in Tennessee last month, had to go through qualifying as a late entry although he had to win only one match to make the main draw, where he was the No. 1 seed.  Singh won an all-USA final for his first ITF Junior Circuit singles title, beating No. 3 seed and doubles partner Tristan Stratton 6-3, 6-2. Singh had won the doubles title with Stratton the previous day, with the top seeds defeating unseeded Antonio Castellanos of Guatemala and Indra Vergne 6-1, 6-1 in the final.

The top-seeded Mendell, a 16-year-old from Georgia, defeated unseeded Srishti Kiran of India 6-4, 6-3 in the final. Mendell won back-to-back J100 titles in Costa Rica last month, but Guatemala is the site of three of her six career singles titles on the ITF Junior Circuit.

Sarah Stoyanov reached the doubles final with Abril Cardenas Olivares of Mexico, but the No. 3 seeds lost to No. 4 seeds Eve Thibault of Canada and Hanne Estrada Cores of Mexico 7-5, 6-1.

Singh is up to 129 in the ITF Junior Rankings, while Mendell is now at 165.

At the ITF J60 in Champaign Illinois, 14-year-old Adelina Iftime won her first ITF Junior Circuit title, taking the girls singles championships with a 7-6(4), 6-0 win over No. 5 seed Aleksandra Jerkunica. Iftime, the 2025 IMG Bradenton 16s champion, didn't drop a set in her three round robin matches or in the knockout phase of the tournament. 

Jerkunica, 15, did come away with a title however, taking the doubles championship with older sister Natasha. The No. 3 seeds defeated top seeds Vibha Gogineni and Teaghan Jou An Keys 7-5, 4-6, 10-5 in the final. 

No. 4 seed Eli Kaminski lost to top seed Rafael Bote of Canada in the boys final 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. 

The unseeded team of Anish Poojari and Austin Potter claimed the boys doubles title, beating top seeds Bote and Keshav Muthuvel 7-5, 6-2 in the final. 

The other two singles titles for Americans were at the J30 level, with 15-year-old Soo-Ah Byun, who received entry via her World Tennis Number, defeating Si A Youm of Korea 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 in the final in Gimcheon Korea. It's the first ITF Junior Circuit title for Byun.

In Sukoharjo Indonesia, No. 2 seed Brandon Duan, a 16-year-old Californian, defeated No. 4 seed Rafa Jeconia Verdasco Mangunsong of Indonesia 7-5, 6-2 to capture his second ITF Junior Circuit single title. 

At the J30 in Abujia Nigeria, Elliott Awomoyi and Nigerian partner Seyl Ebenezer Ogunaskin took the doubles title, with the top seeds beating No. 3 seeds Elisha Ishaku Swange and Gbolahan Oluwajuwon Olawale of Nigeria 6-3, 6-3 in the final. It's the first ITF Junior Circuit title for the 16-year-old Awomoyi.

This week's ITF Junior Circuit tournament in the Midwest is a J100 in Bloomington Indiana. Joshua Adamson of Canada and Karlin Schock of USA are the top two seeds.

The post-Roland Garros ITF junior rankings produced two new No. 1s, with Roland Garros champion Luis Guto Miguel of Brazil and finalist Xinran Sun of China now at the top. Sun overtook 2026 Australian Open champion Ksenia Efremova of France, who lost in the first round; Miguel displaced Ivan Ivanov of Bulgaria, whose Wimbledon and US Open titles in 2025 are no longer enough to keep him in the top 5.

Girls champion Alisa Oktiabreva re-entered the junior rankings at 51; she has had no ITF junior ranking for the past 18 months. Her career-high junior ranking of 17 came in July of 2023.

Roland Garros finalist Michael Antonius has moved up to a career-high ITF junior ranking of 6, while semifinalist Keaton Hance has risen to a career-high of 3. 

Nate Walroth of NotYourCountryClub had a crew of videographers in Athens last month for the NCAA Division I Team Championships, which resulted in the documentary below. If you weren't there, it provides a great sense of the excitement at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex during the four days of competition and what it means to the teams and their fans as they contend for an NCAA title.

Texas A&M Claims a Second NCAA Title in Yet Another Late Night Finish, Defeating Auburn 4-1

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The 2026 NCAA Women's Division I Championships will be remembered as Late Night with the Aggies, with No. 4 seed Texas A&M beating No. 2 seed Auburn 4-1 Sunday night in their third straight midnight finish at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex.

"The later the better," said head coach Mark Weaver, who actually welcomed the hour long lightning delay shortly after the start of singles. "I was actually pretty excited about the lightning delay, to be honest with you, because I thought it played into our hands more. Auburn's been playing earlier all week and we've played at 10, 11, 12 o'clock at night the past five days, so it just felt like another match."

Texas A&M had lost the doubles point in their past four matches, in the regional final, the Super Regional and in their 4-3 quarterfinal and semifinal victories, so once they collected the 68-minute doubles point with a 7-6(3) win by Lucciana Perez and Mia Kupres over DJ Bennett and Ava Esposito at line 1 Weaver could relax a bit.

"I don't think anyone expected us to win the doubles, but I felt really good about it," Weaver said. "I know that sounds crazy, and I know most people thought we were going to lose five in a row, but I felt like eventually it's got to go your way. I felt really good once we got the doubles; I knew we could find at least three out there."

After the lightning delay, Auburn came out strong, winning three first sets before Texas A&M got one, but the Aggies won the next three and were able to get splits at lines 1 and 6, opening up multiple paths for themselves. 

Violeta Martinez, who clinched the Aggies' 4-3 post-midnight quarterfinal victory over North Carolina, avoided that situation again tonight, delivering the first singles point with a 7-5, 6-1 win over Ashton Bowers at line 5. Angella Okutoyi got the Tigers on the board with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Ilinca Amariei at line 3, but five minutes later Lexington Reed made it 3-1 A&M with a 7-6(5), 6-3 win over Merna Refaat at line 4. 

With Perez taking the second set from Bennett on court 1 and grabbing an early break in the third, the undefeated junior from Peru looked to be heading toward the clinch, despite needing an IV in the wee hours of Sunday morning after her 6-1, 6-7(5), 6-3 win over Anastasia Lopata of Georgia sent her team to its third straight NCAA final.

But Daria Smetannikov was also in position to close it out, with the senior from New Jersey breaking on a deciding point to take a 5-4 lead in the third set over Esposito. Smetannikov fell behind 15-40 in the game, but calmly made her way back to another deuce point and when Esposito sprayed a forehand, the celebration could begin.

 

Smetannikov didn't play in Texas A&M's final in 2024, but she credits her coaches for helping her improve enough to become a major contributor to their second title.

"I give a lot of credit to the coaches here," said Smetannikov, who was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. "They've helped me so much to develop my game, from hitting mindlessly to stepping back and being patient, waiting for the right one."

Smetannikov said the repercussions of their long, late, tense quarterfinal and semifinal wins were not physical, as would be expected, but mental.

"The matches this year were so tight and so physical, 4-3, 4-3, so to come into the final after those two matches, as a group we were so pulled together, we were so motivated. After that, we had this confidence in ourselves. Winning this just means so much to us, after the hard work we've put in this entire year."

Weaver was reluctant to compare his team's second title to their first in 2024, but considers this one at least as sweet, given the lack of respect for their prospects after the departure of former ITA No. 1 Mary Stoiana.

