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Lambda · Grand Slam Champion

RE: US College chat 2025/26

JonH · Tennis legend

Thanks Lambda- let the fun begin.

Do you know how many Brits are playing in the round of 64 for men and women? Im guessing youve got a list somewhere as you are pretty on top of this thing!

I see the Navy are playing in both last 64 rounds - is Forces tennis pretty strong out in the US?

Lambda · Grand Slam Champion

By my records we have 32 men and 19 women on teams that have qualified for the NCAAs. This does not mean they will all play - some are injured and some are not in consideration for the line-up.

Roll call - Men
Wake Forest - Luca Pow, Charlie Robertson
Old Dominion - Zechariah Hamrouni
Florida - Henry Jefferson
South Carolina State - Gabriel Johnson
Samford - Sebastian Harrison
Elon - Jack Curtis, Nicholas Fisk
Georgia - Will Jensen, Derrick Chen
South Carolina - Charlie Swaine
UNC Chapel Hill - Roan Jones, Ant Wright, Sergiy Rafiee
St Johns - Adam Groves, Simon Hegarty
San Diego - Ollie Tarvet
Baylor - Louis Bowden, Luc Koenig
Santa Clara - Ferran Redza, Luca Bluett
Auburn - Billy Blaydes, Freddy Blaydes
TCU - Oli Bonding
Denver - Raffaello Papajcik, Theo Coats, Joshua Ashton
Penn - Matt Rutter
Vanderbilt - Hugo Coquelin
Notre Dame - Kyran Magimay
Kentucky - Matt Rankin
Ohio State - Alex Okonkwo

Roll call women
Virginia - Isa Lacy
Stephen F Austin - Jemma Cave
LSU - Ella McDonald
Miami, Fl - Jaqui Ogunwale
North Florida - Aryana Bartlett
Utah - Kamea Medora
USC - Immi Haddad
Illinois State - Sophie Marie Lowe
Florida - Gabia Paskauskas, Brooke Black
South Carolina - Dani Piani (not playing)
NC State - Jasmine Conway
UCF - Hannah Rylatt (injured)
Ohio State - Hep Oluwadare, Flora Johnson
Arizona - Ciara Moore
Clemson - Talia Neilsen-Gatenby
Vanderbilt - Erin Pearce
UC Santa Barbara - Isabella Wong

JonH · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
By my records we have 32 men and 19 women on teams that have qualified for the NCAAs. This does not mean they will all play - some are injured and some are not in consideration for the line-up.

Roll call - Men
Wake Forest - Luca Pow, Charlie Robertson
Old Dominion - Zechariah Hamrouni
Florida - Henry Jefferson
South Carolina State - Gabriel Johnson
Samford - Sebastian Harrison
Elon - Jack Curtis, Nicholas Fisk
Georgia - Will Jensen, Derrick Chen
South Carolina - Charlie Swaine
UNC Chapel Hill - Roan Jones, Ant Wright, Sergiy Rafiee
St Johns - Adam Groves, Simon Hegarty
San Diego - Ollie Tarvet
Baylor - Louis Bowden, Luc Koenig
Santa Clara - Ferran Redza, Luca Bluett
Auburn - Billy Blaydes, Freddy Blaydes
TCU - Oli Bonding
Denver - Raffaello Papajcik, Theo Coats, Joshua Ashton
Penn - Matt Rutter
Vanderbilt - Hugo Coquelin
Notre Dame - Kyran Magimay
Kentucky - Matt Rankin
Ohio State - Alex Okonkwo

Roll call women
Virginia - Isa Lacy
Stephen F Austin - Jemma Cave
LSU - Ella McDonald
Miami, Fl - Jaqui Ogunwale
North Florida - Aryana Bartlett
Utah - Kamea Medora
USC - Immi Haddad
Illinois State - Sophie Marie Lowe
Florida - Gabia Paskauskas, Brooke Black
South Carolina - Dani Piani (not playing)
NC State - Jasmine Conway
UCF - Hannah Rylatt (injured)
Ohio State - Hep Oluwadare, Flora Johnson
Arizona - Ciara Moore
Clemson - Talia Neilsen-Gatenby
Vanderbilt - Erin Pearce
UC Santa Barbara - Isabella Wong

Thanks Lambda - can rely on you!

Good list and lets hope a few of them survive with their teams to the latter stages and the second and third weekends!

indiana · Tennis legend

Very interesting to see all these names, some I've wondered how they've been getting on ( I am sure I would have much more idea if I frequented this thread rather more often ), some I'd forgotten all about, some I've never been aware of to forget.

