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 The seedings are based on unpublished rankings from this season's results only.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.
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)