"In a lot of ways this one was more enjoyable," Weaver said. "We had a lot more challenges against us this year, a lot more adversity. There was a lot of uncertainty this season, picked fifth in the SEC and I think a lot people probably didn't think we'd make the Sweet 16 this year....just truly heart of champions by the girls, the most resilient group I've ever been around. Grit and determination, playing with heart, truly so proud of this group of young ladies."

Auburn head coach Jordan Szabo, who was the associate head coach in College Station when they won the 2024 title, was also proud of the strides his team made to reach the program's first NCAA quarterfinal, semifinal and final after winning a first SEC title.

"They have nothing to hold their heads down about," Szabo said. "They're the most amazing group of girls, the easiest group of girls I've ever had to coach. They should feel really good about what they achieved. Did we get the long drink of water we wanted at the end of the day? No. But we just didn't play our best match."

Texas A&M[4] 4 Auburn[2] 1

Doubles:

1. Lucciana Perez and Mia Kupres(TAMU) d. Ava Esposito and DJ Bennett(AUB) 7-6(3)

2. Angella Okutoyi and Merna Refaat(AUB) d. Violeta Martinez and Ilinca Amariei(TAM) 6-1

3. Daria Smetannikov and Lexington Reed(TAMU) d. Ekaterina Khayrutdinova and Ashton Bowers(3) 6-1

Order of finish 2, 3, 1

Singles:

1. Lucciana Perez(TAMU) v DJ Bennett(AUB) 2-6, 6-2, 4-3 unf.

2. Mia Kupres(TAMU) v Ekaterina Khatrutdinova(AUB) 7-6(2), 3-6, 1-1, unf.

3. Angella Okutoyi(AUB) d. Ilinca Amariei(TAMU) 6-2, 6-2

4. Lexington Reed(TAMU) d. Merna Refaat(AUB) 7-6(5), 6-3

5. Violeta Martinez(TAMU) d. Ashton Bowers(AUB) 7-5, 6-1

6. Daria Smetannikova(TAMU) d. Ava Esposito(AUB) 4-6, 6-2, 6-4

Order of finish: 5, 3, 4, 6

Dietrich Delivers Virginia's Seventh National Title with a Pulsating 4-3 Win Over Texas

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Virginia's Dylan Dietrich was one point from going down 4-1 in the third set of the match that would determine the NCAA Division I National Championship Sunday afternoon at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex at the University of Georgia. 

But a deciding point with Texas's Sebastian Gorzny serving at 3-1 turned the tide, with the nation's top-ranked player riding that momentum to a 6-7(1), 6-4, 6-4 victory that gave the fourth-seeded Cavaliers their seventh national title and third in the last five years.

Dietrich had earned the only third set in the match, which Virginia needed after No. 2 seed Texas took the doubles point with wins at lines 2 and 3, with Virginia first claiming the set at line 1.

The teams split first sets in singles, and the first four singles points alternated, with Virginia's Keegan Rice defeating Kalin Ivanovski 6-1, 6-3 at line 2, then Texas's Oliver Ojakaar returning the lead to the Longhorns with a 6-1, 6-4 win over Andres Santamarta at 4. Stiles Brockett drew Virginia even with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Abel Forger at 5, followed by Longhorn Lucas Marionneau's 6-3, 7-5 victory over Mans Dahlberg at line 6.

With Texas up 3-2, Virginia's Jangjun Kim and Texas's Sebastian Eriksson went to a second set tiebreaker, with Kim saving a set point to post a 6-1, 7-6(9) victory.

Dietrich had just won the second set from Gorzny, so when they returned from the 10-minute heat break dictated by higher humidity and temperatures in the low 90s, all the fans, primarily garbed in Virginia blue and orange, made their way behind Court 1as the match approached its fourth hour.

Gorzny, who had clinched the TCU program's first NCAA title in 2024 in the same 3-3 scenario before transferring to Texas, broke Dietrich on a deciding point to take a 3-1 lead.

Dietrich earned three break points with Gorzny serving at 3-1, but Gorzny saved two to force a deciding point. That point had a bit of everything, with Dietrich in control but unable to pass Gorzny, who defended with volley after volley, until finally Dietrich blasted a forehand straight up the middle at Gorzny, who ducked and looked back just in time to see the ball land on baseline, sending the large contingent of Wahoo fans assembled behind the court into a frenzy.

"Honestly, when I got broken for 3-1, it was a lot pressure, it was tough," said the junior from Switzerland, who had a 24-1 record in dual matches this season. "What was going through my mind was that I was playing so well all season and I can not believe that I'm going to lose the most important match of my college career. So I got a little nervous, and I got a little lucky on the deuce point, but after I won the deuce point, it was so much pressure off my shoulders."

Dietrich had to win another deuce point, on his serve, to pull even, but broke again for a 4-3 lead. As the Virginia fans and Dietrich's teammates began the Ole, Ole, Ole, Wahoos, Wahoos chant, Dietrich had his best serving game of the set, hitting four first serves--two service winners and two aces--to take a 5-3 lead. Gorzny, who had saved five match points in his 4-3 clinching win over TCU in the semifinals, saved two in his serving game, but held to force Dietrich to finish it on serve. He ended it on his first match point at 40-30, and the exuberant Virginia celebration, reserved only for championships, began.

Virginia coach Andres Pedroso, who has led the program for 11 years and three of those titles, gave credit to the role of the previous six titles for producing another one this May. 

"I think it's just winning tradition we can draw from and the stories I can tell about the former players, and what they've done to put seven stars on our backs," said Pedroso, referring to the UVA's jerseys. "I don't want to say it's brainwashing, because I really believe it when I tell them, but I make sure they believe when they walk on the grounds of the University of Virginia for the first time, we play our best tennis in May, we are the closest team, and we take pride in that. I give the former players all the credit for that."

One of those former players is Rafael Jodar, who after one season at Virginia, in 2025, is now 29 in the ATP rankings and will be seeded at Roland Garros later this month.

"I'm sure he was watching today for sure," said Dietrich, who was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. "Screaming in Paris, wherever he is."

"He called me this morning," Pedroso revealed. "And said he had plans to go to the movies tonight, and he told his friend, we're not going to the movies, we're watching Virginia tonight."

Texas head coach Bruce Berque credited his team for their growth during the season.

"It seems like forever ago, but there was a time when we were sitting in the Ohio State locker room in Columbus after getting beaten pretty badly, with a 4-3 record," Berque said. "And it seemed like we were so far away from being a championship level program, but the guys took ownership of the team, put in the work, held each other accountable, pushed and fought and improved and competed their way to three out of the four championships(Team Indoor, SEC regular and tournament) they could win, just coming up a point short."

Gorzny, a senior who will be embarking on his pro career this summer, said he would return for a fifth year if he could.

"The goal is to win the NCAAs, but at the end of the day, it's the process that matters," said the 22-year-old from Texas. "Getting better, the highs and lows, enjoying all the moments together. Unfortunately we didn't get it done, and it sucks that I let my team down at the end, but I know I gave it my best all year and I don't have any regrets."

