ITA Releases First Rankings of 2016

Earlier today the ITA released its first team and individual rankings of the 2016 season. The individual rankings are based off the computer so therefore they had several big shakeups from the initial rankings which were based solely off last season's rankings with the seniors removed.

I did my own Top 20 and took into account roster additions and subtractions from last season while the first 6 team rankings are done by the ITA's National Ranking Committee with each voter probably knowledgeable on their region but not much outside it. I highlighted all the teams below that moved at least 4 spots from the final rankings of last season and put them in green if they went up and yellow if they went down.


I thought Texas was ranked a good 10 to 15 spots too high after losing 5 of its starting 6 plus 1 of its top freshman.  Duke lost 4 of its top 5 so I thought at best they would be around #20. Baylor should have been 5 to 10 spots lower after losing 3 of its top 5. Tennessee should be closer to 100 than 50 after losing its top 2 along with 2 other contributors.

Stanford is probably ranked a good 10 spots too low and I think both Alabama and Arkansas are top 35 programs although they are both ranked near the bottom of the top 75. I think SMU is going to be a top 30 team with the addition of the Johnson brothers and with Samm Butler and Nate Lammons playing really well. Tulane is another team that is probably 5-10 spots better than its ranking because I think they'll be playing with a chip on their shoulders this year after just missing out on the NCAAs last season (Georgia Tech was last team in with 16.93 points while Tulane had 16.83).

It's hard to get too bent out of shape at this point because once the results start coming in everything will fix itself.

11 freshmen made the top 125 of the initial singles rankings with Ohio State's Hugo Di Feo the highest at #10. The only name that I wasn't really familiar with prior was UCSB's Nicolas Moreno de Alboran. The win that got him ranked was a 6-3, 6-2 win over SMU's Nate Lammons at the Jack Kramer Classic.

A few of the bigger names that were absent from the initial rankings are UCLA's Mackenzie McDonald, Baylor's Julian Lenz, Oklahoma's Andrew Harris, North Carolina's Brayden Schnur, Virginia's Collin Altamirano, Illinois's Aleks Vukic, and Wake Forest's Romain Bogaerts. Those guys aren't ranked because they didn't play in any fall college events (except Bogaerts he played in the fall he just didn't beat a ranked player).

Men's National Team Rankings
Administered by the ITA
NCAA Division I Tennis
January 5, 2016
Rank	School	2014-15 Final Rank
1	Virginia	1
2	Oklahoma	2
3	TCU	4
4	Baylor	3
5	Texas A&M	5
6	Illinois	6
7	Georgia	8
8	USC	7
9	North Carolina	11
10	Ohio State	12
11	Wake Forest	13
12	Texas	9
13	Duke	10
14	UCLA	15
15	South Florida	16
16	Virginia Tech	18
17	Texas Tech	19
18	Columbia	14
19	Mississippi	17
20	Stanford	20
21	California	26
22	San Diego	22
23	Minnesota	21
24	Florida	25
25	Vanderbilt	24
26	Northwestern	27
27	Mississippi State	23
28	Oklahoma State	29
29	Tulsa	28
30	LSU	30
31	Florida State	31
32	Harvard	34
33	Pepperdine	36
34	Princeton	35
35	Drake	32
36	Louisville	33
37	Notre Dame	37
38	San Diego State	38
39	Tulane	41
40	North Carolina State	39
41	New Mexico	40
42	Dartmouth	42
43	Georgia Tech	44
44	Tennessee	43
45	Memphis	45
46	SMU	47
47	Indiana	46
48	Cornell	48
49	Oregon	49
50	South Carolina	50
51	Denver	53
52	Cal Poly	52
53	Penn State	55
54	UC Santa Barbara	54
55	San Francisco	51
56	Old Dominion	57
57	UC Davis	58
58	Rice	60
59	Boise State	59
60	Texas A&M Corpus Christi	56
61	Auburn	61
62	Washington	64
63	Troy	63
64	Clemson	66
65	Alabama	72
66	UTSA	62
67	Fresno State	65
68	UC Irvine	67
69	Wichita State	69
70	Utah State	68
71	Iowa	73
72	Arkansas	NR
73	South Alabama	70
74	UNC Wilmington	74
75	North Florida	NR

