INDIANAPOLIS –– The NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Subcommittee has selected the 64 singles players and 32 doubles teams that will compete in the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships.
The singles and doubles competition will be conducted May 23-28 at the Wake Forest Tennis Complex in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, after the conclusion of the team championship, which runs from May 18-22. Wake Forest University will serve as host.
All matches shall be the best-of-three sets. No-ad scoring and a 7-point tiebreaker (first to seven points, must win by two points) at six-games-all will be used for all matches. In doubles, a 10-point match tiebreaker will be played in lieu of a third set.
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Automatic qualification into the Division I singles championships is awarded to any conference with one or more eligible singles players ranked in the ITA Top 125 for eligible/entered singles players. For conferences with more than one singles player within the ITA Top 125 eligible/entered singles players, the subcommittee applies the NCAA selection criteria to determine which student-athlete is the automatic qualifier from those conferences. All singles players must have a minimum of 13 completed singles matches, with six matches in the spring, in order to be selected as an automatic qualifier or an at-large selection.
Automatic qualification into the Division I doubles championship is awarded to any conference with one or more eligible doubles teams ranked in the ITA Top 60 for eligible/entered doubles teams. For conferences with more than one doubles team within the ITA Top 60 eligible/entered doubles teams, the subcommittee applies the NCAA selection criteria to determine which doubles team is the automatic qualifier from those conferences. All doubles teams must have started a minimum of 10 doubles matches, eight must be completed, with four of the eight matches completed in the spring, in order to be selected as an automatic qualifier or an at-large selection.
SINGLES:
Automatic qualifications (15), listed alphabetically by conference:
CONFERENCE | INDIVIDUAL | SCHOOL |
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American Athletic | Constantin Schmitz | Tulane |
Atlantic 10 | Jordan Benjamin | Dayton |
Atlantic Coast | William Blumberg | North Carolina |
Big 12 | Alex Rybakov | TCU |
Big South | Henry Patten | UNC Asheville |
Big Ten | Mikael Torpegaard | Ohio State |
Big West | Nicolas Moreno de Alboran | UC Santa Barbara |
Conference USA | Aziz Kijametovic | Old Dominion |
Ivy League | Victor Pham | Columbia |
Mountain West | Alexandr Cozbinov | UNLV |
Ohio Valley | Edu Mena | Tennessee Tech |
Pac-12 | Martin Redlicki | UCLA |
SEC | Nuno Borges | Mississippi State |
Sun Belt | Guanarteme Nuez | UT Arlington |
West Coast | August Holmgren | San Diego |
At-large selections (49), listed alphabetically by last name:
INDIVIDUAL | SCHOOL |
---|---|
Nicolas Alvarez | Duke |
Jordi Arconada | Texas A&M |
Alexander Bakshi | Oklahoma |
William Bushamuka | Kentucky |
Julian Cash | Oklahoma State |
Petros Chrysochos | Wake Forest |
Felix Corwin | Minnesota |
Oliver Crawford | Florida |
Carlos Divar | Georgia Tech |
Aziz Dougaz | Florida State |
Jake Douglas | Washington |
Tom Fawcett | Stanford |
Gabriel Friedrich | South Carolina |
Alexis Galarneau | North Carolina State |
Michael Geerts | Arizona State |
Borna Gojo | Wake Forest |
Billy Griffith | California |
Gustav Hansson | Ole Miss |
Mitch Harper | Virginia Tech |
Brandon Holt | Southern California |
Runhao Hua | Michigan |
Johannes Ingildsen | Florida |
Guy Iradukunda | Florida State |
Yuya Ito | Texas |
Cameron Klinger | Vanderbilt |
Alex Knight | Michigan |
Patrick Kypson | Texas A&M |
Thomas Laurent | Oregon |
Alex Lebedev | Notre Dame |
Aswin Lizen | Virginia |
Skander Mansouri | Wake Forest |
Ryotaro Matsumura | Kentucky |
Wayne Montgomery | Georgia |
Giovanni Oradini | Mississippi State |
Mazen Osama | Alabama |
Ryan Peniston | Memphis |
Alfredo Perez | Florida |
Lucas Poullain | Florida State |
Arthur Rinderknech | Texas A&M |
Jose Salazar | Arkansas |
Tim Sandkaulen | Ole Miss |
Benjamin Siguoin | North Carolina |
Keegan Smith | UCLA |
Carl Söderlund | Virginia |
Timo Stodder | Tennessee |
Daniel Valent | Vanderbilt |
Aleks Vukic | Illinois |
JJ Wolf | Ohio State |
Jan Zielinski | Georgia |
Alternates*:
INDIVIDUAL | SCHOOL |
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Michail Pervolarakis | Portland |
Walker Duncan | Georgia |
Paul Jubb | South Carolina |
Alastair Gray | TCU |
Jackie Tang | Columbia |
Johannes Schretter | Baylor |
Ferran Calvo | Oklahoma |
Trevor Johnson | TCU |
Christopher Morin-Kougoucheff | Louisville |
Majed Kilani | Tulsa |
Emil Reinberg | Georgia |
*If the withdrawing student-athlete was selected by automatic qualification, the next eligible singles player from that conference will be considered before substituting from the alternate list.