Virginia[4] 4 Texas[2] 3

Doubles:

1. Mans Dahlberg and Dylan Dietrich(UVA) d. Kalin Ivanovski and Abel Forger(TEX) 6-3

2. Sebastian Gorzny and Lucas Marionneau(TEX) d. Andres Santamarta and Jangjun Kim(UVA) 6-4

3. Oliver Ojakaar and Sebastian Eriksson(TEX) d. Stiles Brockett and Keegan Rice(UVA) 6-2

Order of finish: 1, 3, 2

Singles:

1. Dylan Dietrich(UVA) d. Sebastian Gorzny(TEX) 6-7(1), 6-4, 6-4

2. Keegan Rice(UVA) d. Kalin Ivanovski(TEX) 6-1, 6-3

3. Jangjun Kim(UVA) d. Sebastian Eriksson(TEX) 6-1, 7-6(11) 

4. Oliver Ojakaar(TEX) d. Andres Santamarta(UVA) 6-1, 6-4

5. Stiles Brockett(UVA) d. Abel Forger(TEX) 6-4, 6-4 

6. Lucas Marionneau(TEX) d. Mans Dahlberg(UVA) 6-3, 7-5

Order of finish: 2, 4, 5, 6, 3, 1 

Favorites Tested, All but One Prevail on Opening Day of D-I Super Regionals; Virginia Tech Men, Arkansas State Women Win NIT Titles; Liutova Advances to W100 Semifinals; ITF J200 College Grove Semifinals Saturday Feature Six Americans

Although all four of them dropped a point as hosts of Friday's Super Regionals, the top two seeds in the men's and women's NCAA Division I draws have booked their spots at the finals site in Athens Georgia.

Top seed Georgia has the opportunity to win a second straight women's team title, but this time at home, after the Bulldogs got by UCLA 4-1. No. 2 seed Auburn will make its first appearance in the NCAA quarterfinals in program history after defeating No. 15 seed Duke 4-2 in Auburn this evening. Georgia's opponent in the quarterfinals next Friday will be No. 8 seed NC State, who unexpectedly dropped the doubles point to No. 9 Texas, but fought back to beat the Longhorns 4-2. Auburn will await the winner of Saturday's match between No. 10 LSU and No. 7 Virginia.

Defending men's champion Wake Forest was dominant in its 4-1 win over No. 16 seed UCF, needing less than two hours to post the victory, although they lost at No. 1 singles before Luca Pow clinched at line 3. No. 2 Texas was kept out on its courts for nearly an hour longer, but the National Team Indoor Champions secured a 4-1 win over No. 15 seed San Diego.

Wake Forest will play the winner of Saturday's match between No. 8 Arizona and No. 9 Oklahoma, with Texas facing No. 10 seed Baylor, who posted the day's most dramatic victory.

Although Pepperdine dropped the doubles point in front of a large crowd in Waco, the Waves took four first sets in singles, requiring the Bears to force a third set somewhere. The only three-set match of the night was a line 1, with Devin Badenhorst forcing that third set by winning a deciding point on a passing shot winner with Edward Winter serving at 5-6. 

When Pepperdine's Aleksa Pisaric, the hero of his team's 4-3 win over LSU in last weekend's second round, closed out Connor van Schalkwyk in two tiebreakers, Badenhorst and Winter were midway through their final set. But Badenhorst was cramping, receiving treatment at every changeover, and relying on his big serve and his ability to shorten points was his primary strategy. 

Badenhorst took a lead early in the seemingly inevitable tiebreaker and went up 6-3, but Winter held both of his serves to put the pressure back on the junior from South Africa. To the delight of the crowd and his teammates, Badenhorst chose to serve and volley at that key moment and was rewarded for his bravery, with a first serve and forehand volley winner sending Baylor to the quarterfinals for the first time since 2022 with a 2-6, 7-5, 7-6(5) victory.

Baylor's secured their victory around 10:30 p.m. Eastern, but due to lightning delays at the women's Super Regional in Norman, the singles between No. 6 seed Oklahoma and No. 11 seed Pepperdine had just started. Pepperdine had taken the doubles point before the nearly three-hour delay, but Oklahoma fought back to tie it up with the match decided at No. 2 singles. Edda Mamedova of Oklahoma was up 4-2 in the third set against Pepperdine freshman Sonja Zhiyenbayeva, but the former ITF junior No. 15 from Kazakhstan swung freely and took the final four games to clinch the 5-7, 7-6, 6-4 win shortly after midnight local time. Oklahoma was sole higher seed and host to fall in Friday's 11 matches.

The box scores from the Super Regionals Friday, May 8th:

WOMEN:

Texas A&M[4] 5 Southern California[13] 1
Doubles
1. Lily Fairclough and Krisha Mahendran(USC) d. Lucciana Perez and Mia Kupres(TAMU) 6-2
2. Violeta Martinez and Ilinca Amariei(TAMU) v Emma Charney and Immi Haddad(USC) 5-5, unf.
3. Dani Borruel and Eugenia Zozaya(USC) d. Daria Smetannikov and Lexington Reed(TAMU) 6-4

Order of finish: 1, 3

Singles

1. Lucciana Perez(TAMU) d. Jana Hossam(USC) 6-1, 6-1

2. Mia Kupres(TAMU) d. Eugenia Zozaya(USC) 3-6, 6-2, 6-4

3. Ilinca Amariei(TAMU) d. Emma Charney(USC) 6-4, 7-5

4. Lexington Reed(TAMU) d.  Krisha Mahendran(USC) 3-6, 6-1, 7-5

5. Violeta Martinez(TAMU) d. Lily Fairclough(USC) 6-1, 6-2

6. Daria Smetannikov(TAMU) v Dani Borruel(USC) 6-4, 5-7, 4-2 unf

Order of finish: 1, 5, 3, 2 and 4

Georgia[1] 4 UCLA 1

Doubles:

1. Anastasiia Lopata and Patricija Paukstyte(UGA) d. Kate Fakih and Olivia Center(UCLA) 6-3

2. Mayu Crossley and Anne-Christine Lutkemeyer(UCLA) v Deniz Dilek and Aysegul Mert(UGA) 5-3, unf.

3. Emma Dong and Anastasiia Gureva(UGA) d. Kayla Chung and Ahmani Guichard(UCLA) 6-2

Order of finish: 3, 1

Singles:

1. Anastasiia Lopata(UGA) v Anne-Christine Lutkemeyer(UCLA) 6-3, 6-6(1-5), unf.

2. Mayu Crossley(UCLA) v Aysegul Mert(UGA)  6-4, 5-4, unf.

3. Denis Dilek(UGA) d. Kate Fakih(UCLA) 6-4, 6-3

4. Bianca Fernandez(UCLA) d. Anastasiia Gureva(UGA) 7-5, 6-4

5. Emma Dong(UGA) d. Olivia Center(UCLA) 7-5, 6-2

6. Sofia Rojas(UGA) d. Ahmani Guichard(UCLA) 6-0, 7-5

Order of finish: 6, 3, 4, 5 

NC State[8] 4 Texas[9] 2

Doubles

1. Anastasia Abbagnato and Elizabeth Ionescu(TEX) d. Gabriella Broadfoot and Victoria Osuigwe(NCST) 6-2

2. Christasha McNeil and Carmen Herea(TEX) d. Anna Zyryanova and Jasmine Conway(NCST) 7-5

3. Mia Slama and Lavinia Tanasie(NCST) d. Salma Drugdova and Eszter Meri(TEX) 6-1

Order of finish: 1, 3, 2 

Singles

1. Mia Slama(NCST) d. Carmen Herea(TEX) 7-5, 6-0

2. Anna Zyryanova(NCST) v Anasatasia Abbagnato(TEX) 7-6(4), 6-1

3. Gabriella Broadfoot(NCST) v Eszter Meri(TEX) 2-6, 7-5, 4-0 unf.

4. Lavinia Tanasie(NCST) d. Christasha McNeil(TEX) 6-3, 6-2

5. Victoria Osuigwe(NCST) d. Elizabeth Ionescu(TEX) 2-6, 6-4, 7-5

6. Kate Mansfield(TEX) d. Jasmine Conway(NCST) 6-3, 6-4

Order of finish: 4, 6, 1, 2, 5

North Carolina[5] 4 Michigan[12] 2

1. Reese Brantmeier and Alanis Hamilton(UNC) d. Lily Jones and Jessica Bernales(MICH) 6-2

2. Laura Rahnel and Reese Miller(MICH) d. Susanna Maltby and Maddy Zampardo(UNC) 6-3

3. Tatum Evans and Ange Oby Karjuru(UNC) d. Piper Charney and Emily Sartz-Lunde(MICH) 6-4

Order of finish: 1, 2, 3

Singles:

