US College Signings and General College Chat 2023/24

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RE: US College Signings 2023/24

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Dannythomas wrote:
Selections for The National Fall Championships are largely based on performance in the Regionals. There are 2 players from each region who get in. That may sound logical but in fact there are some very strong regions where there should be more representation and some very weak ones where 2 spots is too many. In fact a lot of the top ranked players do not even play in the regionals. As a result there are only 5 top 20 men players and 5 top 20 women in the draw.

Compare this with the All American tournament where the majority of the top ranked players compete. As an example neither Millie Rajecki nor Angelica Blake played the event but both played All Americans.

Its still a competitive event with some very good players but probably it should be called Super Regionals rather than National Championships.

when you say the All American championship, do you mean the NCAA championships played earlier in the year? Or is the All American something different ?!

Jack won his semi and plays Micah Braswell in the final.

Lambda · Futures level

The All American Championships are at the beginning of October. I posted about it at the time. It's a qualifying event for the Fall Nationals with (not quite sure but I think) the 4 semi-finalists earning a place.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
The All American Championships are at the beginning of October. I posted about it at the time. It's a qualifying event for the Fall Nationals with (not quite sure but I think) the 4 semi-finalists earning a place.

Ok, cool, thanks Lambda. The NCAA in May , I think, is bigger again. I know weve been through this before, just trying to establish the hierarchy in my mind! Paul Jubb, of course famously won the NCAA and didnt Arthur Fery do well also.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
The All American Championships are at the beginning of October. I posted about it at the time. It's a qualifying event for the Fall Nationals with (not quite sure but I think) the 4 semi-finalists earning a place.

And sorry - DannyThomas above is suggesting the All Americans has a stronger field and yet from your post the All Americans is a qualifier for these Fall Nationals? Which seems paradoxical!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
It was the ITA All American Championships last week.

In a 64 draw, Jack Pinnington won a couple of rounds before unfortunately giving a walkover in R16. Oliver Tarvet having got through qualifying, won one match and lost in the R32.

In the women's, a 32 draw, disappointing losses for Millie Rajecki and Angelica Blake in R16.

There was lots of other British representation in qualifying, pre-qualifying and doubles but I'm not going through them.

Found your Post on the All Americans, thanks.

Dannythomas · Lower Club Player

JonH comes home wrote:
Lambda wrote:
The All American Championships are at the beginning of October. I posted about it at the time. It's a qualifying event for the Fall Nationals with (not quite sure but I think) the 4 semi-finalists earning a place.
And sorry - DannyThomas above is suggesting the All Americans has a stronger field and yet from your post the All Americans is a qualifier for these Fall Nationals? Which seems paradoxical!

I know. The selection criteria for the National Fall Championships is : 24 players from the 12 regionals ( including 2 from each of the weaker regions ) , 4 All American semi finalists, 2 winners from a couple of college events and 2 wild cards. No players are selected based on their national rankings. Even the wild cards are awarded based on performance in the Regionals. It is only a 32 draw with no qualifying or pre qualifying. So the majority of the top ranked players dont play.

On the other hand the All Americans has a 96 draw prequalifying, 64 qualifying and 32 main.Selections for the main draw are 12 top ranked regional players, 8 qualifiers , 8 based on National rankings and 4 wild cards based primarily on national rankings. So pretty much all of the top ranked players get into main or qualifying. It is a much tougher tournament to win.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Jacks final is on court now, 3 all first set.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jack lost his final, 6-4 6-4

Lambda · Futures level

Players joining in the spring. The women were already known from earlier in the thread but now officially announced by the Programmes in the last week. I don't recall the men being mentioned before.

Hugo Coquelin signs for Vanderbilt
Henry Jefferson signs for Florida
Eva Shaw signs for Florida State
Immi Haddad signs for South California
Jasmine Conway signs for Pepperdine

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Absolutely thrilled for Eva - and SO hope her injuries are behind her

As a reminder, Eva was our joint national champion in 2021 - she won the U18s and U16s national championships. An amazing performance.

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Lambda · Futures level

The ITA NCAA Div I rankings at the conclusion of the fall season were released earlier this week. This features the top 125 in singles and the top 60 in doubles. Comments from their program websites.

#3 Jack Pinnington (TCU) became just the second ITA National Fall Championships finalist in the TCU program's 49-year history. He is the first TCU player to reach a national singles final since 1982. Pinnington's performance cemented him among the sport's rising amateur starts. The London native concluded the fall season with a 12-3 singles record. Seven of his wins were against ranked opponents. All but two of his victrices were sweeps.

#8 Oliver Tarvet (San Diego) is off to a roaring start to his sophomore year, going 11-2 in singles and 4-1 in doubles so far this season. Five of those wins have come against ranked opponents.

