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US College chat 2025/26

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Weekly awards for 25 Feb to 3 March

Roan Jones (Senior) & Ant Wright (Sophomore) - UNC Chapel Hill - ACC Men's doubles team of the week
Went 2-0 in doubles play on the weekend with two wins over top 25 opponents.

Hannah Smith (& Nilsson) - Senior - DePaul - Big East Women's doubles team of the week
Smith and Nilsson went 3-0 on the No. 1 doubles court, winning matches with a combined scoreline of 18-3

Kai Cowcher - Junior - East Tennessee State - Southern Conference Men's player of the week
Cowcher compiled a perfect 3-0 record (2-0 in singles, 1-0 in doubles) last week as the Bucs picked up wins over UNC Asheville and No. 42 Charlotte.

Harrison Cooper - Freshman - UNC Asheville - Big South Men's Freshman of the week
Cooper went 2-0 on the week to help lead UNC Asheville over NC Central. His win at No. 4 singles clinched the match for the Bulldogs.

Francesca Davis (& Larsson) - Junior - William & Mary - CAA Women's doubles team of the week
Davis and Larsson put together a 2-0 record at No. 1 doubles to help William & Mary beat Longwood (7-0) and CAA foe Towson (5-2) last week.

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Today's top matches (times GMT)

Men
6pm Boston College v UNC Chapel Hill (Jones, Wright)
Midnight #10 Baylor (Koenig, Bowden) v #1 Ohio State (Okonkwo) Scoring Stream

Women
8PM #31 Alabama (K Paskauskas) at #14 Texas Scoring Stream
11PM #23 Florida (G Paskauskas, Black) at #4 LSU (Mcdonald) Stream/Scoring

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Men
UNC Chapel Hill (Jones, Wright) def. Boston College 7-0
At 2 Roan won 4 & 2; At 4 Ant won 3 & 2

#10 Baylor (Koenig, Bowden) def. #1 Ohio State (Okonkwo) 4-2
Dub 1: #15 Okonkwo/Bernard led Koenig/Van Schalkwyk 6-6 (5-4)
At 3, #29 Alex lost to #27 Van Schalkwyk 3 & 1; At 5 Luc lost to #93 Filin 4 & 5; At 6 Louis won 6-3 1-6 6-0

Women
#31 Alabama (K Paskauskas) lost to #14 Texas 0-4
At 1, #62 Kristina unfinished v #1 Herea 4-6 6-3

#23 Florida (G Paskauskas, Black) lost to #4 LSU (Mcdonald) 0-4
In dubs Brooke lost 4-6 and Ella was unfinished 4-5
At 3 Ella def. #26 Gabia 2 & 3; At 4 Brooke led v Kuhl 6-4 4-2
Ella clinched the dual for LSU. Her first college win since January.

Appalachian State (Dada-Mascoll, Hodson) def. Davidson 5-2
In dubs Savannah was unfinished 3-4; Allegra won 6-3
At 1, #8 Savannah won 2 & 2; At 4 Allegra won 2 & 2

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Women
Result/shock of the day
#35 Vanderbilt def. #1 Georgia 4-2
At 6 Erin Pearce (Vandy) def. #61 Sofia Rojas 6(2) & 6(2)
A superb win for Erin to get the winning team point and not one many would have predicted. Rojas is a solid player who is hard to beat.
"I'm so proud of Erin, who today earned the clinching point," [Head Coach] said. "She kept her composure and played an almost flawless tiebreaker to close it out. That's the most pressure-filled situation she's been in yet as a freshman, and she handled it so well. She's getting better and better by the match."

#2 Ohio State def. #40 Michigan 4-1
In dubs #17 Hep (OSU) back with Chavez won against their #36 ranked opponents 6-2
At 6 singles, Hep was first to finish with a 1 & 1 win. Flora (OSU) didn't play.

#9 NC State def. Florida State 4-0
In dubs Eva Shaw+ (FSU) lost 4-6, Jasmine Conway+ (NCSU) Ied Abby Kelliher+ (FSU) 5-4 unf.
At 1 #125 Eva lost to #41 Mia Slama 1&3; At 5 Abby was trailing 3-6 1-4 against Tori Osuigwe [WR706], At 6 Jasmine won 3 & 0
Slama now has a 3-1 record against our ladies this season (in college matches).