1. Piper Charney(MICH) d. Reese Brantmeier(UNC) 6-3, 6-2

2. Ange Oby Kajuru(UNC) d. Lily Jones(MICH) 6-2, 6-2

3. Tatum Evans(UNC) d. Reese Miller(MICH) 5-7, 7-5, 7-5

4. d. Emily Sartz-Lunde(MICH) d. Maddy Zampardo(UNC) 6-3, 6-1

5. Anna Frey(UNC) d. Jessica Bernales(MICH) 6-3, 1-6, 6-1

6. Thea Rabman(UNC) v Laura Rahnel(MICH) 4-6, 6-4, 6-5, unf. 

Order of finish: 2, 4, 1, 5, 3

Auburn[2] 4 Duke[15] 2

Doubles:

1. Irina Balus and Shavit Kimchi(DUKE) v DJ Bennett and Ava Esposito(AUB) 5-3, unf.

2. Angella Okutoyi and Merna Refaat(AUB) d. Claire An and Eleana Yu(DUKE) 6-1

3. Ashton Bowers and Ekaterina Khayrutdinova(AUB) d. Liv Hovde and Aspen Schuman(DUKE) 6-1

Order of finish: 3, 2

Singles:

1. Irina Balus(DUKE) d. DJ Bennett(AUB) 7-5, 6-3

2. Ekaterina Khayrutdinova(AUB) d. Aspen Schuman(DUKE) 6-2, 6-1

3. Angella Okutoyi(AUB) d. Liv Hovde(DUKE) 5-7, 7-5, 6-0

4. Claire An(DUKE) d. Merna Refaat(AUB) 6-2, 6-4

5. Shavit Kimchi(DUKE) v Ashton Bowers(AUB) 5-7, 7-6(3), 1-0, unf.

6. Ava Esposito(AUB) d. Eleana YU(DUKE) 6-2, 7-6(3)

Order of finish: 2, 1, 4, 6, 3

Pepperdine[11] 4 Oklahoma[6] 3

Doubles:

1. Ziva Falkner and Sonja Zhiyenbayeva(PEPP) d. Gloriana Nahum and Roisin Gilheany(OU) 7-5

2. Chantal Sauvant and Anastasia Grechkina(PEPP) d. Evialina Laskevich and Edda Mamedova(OU) 6-3

3. Julia Garcia Ruiz and Salakthip Ounmuang(OU) d. Duru Soke and Shihomi Leong(PEPP) 6-1

Order of finish: 3, 2, 1

Singles:

1. Evialina Laskevich(OU) d. Ziva Falkner(PEPP) 6-3, 4-6, 6-2

2. Sonja Zhiyenbayeva(PEPP) d. Edda Mamedova(OU) 5-7, 7-6(5), 6-4

3. Julia Garcia Ruiz(OU) d. Anastasia Grechkina(PEPP) 6-1, 6-2

4. Chantal Sauvant(PEPP) d. Salakthip Ounmuang(OU) 6-1, 6-4

5. Chloe Noel(OU) d. Duru Soke(PEPP) 6-3, 6-1 

6. Alexis Harmon(PEPP) d. Gloriana Nahum(OU) 6-2, 7-5

Order of finish: 3, 5, 4, 6, 1, 2

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

MEN:

Ohio State[3] 4 Illinois[14] 0

Doubles:

1. Nikita Filin and Brandon Carpico(OSU) d. Gabriel Debru and Kenta Miyoshi(ILL) 7-6(4)

2. Tyler Bowers and Will Mroz(ILL) v Alex Kim and Bryce Nakashima(OSU) 6-6, unf.

3. Alex Bernard and Alex Okonkwo(OSU) d. David Bakonyi and Zach Viiala(ILL) 6-2

Order of finish: 3, 1

Singles:

1. Aidan Kim(OSU) v Gabriel Debru(ILL) 6-3, 3-6, 3-0, unf.

2. Jack Anthrop(OSU) d. Kenta Miyoshi(ILL) 6-4, 6-3

3. Preston Stearns(OSU) v William Mroz(ILL) 7-5, 2-4, unf.

4. Nikita Filin(OSU) d. Adam Jilly(ILL) 6-1, 6-4

5. Zach Viiala(ILL)  v Bryce Nakashima(OSU) 6-1, 3-6, 1-0, unf.

6. Alex Bernard(OSU) d. Hayden Jones(ILL) 6-2, 6-2

Order of finish: 4, 6, 2

Virginia[4] 4 South Carolina[13] 1

Doubles:

1. Mans Dahlberg and Dylan Dietrich(UVA) v. Lucas da Silva and Paul Barbier Gazeu(SCAR) 5-3, unf.

2. Andres Santamarta and Jangjun Kim(UVA) d. Max Stenzer and Sean Daryabeigi(SCAR) 6-2

3. Stiles Brockett(UVA) and Keegan Rice(UVA) d. Gabe Avram and Charlie Swaine(SCAR) 6-3

Order of finish: 2, 3

Singles:

1. Lucas da Silva(SCAR) v Dylan Dietrich(UVA) 7-5, 6-7(3), 1-0 unf.

2. Keegan Rice(UVA) d. Paul Barbier Gazeu(SCAR) 6-2, 6-3

3. Jangjun Kim(UVA) d. Sean Daryabeigi(SCAR) 5-7, 6-2, 6-2

4. Max Stenzer(SCAR) d. Andres Santamarta(UVA) 7-5, 2-6, 6-1

5. Stiles Brockett(UVA) d. Atakan Karahan(SCAR) 4-6, 6-2, 6-1

6. Mans Dahlberg(UVA) v. Gabe Avram(SCAR) 5-7, 6-3, 3-1  unf.

Order of finish: 2, 5, 4, 3

Wake Forest[1] 4 UCF[16] 1

Doubles:

1. DK Suresh and Andrew Delgado(WAKE) v Yassine Dlimi and Paul Colin(UCF) 5-4, unf.

2. Meese Rottgering and Kacper Szymkowiak(WAKE) d. Luca Hotze and Nicolas Oliveira(UCF) 6-2

3. Luca Pow and Aryan Shah(WAKE) d. Wissam Abderrahman and Clement Lemire(UCF) 6-0

Order of finish: 3, 2 

Singles:

1. Yassine Dlimi(UCF) d. DK Suresh(WAKE) 6-3, 6-4

2. Mees Rottgering(WAKE) d. Wissam Abderrahman(UCF) 6-4, 6-1

3. Luca Pow(WAKE) d. Pedro Rodrigues(UCF) 6-2, 6-3

4. Charline Robertson(WAKE) v Paul Colin(UCF) 7-5, 1-4, unf.

5. Aryan Shah(WAKE) d. Nicolas Oliveira(UCF) 6-0, 6-3

6. Clement Lemire(UCF) v Joaquin Guilleme(WAKE) 7-5, 3-1, unf.

Order of finish: 5, 1, 2, 3

Baylor[11] 4 Pepperdine 3

Doubles:

