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RE: General college chat 2024/25

Lambda · ATP level

TCU win No 5. In 3 sets
WFU 2 TCU 1

3. Lui into a 2nd set tie break

6. Luca wins 6-3 1-6 6-2
WFU 3 TCU 1
Uphill task for TCU now

Lambda · ATP level

3. Lui wins 6-1 7-6(3)
WFU 3 TCU 2
Game on

Remaining 2 courts are on serve mid way through the 3rd set.

Lambda · ATP level

Wake Forest are the NCAA national champions
(1) Wake Forest defeated (2) TCU 4-2

Doubles
1. DK Suresh/Xilas (WFU) Vs Maxted/Vives (TCU) 5-4* unfinished
2. Robertson/Dostanic (WFU) d. Pinnington-Jones/Woestendick (TCU) 6-3
3. Pow/Tacchi (WFU) d. Chan/Pedrico (TCU) 6-2

Singles
1. Stefan Dostanic (WFU) d. Jack Pinnington-Jones (TCU) 6-3 6-1
2. DK Suresh (WFU) d. Pedro Vives (TCU) 6-2 3-6 6-3
3. Lui Maxted (TCU) d. Iaonnis Xilas 6-1 7-6(3)
4. Charlie Robertson (WFU) led Cooper Woestendick (TCU) 3-6 6-2 5-3 unfinished
5. Albert Pedrico (TCU) d. Luciano Tacchi (WFU) 3-6 6-1 6-2
6. Luca Pow (WFU) d. Duncan Chan (TCU) 6-3 1-6 6-2

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Well done them and well done Luca and Charles!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
By the by, the nationalities of the 12 playing in the final are
GBR 4
USA 2
Spain 2
Greece 1
India 1
Argentina 1
Canada 1

Thats good to see and Luca and Charles played a big part in their team winning.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Did you manage to watch any, Lambda?

Lambda · ATP level

JonH comes home wrote:
Did you manage to watch any, Lambda?

It was only available on ESPN+ which you can only sign up to if you're a subscriber to one of the networks that carries it. Which obviously excludes anyone from the UK from signing up.

Lambda · ATP level

Grace Piper (USC) doesn't look like she will be trying pros anytime soon.

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B1G Scholarship for Grace Piper!!

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JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Hey Lambda - nodding to your knowledge around this. Do any of the Brits deserve PoM nominations this month? Wake forest Brits? Luca or JPJ? Any of the other Brits that played in finals weekend? Or anyone more widely?

Let you make the call but wanted to prompt as I know you typically like to pop someone forwards who deserves the nod!

Lambda · ATP level

The end of season rankings are out.

Men's team
1. Wake Forest [Robertson, Pow, Thursfield]
2. TCU [Pinnington-Jones, Maxted, Swan]
3. Texas
4. Stanford [Basing]
5. Virginia

Selected others
6. Ohio State [Jansen]
9. San Diego [Tarvet]
12. California [Chen]
13. South Carolina [Thomson]
14. UCLA [Revelli]
15. Tennessee [Nisbet]

Women's team
1. Georgia
2. Texas A&M
3. Michigan
4. UNC
5. Duke

Selected Others
7. Virginia [Lacy]
12. NC State [Paskauskas, Paskauskas, Conway]
20. USC [Piper, Haddad]
21. Central Florida [Rylatt]

43. Old Dominion [Johnson]
45. Florida [Dudeney, Neilsen-Gatenby]
53. Miami [Ogunwale]
67. Florida State [Shaw, Bissett]

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Men's singles

Top 5
1. Timo Legout (Texas)
2. Michael Zheng (Columbia)
3. Colton Smith (Arizona)
4. Rafael Jodar (Virginia)
5. Oliver Tarvet (San Diego)

British
5. Oliver Tarvet (San Diego)
12. Jack Pinnington-Jones (TCU)
17. Connor Thomson (South Carolina)
34. Lui Maxted (TCU)
46. Jamie Connel (Florida State)
79. Roan Jones (Alabama)
85. Max Basing (Stanford)
101. Alex Okonkwo (Tulsa)

Congratulations to Ollie Tarvet for being the highest ranked British male in US College tennis. He said a couple of months ago he has every intention of returning for his senior year. He is particularly targeting the individual NCAAs in November.

Jack PJ drops out of the top 10 and will not be returning for his senior year. Connor ends his college career in the top 20 after having missed significant periods of his college career with knee injuries. Lui ends his college career as arguably one of the most improved players in US College this year.

