Preseason Singles & Doubles Rankings Released; Also UTR Top 50

The ITA released its preseason rankings today with Oklahoma's Axel Alvarez #1 in the men's singles rankings and Stanford's Carol Zhao #1 in the women's singles rankings. Georgia's Austin Smith and Ben Wagland are the men's #1 doubles duo with Florida's Brooke Austin and Kourtney Keegan the women's #1 duo.

As you comb through these preseason rankings and wonder how so-and-so ended up where they did I'll let you in on a little secret that some know and some don't - the preseason rankings are just the year-end rankings from the previous season with all the graduating seniors pulled out.  They also pull out returning players that aren't enrolled in the fall.

The most interesting part of the preseason rankings (for me) are looking at the Top 10 Newcomer/Freshmen rankings. There are a couple of guys that would have made the list (IMO) but they aren't enrolling until January or aren't currently showing on rosters - Alex Rybakov (TCU 14.59), Dennis Uspensky (Wake Forest - 14.19), and Ryotaro Matsumura (Kentucky - 14.10)

Below is a chart looking at the ITA preseason top 50 versus the UTR top 50 - here is the link to the google doc if you'd prefer to view it that way.

Oracle/ITA Division I Men's National Singles Rankings
Administered by the ITA
NCAA Division I Tennis
September 15, 2015
Rank	Name	School
1	Axel Alvarez Llamas	Oklahoma
2	Ryan Shane	Virginia
3	Mackenzie McDonald	UCLA
4	Julian Lenz	Baylor
5	Quentin Monaghan	Notre Dame
6	Andrew Harris	Oklahoma
7	Nicolas Alvarez	Duke
8	Thai-Son Kwiatkowski	Virginia
9	Brayden Schnur	North Carolina
10	Dominik Koepfer	Tulane
11	Romain Bogaerts	Wake Forest
12	Jared Hiltzik	Illinois
13	Roberto Cid	South Florida
14	Ronnie Schneider	North Carolina
15	Cameron Norrie	TCU
16	Wayne Montgomery	Georgia
17	Austin Smith	Georgia
18	Felipe Soares	Texas Tech
19	Guillermo Nunez	TCU
20	Tom Fawcett	Stanford
21	Or Ram-Harel	Tulsa
22	Andre Goransson	California
23	Dovydas Sakinis	Dartmouth
24	Christopher Eubanks	Georgia Tech
25	Benjamin Lock	Florida State
26	Tin Ostojic	Wichita State
27	Collin Altamirano	Virginia
28	Andreas Bjerrehus	Virginia Tech
29	Chris Diaz	Ohio State
30	Uros Petronijevic	San Diego
31	Max Tchoutakian	Baylor
32	Mikael Torpegaard	Ohio State
33	Diego Hidalgo	Florida
34	Sam Shropshire	Northwestern
35	Shane Vinsant	Texas A&M
36	Florian Lakat	California