1. Alexandru Chirita and Zsombor Velcz(BAY) d. Edward Winter and David Fix(PEPP) 6-3 

2. Luc Koenig and Connor Van Schalkwyk(BAY) d. Lasse Poertner and Gustavo Almeida(PEPP) 6-4 

3. Aleksa Pisaric and Maxi Homberg v Devin Badenhorst and Calvin Baierl(BAY) 5-4, unf.

Order of finish: 2, 1

Singles:

1. Devin Badenhorst(BAY) d. Edward Winter(PEPP) 2-6, 7-5, 7-6(5)

2. Zsombor Velcz(BAY) d. Lasse Poertner(PEPP) 6-1, 6-1

3. Aleksa Pisaric(PEPP) d. Connor van Schalkwyk(BAY) 7-6(6), 7-6(6) 

4. Gustavo Almeida(PEPP) d. Alexandru Chirita(BAY) 6-1, 6-3

5. Luc Koenig(BAY) d. Maxi Homberg(PEPP) 6-1, 6-4

6. David Fix(PEPP) d. Louis Bowden(BAY) 6-1, 6-2

Order of finish: 2, 4, 5, 6, 3, 1

Texas[2] 4 San Diego[15] 1

Doubles:

1. Kalin Ivanovski and Abel Forger(TEX) d. Adrien Berrut and Lambert Ruland(USD) 6-0

2. Sebastian Gorzny and Lucas Marionneau(TEX) v Stian Klaassen and Oliver Tarvet(USD) 4-2, unf.

3. Oliver Ojakaar and Sebastian Eriksson(TEX) d. Manvy Balciunas and Vincent Marysko(USD) 6-2.

Order of finish: 1, 3

Singles:

1. Oliver Tarvet(USD) d. Sebastian Gorzny(TEX) 6-4, 6-3

2. Manvy Balciunas(USD) v Kalin Ivanovski(TEX) 6-7(4), 6-2, 2-1, unf

3. Sebastian Eriksson(TEX) d. Stian Klaassen(USD) 7-6(4), 6-4

4. Oliver Ojakaar(TEX) d. Vincent Marysko(USD) 6-3, 6-3

5. Abel Forger(TEX) v Adrien Berrut(USD) 7-6(1), 6-6, unf.

6. Lucas Marionneau(TEX) d Lambert Ruland(USD) 6-4, 6-2

Order of finish: 6, 4, 1, 3

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Women's Super Regionals Saturday May 9:

Ohio State[3] v Vanderbilt[14]

Saturday May 9th, 1 p.m. Columbus OH

Virginia[7] v LSU[10]

Saturday May 9th, 1 p.m. Charlottesville VA

Men's Super Regionals Saturday May 9:

Mississippi State[5] v Georgia[12]

Saturday May 9th, 1 p.m. Starkville MS

Stanford v TCU[6]

Saturday May 9th, 2 p.m. Fort Worth TX

Oklahoma[9] v Arizona[8]

Saturday May 9th, 4 p.m. Tucson AZ

Links to live scoring and live streams can be found at the ITA's Super Regional pages, with the men's page here and the women's page here.

Cracked Racquets will again be providing multiple streams on their YouTube Channel.

The men's draw is here; the women's draw is here.

The UTR Sports NIT Championships concluded today in Rome Georgia, with Virginia Tech beating North Alabama 4-2 for the men's title. Arkansas State claimed the women's title Thursday, beating North Alabama 4-2. For results and photos of the event, see the UTR Sports NIT page.

Sixteen-year-old wild card Kristina Liutova, originally from Russia, but a longtime resident of Washington state, reached her first W100 semifinal with a 6-4, 6-3 win over No. 3 seed and WTA No. 145 Arantxa Rus of the Netherlands today in Indian Harbour Beach Florida.  It's Liutova's first WTA Top 200 win, although she had reached the quarterfinals of the W100 in San Diego earlier this year. She will face No. 5 seed Jazmin Ortenzi of Argentina Saturday, after Ortenzi defeated No. 2 seed Elvina Kalieva 6-4, 5-7, 6-3.

Top seed Dasha Vidmanova(Georgia) will play No. 8 seed Julia Riera of Argentina in the other semifinal. 

At the W35 in Boca Raton Florida, Luna Cinalli, the 17-year-old from Argentina, ended the run of 18-year-old wild card Capucine Jauffret with a 6-1, 6-3 win in today's quarterfinals. Cinalli will face Carson Tanguilig, who beat fellow qualifier Sofia Rocchetti of Italy 6-3, 6-4 today. The top half semifinal will also feature two unseeded players: Dasha Ivanova, a 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 winner over No. 5 seed Fernanda Labrana of Chile, and Justina Gonzalez Daniele of Argentina, who beat 17-year-old Hannah Klugman of Great Britain 6-4, 4-6, 6-2.

At the M15 in Vero Beach, wild card JJ Wolf(Ohio State) retired from his quarterfinal match with qualifier Joaquim Almeida(VCU, Liberty) of Brazil 0-6, 7-6(7), 1-0. Almeida will face No. 4 seed Quinn Vandecasteele(Oregon), who beat No. 5 seed Tristan McCormick(Notre Dame Georgia) 6-3, 6-2.  The other semifinal has top seed Alex Rybakov(TCU) against unseeded Liam Krall(SMU). Rybakov defeated No. 8 seed Ryan Colby(USC, Georgia) 6-3, 6-4 and Krall beat 18-year-old Gavin Goode 6-4, 6-3.

At the ITF J200 in College Grove Tennessee, the doubles finals were played, but only the singles quarterfinals, so the tournament will not be ending on Saturday, as is customary for 48 and 32 player draws across most of the ITF junior circuit.

The girls semifinals will have unseeded Clemence Mercier of Canada facing doubles partner Kennedy Drenser-Hagmann, the No. 5 seed, while No. 4 seed Carlota Morena is playing unseeded Audrey Cao of Taiwan.

The boys semifinals will feature unseeded Tyler Lee and Colter Amey in the top half, and No. 3 seed Izyan Ahmad and Gurjot Singh in the bottom half.

No. 4 seeds Drenser-Hagmann and Mercier won the doubles title today, beating last week's J200 Sumter SC champions Olivia De Los Reyes and Emery Combs, the No. 3 seeds, 7-5, 6-4.

No. 3 seeds Theo Hegarty and Erik Schinnerer won the boys doubles, beating the unseeded pair of Lee and Justin Riley Anson 7-6(8), 6-7(5), 12-10 in this afternoon's final.

Eleven D-I Super Regionals on Tap for Friday; ITA Addresses Program Cuts, International Player Issue; Jauffret Reaches Quarterfinals at W35 Boca Raton; Wolf, Goode Advance at M15 Vero Beach; Quarterfinals Set at ITF J200 College Grove

The matches that will decide who travels to Athens next week for the quarterfinals of the Division I NCAA Team Championships begin tomorrow, with 11 of the 16 Super Regionals set for Friday. Five men's matches and six women's matches are on the schedule for Friday, beginning with the 3 p.m. Eastern time women's match between the Texas A&M and Southern California and ending with two 7 p.m. men's matches in Texas. Below are the matchups, in date/time order.

