How To Grow College Tennis & Regional Roundup

I wrote an article for ZooTennis talking about how to grow college tennis and what I think are the keys to making the sport sustainable for years to come.  Make sure you give it a read and don’t hesitate to provide feedback over on Colette’s site or right here.

Yesterday concluded the 2 weeks of USTA/ITA Regional play which determined the automatic qualifiers for the National Indoor Intercollegiates which will be held from November 12th through 15th at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York. Click here for a full list of qualifiers along with my picks for the at-large and wild cards on the men’s side.

Below were the results from each regional final on the Men’s side:

Texas (Houston, TX)
[4] Arthur Rinderknech (Texas A&M/14.51) def. Hunter Johnson (SMU/12.66) 6-0, 6-2
[1] Hugo Dojas/Felipe Soares (Texas Tech) def. [5] Shane Vinsant/Arthur Rinderknech (aTm) 6-4, 6-1

Northeast (New Haven, CT)
[1] Dovydas Sakinis (Dartmouth/13.80) def. [5] Victor Pham (Columbia/13.91) 6-3, 6-2
[5] Richard Pham/Shawn Hadavi (Columbia) def. Diego Pedraza/Roko Glasnovic (Dartmouth) 2-6, 6-3, 1-0(8)

Midwest (South Bend, IN)
[6] Herkko Pollanen (Ohio State/13.39) def. [2] Chris Diaz (Ohio State/14.02) 6-3, 7-5
[2] Alex Lawson/Quentin Monaghan (ND) def [4] Charlie Emhardt/Jeffrey Schorsch (Valpo) 6-1, 7-5

Northwest (Seattle, WA)
[5] David Wilczynski (Stanford/13.82) def. [2] Mitch Stewart (Washington/13.51) 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
[2] Nils Skajaa/Vasco Valverde (San Fran) def. [4] Nolan Paige/Maciek Romanowicz (Stanford) 6-2, 6-2

Mountain (Albuquerque, NM)
[2] Diogo Rocha (Denver/13.43) def. [8] Dan Little (Utah/12.70) 6-0, 5-7, 6-4
[2] Henry Craig/Alex Gasson (Denver) def. [1] Hayden Sabatka/Bart Van Leijsen (New Mexico) 3-6, 7-6, 1-0(6)

Carolina (Cary, NC) 
[6] Skander Mansouri (Wake Forest/13.90) def. S: [1] Brett Clark (UNC/13.75) 6-3, 6-4
[2] Ian Dempster/Nick Horton (NCST) def. [8] Romain Bogaerts/Max Kan (Wake) 6-1, 7-6(2)

Atlantic (Blacksburg, VA)