Top Seeds Advance at ITA Fall Nationals; 18-yo Qualifiers Subhash, Parks Advance at Las Vegas $60K; Six Current Collegians Receive Wild Cards into Oracle Challenger Series in Houston

The first round of singles is complete at the Oracle ITA National Fall Championships in Newport Beach California, with very few upsets. (I'm happy to see seedings numerically from 1-16 instead of the 5-8, 9-16 method that is so popular in college tennis). The trio of top-seeded UCLA women advanced, with Forbes winning 0 & 0, Hart 1 & 1 and Bolton 2 & 2. Top men's seeds Ito, Smith and McNally won, with only McNally needing three sets.  Only three seeds lost in total, all in the 9-16 range, as noted below.

It's always exciting for the non-Division I players to get a win, with ITA Cup champions Elyse Lavender(NAIA) of Brenau and Justine Leong(D-III) of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps advancing to the women's second round and Gabriel Ortiz of Seward County Community College(JUCO) advancing to the men's second round.

Live scoring is available via TennisTicker, with first round doubles matches continuing this evening.

Men:
1. Yuya Ito, Texas
2. Keegan Smith, UCLA
3. John McNally, Ohio State
4. Daniel Cukierman, USC
5. Adam Walton, Tennessee
6. Hady Habib, Texas A&M
7. Matias Soto, Baylor
8. Jack Lin, Columbia
9. Ondrej Styler, Michigan (out 1st rd)
10. Daniel Rodrigues, South Carolina
11. Christian Sigsgaard, Texas
12. Matej Vocel, Oklahoma State
13. Joseph Guillin, UC-Santa Barbara
14. Cannon Kingsley, Ohio State
15. Kyle Seelig, Ohio State (out 1st rd)
16. Zeke Clark, Illinois

Women:
1. Elysia Bolton, UCLA
2. Abigail Forbes, UCLA
3. Jada Hart, UCLA
4. Alexa Graham, North Carolina
5. Estela Perez-Somarriba, Miami
6. Anna Turati, Texas
7. Shiori Fukuda, Ohio State
8. Sara Daavettila, North Carolina
9. McCartney Kessler, Florida (out 1st rd)
10. Georgia Drummy, Vanderbilt
11. Kelly Chen, Duke
12. Cameron Morra, North Carolina
13. Adriana Reami, North Carolina State
14. Michaela Gordon, Stanford
15. Mia Horvit, South Carolina
16. Bunyawi Thamchaiwat, Oklahoma State

Virginia freshman Natasha Subhash  was scheduled to compete at the Fall Nationals this week but qualified for the $60,000 tournament in Las Vegas yesterday and withdrew from the collegiate event to continue on in the main draw. Today she picked up her second win at the $60K level, beating Johanna Larson of Sweden, a former WTA Top 50 player, 6-3, 6-2.  Another 18-year-old qualifier, Alycia Parks, earned the best win of her young career, beating WTA No. 95 and top seed Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium 6-4, 3-6, 7-5. With Flipkens' loss and the retirement yesterday of No. 2 seed Patricia Tig of Romania, No. 3 seed Katarina Zavatska of Ukraine is the highest seed remaining. Zavatska advanced when wild card Katerina Stewart retired leading 3-2 in the first set.

Next week is the Oracle Challenger Series event at Rice University in Houston, which consists of a WTA 125 tournament and an ATP Challenger 125. The wild card list was published today, with a total of six currently collegians awarded main draw spots. Former collegian Danielle Collins(Virginia), currently 31 in the WTA rankings, is competing for the first time since announcing she has been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and has accepted a wild card. Coco Vandeweghe and Bethanie Mattek-Sands also received main draw wild cards, as did Katarina Jokic, the Georgia junior from Serbia. Jokic earned an Oracle wild card for winning last year's Fall Nationals. Rice's Linda Huang also was given a main draw wild card.  Cici Bellis, finally back after over 18 months out for injury, received a qualifying wild card, as did Jamie Loeb.

Seventeen-year-old Zane Khan received a main draw wild card, as did Florida's Oliver Crawford, UCLA's Govind Nanda, USC's Brandon Holt and Rice's Sumit Sarkar.

For the wild card announcement, go to the Challenger Series website.

