US College Signings and General College Chat 2023/24

Dannythomas · Lower Club Player

US College Signings and General College Chat 2023/24

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Oliver Tarvet seems to be tearing it up over there!

Spireman · Club Coach

Lambda wrote:
A round up of weekly player of the week awards for their respective conferences so far this year. British players feature every week.

22 January
Sofia Johnson

30 January
Oliver Tarvet (Singles)
Sofia Johnson
Johannus Monday
Millie Rajecki (Singles)
Louise Booker (Freshman of the week)

6 February
Oliver Tarvet (Singles)
Oliver Tarvet (Doubles)

13 February
Oliver Tarvet (Doubles)
Sam Nicholson

20 February
Oliver Tarvet (Doubles)
Grace Piper
Louise Booker (Freshman of the week)

27 February
Max Basing
Angelica Blake

5 March
Oliver Tarvet (Doubles)
Johannus Monday
Jake Fearnley
Millie Rajecki (Singles)

12 March
Oliver Tarvet (Doubles)
Jasmin Conway (Doubles)

19 March
Oliver Tarvet (Singles)
Jack Pinnington Jones

26 March
Vic Allen (Singles)
Vic Allen & Millie Bissett (Doubles)

A couple to add, both Big East, DePaul:

Hannah Smith, Feb 12th, singles.

Eleanor Nobbs, Feb 26th, singles.

Next year DePaul womens will have three Brits on roster due to recruitment of Bella Gibson.

dodrade · Futures qualifying

How is Scarlett Hutchinson doing at Fairfield? Are they in a lower conference?

Lambda · Challenger level

dodrade wrote:
How is Scarlett Hutchinson doing at Fairfield? Are they in a lower conference?

Scarlett doesn't get selected to play that often, and when she does she doesn't get too many wins. But she got a rare singles and doubles outing yesterday and won both, although the context to that is that the opponent she was playing in singles and the programme Fairfield were playing are winless this year against Div 1 opponents.
Scarlett Hutchinson - wearecollegetennis

dodrade · Futures qualifying

Lambda wrote:
dodrade wrote:
How is Scarlett Hutchinson doing at Fairfield? Are they in a lower conference?

Scarlett doesn't get selected to play that often, and when she does she doesn't get too many wins. But she got a rare singles and doubles outing yesterday and won both, although the context to that is that the opponent she was playing in singles and the programme Fairfield were playing are winless this year against Div 1 opponents.
Scarlett Hutchinson - wearecollegetennis

I saw she was made captain this year and assumed she was doing well but perhaps it is primarily a non-playing role?

Lambda · Challenger level

The battle to be the highest ranked GB men's player goes on. In this week's rankings, Johannus Monday remains the lead Brit, climbing 1 place to #4. Oliver Tarvet moves up to be the 2nd highest ranked GB player, moving up 2 places to #5. Oliver was awarded his 4th singles player of the week for the West Coast Conference this week. He's claimed that award as his own it seems. Jack Pinnington Jones climbs 1 place to #7, but teammate Jake Fearnley drops 3 places to #9. Jake has been injured for most of this month, playing only a couple of matches and they have been at the court 2 position, with 1 loss to the #3 ranked Micah Braswell and 1 unfinished while a set down. While Jake has been injured Jack has moved up to the top court for TCU and is now 6-2 since taking that position on 11 March.

4. (5) Johannus Monday (Tennessee)
5. (7) Oliver Tarvet (San Diego)
7. (8) Jack Pinnington-Jones (TCU)
9. (6) Jake Fearnley (TCU)

Tennessee and TCU have 3 duals remaining and San Diego 4 before we move on to the conference championships.

In the women's, Millie Rajecki remains at #5 in the singles rankings. Her ranking points have dropped off some bit over the last month and there's a bit of a gap to those above her. Her remaining singles opponents in regular season play are likely to be #14 Alexa Noel (Miami), #46 Vic Allen (Florida State), #53 Carol Lee (Georgia Tech) and #43 Miyuka Kimoto (Syracuse). It seems, given Danny's very helpful explanation on how the rankings work, that if Millie is to stand any hope of moving back up the rankings, a win against Alexa Noel on Friday will be crucial. On a side note, Millie is 1 win away from the milestone of 100 college career singles wins, a feat achieved by only 3 other women in the history of the NC State programme.