#17 USC def. Minnesota 4-1
At singles 1, Immi Haddad (USC) Won 1 & 3
USC rested their No1 moving Immi up to the top line.

Men
#4 Wake Forest def. Miami (FI) 4-0
Luca Pow partnering with Shah (WFU) won 6-2
At 3, #17 Luca was tied against his unranked opponent 2-6 7-6(4). Charlie didn't play.

Georgia men were upset/shocked too
#8 Georgia lost to #70 Alabama 3-4
Will Jansen+ and Derrick Chen+ (Georgia) both won doubles 6-2 and 6-4 respectively.
But both lost singles, Will 4 & 5 and Derrick 6(3) & 5

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Weekly awards

Erin Pearce - Freshman - Vanderbilt - SEC Women's Freshman of the week
Pearce was an X-factor for Vanderbilt, providing key wins in singles and doubles. Facing Georgia, Pearce, playing at the No. 6 spot, fended off No. 61 Sofia Rojas in two tiebreak sets, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (2), to deliver the clinch point for the Dores. It was the highest ranked win for Pearce so far, and her first in a clinch situation. Against South Carolina, No. 88 ranked Pearce and freshman Mia Yamakita sealed the doubles point for Vanderbilt

Lucy Webber - Junior - Richmond - A10 Women's Player of the week
Webber posted a strong week for the Spiders, going 2-0 in singles and 1-1 in doubles.

Francesca Davis - Junior - William & Mary - CAA Women's Player of the week
Davis went 2-0 at No. 3 singles as William & Mary split a pair of matches last week. In a 6-1 victory over CAA foe Drexel, she clinched the match with a 6-2, 6-0 win over Adva Dabah.

Oliver Hague - Junior - William & Mary - CAA Men's Doubles team of the week
Hague and Trakhtenberg were unbeaten at No. 1 doubles in William & Mary's 2-1 week.

Aneka Patel - Sophomore - Jacksonville State - CUSA Women's Doubles team of the week
Ramenskaja and Patel are coming off a 4-0 week against Eastern Kentucky, Cumberlands, Murray State, and Tennessee State.

James Sclater - Junior - Delaware - CUSA Men's Doubles team of the week
Robins and Sclater continued their dominant run in doubles play, improving to 5-0 on the year and picking up their third and fourth doubles victories in as many matches during dual match play

Theo Coats - Sophomore - Denver - Summit League Men's Doubles team of the week
Went 2-0 at the No. 1 doubles position during Denver's road duals. Improved to 3-0 together at the No. 1 spot this season

Daniel Franco-Key - Freshman - UNC Asheville - Big South Men's Freshman of the week
Franco-Key teamed up with Leo Kolbe to defeat Stonehill's Guillermo Bennaton and Javier Gutierrez on the No. 3 doubles court, 6-4. In singles, Franco Key picked up a 7-6, 6-1 straight-set win over Benjamin Beaudry on the No. 3 court.

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Oh Eva what happened? From 6-1 5-1 *40-30 to
1: Eva Shaw (FSU) tied #89 Vivian Yang (Virginia) 6-1 5-7 1-1 unfinished
4: #108 Isa Lacy (Virginia) def. Laura Putz (FSU) 6-3 6-1
5: Abby Kelliher (FSU) led #106 Martina Genis Salas (Virginia) 6-2, 3-6, 4-2, unfinished

Good scoreline for Abby against a former top 40 junior. Abby is not a regular in the line up, this being only her 5th match this year.
At the No 1 spot, Eva has won 4, lost 3, unfinished 5
In team play Isa is won 9, lost 1, unfinished 3, mostly at the No 4 spot

At the No. 2 spot Charlie Robertson (Wake Forest) led 6-3 3-0 unf.
At the No. 3 spot #20 Luca Pow (Wake Forest) won 6-0 6-1

Charlie struggled to finish matches early in the year but in his last 4 matches he has lost just 10 games over 7 and a bit sets.
Luca is on a 9 match win streak and in team play has 13 wins, 3 losses and 1 unfinished.

