US College: ITA All-American Championships 2024 - Hard - Tulsa, OK & Cary, NC

Lambda · Challenger level

RE: US College: ITA All-American Championships 2024 - Hard - Tulsa, OK & Cary, NC

Lambda · Challenger level

Lui and Will have been given a tough route to make the QFs and a NCAA qualifying spot. If Lui wins his R1 match he will likely play Ozan Baris, the #1 ranked player in the pre-season rankings and therefore top seed here. Will plays a pre-qualifier in the opening round, and if he makes it through his first 2 rounds then he will play the winner of the prospective Ozan/Lui match. If neither Lui or Will make it to the QFs they will have another route to the NCAAs through the consolation draw, but I think as they are in the same 1/8th of the draw they would meet each other before the consolation draw final and so both wouldn't be able to qualify for the NCAAs at this attempt. But they make spring a surprise and beat the #1 and we need not concern ourselves of that.

As all players directly in the main draw will have an ITA ranking, I'll drop the WTN now and just use ITA rankings.

Ro64: Lui Maxted (TCU) 39 vs Alex Kotzen (Tennessee) 34
Ro64: Will Jansen (Ohio State) 35 vs [Q/PQ] Maxwell Smith (Clemson) UNR

Ro64: [3] Oliver Tarvet (San Diego) 3 vs Adit Sinha (Cornell) 54
Ro64: [Q] Anthony Wright (UNC) UNR vs [9-16] Jay Friend (Arizona) 15

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
Lui and Will have been given a tough route to make the QFs and a NCAA qualifying spot. If Lui wins his R1 match he will likely play Ozan Baris, the #1 ranked player in the pre-season rankings and therefore top seed here. Will plays a pre-qualifier in the opening round, and if he makes it through his first 2 rounds then he will play the winner of the prospective Ozan/Lui match. If neither Lui or Will make it to the QFs they will have another route to the NCAAs through the consolation draw, but I think as they are in the same 1/8th of the draw they would meet each other before the consolation draw final and so both wouldn't be able to qualify for the NCAAs at this attempt. But they make spring a surprise and beat the #1 and we need not concern ourselves of that.

As all players directly in the main draw will have an ITA ranking, I'll drop the WTN now and just use ITA rankings.

Ro64: Lui Maxted (TCU) 39 vs Alex Kotzen (Tennessee) 34
Ro64: Will Jansen (Ohio State) 35 vs [Q/PQ] Maxwell Smith (Clemson) UNR

Ro64: [3] Oliver Tarvet (San Diego) 3 vs Adit Sinha (Cornell) 54
Ro64: [Q] Anthony Wright (UNC) UNR vs [9-16] Jay Friend (Arizona) 15

Is the consolation draw a straight play back through the bracket that has already been drawn, or will they do a new draw for the consolation event?

Lambda · Challenger level

Our women haven't been given easy draws either. Sofia could have got luckier than having to open with a seeded opponent. For a ranking Sofia is heavily dependant on these competitions as there are a lack of highly ranked opponents in her conference. Not that rankings have any significance now when not returning the next season. But that said she has the ability to beat many higher ranked players than her, so this will be a good test for her. Gabia plays Annabelle Xu who knocked out Vic Allen in the NCAAs in May to reach the round of 16. We will be doing well to get more than 1 win here, but there is an outside chance I think of up to 3.

Ro64: Sofia Johnson (ODU) 37 vs [13] Julia Garcia Ruiz (Oklahoma) 16
Ro64: [Q/PQ] Imogen Haddad (USC) UNR vs Guillermina Grant (Georgia) 75
Winners meet in the next round

Ro64: [Q/PQ] Gabia Paskauskas (NC State) vs Annabelle Xu (Virginia) 21
Ro64: Grace Piper (USC) 36 vs Melodie Collard (Virginia) 91

Ro64: Kylie Bilchev (GT) 51 vs DJ Bennett (Auburn) 32

Lambda · Challenger level

JonH comes home wrote:
Lambda wrote:
Lui and Will have been given a tough route to make the QFs and a NCAA qualifying spot. If Lui wins his R1 match he will likely play Ozan Baris, the #1 ranked player in the pre-season rankings and therefore top seed here. Will plays a pre-qualifier in the opening round, and if he makes it through his first 2 rounds then he will play the winner of the prospective Ozan/Lui match. If neither Lui or Will make it to the QFs they will have another route to the NCAAs through the consolation draw, but I think as they are in the same 1/8th of the draw they would meet each other before the consolation draw final and so both wouldn't be able to qualify for the NCAAs at this attempt. But they make spring a surprise and beat the #1 and we need not concern ourselves of that.

