US College Signings and General College Chat 2022/23

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

US College Signings and General College Chat 2022/23

Elegant Point · Satellite level

Tennpar wrote:

Are there any 'newer' readers of this thread out there (e.g. US tennis college kids' parents) who would like to report on 'over the pond' activities as the older kids (EP's and mine) graduate & move on?

Our children probably know each other then TP smile Definitely the end of an era!! Hopefully as you say, there will be some newer parents or players to pick up the reins!!

Links to D1 Mens team Sweet Sixteen: I dont think there will be any major upsets, Im going UK (no Brits on the roster) over Stanford, TCU over Mississippi and Tennessee may just have the edge over S Carolina.

Friday May 12, 2023

4:00 PM ET #10 USC at #7 Michigan [Scoring/Video]

Saturday May 13, 2023

4:00 PM ET #14 North Carolina at #1 Texas [Scoring] [Video]
4:00 PM ET #16 Mississippi State at #2 TCU [Scoring] [Video]
12:00 PM ET #3 Ohio State at #15 Arizona [Scoring] [Video]
2:00 PM ET #21 Stanford at #4 Kentucky [Scoring] [Video]
1:00 PM ET #11 Duke at #5 Virginia [Scoring] [Video]
2:00 PM ET #12 Harvard at #6 Georgia [Scoring/Video] [Indoor Scoring/Video]
3:00 PM ET #8 South Carolina at #9 Tennessee [Scoring] [Video]

-- Edited by Elegant Point on Saturday 13th of May 2023 08:59:32 PM

Elegant Point · Satellite level

JonH comes home wrote:
Thanks to EP and Tennpar for all the updates you have done and do - hopefully, get us through the end of the NCAA's at end of May and then your jobs are done (is that the end of the college season by the way!!).

Good luck to you both and your families/"kids" and hope they are successful in whatever their journey holds next for them!

Yes end of season, many players have already finished lectures and graduated. There is a new UTR tournament ( I originally posted on UTR thread) overlaps somewhat with D1 Championships, maybe of interest to those who got knocked out earlier in the competition

Announcing the - Universal Tennis National Intercollegiate Tennis Championships!

Universal Tennis is announcing the first-ever Universal Tennis National Intercollegiate Tennis Championships (NIT Championships) for college teams to participate in a postseason competition from May 17-20 in Atlanta, Ga.

The womens tournament will run May 17-20, and the mens from May 18-20. Amazon Prime members will be able to watch the live stream at no additional cost.

Find out more: https://tinyurl.com/rht479dh

Elegant Point · Satellite level

Due to clashes with NCAA D1 championship, interesting to see which 16 teams are headed to the NIT Championship - no idea how the selections were made

Announced so far are Army, San Diego State (m+w) , California State - CSUN(w), Colorado (w), Liberty (Josh Wilson, Deji Thomas-Smith), Uni Wyoming (w), Denver (Charlie Miller, Raffa Papajcik) Stetson (w), UC Davis(m), Vanderbilt (m), TCU (w)

https://blog.universaltennis.com/universal-tennis-announces-team-selection-and-brackets-for-first-ever-nit-championship-in-atlanta/

-- Edited by Elegant Point on Wednesday 10th of May 2023 07:02:52 PM

updated with link to brackets m and w

-- Edited by Elegant Point on Friday 12th of May 2023 03:49:51 PM

Elegant Point · Satellite level

NCAA Championship Womens Doubles Pair

Not Brits, but the Delaware womens doubles pair who had a fantastic run last year under Brit coach and former Uni of Iowa student -athlete Elise van Heuvelen Tredwell become the first Uni of Delaware team to qualify for the NCAA tournament. Elise has moved on, however the pair are being coached by another Brit, Lucy Harper a former Uni of Wisconsin Milwaukee student athlete.

Uni Delaware seems to be a place where a lot of Brit players and coaches are heading.

Allegedly many coaches like the Brits, because the are in the main very bright academically, great work ethic, have a different cultural vibe which can enrich the team (many Americans have never been outside the US) and bring a unique perspective to the team both off and on court. Also most have English as a first language- imagine being a student athlete (D1 tennis roster is like having a part time job), studying for a really academic subject like Engineering and doing it in your second or even third language!!

Get to know Lucy Harper

https://www.facebook.com/MKEPanthers/videos/get-to-know-lucy-harper/10155601933032153/

https://bluehens.com/news/2023/5/4/womens-tennis-abidullina-askarova-become-first-blue-hens-to-qualify-for-ncaa-tournament

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

My knowledge of US tennis is dire but I'm always interested in the posts here

And I like to add bits I've read, never really knowing quite how they slot into the whole picture, but just hoping they are relevant and add something of interest

Tennis Scotland runs an excellent twitter feed and tennis news service (LTA England could really learn a thing or two).

So here's their rundown from 9th May:

"Three Scots reach NCAA Sweet 16

Stateside, three out of the four Scots competing in the NCAA Team Championship progressed through the round of 16.

Connor Thomson and University of South Carolina dropped only one rubber as they beat South Carolina State and Florida State University 4-0 and 4-1 respectively.

Thomson picked up a doubles win in the opening round before remaining unbeaten in singles. In the second round, he clinched the tie in singles 6-7 6-3 6-2.

Ewen Lumsden and Mississippi State also progressed as he picked up a singles win against Alabama State, before clinching a vital doubles point against Middle Tennessee State to help the Bulldogs to a nailbiting 4-2 win.

