Watching Hev (ITF JCH 3) struggling against Nicole Gibb (ITF JCH 41) at RG made me check the rest of the non British part of the women's bracket.

Vandy have done well this year, but were seeded to reach the QFs. From next year I hope to see British interest as deep if not deeper year on year with Emily A's recruitment to Stanford.

I think Vandy could be in real trouble in the semifinal up against Emily's future team who are lead by the Canadian Carol Zhao (ITF JCH 9). The seeding seems to be a bit all over the place and I feel a bit for Florida the No2 seeds having to play Stanford (#13) in round 2 who then went on to pop out Michigan (#10) in the QF. In comparison Vandy's journey protected by their No 6 seeding has been less arduous.

I see a battle of the bay coming our way for the final!

-- Edited by Oakland2002 on Monday 23rd of May 2016 02:33:45 AM

Now it's time for the individual NCAA Championships

 

Our lone representative in the women's singles unfortunately fell at the first round:

R1  #36 Georgiana Patrasc (Mississippi State) bt  #38 Daneika Borthwick (Florida State) 6-4, 6-0

 

More Brits in the men's singles but only one advanced:

R1

#5 Cameron Norrie (Texas Christian) bt #21Mike Redlicki (Arkansas) 6-2, 6-2

#4 Aleks Vukic (Illinois) bt #56 Julian Cash (Oklahoma State) 6-2, 6-4

#54 Rishab Agarwal (Mississippi State) bt #109 Jack Findel-Hawkins (North Florida) 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(1)

 

I think that while we've had two doubles champions (Dom Inglot and Lloyd Glasspool) and one finalist (Ken Skupski), this is the first time that a GB player has been in the final four for singles, is it not? I've checked the likely candidates, and unless I've misread, while the aforementioned Lloyd Glasspool, Ken Skupski, and Dominic Inglot all not only were spectacular in doubles but also made the higher rounds and/or were ranked within the top 20 in singles (thus guaranteeing themselves "All-American" status), none made the final four. Well done to Mr Norrie.

Alas, he ran up against Mikael Torpegaard (#1 seed) in the SFs and lost 6-3 6-4. But still, a fine tournament!

-- Edited by Spectator on Monday 30th of May 2016 07:47:04 AM

Isner and kevin Anderson won doubles not singles and not together

Thanks for updating the thread David, life got in the way of tennis......

Anyway, for completeness:

Men's R2

#5 Cameron Norrie (Texas Christian) bt #40 Sam Shropshire(Northwestern) 6-1, 1-6, 6-1

Mens R3

#5 Cameron Norrie (TCU) bt #47 Dominic Cotrone (S Florida) 6-4, 2-6, 6-2

Mens QF

#5 Cameron Norrie (TCU) bt #9 Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (Virginia) 4-6, 6-2, 6-1

Mens SF

#1 Mikael Torpegaard (Ohio St) bt #5 Cameron Norrie (TCU) 6-3, 6-4

 

Womens Dubs R1

#7 Catherine Harrison / Kyle McPhillips (UCLA) bt #57 Katherine Ip / Emily Smith (Rice) 7-5, 5-7, (10-4)

 

Mens Dubs R1

#12 Hugo Dojas / Felipe Soares (Texas Tech) bt #34 Jack Findel-Hawkins / Yannick Zuern (N Florida) 7-6, 6-3, (10-7)

#51 Henry Craig / Alex Gasson (Denver) bt Sasha Gozun / Vadym Kalyuzhnyy (S Florida) 1-6, 6-1, (10-8)

#40 Jordan Angus / Filip Vittek (San Diego) bt ¢21 Andreas Bjerrehus / Joao Monteiro (Virginia Tech) 5-7, 7-6(4) (10-6)

#10 Julian Cash / Arjun Kadhe (Oklahoma State) bt #17 Benjamin Lock / Marco Nunez (Florida State) 6-1, 2-6, (10-6)

#20 Jack Schipanski / Luis Valero (Tennessee) bt #29 Tommy Bennett / David Warren (Rice) 3-6, 6-3, (10-7)

R2

#9 Filip Bergevi / Florian Lakat (California) bt #51 Henry Craig / Alex Gasson (Denver) 7-5, 6-3

#10 Julian Cash / Arjun Kadhe (Oklahoma State) bt #40 Jordan Angus / Filip Vittek (San Diego) 7-5, 6-3

QF

#2 Mackenzie McDonald / Martin Redlicki (UCLA) bt #10 Julian Cash / Arjun Kadhe (Oklahoma State) 7-6(4), 7-5

I watched a little of him last year in one of the Challengers where he and a number of our players were competing. As you say, he's a complete player, rather than someone with an overwhelming weapon. But barring injury or unforeseen circumstances, I would strongly doubt that this would be the highlight of his singles career.