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ITA Releases First Rankings of 2016

by | Jan 6, 2016 | Blog

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Earlier today the ITA released its first team and individual rankings of the 2016 season. The individual rankings are based off the computer so therefore they had several big shakeups from the initial rankings which were based solely off last season’s rankings with the seniors removed.

I did my own Top 20 and took into account roster additions and subtractions from last season while the first 6 team rankings are done by the ITA’s National Ranking Committee with each voter probably knowledgeable on their region but not much outside it. I highlighted all the teams below that moved at least 4 spots from the final rankings of last season and put them in green if they went up and yellow if they went down.


I thought Texas was ranked a good 10 to 15 spots too high after losing 5 of its starting 6 plus 1 of its top freshman.  Duke lost 4 of its top 5 so I thought at best they would be around #20. Baylor should have been 5 to 10 spots lower after losing 3 of its top 5. Tennessee should be closer to 100 than 50 after losing its top 2 along with 2 other contributors.

Stanford is probably ranked a good 10 spots too low and I think both Alabama and Arkansas are top 35 programs although they are both ranked near the bottom of the top 75. I think SMU is going to be a top 30 team with the addition of the Johnson brothers and with Samm Butler and Nate Lammons playing really well. Tulane is another team that is probably 5-10 spots better than its ranking because I think they’ll be playing with a chip on their shoulders this year after just missing out on the NCAAs last season (Georgia Tech was last team in with 16.93 points while Tulane had 16.83).

It’s hard to get too bent out of shape at this point because once the results start coming in everything will fix itself.

11 freshmen made the top 125 of the initial singles rankings with Ohio State’s Hugo Di Feo the highest at #10. The only name that I wasn’t really familiar with prior was UCSB’s Nicolas Moreno de Alboran. The win that got him ranked was a 6-3, 6-2 win over SMU’s Nate Lammons at the Jack Kramer Classic.

A few of the bigger names that were absent from the initial rankings are UCLA’s Mackenzie McDonald, Baylor’s Julian Lenz, Oklahoma’s Andrew Harris, North Carolina’s Brayden Schnur, Virginia’s Collin Altamirano, Illinois’s Aleks Vukic, and Wake Forest’s Romain Bogaerts. Those guys aren’t ranked because they didn’t play in any fall college events (except Bogaerts he played in the fall he just didn’t beat a ranked player).

Men’s National Team Rankings
Administered by the ITA
NCAA Division I Tennis
January 5, 2016
Rank School 2014-15 Final Rank
1 Virginia 1
2 Oklahoma 2
3 TCU 4
4 Baylor 3
5 Texas A&M 5
6 Illinois 6
7 Georgia 8
8 USC 7
9 North Carolina 11
10 Ohio State 12
11 Wake Forest 13
12 Texas 9
13 Duke 10
14 UCLA 15
15 South Florida 16
16 Virginia Tech 18
17 Texas Tech 19
18 Columbia 14
19 Mississippi 17
20 Stanford 20
21 California 26
22 San Diego 22
23 Minnesota 21
24 Florida 25
25 Vanderbilt 24
26 Northwestern 27
27 Mississippi State 23
28 Oklahoma State 29
29 Tulsa 28
30 LSU 30
31 Florida State 31
32 Harvard 34
33 Pepperdine 36
34 Princeton 35
35 Drake 32
36 Louisville 33
37 Notre Dame 37
38 San Diego State 38
39 Tulane 41
40 North Carolina State 39
41 New Mexico 40
42 Dartmouth 42
43 Georgia Tech 44
44 Tennessee 43
45 Memphis 45
46 SMU 47
47 Indiana 46
48 Cornell 48
49 Oregon 49
50 South Carolina 50
51 Denver 53
52 Cal Poly 52
53 Penn State 55
54 UC Santa Barbara 54
55 San Francisco 51
56 Old Dominion 57
57 UC Davis 58
58 Rice 60
59 Boise State 59
60 Texas A&M Corpus Christi 56
61 Auburn 61
62 Washington 64
63 Troy 63
64 Clemson 66
65 Alabama 72
66 UTSA 62
67 Fresno State 65
68 UC Irvine 67
69 Wichita State 69
70 Utah State 68
71 Iowa 73
72 Arkansas NR
73 South Alabama 70
74 UNC Wilmington 74
75 North Florida NR

