Tennis Channel/USTA College
Top 25: April 3, 2019
Pat Mitsch | April 3, 2019
For three weeks now, the same five teams, although not in the same order, have appeared in the Top 5 of the Tennis Channel/USTA College Tennis Top 25.
Baylor and USC inched closer to breaking them up this week, each rising from inside the Top 10 to No. 6 and 7, respectively. The Bears scored a home win last Friday over Top 10-ranked TCU, 5-2, before falling, 4-3, to the Longhorns in Austin on Sunday. The Trojans, meanwhile, scored road wins over Cal and Stanford to move to 3-0 in conference matches.
At the bottom of the men's poll, Penn State earned its first-ever ranking at No. 24 after a 4-1 start to Big Ten play.
Michigan leads the Big Ten on the women's side of the poll, rising into the Top 10 after a weekend home sweep of Penn State and Ohio State gave the Wolverines a perfect 7-0 start in conference matches. ADVERTISEMENT Seniors Kate Fahey (Fair Haven, N.J.) and Brienne Minor (Mundelein, Ill.) are now 6-0 in doubles together, while Fahey is 10-1 at the No. 1 singles position. Minor, a former NCAA singles champion, is 10-3 in singles across the Nos. 2, 3 and 4 positions.
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 250 (two 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).
Men's Poll
Rank (Last Week) – Points
1. (1) Ohio State – 248
2. (2) Wake Forest – 238
3. (3) Texas – 232
4. (4) Florida – 222
5. (5) Virginia – 208
6. (9) Baylor – 194
7. (10) USC – 187
8. (7) TCU – 179
9. (8) North Carolina – 171
T10. (11) Mississippi State – 149
T10. (6) Stanford – 149
12. (14) UCLA – 138
13. (12) Columbia – 136
14. (13) Texas A&M – 133
15. (15) Oklahoma – 113
16. (16) Illinois – 104
17. (18) Tennessee – 90
18. (20) Michigan – 77
19. (22) Georgia – 72
20. (25) NC State – 50
21. (23) South Carolina – 41
22. (17) Florida State – 32
23. (19) Miami (Fla.) – 17
24. (NR) Penn State – 14
25. (21) Oregon – 11
Receiving Votes: Virginia Tech 10, Notre Dame 9, Arizona State 7, LSU 4, San Diego 4, BYU 3
Dropped Out: LSU (24)
Women's Poll
Rank (Last Week) – Points
1. (1) Georgia - 250
2. (2) North Carolina – 240
3. (3) Stanford – 230
4. (4) Duke – 220
5. (5) Pepperdine – 205
6. (6) South Carolina – 198
7. (7) Texas – 190
8. (9) Vanderbilt – 168
9. (11) Michigan – 167
10. (10) UCLA – 157
11. (8) Ohio State – 150
12. (12) NC State – 144
13. (13) Oklahoma State – 127
14. (15) Florida State – 118
15. (16) Washington – 92
16. (18) Kansas – 90
17. (T19) Miami (Fla.) – 77
18. (T19) Virginia – 76
19. (23) USC – 61
20. (21) UCF – 58
21. (17) Texas A&M – 56
22. (14) California – 54
23. (24) Northwestern – 38
24. (NR) Florida – 24
25. (NR) Tennessee – 23
Receiving Votes: Wake Forest 15, Kentucky 6
Dropped Out: Wake Forest (22), LSU (25)
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 1, 2019, with current college players in bold.
ATP
No. 10 John Isner (Georgia)
No. 39 Steve Johnson (USC)
No. 59 Mackenzie McDonald (UCLA)
No. 93 Tennys Sandgren (Tennessee)
No. 96 Bradley Klahn (Stanford)
No. 142 Noah Rubin (Wake Forest)
No. 150 Chris Eubanks (Georgia Tech)
No. 177 Marcos Giron (UCLA)
No. 249 JC Aragone (Virginia)
No. 268 Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (Virginia)
No. 275 JJ Wolf (Ohio State)
No. 293 Collin Altamirano (Virginia)
WTA
No. 34 Danielle Collins (Virginia)
No. 77 Jennifer Brady (UCLA)
No. 124 Nicole Gibbs (Stanford)
No. 152 Danielle Lao (USC)
No. 167 Francesca Di Lorenzo (Ohio State)
No. 190 Kristie Ahn (Stanford)
No. 200 Robin Anderson (UCLA)
No. 218 Jamie Loeb (North Carolina)
No. 307 Maria Mateas (Duke)
(Photo courtesy of Baylor University)