Men's Individual Preseason Rankings With UTRs

It's officially time to open the book on another season of college tennis and the first page contains the preseason individual rankings which were released earlier on Tuesday. For those that weren't aware these preseason rankings are simply last year's final rankings with all the graduating seniors removed along with those that turned pro or are taking the fall off to play pro events. There are no freshmen included in these initial singles rankings although there is a list of the top 10 newcomers.

Ohio State junior Mikael Torpegaard lands at No. 1 in the men's rankings after finishing last year at No. 2. TCU junior Cameron Norrie is at No. 2, Illinois junior Aleks Vukic is at No. 3, Virginia senior Thai-Son Kwiatkowski is at No. 4, and Georgia Tech junior Christopher Eubanks comes in at No. 5.

Mackenzie McDonald would have been the preseason No. 1 but as we all know the NCAA Singles Champion turned pro during the summer. TCU's Alex Rybakov would have been ranked No. 10 but he isn't enrolled in school this fall and is instead playing pro events.

Other notable omissions are Mississippi State's Rishab Agarwal, SMU's Hunter Johnson, and Liberty's Sam Matheson. I'm assuming that Agarwal and Johnson are also playing pro events this fall and will return to school in the spring but I've not yet confirmed that. Matheson, who finished last season ranked No. 99, decided to forego his senior year and turn pro despite having never played in a main draw match at any pro level.

There were two men's players that finished last season ranked with one team but enter this season ranked with another - Korey Lovett (Alabama to Central Florida) and Igor Smelyanski (Tennessee to Clemson).

The defending national champs, Virginia, had all six of its expected singles started ranked plus Luca Corinteli was 11th in the doubles rankings with Thai-Son Kwiatkowski.

There were several schools that had multiple players ranked but the only Non-Power 5 schools to make the list were Memphis (AAC), Columbia (Ivy), and Tulsa (AAC).

Schools with multiple ranked singles players (includes newcomers):
6 - Virginia
5 - Georgia, Texas, USC
4 - California, North Carolina, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State
3 - Duke, Florida, LSU, Memphis, Northwestern, Stanford, TCU, Texas Tech, UCLA, Wake Forest
2 - Alabama, Arkansas, Clemson, Columbia, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Kentucky, Miami, Michigan, Mississippi State, Purdue, South Carolina, Tennessee, Tulsa, Vanderbilt

Below are your top 125 plus the 10 newcomers along with their respective Universal Tennis Ratings as of 9/13/16.