All the best to all of them and thank you Lambda for all the info you provide.

JonH · Tennis legend

From Lambda's post further up, a reminder of the schedule for the NCAA team events

NCAA 1st & 2 rounds 1 to 3 May, top 16 seed host plus 3 other teams
NCAA 3rd round, 8 to 9 May, home advantage to the top 8 seed (or highest seed if neither are a top 8 seed)
NCAA finals, 14 to 17 May, at University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

They need to call this something catchy like May Madness - oh, that has been done, effectively. May Mayhem?!

Lambda · Grand Slam Champion

I missed UCF - Kai-Luca Ampaw off the men's list, though he his listed at No 10 in the singles line-up.

Team line-ups are provided at
https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2013/11/5/division-i-men-s-and-women-s-tennis.aspx
These may disappear after 10pm tonight as the deadline for challenges passes, but should reappear at 2pm on Thursday when the final line-ups for the first 2 rounds are confirmed.

All players listed above are named on the team line-ups except for Simon Hegarty, Hannah Rylatt, Dani Piani and Jemma Cave. As they are not listed and cannot be added for future rounds they will not be playing in the NCAAs.

-- Edited by Lambda on Tuesday 28th of April 2026 05:33:20 PM

Lambda · Grand Slam Champion

JonH wrote:
From Lambda's post further up, a reminder of the schedule for the NCAA team events

NCAA 1st & 2 rounds 1 to 3 May, top 16 seed host plus 3 other teams
NCAA 3rd round, 8 to 9 May, home advantage to the top 8 seed (or highest seed if neither are a top 8 seed)
NCAA finals, 14 to 17 May, at University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

They need to call this something catchy like May Madness - oh, that has been done, effectively. May Mayhem?!

Some do refer to it as May Madness.

All men's 1st rounds will be on Friday and 2nd round on Saturday
Half of the women's 1st rounds are on Friday and 2nd round on Saturday
The other half of the women's - at the hosts where the men are also hosting - will play 1st round on Saturday and 2nd round on Sunday.

Lambda · Grand Slam Champion

A few more end of season awards

Savannah Dada-Mascoll - Appalachian State - Sun Belt Women's Player of the Year, Sun Belt Singles 1st Team All- Conference, Doubles 1st Team All-Conference and Appalachian State Female Athlete of the year.
Following Sofia Johnson in the last 2 years, Savannah keeps the Sun Belt Women's PotY in British hands for a 3rd year. Competing in all matches at the No. 1 spot, she notched 23 consecutive wins in her final campaign, falling only in the first match of the year against Oby Kajuru of North Carolina. Dada-Mascoll dropped only six sets during the entire season and saw a stretch of 25 consecutive sets won between Feb. 18 and April 19.

Raffaello Papajcik - Denver - Summit League Men's Player of the Year and Men's All-Summit League Team
Denver's Raffaello Papajcik earned Summit League Player of the Year honors after putting together a dominant campaign at the top of the lineup. The junior went a perfect 5-0 at No. 1 singles in league play, with four of those victories coming in straight sets, while also posting a 3-0 mark in doubles action where he dropped two games or fewer in each win. A three-time weekly honoree, Papajcik compiled a 20-7 overall singles record and a 13-8 doubles mark. He proved instrumental in Denver's success throughout the season, clinching five dual matches and securing three doubles points, while totaling seven straight-set singles victories.

Theo Coats - Denver - Men's All-Summit League Team

Will Jansen - Georgia - Men's SEC Newcomer of the year
Georgia's Will Jansen has been named SEC Newcomer of the Year after compiling a singles record of 13-4 with seven matches going unfinished on court two, and eight ranked wins. He finished the spring winning eight of his last nine completed matches. He and partner Gabriele Vulpitta have gone 14-7 in doubles and a 9-4 mark in conference play with five ranked wins. He was named a 2025 ITA All-American after reaching the round of 16 at the NCAA Singles Championships in the fall.

Isabella Walker - Louisiana Tech - Women's CUSA Doubles First-Team & All-Freshman Team
Paulina Jurkowska - Delaware - Women's CUSA Doubles First-Team

Hima Fernando - Longwood - Big South Women's Freshman of the Year
Fernando is the first-ever Lancer to be voted Big South Women's Tennis Freshman of the Year. She has played to a 14-9 record in all singles competitions this season, while being one of just three Longwood players to complete a perfect 3-0 mark in Big South singles action this spring. Fernando enters this week's conference championship 7-6 in singles duals, playing at Nos. 2 and 3. In addition, she has gone 11-9 in doubles overall and 6-5 in duals, primarily at the No. 3 spot, where she is 5-2.