37	Naoki Takeda	Arizona
38	Matic Spec	Minnesota
39	Beck Pennington	Kentucky
40	Ben Lott	Drake
41	Aleks Vukic	Illinois
42	Nick Crystal	USC
43	Amerigo Contini	Virginia Tech
44	Stefan Lindmark	Mississippi
45	Piotr Lomacki	Miami (FL)
46	Aron Hiltzik	Illinois
47	Filip Vittek	San Diego
48	Jordan Daigle	LSU
49	Daniel Valent	Vanderbilt
50	Alex Ghilea	Oklahoma
51	Brett Clark	North Carolina
52	Sasha Gozun	South Florida
53	Arthur Rinderknech	Texas A&M
54	Marco Micolani	Arkansas
55	AJ Catanzariti	Texas A&M
56	Dragos Ignat	Columbia
57	Martin Redlicki	UCLA
58	Andrew Watson	Memphis
59	Jack Findel-Hawkins	North Florida
60	Maxx Lipman	Florida
61	Max de Vroome	USC
62	Mitch Stewart	Washington
63	Ralf Steinbach	Ohio State
64	Filip Bergevi	California
65	Henry Craig	Denver
66	Arjun Kadhe	Oklahoma State
67	Daan Maasland	Oregon
68	Michael Rinaldi	Florida State
69	Jaan Kononov	UMBC
70	Joao Monteiro	Virginia Tech
71	Simon Norenius	NC State
72	Jonathan Ho	Wake Forest
73	Leo Stakhovsky	Penn State
74	Lucas Gerch	Oklahoma State
75	Diogo Rocha	Denver
76	Marko Krickovic	Auburn
77	Fred Gelbrich	San Diego State
78	Samm Butler	SMU
79	Jolan Cailleau	Texas Tech
80	Mate Cutura	Mississippi State
81	Alexander Sendegeya	Texas Tech
82	Ricardo Jorge	Mississippi
83	Dusty Boyer	Nebraska
84	Chase Perez-Blanco	Florida
85	Tam Trinh	LSU
86	Elliott Orkin	Florida
87	Felipe Rios	Baylor
88	David Biosca	ETSU
89	Jack Murray	North Carolina
90	William Bushamuka	Kentucky
91	Justin Butsch	LSU
92	Jake Douglas	Washington
93	Herkko Pollanen	Ohio State
94	Sebastian Beltrame	Harvard
95	Nick Bybel	Bucknell
T-96	David Hsu	Stanford
T-96	Korey Lovett	Alabama
98	Felix Corwin	Minnesota
99	Simon Pritchard	Kennesaw State
100	Tyler Lu	Yale
T-101	Nathan Rakitt	Georgia Tech
T-101	Hugo Dojas	Texas Tech
103	Mariano Porter	UCF
104	Nick Wood	Georgia
105	Robert Kelly	North Carolina
106	Florin Bragusi	Oklahoma
107	Maxime Hinnisdaels	Auburn
108	Gordon Watson	Florida
109	Edoardo Tessaro	Virginia Tech
110	Mike Vermeer	Columbia
111	Ben Wagland	Georgia
112	Hendrik Jebens	San Diego State
113	Hassan Ndayishimiye	Troy
114	Josh Hagar	Notre Dame
115	Alexander Ritschard	Virginia
116	Rhys Johnson	Vanderbilt
117	Nicholas Hu	Harvard
118	Tom Colautti	Princeton
119	Jeffrey Schorsch	Valparaiso
120	Strong Kirchheimer	Northwestern
121	Jacob Dunbar	Richmond
122	Ben Donovan	Cal Poly
123	J.C. Aragone	Virginia
124	Miguel Diaz	Pacific
125	Mac Styslinger	Virginia

