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Wednesday, November 22, 2023

More Division I NLI Signings; No. 2 Seed Radulov Ousted in Second Round at ITF J500 Yucatan World Cup

Last Wednesday I posted more than 60 NLI signing announcements for Division I tennis players; today, two weeks after the official signing day, I'm wrapping up my coverage of that process, with a handful more that have been posted in the last week. Several schools announced signees on twitter that have not been featured on their websites, so I'll include links to those tweets after the customary announcements.


WOMEN:
Iowa State has signed Ashlee Narker of Australia and Valeska San Martin Ramirez of Ecuador, who will join the Cyclones in January. Also signed, for 2024, are Cristina Ramos Sierra and Mari Paz Alberto Vilar of Spain.

Miami has signed Savannah Webster.

At the behest of Dick Vitale, Dave "the Koz" Kozlowski has produced a video feature on Duke's signing of Vitale's granddaughter Ava Krug, which is now available on YouTube.

Links to tweeted announcements:

Ohio State has signed Nao Nishino of Japan.

Southern California has signed Lily Fairclough of Australia.

Southern California has signed Imogen Haddad of Great Britain.

TCU has signed Chiho Mushika of Japan.


UCLA has signed Olivia Center.

UCLA has signed Kate Fakih.

MEN:


Central Florida has signed Simeon Terziev of Bulgaria.

Duke has signed Saahith Jayaraman.



Tennessee has signed Lance Nisbet of Great Britain.


Links to tweeted announcements:

Arizona State has signed Mikey Anderson.

Arizona State has signed Tanner Povey.

Arizona State has signed Jimin Jung.

Memphis has signed Maxime Dubouche of France.

Michigan State has signed Mitchell Shelton.

South Florida has signed Michael Chan.




The second round of the ITF J500 this week in Merida Mexico is not yet complete, but there was a major upset today in the boys draw, with No. 2 seed Iliyan Radulov of Bulgaria losing to Theo Papamalamis of France 6-3, 6-3. 

So far, six US girls have advanced to the third round: 2022 finalist Ariana Pursoo[14], Maya Dutta, Mia Slama[15], Leena Friedman, Claire An and Kaitlin Quevedo[2]. Adhithya Ganesan[5] is the only US boys so far to reach the third round.

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