Big Weekend Of Tennis Coming Up

There are a lot of fall tournament action taking place this weekend with Malibu, San Francisco, Charlottesville, Durham, Princeton, and Midland the hottest spots.

The inaugural Oracle ITA Masters will be taking place Friday through Sunday in Malibu. The best news is that the finals of both the men's and women's events will be shown LIVE on the Tennis Channel from 12:30pm pst to 5pm pst.  Check out the full draws below - who do you like?

Live scoring for the Masters

ITA Rnk	UTR Rnk	Name	School	UTR Rating
1	1	Axel Alvarez Llamas	Oklahoma	15.15
16	T-16	Wayne Montgomery	Georgia	14.38
10	21	Dominik Koepfer	Tulane	14.28
31	54	Max Tchoutakian	Baylor	13.96
15	T-25	Cameron Norrie	TCU	14.20
25	31	Benjamin Lock	Florida State	14.17
21	T-42	Or Ram-Harel	Tulsa	14.08
5	10	Quentin Monaghan	Notre Dame	14.46
4	T-2	Julian Lenz	Baylor	14.89
7	9	Nicolas Alvarez	Duke	14.47
19	12	Guillermo Nunez	TCU	14.42
11	T-16	Romain Bogaerts	Wake Forest	14.38
14	T-16	Ronnie Schneider	North Carolina	14.38
17	20	Austin Smith	Georgia	14.35
18	66	Felipe Soares	Texas Tech	13.85
2	T-2	Ryan Shane	Virginia	14.89

ITA Rnk	UTR Rnk	Name	School	UTR Rating
4	8	Maegan Manasse (1)	Cal	11.79
53	36	Kiah Generette	Baylor	11.20
14	2	Astra Sharma	Vanderbilt	11.99
New-5	21	Luisa Stefani	Pepperdine	11.52
23	31	Jasmine Lee	Mississippi St	11.30
13	12	Sinead Lohan	Miami	11.72
18	63	Rachel Pierson	Texas A&M	10.94
8	T-3	Danielle Collins (4)	Virginia	11.95
7	10	Sydney Campbell (3)	Vanderbilt	11.74
12	25	Viktoriya Lushkova	Oklahoma St	11.48
11	T-3	Joana Eidukonyte	Clemson	11.95
16	27	Klara Fabikova	Cal	11.43
19	16	Ronit Yurovsky	Michigan	11.61
9	7	Hayley Carter	North Carolina	11.81
10	13	Giuliana Olmos	USC	11.71
6	15	Stephanie Wagner (2)	Miami	11.70

Tournament hub site with schedule and draws (when released)
Tournament Program


The Battle in the Bay Classic in San Francisco gets started on Thursday at the California Tennis Club and runs through Sunday. The University of San Francisco is the host with players from USC, Cal, Stanford, San Diego, Pacific, Cal Poly, UC Davis, Pepperdine, Boise State, and Michigan also playing.

Men's Seeds:
1. Andre Goransson (Cal)
2. Uros Petronijevic (San Diego) 
3. Florian Lakat (Cal)
4. Filip Vittek (San Diego)
5. Filip Bergevi (Cal)
6. David Hsu (Stanford)
7. Jordan Angus (San Diego)
8. Kalman Boyd (USC)

Women's Seeds:
1. Madison Westby (USC)
2. Meredith Xepoleas (USC)
3. Karla Popovic (Cal)
4. Andrea Ka (San Francisco)

Tournament site
Draws via TennisLink


The UVA Ranked 1+1 Invitational takes place Friday through Sunday in Charlottesville at the Snyder Tennis Center.  There will be 13 guys ranked in the preseason top 125 that will be participating in the two 16-player singles draws.  Here is the preview article from UVA which also has links to the double draws.

Blue Draw Seeds:
1. Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (Virginia)
2. Amerigo Contini (Virginia Tech)
3. Piotr Lomacki (Miami FL)
4. Joao Monteiro (Virginia Tech)

Orange Draw Seeds:
1. Andreas Bjerrehus (Virginia Tech)
2. Beck Pennington (Kentucky)
3. Jack Findel Hawkins (North Florida)
4. Jonathan Ho (Wake Forest)

The Duke James Bonk Invite takes place Friday through Sunday in Cary, North Carolina. I have the singles draws below but if you're interesting in doubles as well you can view them here.

Black draw seeds are NC State's Simon Norenius and Auburn's Max Hinnisdaels. North Carolina's 2 new freshman, TRN Blue-Chip Anudeep Kodali and TRN 5-star Blaine Boyden, make their collegiate debuts as does Duke's Vincent Lin (Blue-Chip).

Blue draw seeds are Auburn's Marko Krickovic and North Carolina's Robert Kelly. Notre Dame's

White draw seeds are North Carolina's Brett Clark and Notre Dame's Eddy Covalschi. Duke Blue-Chip Adrian Chamdani makes his debut. NC State's Nick Horton is in the bottom half of the draw and I'd be a little surprised if he didn't face Clark in the finals.

Princeton is hosting the Ivy Plus Tournament Friday through Sunday at the Lenz Tennis Center. There are 17 guys from the preseason top 125 that are participating with Princeton, Buffalo, Dartmouth, Indiana, Miami FL, Michigan, Notre Dame, Penn, Penn State, Tennessee, Tulsa, Virginia Tech, Wisconsin and others sending players.  The draws are below or you can click here to see them. Princeton will probably have other updates at this page as well.

The Racquet Club Collegiate Invitational in Midland will get started on Friday with guys from Texas, Texas Tech, TCU, and others participating. I haven't seen any draws though Texas posted a list of school participating... I'll post draws if I see them. Ok, I did some searching and finally found them through Rice's site - here is the tennislink site with them all.

FLIGHT 2

The Rice Invitational in Houston will have players representing Rice, Army West Point, Incarnate Word, Lamar, Nichols State., Portland, Texas, Texas Rio Grand Valley, Prairie View, Tulane and UTSA.  Here is Rice's preview article which also includes all draws if you can't see them below.