Parry, Fernandez Head Orange Bowl and Eddie Herr ITF Acceptances; Oracle Pro Series in Malibu This Week; Subhash Qualifies at Las Vegas $60K

The question of who is seriously pursuing the year-end ITF World Junior Championship was answered today, at least in part, when both Diane Parry of France and Leylah Fernandez of Canada entered next month's Grade 1 Eddie Herr and Grade A Orange Bowl. Parry, who is currently No. 1 in the ITF junior rankings after winning the Osaka Grade A and the ITF Junior Finals, pulled out of the Grade A in Mexico, where she is the defending champion, but entered the last two tournaments of the year.  Fernandez, currently No. 3 in the ITF Junior rankings, is the surprise entry, as the French Open girls champion has not played a junior event since taking the title in Paris. It's possible that one or both will pull out, of course, but it does add some intrigue to the two events, with those two the only Top 10 players currently in the field.

Shintaro Mochizuki of Japan is currently No. 3 in the ITF Junior rankings, and the Wimbledon champion has entered both events, as well as the Grade A in Mexico. Current No. 1 Holger Rune of Denmark, who took over the top spot when he won the title at the Junior finals last month, is still entered in Mexico, but did not enter the Eddie Herr or Orange Bowl. 

Martin Damm, currently No. 5, has entered both tournaments, but the other two Americans in the Top 10, Emilio Nava and Toby Kodat, are not entered in either event. Zane Khan, who reached the final of the Orange Bowl last year, is playing the Mexico Grade A, but did not enter the US tournaments.

Here are the American boys who received direct entry into the Orange Bowl main draw, with the cutoff at 130:

Martin Damm
Dali Blanch
Andrew Dale
Welsh Hotard
Micah Braswell
Alex Bernard
Aidan Mayo

The same seven American boys are entered in the Eddie Herr, which has a cutoff of 126, with three boys, none of them Americans, entered in the Eddie Herr but not the Orange Bowl. ITF No. 14, Linda Fruhvirtova of the Czech Republic, is entered in the Eddie Herr, but not the Orange Bowl.

As far as the US girls go, quite a few of the top Americans are not playing either US event, with Emma Navarro[4], Alexa Noel[5] and Hurricane Tyra Black[11] all of whom played the tournaments last year, not entered.

Two US girls, Robin Montgomery and Katrina Scott, are playing the Orange Bowl but not the Eddie Herr. Both are playing the Grade A in Mexico and are taking a week off in between that tournament and the Orange Bowl. The Orange Bowl cutoff for the girls is 108, and at the Eddie Herr it's 111.

In addition to Montgomery and Scott, these are the US girls in the Orange Bowl:
Alexandra Yepifanova
Savannah Broadus
Skyler Grishuk
Charlotte Chavatipon
Charlotte Owensby
Jenna DeFalco
Kailey Evans
Emma Jackson
Elvina Kalieva

All nine are also entered in the Eddie Herr. Ellie Coleman is in the main draw at Eddie Herr and next in at the Orange Bowl. Including Coleman, there are 16 US girls in Orange Bowl qualifying, but just six US boys.

The USTA Pro Circuit this week features a joint event in Malibu, with both the men's and women's tournaments at the $25,000 level. Several collegians who could be competing at the Oracle ITA National Fall Championships, which begin tomorrow in Newport Beach California are playing here instead, including Stanford's Axel Geller, USC's Brandon Holt and Pepperdine's Ashley Lahey. 

Matias Descotte of Argentina was the top men's seed, but he was beaten in today's first round match by Alexander Cozbinov(UNLV) of Moldova 7-6(7), 6-2.  Wild cards were given to Pepperdine sophomore Corrado Summaria of Italy, Alexander Lebedev(Notre Dame), Alexandre Rotsaert(Stanford) and Pepperdine senior Adrian Oetzbach of Germany. Americans qualifying today are Spencer Papa(Oklahoma), Joshua Ortlip(Cal Poly), Reese Stalder(TCU), Drew Baird(UCLA) and Michael Shabaz(Virginia). 

In addition to Lahey, wild cards went to Pepperdine sophomore Anastasia Iamachkine of Peru (they play each other), Pepperdine graduate student Jessica Failla and North Carolina recruit Reilly Tran. The top seed is 18-year-old Olga Danilovic of Serbia. Americans Anastasia Nefedova, Kylie McKenzie, Sarah Lee(Michigan), Ellie Douglas(TCU) and Katrina Scott qualified for the main draw with wins today.