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Men's doubles

Top 5
1. Lui Maxted/Pedro Vives [TCU]
2. Petar Jovanovic/Benito Sanchez Martinez [Mississippi State]
3. Cooper Williams/Theo Winegar [Duke]
4. Togan Tokax/Theo Papamalamis [Texas A&M]
5. Braden Shick/Fons Van Sambeek [NC State]

British
1. Lui Maxted (with Pedro Vives) [TCU]
7. Connor Thomson (with Lucas Andrade da Silva) [South Carolina]
8. Charlie Robertson (with Dhakshineswar Suresh) [Wake Forest]
13. Oliver Tarvet (with Stian Klaassen) [San Diego]
16. Luca Pow (with Luciano Tacchi) [Wake Forest]
18. Billy Blaydes & Will Nolan [Auburn]
20. Charlie Robertson (with Stefan Dostanic) [Wake Forest]
21. Henry Jefferson (with Tanapatt Nirundorn) [Florida]
25. Jack Pinnington-Jones (with Cooper Woestendick) [TCU]
29. Luca Pow (with Dhakshineswar Suresh) [Wake Forest]
43. Freddy Blaydes (with Niels Ratiu) [Georgia]
56. Luc Koenig (with Devin Badenhorst) [Baylor]
69. Will Nolan (with Alexander Frusina) [Auburn]
73. Will Jansen (with Bryce Nakashima) [Ohio State]
84. Will Jansen (with Aidan Kim) [Ohio State]
86. Derrick Chen (with Theo Dean) [California]
89. Sam Reeve (with Conor Gannon) [Memphis]

Congratulations to Lui for ending the season as the No 1 doubles team. 3 British men in the top 10 and 7 in the top 20 is not a bad return.

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Women's singles

Top 5
1. Dasha Vidmanova (Georgia)
2. Mary Stoiana (Texas A&M)
3. DJ Bennett (Auburn)
4. Elza Tomase (Tennessee)
5. Julia Fliegner (Michigan)

British
22. Sofia Johnson (Old Dominion)
44. Alicia Dudeney (Florida)
51. Grace Piper (USC)
89. Gabia Paskauskas (NC State)
98. Imogen Haddad (USC)

Congratulations to graduating Sofia Johnson on being the highest ranked British female in US College. An even more impressive achievement consider she is graduating while still aged 20 years, not turning 21 until next month, having gone through US College a year young. She is entered for the Premier British Tour event next month.

Alicia Dudeney, not ranked at the beginning of March, finishes as the 2nd highest ranked female. An impressive ranking playing at No 2 and on a team that lost more matches than they won. She has started her pro career this week. Grace's performance in the autumn earned her the No 1 position for USC, which was perhaps unexpected and, as mentioned earlier, she appears to have chosen to do a post-graduate degree.

Gabia will be the highest ranked British female in next season's pre-season rankings, followed by Immi. Eva Shaw drops out of the top 125, as Florida State's failure to qualify for the NCAAs doesn't give her the opportunity to get high ranked wins to maintain her ranking. Sofia, Gabia and Immi's rankings are mostly thanks to their excellent performances last autumn in the All-Americans and, for Sofia, Conference Masters.

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Women's doubles

Top 5
1. Mell Reasco & Dasha Vidmanova (Georgia)
2. Alanis Hamilton & Reese Brantmeier (UNC)
3. Elaine Chervinsky & Melodie Collard (Virginia)
4. Mao Mushika & Jessica Alsola (California)
5. Maddy Zampardo & Gabriella Broadfoot (NC State)

British
14. Grace Piper (with Lily Fairclough) [USC]
16. Alicia Dudeney (with Bentee Spee) [Florida]
25. Alicia Dudeney (with Rachel Gailis) [Florida]
45. Danielle Hack (with Kallista Liu) [Maryland]
48. Lily Hutchings (with Maria Berlanga) [Tulsa]
52. Jasmine Conway (with Anna Zyryanova) [NC State]
53. Kylie Bilchev (with Scarlett Nicholson) [Georgia Tech]
56. Hannah Rylatt (with Olivia Lincer) [Central Florida]
57. Eva Shaw (with Maria Juliana Parra Romero) [Florida State]
63. Given Roach (with Alejandra Cruz) [Georgia Tech]
82. Hannah Smith (with Eva Goncharov) [DePaul]
90. Sofia Johnson (with Victoria Matasova) [Old Dominion]

Grace finishes as the highest ranked British female in doubles. Alicia with 2 entries, the higher one with her spring semester partner, and the lower one with her partner to the NCAA semi-finals.

Good to see some less high profile names in the rankings with Danielle Hack, Lily Hutchings and Hannah Smith. And great to see that Jasmine, Kylie, Eva and Given have rankings after their difficult seasons. It was looking doubtful at the beginning of the spring semester as to whether Jasmine was going to get any court time, but a switch in doubles brought her in. Kylie has found success in doubles after injury issues affected her participation in singles. I remember some narrow defeats against a couple of the higher ranked teams which, while not getting the win, she should still be proud of.