Men's National Singles Rankings
Administered by the ITA
NCAA Division I Tennis
January 5, 2016
Rank	Avg	Player	School	Preseason Rank
1	71.15	Dominik Koepfer	Tulane	10
2	70.91	Thai-Son Kwiatkowski	Virginia	8
3	65.38	Andre Goransson	California	22
4	59.22	Cameron Norrie	TCU	15
5	45.28	Arthur Rinderknech	Texas A&M	53
6	43.66	Christopher Eubanks	Georgia Tech	24
7	33.73	Mikael Torpegaard	Ohio State	32
8	33.33	Felipe Soares	Texas Tech	18
9	33.15	Tom Fawcett	Stanford	20
10	32.86	Hugo Di Feo	Ohio State	10 (FR)
11	30.19	Ryan Shane	Virginia	2
12	29.7	Nicolas Alvarez	Duke	7
13	29.23	Ronnie Schneider	North Carolina	14
14	28.67	Joao Monteiro	Virginia Tech	70
15	28.31	Benjamin Lock	Florida State	25
16	27.12	Konrad Zieba	Northwestern	NR
17	26.95	Roberto Cid	South Florida	13
18	26.73	Dovydas Sakinis	Dartmouth	23
19	25.31	Chris Diaz	Ohio State	29
20	24.78	Wayne Montgomery	Georgia	16
21	20.59	Jared Hiltzik	Illinois	12
22	18.55	Jordan Daigle	LSU	48
23	18.36	Piotr Lomacki	Miami (FL)	45
24	18.12	Guillermo Nunez	TCU	19
25	17.74	Herkko Pollanen	Ohio State	93
26	17.44	Skander Mansouri	Wake Forest	NR
27	16.79	Sam Monette	Indiana	NR
28	16.75	Austin Smith	Georgia	17
29	16.73	Shane Vinsant	Texas A&M	35
30	16.67	Florian Lakat	California	36
31	16.28	Diego Hidalgo	Florida	33
32	16.21	Hunter Johnson	SMU	NR
33	16.09	Alex Sendegeya	Texas Tech	81
34	15.82	Jordan Angus	San Diego	NR
35	14.61	Uros Petronijevic	San Diego	30
36	14.41	Stefan Lindmark	Mississippi	44
37	14.29	Quentin Monaghan	Notre Dame	5
38	14.19	Alec Adamson	UC Davis	NR
39	14.08	Billy Griffith	California	NR
40	14.04	Paul Oosterbaan	Georgia	NR
T-41	13.66	Aron Hiltzik	Illinois	46
T-41	13.66	Nick Crystal	USC	42
43	13.65	Brett Clark	North Carolina	51
44	13.25	Nate Lammons	SMU	NR
45	13.06	Diogo Rocha	Denver	75
46	11.68	Edoardo Tessaro	Virginia Tech	109
47	11.63	Robert Kelly	North Carolina	105
48	11.59	Martin Redlicki	UCLA	57
49	10.93	Elliott Orkin	Florida	86
50	10.51	Sam Shropshire	Northwestern	34
51	10.17	Or Ram-Harel	Tulsa	21
52	10.16	Naoki Takeda	Arizona	37
53	9.87	Freddy Gelbrich	San Diego St	77
54	9.7	Oskar Wikberg	California	NR
55	9.5	Strong Kirchheimer	Northwestern	120
56	9.48	Lucas Hejhal	St. John's	NR
57	9.32	David Wilczynski	Stanford	NR
58	9.1	Jaan Kononov	UMBC	69
59	9.09	Maxime Tchoutakian	Baylor	31
