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The second and final day of the NCAA Division I Super Regionals wasn't dramatic until the last match of the day, when No. 8 Arizona rallied from 3-1 down to earn a 4-3 victory over No. 9 Oklahoma and the first NCAA team quarterfinal in program history.The other two men's matches had little suspense, with No. 5 seed Mississippi State defeating No. 12 seed Georgia 4-1, and No. 6 seed TCU rolling

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Although all four of them dropped a point as hosts of Friday's Super Regionals, the top two seeds in the men's and women's NCAA Division I draws have booked their spots at the finals site in Athens Georgia.Top seed Georgia has the opportunity to win a second straight women's team title, but this time at home, after the Bulldogs got by UCLA 4-1. No. 2 seed Auburn will make its first appearance in

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The matches that will decide who travels to Athens next week for the quarterfinals of the Division I NCAA Team Championships begin tomorrow, with 11 of the 16 Super Regionals set for Friday. Five men's matches and six women's matches are on the schedule for Friday, beginning with the 3 p.m. Eastern time women's match between the Texas A&M and Southern California and ending with two 7 p.m.

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Kathy Rinaldi, the head of women's tennis, announced last night on Instagram that she was leaving the USTA and will be starting a tennis academy in Palm Beach Florida.Rinaldi's 18 years at the USTA, after a successful pro career that saw her reach No. 7 in the WTA rankings, began as a National Coach and she spent many years in that position before being named head of women's tennis and serving as

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Before the Division I Regionals began the college tennis community was shocked by the news of the demise of the Arkansas tennis programs. After a relatively predictable regional weekend, with 29 of the 32 seeds advancing to the Super Regionals, another off-court surprise was announced, with Harry Jadun departing as the head coach of the Michigan State men after four years leading the

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My column on the previous month's top performances is up today at the Tennis Recruiting Network, with ATP titles for former collegians and maiden USTA Pro Circuit singles titles for a trio of American juniors. Some of the April Aces I've covered when they've happened, but others I collect over the course of the month as I track the juniors and former collegians competing all over the globe.The

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In an NCAA Division I Regional weekend short on surprises, one upset was recorded today, with the Stanford men taking out No. 11 seed Texas A&M 4-2 in College Station. The Cardinal, No. 18 in the most recent ITA rankings, lost the doubles point, but got a quick 6-1, 6-1 win from Samir Banerjee, who is down to No. 2 in the lineup after a series of injuries this season, to pull even. Two more

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Saturday featured a head-spinning number of matches in the NCAA Division I Team Championships, with 15 of the men's Sweet 16 and eight of the women's Sweet 16 decided today.The biggest upset of the day came this evening, when the Pepperdine men, ranked 27, defeated No. 7 seed LSU 4-3 in Baton Rouge. LSU took the doubles point, but the Waves won five first sets in singles. LSU got the point at

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The first day of the Division I NCAA Team Championships produced several minor upsets, with No. 3 seeds beating No. 2 seeds and a few 4-3 battles, but the host, the No. 1 seeds in their regionals cruised through their first round matches. The only exception was the San Diego men, who are hosting the consensus choice for the toughest field in the regionals. The No. 15 seeds defeated No. 4 seed

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Part II of the Tennis Recruiting Network's NCAA D-I Roundtable is now up, with play beginning across the country tomorrow with all 32 first round matches in the men's draw and 16 first round matches in the women's draw. Alongside Alex Gruskin of Cracked Racquets and Chris Halioris of CollegeTennisRanks.com, I give my list of dark horses and possible upsets and pick my champions. I got both right

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Part I of Tennis Recruiting Network's annual NCAA Division I Roundtable went up today, with Cracked Racquets' Alex Gruskin, CollegeTennisRanks' Chris Halioris and me offering our thoughts on the storylines from the regular season and what Super Regionals matchups we're looking forward to.  Part II, when we name our dark horses and predict the champions, will be out Thursday

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The USTA released the latest rankings in its annual Roland Garros Wild Card Challenge, with Savannah Challenger champion Nishesh Basavareddy overtaking Emilio Nava and W100 Charlottesville semifinalist Akasha Urhobo maintaining her lead.I had thought Basavareddy would still be a few points short of catching Nava, but I had double counted his points from reaching the third round of Madrid.