Rank	Player	School	Class	UTR
1	Mikael Torpegaard	Ohio State	Jr	15.01
2	Cameron Norrie	TCU	Jr	15.27
3	Aleks Vukic	Illinois	Jr	14.50
4	Thai-Son Kwiatkowski	Virginia	Sr	15.16
5	Christopher Eubanks	Georgia Tech	Jr	14.27
6	Tom Fawcett	Stanford	Jr	14.45
7	Skander Mansouri	Wake Forest	Jr	14.38
8	Petros Chrysochos	Wake Forest	Soph	14.59
9	Arthur Rinderknech	Texas A&M	Jr	14.43
10	Ronnie Schneider	North Carolina	Sr	13.90
11	Michael Redlicki	Arkansas	Sr	14.37
12	Konrad Zieba	Northwestern	Sr	14.31
13	Florian Lakat	California	Sr	14.18
14	Nicolas Alvarez	Duke	Jr	14.16
15	William Bushamuka	Kentucky	Jr	14.07
16	Wayne Montgomery	Georgia	Jr	14.11
17	Andre Goransson	California	Sr	14.21
18	Gustav Hansson	Ole Miss	Jr	14.07
19	Colin Altamirano	Virginia	Jr	14.11
20	Martin Redlicki	UCLA	Jr	14.13
21	Daniel Valent	Vanderbilt	Jr	14.03
22	Elliot Orkin	Florida	Sr	14.15
23	George Goldhoff	Texas	Sr	13.88
24	Andrew Harris	Oklahoma	Sr	14.75
25	Or Ram Harel	Tulsa	Sr	13.90
26	Mate Cutura	Mississippi State	Sr	13.53
27	Nick Crystal	USC	Sr	14.26
28	Ryotaro Matsumura	Kentucky	Soph	14.46
29	Julian Cash	Oklahoma State	Jr	14.01
30	Gabriel Friedrich	South Carolina	Jr	13.98
31	Piotr Lomacki	Miami (FL)	Jr	14.08
32	Sam Shropshire	Northwestern	Sr	14.18
33	Hugo Di Feo	Ohio State	Soph	14.08
34	Mazen Osama	Alabama	Soph	13.69
35	Jordan Daigle	LSU	Sr	13.75
36	Gergely Madarasz	Purdue	Jr	14.05
37	Alfredo Perez	Florida	Soph	14.39
38	Gage Brymer	UCLA	Sr	14.10
39	Nick Horton	North Carolina State	Sr	13.60
40	Alexandru Ghilea	Oklahoma	Sr	14.24
41	Paul Oosterbaan	Georgia	Jr	14.25
42	Luis Valero	Tennessee	Jr	13.41
43	Nuno Borges	Mississippi State	Soph	14.53
44	Strong Kirchheimer	Northwestern	Sr	14.42
45	Jose Salazar	Arkansas	Sr	14.16
46	Aron Hiltzik	Illinois	Jr	13.95
47	David Biosca	East Tennessee State	Sr	14.27
48	Logan Smith	USC	Soph	13.50
49	Justin Butsch	LSU	Sr	13,65
50	Spencer Papa	Oklahoma	Jr	14.13
51	Korey Lovett	Central Florida	Jr	13.66
52	Andrew Watson	Memphis	Jr	14.11
53	Alexander Ritschard	Virginia	Jr	14.66
54	Max Tchoutakian	Baylor	Sr	13.88
55	Shawn Hadavi	Columbia	Sr	13.56
56	Guillermo Nunez	TCU	Jr	13.98
57	Ryan Peniston	Memphis	Jr	14.32
58	Christian Langmo	Miami (FL)	Jr	13.43
59	David Wilczynski	Stanford	Jr	13.70
60	Cameron Klinger	Vanderbilt	Soph	13.75
61	Billy Griffith	California	Jr	14.12
62	Max Hinnisdaels	Auburn	Sr	13.37
63	Jake Devine	USC	Soph	14.04
64	Alex Favrot	Clemson	Soph	13.63
65	Herkko Pollanen	Ohio State	Sr	13.87
66	Constantin Schmitz	Tulane	Jr	14.12
67	Alec Adamson	UC Davis	Sr	13.00