Charlotte Clarke - Longwood - Big South Women's Coach of the Year
Clarke (Men's and Women's Director of Tennis, from Leicester) guided Longwood to a share of the Big South regular-season championship in just her second season as a head coach. The Lancers, picked to finish fifth in the preseason poll, defeated league favorite Charleston Southern on the road, 4-2, on March 19 for the program's first-ever win over the Buccaneers, and finished 3-1 in league matches -- the school's most league victories since 2019. Longwood's nine wins this season are its most since securing 12 in 2019. The Big South Coach of the Year honor is the first in Longwood women's tennis history, and the Lancers will be the No. 1 seed in this week's conference championship for the first time as well.

Simon Earnshaw - NC State - ACC Women's Coach of the Year
Leading NC State to a 10-2 league record and its second ACC Championship title, Earnshaw (Holmfirth, West Yorks) was voted the ACC Coach of the Year. The honor is the second of his career, having also won the award in 2023 after leading the Wolfpack to its first ACC title in program history. NC State recorded three top-25 victories with wins over No. 6 North Carolina, No.7 Virginia and No. 21 California. At the 2026 ACC Women's Tennis Championship, the Wolfpack secured the doubles point in all three of their matches and dropped just two singles contests throughout the tournament.

-- Edited by Lambda on Wednesday 29th of April 2026 06:54:03 PM

JonH · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
A few more end of season awards

Savannah Dada-Mascoll - Appalachian State - Sun Belt Women's Player of the Year, Sun Belt Singles 1st Team All- Conference, Doubles 1st Team All-Conference and Appalachian State Female Athlete of the year.
Following Sofia Johnson in the last 2 years, Savannah keeps the Sun Belt Women's PotY in British hands for a 3rd year. Competing in all matches at the No. 1 spot, she notched 23 consecutive wins in her final campaign, falling only in the first match of the year against Oby Kajuru of North Carolina. Dada-Mascoll dropped only six sets during the entire season and saw a stretch of 25 consecutive sets won between Feb. 18 and April 19.

Raffaello Papajcik - Denver - Summit League Men's Player of the Year and Men's All-Summit League Team
Denver's Raffaello Papajcik earned Summit League Player of the Year honors after putting together a dominant campaign at the top of the lineup. The junior went a perfect 5-0 at No. 1 singles in league play, with four of those victories coming in straight sets, while also posting a 3-0 mark in doubles action where he dropped two games or fewer in each win. A three-time weekly honoree, Papajcik compiled a 20-7 overall singles record and a 13-8 doubles mark. He proved instrumental in Denver's success throughout the season, clinching five dual matches and securing three doubles points, while totaling seven straight-set singles victories.

Theo Coats - Denver - Men's All-Summit League Team

Will Jansen - Georgia - Men's SEC Newcomer of the year
Georgia's Will Jansen has been named SEC Newcomer of the Year after compiling a singles record of 13-4 with seven matches going unfinished on court two, and eight ranked wins. He finished the spring winning eight of his last nine completed matches. He and partner Gabriele Vulpitta have gone 14-7 in doubles and a 9-4 mark in conference play with five ranked wins. He was named a 2025 ITA All-American after reaching the round of 16 at the NCAA Singles Championships in the fall.

Isabella Walker - Louisiana Tech - Women's CUSA Doubles First-Team & All-Freshman Team
Paulina Jurkowska - Delaware - Women's CUSA Doubles First-Team

Hima Fernando - Longwood - Big South Women's Freshman of the Year
Fernando is the first-ever Lancer to be voted Big South Women's Tennis Freshman of the Year. She has played to a 14-9 record in all singles competitions this season, while being one of just three Longwood players to complete a perfect 3-0 mark in Big South singles action this spring. Fernando enters this week's conference championship 7-6 in singles duals, playing at Nos. 2 and 3. In addition, she has gone 11-9 in doubles overall and 6-5 in duals, primarily at the No. 3 spot, where she is 5-2.

