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The Optimist · ATP qualifying

Southeast Womens Regionals

Dubs

R32

Monic Matias / Natalia Serrano (Central Florida) bt Emilia Bujan / Ella Monsey (Georgia Southern) 8-3

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

As a nation I think we did even better in the regionals than last year (especially in the dubs)

This year in singles

4 Quarter Finalists: (7 last year)

Zoe Douglas - Iowa

Alastair Gray - Texas Christian

Eden Richardson - Louisiana State

Dominic West - New Mexico

1 Semi-Finalist: (1 last year)

Ewan Moore - Tulane

3 Runners-Up: (0 last year)

Emily Arbuthnott - Stanford

Ricky Hernandez-Tong (New Mexico)

Jack Molloy - California

2 Winners: (1 last year)

Aswin Lizen - Virginia

Henry Patten - North Carolina-Asheville

And in Dubs

12 Quarter-Finalists: (9 last year)

Megan Davies _ South Carolina

Zoe Douglas - Iowa

Alastair Gray - Texas Christian

Ricky Hernandez-Tong - New Mexico

Holly Horsfall - Samford

Ema Lazic - Duke

Ewan Moore - Tulane

Serena Nash - Missouri

Elsa Pool - Samford

Hamish Stewart - Tulane

Elise Van Huevelen - Iowa

Dominic West - New Mexico

7 Semi-Finalists: (4 last year)

Charlie Broom - Dartmouth

Dan Little - Utah

Eden Richardson - Louisiana State

Emily Smith - Vanderbilt

Millie Stretton - Maryand

Camille Verden-Anderson - Denver

Joe Woolley - Utah

3 Runners-Up: (1 last year)

Emily Arbuthnott - Stanford

Aswin Lizen - Virginia

Matt Story - Memphis

2 Winners: (3 last year)

Josef Dodridge - Wisconsin

Alex Sendegeya - Texas Tech

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

The National Fall Championships kick off on 1 November and the Brits that have qualified are:

Mens Singles

Ricky Hernandez-Tong - New Mexico (Mountain Regional Finalist)

Aswin Lizen - Virginia (Atlantic Regional Champion)

Jack Molloy - California (Northwest Regional Finalist)

Ewan Moore - Tulane (At Large selection - basically they fill any unused spots with the next highest ranked players who are not already there)

Henry Patten - North Carolina-Asheville (Carolina Regional Champion)

Marcus Walters - Tyler Junior College (Junior College Champion)

Mens Dubs

Josef Dodridge - Wisconsin (Midwest Regional Champion)

Alex Sendegeya - Texas Tech (Texas Regional Champion)

Womens Singles

Emily Arbuthnott - Stanford (Northwest Regional Finalist)

Womens Doubles

Sabrina Federici - Texas Tech (All American Semi-Finalist)

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Sabrina is our only seeded player in the fall championship, seeded No 2 with her partner in the doubles.

It is great to see Emily Arbuthnott playing at the top table of college tennis and she takes on Chiara Lommer (Michigan) who played No4,5 and 6 last year as a freshman. Potentially the No 6 seed Katarina Jokic awaits the winner.

Freshman at Tyler Community College Marcus Walters ATP (1481) JCH 207 (takes on Alex Riberio of Virginia Tech ATP tank 1483 (JCH 732).

Aswin Lizen (junior at Virginia) takes on Runhao Hua (Chin JCH 138, ATP 1831) of Michigan a sophmore who played in the no 4 slot last year.

Jack Molloy Freshman at Cal (JCH 80 ATP 1199) takes on the Canadian Harrison Scott (JCH 131, ATP 1841) of Texas. Now a junior he beat Ewan Moore in 3 last year in Texass win over Tulane in the first round of the NCAA team tournament.

Ewan Moore now a sophmore at Tulane (JCH 43, ATP takes on another Canadian sophmore at North Carolina State Alexis Garlarneau (JCH 97)

Manningtrees finest the big serving leftie, Henry Pattern (UNC-Asheville) after last years heroics at the no 1 slot (19-0) takes on Davis Cup player Alex Knaff of Florida State, one of the few players who can look Henry in the eye JCH 400 ish, probably the second best tennis player in Luxembourg!

Welshman Ricky Hernandez-Tong JCH 556 has obviously made great progress at New Mexico State working under British head coach and also ex Lobbo Ben Dunbar takes on Lucas Poullain also from Florida State a redshirt senior ie in his 5th year of college Tennis, not playing matches in his first, he qualified as an at large player ie on rank alone.

The fun starts tomorrow

-- Edited by Oakland2002 on Tuesday 31st of October 2017 11:11:17 PM

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

Some of the courts are streamed, maybe all but different parts of the tournament site have conflicting info on this. I think for sure

Marcus Walters 1.15pm

Henry Patten 12.45 pm

Ricky Hernandez-Tong 11.45am

All Indian Wells time (7 hours behind us)

http://www.itatennis.com/Events/Oracle_ITA_National_Fall_Championships.htm (the live streaming is in the 'Additional Media' column - active only when live)

Jack Molloy 12.45pm

Aswin Lizen 11am

Emily Arbuthnott 8am

Josef Dodridge+ 3.45pm

Alex Sendegeya+ 3.30pm

Sabrina Federici+ 2.15pm

-- Edited by The Optimist on Wednesday 1st of November 2017 10:40:33 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Good luck to all the Brits who have qualified - it seems like a large pack of them - great to see.

