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The seedings for the NCAAs have been announced

Savannah is 4th seed and Gabia is 9-16 seed. The seedings are based on unpublished rankings from this season's results only.

Top seed for both men and women draws are the winners of the All Americans, Jay Friend and Valerie Glozman. Pre-season No 1 and defending mens champion Michael Zheng is unseeded because he didn't play any college matches until the end of October and his opponents that he has played are relatively weak in terms of the rankings points they are worth. The women's pre-season No 1 and runner-up last year didn't qualify.

Alex Okonkwo is 1st alternate for mens doubles.

Full field, seeds and alternates
Men https://www.ncaa.com/news/tennis-men/article/2025-11-10/2025-ncaa-division-i-mens-tennis-singles-and-doubles-championships-selections
Women https://www.ncaa.com/news/tennis-women/article/2025-11-10/2025-ncaa-division-i-womens-tennis-singles-and-doubles-championships-selections

Lambda wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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Will Jansen got himself through the Play Offs. From what I can see, it looks like our NCAA contenders wlll be:


NCAA Finals - Nov 18-23
MS Luca Pow, Roan Jones, Will Jansen
WS Savannah Dada-Mascoll, Kristina Paskauskas, Gabia Paskauskas, Eva Shaw
MD Henry Jefferson, Luca Bluett, Billy Blaydes/Freddy Blaydes
WD Jasmine Conway

Hope that is correct, I am sure Lambda can put a lot more depth on that in terms of colleges they are at and ages etc.


Good luck to all of them in a week or so!!

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Checking the list of qualifiers I see another couple for men's doubles
Tobey Lock & Euan Mackenzie (Delaware).

They qualified by winning the Northeast regionals. They are the first doubles qualifiers ever for the Delaware program.

-- Edited by Lambda on Thursday 13th of November 2025 12:30:15 PM

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 Cool, that is a pleasant surprise!!

The first match of the spring season starts today and with it comes the pre-season team rankings. Without any match data these are based on a coaches poll that give us an idea of who coaches think will be the top 25 to watch based on known rosters.

They've largely copped out by giving Wake Forest for the men and Georgia for the women to retain their no 1 spots. There's not too many surprises here. They have given the benefit of the doubt to Wake Forest and TCU, for me the Jury is out on whether they willbe as strong as last year with who they've lost and brought in. On the women's side LSU with 4 top 600 WTA players on their roster in Brace, Cross, Mcdonald and Kuhl on paper should be strong and this is reflected in them being moved up to 5. Virginia have moved quite away down the rankings behind NC State and Ohio State which is a little surprising and Florida have been given a top 25 placing with an almost complete revamp of their roster after last year's disappointing season. I think they are a stronger team then the 5 teams immediately above them but their position perhaps reflects uncertainty over the new roster. It may also be a reflection they are in the very strong SEC conference, who have 5 of the top 6 teams in the rankings. It will be interesting to see how they line up.

The ITA site is not fully up to date with movements and incomings so forgive me if I miss anyone.
for teams with British players
Men
1. Wake Forest (Robertson, Pow)
3. TCU (Bonding)
6. Ohio State (A Okonkwo)
8. San Diego (Tarvet)
14. Central Florida (Ampaw)
16. Baylor (Koenig, Bowden)
18. South Carolina (Swaine)

Women
5. Louisiana State (Mcdonald)
11. North Carolina State (Conway)
13. Ohio State (Oluwade, F Johnson)
14. Virginia ( Lacy)
18. Vanderbilt (Pearce)
19. Southern California (Haddad)
23. Florida (G Paskauskas, Black)
24. Central Florida (Rylatt)

Oli Bonding opened his college career at TCU with a comeback win 4-6 7-6(4) 6-1 over Tomas Quesada (East Tennessee) [ITF1118], playing at No 2. Before that he won his doubles playing at No 1.

TCU were comprehensively beaten 6-1 by Virgina last night for their first home loss since 2023, losing all 6 singles; 5 of them in straight sets.

Oli Bonding played in doubles at No 1 with Cooper Woestendick and were 6-6 against the No 1 ranked pair and NCAA doubles champions of Dahlberg and Dietrich when TCU clinched the doubles point on the other 2 courts.

In singles he played at No 3 against the former junior No 11 Jangjun Kim and lost 4-6 4-6.

TCU are a young side and are lacking a standout No 1, and arguably No 2, as head coach Roditi refuses to play the game of bringing in an established 20 something highish ranked pro as many other top sides have done. He's a traditionalist but did bring in a rare transfer to get a much needed and only senior on the team following JPJ's decision to forgo his senior year. It's also their first year without their MVP of the last 2 years, Luke Swan, and his brilliance in motivational skills and team bonding.

Most womens teams opened their semester this weekend so most matches were gentle one-sided warm ups.
Where there was something to note :
No. 3 Piper Charney (Michigan) d. Hephzibah Oluwadare (Ohio State), 6-3, 7-5
No. 85 Reese Miller (Michigan) d. Flora Johnson (Ohio State), 6-4, 6-1

It was an interesting choice to pit Hephzibah against Piper. Hep will be kicking herself though as she twice was a break up in the 2nd set and served for the set at 5-3. But it was a really enjoyable set to watch.
Flora's 2nd set was much closer than the set score suggests with most games going to deciding point. Another interesting choice to pit Flora against Michigan's probable No 3 and she gave a good account of herself.

Lambda wrote:

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Ella made her debut for Louisiana State this afternoon winning comfortably 1 & 1 playing at No 3. Before you question why she's playing so low in the line up, its because LSU have WR187 Cadence Brace playing at No 1 and WR200 Kayla Cross at No 2.

Today's results
Pos 2: Kayla Cross (LSU) [WR200] vs #53 Hannah Read (San Diego) 3-6 5-5 unfinished
Pos 3: Ella McDonald (LSU) [WR527] defeated Ines Leon (San Diego) [WR1426] 6-1 6-1

Pos 4: #125 Isabelle Lacy (Virginia) defeated #69 Alanis Hamilton (UNC) 6-4 6-4 (Virginia's only win)

Pos 2: Ciara Moore (Arizona) lost to #16 Jana Hossam (USC) 2-6 4-6
Pos 3: #95 Immi Haddad (USC) defeated Danielle Tuhten (Arizona) 6-0 6-1

Pos 3: Jose Garcia (Tennessee) vs Oli Bonding (TCU) [WR810] 7-5 3-5 unfinished

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 Hannah Read seems to have done v well to almost beat Cross, that looks a very impressive scoreline.