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Tennis Channel/USTA College Top 25: April 17, 2019

Pat Mitsch | April 17, 2019


As the college tennis season now enters into its conference tournament stretch, one look at this week's Tennis Channel/USTA College Tennis Top 25 shows just how competitive many of those tournaments will be.

On the men's side, the SEC has the most teams ranked, with six, while both the Pac 12 and ACC have five. The Big 12 nearly moved up into that second-place tie, as Texas Tech's upset win over Baylor last weekend buoyed the Red Raiders to the cusp of the Top 25.

For the women, the ACC leads all conferences with eight teams in the Top 25, including one of this week's poll's biggest upward movers in Miami, which beat conference rival Virginia, 6-1 on Saturday. The Pac 12 and SEC are both tied for second most in the women's poll, with five apiece.


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 300.
 
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 – 297
2. (2) Wake Forest – 284
3. (3) Texas – 277
4. (4) Florida – 268
5. (5) Virginia – 251
6. (8) UCLA – 229
7. (7) North Carolina – 213
8. (9) TCU – 212
9. (T10) Mississippi State – 211
10. (6) Baylor – 205
11. (T10) USC – 189
12. (12) Columbia – 171
13. (13) Texas A&M – 145
14. (15) Stanford – 144
15. (14) Illinois – 143
16. (16) Tennessee – 129
17. (18) Michigan – 104
18. (17) Georgia – 87
19. (19) Oklahoma – 65
20. (20) Florida State – 57
21. (23) Arizona State – 53
22. (24) Arizona – 52
23. (25) San Diego – 39
24. (21) South Carolina – 31
25. (NR) NC State – 21
Receiving Votes: Texas Tech 17, Alabama 6, Notre Dame 4, California 2, Penn State 2, Miami (Fla.) 1, UCF 1
Dropped Out: Miami (Fla.) (22)


Women's Poll
Rank (Last Week) – Points
1. (1) Georgia – 300
2. (2) North Carolina – 288
3. (3) Stanford – 275
4. (4) Duke – 265
5. (5) Pepperdine – 248
6. (6) South Carolina – 239
7. (7) Texas – 230
8. (8) Vanderbilt – 208
9. (11) Ohio State – 199
10. (12) Oklahoma State – 189
11. (9) Michigan – 174
12. (13) Florida State – 166
13. (10) UCLA – 161
14. (14) NC State – 144
15. (15) Washington – 128
16. (16) Kansas – 127
17. (20) Miami (Fla.) – 92
18. (21) UCF – 80
19. (18) USC – 64
20. (22) Tennessee – 62
21. (19) Texas A&M – 60
22. (23) California – 59
23. (17) Virginia – 51
24. (25) Florida – 43
25. (NR) Wake Forest – 15
Receiving Votes: Kentucky 11, Washington State 2, Northwestern 1, Texas Tech 1
Dropped Out: Kentucky (25)

 

Previous Top 25 polls

April 10, 2019

April 3, 2019

March 27, 2019

March 20, 2019

March 13, 2019

March 6, 2019

Feb. 27, 2019

Feb. 20, 2019

Feb. 13, 2019

Feb. 6, 2019

Jan. 30, 2019

 

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 15, 2019, with current college players in bold.

 

ATP

No. 10 John Isner (Georgia)

No. 59 Steve Johnson (USC)

No. 60 Mackenzie McDonald (UCLA)

No. 92 Bradley Klahn (Stanford)

No. 111 Tennys Sandgren (Tennessee)

No. 145 Noah Rubin (Wake Forest)

No. 147 Chris Eubanks (Georgia Tech)

No. 169 Marcos Giron (UCLA)

No. 247 JC Aragone (Virginia)

No. 259 Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (Virginia)

No. 274 JJ Wolf (Ohio State)

No. 294 Collin Altamirano (Virginia)

 

WTA

No. 32 Danielle Collins (Virginia)

No. 82 Jennifer Brady (UCLA)

No. 114 Nicole Gibbs (Stanford)

No. 155 Danielle Lao (USC)

No. 166 Francesca Di Lorenzo (Ohio State)

No. 193 Kristie Ahn (Stanford)

No. 202 Robin Anderson (UCLA)

No. 223 Jamie Loeb (North Carolina)

No. 311 Maria Mateas (Duke)

 

(Photo courtesy of the University of Miami)

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