Yesterday, the ITA released its first rankings of the 2018-19 academic year. Given all the conversation about how many international versus American players are playing college tennis, I thought it would be interesting to look at the country of record for the top incoming Division I freshmen as well as the Top 25 overall Division I players. Here you go:
Women’s Newcomers
| Rank | Player | School | Country |
| 1 | Maria Mateas | Duke | USA |
| 2 | Emmanuelle Salas | Florida State | France |
| 3 | Elysia Bolton | UCLA | USA |
| 4 | Maria Lourdes Carle | Georgia | Argentina |
| 5 | Salma Ewing | USC | USA |
| 6 | Cameron Morra | North Carolina | USA |
| 7 | Anastasia Iamachkine | Pepperdine | Peru |
| 8 | Martina Capurro Taborda | Oklahoma | Argentina |
| 9 | Tijana Spasojevic | Texas | Serbia |
| 10 | Emmanouela Antonakis | Mississippi State | Greece |
Men’s Newcomers
| Rank | Player | School | Country |
| 1 | Sam Riffice | Florida | USA |
| 2 | Matej Vocel | Oklahoma State | Czech Republic |
| 3 | Juan Pablo Grassi Mazzuchi | UCF | Argentina |
| 4 | Trent Bryde | Georgia | USA |
| 5 | Finn Bass | Baylor | Great Britain |
| 6 | Dominik Kellovsky | Arizona State | Czech Republic |
| 7 | Brian Cernoch | North Carolina | USA |
| 8 | Yuta Kikuchi | California | Japan |
| 9 | Sander Jong | TCU | Netherlands |
| 10 | Francisco Bastias | Miami | Argentina |
Women’s Top 25
| Rank | Player | School | Country |
| 1 | Bianca Turati | Texas | Italy |
| 2 | Makenna Jones | North Carolina | USA |
| 3 | Estela Perez-Somarriba | Miami | Spain |
| 4 | Ashley Lahey | Pepperdine | USA |
| 5 | Gabriela Knutson | Syracuse | Czech Republic |
| 6 | Anastasia Rychagova | Kansas | Russia |
| 7 | Fernanda Contreras | Vanderbilt | USA |
| 8 | Katarina Jokic | Georgia | Bosnia |
| 9 | Stacey Fung | Washington | Canada |
| 10 | Michaela Gordon | Stanford | USA |
| 11 | Carla Touly | Florida State | France |
| 12 | Kelly Chen | Duke | USA |
| 13 | Melissa Lord | Stanford | USA |
| 14 | Marie-Alexandre Leduc | Clemson | Canada |
| 15 | Jada Hart | UCLA | USA |
| 16 | Emma Davis | Wake Forest | USA |
| 17 | Michaela Bayerlova | Washington State | Germany |
| 18 | Kate Fahey | Michigan | USA |
| 19 | Alle Sanford | North Carolina | USA |
| 20 | Marianna Petrei | Idaho | Italy |
| 21 | Anna Turati | Texas | Italy |
| 22 | Rosie Johanson | Virginia | Canada |
| 23 | Veronica Miroshnichenko | Loyola Marymount | Russia |
| 24 | Emily Arbuthnott | Stanford | England |
| 25 | Vanessa Wong | Washington | Canada |
Men’s Top 25
| Rank | Player | School | Country |
| 1 | Petros Chrysochos | Wake Forest | Cyprus |
| 2 | Nuno Borges | Mississippi State | Portugal |
| 3 | Mazen Osama | Alabama | Egypt |
| 4 | Brandon Holt | USC | USA |
| 5 | Giovanni Oradini | Mississippi State | Italy |
| 6 | Timo Stodder | Tennessee | Germany |
| 7 | Cameron Klinger | Vanderbilt | USA |
| 8 | Thomas Laurent | Oregon | France |
| 9 | Carl Soderlund | Virginia | Sweden |
| 10 | Alex Rybakov | TCU | USA |
| 11 | Johannes Ingildsen | Florida | Denmark |
| 12 | Mitch Harper | Virginia Tech | Australia |
| 13 | Victor Pham | Columbia | USA |
| 14 | Tim Sandkaulen | Ole Miss | Germany |
| 15 | Aziz Dougaz | Florida State | Tunisia |
| 16 | Aleksandre Bakshi | Oklahoma | Georgia |
| 17 | JJ Wolf | Ohio State | USA |
| 18 | Lucas Poullain | Florida State | France |
| 19 | Alex Lebedev | Notre Dame | USA |
| 20 | Oliver Crawford | Florida | USA |
| 21 | Benjamin Sigouin | North Carolina | Canada |
| 22 | Jan Zielinski | Georgia | Poland |
| 23 | Aswin Lizen | Virginia | Great Britain |
| 24 | Alexis Galarneau | NC State | Canada |
| 25 | Valentin Vacherot | Texas A&M | France |
Four out of the 10 female newcomers (40%) are American with just 3 out of 10 (30%) men coming from the US. Out of the Top 25, 40% of the women and 28% of the men are from the US. You can see the complete lists of rankings on the ITA website here. I also encourage you to read the Cracked Racquets series titled “Where in the World” to get more details on the Division I breakdown. You can find Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, and Part 4 here.
Colette discusses not only who is IN these first ranking lists but also who is NOT in her latest ZooTennis post here.
The ITA has only released rankings for Division I so far. Once they release them for the other divisions, I will do a similar breakdown so stay tuned.
