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

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Great stuff, well done Oli.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

I hadnt really clocked that Oli has won 2 ITF titles this year ( and 2 last) and is ranked 624. Feels like a player to keep an eye on.

Lambda · Challenger level

Grace might not have secured her place in the NCAAs for singles just yet, but she and Lily Fairclough come back from 2-5* down in the MTB to win 10-6 to make the doubles SF here and secure their place at the NCAAs. smile

Strongbow · All-time great

Lambda wrote:
Grace might not have secured her place in the NCAAs for singles just yet, but she and Lily Fairclough come back from 2-5* down in the MTB to win 10-6 to make the doubles SF here and secure their place at the NCAAs.

biggrin biggrin I tried to find Grace's results on the ITA site but it made the WTA site look professional disbelief

Lambda · Challenger level

Strongbow wrote:
Lambda wrote:
Grace might not have secured her place in the NCAAs for singles just yet, but she and Lily Fairclough come back from 2-5* down in the MTB to win 10-6 to make the doubles SF here and secure their place at the NCAAs.
I tried to find Grace's results on the ITA site but it made the WTA site look professional

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Grace's page

Lambda · Challenger level

Oli does the double and also qualifies for the NCAAs in doubles. Lui and Pedro, perhaps a little surprisingly, unfortunately do not and will need to try again in one of the 3 remaining qualifying competitions.

QF: Lui Maxted & Pedro Vives (TCU) LOST TO Marko Miladinovic & Oskar Brostrom Poulsen (Baylor) 5-7 7-5 [8-10]
QF: Oliver Tarvet & Stian Klaassen (SDU) DEFEATED [3] Togan Tokac & Giulio Perego (Texas A&M) 6-4 7-5

QF: Grace Piper & Lily Fairclough (USC) DEFEATED [5] Oyinlomo Quadre & Katerina Mandelikova (FIU) 6-4 3-6 [10-6]

Men SF: Oliver Tarvet & Stian Klaassen (SDU) vs Zsombor Velcz & Devin Badenhorst (Baylor)

Women SF: Grace Piper & Lily Fairclough (USC) vs Gabriella Broadfoot & Maddy Zampardo (NC State)
Zampardo was Millie Rajecki's partner last year.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Thanks for the in depth coverage of this Lambda.

Quick question - again!- are all the top Brits in this event or is there a slug of higher ranked players not here that are already qualified and waiting in the NCAA field? And which Brits would already be there that arent playing here?

Lambda · Challenger level

Grace and Sofia still have a chance to qualify for the NCAAs through the consolation draw. The good news is that they are in separate halves of the draw so can both qualify. The less good news is that with so many upsets in the early rounds of the main draw there are lots of seeds in the consolation draw that wouldn't have expected to be in this draw. The format is 2 rounds today and the SF tomorrow. The final is not played because both players will have qualified for the NCAAs which is what they are playing for.

Sofia has 4th seed Connie Ma (Stanford) in her half of the draw, who she would potentially play in the SF, but first she has to get past the #23 ranked Luciana Perry (Ohio State).
Grace has an even more difficult task with either the No 1 seed or 8th seed in the next round if she can get past the 11th seed Amelia Horner (UC Santa Barbara).

Lambda · Challenger level

JonH comes home wrote:
Thanks for the in depth coverage of this Lambda.

Quick question - again!- are all the top Brits in this event or is there a slug of higher ranked players not here that are already qualified and waiting in the NCAA field? And which Brits would already be there that arent playing here?

Nobody has already qualified for the NCAAs prior to this event. All the Brits that would have the realistic hope of making the NCAAs are here with the exception of JPJ who we know isn't entered to play the fall season and most probably has finished his college career although he remains on TCU's roster.

The highest (and only) ranked man not here is Oscar Weightman and the highest (and only) ranked women absent is Holly Fischer. Neither would be expected to make the NCAAs.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Thanks for the in depth coverage of this Lambda.

Quick question - again!- are all the top Brits in this event or is there a slug of higher ranked players not here that are already qualified and waiting in the NCAA field? And which Brits would already be there that arent playing here?
Nobody has already qualified for the NCAAs prior to this event. All the Brits that would have the realistic hope of making the NCAAs are here with the exception of JPJ who we know isn't entered to play the fall season and most probably has finished his college career although he remains on TCU's roster.

The highest (and only) ranked man not here is Oscar Weightman and the highest (and only) ranked women absent is Holly Fischer. Neither would be expected to make the NCAAs.

Ok, thank you!

and the other 3 qualies events - regionals , sectionals , conference masters - how many places do they have allocated to them for the NCAA event? The NCAA is 64 draw singles and 32 pair doubles draw isnt it?

Dannythomas · Lower Club Player

Great coverage Lambda. Got to reiterate my view that , while the format for NCAA individuals qualification is interesting , holding it in the fall means that it leaves players with nothing to play for other than team events in the rest of the college year. That is particularly the case for those players not playing for teams likely to compete in the final stages of the NCAAs. The individual rankings will also mean very little especially for seniors playing in their final year who will not be playing for 2025-6 fall events qualification. And even more so on the womens side with only a handful of spots open into the accelerator program.

-- Edited by Dannythomas on Saturday 28th of September 2024 08:13:02 AM

Lambda · Challenger level

JonH comes home wrote:
and the other 3 qualies events - regionals , sectionals , conference masters - how many places do they have allocated to them for the NCAA event? The NCAA is 64 draw singles and 32 pair doubles draw isnt it?

Regionals - 2 singles places from each region (26 places in total) and 1 doubles place from each region (13 places)
Sectionals - 6 singles from each section (24 places) and 3 doubles places from each section (12 places)
Conference Masters - 4 singles places and 3 doubles places.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
and the other 3 qualies events - regionals , sectionals , conference masters - how many places do they have allocated to them for the NCAA event? The NCAA is 64 draw singles and 32 pair doubles draw isnt it?
Regionals - 2 singles places from each region (26 places in total) and 1 doubles place from each region (13 places)
Sectionals - 6 singles from each section (24 places) and 3 doubles places from each section (12 places)
Conference Masters - 4 singles places and 3 doubles places.

Thank you!

Lambda · Challenger level

Oli has been given a walkover to the final.