Charlotte Clarke - Longwood - Big South Women's Coach of the Year
Clarke (Men's and Women's Director of Tennis, from Leicester) guided Longwood to a share of the Big South regular-season championship in just her second season as a head coach. The Lancers, picked to finish fifth in the preseason poll, defeated league favorite Charleston Southern on the road, 4-2, on March 19 for the program's first-ever win over the Buccaneers, and finished 3-1 in league matches -- the school's most league victories since 2019. Longwood's nine wins this season are its most since securing 12 in 2019. The Big South Coach of the Year honor is the first in Longwood women's tennis history, and the Lancers will be the No. 1 seed in this week's conference championship for the first time as well.

Simon Earnshaw - NC State - ACC Women's Coach of the Year
Leading NC State to a 10-2 league record and its second ACC Championship title, Earnshaw (Holmfirth, West Yorks) was voted the ACC Coach of the Year. The honor is the second of his career, having also won the award in 2023 after leading the Wolfpack to its first ACC title in program history. NC State recorded three top-25 victories with wins over No. 6 North Carolina, No.7 Virginia and No. 21 California. At the 2026 ACC Women's Tennis Championship, the Wolfpack secured the doubles point in all three of their matches and dropped just two singles contests throughout the tournament.

-- Edited by Lambda on Wednesday 29th of April 2026 06:54:03 PM

Hope Simon Earnshaw celebrates with the first of the summer wine.

dodrade · Futures qualifying

JonH wrote:
From Lambda's post further up, a reminder of the schedule for the NCAA team events

NCAA 1st & 2 rounds 1 to 3 May, top 16 seed host plus 3 other teams
NCAA 3rd round, 8 to 9 May, home advantage to the top 8 seed (or highest seed if neither are a top 8 seed)
NCAA finals, 14 to 17 May, at University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

They need to call this something catchy like May Madness - oh, that has been done, effectively. May Mayhem?!

Are these televised/streamed? ESPN NCAA coverage recently available in the UK again via Disney+ but don't see any Tennis listed, they even showed Water Polo the other night.

Lambda · Grand Slam Champion

dodrade wrote:
JonH wrote:
From Lambda's post further up, a reminder of the schedule for the NCAA team events

NCAA 1st & 2 rounds 1 to 3 May, top 16 seed host plus 3 other teams
NCAA 3rd round, 8 to 9 May, home advantage to the top 8 seed (or highest seed if neither are a top 8 seed)
NCAA finals, 14 to 17 May, at University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

They need to call this something catchy like May Madness - oh, that has been done, effectively. May Mayhem?!
Are these televised/streamed? ESPN NCAA coverage recently available in the UK again via Disney+ but don't see any Tennis listed, they even showed Water Polo the other night.

The 1st, 2nd and 3rd rounds will be streamed on the college's streaming provider. Links to streaming and live scores: Men | Women Note that any steams on tracktennis may be unwatchable - they have been problematic for a couple of months. Streams on playsight may need you to register. Crackedraquets will also be streaming on their YouTube channel.
The final site matches will be broadcast on ESPN+, which as I understand it can only be subscribed to through a US cable subscription. It is certainly not possible to watch in the UK, even with a VPN.

Getting college tennis on the broadcast TV has been a perennial complaint. TV broadcasters, including Tennis Channel, say the format and length of college tennis matches is not suitable for broadcast TV.

-- Edited by Lambda on Friday 1st of May 2026 10:46:03 AM

Lambda · Grand Slam Champion

1st results in

Women: Miami d. North Florida 4-0
3. Aryana Bartlett (NFU) vs Sebastianna Scilipoti (Miami) 3-6 5-4 40-15* unf.
4. Jaquelyn Ogunwale (Miami) d. May Fadida (NFU) 6-2 6-1
Annoying for Aryana that she got set point just as Miami won the tie.
North Florida's 1st and only loss of the season.

Men: Kentucky lost to California 3-4
Matt Rankin (Kentucky) didn't play

Lambda · Grand Slam Champion

Men: Ohio State d. Buffalo 4-0
2. Okonkwo/Bernard were 4-4 unf in doubles. Okonkwo did not play singles
Ohio State will play California

Men: Old Dominion d. Gardner-Webb 4-0
3. Zech Hamrouni+ won doubles 6-3
5. Zech Hamrouni won 2 & 6 (5)
ODU Men's first NCAA win since 2007 and only their second in program history
Will probably play Wake Forest

