Tennis Channel/USTA College
Top 25: April 10, 2019
Pat Mitsch | April 10, 2019
As the college tennis season turns into its home stretch, many of the country's top teams seem to be maintaining their form, making movement in the Tennis Channel/USTA College Tennis Top 25 poll a difficult task.
On the men's side, North Carolina did claw its way back to No. 7, closer to its season-high No. 4 ranking. The Tar Heels completed a 3-0 home sweep of ACC opponents North Carolina State (4-0), Boston College (6-1) and Notre Dame (5-0) to go to 16-4 and 8-2 in conference matches. Leading the way for the Tar Heels is junior William Blumberg (pictured above, right), the 2017 NCAA singles runner-up and 2018 ACC Player of the Year, who is 7-4 at No. 1 singles and 14-2 at No. 1 doubles, with teammate Blaine Boyden (above, left).
The women's Top 10 remained unchanged from last week, perhaps highlighting the continuing dominance of the Georgia women at the top.
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The Bulldogs are 19-0, have won six straight matches by a 4-0 score and can clinch the SEC regular season title this weekend with a win over Kentucky on Friday.
Each team's point total, specified below, is the sum of its ranking points from the USTA's panel of 14 voters (listed below). Each voter ranked 25 teams from Nos. 1 to 25, with the first-place team receiving 25 points and the last place team receiving one. For control, the highest and lowest outlying ranking for each team on the ballot was removed. First-place votes were not tallied. The maximum points a team can earn this week is 225 (three voters were unavailable).
The full list of voters participating in the 2019 rankings are: Casey Angle (former Intercollegiate Tennis Association Director of Championships); Jordan Bishop (The News Press; Stillwater, Okla.); Virgil Christian (USTA Collegiate Tennis); Richard Croome (The Eagle; Bryan, Texas); Sonny Dearth (Daily Press; Newport News, Va.); Granger Huntress (Texas College Tennis); David Fish (Universal Tennis Ratings); Andy Katz (NCAA.com); Bobby Knight (College Tennis Today); Brandon Moglen (Tennis Channel); Shannon Wrege (Tennis Recruiting Network); Michael Patrick (former University of Tennessee women’s head coach), Lisa Stone (Parenting Aces) and Caitlin Thompson (Racquet Magazine).
For more on the Tennis Channel/USTA College Tennis Top 25, visit the USTA collegiate Top 25 homepage.
Men's Poll
Rank (Last Week) – Points
1. (1) Ohio State – 223
2. (2) Wake Forest – 213
3. (3) Texas – 209
4. (4) Florida – 200
5. (5) Virginia – 188
6. (6) Baylor – 181
7. (9) North Carolina – 165
8. (12) UCLA – 155
9. (8) TCU – 148
T10. (T10) Mississippi State – 147
T10. (7) USC – 147
12. (13) Columbia – 124
13. (14) Texas A&M – 118
14. (16) Illinois – 103
15. (T10) Stanford – 95
16. (17) Tennessee – 94
17. (19) Georgia – 78
18. (18) Michigan – 61
19. (15) Oklahoma – 60
20. (22) Florida State – 42
21. (21) South Carolina – 35
22. (23) Miami (Fla.) – 28
23. (NR) Arizona State – 20
24. (NR) Arizona – 18
25. (NR) San Diego – 11
Receiving Votes: NC State 8, Alabama 7, Penn State 4, Vanderbilt 4, Texas Tech 2, Virginia Tech 2, BYU 1, California 1, UCF 1
Dropped Out: NC State (20), Penn State (24), Oregon (25)
Women's Poll
Rank (Last Week) – Points
1. (1) Georgia – 225
2. (2) North Carolina – 216
3. (3) Stanford – 207
4. (4) Duke – 198
5. (5) Pepperdine – 185
6. (6) South Carolina – 180
7. (7) Texas – 172
8. (8) Vanderbilt – 157
9. (9) Michigan – 155
10. (10) UCLA – 141
11. (11) Ohio State – 135
12. (13) Oklahoma State – 121
13. (14) Florida State – 111
14. (12) NC State – 106
15. (15) Washington – 93
16. (16) Kansas – 88
17. (18) Virginia – 85
18. (19) USC – 77
19. (21) Texas A&M – 61
20. (17) Miami (Fla.) – 48
21. (20) UCF – 45
22. (25) Tennessee – 38
23. (22) California – 27
24. (NR) Kentucky – 16
25. (24) Florida – 14
Receiving Votes: Wake Forest 8, Texas Tech 2, Georgia Tech 1, LSU 1
Dropped Out: Northwestern (23)
Previous Top 25 polls:
In addition to the polls above, each week this space will highlight the former and current American collegians in the ATP's and WTA's Top 300. The below reflects the rankings released on April 8, 2019, with current college players in bold.
ATP
No. 10 John Isner (Georgia)
No. 39 Steve Johnson (USC)
No. 59 Mackenzie McDonald (UCLA)
No. 81 Tennys Sandgren (Tennessee)
No. 93Bradley Klahn (Stanford)
No. 144 Noah Rubin (Wake Forest)
No. 149 Chris Eubanks (Georgia Tech)
No. 165 Marcos Giron (UCLA)
No. 248 JC Aragone (Virginia)
No. 260 Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (Virginia)
No. 276 JJ Wolf (Ohio State)
No. 295 Collin Altamirano (Virginia)
WTA
No. 32 Danielle Collins (Virginia)
No. 78 Jennifer Brady (UCLA)
No. 113 Nicole Gibbs (Stanford)
No. 155 Danielle Lao (USC)
No. 172 Francesca Di Lorenzo (Ohio State)
No. 200 Robin Anderson (UCLA)
No. 205 Kristie Ahn (Stanford)
No. 223 Jamie Loeb (North Carolina)
No. 307 Maria Mateas (Duke)
(Photo courtesy of the University of North Carolina)