At 4 Oli Bonding (TCU) won 7-5 7-5
After a difficult first couple of months adapting to college tennis, Oli is unbeaten in March (4 wins, 1 unfinished)

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Not often you get 2 grand slam 2nd rounders meet in a college match

#46 Ollie Tarvet (USD) [WR 330] def. #8 Michael Zheng (Columbia) [WR 145] 6-2 6-3

JonH · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
Not often you get 2 grand slam 2nd rounders meet in a college match

#46 Ollie Tarvet (USD) [WR 330] def. #8 Michael Zheng (Columbia) [WR 145] 6-2 6-3

And that is a very solid win for Oli. Well done to him.

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In Miami, Isa wins the battle of Britain

Isabelle Lacy (Virginia) def. Jaquelyn Ogunwale (Miami) 4-6 6-1 6-1

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The Paskauskas sisters were reunited last night with I believe their parents also taking the opportunity to visit. It was the first time in their collegiate careers that they were on opposing sides in the same fixture, albeit on adjacent courts presenting a unique set of challenges.

"Having [my sister] as a teammate last year at NC State was such a great experience," Gabia explained after the match. "I don't think anything can top being on the same team as your sibling. But obviously now it's different because we're playing against each other and that's really difficult because there are lots of emotions. I want her to do well. She wants me to do well. It was a very weird dynamic on court today playing next to her but not on the same team.

"I was playing my point, but my mind was over on her court as well. I definitely need to work on my focus (laughs). I wouldn't say it completely affected me, but I would say the focus aspect, my mind kind of being on two courts, it was a little bit difficult to deal with that. And also seeing her go down in the match and then up in the match. It's a little bit of a game of emotions for sure. [Associate Head Coach Axel Damiens] kind of got me to come back, and he just told me to keep my eyes on my court and focus on what I need to do, and he gave me tactics and just to stick on to those."

Florida got a roasting after doubles

"[After doubles] we actually went to the very end court in the corner, and me and [teammate] Scarlett [Nicholson] said to each other 'Gosh, we're going in the naughty corner here.' He was strict, but he always wants the best for us, so he just told us to kind of regroup, refocus and get onto our doubles with loads of energy as a team, pumping each other up."

1 #34 Xinyi Nong / Daubnerova (UF) def. K Paskauskas / Bowman (ALA) 6-3
2 Milicevic / Bartel (ALA) def. Gynina / Black (UF) 6-4

1 #60 India Houghton (UF) unf. #73 Kristina Paskauskas (ALA) 6-3, 5-2
3 #39 Gabia Paskauskas (UF) def. Maria Andrienko (ALA) 6-4, 6-1
4 #123 Brooke Black (UF) unf. #98 Karla Bartel (ALA) 6-0, 5-7, 2-1

It's the first time Brooke has not completed her match. She's 9-3 in singles.
Gabia has won 4-1 since losing to Ella at the beginning of the month.
Kristina is struggling at No 1 against the top players in the SEC. Since conference matches started mid Feb she has 2 wins, 4 losses and 2 unfinished in which she was behind.

Brooke and her doubles partner are finding it difficult at No 2 doubles in conference play with only 1 win in their last 7. It's perhaps time to try a different partnership or move them down. Florida could do with the abovementioned Scarlett in doubles (who partnered Kylie Bilchev last year) but she's ineligible after transfering mid season having already played representing her previous school.

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A strange match at Utah (Kamea Medora) with at first glance an eyebrow raising 4-0 win over Oklahoma State. And then you see why. OKSU only had 4 available players forfeiting a doubles and 2 singles. Starting singles 3-0 down, they then injury retired at No 1 after 4 games of the first set. If OKSU only have 3 players available going forward I can see them following men's UT Arlington (Finbar Mc Garvey) in cancelling the rest of the season.

JonH · Tennis legend

Interesting that Gabia plays above Brooke - Im not close enough but thought of Brooke as a higher rated/ranked player?