The top seed at the $60,000 USTA Pro Circuit women's event in Las Vegas is Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium, with wild cards going to Fanny Stoller of Hungary, Grace Min, Jamie Loeb(North Carolina) and Katerina Stewart.

Virginia freshman Natasha Subhash, who was scheduled to compete in the ITA Fall Nationals beginning tomorrow, qualified today by beating No. 3 seed Giuliana Olmos(USC) of Mexico 2-6, 6-1, 10-6.

Other Americans qualifying for the main draw today in Las Vegas are Charlotte Chavatipon, Alycia Parks and Quinn Gleason(Notre Dame).

Yu, Banerjee, Bhakta Win ITF Junior Circuit Titles; Stewart, Nakashima Lead USTA Australian Open Wild Card Challenge with Two Weeks Remaining

Eleana Yu, who turns 15 on Friday, won her second straight ITF Grade 4 title yesterday in Lexington South Carolina, after several days of rain led to abbreviated scoring and extended the tournament an extra day.
I have no idea why the scores of the singles finals have yet to be posted, but Yu did receive the winner's points, and I understand the No. 13 seed beat No. 4 seed Allie Gretkowski in three sets in the final. (Update: Yu d. Gretkowski 3-6, 6-3, 6-4). Yu, who won the ITF in Atlanta two weeks ago, also in a rain-plagued week, is up to 350 in the ITF rankings after being at 1333 in April.

Seventeen-year-old Samuel Paquette of Canada, seeded No. 3, defeated No. 2 seed JJ Tracy 7-5, 6-3 in the boys final. Paquette, who has committed to Cornell, and Tracy, who is signing with Ohio State, both train at the Smith Stearns Academy in Hilton Head South Carolina.

No. 3 seeds Ozan Colak and Hugo Hashimoto won the boys doubles title, beating No. 5 seeds Aidan Kim and Lucas Brown 6-3 6-2 in the final. Carson Tanguilig, who won the title two weeks ago in Atlanta with Gretkowski, earned her second straight doubles title this week, with Sophie Williams. The No. 5 seeds defeated the Swedish team of Ida Johansson and Agnes Mitteregger, seeded sixth, 6-0, 6-1 in the final.

At the Grade 5 in Curacao, 16-year-old Samir Banerjee swept the titles in just the third appearance in an ITF Junior Circuit event. The unseeded Banerjee did not drop a set in his five wins, beating unseeded Yannik Rahman 6-2, 6-3 in the singles final. Banerjee partnered with Jacob Lowen to win another all-US final in the doubles. The unseeded pair defeated top seeds Sam Scherer and Azuma Visaya 2-6 6-4, 10-7 for the title. Charlotte Cartledge gave the US three titles, partnering with Luana Avelar of Brazil for the girls doubles title. The No. 3 seeds defeated top seeds Cora Barber of Germany and Jingyi Li of China 5-7, 6-4, 10-3 in the final.

At the Grade 5 in Cancun Mexico, 14-year-old Ria Bhakta won her first ITF Junior Circuit title without much resistance. The unseeded Bhakta lost only 10 games in her five matches, beating three seeds en route to the final, where she beat unseeded Vanesa Suarez of Venezuela 6-1 6-3. Cecilia Alcobe Garibay won the girls doubles title with Ana Paula Chavez Sanchez of Mexico. The No. 2 seeds defeated Maria Elean Munoz Colin and Sofia Isabel Teran Rios of Mexico, the No. 4 seeds, 6-1, 6-2 in the final.

The final ITF Junior Circuit tournament of the month in the United States is this week's Grade 4 in Boca Raton Florida. Jack Anthrop and Charlotte Owensby are the top seeds.

The USTA's update on its Australian Open Wild Card Challenge went out today and the release follows.  Women's leader Katerina Stewart is playing the $60,000 event in Las Vegas as a wild card after taking last week off. After reaching the semifinals last week at the Charlottesville Challenger, men's leader Brandon Nakashima received a wild card into this week's ATP Challenger 80 in Knoxville and defeated Filip Peliwo of Canada 6-2, 6-2 in the first round tonight.

