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College Tennis: General Talk & News- 2011 Pre-season Talk/Make your predictions

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ABOUT COLLEGE TENNIS


GENERAL & SCORING: A team's best 6 singles players play in the teams' singles line-up. The top 3 doubles players/teams play in a team's doubles line-up. The objective of college tennis dual matches is to get to 4 points first, out of a possible 7. A point is awarded for every singles win a player in the team's top 6 records, and 1 point is awarded in the 3 doubles matches, to whomever wins 2 out of 3 or all doubles matches. Players are allowed to play both singles and doubles, because they are played at separate times.


RANKINGS: Not only are teams ranked, but individual players are ranked as well, by the ITA- Intercollegiate Tennis Association. The ITA ranks the top 75 teams, the top 125 singles players, and the top 90 doubles teams are ranked. Rankings are updated usually every week. Strength of schedule, RPI, and Win-loss record is calculated in all of it.


Tournaments: The first MAIN tournament of the year is the ITA National Indoors. The ITA National Indoors takes place in the beginning of the season, late January-early February. The ITA National Indoors takes a few of the best teams in the nation to play for a national championship title. Individual singles, doubles, and team play is included in this. The ITA National Indoors gives teams chances to beat the best of the best teams. The Virginia Cavaliers (#3 year-end ranking) won the ITA National Indoors this past year (2010).



Conference tournaments take place every year at the end of every team's conference regular season play. Conference tournaments are important because it is the final say for teams to try to get into the NCAA Tournament. If a team wins their conference tournament, they receive an automatic bid to play in the NCAA tournament. Conference tournaments include all teams in the conference, regardless of rank. Seeds are based on how teams performed in the conference throughout the regular season.


The NCAA Tournament is the most prestigious tournament a team can win. It takes place at the very end of the year in every division. The team tournament is played first, followed by individual singles (the best 64 singles players) and the doubles tournament (the best 64 doubles teams). NCAA tournament selections are given to X amount of conference tournament champions (30-35) and the remaining number of spots left are at-large bids, given to the best remaining teams that did not win their conference tournament.


 
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We can do it!!
 
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Hopefully it can be done. It deserves a forum.
 
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So Jarmaine Jenkins played at Clemson a few years ago, so where does his brother Jarmere decide to plat college tennis? Virginia!:rolleyes:

Clemson's best recruit is Zach Rigsby from Simpsonville,SC. I have seen him play a few times, once against my former high school's team. The #1 for my hs (who is ranked in the 20's in SC). Played the absolute match of his life but still lost to Rigsby 7-6(0) 6-1.
 
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Here is tenisrecruiting.net's recruiting class ranks:

1) Stanford- Kandath (NY), Kehrer (CA), Denis Lin (CA), Ecker (WI)

2) Virginia- Jenkins (GA), Fang (CA), Dell'Orto (HKG), Uriguen (GUA)

3) Texas- Chen (TX), Holiner (TX), Camillone (TX), Whitehead (TX), Mladenov (BUL)

4) Yale- Huang (CA), Powers (CT), Hoffman (CA)

5) Michigan- King (IL), Cha (KS)

6. Notre Dame (3 players)
7. Vanderbilt (2)
8. Northwestern (4)
9. Florida State (2)
10. North Carolina (3)
11. Harvard (4)
12. Georgia (3)
13. USC (2)
14. Alabama (2)
15. Santa Clara (5)
16. Wake Forest (4)
17. New Mexico (3)
18. Texas A&M (3)
19. Washington (1)
20. Ohio State (4)
21. Penn (5)
22. Princeton (3)
23. Maryland (4)
24. Davidson (3)
25. Tulane (6)

Note: Numbers of players in parenthesis may not be accurate

Noteable players: Chase Buchanon- Ohio State(??), Evan King- Michigan, Ryan Lipman- Vanderbilt,
 
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Hey Jeff, do you know any juniors my age in SC? And you have looked me up I guess, since you knew all that info about my tourney, right?:)
Well I looked at your draw for a Scott from NC. I saw one and thought well that must be Ozone.

In SC there are very good players in the 14's such as Hunter Harrington from Spartanburg, Brent Lett from Elgin (made R of 16 in Macon tourney), Austin Heinz from Daniel Island who made the round of 16 in your tournament in Macon.

I don't know as much about the 14's as the 18's but SC has some solid players for a state with not as much population. (That's true in every sport really, look at football)

The 2 most promising players from SC are:

1. Christopher Cox from Myrtle Beach (won the state 18's title even though he is eligible for the 16's and advanced to the quarters in Little Rock 18's southern tourney).

2. Cal Hilsman from Spartanburg (commited to Clemson. Made the semifinals of the 18's southern tournament in Little Rock.)

So there's my SC recap Ozone. :)
 
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NCAA Singles Champ Devin Britton is playing in Junior Wimbledon this week.

Former Florida Gator Jesse Levine reached the 3rd round.
Former Duke star Michael Yani qualified for the MD
 
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Yeah, very true. SC is one of the best states in the southern section for junior tennis. I split sets with Heinz earlier this year in our only meeting. I wouldnt call him a pusher, but he has more of a defensive game(He also got a very easy draw in Macon, playing a seed far worse than mine). Brent Lett is a very good player, never played him.

