General college chat 2024/25

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

RE: General college chat 2024/25

LordBrownof · Futures level

Wow, Charlie really thrown in at the deep end of college tennis.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Lambda wrote:
The final of the mens National Team Indoor Championships will be between the TCU Horned Frogs and the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. It will be TCUs 4th consecutive National Indoors final.

Wake Forest d. Texas 4-3
3. No. 121 Pierre-Yves Bailly (TEX) def. No. 98 Charlie Robertson (WFU) 6(4)-7, 6-3, 6-1
6. Luca Pow (WFU) def. Sebastian Eriksson (TEX) 6-2, 7-5

TCU d. Stanford 4-0
It was a close doubles taking an hour to play with Jack+ losing 5-7, Lui+ winning 7-5 against Max+ and the third and deciding doubles won by TCU in a 9-7 tie break.
1. #18 Jack Pinnington (TCU) vs. #31 Samir Banerjee (Stanford): 6-4, 4-5, unfinished
2. #6 Pedro Vives (TCU) def. #114 Max Basing (Stanford): 6-4, 6-3
3. #9 Lui Maxted (TCU) vs. Kyle Kang (Stanford): 6-4, 1-6, 1-1, unfinished

Final
The expected match ups in the final featuring our guys are
1. #2 Lui Maxted / Pedro Vives (TCU) Vs #30 DK Suresh / Stefan Dostanic (WFU)
2. Jack Pinnington / Cooper Woestendick (TCU) Vs #3 Luciano Tacchi / Luca Pow (WFU)

1. #18 Jack Pinnington (TCU) Vs #17 Stefan Dostanic (WFU)
3. #9 Lui Maxted (TCU) vs #98 Charlie Robertson (WFU)
6. Luca Pow (WFU) Vs Albert Pedrico (TCU)
Thanks Lambda - good to see so many Brits in the final! is that tonight ?

Interesting that Pedrico plays down at 6, his ATP ranking is pretty strong in the 700's, it looks like.

Lambda · ATP qualifying

Wake Forest are the 2025 Men's National Team Indoor Champions. It always felt coming into this that whoever would win the doubles would win the title and so it proved, but not before a TCU comeback after they looked down and out after losing doubles and 4 1st set singles. It came down to a decider on the top court between JPJ and Dostanic. The commentary said that JPJ felt a tweak in his abs in his match yesterday and perhaps that ultimately took its toll.

Doubles is won by Wake Forest 1-0
Wake Forest take 4 1st sets, it looks a tall order for TCU.
Luca (WFU) at 5 makes it 2-0 Wake Forest
Lui (TCU) at 3 pulls one back 2-1 Wake Forest
Vives (TCU) at 2 levels 2-2
Xilas (WFU) at 4 puts Wake back in front in a 11-9 2nd set tie break 3-2 Wake Forest
Woestendick (TCU) at 5 levels again in a 3 set win 3-3
Seconds later PJ wins the 2nd set to take the deciding match to a 3rd set
Dostanic (WFU) gets an early break 2-1 in the third.
And that proves decisive as Dostanic clinches to give Wake Forest the title 4-3

Wake Forest def. TCU 4-3
1. No. 30 Suresh/Dostanic (WFU) def. No. 2 Vives/Maxted (TCU) 6-2
2. Pinnington/Woestendick (TCU) def. No. 3 Tacchi/Pow (WFU) 6-4

1. No. 17 Stefan Dostanic (WFU) def. No. 18 Jack Pinnington (TCU) 7-6 (7-3), 5-7, 6-4
3. No. 9 Lui Maxted (TCU) def. No. 98 Charlie Robertson (WFU) 7-5, 6-3
6. Luca Pow (WFU) def. Al Pedrico Kravtsov (TCU) 6-2, 6-3

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Congrats to Luca on being part of the winning team and for winning his singles!

Thanks for the reports and updates, Lambda.

Lambda · ATP qualifying

Congratulations to our Players of the week this week as awarded by their conferences

Oliver Tarvet (San Diego) - West Coast singles
Sophia Johnson (Old Dominion) - Sun Belt singles
Hannah Smith+ (DePaul) [2nd consecutive week] - Big East doubles team for defeating 2 ranked teams including #18 Lily Hutchings+
Will Burridge (Drexel) - Coastal Athletic singles
Oliver Hague+ (William & Mary) [2nd consecutive week] - Coastal Athletic doubles team

Some Players of the week as awarded by their conferences from earlier weeks this year that I've come across
Alice Brook+ (Louisiana Tech)
Andrea Pineda (North Dakota) [peak performer of the week]
Oliver Tarvet [singles & doubles]
Luca Bluett+ (Santa Clara)
Jamie Connel (Florida State)
Eleanor Nobbs+ (DePaul)
Josh Reynolds (Hofstra)
Sam Nicholson (UNC Wilmington)
Francesca Davis+ (William & Mary)

Lambda · ATP qualifying

With the latest rankings we have the first computerised team rankings of the year and gives us the top 75 for the first time. There's no big surprises in the men's team rankings at first glance. Wake Forest take over the Number 1 ranking a long way ahead of the rest of the pack with their ranking score. Maybe a little surprising that Ohio State are 3rd and Texas 4th. Going into the Indoor Nationals, Wake, Texas and Virginia were regarded as the best 3 teams, and although TCU got to the final they were seen to be in the much weaker half of the draw and so I don't think opinions have really changed as to who the best 3 teams are even though the rankings says otherwise.

