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The fall college tennis season is coming around the final turn and starting to make its way toward the finish line. The past two weekends have been loaded up with the ITA Regional Championships and the Oracle ITA Masters and while there isn’t a major tournament this weekend there are several good ones to follow. 

USC is hosting the 60th Southern California Intercollegiate Championships with a strong field that will be able to experiment with PlaySight’s PlayFair Challenge System (this will be the first college tournament to use it). Live streaming of the event is available here and you can view all the draws, seeds, and scores at the TennisLink site. 

My Fall Tournament Hub has as many tournaments as I could find with draws and host site info listed so check it out and see where the action is this weekend. 

The National Indoor Intercollegiate Championship doesn’t begin until next Thursday but the seeds were made available yesterday through the USTA TennisLink event site. As far as I can tell it looks like UTR was solely used for the men’s seeds while the women’s seeds deviated from it some. 

Men’s Singles
1. Torpegaard, Mikael (Ohio State 15.09)
2. Kwiatkowski, Thai-Son (Virginia 14.98)
3. Chrysochos, Petros (Wake Forest 14.71)
4. Borges, Nuno (Mississippi State 14.62)
5. Perez, Alfredo (Florida 14.53)
6. Ito, Yuya (Texas 14.52)
7. Redlicki, Michael (Arkansas 14.49)
8. Rinderknech, Arthur (Texas A&M 14.48)

Women’s Singles
1. Di Lorenzo, Francesca (Ohio State 12.49)
2. Shibahara, Ena (UCLA 12.33)
3. Stefani, Luisa (Pepperdine 12.15)
4. Carter, Hayley (North Carolina 11.81)
5. Sharma, Astra (Vanderbilt 11.67)
6. Daavettila, Sara (North Carolina 12.13)
7. Lohan, Sinead (Miami FL 11.82)
8. Aney, Jessie (North Carolina 11.59)

Men’s Doubles
1. Bergevi, Filip/ Lakat, Florian (Cal)
2. Mansouri, Skander/ Seraphim, Christian (Wake Forest)
3. Bennett, Tommy/ Warren, David (Rice)
4. Cash, Julian/ Kadhe, Arjun (Oklahoma State)

Women’s Doubles
1. Aney, Jessie/ Carter, Hayley (North Carolina)
2. Runglerdkriangkrai, Apichaya/ Stefani, Luisa (Pepperdine)
3. Manasse, Maegan/ Starr, Denise (Cal)
4. Ahmed, Mayar/ Maddox, Christine (Pepperdine)

 

The Georgia Sports Hall of Fame announced on Wednesday that it had selected eight members for induction into the state’s athletic Hall of Fame. One of those inductees is longtime University of Georgia men’s tennis coach Manuel Diaz so a big congrats to Manuel on the honor. 

 

 

Recommended Reads

UTR feature on Taylor Davidson where she talks about what an average day looks like, her thoughts on playing pro tennis, her best college experience, and more.

Tuscaloosa News article on the Alabama’s men’s team going through “basic training” to help strengthen the team’s bond and make them mentally tougher. 

Temple head coach Steve Mauro tells the Temple News why he won’t look at making doubles pairings until January.  

Arizona’s Samantha Czarniak talks about her path that took her from Brazil to Texas Tech to her final landing spot in Arizona. 

The Tennis Recruiting Network is counting down to the start of the fall signing period and they’ve had a slew of good articles over the last several days. Friday’s post is by Colette Lewis and she talks with Wake Forest men’s head coach Tony Bresky about how he ended up in coaching, what he learned while at Virginia, his thoughts on recruiting, and more. TRN also has a status update on all the Blue Chip Boys & Blue Chip Girls.