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The NCAA announced the fields for the 2026 Division I Team Championships this afternoon, with women's defending champion Georgia and men's defending champion Wake Forest the number one seeds.When the latest rankings come out Thursday however, neither will be No. 1, with Georgia at No. 2 moving ahead of Auburn, who has earned the No. 1 ranking. Wake Forest will be No. 4, so the NCAA committee's

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Sixteen-year-old Welles Newman and 18-year-old Keaton Hance won their first USTA Pro Circuit singles titles in contrasting fashion today at the W15 and M15 events at the USTA National Campus in Lake Nona Florida.Newman came back against 15-year-old Janae Preston, a fellow ITF Junior Reserved entry, winning a two-hour and 43-minute battle 3-6, 7-6(7), 6-0 for her first USTA Pro Circuit title.&

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The M15 title Jack Kennedy won in Boca Raton early this month was just the start of his success the past three weeks, with a semifinal last week at the Tallahassee Challenger 75 and now an appearance in the final of the Challenger 75 in Savannah Georgia tomorrow.The 17-year-old from New York, who has committed to Virginia for this fall, defeated qualifier Kilian Feldbausch of Switzerland 7-6(2),

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For the first time since 2020, a Power 4/5 conference school has cut a tennis program, and today the University of Arkansas exceeded this decade's cuts to the men's programs at Minnesota, Iowa and Connecticut by eliminating both the men's and women's programs at the end of this season.This is obviously terrible news for college tennis, which has regularly seen cuts to non-Power 4/5 Division I,

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The NCAA announced today that the Division I singles and doubles championships would be permanently moved to the fall after a two-year pilot program in 2024 and 2025. The reasons cited by the Tennis Oversight Committee are majority support of the D-I coaches for the change and student-athlete well-being, which appears to mean too much tennis for them when both the team and the individual

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After reporting on his run to the quarterfinals of the ITF San Diego J300 as a lucky loser, at the Easter Bowl I took the opportunity to talk with Yashwin Krishnakumar about his commitment to join the University of California-Irvine Anteaters this fall for today's article at the Tennis Recruiting Network. I don't write as many of these commitment articles as I used to, for a variety of reasons,

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The Division I rankings released today by the ITA are the last ones before next Monday's draw is released for the NCAA tournament, although there is still a week of competition remaining. The rankings that will be released on April 30, the last ones before the NCAAs, will be available to the committee as they go through their calculations. To track what might change in the rankings and how the

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With the two 15Ks in Orlando last week and two more this week, American juniors aren't as prevalent as usual on the ITF Junior Circuit, although the ITF's US junior clay swing is ramping up now. With a J30 in Raleigh serving as the kickoff of it two weeks ago, a J60 was played in Atlanta last week, with a J100 this week in Charleston South Carolina and two new J200s, on red clay in South Carolina

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Nineteen-year-old Akasha Urhobo won her third W35 title of the year today in Zephyrhills Florida, with the No. 3, who received a wild card, beating No. 5 seed Angela Fita Boluda of Spain 7-5, 6-4 in the final.Urhobo, who won a USTA Pro Circuit tournament at Zephyrhills in 2024 when it was a W75, will add to her lead in the USTA's Roland Garros Wild Card race. When the 35 points are added she will

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Below are the videos of the 18s finals at last month's Easter Bowl, which wraps up my YouTube content from my March trip out West. All those videos can be seen at the tenniskalamazoo YouTube Channel. The most popular of all those videos, with nearly 5000 views, is the boys final at the ITF J300 in San Diego, and I can understand why, with the quality of that match way above average for a

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The videos of the finals of the 16s division are available below, with the videos of the 12s and 14s finals available at the tenniskalamazoo YouTube Channel. Jack Kennedy, who won the M15 title in Boca Raton last week, has extended his USTA Pro Circuit winning streak to eight matches by getting his second career ATP Top 200 win today in the quarterfinals of the ATP Challenger 75 in

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The videos of the finals of the 14s division at last month's Easter Bowl are below; the 12s videos, which went up yesterday, can be found at my tenniskalamazoo YouTube channel. Seventeen-year-old Jack Kennedy has advanced to his first ATP Challenger quarterfinal, with the ITF Junior No. 5 defeating Oliver Crawford(Florida) of Great Britain 7-6(4), 4-6, 7-5 this afternoon in Tallahassee.

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After finishing the Tucson ITF J300 and San Diego J300 finals the last few days, I've processed the first two videos from last month's USTA Level 1 Easter Bowl, with the 12s finals available below. To view the other videos from my recent trip out west, see the tenniskalamazoo YouTube Channel.  The NCAA announced today that its D-I Cabinet has adopted changes to pre-enrollment

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