Men: North Carolina lost 1-4
1. #26 Roan Jones/Ant Wright (UNC) vs. #38 Matthew Forbes/Ozan Baris 5-4 unf
2. #99 Roan Jones (UNC) lost to #15 Matthew Forbes (Michigan State) 3 & 4
6. Ant Wright (UNC) led Mitchell Sheldon 6-4 5-4 unf

Men: Florida won 5-0
1. Henry Jefferson+ won 7-5
5. Henry Jefferson won 2 &4

Women: Clemson won 4-1
2. Talia Neilsen-Gatenby+ won doubles 6-4 but Clemson lost the doubles point
4. Talia Neilsen-Gatenby won 7-6(4) 6-2

Lambda · Grand Slam Champion

Remaining men's 1st day results

Wake Forest d. Navy 4-0
3. Luca Pow/ Charlie Robertson (WFU) def. Kim/Garcia (Navy) 6-2
3. #28 Luca Pow (WFU) vs. Charlie Spencer (Navy) 6-6, unfinished
Charlie didn't play singles

TCU d. Denver 4-0
1. #4 Duncan Chan / Cosme Rolland De Ravel (TCU) def. Theo Coats / Connor Robb-Wilcox (DEN): 6-2
3. Oliver Bonding / Maximus Dussault (TCU) vs. Aaron Beduhn / Raffaello Papajcik (DEN): 4-4, unfinished
1. #8 Duncan Chan (TCU) def. Raffaello Papajcik (DEN): 6-1, 6-2
3. #55 Cooper Woestendick (TCU) vs. Theo Coats (DEN): 6-2, 2-2, unfinished
4. Oliver Bonding (TCU) def. Connor Robb-Wilcox (DEN): 6-1, 6-3

Auburn d. Santa Clara 4-3
1.#11 Billy Blaydes/Freddy Blaydes (AUB) def. #74 Luca Bluett/John Kim (SCU) 6-2
3. Valentin Faure/Ferran Redza (SCU) def. Jake Kennedy/Hamza Nasridinov (AUB) 6-3
2. Luca Lemaitre (SCU) def. #78 Billy Blaydes (AUB) 6-4, 6-4
4.Lukas Maskow (SCU) def. Freddy Blaydes (AUB) 6-2, 7-5
6. Manel Lazaro (AUB) def. Ferran Redza (SCU) 5-7, 6-4, 6-3

Baylor d. Tulsa 4-0
2. #82 Koenig/Van Schalkwyk (BU) vs. Volonski/Seger (TU) - unfinished (4-5)
5. Luc Koenig (BU) def. Reiya Komagata (TU) - 6-3, 7-5
6. Louis Bowden (BU) vs. Victor Tosetto (TU) - unfinished (6-4, 4-2)

Georgia d. Elon 4-0
2. Will Jansen/ Gabriele Vulpitta (UGA) def. Jack Curtis/Rafael Ymer (Elon) 6-3
3. Derrick Chen/Noah Johnston (UGA) def. Oskar Antinheimo/Nick Fisk (Elon) 6-2
2. #36 Will Jansen (UGA) def. Rafael Ymer (Elon) 7-5, 6-0
3. Santiago Giamichelle (UGA) vs. Jack Curtis (Elon) 7-6 (0), 3-2 unfinished
4. Derrick Chen (UGA) def. Oskar Antinheimo (Elon) 6-3, 6-2

South Carolina d. Richmond 4-0
3. Charlie Swaine/Gabe Avram (USC) def. Grant Cohen/Charlie Burdell (UR) 6-3
5. Charlie Swaine (USC) led Otto Sewell (UR) 3-6, 6-4, 2-0, unfinished

San Diego d. UC Santa Barbara 4-2
2. Stian Klaassen/Oliver Tarvet (USD-M) vs. Conrad Brown/Dominique Rolland (UCSB) 4-3, unfinished
1. #19 Oliver Tarvet (USD) def. #103 Lucca Liu (UCSB) 6-3, 6-4

Penn's match (Matt Rutter) was postponed to today

2nd round
10pm Wake Forest (Pow, Robertson) v Old Dominion (Hamrouni)
NB 9pm Ohio State (Okonkwo) v California
10pm TCU (Bonding) v Cornell
12am Baylor (Koenig, Bowden) v Auburn (F Blaydes, B Blaydes)
NB 9pm Georgia (Jansen, Chen) v NC State
7pm South Carolina (Swaine) v Michigan State
8pm San Diego (Tarvet) v UCLA
10pm UCF v Florida (Jefferson)