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NCAA Individuals Championships 2025, Orlando, Florida

Lambda · Top national player

All our women are drawn in separate quarters.

Kristina surprised many by reaching the final of the Southern regional, although that was helped by the strong players from the hosts not playing. I don't know her 1st round opponent, but looking through her results for this season and last nothing particularly jumps out at suggesting this is not a winnable match for Kristina. Should she get through, most likely 9-16 seed Mia Yamakita (Vanderbilt) would be the opponent in the next round.

Savannah has in my view the easiest draw of the 4. Given her results so far this fall, there is nobody in her eighth that would be more of a challenge than those she has already beaten so she has a good opportunity to make at least the quarter-finals.

Gabia is in a tough eighth of the draw in the 5th seed section. Although she beat her 1st round opponent, Alyssa Ahn, in 3 sets in the consolation draw at the All-Americans, Alyssa hasn't lost since (in college matches) and will be favourite going into the match. Should Gabia win she would face former Surrey player Nao Nishino - who she lost to at the ITA Kick-off weekend in January - or her good friend and former teammate Mia Slama in the next round.

Eva's 1st round is winnable and she would I expect be favourite for that match. But the winner then has a very tough match against either the 2nd seed or NC State's (and Jasmine's doubles partner) Zyryanova.

Singles, Round of 64 (with pre-season #ranking)
To be played Tuesday
Kristina Paskauskas v Kyoka Kubo (Junior, Kansas) (#103) 11pm

[4] Savannah Dada-Mascoll (#106) v Naomi Xu (Sophomore, California) 6.30pm

[9-16] Gabia Paskauskas (#55) v Alyssa Ahn (Freshman, Stanford) (#90) 9pm

Eva Shaw v Louise Wikander (Senior, Denver) 9.30pm

Doubles, Round of 32
To be played Wednesday
Jasmine Conway/Anna Zyryanova (#25) v Carolina Gomez Alonso/Anet Koskel (Akansas) (#78)

Lambda · Top national player

A few highly ATP ranked men have played very few college matches this semester, including last season's No 1 and defending champion, Michael Zheng (ATP 185), and as only college results are taken into account for seeding are unseeded. This could have caused a bit of a disaster for the draw, but I think whether by luck or design that has been largely avoided, though obviously there are some seeds that are likely to go out early. A final between 2 unseeded men is a real possibility and some may say even more likely than not.

All our men are in the bottom half of the singles draw.
Luca P has a good opportunity for a good run. He has been almost unbeatable towards the bottom of the lineup in a strong Wake Forest team over the last couple of years and now is his time to show what he can do among the best. His route to the QF avoids any of the dangerous unseeded highly ranked ATP men and should he get to the last 16, would likely involve facing the 7th seed Virginia's Dylan Dietrich. I would be disappointed if he didn't at least make it to the last 16.

Will is a bit unpredictable in his college results. Should he get through his 1st round match, he is likely to face his teammate from last year and 3rd seed Aidan Kim (ATP 595).

Roan is in the section with the 8 seed Ozan Baris (#7 in the pre-season rankings) who would block his path in the 2nd round. That is likely his only obstacle, on paper, to the QF.

3 of our 4 men's doubles teams are in the same quarter of the draw.
The winner of Luca B and Tobey/Euan meet in round 2 although either team progressing past the 1st round would be unexpected.
The Blaydes brothers have a terrible draw, playing the 2 seed of Suresh/Delgado (Wake Forest) in the opening round.
There is a strong chance that Henry will be our only remaining doubles player by the end of R1.

Singles, Round of 64
Played Tuesday
Luca Pow (#92) v Sam Landau (Indiana) (#71) 2pm
Will Jansen (#103) v Rudy Quan (UCLA) 8pm

Roan Jones (#38) v Paul Barbier Gazeu (South Carolina) 10pm

Doubles, Round of 16
Played Wednesday
Henry Jefferson/Tanapatt Nirundom (#33) v Sam Landau/Facundo Yunis (Indiana)

Luca Bluett/John Kim v Aaron Sandler/Manfredi Graziani (Penn) (#67)
Tobey Lock/Euan Mackenzie v [5-8] Cosme Rolland de Ravel/Albert Pedrico Kravtsov (TCU) (#4)
winners play in the 2nd round
Billy Blaydes/Freddy Blaydes (#20) v [2] DK Suresh/Andrew Delgado (Wake Forest) (#22)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Thank you Lambda - look forward to following this over the week and thank you for creating a separate thread to follow it in.

