ITA All-American Championships Begin Wednesday with Michigan State's Baris and Texas A&M's Stoiana Top Seeds, Ten Pre-Qualifiers Reach Main Draw; USTA Announces Australian Open Wild Card Challenge Dates, Davis Cup Team

Qualifying is now complete at the first major tournament of the Division I fall season, the ITA All-American Championships.  Main draw action begins Wednesday morning at both the women's tournament in Cary, North Carolina and the men's tournament in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The draws have been posted, with the seeds listed below. Click on the heading to see the draw. I don't know why the women's draw is seeded 1-16, while the men opted to group the 9-16 players. Preseason No. 1s Mary Stoiana of Texas A&M and Ozan Baris of Michigan State are the top seeds. It will be interesting to see how the seeds hold up, as they weren't what you'd call reliable in the pre-qualifying and qualifying. 

I mentioned the mystery surrounding 2024 NCAA singles finalist Anastasiya Lopata of Georgia's participation. She is not in the draw, instead taking a wild card into the USTA Pro Circuit W75 this week in Templeton California, where she beat Carson Branstine(Texas A&M) 6-1, 6-1 today in the first round. She will face No. 2 seed Rebecca Marino of Canada in the second round. For more on Lopata's win, see this recap of the tournament from Steve Pratt.

Women:
1. Mary Stoiana, Texas A&M
2. Dasha Vidmanova, Georgia
3. Celie-Belle Mohr, Vanderbilt
4. Connie Ma, Stanford
5. Ange Oby Kajuru, Oklahoma State
6. Savannah Broadus, Pepperdine
7. Nicole Khirin, Texas A&M
8. Sarah Hamner, South Carolina
9. Anastasiya Komar, Oklahoma State
10. Julia Fliegner, Michigan
11. Ameila Honer, UC-Santa Barbara
12. Emma Charney, Southern Cal
13. Julie Garcia Ruiz, Oklahoma
14. Kimmi Hance, UCLA
15. Carolina Gomez Alonso, Arkansas
16. Mia Kupres, Texas A&M

Men:

1. Ozan Baris, Michigan State

2. Michael Zheng, Columbia

3. Oliver Tarvet, San Diego

4. Cooper Williams, Duke

5. Colton Smith, Arizona

6. Radu Papoe, Cornell

7. Gavin Young, Michigan

8. Jack Anthrop, Ohio State

9-16

Petar Jovanovic, Mississippi State

Thomas Paulsell, Georgia

Sebastian Domoinko, Notre Dame

Paul Inchauspe, Princeton

Pedro Rodenas, Duke

Shunsuke Mitsui, Tennessee

Jay Friend, Arizona

JC Roddick, Texas A&M

Five men and five women extended their time in Tulsa and Cary to a fifth day, at least, having made it through pre-qualifying and qualifying to reach the main draw. All but one of those 10 have won five matches in the past four days; Anthony Wright of North Carolina got into qualifying as a lucky loser in pre-qualifying, so he has won four matches. How much gas will they have left in the tank for the main draw remains to be seen, but it's a notable achievement regardless of their results Wednesday.

The draws do not show who has gotten in via qualifying, so the list is below. Adit Sinha of Cornell and Reece Carter of Washington are in as lucky losers.

All-American qualifiers

MEN:

Anthony Wright, North Carolina Pre-qualifying lucky loser

Max Sheldon, Michigan State Pre-qualifier

Corey Craig, Florida State

Sam Landau[4], Duke

Rudy Quan, UCLA

Aristotelis Thanos, Michigan State

Carl Overbeck[7], Cal

Luca Staeheli[8], North Carolina State

Mark Miladinovic, Baylor Pre-qualifier

Maxwell Smith, Clemson Pre-qualifier

Devin Badenhorst[11], Baylor

Jaden Weekes, Kentucky Pre-qualifier

Charlelie Cosnet, Kentucky

Miguel Perez Pena[14], Georgia

Alexander Bernard[15], Ohio State

Aidan Kim[16], Ohio State

NC State freshman Paskaukas is one of three freshmen
 who came through pre-qualifying (Fakih, Herea)

WOMEN:

Melodie Collard, Virginia

Ashton Bowers, Texas

Elza Tomase[3], Tennessee

Alexis Blokhina[4], Stanford

Chloe Noel, Oklahoma

Carmen Andreea Herea, Texas Pre-qualifier

Kate Fakih, UCLA Pre-qualifier

Sabine Rutlauka[8], Penn

Leonie Moeller, Memphis Pre-qualifier

Kailey Evans, San Diego

Guillermina Grant[11], Georgia

Valencia Xu[12], Stanford

Imogen Haddad, Southern Cal Pre-qualifier

Gabia Paskauskas, North Carolina State Pre-qualifier

Catherine Aulia[15], Tennessee

Anne-Christine Lutkemeyer[16], UCLA

Cracked Racquets will be providing coverage on the ITA YouTube Channel; links to individual streams and live scoring can be found on the men's and women's tournament pages.

The USTA announced the Australian Open Wild Card Challenge dates yesterday, and the women's race is much earlier than usual, beginning next week and ending the week of October 21. This means the WTA 125 Dow Tennis Classic in Midland, which begins November 4, will not be part of the race; it has played a major role in past Wild Card Challenges since the tournament moved to November and became a WTA 125 in 2021.

The men's race begins the week the women's ends, October 21, and extends, as usual, through the indoor hard court Challenger swing in the United States. All indoor and outdoor hard-court and carpet events at the M25 and W25 level and above, including WTA, ATP Tour and Challenger events, will be included in the Challenge. The best three results in those four-week spans will decide the winner of the reciprocal wild card with Australia. 

The USTA also announced the team Captain Bob Bryan will take to Spain for the Davis Cup quarterfinals in November: Taylor Fritz, Tommy Paul, Ben Shelton(Florida), Rajeev Ram(Illinois) and Austin Krajicek(Texas A&M). For more on Shelton's Davis Cup debut, see this article from usta.com.