NCAA D-I Super Regionals Begin Friday with Nine Matches; Update on Roster Limits in NCAA House Settlement; Liutova and Akli Oust Seeds in USTA Pro Circuit Events in Florida; Eight US Girls Reach Quarterfinals at Plantation ITF J200

The Division I Super Regionals of the NCAA Team Championships start Friday, with three men's teams and six women's matches that will determine who advances to the quarterfinals beginning next Thursday at Baylor University. The remaining five men's and two women's matches will be played Saturday. Below is the schedule for the weekend matches, with Cracked Racquets providing CrossCourt coverage on four separate streams at their YouTube Channel.  

Due to family commitments, I won't be able to follow the matches as closely as I was able to do last weekend, but collegetennisranks.com provides links to live scoring and live streaming for each match, and the final scores, under the Week Ahead tab.

NCAA Division I Round of 16 Matches:

FRIDAY MAY 9
Men:
*Stanford[4] v South Carolina[13] 3pm Eastern
*UCLA v Southern California 5pm Eastern
*Wake Forest[1] v Texas A&M[16] 5pm Eastern

Women:
*Texas A&M[2] v UCLA 3pm Eastern
*Georgia[1] v Cal 4pm Eastern
*Ohio State[4] v LSU[13] 4pm Eastern
*Virginia[7] v Tennessee[10] 4pm Eastern
*North Carolina[5] v NC State[12] 5pm Eastern
*Duke[8] v Auburn[9] 5pm Eastern

*host school

SATURDAY MAY 10
Men:
*Ohio State[5] v Mississippi State[12] noon Eastern
*TCU[2] v Central Florida[15] 1pm Eastern
*Virginia[7] v Arizona[10] 1pm Eastern
*Columbia[8] v NC State[9] 1pm Eastern
*Texas[3] v Tennessee[14] 1pm Eastern

Women:
*Michigan[3] v Texas[14] 1pm Eastern
*Oklahoma State v Stanford 2pm Eastern

*host school

The men's draw is here; the women's draw is here.

The latest news on the NCAA House settlement roster limits, which has been the part of the agreement that Judge Claudia Wilken has expressed reluctance to approve, is a compromise proposed by the Power 4 conferences. From this Yahoo Sports article:

"Wilken gave attorneys two weeks to amend the roster limits, recommending a phasing-in and/or grandfathering-in concept to protect spots for those athletes on existing rosters. During the course of several meetings this week, executives from the Big Ten, SEC, ACC and Big 12 agreed to a grandfathering-in model, but one that is optional for schools — a decision that comes with risk and one that is expected to elicit public pushback from a group of attorneys and athletes who have objected to the roster limits."

Roster limits had been set for all sports, including tennis, which the settlement had initially put at 10. There are obviously tennis teams with more than that number, primarily on the men's side, where 4.5 scholarships have been allocated by percentage. Women's teams are allowed up to eight scholarships, and they can't be divided, although that is expected to change if this settle is approved.

At the women's USTA Pro Circuit W35 in Boca Raton Florida, Ayana Akli(Maryland, South Carolina) defeated No. 2 seed Akasha Urhobo 6-2, 6-2 to reach the quarterfinals of a USTA event for the fourth straight tournament. Akli, who reached the final at the Charlotte NC W35 two weeks ago, will play her third straight 18-year-old on Friday, taking on No. 6 seed Luisina Giovannini of Argentina. Giovannini won the title at Boca Raton last week, beating Akli 6-1, 6-0 in the semifinals.

Eighteen-year-old Monika Ekstrand advanced to the quarterfinals via a walkover and will play unseeded Allura Zamarripa(Texas) Friday. 

The other Americans advancing are Kayla Day[3], who will play unseeded Jada Robinson in an all-US quarterfinal and No. 8 seed Alana Smith, who faces No. 4 seed Gergana Topalova of Bulgaria.

At the W50 in Indian Harbour Beach Florida, 15-year-old qualifier Kristina Liutova of Russia defeated No. 4 seed Carol Zhao(Stanford) of Canada 6-1, 4-6, 6-1 to reach her third USTA Pro Circuit quarterfinal, but the first above the W15 level. She will play No. 8 seed Ana Sofia Sanchez of Mexico Friday.

There will only be one American in the quarterfinals, but which one is not yet known, with the night match between 17-year-old qualifier Elizabeth Ionescu and No. 2 seed Hanna Chang interrupted, with Ionescu leading 6-2, 1-4. They will resume that match Friday morning.

The quarterfinals are set for the ITF J200 in Plantation Florida, with all eight competitors in the girls draws from the United States. 

Top seed Aspen Schuman will face No. 7 seed Maggie Sohns; No. 2 seed Ava Rodriguez will play No. 8 seed Isabelle DeLuccia; Ciara Harding faces last week's J100 Coral Gables champion Bella Payne and No. 3 seed Zaire Clarke, the J100 Delray Beach champion, will play qualifier Paige Wygodzki.

Five of the boys quarterfinalists are from the United States, but top seed Maximus Dussault and No. 2 seed Lachlan Gaskell are not among them. Dussault lost to No. 16 seed Naoto Tomizawa of Japan 6-2, 3-6, 6-1, and Gaskell was beaten by No. 13 seed Agassi Rusher. Tomizawa will face No. 11 seed Vihaan Reddy, a wild card, and Rusher will play No 10 seed Zavier Augustin in the quarterfinals.

Easter Bowl 16s champion Marcel Latak is through to the quarterfinals after beating No. 4 seed Nischal Spurling 6-3, 6-0. He will play No. 8 Sasha Colleu of France, the J100 Delray Beach champion, while No. 3 seed Gavin Goode takes on No. 12 seed Oluwaseun Peter Ogunsakin of Nigeria.