60	8.91	Axel Alvarez Llamas	Oklahoma	1
61	8.85	Michael Genender	Stanford	7 (FR)
62	8.79	Chase Perez-Blanco	Florida	84
63	8.74	Constantin Schmitz	Tulane	NR
64	8.66	Daniel Valent	Vanderbilt	49
65	8.35	Harrison O'Keefe	South Carolina	NR
66	8.25	Mazen Osama	Alabama	1 (FR)
67	8.18	Julian Childers	Illinois	NR
68	7.95	Julian Cash	Oklahoma St	NR
69	7.85	Logan Smith	USC	NR
70	7.78	Christian Langmo	Miami (FL)	NR
71	7.66	Nicky Hu	Harvard	117
72	7.2	Alexander Ritschard	Virginia	115
73	7.08	Trevor Johnson	TCU	NR
74	6.94	JC Aragone	Virginia	123
75	6.93	Igor Smelyanski	Tennessee	NR
76	6.83	Connor Farren	USC	NR
77	6.76	Marco Nunez	Florida State	NR
78	6.71	Justin Butsch	LSU	91
79	6.67	William Bushamuka	Kentucky	90
80	6.64	Tyler Lu	Yale	100
81	6.63	Nicolas Moreno de Alboran	UCSB	NR
82	6.33	Romain Kalaydjian	San Diego	NR
83	6.26	Jake DeVine	USC	NR
84	6.25	Mitch Stewart	Washington	62
85	6.19	Jurence Mendoza	Oklahoma St	NR
86	6.11	Filip Bergevi	California	64
87	6.06	Andrew Watson	Memphis	58
88	6.04	Nick Wood	Georgia	104
89	5.96	Maciek Romanowicz	Stanford	NR
90	5.95	Henrik Wiersholm	Virginia	NR
91	5.86	Alfredo Perez	Florida	NR
92	5.62	Alexandru Ghilea	Oklahoma	50
93	5.3	Alexander Day	Princeton	NR
94	5.25	Harrison Scott	Texas	NR
95	5.24	Ruben Weber	Minnesota	NR
96	5.16	Maxime Hinnisdaels	Auburn	107
97	5.06	McClain Kessler	Florida	NR
98	5	Logan Staggs	UCLA	NR
99	4.82	Matt Barry	Penn State	NR
100	4.78	Marko Krickovic	Auburn	76
101	4.77	Felix Corwin	Minnesota	98
102	4.75	TJ Pura	Duke	NR
103	4.71	Jonathan Ho	Wake Forest	72
104	4.7	Kalman Boyd	USC	NR
105	4.69	Walker Duncan	Georgia	NR
106	4.65	Korey Lovett	Alabama	96
107	4.59	Max Andrews	Miami (FL)	NR
108	4.57	Alex Gornet	Louisville	NR
109	4.51	Jerry Lopez	TCU	NR
110	4.43	Maksim Kan	Wake Forest	NR
111	4.42	Sebastian Rey	Tulane	NR
112	4.36	Arjun Kadhe	Oklahoma St	66
113	4.33	Daan Maasland	Oregon	67
114	4.31	Michael Riechmann	Texas	NR
115	4.26	Max de Vroome	USC	61
116	4.25	Alex Fennell	South Carolina	NR
117	4.24	Nils Ellefsen	Kentucky	NR
118	4.23	Ziqi Wang	Yale	NR
119	4.17	Sebastian Heim	UC Irvine	NR
120	4.12	Aws Laaribi	Penn State	NR
121	4.11	Jake Douglas	Washington	92
122	4.09	Gal Hakak	Washington	NR
T-123	4.03	Becker O'Shaughnessey	Alabama	NR
T-123	4.03	Sebastian Salinas	James Madis	NR
125	4	Rudolf Kurz	Marist	NR