68	Mitch Stewart	Washington	Jr	14.00
69	JC Aragone	Virginia	Sr	14.08
70	Josh Hagar	Notre Dame	Sr	13.81
71	Harrison Scott	Texas	Soph	13.85
72	Benjamin Ugarte	Purdue	Sr	13.15
73	Carlos Benito	Georgia Tech	Sr	13.55
74	Henrik Wiersholm	Virginia	Jr	14.23
75	Igor Smelyanski	Clemson	Jr	13.66
76	Chase Perez-Blanco	Florida	Jr	14.05
77	Filip Bergevi	California	Sr	14.40
78	Robert Kelly	North Carolina	Jr	13.97
79	Sebastian Heim	UC Irvine	Jr	13.51
80	Jack Findel-Hawkins	North Florida	Sr	13.74
81	Walker Duncan	Georgia	Soph	13.91
82	Alex Knight	Michigan	Jr	13.57
83	Alex Sendegeya	Texas Tech	Jr	13.72
84	Jathan Malik	Michigan	Sr	13.58
85	Thibualt Forget	USC	Jr	14.19
86	Kai Lemke	Memphis	Jr	13.47
87	Arjun Kadhe	Oklahoma State	Sr	13.90
88	Max Kan	Wake Forest	Sr	13.13
89	Timo Stodder	Tennessee	Soph	13.67
90	Shane Monroe	BYU	Jr	13.60
91	John Mee	Texas	Jr	13.23
92	Martin Joyce	Ohio State	Soph	13.96
93	Eduardo Mena	Tennessee Tech	Jr	13.35
94	Tyler Lu	Yale	Sr	13.20
95	Jolan Cailleau	Texas Tech	Sr	14.00
96	Harrison O'Keefe	South Carolina	Jr	13.91
97	Jurence Mendoza	Oklahoma State	Jr	13.24
98	Lucas Gerch	Oklahoma State	Sr	13.98
99	Jerry Lopez	TCU	Sr	13.92
100	Catalin Mateas	Duke	Soph	13.46
101	David Volfson	Cornell	Soph	13.63
102	Jack Murray	North Carolina	Sr	13.87
103	David Micevski	Utah	Soph	13.35
104	Jannis Koeke	Georgia State	Sr	13.31
105	Thomas Laurent	Oregon	Soph	14.02
106	Florian Bragusi	Oklahoma	Sr	13.88
107	Filip Vittek	Univ. of San Diego	Sr	13.70
108	Tommy Bennett	Rice	Sr	13.33
109	Emil Reinberg	Georgia	Soph	13.68
110	Adam Moundir	Old Dominion	Jr	13.83
111	Jeffrey Schorsch	Valparaiso	Sr	13.95
112	Majed Kilani	Tulsa	Soph	13.53
113	Victor Pham	Columbia	Soph	13.57
114	Logan Staggs	UCLA	Jr	14.02
115	Constant De La Bassetiere	Penn State	Soph	14.24
116	Diogo Rocha	Denver	Sr	13.52
117	Guilherme Hadlich	Pepperdine	Sr	13.86
118	Sameer Kumar	Stanford	Soph	14.13
119	Aziz Dougaz	Florida State	Soph	13.49
120	Kyle Mautner	Penn	Soph	13.52
121	Ben Donovan	Cal Poly	Sr	13.23
122	Antonio Cembellin	Indiana	Soph	13.58
123	Jaime Barajas	Utah State	Jr	13.25
124	Jakob Amilon	UNLV	Sr	13.49
125	Gabor Csonka	LSU	Jr	13.62
National Newcomers/Freshmen
1	Carl Soderlund	Virginia	Fr	14.54
2	Ronit Bisht	Texas Tech	Fr	14.17
3	Yuya Ito	Texas	Fr	14.69
4	Leonardo Telles	Texas	Fr	14.14
5	Thibault Cancel	Alabama	Fr	14.16
6	Brandon Holt	USC	Fr	14.13
7	Lucas Poullain	Florida State	Fr	14.65
8	Simon Soendergaard	North Carolina	Fr	15.07
9	Robert Levine	Duke	Fr	13.92
10	Nathan Ponwith	Georgia	Fr	13.97

