American collegians ready for 2019 US Open
Once again, there will be a large contingent of American collegiate players enjoying the spotlight of the US Open in 2019. A total of 23 current or former collegians are either in the qualifying draw or main draw for singles competition. The overall number of American collegians at the 2019 US Open will likely grow when the doubles draws are released on USOpen.org.
The highest-ranked homegrown former collegians are WTA No. 35 Danielle Collins (pictured above) and ATP No. 14 John Isner.
The US Open Qualifying Tournament begins on Aug. 19 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, while main-draw action kicks off Aug. 26. The full list of American collegians in action includes:
Women Singles Qualifying
Player – School – Last Season on Team
Robin Anderson – UCLA – 2015
Nicole Gibbs – Stanford – 2013
Danielle Lao – USC – 2012
(WC) Jamie Loeb – North Carolina – 2015
Women Singles Main Draw
Player – School – Last Season on Team
(WC) Kristie Ahn – Stanford – 2012
Jennifer Brady – UCLA – 2015
Danielle Collins – Virginia – 2016
(WC) Francesca Di Lorenzo – Ohio State – 2017
Men Singles Qualifying
Player – School – Last Season on Team
(WC) JC Aragone – Virginia – 2017
(WC) Jenson Brooksby – Baylor – Incoming Freshman
(WC) Maxime Cressy – UCLA – 2019
Thai-Son Kwiatkowski – Virginia – 2017
(WC) Govind Nanda – UCLA – Rising Sophomore
(WC) Sam Riffice – Florida – Rising Sophomore
Noah Rubin – Wake Forest – 2015
(WC) Alex Rybakov – TCU – 2019
(WC) JJ Wolf – Ohio State – 2019
Men Singles Main Draw
Player – School – Last Season on Team
(WC) Chris Eubanks – Georgia Tech – 2017
(WC) Marcos Giron – UCLA – 2014
John Isner – Georgia – 2007
Steve Johnson – USC – 2012
Bradley Klahn – Stanford – 2012
Tennys Sandgren – Tennessee – 2011
(Mackenzie McDonald – UCLA – 2016 – withdrawn due to injury)
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