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You're right Jon. Brooke is higher than Gabia by WTA ranking, by WTN and when Brooke joined in January I heard she had the best UTR on the team. I think the order is partly because when the initial positions were decided in January, Gabia was the highest ITA ranked player on the team after a successful fall season (and still is) and Brooke was new to college tennis and finding her feet. I half expected Brooke to move above Gabia as the season has gone on but, apart from a blip at the end of Feb, Gabia hasn't given the coach much reason to do that to my surprise. And sometimes its strategic. If you can get away with playing a player out of order then you've virtually got a guaranteed point on the board.

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1. #21 DK Suresh Ekambaram (WFU) def. #54 Roan Jones (UNC) 7-6 (3), 6-3
3. Ian Mayew (UNC) led Charlie Robertson (WFU) 7-5, 3-3 (unfinished)
4. #20 Luca Pow (WFU) led Constantinos Djakouris (UNC) 6-2, 2-4 (unfinished)

4. #32 Alex Okonkwo (OSU) def. Adam Jilly (ILLINI) 6-2, 6-3 (finished first)

3. Oliver Bonding (TCU) def. Mehdi Benchakroun (UCF): 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 (team match clinch point)

2. #38 Will Jansen (UGA) vs. #58 Oscar Lacides (OU) 6-4, 3-6, 4-4, unfinished
4. #108 Johan Rodriguez (OU) def. Derrick Chen (UGA) 7-5, 6-4

1. #46 Oliver Tarvet (USD) def. Cade Fernando (POR) 6-1, 6-3

6. Charlie Swaine (USCar) def. Brendan Loh (BAMA) 6-1, 6-2

5. Flora Johnson (OSU) vs. Savannah Cohen (RU) 4-6, 6-0, 1-0, unfinished
Flora did will to reset from throwing away a strange first set. Going 4-0 up for the loss of 2 points (both errors) and her opponent offering nothing it looked like she was on the way to a bagel first set. Instead she was hidden bageled. And then she didn't lose another game.
Hep didn't play. She usually plays No 1 doubles but didn't in this match and hasn't played singles for a couple of weeks.

3. #88 Ella McDonald (LSU) vs. #71 Eszter Meri (TEX) 3-6, 6-4, 2-0, unfinished

5. Jasmine Conway (NCS) def. Tola Glowacka (BC) 7-5, 6-0

4. Erin Pearce [Vanderbilt] def. No. 92 Catherine Aulia [Tennessee] (WTA CH 695) 6-3, 1-6, 6-4

3. Liv Hovde (DU) def. #108 Isabelle Lacy (UVA) 7-5, 2-6, 6-4

2. #46 Mayu Crossley (UCLA) def. Immi Haddad (USC) 6-4, 6-2

1. #62 Rinon Okuwaki (CU) def. Eva Shaw (FSU) 6-1, 6-3
4. Talia Neilson-Gatenb (CU) def. Kristyna Lavickova (FSU) 6-3, 6-2
5. Artemis Aslanisvili (CU) def. Abby Kelliher (FSU) 6-0, 3-6, 6-3

3. Given Roach (GT) def. Aely Arai (UM) 7-6 (7-2), 6-4
4. Jaquelyn Ogunwale (UM) def. Seri Nayuki (GT) 5-7, 6-4, 6-3

3. Ciara Moore (UA) vs S Shulzhenko (ISU) 7-5 4-6 5-6 unfinished

3. #109 Hannah Read (USD-W) def. Anna Rahman (SCUWTEN) 6-3, 6-0

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4. Isabelle Lacy (Virginia) def. Anna silly dance Frey (UNC) 6-7 (8-10) 7-6 (7-5) 6-2
Only Anna Frey's 2nd defeat in college. Virginia upset UNC 4-3

4. Erin Pearce (Vanderbilt) wins 6-2 6-0
(playing up 1 place)

3. #20 Luca Pow (WFU) def. Gerard Planelles Ripoll (Duke) 6-3, 6-2 (clinch point)
Charlie R was missing from doubles and singles

1. Ollie Tarvet wins 6-1 6-3

-- Edited by Lambda on Sunday 29th of March 2026 08:53:38 PM