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.
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
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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.