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JonH · Tennis legend

US College chat 2025/26

JonH · Tennis legend

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Just re checked the numbersACC + SEC mens team finals:
24 singles players 3 AmericansHELLO??!!

Thats a system thats lost its balance.

College sports used to DEVELOP American athletes.
Now its short-term wins, global recruiting, and no structure.

If American players dont have this pathway anymore, where do they go?

Ill be talking about it tonight on Newsmax with Greg Kelly (9:40pm ET).

Lambda · Masters Series Champion

Weekly awards 21 Apr

Raffaello Papajcik - Senior - Denver - Summit League Men's Player of the week
Went 2-0 at No. 1 singles with wins over Drake (6-2, 6-2) and Omaha (6-4, 3-6, 6-3)

Hannah Read - Sophomore - San Diego - West Coast Conference Women's Player of the week
Hannah Read only lost two games in four sets to go 2-0 in No. 50 USD's perfect weekend. In the 4-0 sweep of Washington State last Saturday, she won convincingly 6-1, 6-0 to be the first to finish in singles. In the 4-0 sweep over Gonzaga last Sunday, she won 6-0, 6-1, and again was the first to finish, marking a streak of 17 straight games won.

Savannah Dada-Mascoll - Senior - App State - Sun Belt Women's player of the week and doubles team of the week
App State senior Savannah Dada-Mascoll extended her win streak to 20 with a pair of wins on court one in the final weekend of the regular season.

Ferran Redza - Freshman - Santa Clara - West Coast Conference Men's Freshman of the week
Ferran Redza won one doubles match in the win against No. 51 LMU and one singles match in the win over No. 16 San Diego last week. Redza was inserted into the singles lineup against No. 16 San Diego in the sixth spot for just his fourth start during duals this season. He boasted a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Luc Wieland to put SCU up 2-1 in a match they won 4-2.

-- Edited by Lambda on Thursday 23rd of April 2026 02:52:17 PM

Lambda · Masters Series Champion

End of year awards are starting to be announced

Ollie Tarvet - San Diego - West Coast Conference Men's Player of the year
for the 3rd consecutive year
also voted in All WCC singles first team and doubles first team
Tarvet played on main court for each of his singles duals, going 17-2 on the season, 4-2 against ranked opponents, and ending the regular season with an 11-match winning streak. He also had three different partners in doubles play, accumulating an overall record of 15-2 on the season.

Flora Johnson (with Luciana Perry) - Ohio State - Big Ten women's co-Doubles team of the year
Perry, a junior, and Johnson, a freshman, have paired up for a 12-2 mark in dual matches, posting a 6-0 ledger on court one and 6-2 mark on court two, and were 8-0 in B1G matches. The duo entered the rankings Feb. 4 and have been as high as No. 30, with a current ranking of No. 32.

Hephzibah Oluwadare - Ohio State - Big Ten All-Freshman Team
Oluwadare was 3-1 in B1G singles matches and has a 5-4 dual match overall (1-0 on court four, 2-1 on court five, 2-3 on court six), with a 12-10 mark overall in her first collegiate season. In doubles, she and Chavez have been ranked as high as 13th after entering the rankings Feb. 4 and the duo is 7-8 in dual outings, including a 4-2 B1G ledger.

Hannah Read - San Diego - West Coast Conference All WCC singles 2nd team and All WCC doubles 2nd team
Read, last year's co-freshman player of the year, went 14-6 overall in her sophomore campaign, as she went 4-0 in conference, achieving a ranking as high as No. 51 during the season. Moll partnered with Read in doubles as the pairing earned All-WCC Doubles Second Team together.

Brooke Black - Florida - All-SEC Freshman Team
Black committed to the Gators as a freshman late in the fall, and saw her first action for Florida in January of this year. Her 10 dual match singles victories and her seven SEC wins are both second on the team, and led to her being ranked as high as No. 123 in the nation. Black recorded a seven-match winning streak from February 13-March 14, and she was leading in her two unfinished matches during that stretch. In doubles, (primarily with Valery Gynina in the number two spot). Their 10 wins as a tandem during the spring season are tops on the squad. Their most significant victories have come over the last two weeks as they bested the 10th and 19th ranked teams in the nation.

Ella Mcdonald - LSU - All-SEC 2nd Team
McDonald holds a 9-5 singles mark with five ranked results. She posted a ranked victory to clinch the match win against Florida's then-No. 26 Gabia Paskauskas, 6-2, 6-3. Most recently, at the SEC Tournament, McDonald earned a hard-fought 7-6(4), 7-6(2) clinching victory over Oklahoma's then-No. 59 Julia Garcia Ruiz. In the next match against Georgia, the England native took down then-No. 68 Deniz Dilek, 6-4, 6-2. In doubles, McDonald has earned 12 overall doubles wins with two partners. Teaming with Cross, the pair hold a 3-1 record, highlighted by a result against NC State's then-No. 2 Gabriella Broadfoot and Victoria Osuigwe at the ITA National Indoor Championships. Beyond teaming with Cross, McDonald posted nine doubles wins on the season with Erickson, behind five ranked victories. Most recently, the pairing clinched the doubles point against Tennessee in a 6-2 win over then-No. 23 Catherine Aulia and Leyla Britez Risso.

Zech Hamrouni - Old Dominion - Sun Belt Men's Freshman of the year
Also All Sun Belt 1st team
Hamrouni was awarded Sun Belt Freshman of the Year, where he accounted for a 13-5 singles record, including the championship-clinching match in the SBC finals.

Lambda · Masters Series Champion

In what I completely expected, following the 2 year trial of holding the NCAA Individual Championships in November, the move has been made permanent citing student well-being. Additionally, 75% of coaches surveyed were in favour of the move.

https://www.ncaa.org/news/2026/4/23/media-center-di-mens-and-womens-singles-and-doubles-tennis-championships-moved-permanently-to-the-fall.aspx

JonH · Tennis legend

The ATP are promoting their Next Gen Accelerator initiative, which gives young top 500 ranked pro's (under 20), college players and juniors access to entries into challenger and ATP Tour events (latter for the top 500 pro's).

www.atptour.com/en/news/pif-atp-next-gen-accelerator-hub

3 Brits are on the scheme:

Oli Tarvet on the college route giving him access to main draw entry spots in CH50 and 75 events (I think it is up to 6 entries he can access)

Jack PJ, also on the college route, has access to CH 50 and 75 qualifying entry slots (he isnt ranked as highly in college as OT, but also probably doesn't need the entries into qualies, being honest).

Henry Searle is also on the list, for a top 500 entry slot, also giving him 6 entry places into main draws of CH 50 and CH 75 level events; if he was top 350, that access would go up to CH 100 and CH125 events instead, although I am not sure if that happens if he improves to top 350 in the next few weeks - he is currently 353 - or whether the levels they access was based on a specific ranking date?