Women's Super Regionals Friday May 8:

Southern California[13] v Texas A&M[4]

Friday May 8th, 3 p.m. College Station TX

Georgia[1] v UCLA

Friday, May 8th, 4 p.m. Athens GA

Texas[9] v NC State[8]

Friday May 8th, 5 p.m. Raleigh NC

North Carolina[5] v Michigan[12]

Friday May 8th, 5 p.m. Chapel Hill NC

Pepperdine[11] v Oklahoma[6]

Friday May 8th, 6 p.m. Norman OK

Auburn[2] v Duke[15]

Friday May 8th, 6 p.m. Auburn AL

Men's Super Regionals Friday May 8:

Ohio State[3] v Illinois[14]

Friday May 8th, 4:30 p.m. Columbus OH

Wake Forest[1] v UCF[16] 

Friday May 8th, 5 p.m. Winston-Salem NC

South Carolina[13] v Virginia[4]

Friday, May 8th, 5 p.m. Charlottesville VA

Pepperdine v Baylor[10]

Friday May 8th, 7 p.m. Waco TX

San Diego[15] v Texas[2]

Friday May 8th, 7 p.m. Austin TX

Women's Super Regionals Saturday May 9:

Ohio State[3] v Vanderbilt[14]

Saturday May 9th, 1 p.m. Columbus OH

Virginia[7] v LSU[10]

Saturday May 9th, 1 p.m. Charlottesville VA

Men's Super Regionals Saturday May 9:

Mississippi State[5] v Georgia[12]

Saturday May 9th, 1 p.m. Starkville MS

Stanford v TCU[6]

Saturday May 9th, 2 p.m. Fort Worth TX

Oklahoma[9] v Arizona[8]

Saturday May 9th, 4 p.m. Tucson AZ

Links to live scoring and live streams can be found at the ITA's Super Regional pages, with the men's page here and the women's page here.

Cracked Racquets will again be providing multiple streams on their YouTube Channel.

The men's draw is here; the women's draw is here.

The ITA released a statement today on the recent issues that have been raised by the cutting of the programs at Arkansas. Chief Executive Officer Dave Mullins begins by addressing the new challenges for Olympic sports that the House settlement has produced, cites the study done to determine why programs are cut and discusses the benefits for the entire community, not just the varsity teams, that a tennis program provides.

The growth in tennis participation since the pandemic has increased demand for courts, but too often the university's courts are not open to the public. The ITA and the USTA do not want to see college programs cut and Mullins suggests that with advance notice, those two entities can help develop a plan to ease the financial burden.

The international player discussion, which has been in the news since former General Manager of USTA Player Development Patrick McEnroe wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, is addressed in two parts, with the ITA obviously reluctant to restrict international participation, but supportive of age limits that put American juniors on more equal footing with the often much older international players.

The full statement can be viewed here.

At the USTA Pro Circuit W35 in Boca Raton Florida, University of Florida signee Capucine Jaufrett has advanced to the quarterfinals. The 18-year-old wild card from Delaware defeated No. 8 seed Ranah Stoiber of Great Britain 7-5, 6-1 to reach her first quarterfinal at the W35 level. She will face 17-year-old Luna Cinalli of Argentina, who defeated No. 3 seed Antonia Vergara Rivera of Chile 6-3, 6-0. Jauffret and Cinalli met in the first round of the J500 in Mexico in November of 2024, with Cinalli winning 3-6, 6-1, 6-1.

Seventeen-year-old Hannah Klugman of Great Britain, currently No. 2 in the ITF junior rankings, advanced to the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-1 win over No. 6 seed Sofia Shapatava of Georgia; qualifier Carson Tanguilig(North Carolina) defeated wild card Annika Penickova 7-6(3), 6-1 to reach her first quarterfinal at a W35. Tanguilig won her first title last month at the W15 in Bonita Springs.  Dasha Ivanova is the third American to reach the quarterfinals; she defeated Carla Markus of Argentina 6-7(2), 6-4, 6-0.

Eighteen-year-old Gavin Goode reached his second M15 quarterfinal today in Vero Beach, beating wild card Hunter Heck(Illinois) 6-4, 6-2. Goode, currently 29 in the ITF junior rankings, will face unseeded Liam Krall(SMU) Friday. Krall defeated No. 6 seed Roberto Cid Subervi(USF) 7-6(5), 6-4. Sixteen-year-old wild card Jordan Lee lost to to wild card JJ Wolf(Ohio State) 6-4, 6-2 today. For more on Wolf's comeback from a serious shoulder injury, see this article from World Tennis Magazine. Wolf faces the only non-American in the quarterfinals, qualifier Joaquim Almeida(VCU, Liberty) of Brazil. 

Top seed Alex Rybakov(TCU), No. 4 seed Quinn Vandecasteele(Oregon), No. 5 seed Tristan McCormick(Notre Dame, Georgia) and No. 8 seed Ryan Colby(USC, Georgia) are the other quarterfinalists.

At the W100 in Indian Harbour Beach, No. 2 seed Elvina Kalieva is the only American to reach the quarterfinals. The 22-year-old defeated Anna Rogers(NC State) 6-3, 7-5 in the second round today and will face No. 5 seed Jazmin Ortenzi of Argentina, who beat Ayana Akli(Maryland, South Carolina) 5-7, 6-4, 6-0.

Sixteen-year-old wild card Kristina Liutova advanced to the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Barbora Palicova of Czechia in the featured evening match.

The singles quarterfinals are set at the ITF J200 in College Grove Tennessee with six US girls and seven US boys advancing. Only three seeds remain in the boys draw: No. 3 Izyan Ahmad, No. 6 Jerrid Gaines Jr. and No. 8 Erik Schinnerer. 

Four seeds remain in the girls draw: No. 3 Emery Combs and No. 5 Kennedy Drenser-Hagmann, who play each other, and No. 7 Armira Kockinis and No. 4 Carlota Moreno, who also face off Friday. I don't know if they will double up and play the singles semifinals tomorrow too; after no play on Wednesday due to rain, they are a round behind for the customary Saturday finish.

Pepperdine Men Shock No. 7 Seed LSU to Reach NCAA Division I Sweet 16; Urhobo and Basavareddy Claim USTA Roland Garros Wild Cards; Newman and Hazelitt Win Boca Raton W35 Doubles Title, Honer Reaches Second Straight W35 Final

Saturday featured a head-spinning number of matches in the NCAA Division I Team Championships, with 15 of the men's Sweet 16 and eight of the women's Sweet 16 decided today.

The biggest upset of the day came this evening, when the Pepperdine men, ranked 27, defeated No. 7 seed LSU 4-3 in Baton Rouge. LSU took the doubles point, but the Waves won five first sets in singles. LSU got the point at line 2, where they had won the first set, for a 2-0 lead, but Pepperdine responded with wins at lines 5 and 6. LSU retook the lead with a three-set win at line 1, but Pepperdine was up in the third sets at lines 3 and 4, and after freshman Gustavo Almeida tied it with a win at 4, sophomore Aleksa Pisaric clinched the Waves first Sweet 16 appearance since 2013 with a 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 win over Andrej Loncarevic.

With a Top 8 seed eliminated, a new Super Regional host is needed, with No. 10 Baylor now welcoming Pepperdine next weekend, rather than the Bears traveling to Baton Rouge.

At 11:30 p.m. Saturday night, in a match moved indoors at the USTA National Campus in Lake Nona, No. 16 seed UCF, down 3-0 to Florida, came all the way back to beat Florida, with senior Yassine Dlimi saving two match points at line 1 to clinch the 4-3 victory in a third set tiebreaker. Dlimi was serving to Florida's Adhithya Ganesan at 4-5 30-40 in the third set, but hit a good first serve to earn a deuce point, then another to set up a forehand Ganesan couldn't handle to keep UCF alive. After two holds, Dlimi and Ganesan traded mini-breaks early in the tiebreaker, but Dlimi kept his errors to a minimum and rode the home crowd support to a 4-6, 6-4, 7-6(4) victory.

