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It's awards season in college tennis but so far only Division  2 and Women's Junior College awards are out.  Not so familiar with the names outside Div 1 but had a look through and there are a couple I recognise.

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South Central Region

Player to Watch - Bethan Hayward - St Edwards.  This is particularly nice for Beth as she spent her freshman year in Div 1 Conference USA and seemed to struggle with the level.

 

JUCO

Rookie of the Year (both nationally and in Region 2) - Jasmine Asghar - Tyler College.  Think she has one more year of junior college left and then I'm sure will end up spending her final 2 years at a top Div 1 school.



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Article re Tulane where Ewan Moore got Freshman of the Year in his conference.  Seb Rey also gets a mention.  For those confused by all-conference references:  Conferences pick their 'dream team' from all the players in their conference and also a 2nd-string dream team plus occasionally give an 'honourable mention' to those they seriously considered but missed out.  It's just an awards thing but quite an honour for the players.

http://tulanegreenwave.com/news/2017/5/15/mens-tennis-nabs-all-louisiana-top-honors.aspx



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The Division 1 Awards are out now.  'Player of the Year' has to be a senior.  'Player to Watch' is effectively the player of the year who is not a senior.

Women

Texas Region

Sportsmanship Award:  Sabrina Federici - Texas Tech

Men

Mountain Region

Player to Watch: Dan Little - Utah

Northeast Region

Rookie of the Year:  Charles Broom - Dartmouth

Southeast Region

Senior Player of the Year: Jack Findel-Hawkins - North Florida

Southern Region

Senior Player of the Year:  Sebastian Rey - Tulane

Texas Region

Player to Watch:  Cameron Norrie - Texas Christian

 

Well done one and all!! 



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Added Henry M to the list on P1



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Dan Little should be PAC 12 surely, if so quite an honour! Cam is now too good for this level hopefully he has eyes on altogether different prizes!

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Awards are by regions not conferences......same as the regional championships in the fall.



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Thanks, I realised after I'd posted.

There is a certain amount of introspective hype around american college tennis but I suppose it must make the players their friends and families feel good and for those that stay in college tennis it's a line on their CV's.

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Elite College tennis proper kicks off today with the NCAA sweet sixteen.

Should be lots of exciting matches as things tighten up, particularly when we are through this round

TCU play Illinois absolutely no worries about Cam doing his bit but a little anxious about the middle order and tail after this round but I think that's down to my own long term anxiety induced by my college cricket teams capacity to collapse without provocation. Fingers crossed.

On the ladies side our best chances for British girls to go deep lie with Vandy and Stanford. Vandy should see off Cal, Stanford similarly Michigan but the it gets tight with probably Pepperdine and North Carolina both very strong with depth.

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Oaklahoma giving Ohio State a scare Torpegaard a set down to Pappa!

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Torpegaard wins in three, 3-3 deciding match now on a tie breaker!

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TCU win 4-1, so onwards to the elite 8, Ohio state beat Illinois 4-3 last match 3 setter won on a tie break

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Cam has lost one match all season to Vukic (#3) who he vanquished 6-3 6-4 yesterday in the seed 1 match, with his partner he also won the number 1 seed doubles contributing towards taking the doubles point.

Now onto the elite 8 where Cam will meet his major college competition in the shape of Mr Torpegaard, Danish DC player and Ohio States No. 1. on Saturday, hopefully Ohio State have burnt some emotional energy in beating Illy yesterday, the weakest team left in the NCAA championships on paper. It should have been a breeze but in the end went to the wire.

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A few numbers to Oakie's report

In the Sweet 16 

#6 Texas Christian bt #25 Illinois 4-1

1.  #1 Cameron Norrie (Texas C) bt #3 Aleks Vukic (ATP=751 CH=600) (Illinois) 6-3, 6-4

Dubs

#3 Cameron Norrie / Trevor Johnson (Texas C) bt Gui Gomez / Aron Hiltzik (Illinois) 6-4

Texas Christian play Ohio State in their Elite 8 match at 6pm UK time tomorrow at 5pm.  Great streaming on Georgia Uni's Tennis website.

 

Also today is the women's Sweet 16.  All matches streamed on the website for Georgia Women's Tennis

North Carolina / Duke (Rebecca Smaller) 2pm

Michigan / Stanford (Emily Arbuthnott) 2pm

Texas Tech (Sabrina Federici) / Auburn (Georgie Axon, Alannah Griffin) 5pm

Ohio State / South Carolina (Brigit Folland) 5pm

California / Vanderbilt (Emily Smith, Georgina Sellyn) 9pm

All times UK time

 

 



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 In the Sweet 16 

North Carolina bt Duke 4-1 but Rebecca Smaller did not play for Duke today.

 

#6 Stanford bt #10 Michigan 4-1

5.  Emily Arbuthnott (Stanford) bt Mira Ruder-Hook (Michigan) 3-6, 6-0, 6-4

Dubs

1.  #39 Emily Arbuthnott / Taylor Davidson (Stanford) bt #9 Kate Fahey / Alex Najarian (Michigan) 6-1

They will play North Carolina on Sunday.



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Really struggled with the Georgia site today. Emily got the clinching victory at no. 5. I think the level takes a real step up from QF onwards, Vandy stand a very good chance of seeing of Cal particularly with Meagan Manasse being so beat up this year.

UNC #2 will be favourites against Stanford (at that best historically when unfancied) and similarly the winner of Pepperdine v Georgia against Vandy.

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