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In most people's view UCLA should have been the 16th seed. They are ranked 16 and at the time of the draw had just beaten Ohio State in Ohio to win the Big Ten Championship. But the NCAA formula for determining the order of teams bumped them out of the seedings. The committee have no discretion to go against the formula in allocating seedings.

They struggled at the beginning of the season, depending on your point of view scheduling too aggressively or not arranging enough matches against mid ranked teams in addition to what they did play. They were 2-6 at the end of February having played opposition who are currently all bar 1 top 26 teams. They are 17-2 since. The match that lost them the 16th seed though was back in January, in the R1 match at the Kick off weekend that they lost 3-4 against, ironically, Texas A&M who, from the NCAA formula, got the 16 seed off UCLA. H2H is one of the criteria in the NCAA formula for deciding the order of teams.

Their win at the regional final last weekend against California was more notable than beating USC this weekend. Once San Diego were knocked out of their section and they got home advantage against USC, another unseeded team and ranked lower than them, they were favourites to get to the QF from their section.

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JonH comes home wrote:

Good to see what looks like 6 or even 7 men still in for finals weekend. Outside the USA itself, GB must be up there with the most represented? Is each team an 8 player squad, so maybe 64 players - and we have 6 or 7? Thats decent.


In the submitted line-ups for the finals, of the 83 players listed, GB is the next best represented after USA along with Spain.

Number of players submitted for finals (number played L16)
USA 37 (22)
GBR 8 (6)
Spain 6 (6)
Canada 3 (2)
Switzerland 3 (2)

Luke Swan (TCU) and Harry Thursfield (Wake Forest) are the 2 other GB players on the line-ups.

Interestingly, although 22 Americans played the L16 for the 8 teams that have qualified for the finals, most of them were for Columbia, Stanford and UCLA. Take those 3 teams out and the number of Americans that played the L16 from the other 5 finals teams is only 7.

There are 25 nations represented in total
Argentina, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, France, GBR, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Peru, Slovakia, South Korea,
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, USA






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Thanks Lambda, and its good to see the number of Brits is so relatively high. I wonder, do the American schools send scouts out here to watch players or is it all done via videos ?

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From interviews I've heard with coaches about recruitment, videos, UTR, wtn all play their part but from many of those I've heard interviewed most player identification is done by them talking to their network of trusted connections they have built and with either the head coach, assistant coach or both doing scouting trips. I can't remember any talking about scouts per se identifying players. I think with budgets of tennis programmes being so tight I'm not sure many would be able to afford scouts.

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