Oracle/ITA Division I Men's National Newcomer/Freshmen Rankings

Administered by the ITA
NCAA Division I Tennis
September 15, 2015
Rank	Name	School
1	Mazen Osama	Alabama
2	David Volfson	Cornell
3	Sameer Kumar	Stanford
4	Enzo Sommer	Washington
5	Filip Kraljevic	Mississippi
6	Tommy Mylnikov	Texas Tech
7	Michael Genender	Stanford
8	Liam Caruana	Texas
9	Alexandre Favrot	Clemson
10	Hugo Di Feo	Ohio State

Oracle/ITA Division I Men's National Doubles Rankings
Administered by the ITA
NCAA Division I Tennis
September 15, 2015
Rank	Player 1	Player 2	School
1	Austin Smith	Ben Wagland	Georgia
2	Luca Corinteli	Ryan Shane	Virginia
3	Felipe Soares	Hugo Dojas	Texas Tech
4	Boris Arias	Jordan Daigle	LSU
5	Christian Seraphim	Skander Mansouri	Wake Forest
6	Mackenzie McDonald	Martin Redlicki	UCLA
7	Benjamin Lock	Marco Nunez	Florida State
8	Cameron Norrie	Trevor Johnson	TCU
9	Korey Lovett	Becker O'Shaughnessey	Alabama
10	Eddy Covalschi	Josh Hagar	Notre Dame
11	Axel Alvarez	Andrew Harris	Oklahoma
12	Maxx Lipman	Elliott Orkin	Florida
13	Mac Styslinger	Thai-Son Kwiatkowski	Virginia
14	Arjun Kadhe	Julian Cash	Oklahoma State
15	Julian Lenz	Max Tchoutakian	Baylor
16	Henry Craig	Alex Gasson	Denver
17	Jordan Angus	Filip Vittek	San Diego
18	Brett Clark	Robert Kelly	North Carolina
19	Martin Joyce	Ralf Steinbach	Ohio State
20	Justin Roberts	Roberto Cid	South Florida
21	Rhys Johnson	Daniel Valent	Vanderbilt
22	Nikita Lis	Michael Feucht	Lamar
23	Diego Hidalgo	Gordon Watson	Florida
24	Fedor Andrienko	Stefan Doehler	Yale
25	Andre Goransson	Florian Lakat	California
26	Matthew Kirby	Dylan McCloskey	Tulsa
27	Shane Vinsant	Oscar Janglin	Texas A&M
28	Alex Lawson	Quentin Monaghan	Notre Dame
29	Bart Van Leijsen	Hayden Sabatka	New Mexico
30	Gustav Hansson	Stefan Lindmark	Mississippi
31	Freddy Gelbrich	Hendrik Jebens	San Diego State
32	Thomas Mayronne	Harrison O'Keefe	South Carolina
33	Tom Fawcett	Maciek Romanowicz	Stanford
34	Nicolas Alvarez	Ryan Dickerson	Duke
T-35	Alex Gornet	Jeffrey Brown	Louisville
T-35	Marko Krickovic	Conner Huertas	Auburn
T-37	Mac Roy	Michael Dube	Michigan State
T-37	Brian Yeung	Nicholas Hu	Harvard
39	Dominik Koepfer	Chi-Shan Jao	Tulane
40	Dominic Cotrone	Sasha Gozun	South Florida
41	Ian Dempster	Nick Horton	NC State
42	Tin Ostojic	Jocelyn Devilliers	Wichita State
43	Sam Shropshire	Alp Horoz	Northwestern
44	Brendan Tannenbaum	Dovydas Sakinis	Dartmouth
45	Kai Lemke	Andrew Watson	Memphis
46	Carlos Benito	Cole Fiegel	Georgia Tech
47	Max de Vroome	Jack Jaede	USC
48	Piotr Lomacki	Max Andrews	Miami (FL)
49	Andreas Bjerrehus	Jai Corbett	Virginia Tech
50	Jack Findel-Hawkins	Yannick Zuern	North Florida
51	David Warren	Zach Yablon	Rice
52	Bernardo Casares Rosa	Chris Vrabel	Cornell
T-53	Hugo di Feo	Chris Diaz	Ohio State
T-53	Christopher Eubanks	Michael Kay	Georgia Tech
55	Charlie Emhardt	Jeffrey Schorsch	Valparaiso
T-56	Oskar Wikberg	Filip Bergevi	California
T-56	Fedor Baev	Strong Kirchheimer	Northwestern
58	Nils Skajaa	Vasco Valverde	San Francisco
59	Matt Cowley	Egbert Weverink	Utah
60	Daan Maasland	Simon Stevens	Oregon

