Shnaider Top Seed at Charlottesville $60K; Boyer Beats No. 3 Seed Couacaud at Savannah Challenger; No Changes at No. 1 in ITA D-I Rankings; Another SEC Women's Head Coaching Position Opens Up

NC State freshman Diana Shnaider led her team to its first ACC title Sunday, and can now turn her attention back to the professional circuit. With NC State off until the NCAAs begin May 5th, Shnaider has entered this week's $60,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Charlottesville Virginia, where she is the No. 1 seed. She will face wild card Whitney Osuigwe in the first round Wednesday.

The other wild cards this week are Francesca Di Lorenzo(Ohio State), who lost in the first round today to No. 6 seed Ashlyn Krueger 6-3, 6-2; Hailey Baptiste and Yuliia Starodubtseva(Old Dominion) of Ukraine, who beat Sophie Chang 7-5, 6-2 in the first round today. Last week's champion at the $25K in Zephyrhills, Makenna Jones, received a special exemption into the main draw, and Wimbledon girls champion Liv Hovde received entry via the junior exempt program.

Nao Hibino of Japan is the No. 2 seed, with former Cavalier Emma Navarro seeded No. 3. 

Among those qualifying today for the main draw were Americans Grace Min, Maria Mateas(Duke) and Allie Kiick. 

Qualifying for the $15,000 men's USTA Pro Circuit tournament in Vero Beach Florida was not completed today, with rain in the area. Five second round qualifying matches are on Wednesday's schedule, as well as all first round matches.

Former Baylor All-American Adrian Boitan of Romania is the No. 1 seed, with former Florida star Andres Andrade of Ecuador seeded No. 2 and Andrade's teammate Duarte Vale of Portugal the No. 3 seed. 

Junior reserved spots went to Nicholas Godsick, Kaylan Bigun and China's Yi Zhou. Bigun has drawn Boitan in the first round. Wild cards were awarded to San Diego ITF J300 finalist Roy Horovitz, Jaycer Lyeons(Tyler JC), Liam Krall(SMU) and 42-year-old Ryan Haviland(Stanford). Aidan Kim received direct entry based on his ATP ranking.

The last of the three ATP Challengers in the United States on green clay is the Savannah 75, which began its main draw action Monday. Two-time Kalamazoo champion Patrick Kypson (16s 2015, 18s 2017), a wild card, defeated No. 8 seed Alex Michelsen 4-6, 6-3 7-6(5) yesterday, after Michelsen served for the match at 5-4 in the third, with Kypson continuing to post impressive results these past few weeks in clay Challengers. He holds on to his lead the USTA Roland Garros wild card race, with this the last week for the men. Kypson's second round opponent will be former UCLA standout Evan Zhu. 

In today's first round matches, qualifier Tristan Boyer(Stanford) defeated No. 3 seed Enzo Couacaud of France 6-2, 6-3, his second win over an ATP Top 200 player in the past three weeks. The 22-year-old, who was out basically all last year due to injury, qualified and won a round at both the Sarasota Challenger 125 and this week in Savannah. He will face fellow qualifier Mateus Alves of Brazil in the second round. 

Last week's Tallahassee champion Zizou Bergs of Belgium is the top seed this week in Savannah, with wild cards going to Kypson, Toby Kodat and Martin Damm. Damm, Bjorn Fratangelo, Alex Rybakov(TCU) and Mitchell Krueger all won their matches today to advance to the second round. Krueger, the No. 7 seed, defeated qualifier Bruno Kuzuhara 7-5, 7-6(13).

Despite all of the upsets at in the conference tournaments last weekend, this week's ITA Division I rankings did not change at the No. 1 spots. The North Carolina women and the Texas men, both of whom lost in their conference finals, remain No. 1, as do UNC's Fiona Crawley and Texas's Eliot Spizzirri. North Carolina State, who dealt UNC its first loss of the season, moves up to No. 4, and TCU takes the No. 2 position it had lost to Ohio State after their win over the Longhorns.

