There are few changes in the Division I rankings released today, with the North Carolina women No. 1 in both the ITA/Tennis-Point and USTA/Tennis Channel rankings, while the Florida men retained their place at the top of the rankings in the USTA/Tennis Channel poll.
The Michigan men are more highly regarded by the voters than the ITA computer, at No. 3 and No. 7 respectively. The computer puts the Cal women at No. 7, but the USTA/TC voters have the Bears at No. 11. The Virginia women's win over NC State boosted the Cavaliers to the No. 8 spot in the ITA rankings, but didn't result in any drop by the Wolfpack, who remain at No. 3. The voters have dropped NC State to 5, but have four ACC teams in the Top 9: UNC, NC State, Duke and Virginia.
The Kentucky men had two big wins over Tennessee and Georgia over the weekend and have moved to 10 in the ITA rankings and No. 8 in the USTA/TC poll. Tennessee, much like the NC State women, did not suffer any drop in the computer rankings with the loss, staying at No. 5, but they fell to 9 in the poll.
In the individual rankings, Virginia sophomore and NCAA champion Emma Navarro moved to No. 1 in singles, where most would have had her from the start of the season were it a poll. Ben Shelton lost twice last week, but stayed at No. 1 in men's singles. There was no change at the top of the doubles rankings in men or women, with Ohio State's Robert Cash and Matej Vocel and North Carolina's Elizabeth Scotty and Fiona Crawley staying No. 1.
For the full rankings, click on the headings to go to the ITA and USTA sites.
1. North Carolina (1)
2. Oklahoma (2)
3. Texas (4)
4. Texas A&M (5)
5. NC State (3)
6. Georgia (6)
7. Pepperdine (7)
8. Duke (8)
9. Virginia (10)
10. Ohio State (9)
1. Emma Navarro, Virginia
2. Peyton Stearns, Texas
3. Daria Frayman, Princeton
4. Cameron Morra, North Caroina
5. Sarah Hamner, South Carolina
6. Eryn Cayetano, Southern Cal
7. Petra Hule, Florida State
8. Irina Cantos Siemers, Ohio State
9. Chloe Beck, Duke
10. Alexa Noel, Iowa
1. Fiona Crawley and Elizabeth Scotty, North Carolina
2. Jayci Goldsmith and Tatiana Makarova, Texas A&M
3. Jaeda Daniel and Nell Miller, NC State
4. Alicia Herrero and Melany Krywoj, Baylor
5. Carol Lee and Kate Sharabura, Georgia Tech
1. TCU (1)
2. Ohio State (2)
3. Florida (3)
4. Baylor (4)
5. Tennessee (5)
6. Virginia (8)
7. Michigan (g)
8. Wake Forest (7)
9. South Carolina (9)
10. Kentucky (12)
1. Florida (1)
2. Ohio State (2)
3. Michigan (3)
4. TCU (4)
5. Baylor (5)
6. Virginia (7)
7. Wake Forest (8)
8, Kentucky (11)
9. Tennessee (6)
10. South Carolina (10)
1. Ben Shelton, Florida
2. Daniel Rodrigues, South Carolina
3. Adrian Boitan, Baylor
4. Stefan Dostanic, Southern Cal
5. August Holmgren, San Diego
6. Clement Chidekh, Washington
7. Matej Vocel, Ohio State
8. Johannus Monday, Tennessee
9. Arthur Fery, Stanford
10. Juan Carlos Aguilar, TCU
1. Robert Cash and Matej Vocel, Ohio State
2. Jacob Fearnley and Luc Fomba, TCU
3. Richard Ciammara and Cleeve Harper, Texas
4. Ryan Goetz and Chris Rodesch, Virginia
5. Finn Bass and Sven Lah, Baylor
Twenty-four-year-old Sophie Chang picked up her first WTA Top 100 win today at the
USTA Women's Pro Circuit $100,000 tournament in Palm Harbor Florida, with the wild card defeating top seed and WTA No. 88 Xinyu Wang of China 7-6(3), 3-6, 6-3. Chang, who qualified for the WTA 500 in Charleston last week, had previously been 0-8 against women in the WTA Top 100.
Another wild card, University of Texas sophomore Peyton Stearns, won her first round match today, beating qualifier Maria Jose Portillo Ramirez of Mexico 6-3, 6-7(2), 7-5. Stearns, who doesn't play many three-hour-plus matches in college, needed 3:15 to secure the victory. Stearns will face lucky loser Louisa Chirico in the second round, after Chirico beat No. 4 seed Hailey Baptiste 6-3, 6-3.
Other Americans advancing today include qualifier Elvina Kalieva, wild card Taylor Townsend, No. 8 seed Katie Volynets and No. 6 seed Alycia Parks.
There were some long matches in Palm Harbor today, but only the Stearns-Portillo Ramirez encounter exceeded three hours. At the
$15,000 USTA Pro Circuit men's tournament in Sunrise Florida however, three first round matches went more than three hours, with two of them involving juniors. ITF No. 1 junior and Australian Open champion Bruno Kuzuhara defeated Ricardo Rodriguez-Pace of Venezuela 5-7, 6-3, 6-0 in three hours and five minutes. Wild card Learner Tien, last month's J1 winner in San Diego, lost a three-hour 19-minute battle with No. 3 seed Jose Pereira of Brazil 7-6(5), 6-7(4), 7-6(5). The third three-hour-plus match was between No. 7 seed Zeke Clark(Illinois) and Collin Altamirano(Virginia), which Clark won 6-7(6), 6-4, 6-2 in 3:10.
Qualifier Alex Bernard defeated Isaiah Strode 6-1, 6-2 and wild card Kyle Kang took out 2021 Orange Bowl champion Daniel Vallejo of Paraguay 6-1, 4-6, 6-2.
The Easter Bowl concluded more than a week ago, but I'm still working through the recaps, photos and videos. The two Tennis Recruiting Network articles on
the 12s and 14s and
the 16s and ITF are out, and I spoke today with Alex Gruskin about the ITF tournament (and the San Diego JI) for the Cracked Racquets
Mini-Break podcast. Look for a TRN photo gallery soon and brief videos of all the finalists in the weeks to come.
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