Seeds 1-8:
Seed | INDIVIDUAL | SCHOOL |
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1 | Martin Redlicki | UCLA |
2 | William Blumberg | North Carolina |
3 | Nuno Borges | Mississippi State |
4 | Petros Chrysochos | Wake Forest |
5 | Patrick Kypson | Texas A&M |
6 | Mikael Torpegaard | Ohio State |
7 | Borna Gojo | Wake Forest |
8 | Ryotaro Matsumura | Kentucky |
Seeds 9-16, listed alphabetically by last name:
INDIVIDUAL | SCHOOL |
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Tom Fawcett | Stanford |
Brandon Holt | Southern California |
Mazen Osama | Alabama |
Alfredo Perez | Florida |
Arthur Rinderknech | Texas A&M |
Constantin Schmitz | Tulane |
Timo Stodder | Tennessee |
Aleks Vukic | Illinois |
DOUBLES:
Automatic qualifications (8), listed alphabetically by conference:
CONFERENCE | INDIVIDUAL 1 | INDIVIDUAL 2 | SCHOOL |
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American Athletic | Korey Lovett | Eero Vasa | UCF |
Atlantic Coast | William Blumberg | Robert Kelly | North Carolina |
Big 12 | Guillermo Nuñez | Alex Rybakov | TCU |
Big Ten | Chema Carranza | Josef Dodridge | Wisconsin |
Ivy Leage | Jack Lin | William Matheson | Columbia |
Pac-12 | Jack Jaede | Laurens Verboven | Southern California |
SEC | Nuno Borges | Strahinja Rakic | Mississippi State |
Sun Belt | Loic Cloes | Clement Marzol | South Alabama |
At-large selections (24), listed alphabetically by institution:
INDIVIDUAL 1 | INDIVIDUAL 2 | SCHOOL |
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Mazen Osama | Edson Ortiz | Alabama |
Will Little | Johannes Schretter | Baylor |
Billy Griffith | J.T. Nishimura | California |
Johannes Ingildsen | Alfredo Perez | Florida |
Duarte Vale | McClain Kessler | Florida |
Michael Kay | Carlos Divar | Georgia Tech |
Cesar Bourgois | Gus Benson | Kentucky |
Christopher Morin- Kougoucheff | Parker Wynn | Louisville |
Christan Langmo | Adria Soriano Barrera | Miami (Florida) |
Alex Knight | Runhao Hua | Michigan |
Mikael Torpegaard | Martin Joyce | Ohio State |
Julian Cash | Luke Hammond | Oklahoma State |
Tim Sandkaulen | Fabian Fallert | Ole Miss |
Gabriel Friedrich | Yancy Dennis | South Carolina |
Brandon Holt | Riley Smith | Southern California |
Tom Fawcett | Axel Geller | Stanford |
Luis Valero | Preston Touliatos | Tennessee |
Rodrigo Banzer | Leonardo Telles | Texas |
Juan Carlos Aguilar | Jordi Arconada | Texas A&M |
Constantin Schmitz | Ewan Moore | Tulane |
Austin Rapp | Keegan Smith | UCLA |
Martin Redlicki | Evan Zhu | UCLA |
Cameron Klinger | Billy Rowe | Vanderbilt |
Henrik Korsgaard | Alexandre Ribeiro | Virginia Tech |
Alternates*INDI
INDIVIDUAL 1 | INDIVIDUAL 2 | SCHOOL |
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Petros Chrysochos | Bar Botzer | Wake Forest |
Adam Sanjurjo | Oscar Mesquida | Arkansas |
Niclas Braun | Giovanni Oradini | Mississippi State |
Ryan Peniston | Andrew Watson | Memphis |
Victor Pham | Jackie Tang | Columbia |
Chase Perez-Blanco | Oliver Crawford | Florida |
*If the withdrawing student-athlete was selected by automatic qualification, the next eligible doubles team from that conference will be considered before substituting from the alternate list.
Seeds 1-4:
Seed | INDIVIDUAL 1 | INDIVIDUAL 2 | SCHOOL |
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1 | Nuno Borges | Strahinja Rakic | Mississippi State |
2 | William Blumberg | Robert Kelly | North Carolina |
3 | Juan Carols Aguilar | Jordi Arconada | Texas A&M |
4 | Johannes Ingildsen | Alfredo Perez | Florida |
Seeds 5-8, listed alphabetically by institution:
INDIVIDUAL 1 | INDIVIDUAL 2 | SCHOOL |
---|---|---|
Jack Jaede | Laurens Verboven | Southern California |
Guillermo Nuñez | Alex Rybakov | TCU |
Luis Valero | Preston Touliatos | Tennessee |
Korey Lovett | Eero Vasa | UCF |