ITA Division I National Award Winners Announced; Rain Washes Out Wimbledon Men's Qualifying; Sixteen US Women Set Sights on Wimbledon Main Draw
The ITA announced the Division I national award winners today, which include coach of the year honors for Howard Joffe and Bryan Shelton, who led their teams to NCAA titles last month.
The ITA has put together multimedia presentations for each of the winners. The in-depth look at the women's winners is here; the recognition for the men's winners is here.
Division I Men's ITA National Awards:Bryan Shelton, Florida
Assistant Coach of the Year:
Tanner Stump, Florida
Arthur Ashe Leadership and Sportsmanship Award
Andrew Ton, Navy
Rafael Osuna Sportsmanship Award
William Blumberg, North Carolina
Rookie of the Year
Johannus Monday, Tennessee
Most Improved Senior
Nathan Ponwith, Arizona State
Senior Player of the Year
Valentin Vacherot, Texas A&M
National Player of the Year
Liam Draxl, Kentucky
Division I Women's ITA National Awards:
Wilson Coach of the Year:
Howard Joffe, Texas
Assistant Coach of the Year:
Taylor Fogleman, Texas
Arthur Ashe Leadership and Sportsmanship Award
Stephanie Dolehide, Army
Cissie Leary Sportsmanship Award
Maya Jacobs, Rutgers
Rookie of the Year
Emma Navarro, Virginia
Most Improved Senior
Anna Rogers, NC State
ITA Senior Player of the Year
National Player of the Year
Estela Perez-Somarriba, Miami
That means that the men's first round and 34 matches of the women's first round are on the schedule for Tuesday, including 11 of the 16 American women who are competing for a place in the main draw this week. The women's qualifying draw is here.
Two of the matches are all-US contests, with Claire Liu playing Jamie Loeb(North Carolina) and Kristie Ahn(Stanford) playing Caroline Dolehide.
Only three US women are seeded: Liu, who is No. 16, Ahn who is No. 13 and Caty McNally, who is No. 6.
Hailey Baptiste injured herself last week after qualifying for the WTA 500 in Berlin, slipping on the grass in the first set tiebreaker she played with Jessica Pegula in the opening round. She retired from that match and the injury is obviously serious enough to keep her from making her Wimbledon qualifying debut.
Below are Tuesday's matchups for Americans, followed by the first round American women's matches that are not on Tuesday's schedule. The tournament announced that with today's washout, qualifying will now extend through Friday, June 25.
Tuesday's first round qualifying matches featuring Americans:
Christopher Eubanks v Viktor Troicki(SRB)
Mitchell Krueger v Marcelo Tomas Barrios Vera(CHI)
Ernesto Escobedo v Alex Molcan(SVK)
Bjorn Fratangelo v Gregoire Barrere[15](FRA)
Brandon Nakashima[22] v Aleksandar Vukic(AUS)
Maxime Cressy[30] v Thanasi Kokkinakis(AUS)
Mackenzie McDonald[2] v Kimmer Coppejans(BEL)
Denis Kudla[6] v Andrea Pellegrino(ITA)
Thai Kwiatkowski v Antoine Hoang[31](FRA)
Kristie Ahn[13] v Caroline Dolehide
Francesca Di Lorenzo v Isabella Shinikova(BUL)
Grace Min v Priscilla Hon(AUS)
Claire Liu[16] v Jamie Loeb
Varvara Lepchenko v Anika Raina(IND)
Katie Volynets v Tereza Mrdeza(CRO)
Whitney Osuigwe v Mayo Hibi(JPN)
Allie Kiick v Ysaline Bonaventure[21](BEL)
Asia Muhammad v Stefanie Voegele[17](SUI)
Wednesday's first round women's matches:
Danielle Lao v Alexandra Dulgheru(ROU)
Sachia Vickery v Chihiro Muramatsu(JPN)
Caty McNally[6] v Olga Danilovic(SRB)
Robin Anderson v Xinyu Wang[30](CHN)
Usue Arconada v Tsvetana Pironkova[8](BUL)
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