Francesca Di Lorenzo, Danielle Lao and Shelby Rogers All Within 35 Points of Leader Katerina Stewart in Women's Challenge Brandon Nakashima Leads Men's Challenge After Week 1 November 4, 2019 -- Former college stars Francesca Di Lorenzo and Danielle Lao and 2016 French Open quarterfinalist Shelby Rogers have all positioned themselves to possibly overtake Katerina Stewart in the next two weeks to clinch the women's Australian Open Wild Card Challenge.  All three players are within 35 points of Stewart, with the former Ohio State standout Di Lorenzo in second place after winning the singles title at the W60 event in Toronto last week. Di Lorenzo leads the former USC star Lao by four points and Rogers by eight, while former US Open girls' finalist Alexa Glatch banked 70 points and sits in fifth place thanks to a run to the singles final at the W80 in Tyler, Texas. Click here to view the full Challenge standings. After Week 1 of the Men's Challenge, current University of Virginia sophomore Brandon Nakashima took advantage of familiar surroundings to put himself atop the table with a run to the semifinals at the Challenger 80 tournament in Charlottesville, Va. Former NCAA champion Marcos Giron is in second with two weeks left to play on the men's side.  Americans who otherwise earn direct entry into the Australian Open are not eligible, nor are players ranked in the ATP or WTA Top 50 at the start of the Challenge. Should the player with the highest number of Challenge points earn direct entry into the Australian Open, the wild card will go to the next eligible American in the Challenge points standings. In the event of a tie, the player with the best ATP or best WTA singles ranking on November 18 will earn the wild card. All USTA Pro Circuit tournaments will be streamed live on www.procircuit.usta.com. The Challenge will consist of the following events: Women’s Events Week of November 4: USTA Pro Circuit W60 Event: Las Vegas; ITF World Tennis Tour W100: Shenzhen, China. Week of November 11: WTA $125,000 Series Events: Houston, Texas; Taipei; ITF World Tennis Tour W100: Tokyo. Men’s Events Week of November 4: ATP Challenger 110: Bratislava, Slovakia; USTA Pro Circuit / ATP Challenger 80s: Knoxville, Tenn.; Kobe, Japan. Week of November 11: ATP Challenger 125: Houston; USTA Pro Circuit / ATP Challenger 80s: Champaign, Ill.; Helsinki, Finland; Ortisei, Italy; Pune, India. The 2020 Australian Open will be held January 20-February 2.

Di Lorenzo Claims Title at Toronto $60K, Glatch Falls in Tyler Texas $80K Final; ATP's Next Gen Finals Begin Tuesday in Milan

Francesca Di Lorenzo, the No. 2 seed, won her first title in nearly two years today at the $60,000 ITF World Tennis Tour in Toronto, defeating top seed Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium 7-6(3), 6-4 in a two-hour and 16 minute final. The 22-year-old Di Lorenzo, a former All-American at Ohio State, now has four singles title on the Pro Circuit; this is her first over the $25,000 level.

With the title, Di Lorenzo should move a few spots ahead of her career-high WTA ranking of 125; when I spoke to her in January about goals for 2019, after she was off four months at the end of 2018 with a foot injury, Di Lorenzo mentioned finishing in the Top 130, which seems quite likely now.  She also will take over second place in the USTA Australian Open Wild Card Challenge, behind last week's Macon $80K winner Katerina Stewart. Two more weeks remain in that competition.

Alexa Glatch fell just short of her first title since 2015, with the 30-year-old wild card dropping a 6-4, 6-4 decision to Mandy Minella of Luxembourg in the final of the $80,000 USTA Pro Circuit tournament in Tyler Texas. Although nowhere near her career-high WTA ranking of 102, reached ten years ago, Glatch will move to around 325, which will get her into a lot of main draws in tournaments $25,000 and above.

At the $15,000 tournament in Cancun, 15-year-old Rachel Gailis lost to University of Texas recruit Adrienn Nagy of Hungary, the No. 6 seed, 6-3, 6-2 in the final.

No. 5 seed Genaro Olivieri of Argentina won the $25,000 men's USTA Pro Circuit tournament in Naples Florida, beating unseeded Cristian Rodriguez of Colombia 7-5, 6-3 in today's final.

Vasek Pospisil, the No. 10 seed, won the ATP Challenger 80 in Charlottesville Virginia, beating fellow Canadian and top seed Brayden Schnur(North Carolina) 7-6(2), 3-6, 6-2 in the final. Mitchell Krueger and Blaz Rola(Ohio State) of Slovenia won the doubles title in a final between two unseeded teams. Krueger and Rola defeated Sekou Bangoura(Florida) and Slovenia's Blaz Kavcic 6-4, 6-1. It's the first Challenger doubles title for Rola since 2017 and the first for Krueger since 2016.