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Oracle/ITA Division I Women's National Singles Rankings
Administered by the ITA
NCAA Division I Tennis
September 15, 2015
Rank	Name	School
1	Carol Zhao	Stanford
2	Brooke Austin	Florida
3	Julia Elbaba	Virginia
4	Maegan Manasse	California
5	Josie Kuhlman	Florida
6	Stephanie Wagner	Miami (FL)
7	Sydney Campbell	Vanderbilt
8	Danielle Collins	Virginia
9	Hayley Carter	North Carolina
10	Giuliana Olmos	USC
11	Joana Eidukonyte	Clemson
12	Viktoriya Lushkova	Oklahoma State
13	Sinead Lohan	Miami (FL)
14	Astra Sharma	Vanderbilt
15	Taylor Davidson	Stanford
16	Klara Fabikova	California
17	Caroline Doyle	Stanford
18	Rachel Pierson	Texas A&M
19	Ronit Yurovsky	Michigan
20	Joana Vale Costa	LSU
21	Erin Routliffe	Alabama
22	Catherine Harrison	UCLA
23	Jasmine Lee	Mississippi State
24	Brianna Morgan	Florida
25	Blair Shankle	Baylor
26	Desirae Krawczyk	Arizona State
27	Kyle McPhillips	UCLA
28	Stephanie Nauta	Virginia
29	Ellen Perez	Georgia
30	Yuliya Lysa	Arkansas
31	Saska Gavrilovska	Texas A&M
32	Belinda Woolcock	Florida
33	Denise Starr	California
34	Courtney Colton	Vanderbilt
35	Paige Hourigan	Georgia Tech
36	Madison Westby	USC
37	Kennedy Shaffer	Georgia
38	Kourtney Keegan	Florida
39	Lynn Chi	California
40	Maya Jansen	Alabama
41	Ilinca Stoica	Virginia Tech
42	Despoina Vogasari	Houston
43	Lauren Marker	Arizona
44	Francesca Fusinato	Virginia Tech
45	Danielle Spielmann	Alabama
46	Leeza Nemchinov	William & Mary
47	Pleun Burgmans	Auburn
48	Breaunna Addison	Texas
49	Frances Altick	Vanderbilt
50	Rutuja Bhosale	Texas A&M
51	Lynn Kiro	Texas Tech
52	Skylar Kuykendall	LSU
53	Kiah Generette	Baylor
54	Sophie Watts	Fresno State
55	Hannah King	Georgia
56	Nadia Ravita	Kentucky
57	Arianne Hartono	Mississippi
58	Silvia Garcia	Georgia
59	Gabby Smith	USC
60	Nia Rose	Oregon
61	Meredith Xepoleas	USC
62	Whitney Kay	North Carolina
63	Clementina Riobueno	Miami (FL)
64	Karla Popovic	California
65	Jean Runglerdkriangkrai	Pepperdine
66	Daneika Borthwick	Florida State
67	Taylor Ng	Dartmouth
68	Krista Hardebeck	Stanford
69	Samantha Harris	Duke
70	Vladica Babic	Oklahoma State
71	Beatrice Capra	Duke
72	Caroline Brinson	Georgia
73	Wendy Zhang	Miami (FL)
74	Johhnise Renaud	Georgia Tech
75	Lucia Butkovska	Portland
76	Cindy Nguyen	Hawaii-Manoa
77	Alizee Michaud	Auburn
78	Aldila Sutjiadi	Kentucky
79	Elena Cerezo-Codina	Virginia Tech
80	Leolia Jeanjean	Nevada
81	Gabriella Castaneda	Florida State
82	Borislava Botusharova	Old Dominion
83	Georgiana Patrasc	Mississippi State
84	Kimmy Guerin	Wake Forest
85	Caroline Dailey	South Carolina
86	Sabrina Federici	Texas Tech
87	Natalie Suk	Mississippi
88	Mariana Gould	Georgia
89	Kelli Hine	Missouri
90	Lexi Borr	Boston College
91	Andrea Ka	San Francisco
92	Katarina Adamovic	Oklahoma State
93	Quinn Gleason	Notre Dame
T-94	Sarah Dvorak	Texas Tech
T-94	Yolimar Ogando	Miami (FL)
T-96	Shannon Hudson	Arkansas
T-96	Asiya Dair	Boston College
98	Nikki Kallenberg	Harvard
99	Alyssa Tobita	Oregon
100	Maeva Razakasoa	Long Beach State
101	Monica Robinson	Notre Dame
102	Alex Najarian	Michigan
103	Gabriela Talaba	Texas Tech
104	Maiar Sherif Ahmed	Fresno State
105	Mai El Kamash	Mississippi
106	Abby Owens	LSU
107	Stefania Hristov	Texas A&M
108	Yuriko Miyazaki	Oklahoma
109	Alexandra Stanova	Maryland
110	Maddie Lipp	Northwestern
111	Yukako Noi	Florida State
112	Ashley Dai	North Carolina
113	Terri Fleming	UCLA
T-114	Tess Bernard-Feigenbaum	Purdue
T-114	Zoe Katz	USC
116	Joanna Nalborska	NC State
117	Gabby De Santis	Ohio State
118	Dayna Lord	Brown
119	Yuliya Shupenia	DePaul
120	Mami Adachi	Kentucky
121	Julia Schiller	Wichita State
122	Erin Larner	Northwestern
123	Jessica Perez	Loyola Marymount
124	Alicia Barnett	Northwestern
T-125	Lauren Chypyha	Wisconsin
T-125	Gabriela Porubin	Wichita State

Oracle/ITA Division I Women's National Newcomer/Freshmen Rankings

Administered by the ITA
NCAA Division I Tennis
September 15, 2015
Rank	Name	School
1	Francesca DiLorenzo	Ohio State
2	Rianna Valdes	USC
3	Anna Danilina	Florida
4	Anna Shkudun	Syracuse
5	Luisa Stefani	Pepperdine
6	Ellyse Hamlin	Duke
7	Andie Daniell	Alabama
8	Erica Oosterhaut	Harvard
9	Kaitlyn McCarthy	Duke
10	Melissa Lord	Stanford