The Texas A&M men's regional was postponed Friday due to rain, so those two matches were played today.

Men's Saturday Round 1

Texas A&M Regional

Stanford[2] d. Penn[3] 4-1

Texas A&M[1] d. Wagner[4] 4-0

Men's Regional Finals/Super Regional Matchups

*Wake Forest[1] d. Old Dominion[2] 4-0

Florida[2] d. UCF[1]  

Oklahoma[1] d. Southern Cal[2] 4-0

*Arizona[1] d. Clemson[3] 4-2

*Mississippi State[1] d. Wisconsin[2] 4-0

Georgia[1] d. NC State[2] 4-0

South Carolina[1] d. Michigan State[2] 4-1

*Virginia[1] d. Columbia[2] 4-2

*Ohio State[1] d. Cal[3] 4-0

Illinois[1] d. Vanderbilt[3] 4-0

Texas A&M[1] v. Stanford[2]

*TCU[1] d. Cornell[2] 4-0

Pepperdine[2] d. LSU[1] 4-3

*Baylor[1] d. Auburn[2] 4-1

San Diego[1] d. UCLA[2] 4-0

*Texas[1] d. SMU[2] 4-0

*Host Super Regional

The only seeded women's team that failed to advance today was No. 16 Arizona State, who lost to UCLA in Tempe 4-3. It was the second consecutive day that UCLA had won a thriller, with Olivia Center clinching 6-3 in the third against San Diego State at line 5 on Friday and Ahmani Guichard clinching 6-4 in the third at line 6 against the Sun Devils today. UCLA will most likely travel to Georgia for the Super Regional, although the Bulldogs need to get by Charlotte in Athens Sunday. Other than Arizona State, no women's seed lost more than one point in their second round matches today.

Women's first round results

Saturday May 2:

(1)Georgia Regional

Charlotte[2] d. Elon[3] 4-0

Georgia[1] d. Alabama State[4] 4-0

(3)Ohio State Regional

Notre Dame[3] d. Arizona[2] 4-3

Ohio State[1] d. Youngstown State[4] 4-0

(4)Texas A&M Regional

Baylor[3] d. Wisconsin[2] 4-3

Texas A&M[1] d. Quinnipiac[4] 4-0

(6)Oklahoma Regional

SMU[2] d. Wichita State[3] 4-1

Oklahoma[1] d. Kansas[4] 4-0

(7)Virginia Regional

Washington[2] d. Liberty[3] 4-0

Virginia[1] d. St. Francis[4] 4-0

(9)Texas Regional

Texas Tech[2] d. Yale[3] 4-1

Texas[1] d. Tarleton State 5-1

(10)LSU Regional

Rice[3] d. TCU[2] 4-2

LSU[1] d. Stephen F. Austin[4] 4-0

(12)Michigan Regional

Florida[2] d. Toledo[3] 4-0

Michigan[1] d. Illinois State[4] 5-0

Women's Regional Finals/Super Regional Matchups

*Georgia[1] v Charlotte[2]

UCLA[2] d. Arizona State[1] 4-3

Texas[1] v Texas Tech[2]

*NC State[1] d. UCF[2] 4-0

*North Carolina[1] d. South Carolina 4-0

Michigan[1] v Florida[2]

Southern Cal[1] d. Cal[2] 4-1

**Texas A&M[1] v Baylor[3]

Vanderbilt[1] d. Clemson[2] 4-1

**Ohio State[1] v. Notre Dame[3]

Pepperdine[1] d. Stanford[2] 4-0

**Oklahoma[1] v SMU[2]

**Virginia[1] v Washington[2]

LSU[1] v Rice[3]

*Auburn[1] d. Miami[2] 4-0

Duke[1] d. Tennessee[2] 4-1

*Host Super Regional

**Host Super Regional if they win Sunday

See the ITA's  men's regional viewing page and a women's regional viewing page for times for Sunday's matches and the scores of all of Friday's first round matches.

Cracked Racquets will have multiple feeds of action from the remaining regionals at their YouTube Channel.

The USTA's men's Roland Garros wild card race was decided today, with Darwin Blanch, the only player remaining with a chance to catch Nishesh Basavareddy, falling in the semifinals of the Challenger 100 in Austria. Former Stanford All-American Basavareddy, who won the USTA's 2025 Australian Open wild card, finishes with 112 points after earning 75 as champion of the Savannah Challenger last Sunday.

The USTA's women's Roland Garros wild card will go to 19-year-old Akasha Urhobo, who defeated qualifier Madison Brengle 7-6(3), 6-3 in today's semifinals at the W100 in Bonita Springs Florida. With that win she clinched the wild card, with No. 6 seed Mary Stoiana(Texas A&M) needing a win today and a loss by Urhobo to stay in the race. Stoiana lost to unseeded Angela Fita Boluda of Spain 6-3, 6-2. 

At the W35 in Boca Raton, 16-year-olds Welles Newman and Jordyn Hazelitt won their first Pro Circuit doubles title, with the wild cards defeating unseeded Kailey Evans(Texas Tech, San Diego) and Mexico's Jessica Hinojosa Gomez 7-6(8), 6-3 in the final.

Amelia Honer, the recent UC-Santa Barbara All-American, advanced to the singles final in Boca Raton, with last week's Charlotte W35 champion beating No. 3 seed Hibah Shaikh(Virginia) 6-3, 6-3. To win her second straight title, Honer will need to again beat the top seed in the final, as she did in Charlotte. No. 1 Julia Riera of Argentina beat unseeded Justina Maria Gonzalez Daniele of Argentina 7-6(5), 6-2 today to advance to the final.

Keaton Hance's run at M15s in Florida came to an end today in Orange Park, with the 18-year-old Southern Californian dropping a 6-3, 6-2 decision to No. 3 seed Nick Hardt of the Dominican Republic. Hardt will face No. 7 seed Andreja Petrovic(North Dakota, Florida State, Duke) of Norway, who beat top seed Raphael Perot(Texas A&M) of France 6-2, 6-3.

Former Illinois teammates Hunter Heck and Great Britain's Oliver Okonkwo won their first title as a pair, with the No. 3 seeds defeating unseeded Dakotah Bobo(LSU, Southern Miss) and Benjamin Koch(LSU) 7-5, 6-3 in the final. 

D-I Roundtable Part II; Final D-I Rankings Before Tomorrow's NCAA First Round; North Dakota Adds to List of Programs Cut; Big 12 and Ivy League Conference Awards; Hance and Antonius Advance to M15 Quarterfinals; Sumter ITF J200 Finals Set

Part II of the Tennis Recruiting Network's NCAA D-I Roundtable is now up, with play beginning across the country tomorrow with all 32 first round matches in the men's draw and 16 first round matches in the women's draw. Alongside Alex Gruskin of Cracked Racquets and Chris Halioris of CollegeTennisRanks.com, I give my list of dark horses and possible upsets and pick my champions. I got both right last year; not expecting to be as lucky this year.

The final ITA team rankings before the tournament were released today, confirming that the NCAA tennis committee made several changes via their formula to elevate Georgia and Wake Forest to the top spots despite their rankings of 2 and 4 respectively. 

Below are the rankings of the Top 16 teams as well as the top 10 rankings in singles and top 5 rankings in doubles. Below that is the list of seeds in the NCAAs for comparison. Headings go to the full ranking lists and the brackets.