And of course SC has the #1 14 and under kid in the nation. I think he may just have turned 15 however.
 
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And of course SC has the #1 14 and under kid in the nation. I think he may just have turned 15 however.
who? Is that Harrington?
 
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ATP Tour Update: Ohio State's Matt Allare and Justin Kronauge are in the qualifying draw of the nearby Winnetka Challenger. Texas A&M's Brett Joelson will face Wake Forest's Joe Bates in the first qualy round. Kronauge will face 2 seed Monroe in the second round while Allare plays Fruttero in the first qualy round
 
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At the USA F15 Futures event in Rochester, NY, Cory Parr of Wake Forest gets a WC to make his full-time pro debut. Bryan Koniecko is also in the main draw as well as 3 seed Jean-Yves Aubone of Florida State and 8 seed Greg Ouellette of Florida. Clemson's Ryan Young joins the MD as well.
 
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Also Blake Strobe of Arkansas who made the NCAA individual semifinals.

I am a little concerned with Clemson's recruiting class. We got 5 star Zach Rigsby and 2 unranked international players. I get worried when I see teams like Virginia and Wake Forest getting Blue chip recruits. Even Maryland, whose tennis program is historically one of the worst in the ACC, has a better class.
 
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Hello everyone! This is Mark typing. :D
I hope it`s an appropriate thread.
If you haven`t followed my thread (DartMarcus Cheering thread) you can have a look at it now.
I am interesting in going to the USA next year to study and play tennis for the university. What could you tell me about that?
I am now discussing it with one russian firm, which sends russian students/sportsman to the usa for studying. To get into this program, you have to be good at english (pass TOEFL test) and have decent tennis results.I`ve got some nice results in tennis europe tournaments, having the ranking near top 200! However I have got no ITF ranking. But my english is pretty good for my age.
All kind of info will be appreciated. :worship:
 
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Hey Mark!

I have heard of some of your results and things. I think it is great that you are taking advantage of the opportunity to come to the States and study at our great universities. However, it is a controversial thing of letting foreigners into our schools and taking the spots of our Americans, but that's another story:)

You seem like a guy that would go to a slightly smaller college(just me). You seem like a great player, but I don't know if you are the player that college coaches are really going to recruit badly for(I may be wrong). That means Division I schools(like University of Texas, Ohio State U, U of Florida, U of North Carolina, Virginia Tech, Florida State) may not target you as much as players they are familiar with by going to the tournaments and scouting and stuff like that. I don't know if coaches are looking at you or if they know to target you or not??

Some people are different. Some like to go to big schools and play way down the roster(like BIG Division I schools, teh ones I listed above), and some like to star at small schools. Smaller schools are from Division II, Division III, the NAIA divisions. If you would like it somewhere in between playing at a big school and staring at a small school, smaller Division I schools are the perfect fit. These schools are still big time D1 schools, but usually with a less undergraduate enrollment. I think you would be a good fit for a smaller Division I school. Going to these schools are very underrated. They are still division I, have a nice size to them, usually are in medium-small towns, and have very competitive conferences.


I may have gone completely out of orbit with this long rant, but I hope it is some help you are looking for. It is from the tennis side of things. If you'd like to know about stuff from the more academic side of things, Jeff (out_here_grindin) can help you.

BY the way, how old are you??
 
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Hey Mark!

I have heard of some of your results and things. I think it is great that you are taking advantage of the opportunity to come to the States and study at our great universities. However, it is a controversial thing of letting foreigners into our schools and taking the spots of our Americans, but that's another story:)

You seem like a guy that would go to a slightly smaller college(just me). You seem like a great player, but I don't know if you are the player that college coaches are really going to recruit badly for(I may be wrong). That means Division I schools(like University of Texas, Ohio State U, U of Florida, U of North Carolina, Virginia Tech, Florida State) may not target you as much as players they are familiar with by going to the tournaments and scouting and stuff like that. I don't know if coaches are looking at you or if they know to target you or not??

Some people are different. Some like to go to big schools and play way down the roster(like BIG Division I schools, teh ones I listed above), and some like to star at small schools. Smaller schools are from Division II, Division III, the NAIA divisions. If you would like it somewhere in between playing at a big school and staring at a small school, smaller Division I schools are the perfect fit. These schools are still big time D1 schools, but usually with a less undergraduate enrollment. I think you would be a good fit for a smaller Division I school. Going to these schools are very underrated. They are still division I, have a nice size to them, usually are in medium-small towns, and have very competitive conferences.


I may have gone completely out of orbit with this long rant, but I hope it is some help you are looking for. It is from the tennis side of things. If you'd like to know about stuff from the more academic side of things, Jeff (out_here_grindin) can help you.

BY the way, how old are you??
Thanks for the info. I`ll just try to translate to understand it all now :lol:
I am 16 (dob: 01/04/1993), but I probably look younger than I am (14 or 15) :eek: but I have already finished the school this year :banana:
I`ve got some russian friends, who play for us universities : Nikita Ryashchenko, 19 (Utah State University), Andrey Morozov (19, Troy University, Alabama state), Viktoria Zhilkina, 17 (Michigan Technological University), but i doubt you can know them :lol:
 
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At 16 you have time to get better and get more attention. Keep at it dude, you could get into a school like Utah State for sure.
 
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