Top 125 + Freshmen/Newcomers Sorted by UTR

ITA Rank	Player	School	Class	UTR	UTR Rank
2	Cameron Norrie	TCU	Jr	15.27	1
4	Thai-Son Kwiatkowski	Virginia	Sr	15.16	2
8 (F)	Simon Soendergaard	North Carolina	Fr	15.07	3
1	Mikael Torpegaard	Ohio State	Jr	15.01	4
24	Andrew Harris	Oklahoma	Sr	14.75	5
3 (F)	Yuya Ito	Texas	Fr	14.69	6
53	Alexander Ritschard	Virginia	Jr	14.66	7
7 (F)	Lucas Poullain	Florida State	Fr	14.65	8
8	Petros Chrysochos	Wake Forest	Soph	14.59	9
1 (F)	Carl Soderlund	Virginia	Fr	14.54	10
43	Nuno Borges	Mississippi State	Soph	14.53	11
3	Aleks Vukic	Illinois	Jr	14.50	12
28	Ryotaro Matsumura	Kentucky	Soph	14.46	13
6	Tom Fawcett	Stanford	Jr	14.45	14
9	Arthur Rinderknech	Texas A&M	Jr	14.43	15
44	Strong Kirchheimer	Northwestern	Sr	14.42	16
77	Filip Bergevi	California	Sr	14.40	17
37	Alfredo Perez	Florida	Soph	14.39	18
7	Skander Mansouri	Wake Forest	Jr	14.38	19
11	Michael Redlicki	Arkansas	Sr	14.37	20
57	Ryan Peniston	Memphis	Jr	14.32	21
12	Konrad Zieba	Northwestern	Sr	14.31	22
5	Christopher Eubanks	Georgia Tech	Jr	14.27	23
47	David Biosca	East Tennessee State	Sr	14.27	24
27	Nick Crystal	USC	Sr	14.26	25
41	Paul Oosterbaan	Georgia	Jr	14.25	26
40	Alexandru Ghilea	Oklahoma	Sr	14.24	27
115	Constant De La Bassetiere	Penn State	Soph	14.24	28
74	Henrik Wiersholm	Virginia	Jr	14.23	29
17	Andre Goransson	California	Sr	14.21	30
85	Thibualt Forget	USC	Jr	14.19	31
13	Florian Lakat	California	Sr	14.18	32
32	Sam Shropshire	Northwestern	Sr	14.18	33
2 (F)	Ronit Bisht	Texas Tech	Fr	14.17	34
14	Nicolas Alvarez	Duke	Jr	14.16	35
45	Jose Salazar	Arkansas	Sr	14.16	36
5 (F)	Thibault Cancel	Alabama	Fr	14.16	37
22	Elliot Orkin	Florida	Sr	14.15	38
4 (F)	Leonardo Telles	Texas	Fr	14.14	39
20	Martin Redlicki	UCLA	Jr	14.13	40
50	Spencer Papa	Oklahoma	Jr	14.13	41
118	Sameer Kumar	Stanford	Soph	14.13	42
6 (F)	Brandon Holt	USC	Fr	14.13	43
61	Billy Griffith	California	Jr	14.12	44
66	Constantin Schmitz	Tulane	Jr	14.12	45
16	Wayne Montgomery	Georgia	Jr	14.11	46
19	Colin Altamirano	Virginia	Jr	14.11	47
52	Andrew Watson	Memphis	Jr	14.11	48
38	Gage Brymer	UCLA	Sr	14.10	49
31	Piotr Lomacki	Miami (FL)	Jr	14.08	50
33	Hugo Di Feo	Ohio State	Soph	14.08	51
69	JC Aragone	Virginia	Sr	14.08	52
15	William Bushamuka	Kentucky	Jr	14.07	53
18	Gustav Hansson	Ole Miss	Jr	14.07	54
36	Gergely Madarasz	Purdue	Jr	14.05	55
76	Chase Perez-Blanco	Florida	Jr	14.05	56
63	Jake Devine	USC	Soph	14.04	57
21	Daniel Valent	Vanderbilt	Jr	14.03	58
105	Thomas Laurent	Oregon	Soph	14.02	59
114	Logan Staggs	UCLA	Jr	14.02	60
29	Julian Cash	Oklahoma State	Jr	14.01	61
68	Mitch Stewart	Washington	Jr	14.00	62
95	Jolan Cailleau	Texas Tech	Sr	14.00	63
30	Gabriel Friedrich	South Carolina	Jr	13.98	64
56	Guillermo Nunez	TCU	Jr	13.98	65
98	Lucas Gerch	Oklahoma State	Sr	13.98	66
