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Season Ending UTR Top 10s (All Divisions)

by | Jun 10, 2015 | Blog | 4 comments

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Now that we’re officially in the college tennis off-season I thought I’d take another look back at the year-end singles rankings across all divisions.  The one way to compare the rankings across divisions is to use each player’s season ending Universal Tennis Rating so what I did is I pulled the UTR Top 10 from each division then at the bottom I have them combined into one list.  While Division 1 is by far the deepest you can see there are good players throughout all divisions.

UTR Top 100 Range:
Division 1: 13.90-15.23 (447 above 13.00, 82 above 14.00, 4 above 15.00)
Division 2: 12.09-14.26 (18 above 13.00)
Division 3: 11.74-13.07 (2 above 13.00)
NAIA: 11.14-14.29 (12 above 13.00)
NJCAA: 8.88-13.34 (1 above 13.00)

Each player’s UTR is comprised of his 30 most recent results over the last 12 months which could be from junior, college, or pro events.

If you are looking to go the college route and have a UTR of say 12.75 then you’ll have an idea on where you might fit in if you started college today.  If you don’t know what your UTR is then you can look it up at universaltennis.com 

The below UTRs are as of 6/8/15.

UTR Rank Name UTR Rating ITA Rank Division College
1 NOAH RUBIN 15.23 5 NCAA – I Wake Forest University
2 AXEL ALVAREZ LLAMAS 15.17 1 NCAA – I University of Oklahoma
3 RYAN SHANE 15.06 2 NCAA – I University of Virginia
4 MACKENZIE MCDONALD 15.05 3 NCAA – I UCLA
5 SOREN HESS-OLESEN 14.98 6 NCAA – I University of Texas
6 JULIAN LENZ 14.98 4 NCAA – I Baylor University
7 ANDREW HARRIS 14.85 8 NCAA – I University of Oklahoma
8 YANNICK HANFMANN 14.75 14 NCAA – I Univ of Southern Cal
9 MIKELIS LIBIETIS 14.75 13 NCAA – I University of Tennessee
10 THAI-SON KWIATKOWSKI 14.66 12 NCAA – I University of Virginia

UTR Rank Name UTR Rating ITA Rank Division College
1 MARKO LENZ 14.26 2 NCAA – II Hawaii Pacific University
2 JAN MEYER 14.22 1 NCAA – II Azusa Pacific University
3 PABLO GOR-COSTALES 14.11 7 NCAA – II Armstrong State University
4 FERNANDO BOGAJO 13.92 8 NCAA – II Armstrong State University
5 FABIAN GROETSCH 13.64 11 NCAA – II Barry University
6 THIBAUD BERLAND 13.63 6 NCAA – II Hawaii Pacific University
7 MAIK BURLAGE 13.59 NR NCAA – II Hawaii Pacific University
8 OTAKAR LUCAK 13.51 29 NCAA – II Armstrong State University
9 AHMED TRIKI 13.40 3 NCAA – II Barry University
10 DANNY J. RIGGS 13.38 10 NCAA – II Lynn University

UTR Rank Name UTR Rating ITA Rank Division College
1 WARREN WOOD 13.07 1 NCAA – III Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
2 RILEY SMITH 13.04 NR NCAA – III Averett University
3 GLENN HULL 12.98 NR NCAA – III Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
4 ARI SMOLYAR 12.96 6 NCAA – III Middlebury College
5 ROBERT KJELLBERG 12.92 10 NCAA – III North Carolina Wesleyan
6 MICHAEL BUXBAUM 12.90 4 NCAA – III Johns Hopkins University
7 NIKOLAS E. MARINO 12.87 24 NCAA – III Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
8 PATRICK LIPSCOMB 12.84 8 NCAA – III University of Redlands
9 JENSEN REITER 12.80 NR NCAA – III Johns Hopkins University
10 ANDREW YARAGHI 12.75 11 NCAA – III Amherst College

UTR Rank Name UTR Rating ITA Rank Division College
1 STEFAN KILCHHOFER 14.29 3 NAIA Vanguard Univ. of So Cal
2 DENI ZMAK 13.94 1 NAIA Embry-Riddle (Fla.)
3 JORDAN COX 13.84 2 NAIA Georgia Gwinnett College
4 KEVIN KONFEDERAK 13.83 5 NAIA Georgia Gwinnett College
5 MATIAS HATEM 13.83 6 NAIA Georgia Gwinnett College
6 DAVID VELIZ 13.52 16 NAIA Southeastern University
7 CONNOR CLEMENTS 13.34 39 NAIA Georgia Gwinnett College
8 LACHLAN MCPHEE 13.31 40 NAIA Georgia Gwinnett College
9 JAIME SANCHEZ-CANAMARES RIOS 13.23 14 NAIA Embry-Riddle (Fla.)
10 NICOLAS PINONES 13.19 9 NAIA Auburn University Montgomery

UTR Rank Name UTR Rating ITA Rank Division College
1 CALLUM POLAND-SMITH 13.34 1 NJCAA ASA College
2 ISMAEL MZAI 12.97 14 NJCAA Seminole State College (OK)
3 NICOLAS ROUANET 12.96 2 NJCAA Vincennes University
4 VAUGHN HUNTER 12.94 6 NJCAA Tyler JC
5 MATTHEW ROSSOUW 12.82 NR NJCAA Tyler JC
6 HARRY BUSBY 12.63 5 NJCAA Mesa Comm. College
7 RASHEED CAREY 12.56 48 NJCAA ASA College
8 GUY ORLY IRADUKUNDA 12.52 3 NJCAA Seminole State College (OK)
9 JOSH PAGE 12.52 4 NJCAA Abraham Baldwin Agricultural
10 JACK BOLING 12.48 15 NJCAA ASA College

UTR Rank Name UTR Rating ITA Rank

4 Comments

  1. 181
    181 on Thu March 19, 2020 at 6:05 pm

    Yes all matches regardless of level (ITF/USTA/ITA) are included. Yeah if you don't play any ITF events and the the #1 guy in your division is a 13 then it'd be hard to get any higher than that. <br /><br />It's always interesting to see how the Small College National Indoor Champ does when he plays against the big boys at the National Indoors in NYC in November.

  2. 181
    181 on Thu March 19, 2020 at 6:05 pm

    I have started following UTR, but if I understand correctly they use every match result, I believe ITF/USTA/ITA etc.. as long as matches inputted. <br />Would be curious to see how some of the JUCO and DIII guys match up if they played more ITF. Obviously D1 will be higher as these are the best players and play against the highest level of competition on a regular basis. <br />Nice job Bobby, very interesting numbers

  3. 181
    181 on Thu March 19, 2020 at 6:05 pm

    Stefan Kilchhofer's UTR of 14.29 would have made him #40 in D1 tied with Stefan Lindmark and Raphael Hemmeler. <br /><br />Warren Wood's UTR of 13.07 would have him #407 had he been in D1.

  4. 181
    181 on Thu March 19, 2020 at 6:05 pm

    Aren't there a lot of D1 players between 14.66 where you stopped and 14.29 where your DII list begins? That number/names is the something that would interesting. In UTR, that is a gap…..only three DII players have a 14+ then it is a drop and DIII starts significantly lower. I think the distance between divisions is more vast than indicated, that's all. Because after the top 10 in other than D1, one would assume the figures plummet. This is a very small representation of the overall field and I would expect to see increasing differences in divisions as the sample size increases.