#20 Johannus Monday (Tennessee, Knoxville)

#64 Lui Maxted (TCU)

#97 Jamie Connel (Florida State) led the Seminoles with 11 singles victories in the fall, including three ranked wins. Connel's highest-ranked win was a 6-4, 6-7(4), 6-4 victory over USC's No. 63 Wojtek Marek. In the first fall event, Connel emerged victorious after winning the Battle At The Beach tournament.

Doubles
15 Duncan CHAN / Lui MAXTED (TCU)
19 Justas TRAINAUSKAS / Peter ALAM (Pacific)
26 Johannus MONDAY / Angel DIAZ (Tennessee, Knoxville)
46 Sasha TRKULJA / Matthew HOLLINGWORTH (Gonzaga)

-- Edited by Lambda on Friday 17th of November 2023 06:26:11 PM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
The ITA NCAA Div I rankings at the conclusion of the fall season were released earlier this week. This features the top 125 in singles and the top 60 in doubles. Comments from their program websites.

#3 Jack Pinnington (TCU) became just the second ITA National Fall Championships finalist in the TCU program's 49-year history. He is the first TCU player to reach a national singles final since 1982. Pinnington's performance cemented him among the sport's rising amateur starts. The London native concluded the fall season with a 12-3 singles record. Seven of his wins were against ranked opponents. All but two of his victrices were sweeps.

#8 Oliver Tarvet (San Diego) is off to a roaring start to his sophomore year, going 11-2 in singles and 4-1 in doubles so far this season. Five of those wins have come against ranked opponents.

#64 Lui Maxted (TCU)

#97 Jamie Connel (Florida State) led the Seminoles with 11 singles victories in the fall, including three ranked wins. Connel's highest-ranked win was a 6-4, 6-7(4), 6-4 victory over USC's No. 63 Wojtek Marek. In the first fall event, Connel emerged victorious after winning the Battle At The Beach tournament.

Doubles
15 Duncan CHAN / Lui MAXTED (TCU)
19 Justas TRAINAUSKAS / Peter ALAM (Pacific)
26 Johannus MONDAY / Angel DIAZ (Tennessee, Knoxville)
46 Sasha TRKULJA / Matthew HOLLINGWORTH (Gonzaga)

Peter Alam is a new name to me? any background in him

Lambda · Futures level

This is his roster profile https://pacifictigers.com/sports/mens-tennis/roster/peter-alam/4947

Lambda · Futures level

In the women's NCAA Div I rankings

#3 Millie Rajecki (NC State) earns the highest ITA Ranking in NC State Program history. In the College Ranked Fall Spotlight Rajecki won the A1 singles draw with five ranked wins, which included defeating now No. 1 Mary Stoiana of Texas A&M and defeating No. 15 Irina Canto Siemers of Ohio State in the finals. It was the second consecutive year Rajecki took home first place as she won the A2 singles draw in the 2022 ranked spotlight event.

#48 Angelica Blake (Stanford) - 1-1 for the fall season. In the ITA All-American main draw's opening round she upset North Carolina's No. 5 Reese Brantmeier 6-4, 5-7, 7-5

#58 Destinee Martins (TCU) became the first Horned Frog to reach the semifinals of the Texas Regionals since Sasha Zenovka in 2017. Her march to the final four featured a three-set takedown of the tournament's top overall seed, Texas' Tanya Sasnouskaya 2-6, 7-6, 6-4, in the round of 16. Martins went on to better No. 5 seed Daria Smetannikov of Texas A&M, 6-2, 4-6, 6-1, in the quarterfinals and put herself within a victory of a berth to the ITA National Fall Championships. She fell to No. 4 seed Malaika Rapolu of Texas 6-4, 6-4 in the semifinal to wrap up her terrific run.

#66 Grace Piper (USC)

#95 Holly Staff (Vanderbilt)

#103 Holly Fischer had a strong fall season to land herself in the top-125, going undefeated through her five matches. Fischer began her fall going 2-0 in the Crimson home tournament, the Harvard Fall Classic. In her opening match of the season, the junior downed Rozalia Gruszynska (Cincinnati) in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4. The London, England native picked up the final three wins of her fall season by going 3-0 at the ITA Northeast Regionals.

#105 Annabelle Davis (North Florida)

#123 Kylie Bilchev (Georgia Tech)

Doubles
7 Millie RAJECKI / Maddy ZAMPARDO (NC State)
19 Sofia CABEZAS / Esther ADESHINA (Tennessee, Knoxville)
27 Angelica BLAKE / Alexis BLOKHINA (Stanford)
29 Grace PIPER / Parker FRY (Southern California)
33 Amelia HONER / Kira REUTER (UC Santa Barbara)
43 Victoria ALLEN / Millie BISSETT (Florida State)
59 Holly STAFF / Valeria RAY (Vanderbilt)