US College Signings and General College Chat 2022/23

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Elegant Point · Satellite level

John@JTweetsTennis
Recapping the womens Elite 8 and previewing the Final 4 on the
@mini_break_pod

Apple: apple.co/3BE9E3v
Spotify: spoti.fi/435z0TG

The mens tournament is a bit of a mess ..
Twitter: twitter.com/JTweetsTennis

Play remains suspended due to severe weather. Matches will resume NB 9:30 p.m. The next update will be at 9 p.m.

https://twitter.com/Game****MTennis Links to scores when matches stopped (wont curb& paste properly)

https://twitter.com/TCUMensTennis/status/1659174496752869377?cxt=HHwWgoC9tcCayYYuAAAA TCU link but no scores?

The men's semifinals will be held on Saturday and the men's final will be held on Sunday. Match times for the semifinals and final will be communicated tomorrow.

There is no change to the womens competition schedule.

-- Edited by Elegant Point on Friday 19th of May 2023 08:00:15 AM

-- Edited by Elegant Point on Friday 19th of May 2023 08:03:23 AM

Elegant Point · Satellite level

Game**** Men's Tennis@Game****MTennis
No. 1 Texas takes the match 4-0
Our season concludes in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament with 22-7 record. Thank you Game**** Nation for an unforgettable season. We'll be back

Toby and Connors singles went unfinished
Link to final scores - wont copy and paste. texassports.com/documents/2023/5/19/SC_Box_Score_051923.pdf

TCU supposed to be live at 12.30 Florida time (Jake F, Jack P, Lui M)
https://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=466209&_gl=1*1dwn8f6*_ga*Mjg0NzcyNDkyLjE2ODQ1MTYxMzQ.*_ga_2ZWVK1X7BJ*MTY4NDUxNjEzMy4xLjAuMTY4NDUxNjEzMy4wLjAuMA..

collegetennisranks.com/schedules/weekahead/d1

-- Edited by Elegant Point on Friday 19th of May 2023 05:12:36 PM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Elegant Point wrote:
Game**** Men's Tennis@Game****MTennis
No. 1 Texas takes the match 4-0
Our season concludes in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament with 22-7 record. Thank you Game**** Nation for an unforgettable season. We'll be back

Toby and Connors singles went unfinished
Link to final scores - wont copy and paste. texassports.com/documents/2023/5/19/SC_Box_Score_051923.pdf

TCU are live:

collegetennisranks.com/schedules/weekahead/d1

Is James Story a Brit? I see he played?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Definitely is

Saw him play last year at Roehampton

Made the QFs, I think

Good player. Am looking forward to seeing how he does this summer over here (assuming he's coming(

Elegant Point · Satellite level

Coup Droit wrote:
Definitely is

Saw him play last year at Roehampton

Made the QFs, I think

Good player. Am looking forward to seeing how he does this summer over here (assuming he's coming(

Wondering what happened to his brother Matt? Not seen his name on the mens forum, so guess he stopped playing after he graduated from Memphis?

Dannythomas · Lower Club Player

So its a local derby Womens final. North Carolina v NC State after wins over Georgia and Stanford respectively.

Interesting battle of the Brits today with Angelica Blake and Amelia Rajecki locked at one set apiece at position 3 when NC State clinched. Was a very up and down match with Angelica up in both sets only for Amelia to fight back. Angelica did well to recover from 2-5 in the tie break and Amelia closed out the second. So Blake v Rajecki 7-6, 4-6 unfinished. Good match up.

After tomorrows final the individual events start with Blake, Rajecki and Kylie Bilchev in singles and Blake, Rajecki and Miller playing doubles.

Elegant Point · Satellite level

The Horned Frogs dropped the doubles point to No. 7 Michigan in an NCAA quarterfinal match but rallied to sweep courts two through five in singles to punctuate a 4-1 win and punch a ticket to the Final Four.

Links to scores

gofrogs.com/news/2023/5/19/mens-tennis-final-four-tcu-mops-michigan-to-advance-to-ncaa-semifinals.aspx

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Dannythomas wrote:
So its a local derby Womens final. North Carolina v NC State after wins over Georgia and Stanford respectively.

Interesting battle of the Brits today with Angelica Blake and Amelia Rajecki locked at one set apiece at position 3 when NC State clinched. Was a very up and down match with Angelica up in both sets only for Amelia to fight back. Angelica did well to recover from 2-5 in the tie break and Amelia closed out the second. So Blake v Rajecki 7-6, 4-6 unfinished. Good match up.

After tomorrows final the individual events start with Blake, Rajecki and Kylie Bilchev in singles and Blake, Rajecki and Miller playing doubles.

This is the event Paul Jubb won a few years back, yes?

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Saturday 20th of May 2023 07:55:02 AM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Dannythomas wrote:
So its a local derby Womens final. North Carolina v NC State after wins over Georgia and Stanford respectively.

Interesting battle of the Brits today with Angelica Blake and Amelia Rajecki locked at one set apiece at position 3 when NC State clinched. Was a very up and down match with Angelica up in both sets only for Amelia to fight back. Angelica did well to recover from 2-5 in the tie break and Amelia closed out the second. So Blake v Rajecki 7-6, 4-6 unfinished. Good match up.