Men’s National Singles Rankings
Administered by the ITA
NCAA Division I Tennis
January 5, 2016
Rank Avg Player School Preseason Rank
1 71.15 Dominik Koepfer Tulane 10
2 70.91 Thai-Son Kwiatkowski Virginia 8
3 65.38 Andre Goransson California 22
4 59.22 Cameron Norrie TCU 15
5 45.28 Arthur Rinderknech Texas A&M 53
6 43.66 Christopher Eubanks Georgia Tech 24
7 33.73 Mikael Torpegaard Ohio State 32
8 33.33 Felipe Soares Texas Tech 18
9 33.15 Tom Fawcett Stanford 20
10 32.86 Hugo Di Feo Ohio State 10 (FR)
11 30.19 Ryan Shane Virginia 2
12 29.7 Nicolas Alvarez Duke 7
13 29.23 Ronnie Schneider North Carolina 14
14 28.67 Joao Monteiro Virginia Tech 70
15 28.31 Benjamin Lock Florida State 25
16 27.12 Konrad Zieba Northwestern NR
17 26.95 Roberto Cid South Florida 13
18 26.73 Dovydas Sakinis Dartmouth 23
19 25.31 Chris Diaz Ohio State 29
20 24.78 Wayne Montgomery Georgia 16
21 20.59 Jared Hiltzik Illinois 12
22 18.55 Jordan Daigle LSU 48
23 18.36 Piotr Lomacki Miami (FL) 45
24 18.12 Guillermo Nunez TCU 19
25 17.74 Herkko Pollanen Ohio State 93
26 17.44 Skander Mansouri Wake Forest NR
27 16.79 Sam Monette Indiana NR
28 16.75 Austin Smith Georgia 17
29 16.73 Shane Vinsant Texas A&M 35
30 16.67 Florian Lakat California 36
31 16.28 Diego Hidalgo Florida 33
32 16.21 Hunter Johnson SMU NR
33 16.09 Alex Sendegeya Texas Tech 81
34 15.82 Jordan Angus San Diego NR
35 14.61 Uros Petronijevic San Diego 30
36 14.41 Stefan Lindmark Mississippi 44
37 14.29 Quentin Monaghan Notre Dame 5
38 14.19 Alec Adamson UC Davis NR
39 14.08 Billy Griffith California NR
40 14.04 Paul Oosterbaan Georgia NR
T-41 13.66 Aron Hiltzik Illinois 46
T-41 13.66 Nick Crystal USC 42
43 13.65 Brett Clark North Carolina 51
44 13.25 Nate Lammons SMU NR
45 13.06 Diogo Rocha Denver 75
46 11.68 Edoardo Tessaro Virginia Tech 109
47 11.63 Robert Kelly North Carolina 105
48 11.59 Martin Redlicki UCLA 57
49 10.93 Elliott Orkin Florida 86
50 10.51 Sam Shropshire Northwestern 34
51 10.17 Or Ram-Harel Tulsa 21
52 10.16 Naoki Takeda Arizona 37
53 9.87 Freddy Gelbrich San Diego St 77
54 9.7 Oskar Wikberg California NR
55 9.5 Strong Kirchheimer Northwestern 120
56 9.48 Lucas Hejhal St. John’s NR
57 9.32 David Wilczynski Stanford NR
58 9.1 Jaan Kononov UMBC 69
59 9.09 Maxime Tchoutakian Baylor 31
60 8.91 Axel Alvarez Llamas Oklahoma 1
61 8.85 Michael Genender Stanford 7 (FR)
62 8.79 Chase Perez-Blanco Florida 84
63 8.74 Constantin Schmitz Tulane NR
64 8.66 Daniel Valent Vanderbilt 49
65 8.35 Harrison O’Keefe South Carolina NR
66 8.25 Mazen Osama Alabama 1 (FR)
67 8.18 Julian Childers Illinois NR
68 7.95 Julian Cash Oklahoma St NR
69 7.85 Logan Smith USC NR
70 7.78 Christian Langmo Miami (FL) NR
71 7.66 Nicky Hu Harvard 117
72 7.2 Alexander Ritschard Virginia 115
73 7.08 Trevor Johnson TCU NR
74 6.94 JC Aragone Virginia 123
75 6.93 Igor Smelyanski Tennessee NR
76 6.83 Connor Farren USC NR
77 6.76 Marco Nunez Florida State NR
78 6.71 Justin Butsch LSU 91
79 6.67 William Bushamuka Kentucky 90
80 6.64 Tyler Lu Yale 100
81 6.63 Nicolas Moreno de Alboran UCSB NR
82 6.33 Romain Kalaydjian San Diego NR