Dannythomas · Lower Club Player

And here are the April 2nd womens D1 rankings (previous list rankings in brackets )

There will be a 64 draw in NCAA singles individual championships and 32 in doubles . Selection based primarily on rankings but automatic for conference highest ranked, most of whom will be in top 64 and top 32 anyway. So probably upper 50s in singles and upper 20s in doubles will be high enough to get in. Still plenty of time for things to change !

5 (5) Millie Rajecki

37 (26 ) Angelica Blake

46 (63) Vic Allen

56 (61) Grace Piper

115 (121) Destinee Martins

Doubles

15 (13 ) Rajecki/ Zampardo

26 ( 24 ) Adeshina/ Cabezas

29 (n/r) Allen / Bissett

37 (25 ) Cross / Spink

54 (42 ) Piper /Fry

35 (44 ) Reuter/ Honer

69 (73 ) Staff/ Ray

Team

1 (1) Oklahoma State

2 (2) Michigan

3 ( 3 ) Pepperdine

4 (5) Virginia

5 (4) Stanford

6 (6 ) UNC

7 ( 8 ) Georgia

8 (7) Texas

9 ( 9 )USC

10 (10 ) California ( Berkeley)

-- Edited by Dannythomas on Wednesday 3rd of April 2024 12:42:10 PM

Lambda · Challenger level

Congratulations to Millie Rajecki who minutes ago got her 100th career singles win. The 4th player in NC State history to do so.

She did it the hard way, coming from behind to defeat #14 Alexa Noel (Miami) 3-6 6-4 6-0.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Based on Dannys estimate above that players need to be in the 50s or better to get into the NCAA event, it looks like we could get 3 or 4 women. From Lambdas post we seem to have an amazing number of men in top 10, thats fabulous to see - how many of our men are in the likely positions to play in the NCAA in total (Danny estimates you need to be in the upper 50s, presumably that means between 55 and 60?

Lambda · Challenger level

The other men I think we have in the singles top 100 are
19. Toby Samuel (South Carolina)
58. Lui Maxted (TCU)
76. Will Jansen (North Carolina)

Lui's ranking seems impressive considering he hasn't played any ranked opponents. He started the year at position 5, moved up to 4 in mid March as part of the shuffling up when Jake was absent with injury and has played a couple of matches at 3 in the last week. He actually has the most wins for TCU this year with a 14-2 record [6-1 at pos 5, 5-1 at 4 and 3-0 at 3]. I'm wondering if he's the highest ranked not to play in the top 2 positions. I might check that later.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
The other men I think we have in the singles top 100 are
19. Toby Samuel (South Carolina)
58. Lui Maxted (TCU)
76. Will Jansen (North Carolina)

Lui's ranking seems impressive considering he hasn't played any ranked opponents. He started the year at position 5, moved up to 4 in mid March as part of the shuffling up when Jake was absent with injury and has played a couple of matches at 3 in the last week. He actually has the most wins for TCU this year with a 14-2 record [6-1 at pos 5, 5-1 at 4 and 3-0 at 3]. I'm wondering if he's the highest ranked not to play in the top 2 positions. I might check that later.

Thanks Lambda - so it looks like we could have , in singles, 5 men and 3 women in NCAA with 1 more of each on the cusp?

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Saturday 6th of April 2024 01:03:03 PM

Lambda · Challenger level

If anyone wants a bit of British tennis action on a Sunday night, Millie Bissett & Vic Allen v Millie Rajecki & partner followed by Vic Allen v Millie Rajecki is streaming here (select court 1). Starting now.

Lambda · Challenger level

Or if you fancy some mens action instead, JoMo will be going for his 100th career singles win. Stream here. Doubles first and singles in about 40 minutes

Dannythomas · Lower Club Player

That was a great win for Vic. 6-2 6-2 over Millie. Should push her into top 30 in tomorrows rankings. Millie got the win in doubles though .The singles loss might affect her ranking a little but not too much given her win over Alexa Noel a couple of days earlier.

Did anyone watch the match ?