Re the 2 year fall pilot for the NCAAs, any views on whether its been a success and will it continue this way?

For me, separating individual from team to allow focus on each works, and I like the play in tournie structure, albeit a bit complicated and not entirely sure it gets the top 64 players in. But then, what would?

Lambda · Top national player

I am pretty confident they will continue with this format, hopefully with some tweaks. Most players apparently love it. Some coaches don't like it because of the extra work load, costs and taking time away from what has traditionally been a training period. Has it been a success? That depends on how the powers that be measure success. Lets see how things play out this week but I think they got the right winners last year.

I don't think it has presented any problems that suggest it shouldn't continue at this time of year. They'll always be some players that skip it to play pros at this time of year but that won't outweigh that all the players from the top teams will be too tired to give their best at the end of the season after the team championships while others have had forced rest for 2 or 3 weeks with nothing to play. Other issues that the pilot has presented can be addressed. They would include
Priority is changing how seedings are determined and creating more balanced draws.
Rethink the regional and sectional competition allocation to have more balanced allocation of players. A lot of the best men are concentrated in Texas and women in Carolina and inevitably some will miss out, while other regions are relatively weak.
Stop players withdrawing from the All-Americans once they have qualified for the NCAAs.
The Conference Masters doesn't work and should be scrapped or rethought.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Yeah, the conference masters against the sectionals seems almost not needed; Id scrap it and put the focus on the other 3 events, perhaps with a 32/16/16 qualification split across the 3, with the all Americans taking primacy.

Lambda · Top national player

Here is the ITA's preview of the championships that includes a bit on Savannah and a brief mention of the Paskauskas sisters as one of 3 pairs of sisters in the draw.
https://wearecollegetennis.com/2025/11/17/ncaa-championships/

Live scoring is at ncaatennischampsmis.smtinternetservices.com
Order of play, links to draws, etc is at https://www.ustanationalcampus.com/en/home/events/2025-ncaa-division-i-singles-and-doubles-championships.html

Unfortunately, streaming is on ESPN+ as is the norm for the NCAAs. If you're a cable subscriber in the US, enjoy watching; for the rest of us we can only look on enviously as we look at the blackout.

Lambda · Top national player

Luca Pow gets the first win on the board 3-6 6-1 6-4

Elsewhere, Savannah's quarter has really opened up with the 7th seed, Tavez, who was the favourite to progress from Savannah's quarter and NC State's freshman Tanasie having fallen in that quarter. Annabelle Xu, one of the 9-16 seeds in the quarter is currently in a third set battle to progress.

Edit: Xu also loses. That's the 3 strongest players in the quarter all losing in the 1st round. Savannah's quarter is wide open now.

-- Edited by Lambda on Tuesday 18th of November 2025 05:01:03 PM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

ncaatennischampsmis.smtinternetservices.com/

Hi Lamdba, I can see the live scores through this link you posted above, thanks. I can't seem to find results anywhere?

Do they show results to date anywhere?

The ITA sites last month seemed easier to use!!

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Tuesday 18th of November 2025 05:20:22 PM

the addict · Tennis legend

JonH - the link you posted appears to show today's results - I see Tanasie and Xu on that page.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

the addict wrote:
JonH - the link you posted appears to show today's results - I see Tanasie and Xu on that page.

on the phone version there is a bar along the bottom where you can click complete but that isnt appearing on the version I had on my laptop - just the current live scores.

that said, theres a big delay once you tap complete , it took literally 20 seconds to feed through

eta ignore that - it isnt a tap at all; just seems the scores scroll left to right and are colour coded. Jeeps. I think Im quite tech literate but this one totally confused me!

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Tuesday 18th of November 2025 06:33:50 PM

Lambda · Top national player

The live scores page is very poor. I feel like I've been transported back to the 1990s. I think they must have got someone in the first year of elementary school to design it.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
The live scores page is very poor. I feel like I've been transported back to the 1990s. I think they must have got someone in the first year of elementary school to design it.

Agreed! Thank you - Im not totally dim witted!