78	Robert Kelly	North Carolina	Jr	13.97	67
10 (F)	Nathan Ponwith	Georgia	Fr	13.97	68
92	Martin Joyce	Ohio State	Soph	13.96	69
46	Aron Hiltzik	Illinois	Jr	13.95	70
111	Jeffrey Schorsch	Valparaiso	Sr	13.95	71
99	Jerry Lopez	TCU	Sr	13.92	72
9 (F)	Robert Levine	Duke	Fr	13.92	73
81	Walker Duncan	Georgia	Soph	13.91	74
96	Harrison O'Keefe	South Carolina	Jr	13.91	75
10	Ronnie Schneider	North Carolina	Sr	13.90	76
25	Or Ram Harel	Tulsa	Sr	13.90	77
87	Arjun Kadhe	Oklahoma State	Sr	13.90	78
23	George Goldhoff	Texas	Sr	13.88	79
54	Max Tchoutakian	Baylor	Sr	13.88	80
106	Florian Bragusi	Oklahoma	Sr	13.88	81
65	Herkko Pollanen	Ohio State	Sr	13.87	82
102	Jack Murray	North Carolina	Sr	13.87	83
117	Guilherme Hadlich	Pepperdine	Sr	13.86	84
71	Harrison Scott	Texas	Soph	13.85	85
110	Adam Moundir	Old Dominion	Jr	13.83	86
70	Josh Hagar	Notre Dame	Sr	13.81	87
35	Jordan Daigle	LSU	Sr	13.75	88
60	Cameron Klinger	Vanderbilt	Soph	13.75	89
80	Jack Findel-Hawkins	North Florida	Sr	13.74	90
83	Alex Sendegeya	Texas Tech	Jr	13.72	91
59	David Wilczynski	Stanford	Jr	13.70	92
107	Filip Vittek	Univ. of San Diego	Sr	13.70	93
34	Mazen Osama	Alabama	Soph	13.69	94
109	Emil Reinberg	Georgia	Soph	13.68	95
89	Timo Stodder	Tennessee	Soph	13.67	96
51	Korey Lovett	Central Florida	Jr	13.66	97
75	Igor Smelyanski	Clemson	Jr	13.66	98
49	Justin Butsch	LSU	Sr	13.65	99
64	Alex Favrot	Clemson	Soph	13.63	100
101	David Volfson	Cornell	Soph	13.63	101
125	Gabor Csonka	LSU	Jr	13.62	102
39	Nick Horton	North Carolina State	Sr	13.60	103
90	Shane Monroe	BYU	Jr	13.60	104
84	Jathan Malik	Michigan	Sr	13.58	105
122	Antonio Cembellin	Indiana	Soph	13.58	106
82	Alex Knight	Michigan	Jr	13.57	107
113	Victor Pham	Columbia	Soph	13.57	108
55	Shawn Hadavi	Columbia	Sr	13.56	109
73	Carlos Benito	Georgia Tech	Sr	13.55	110
26	Mate Cutura	Mississippi State	Sr	13.53	111
112	Majed Kilani	Tulsa	Soph	13.53	112
116	Diogo Rocha	Denver	Sr	13.52	113
120	Kyle Mautner	Penn	Soph	13.52	114
79	Sebastian Heim	UC Irvine	Jr	13.51	115
48	Logan Smith	USC	Soph	13.50	116
119	Aziz Dougaz	FSU	Soph	13.49	117
124	Jakob Amilon	UNLV	Sr	13.49	118
86	Kai Lemke	Memphis	Jr	13.47	119
100	Catalin Mateas	Duke	Soph	13.46	120
58	Christian Langmo	Miami (FL)	Jr	13.43	121
42	Luis Valero	Tennessee	Jr	13.41	122
62	Max Hinnisdaels	Auburn	Sr	13.37	123
93	Eduardo Mena	Tennessee Tech	Jr	13.35	124
103	David Micevski	Utah	Soph	13.35	125
108	Tommy Bennett	Rice	Sr	13.33	126
104	Jannis Koeke	Georgia State	Sr	13.31	127
123	Jaime Barajas	Utah State	Jr	13.25	128
97	Jurence Mendoza	Oklahoma State	Jr	13.24	129
91	John Mee	Texas	Jr	13.23	130
121	Ben Donovan	Cal Poly	Sr	13.23	131
94	Tyler Lu	Yale	Sr	13.20	132
72	Benjamin Ugarte	Purdue	Sr	13.15	133
88	Max Kan	Wake Forest	Sr	13.13	134
67	Alec Adamson	UC Davis	Sr	13.00	135