After tomorrows final the individual events start with Blake, Rajecki and Kylie Bilchev in singles and Blake, Rajecki and Miller playing doubles.

This is the event Paul Jubb won a few years back, yes?

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Saturday 20th of May 2023 07:55:02 AM

Indeed! Ben Shelton won the mens last season, look where he is now!

Elegant Point · Satellite level

No. 3 Ohio State won a close doubles point and then rolled to three straight-set singles wins to blow past No. 2 TCU (Fearnley, Maxted, Pinnington) 4-0 in the semifinals of the NCAA Championship. The Buckeyes will face Virginia in Sundays championship match at noon.

Links to final scores. So no Texas vs as TCU final as both teams lost today..

https://ohiostatebuckeyes.com/no-3-buckeyes-roll-past-no-2-tcu-4-0/

The Brits will be back in action in the mens singles and doubles- draw no out yet.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Dannythomas wrote:
So its a local derby Womens final. North Carolina v NC State after wins over Georgia and Stanford respectively.

Interesting battle of the Brits today with Angelica Blake and Amelia Rajecki locked at one set apiece at position 3 when NC State clinched. Was a very up and down match with Angelica up in both sets only for Amelia to fight back. Angelica did well to recover from 2-5 in the tie break and Amelia closed out the second. So Blake v Rajecki 7-6, 4-6 unfinished. Good match up.

After tomorrows final the individual events start with Blake, Rajecki and Kylie Bilchev in singles and Blake, Rajecki and Miller playing doubles.

So,I think I have this correct, Amelia Rajecki is part of the NC State team and also she played doubles with Nell Miller, she is a Brit I think as well?

I have no allegiance, but go NCSU!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Nell won the NCAA doubles title last season with a different partner, so looks a decent doubles player!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Nell won the NCAA doubles title last season with a different partner, so looks a decent doubles player!

Well, she is ranked WTA 481 !

Having made the final in an ITF 80k event last year,

and the semis in a 100k,

and won a 15k title.

She even played Wimbledon main draw.

I think 'decent' is already very firmly established smile

Elegant Point · Satellite level

Liberty Flames win the inaugural NIT Championship

The Liberty Flames become the first-ever winners of the Universal Tennis NIT Championship after the squad handled No. 69 Vanderbilt to a 4-1 tune, Saturday at the Peachtree City Tennis Center. The Flames defeated UC San Diego, No. 60 Denver and No. 69 Vanderbilt in a span of three days to claim the title.

Josh Wilsons #1 singles and doubles went unfinished. Deji Thomas-Smith lost at #3 singles but won at #2 doubles. They beat Denver (Charlie M, Rafaelo P) in the semis.

Liberty mens tennis players also working hard off the court: Josh Wilson and Deji Thomas-Smith have been named to the 2022-23 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Mens Tennis Team® for their efforts in the classroom smile

Two schools of thought around the NIT. Quotes lifted from the college tennis chat

1. Big split between the strength of the teams
The NIT tourney on the men's side at least is a bit of a joke. Supposedly UTR would select teams based on UTR that were not selected for NCAAs. The selected team with highest UTR is Vandy (ITA 69) with team top 6 UTR of 75.59. There were 8 teams with a higher UTR rank than Vandy that didnt play NCAAs- teams like UCF (76.87) and Miami (76.57). Probably players already had plans to fly home or werent interested in playing NIT. Two other teams have UTRs in the 74.5ish range-Liberty (ITA 77) and Denver (ITA 60). UC Davis was a team UTR of 73.20 has an ITA ranking of 84. It goes downhill from there. An NAIA team with a team UTR of 62-that is an average UTR 10, Citadel with a 6-20 record and team UTR of 63.84, Army ITA #175 with team UTR of 67.97, UC San Diego with ITA #166 and team UTR of 69.65. For the bottom 4 teams, the average player for every line is 1 UTR or more below the Vandy players. For Citadel and Reindhardt, it is is closer to 2 UTR-matches that wont even count for UTR. Too bad they didnt ask a team like Georgia Southern which had a good year-usually GA Southern is lower ranked than the other GA public MMs like GA State and Kennesaw state, but GA Southern was ITA #88 this year-in line with UC Davis. Reinhardt is a GA NAIA team but no team with a UTR under 70 should be playing in a men's NIT tourney.

Alternative would be to wait until the NCAA field has narrowed down to 16 teams and give a second chance at glory to the best teams out of the 48 who were eliminated. Duke, Miami, Princeton, South Carolina et al. on the women's side are more interesting than CalPoly, Appalachian State and Stetson. Ditto for men's choices.

2. Great idea from Universal Tennis. As a college coach, it was disappointing that the ITA sent an email out in early May saying that they would not accept the results from this event. This caused many teams to not participate. All in all, best of luck to the teams involved.

https://www.liberty.edu/flames/news/flames-make-history-win-inaugural-nit-championship-with-4-1-takedown-of-no-69-vanderbilt/