And thanks again to The O, and Oakie, for posting it all.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Emily starts the ball rolling with a routine 6-1 6-2 win over #119 Chiara Lommer

Oakland2002 · All-time great

2 out of 2 so far Aswin moves through 6-4 6-3. GB and IOM 2 Michigan 0

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Ewan playing the nations number #43 starts well but goes out in 3. 6-4 4-6 4-6

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Marcus Walters on the verge of winning in three! Jack Molloy into third set, Emily and Michaela Gordon just started in the dubs

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Unfortunately Jack lost in three, starting well but fading to loose the final set 6-2 but a great start to his Freshman year qualifying for and getting to compete at this top tier national college event.

GB v Florida State didnt go quite so well with both Henry Pattern and Ricky Hernandez-Tong having to make a big step up in quality from their regionals getting beaten fairly quickly in straight sets illustrating the difference between the depth in the ACC and the best players in the Southern and Mountain West Conferences respectively.

In contrast hats off to Marcus Walters whose win against a well matched opponent from Virginia Tech shows the quality of the best community college players (often at Tyler) and their capacity to be competitive in a power conference should they get the chance.

Emily Arbuthnott and Micheala Gordon won their doubles on a championship tie break, good to see the Stanford girls in different halves of the draw, there is plenty of opportunity as Ena Shibahara the no 1 seed just struggled through in 3 and I feel the general level is somewhere between a 15k Futures and a 25k, probably closer to the former, the American girls we saw in the summer in Ireland both cruised through the first round.

Unfortunately the UCLA pair were too strong for Sabrina and her partner from Texas Tech hopefully Emily will do better against them in what will be the first of many of this years Nor Cal v South Cal battles in the next round. Bad day for Texas Tech Brits as Alex Sendegeye also went out of the doubles.

Josef Dodridge keeps the flag flying for GB and Wisconsin in the mens doubles again coming through on a championship tie break.

-- Edited by Oakland2002 on Thursday 2nd of November 2017 07:23:56 AM

Spectator · All-time great

Thanks for all this, Oakland and The O.

Interesting to see, now that the first round is over, which teams still have multiple members playing. Things are slightly more concentrated on the men's side, where there are people from 22 universities in the round of 32: two universities have three players left (Florida State and Ohio State), and six (Baylor, Texas, Wake Forest, UCLA, Mississippi St and Columbia) have two. On the women's side, there are 25 universities represented, and seven with two left (Duke, Kansas, North Carolina, Miami, Texas Tech, Pepperdine and Stanford).

The Ohio State and Florida State men's teams look rather frighteningly good - Ohio State's number one player (Torpegaard) isn't playing this tournament, so the three remaining are (presumably) their second, third and fourth players.

In the next round, Marcus Walters faces Alex Lebedev from Notre Dame, who accounted fairly handily for the number 10 seed from Florida. Aswin Lizen faces Johannes Schretter, the sixth seed from Baylor. Matches that should also be quite interesting are Martin Redlicki from UCLA (5th seed) v Ohio State's John McNally, and Lucas Poullain from Florida State against Brandon Holt from USC (2nd seed).

This is not entirely irrelevant to GB players, as after Mr Poullain plays his singles, he's also playing doubles (with Jose Gracia, as the third seeds) against Mr Dodridge and Mr Carranza.

Ms Arbuthnott is playing the 6th seed from Georgia, Katarina Jokic; in doubles, she and Michaela Gordon play UCLA's Gabrielle Andrews and Jada Hart. If I'm not mistaken, Ms Andrews was quite a prominent junior player.

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

Just to put all the results in one place

Men's singles

R64

Marcus Walters (Tyler) bt Alex Ribeiro (Virginia Tech) (ATP=1463) 6-1, 4-6, 6-2

Alex Knaff (Florida State) (ATP=1362) bt Henry Patten (North Carolina-Asheville) 6-3, 6-1

Alexis Galareau (North Carolina State) (CH=1355) bt Ewan Moore (Tulane) 2-6, 6-4, 6-4

Harrison Scott (Texas) (ATP=1841 CH=1405) bt Jack Molloy (California) 3-6, 6-4, 6-2

Aswin Lizen (Virginia) bt Runhao Hua (Michigan) (ATP=1841 CH=1641)

Lucas Poullain (Florida State) (ATP=1489) CH=1298) bt Ricky Hernandez-Tong (New Mexico) 6-0, 6-1

Mens Dubs

R32

Chema Carranza / Josef Dodridge (Wisconsin) bt Oliver Crawford / Chase Perez-Blanco (Florida) 4-6, 6-3, (10-7)

Zvonimir Bbic / Filip Kraljevic (Mississippi) bt Jackson Cobb / Alex Sendegeya (Texas Tech) 6-2, 6-7(4), (10-3)

Women's singles

Emily Arbuthnott (Stanford) bt Chiara Lommer (Michigan) 6-1, 6-2

Women's Dubs

Emily Arbuthnott / Michaela Gordon (Stanford) bt Sara Daavettila / Allie Sanford (North Carolina) 7-6(3), 3-6, (11-9)

Gabrielle Andrews / Jada Hart (UCLA) bt Sarah Dvorak / Sabrina Federici (Texas Tech) 6-4, 6-3

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

Today's match times although I think only Emily's singles may be on a streamed court (link above)

Emily A 9.45am

Aswin L 11.30am

Marcus W 12.45pm

Emily A+ 2.45pm

All Indian Wells time (7 hours behind)