Jacob Fearnley won four out of four matches over the weekend as TCU took on University of Texas Arlington and Texas A&M, including a convincing 6-2 6-1 singles win over Raphael Perot.

Jamie Connel remained unfinished (match was not completed since the tie had been decided) in both of his singles matches as the Florida State Seminoles moved past Baylor University before falling to Connor Thomson and South Carolina in the round of 32.

The round of 16 will see Fearnleys TCU face off against Lumsdens Mississippi State as well as Thomsons South Carolina play coach James McKies University of Tennessee."

Elegant Point · Satellite level

Coup Droit wrote:
My knowledge of US tennis is dire but I'm always interested in the posts here

And I like to add bits I've read, never really knowing quite how they slot into the whole picture, but just hoping they are relevant and add something of interest

Content always welcome smile The College signings and Chat works well as a hive collective of knowledge!

Elegant Point · Satellite level

Followed TPs post asking if there are any parents of younger student athletes (or indeed any players themselves ) who would be interested in carrying on updating the thread, I have posted all the links I use to follow College tennis on the 23/24 College Signings and chat thread

Elegant Point · Satellite level

Twitter feed by John following the Sweet 16

twitter.com/JTweetsTennis%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Escreen-name%3AJTweetsTennis%7Ctwcon%5Es2

College tennis ranks tracking the live scores

collegetennisranks.com/schedules/livescores

John used to write the noadnoproblem blog, but doesnt seem to be updates for 2023??
no-adnoproblem.blogspot.com/

Elegant Point · Satellite level

Will this signal the end of the Memphis Britfest?

After nearly two decades as the University of Memphis men's tennis head coach, Paul Goebel has decided it's time to hang up his racquet, officially announcing his retirement Wednesday.
Goebel has been a part of the Memphis program for the last 24 years, joining the Tigers as an assistant coach in 1999 before being promoted to head coach five years later in 2004.

In 2018, he helped guide Ryan Penniston to the Round of 16 in the NCAA singles championship and then coached Penniston and Andrew Watson to the national semifinals in doubles. Both are the furthest any Tiger has advanced in the NCAA Tournament.

Goebel has coached eight players who have gone on to professional careers, most notably Joe Salisbury (2010-14), a former world No. 1 in doubles and five-time Grand Slam champion. In 2022, Salisbury became the third British world No. 1 in either singles or doubles. He has won 12 doubles titles on the ATP Tour, played for Great Britain in the Davis Cup, and competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics alongside Andy Murray.

Another former Tiger, Irelands David O'Hare, reached his highest world doubles ranking of 117 and is now the coach of Salisbury and partner Rajeev Ram.

https://gotigersgo.com/news/2023/5/10/mens-tennis-paul-goebel-retires-from-coaching-after-24-years-at-memphis.aspx

Other news, Elon junior Dan Martin was selected as the Most Outstanding Player at the 2023 CAA Mens Tennis Championship in a vote by the leagues coaches. Dan spent 2 years at Minnesota, where he saw very little action. Dan transferred to Elon when Minnesota made a shock decision to close mens tennis! Elon definitely seems a better fit.

I know some forum members dont like Dan, from what I can remember from seeing him play as a junior he was a tall, very quiet boy with an unorthodox style (some might call it ugly) but seemed effective enough. Allegedly his parents had an Excel macro which worked out the likelihood of Dan progressing through a tournament and the cost to benefit ratio, with likely ranking points per £ for every tournament. Dans matches were scheduled accordingly. I bet there are a few tennis parents whod like to get their hands on the Excel formula wink

https://caasports.com/news/2023/5/3/elons-martin-selected-as-most-outstanding-player-at-caa-mens-tennis-championship.aspx

Elegant Point · Satellite level

Elegant Point wrote:
Links to D1 Mens team Sweet Sixteen: I dont think there will be any major upsets, Im going UK (no Brits on the roster) over Stanford, TCU over Mississippi and Tennessee may just have the edge over S Carolina.

2 out of 2 so far biggrin UK beat Stanford (Fery) 4-3 and TCU (Fearnley, Pinnington, Maxted):sweep Mississippi (Lumsden) 4-1

http://collegetennisranks.com/schedules/livescores

Dannythomas · Lower Club Player

Womens NCAA division 1 Quarter Finals :

North Carolina (1) v Texas (8) to play winner of Georgia (4 ) v Michigan (5)

NC State (3) v Iowa State (11) to play winner of Texas A&M (2) v Stanford (7 )

British Players involved :

Amelia Rajecki ( NC State ) singles position 3 and doubles position 1

Nell Miller ( NC State ) doubles position 1

Angelica Blake ( Stanford ) singles position 3 and doubles position 1

Rajecki and Blake have also qualified for the NCAA individual singles and doubles tournaments and Miller for the individual doubles tournament

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Thanks for these updates - Ive trawled through some of the links but wondered , is there one site or page which has the draw/bracket and results in one easy to read place, like wed see a draw for Wimbledon or Davis Cup? Many of these links have onward links to individual sites for colleges or live viewing that is now dead after the match? Thanks !

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

The ncaa site has the team results but the results or names
Of each players match?

www.ncaa.com/brackets/tennis-men/d1/2023

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Thanks EP and Danny T

Some great snippets (so pleased that O'Hare is doing well)

And go Millie and Angie ! (I like the singles event - even the dubs too if pushed, especially when it impacts on Wimbly wildcard etc like it has done - so go Nell)