Oracle/ITA Division I Women's National Doubles Rankings
Administered by the ITA
NCAA Division I Tennis
September 15, 2015
Rank	Player 1	Player 2	School
1	Brooke Austin	Kourtney Keegan	Florida
2	Catherine Harrison	Kyle McPhillips	UCLA
3	Maegan Manasse	Denise Starr	California
4	Sydney Campbell	Courtney Colton	Vanderbilt
5	Eva Paalma	Rachel Pierson	Texas A&M
6	Desirae Krawczyk	Stephanie Vlad	Arizona State
7	Kendal Woodard	Paige Hourigan	Georgia Tech
8	Matea Cutura	Christine Maddox	Pepperdine
9	Mami Adachi	Aldila Sutjiadi	Kentucky
10	Quinn Gleason	Monica Robinson	Notre Dame
11	Yuliya Lysa	Shannon Hudson	Arkansas
12	Caroline Dailey	Hadley Berg	South Carolina
13	Julia Elbaba	Skylar Morton	Virginia
14	Ines Deheza	Stefania Hristov	Texas A&M
15	Hayley Carter	Whitney Kay	North Carolina
16	Silvia Garcia	Kennedy Shaffer	Georgia
17	Erin Routliffe	Danielle Spielmann	Alabama
18	Alicia Barnett	Erin Larner	Northwestern
19	Taylor Davidson	Caroline Lampl	Stanford
T-20	Julia Courter	Paula Rincon-Otero	Minnesota
T-20	Ellen Perez	Mariana Gould	Georgia
22	Gabriela Castaneda	Emily Fanning	Florida State
23	Kate Vialle	Ashley Dai	North Carolina
24	Klara Fabikova	Karla Popovic	California
25	Caroline Doyle	Melissa Lord	Stanford
26	Nia Rose	Alyssa Tobita	Oregon
27	Sheila Morales Hidalgo	Blaga Delic	Nevada
28	Astra Sharma	Frances Altick	Vanderbilt
29	Pleun Burgmans	Paula de Man	Auburn
30	Zoe Katz	Madison Westby	USC
T-31	Lindsey Hodge	Alison Ho	Rice
T-31	Giuliana Olmos	Rianna Valdes	USC
33	Savannah Ware	Nicolette Tran	BYU
34	Alex Chatt	Maddie Lipp	Northwestern
35	Katarina Adamovic	Vladica Babic	Oklahoma State
36	Viktoriya Lushkova	Carla Tur Mari	Oklahoma State
37	Renata Kuricova	Saana Saarteinen	Tulsa
38	Maiar Sherif Ahmed	Rana Sherif Ahmed	Fresno State
39	Beatrice Capra	Ellyse Hamlin	Duke
40	Seda Arantekin	Marie Norris	TCU
41	Natalie Suk	Mai El Kamash	Mississippi
42	Samantha Harris	Kaitlyn McCarthy	Duke
43	Gabriela Talaba	Sabrina Federici	Texas Tech
44	Anki Wind	Hanna Sohn	Memphis
45	Claudia Herrero Garcia	Leolia Jeanjean	Nevada
46	Tess Bernard-Feigenbaum	Krisztina Kapitany	Purdue
47	Lynn Chi	Olivia Hauger	California
48	Leeza Nemchinov	Lauren Goodman	William & Mary
49	Stephanie Nauta	Cassie Mercer	Virginia
50	Clementina Riobueno	Wendy Zhang	Miami (FL)
51	Caroline Brinson	Hannah King	Georgia
52	Brianna Turley	Margo Pletcher	Utah
53	Martina Frantova	Claudia Wiktorin	NC State
54	Josie Kuhlman	Belinda Woolcock	Florida
55	Peggy Porter	Spencer Liang	Florida
56	Marlou Kluiving	Kennan Johnson	Oregon
57	Yuliya Shupenia	Rebeca Mitrea	DePaul
58	Jordan Eggleston	Tess Herder	Drake
59	Skylar Kuykendall	Abby Owens	LSU
60	Laura Valkova	Alexandria Stiteler	South Alabama