This year's Next Gen ATP Finals competition in Milan begins on Tuesday, with Frances Tiafoe representing the United States in the eight-player competition for those 21-and-under. Now in its third year, the tournament has always served as a innovation laboratory, and this year players are allowed to use "wearable technology." There is also video review for judgment calls from the chair umpire. I think those are the only additions this year, but there is a subtraction: the no-let rule is not being used. Playing lets on serve has been part of men's Division I college tennis for many years, and the ITF has been using it on its Junior Circuit since January 2018, but I gather from its absence in Milan this year that it's now unlikely to be adopted in professional tennis. 

The ATP preview, with the round robin groups and the order of Tuesday's matches, is available here. The explanation of the 2019 format and rules is here.

Gailis Advances to Final of Cancun $15K; Di Lorenzo, Glatch Play for Titles in Canada and Texas Sunday; LA Tennis Bash Set for December 7 in Manhattan Beach

Rachel Gailis, who turned 15 in August, has advanced to the final of the $15,000 ITF World Tennis Tour tournament this week in Cancun Mexico. Gailis, of Studio City California, had played only three ITF World Tennis Tour Pro Circuit events prior to this one, all this year, and had won one match, at the $15,000 tournament in Williamsburg in May. Gailis, who got into the main draw without needing to qualify, despite having no WTA ranking, beat top seed Sofia Sewing(Miami) 6-3, 0-6, 6-2 in the first round and did not face another seed in advancing to the final. She will play No. 6 seed Adrienn Nagy of Hungary, who will be joining Texas in January for the dual match season, in Sunday's final.

Americans Madison Appel(Indiana) and Elle Christensen won the doubles title in Cancun, beating Jennifer Dourado of Brazil and Anastasia Sysoeva of Russia 6-1, 6-4 in a final between two unseeded teams.

At the $80,000 USTA Pro Circuit tournament in Tyler Texas, they are back on schedule after rain delays midweek, and unseeded wild card Alexa Glatch will look to win her biggest title when she faces unseeded Mandy Minella of Luxembourg in Sunday's final. The 30-year-old from Irvine California defeated qualifier Marcela Zacarias of Mexico 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 in today's semifinals, while Minella took out unseeded Danielle Lao(USC) 6-1, 7-5. If Glatch should win, she would tie Katerina Stewart in the USTA's Australian Open Wild Card Challenge race, with Stewart not playing this week.

Former Clemson doubles stars Beatrice Gumulya and Jessy Rompies of Indonesia won their 11th title as a team in Tyler, but it is by far their biggest title. The unseeded pair, who won the ITA Riviera All-American Championships title in 2014, defeated Zacarias and Connie Hsu(Penn) of Taiwan, also unseeded, in today's final 6-2, 6-3.

At the $60,000 ITF World Tennis Tour tournament in Toronto, it will be No. 1 versus No. 2 for the title Sunday. Top seed Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium will take on former Ohio State All-American Francesca Di Lorenzo. Di Lorenzo reached her first final of the year by downing No. 3 seed Bibiane Schoofs of the Netherlands 7-5, 0-6, 6-2, while Flipkens beat former Northwestern star Samantha Murray of Great Britain 2-6, 6-2, 6-3.

No. 4 seeds Robin Anderson(UCLA) and Jessika Ponchet of France won the doubles title today, beating the Canadian junior wild card team of Melodie Collard and Leylah Fernandez 7-6(7), 6-2 in the final. Collard and Fernandez also reached the doubles final last week at the $60,000 tournament in Saguenay Canada.

Americans were shut out of titles at the $25,000 USTA men's Pro Circuit tournament in Naples Florida, with No. 2 seed Jordi Arconada falling in today's semifinals and Oliver Crawford and Sam Riffice losing the doubles final last night.  Arconada lost to No. 5 seed Genaro Olivieri of Argentina 5-7, 7-6(5), 6-0 in three hours and 4 minutes. Olivieri will face unseeded Cristian Rodriguez of Colombia in Sunday's final. Rodriguez and his partner Jose Bendeck(Idaho) beat Florida teammates Crawford and Riffice 4-6, 6-2, 10-2 for the doubles title.

It will be an all-Canadian final at the ATP Challenger 80 in Charlottesville, after top seed Brayden Schnur(North Carolina) defeated No. 16 seed Dimitry Popko of Kazakhstan 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 and former ATP No. 25 Vasek Pospisil, seeded No. 10,  beat wild card Brandon Nakashima 6-1, 6-1. Live streaming of the singles and doubles finals is available at the ATP Challenger website.