WOMEN:

Team:
(previous week's ranking in parentheses)
1. Auburn (1)
2. Georgia (2)
3. Texas A&M (3)
4. Ohio State (5)
5. North Carolina (6)
6. Oklahoma (4)
7. Virginia (7)
8. NC State (10)
9. Texas (8)
10. LSU (9)
11. Pepperdine (11)
12. Michigan (18)
13. Southern California (12)
14. Vanderbilt (13)
15. Duke (16)
16. Arizona State (15)

Singles:

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. Piper Charney, Michigan

9. Cadence Brace, LSU

10. Evialina Laskevich, Oklahoma

Doubles:

1. Roisin Gilheany and Gloriana Nahum, Oklahoma

2. Ava Esposito and DJ Bennett, Auburn

3. Gabriella Broadfoot and Victoria Osuigwe, NC State

4. Deniz Dilek and Aysegul Mert, Georgia

5. Ange Oby Kajuru and Susanna Maltby, North Carolina

MEN:

Team:

1. Texas (1)

2. TCU (2)

3. Ohio State (3)

4. Wake Forest (4)

5. Virginia (5)

6. Mississippi State (6)

7. LSU (7)

8. Arizona (8)

9. Oklahoma (9)

10. Texas A&M (10)

11. Baylor (11)

12. Georgia (12)

13. South Carolina (13)

14. Illinois (14)

15. UCF (15)

16. Michigan State (25)

Singles:

1. Dylan Dietrich, Virginia

2. Trevor Svajda, SMU

3. Sebastian Gorzny, Texas

4. Jay Friend, Arizona

5. Michael Zheng, Columbia

6. Paul Inchauspe, Princeton

7. Max Dahlin, Michigan

8. Duncan Chan, TCU

9. Benito Sanchez Martinez, Mississippi State

10. Devin Badenhorst, Baylor

Doubles:

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. Bruno Nhavene and Luis Alvarez, Oklahoma

D-I NCAA Men's seeds:

1. Wake Forest

2. Texas

3. Ohio State

4. Virginia

5. Mississippi State

6. TCU

7. LSU

8. Arizona

9. Oklahoma

10. Baylor

11. Texas A&M

12. Georgia

13. South Carolina

14. Illinois

15. San Diego

16. UCF

D-I NCAA Women's seeds:

1. Georgia

2. Auburn

3. Ohio State

4. Texas A&M

5. North Carolina

6. Oklahoma

7. Virginia

8. NC State

9. Texas

10. LSU

11. Pepperdine

12. Michigan

13. Southern California

14. Vanderbilt

15. Duke

16. Arizona State

The ITA has a men's regional viewing page and a women's regional viewing page with links to streaming and live scoring for the 16 host sites. It's looks as if Cracked Racquets will be providing four separate feeds for their coverage of the first round at their YouTube channel.

If you read this before 10 a.m. Friday, you still have time to enter the Bracket Challenge at collegetennisranks.com.

Another Division I program announced today the elimination of their tennis programs, with North Dakota joining the growing list of schools that will no longer sponsor tennis. This week alone, the men's program at Illinois State has been cut and both programs at St. Louis were eliminated. Two Division II schools also announced program cuts. The Arkansas news last Friday appears to have opened the floodgates, although this is traditionally the time of year you would expect decisions to be made for the next academic year.

The final major conference awards have been released, with the Big 12 and Ivy League's announcements coming this week. For a look at the ACC, SEC and Big 10 awards and links to the announcements of all-conference teams, see my post from last Thursday.

Big 12 Awards:

Men:

Co-Players of the Year: Jay Friend, Arizona; Devin Badenhorst, Baylor; Duncan Chan, TCU

Freshman of the Year: Oliver Bonding, TCU

Co-Newcomers of the Year: Ofek Shimanov, Arizona State and Cosme Rolland De Ravel, TCU

Coach of the Year: David Roditi, TCU

Women:

Player of the Year: Emilija Tverijonaite, Arizona State

Freshman of the Year: Jennifer Jackson, TCU

Newcomer of the Year: Vivian Ovrootsky, Arizona State

Coach of the Year: Lee Taylor Walker, TCU

Ivy League women:

Player of the Year: Peyton Capuano, Dartmouth

Rookie of the Year: Leena Friedman, Yale

Coaching Staff of the Year: Yale

Ivy League men:

Player of the Year: Michael Zheng, Columbia

Rookie of the Year: Nathan Blokhin, Harvard

Coaching Staff of the Year: Cornell

The quarterfinals at the USTA Pro Circuit M15 in Orange Park Florida will feature two American teens: Michael Antonius and Keaton Hance, who are in separate halves of the draw.

Hance, who won the M15 in Orlando last week, defeated qualifier Davide Tortora of Italy 7-5, 6-4 and will face another qualifier in Matthew Segura. Segura beat Joao Vitor Goncalves Ceolin of Brazil, who had beated No. 2 seed Christian Langmo(Miami) in the first round. 

Antonius defeated No. 4 seed Kaylan Bigun 6-4, 6-2 and will face No. 7 seed Andreja Petrovic(North Dakota, Florida State, Duke) of Norway next. Petrovic beat Andy Johnson 6-4, 6-2 to prevent a second meeting at the M15 level between the USA Junior Davis Cup teammates. 

All the juniors are out of the W35 in Boca Raton Florida, although Jordyn Hazelitt and Welles Newman are through to the doubles semifinals. Last week's Charlotte NC W35 winner Amelia Honer(UC-Santa Barbara) and No. 3 seed Hibah Sahikh(Virginia) have advanced to the quarterfinals and will play each other if they win Friday.

At the W100 in Bonita Springs Florida, unseeded 19-year-old Akasha Urhobo beat No. 3 seed Elvina Kalieva 6-2, 7-5, eliminating Kalieva from the USTA's Roland Garros Wild Card race. But Kayla Day and Mary Stoiana(Texas A&M) have also advanced to the quarterfinals and can still catch Urhobo with a title unless Urhobo reaches the final. 

The singles finals at the ITF J200 in Sumter South Carolina are set for Friday, with No. 8 seed Jordan Lee facing Teodor Davidov in the boys final and No. 2 seed Hannah Ayrault playing No. 5 seed Emery Combs for the girls title.

The 15-year-old Lee, who has played only three ITF Junior events and two ITF Pro Circuit events this year, beat unseeded Kamil Stolarczyk 6-2, 6-2 in the semifinals, while Davidov ended the impressive streak of Kayden Colombo 3-6, 6-4, 6-2. Colombo had won the J60 and J100 tournaments the two weeks prior to this one.

Lee has beaten Davidov, also 15, both times they've played on the ITF Junior Circuit and also in the semifinals of the Eddie Herr 16s in 2024. Davidov won their meeting in the 12s final of the 2021 Eddie Herr.

Ayrault, the reigning USTA National 16s champion, defeated No. 4 seed Londyn McCord 4-6, 6-2, 7-5 in today's semifinal. Combs received a walkover from No. 3 seed Adla Lopez to advance to the final.

Ayrault and Combs, both 15, have not played, but she now has a win over Ayrault in the girls doubles final this afternoon. Combs and Olivia De Los Reyes, the Orange Bowl 16s doubles champions, defeated top seeds Ayrault and Kennedy Drenser-Hagmann 6-2, 6-2 for their sixth ITF Junior Circuit doubles title as a pair and their second at the J200 level. 

De Los Reyes and Combs were the No. 4 seeds and so were the boys doubles champions, with Theo Hegarty and Erik Schinnerer defeating No. 2 seeds Zavier Augustin and Japan's Koki Nara 7-5, 6-2 in the final. It's their first title as a team.