Men's National Doubles Rankings
Administered by the ITA
NCAA Division I Tennis
January 5, 2016
Rank	Avg	Player	Player	School	Preseason Rank
1	63.95	Brett Clark	Robert Kelly	North Carolina	18
2	62.75	Hugo Dojas	Felipe Soares	Texas Tech	3
3	56.98	Gordon Watson	Diego Hidalgo	Florida	23
4	53.41	Jack Findel-Hawkins	Yannick Zuern	North Florida	50
5	52.83	Mac Styslinger	Thai-Son Kwiatkowski	Virginia	13
6	52.73	Alex Lawson	Quentin Monaghan	Notre Dame	28
7	47.87	Filip Vittek	Jordan Angus	San Diego	17
8	42.31	Hayden Sabatka	Bart Van Leijsen	New Mexico	29
9	37.5	Arjun Kadhe	Julian Cash	Oklahoma State	14
10	37	Ben Wagland	Austin Smith	Georgia	1
11	31.74	Henry Craig	Alex Gasson	Denver	16
12	30.24	Arthur Rinderknech	Shane Vinsant	Texas A&M	NR
13	29.3	Jordan Daigle	Boris Arias	LSU	4
14	26.75	Jose Gracia	Marco Nunez	Florida State	NR
15	26.5	Luca Corinteli	Ryan Shane	Virginia	2
16	25.42	Nate Lammons	Arkadijs Slobodkins	SMU	NR
17	24.89	Dominik Koepfer	Chi-Shan Jao	Tulane	39
18	24.5	Henrik Wiersholm	JC Aragone	Virginia	NR
19	24.48	Guilherme Hadlich	Gabriel Sidney	Pepperdine	NR
20	23.36	Matic Spec	Felix Corwin	Minnesota	NR
21	22.9	Andreas Bjerrehus	Joao Monteiro	Virginia Tech	NR
22	22.67	Ralf Steinbach	Martin Joyce	Ohio State	19
23	21.33	Luis Valero	Jack Schipanski	Tennessee	NR
24	20.98	Herkko Pollanen	Mikael Torpegaard	Ohio State	NR
25	20.78	Christian Seraphim	Skander Mansouri	Wake Forest	5
26	18.3	Mike Vermeer	Michal Rolski	Columbia	NR
27	18.14	Romain Bogaerts	Maksim Kan	Wake Forest	NR
28	17.17	Adam Moundir	Aziz Kijametovic	Old Dominion	NR
29	16.57	Jordi Arconada	Max Lunkin	Texas A&M	NR
30	16.12	Mikus Losbergs	Kasparas Zemaitelis	Sacramento State	NR
31	15.75	Stefan Lindmark	Filip Kraljevic	Mississippi	NR
32	15.62	Sebastian Beltrame	Kenny Tao	Harvard	NR
33	15.3	Charlie Emhardt	Jeffrey Schorsch	Valparaiso	55
34	15.08	Miroslav Herzan	Haru Inoue	Wichita State	NR
35	15.05	Justin Butsch	Simon Freund	LSU	NR
36	14.97	Casey Kay	Michael Kay	Georgia Tech	NR
37	14.95	Jefta Kecic	Stephen Payne	Western Michigan	NR
38	14.63	Florian Lakat	Oskar Wikberg	California	NR
39	14.48	Brian Yeung	Andy Zhou	Harvard	NR
40	14.43	Maxx Lipman	Elliott Orkin	Florida	12
41	14.18	Jonny Rigby	Michal Kianicka	SIU-Carbondale	NR
42	13.98	Maciek Romanowicz	Nolan Paige	Stanford	NR
43	13.25	Nick Horton	Ian Dempster	North Carolina State	41
44	13.1	Brian Yeung	Nicky Hu	Harvard	37
45	12.97	Wayne Montgomery	Emil Reinberg	Georgia	NR
46	12.71	John Mee	Harrison Scott	Texas	NR
47	12.35	Justin Butsch	Tam Trinh	LSU	NR
48	12.28	Sebastian Rey	Chi-Shan Jao	Tulane	NR
49	11.26	Lucas Hejhal	Vaidik Munshaw	St. John's	NR
50	11.19	Shawn Hadavi	Richard Pham	Columbia	NR
51	11.15	Jonathan Ho	Keivon Tabrizi	Wake Forest	NR
52	10.74	Fedor Baev	Strong Kirchheimer	Northwestern	56
53	10.11	Lukas Finzelberg	Jurence Mendoza	Oklahoma State	NR
54	10.1	Igor Smelyanski	Jack Schipanski	Tennessee	NR
55	9.92	Terrance Whitehurst	Terrell Whitehurst	Florida State	NR
56	9.71	Tristan Meraut	Nathan Roper	Oklahoma State	NR
57	9.54	Jeffrey Brown	Alex Gornet	Louisville	NR
58	8.95	William Bushamuka	Beck Pennington	Kentucky	NR
59	8.92	Andre Goransson	Florian Lakat	California	25
60	8.75	Shane Vinsant	AJ Catanzariti	Texas A&M	NR