Doubles Rankings

RANK	PLAYER 1	PLAYER 2	SCHOOL
1	Julian Cash	Arjun Kadhe	Oklahoma State
2	Filip Bergevi	Florian Lakat	California
3	Skander Mansouri	Christian Seraphim	Wake Forest
4	Mikael Torpegaard	Herkko Pollanen	Ohio State
5	Luis Valero	Jack Schipanski	Tennessee
6	Filip Kraljevic	Zvonimir Babic	Ole Miss
7	Shawn Hadavi	Richard Pham	Columbia
8	David Warren	Tommy Bennett	Rice
9	Jayson Amos	Armando Soemarno	Oregon
10	Nick Crystal	Laurens Verboven	USC
11	Luca Corintelli	Thai-Son Kwiatkowski	Virginia
12	Sasha Gozun	Vadym Kalyuzhnyy	South Florida
13	Matic Spec	Felix Corwin	Minnesota
14	Christopher Eubanks	Carlos Benito	Georgia Tech
15	Hayden Sabatka	Bart Van Leijsen	New Mexico
16	Gabriel Friedrich	Harrison O'Keefe	South Carolina
17	Jack Findel-Hawkins	Yannick Zuern	North Florida
18	Guilherme Hadlich	Gabriel Sidney	Pepperdine
19	Mate Cutura	Vaughn Hunter	Mississippi State
20	Arthur Rinderknech	Max Lunkin	Texas A&M
21	Alex Day	Luke Gamble	Princeton
22	Spencer Papa	Alexandru Ghilea	Oklahoma
T23	Adam Moundir	Aziz Kijametovic	Old Dominion
T23	Tom Fawcett	David Wilczynski	Stanford
25	Robert Kelly	Simon Soendergaard	North Carolina
T26	Edward Covalschi	Josh Hagar	Notre Dame
T26	Mazen Osama	Matthew Rossouw	Alabama
28	Jordan Daigle	Justin Butsch	LSU
29	Alex Sendegeya	Bjorn Thomson	Texas Tech
30	Chi-Shan Jao	Constantin Schmitz	Tulane
31	William Bushamuka	Beck Pennington	Kentucky
32	Michael Redlicki	Adam Sanjurjo	Arkansas
T33	Michael Feucht	Benny Schweizer	Lamar
T33	Ronnie Schneider	Jack Murray	North Carolina
35	Andrew Harris	Florian Bragusi	Oklahoma
36	Haru Inoue	Miroslav Herzan	Wichita State
37	Euan McIntosh	Mantas Bugailiskis	Fresno State
38	Maxx Lipman	Elliott Orkin	Florida
39	Ben Donovan	Corey Pang	Cal Poly
40	JC Aragone	Henrik Wiersholm	Virginia
41	Reese Stalder	Trevor Johnson	TCU
42	Alex Gasson	Yannik James	Denver
43	Martin Joyce	Hugo Di Feo	Ohio State
44	Arkadijs Slobodkins	Ronald Slobodchikov	SMU
45	Alex Favrot	Igor Smelyanski	Clemson
T46	Will Little	Tyler Stayer	Baylor
T46	Brian Yeung	Lucas Koelle	Harvard
48	Michal Rolski	Victor Pham	Columbia
49	Strong Kirchheimer	Ben Vandixhorn	Northwestern
50	Piotr Lomacki	Christian Langmo	Miami (FL)
51	Jordi Arconada	AJ Catanzariti	Texas A&M
52	Lucas Gerch	Jurence Mendoza	Oklahoma State
53	Sam Shropshire	Konrad Zieba	Northwestern
54	Max Kan	Charlie Parry	Wake Forest
55	Jeffrey Schorsch	Charlie Emhardt	Valparaiso
56	Aziz Dougaz	Guy Iradukunda	Florida State
57	Aleks Vukic	Gui Gomes	Illinois
58	Antonio Cembellin	Raheel Manji	Indiana
59	Lautaro Pane	Pedro Iamachkine	Pepperdine
60	Vincent Lin	Catalin Mateas	Duke