As all players directly in the main draw will have an ITA ranking, I'll drop the WTN now and just use ITA rankings.

Ro64: Lui Maxted (TCU) 39 vs Alex Kotzen (Tennessee) 34
Ro64: Will Jansen (Ohio State) 35 vs [Q/PQ] Maxwell Smith (Clemson) UNR

Ro64: [3] Oliver Tarvet (San Diego) 3 vs Adit Sinha (Cornell) 54
Ro64: [Q] Anthony Wright (UNC) UNR vs [9-16] Jay Friend (Arizona) 15
Is the consolation draw a straight play back through the bracket that has already been drawn, or will they do a new draw for the consolation event?

Don't know. I think they just feed in to the same line they were in the main draw.

Lambda · Challenger level

As a fan of Sofia I should have had more confidence in her than just an outside chance as she demolishes the 13th seed 1 & 1. It just strengthens my belief that had she chosen to play her college tennis at a Power 4 school she would be ranked top 20.

Ro64: Sofia Johnson (ODU) 37 DEFEATED [13] Julia Garcia Ruiz (Oklahoma) 16 | 6-1 6-1

Lambda · Challenger level

Meanwhile in the men, and of interest to Lui and Will, we're on upset alert as the top seed drops the 1st set 2-6.

Lui leads having taken the first set tie-break 7-1.

Lambda · Challenger level

Lambda wrote:
Meanwhile in the men, and of interest to Lui and Will, we're on upset alert as the top seed drops the 1st set 2-6.

Lui leads having taken the first set tie-break 7-1.

Lui through 7-6(1) 6-1. But he may face the top seed in the next round yet who from in danger of going a set and a double break down wins 6 games in a row to take it to a decider.

Kylie lost 2-6 4-6

pauliscot · Social player

does anyone know if Holly Fischer was competing here?

Lambda · Challenger level

pauliscot wrote:
does anyone know if Holly Fischer was competing here?

No she wasn't. She didn't play in Harvard's opening weekend last week either.

pauliscot · Social player

Thanks Lambda maybe injured then...

Lambda · Challenger level

The men's top seed goes out opening up Lui and Will's route to the QF.

Will leads 6-1 2-6 5-1*
Ollie leads 6-1
Anthony behind 4-5*

Gabia leads 7-6(5)
Immi tied 7-6(4) 2-6
Grace leads 6-2 *4-0

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Will Jansen and Grace Piper both get wins

Lambda · Challenger level

Immi Haddad goes through to set up the match with Sofia.
Oliver Tarvet wins 6-1 6-2
Anthony Wright goes to the consolation draw.

Gabia P tied at a set a piece.

Lambda · Challenger level

Valiant effort by Gabia but Xu raised her game. She can be proud of what she's achieved this week and maybe it gives her coached some food for thought in team line-up for the team season.

Ro64: Sofia Johnson (ODU) 37 DEFEATED [13] Julia Garcia Ruiz (Oklahoma) 16 | 6-1 6-1
Ro64: [Q/PQ] Imogen Haddad (USC) UNR DEFEATED Guillermina Grant (Georgia) 75 | 7-6(4) 2-6 6-4
Winners meet in the next round

Ro64: [Q/PQ] Gabia Paskauskas (NC State) LOST TO Annabelle Xu (Virginia) 21 | 7-6(5) 2-6 2-6
Ro64: Grace Piper (USC) 36 DEFEATED Melodie Collard (Virginia) 91 | 6-2 6-0

Ro64: Kylie Bilchev (GT) 51 LOST TO DJ Bennett (Auburn) 32 | 2-6 4-6

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Ro32: Sofia Johnson (ODU) 37 vs [Q/PQ] Imogen Haddad (USC) UNR
Ro32: Grace Piper (USC) 36 vs Lily Jones (Michigan) 45