British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

Ollie Tarvet finished the 2024/25 college season as the highest ranked GB male at No. 5 in the ITA singles rankings, winning 23 matches and officially losing 2 but 1 was by retirement early in the 1st set. His only loss in a completed match this season was in the opening round of the NCAA singles championships in November.

To achieve such a high ranking at a mid-major university is a remarkable achievement and is in part thanks to aggressive scheduling by the Head Coach in the first part of the spring semester to play teams in the "power" conferences where the big ranking points are available.

He said when interviewed towards the end of March that he has every intention to return for his final year. The only thing that will stop him is if something remarkable happens in pros over the summer. He is targeting the individual NCAAs in November as he doesn't feel he has done himself justice in that event in previous years.

With the reputation he has and with his ranking he could - and surely does - get financially lucrative offers from the majors. But he has said he will not transfer from San Diego as he has loyalty and respect for his Head Coach and the faith that he has paid in him.

Coup Droit wrote:

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Yes, and it seems to me you can't have too many individual threads

The great thing is that they don't block things up and get in the way

Because if the player drifts off into obscurity, their thread just drops down and gets forgotten

(But it's waiting there, on page 6 or whatever, for when they suddenly have their glorious second coming )

Not that this applies to Oliver, of course

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Well, Ollie, who apparently hails from St Albans, so just up the road from me, ain't gonna drift off into obscurity for a while yet after his exploits in the Wimbledon FQR at Roehampton earlier today, beating the q29 & WR 144, Alexander Blockx, by 6-3 3-6 6-2 6-1!  

A quote from Ryan Keckley, the head tennis coach at San Diego Uni, where Ollie's reading for his degree:

Ollie is a flat-out competitor and plays with an intensity that is hard to teach. He will be a difference-maker on next year's squad because of how strong and confident he is on the court. He is a natural leader and come crunch time, Ollie is the guy you want on your side of the net because of the fire he brings to each competition. We are all very excited to see what Oliver can do over the course of his career at USD.