Team
1. Wake Forest (Robertson, Pow, Thursfield)
2. TCU (Pinnington-Jones, Maxted, Swan)
3. Ohio State (Jansen)
4. Texas
5. Virginia (Hopper)
6. Stanford (Basing)
7. San Diego (Tarvet)

Selected others
18. Baylor (Koenig, Bowden)
19. Alabama (Jones)
25. USC (Weightman)

In singles I was hoping that Ollie might have sneaked up to be No. 1 but instead he falls to No 4., partly as a result of TCU's Vives and Arizona's Colton Smith increasing their ranking scores. Ollie has a couple more opportunities to pick up wins that will contribute to his ranking ahead of San Diego's conference season, most notably San Diego's schedule will pit him against #3 Colton Smith tomorrow and #1 Michael Zheng in a month's time. The only other of note is that Will Jansen and Charlie Robertson drop out of the top 125.

Singles
4. Oliver Tarvet (San Diego) 14-1
11. Lui Maxted (TCU) 17-6
22. Jack Pinnington-Jones (TCU) 4-3
43. Jamie Connel (Florida State) 14-6
59. Roan Jones (Alabama) 17-3
79. Raffaello Papajcik (Denver) 12-5
80. Max Basing (Stanford) 8-5
83. Derrick Chen (Cal) 12-5
110. Connor Thomson (South Carolina) 2-2
114. Anthony Wright (UNC) 12-10
124. Will Nolan (Auburn) 10-4

GB remains strong in doubles with 5 players on 4 teams in the top 10. Surprisingly, Ollie not only retains the No 1 ranking from Lui despite Lui being the NCAA champions and having defeated Ollie last weekend, but the gap in the ranking scores between the top 2 widens such is the peculiarity of the college ranking system.

Doubles (top 20)
1. Oliver Tarvet (/Klaassen) [USD] 13-2
2. Lui Maxted (/Vives) [TCU] 17-3
3. Luca Pow (/Tacchi) [Wake Forest] 21-4
9. Billy Blaydes / Will Nolan [Auburn] 18-3
14. Henry Jefferson (/Nirundorn) [Florida] 8-4
16. Freddy Blaydes (/Ratiu) [Georgia] 12-5

Lambda · ATP qualifying

Things are much different with the first women's computerised rankings compared with the coaches polling that they were previously based on. There is a lot of shuffling around, and 3 things of particular notice to me are Stanford at 34 after being in the coaches polling top 4 for all except the poll last week. The other 2 notes are that Miami and Florida State are not ranked in the top 75 teams. Miami (Ogunwale) was expected after their roster problems and going 1-4 so far this year, but I'm stunned Florida State (Shaw, Bissett) is not ranked. But perhaps I shouldn't be surprised as I was looking at the schedule at the weekend and my thought was their non-conference schedule was very weak with little opportunity to pick up decent ranking points.

Team
1. Georgia
2. Virginia (Lacy)
3. UNC
4. Auburn
5. Michigan

14. NC State (Paskauskas, Paskauskas, Conway)
18. USC (Piper, Haddad)
19. Clemson (A. Davis)
20. Central Florida (Rylatt)

Selected others
29. San Diego (Read)
33. Georgia Tech (Roach, Bilchev)
37. Furman (Jess Dawson)
40. Florida (Dudeney, Neilsen-Gatenby)
42. Old Dominion (Johnson)

Sofia drops out of the top 10. But Isabelle enters the rankings at 60 (and would be higher if she had a full set of wins that count).
Singles
11. Sofia Johnson (ODU) 15-5
43. Grace Piper (USC) 9-8
60. Isabelle Lacy (Virginia) 4-1
63. Imogen Haddad (USC) 13-7
73. Gabia Paskauskas (NC State) 12-6

In doubles, Alicia remains our highest ranked doubles team with Rachel Gailis although they haven't played together since the NCAAs. Pleasing to see Hannah Smith and Jess Dawson in the rankings. Pleasing also to see Eva Shaw make an entry but the fact she and partner are unbeaten in 7 matches playing at line 1 but ranked only 86 demonstrates the weakness of Florida State's schedule.
Doubles
6. Alicia Dudeney (/Gailis) [Florida] 8-1
9. Grace Piper (/Fairclough) [USC] 12-4
35. Savannah Dada-Mascoll (/Romanichen) [App State] 13-3
45. Millie Bissett (/Juliana Parra Romero) [Florida State] 6-3
46. Lily Hutchings (/Berlanga) [Tulsa] 13-3
49. Hannah Smith (/Goncharov) [DePaul] 5-2
64. Jess Dawson (/Hitchc0ck) [Furman] 7-2
84. Given Roach (/Cruz) [Georgia Tech] 14-9
86. Eva Shaw (/Juliana Parra Romero) [Florida State] 7-0