83 6.26 Jake DeVine USC NR
84 6.25 Mitch Stewart Washington 62
85 6.19 Jurence Mendoza Oklahoma St NR
86 6.11 Filip Bergevi California 64
87 6.06 Andrew Watson Memphis 58
88 6.04 Nick Wood Georgia 104
89 5.96 Maciek Romanowicz Stanford NR
90 5.95 Henrik Wiersholm Virginia NR
91 5.86 Alfredo Perez Florida NR
92 5.62 Alexandru Ghilea Oklahoma 50
93 5.3 Alexander Day Princeton NR
94 5.25 Harrison Scott Texas NR
95 5.24 Ruben Weber Minnesota NR
96 5.16 Maxime Hinnisdaels Auburn 107
97 5.06 McClain Kessler Florida NR
98 5 Logan Staggs UCLA NR
99 4.82 Matt Barry Penn State NR
100 4.78 Marko Krickovic Auburn 76
101 4.77 Felix Corwin Minnesota 98
102 4.75 TJ Pura Duke NR
103 4.71 Jonathan Ho Wake Forest 72
104 4.7 Kalman Boyd USC NR
105 4.69 Walker Duncan Georgia NR
106 4.65 Korey Lovett Alabama 96
107 4.59 Max Andrews Miami (FL) NR
108 4.57 Alex Gornet Louisville NR
109 4.51 Jerry Lopez TCU NR
110 4.43 Maksim Kan Wake Forest NR
111 4.42 Sebastian Rey Tulane NR
112 4.36 Arjun Kadhe Oklahoma St 66
113 4.33 Daan Maasland Oregon 67
114 4.31 Michael Riechmann Texas NR
115 4.26 Max de Vroome USC 61
116 4.25 Alex Fennell South Carolina NR
117 4.24 Nils Ellefsen Kentucky NR
118 4.23 Ziqi Wang Yale NR
119 4.17 Sebastian Heim UC Irvine NR
120 4.12 Aws Laaribi Penn State NR
121 4.11 Jake Douglas Washington 92
122 4.09 Gal Hakak Washington NR
T-123 4.03 Becker O’Shaughnessey Alabama NR
T-123 4.03 Sebastian Salinas James Madis NR
125 4 Rudolf Kurz Marist NR
Men’s National Doubles Rankings
Administered by the ITA
NCAA Division I Tennis
January 5, 2016
Rank Avg Player Player School Preseason Rank
1 63.95 Brett Clark Robert Kelly North Carolina 18
2 62.75 Hugo Dojas Felipe Soares Texas Tech 3
3 56.98 Gordon Watson Diego Hidalgo Florida 23
4 53.41 Jack Findel-Hawkins Yannick Zuern North Florida 50
5 52.83 Mac Styslinger Thai-Son Kwiatkowski Virginia 13
6 52.73 Alex Lawson Quentin Monaghan Notre Dame 28
7 47.87 Filip Vittek Jordan Angus San Diego 17
8 42.31 Hayden Sabatka Bart Van Leijsen New Mexico 29
9 37.5 Arjun Kadhe Julian Cash Oklahoma State 14
10 37 Ben Wagland Austin Smith Georgia 1
11 31.74 Henry Craig Alex Gasson Denver 16
12 30.24 Arthur Rinderknech Shane Vinsant Texas A&M NR
13 29.3 Jordan Daigle Boris Arias LSU 4
14 26.75 Jose Gracia Marco Nunez Florida State NR
15 26.5 Luca Corinteli Ryan Shane Virginia 2
16 25.42 Nate Lammons Arkadijs Slobodkins SMU NR
17 24.89 Dominik Koepfer Chi-Shan Jao Tulane 39
18 24.5 Henrik Wiersholm JC Aragone Virginia NR
19 24.48 Guilherme Hadlich Gabriel Sidney Pepperdine NR
20 23.36 Matic Spec Felix Corwin Minnesota NR
21 22.9 Andreas Bjerrehus Joao Monteiro Virginia Tech NR
22 22.67 Ralf Steinbach Martin Joyce Ohio State 19
23 21.33 Luis Valero Jack Schipanski Tennessee NR
24 20.98 Herkko Pollanen Mikael Torpegaard Ohio State NR
25 20.78 Christian Seraphim Skander Mansouri Wake Forest 5
26 18.3 Mike Vermeer Michal Rolski Columbia NR
27 18.14 Romain Bogaerts Maksim Kan Wake Forest NR
28 17.17 Adam Moundir Aziz Kijametovic Old Dominion NR
29 16.57 Jordi Arconada Max Lunkin Texas A&M NR