Below are the top 16 in team and singles, and the top 8 in doubles. These are the last published rankings before the NCAA fields are released on Monday May 1.

The men's Bubble Watch at College Tennis Crash Course is here. The women's Bubble Watch at CTCC is here.

Men's Division I Team Rankings, April 25
1. Texas
2. TCU
3. Ohio State
4. Kentucky
5. Virginia
6. Georgia
7. Michigan
8. South Carolina
9. Tennessee
10. Southern California
11. Duke
12. Harvard
13. Columbia
14. Arizona
15. North Carolina
16. Mississippi State

Singles

1. Eliot Spizzirri, Texas

2. Melios Efstathiou, Wake Forest

3. Ethan Quinn, Georgia

4. Arthur Fery, Stanford

5. Johannus Monday, Tennessee

6. Antoine Cornut-Chauvinc, Florida State

7. Chris Rodesch, Virginia

8. Andres Martin, Georgia Tech

9. Toby Samuel, South Carolina

10. Ondrej Styler, Michigan

11. Garrett Johns, Duke

12. Sebastian Dominko, Notre Dame

13. Liam Draxl, Kentucky

14. Connor Thomson, South Carolina

15. Nishesh Basavareddy, Stanford

16. Andrew Fenty, Michigan

Doubles

1. Toby Samuel and Connor Thomson, South Carolins

2. Jake Fearnley and Luc Fomba, TCU

3. Eliot Spizzirri and Cleeve Harper, Texas

4. Pat Harper and Johannus Monday, Tennessee

5. Ethan Quinn and Trent Bryde, Georgia

6. Will Grant and Axel Nefve, Florida

7. Gavin Young and Andrew Fenty, Michigan

8. Inaki Montes and Ryan Goetz, Virginia

Women's Division I Team:

1. North Carolina

2. Texas A&M

3. Georgia

4. NC State

5. Michigan

6. Duke

7. Pepperdine

8. Stanford

9. Texas

10. Ohio State

11. Virginia

12. Iowa State

13. Oklahoma

14. Miami

15. Tennessee

16. Florida

Singles

1. Fiona Crawley, North Carolina

2. Mary Stoiana, Texas A&M

3. Lea Ma, Georgia

4. Dasha Vidmanova, Georgia

5. Chloe Beck, Duke

6. Diana Shnaider, NC State

7. Alexa Noel, Miami

8. Reese Brantmeier, North Carolina

9. Daria Frayman, Princeton

10. Anastasiya Komar, LSU

11. Maddy Sieg, Southern California

12. Ayana Akli, South Carolina

13. Alana Smith, NC State

14. Fangran Tian, UCLA

15. Carol Lee, Georgia Tech

16. Janice Tjen, Pepperdine

Doubles

1. Savannah Broadus and Janice Tjen, Pepperdine

2. Kari Miller and Jaedan Brown, Michigan

3. Carson Branstine and Mary Stoiana, Texas A&M

4. Elise Wagle and Kimmi Hance, UCLA

5. Diana Shnaider and Alana Smith, NC State

6. Kylie Collins and Anastasiya Komar, LSU

7. Ivana Corley and Carmen Corley, Oklahoma

8. Nell Miller and Amelia Rajecki, NC State

Last Friday, the University of Alabama announced that assistant coach Jonatan Berhane would take over the head coaching position from Jenny Mainz, who announced her retirement after 26 years leading the Crimson Tide in March. Berhane, who has been Mainz's assistant for the past five years, was women's head coach at Western Kentucky from 2014-2018.

While one SEC women's coaching position is now filled, another has just opened, with Kentucky's Carlos Drada resigning after 18 years leading the program. Other SEC women's programs seeking a new head coach are Arkansas and Missouri. On the men's side, Vanderbilt is searching for a new head coach after the retirement of Ian Duvenhage, which he announced prior to the season.

In the ACC, Clemson's women's program announced the departure of Christy Striplin Lynch last November, with Amy Sargeant serving as interim coach this year.