The annual charity fundraiser for the First Break Academy in Carson California is scheduled for December 7, 2019 at the Manhattan Country Club in Manhattan Beach. Plenty of tennis stars past and present, as well as Los Angeles celebrities, participate in the event and this year is no exception, with Steve Johnson, Bradley Klahn, Tracy Austin, Pam Shriver, Lindsay Davenport, Jason Collins, Steve Nash and Boris Kodjoe among those scheduled to appear. For more on the event and tickets, which are sold to support the introduction to tennis and other sports to underprivileged youngsters in the LA area, see this website.

October Aces; Nakashima Reaches Charlottesville Challenger Semis; Fields Announced for Oracle ITA National Fall Championships

My monthly column for the Tennis Recruiting Network features what I believe is a record number of aces, with 20 (21 including the Turati twins) highlights from October. No fewer than seven juniors won their first Pro Circuit singles titles, and with major college and junior events throughout the month, there was a lot to cover.

Brandon Nakashima has put up some impressive results since reaching the semifinals of the US Open Junior Championships, reaching the quarterfinals at the Tiburon ATP 100 Challenger, the semifinals at the Fairfield ATP 100 Challenger and the semifinals this week at the ATP 80 Challenger in Charlottesville. The 18-year-old Nakashima, who entered college early and played the dual match season this year at the University of Virginia, has now beaten Taro Daniel of Japan twice in the quarterfinals in the past month, including today's 6-7(7), 6-1, 6-3 victory over the No. 4 seed. Those two wins are the best ranking wins that Nakashima has had, with Daniel at 110 and 111 in the ATP rankings.

Although Nakashima cruised in the second set, closing out the third set was a challenge, with Daniel saving five match points serving at 2-5 and two more with Nakashima serving for it at 5-3. But Nakashima stayed aggressive despite the mounting tension and hit two forehand winners to go from break point down to earn his eighth match point and a good first serve finally sealed the win.

Nakashima, a wild card this week, will play No. 10 seed Vasek Pospisil of Canada in Saturday's semifinals. Pospisil defeated Nakashima 6-0, 7-6(3) in their only previous meeting, in the qualifying of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells back in March of 2018, when Nakashima was just 16 years old.

The other semifinal will feature top seed Brayden Schnur(North Carolina) of Canada against No. 16 seed Dimitry Popko of Kazakhstan. Popko took out No. 5 seed Marcos Giron(UCLA) 6-3, 6-4 in today's quarterfinals. With Giron out, Nakashima is the last American remaining, meaning he will lead in the USTA's Australian Open Wild Card Challenge after this first week.

The ITA today released the fields for next week's Oracle ITA National Fall Championships in Newport Beach California. ITA All-American champion Yuya Ito of Texas is entered on the men's side, but women's All-American champion Ashley Lahey of Pepperdine is not. Other notable absentees on the women's side are 2019 NCAA singles finalist Katarina Jokic of Georgia, Makenna Jones of North Carolina, Kenya Jones of Georgia Tech and Bianca Turati of Texas. Even without Jones, North Carolina has four players in the main draw: Sara Daavettila, Alexa Graham, Cameron Morra and Alle Stanford. Six schools have three players participating: Cal, Central Florida, Duke, NC State, Oklahoma State and UCLA.

Florida's Sam Riffice, the All-American finalist, is not playing, nor is his teammate Oliver Crawford. Virginia's Carl Soderlund, who is No. 1 in the ITA pre-season rankings, hasn't played at all this fall in college events and isn't entered here either. USC's Brandon Holt, Stanford's Axel Geller and NC State's Alex Galarneau are also missing.

Even with Holt not participating, USC has four players in the field, the most of any school: Riley Smith, Daniel Cukierman, Mor Bulis and Stefan Dostanic. In addition, Jake Sands and Bradley Frye from USC are alternates. Schools with three participants are Ohio State, Texas and Texas A&M.

In men's doubles, Baylor, Iowa and Oklahoma State each have two teams in the field; in women's doubles, Central Florida, NC State, North Carolina and Oklahoma State have two teams competing. UCLA has an astounding three teams in the women's doubles field.

The complete list of men's competitors is here; the complete list of women's competitors is here.

The ITA has published an article focusing on the non-Division I players who have made the field here.