OK from a post in December 15

A comment on the relative strengths of the different conferences in ladies college tennis and the strength of the best players bit historical as I did it in october but not much has changed although Eliz Maloney will have improved!

Looking at the most recent rankings, the top 100 is dominated by four conferences the PAC 12, ACC, SEC and Big 12

In terms of base lining the level of the top 20 players ie the best players you would be tested against at the national championship finals their mean junior combined rank is 370.55 (ie Eliz Maloney (10/8/2000) is playing at the average standard these girls played at at their peak as a junior) range 9-1621


What do good American players think of college tennis?
There are 9 foreign players in the top 20.
5 players had junior ranks under 100, only 1 is an American (and only just 99!)

Who would you get to hit with day in day out, one college Stanford has 3 players in the top 20, (4 in 100), Florida 2(5), Virginia 3 (3), Cal 2(5), Miami 2(4), vandy 2(5), UNC 1(2), USC1(4), Texas AM 1(3), Georgia (6). Really these would be the places you would want to be if you had serious aspirations of pursuing a professional singles career after college.

There are 2 Ivy League players in the top 100 ranked 67 and 98, average junior rank 1,534. One from Dartmouth the other at Harvard.
So the drop off in talent level outside the top 4 conferences is very steep. So the rest of the division 1 colleges are pretty irrelevant if you want to go pro and have a decent core group to train with of the same sex.

There is one real standout player presently ranked 1 with junior CH of 9 she is Canadian and at Stanford so probably opted to put a Stanford degree in the bank although only 19 if she wants to play pro should quit and go now, McEnroe (J) did just that. There are two other girls who ranked at a similar level to Emily at their peak in world juniors (27) both overseas and from the eastern block