Women's Individual Preseason Rankings With UTRs

Yesterday I gave you the men's preseason rankings and today here are the women's preseason individual rankings. 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.

North Carolina's Hayley Carter, who finished last year ranked No. 2, is the top ranked singles player followed by Pepperdine sophomore Luisa Stefani, Ohio State sophomore Francesca Di Lorenzo, Georgia junior Ellen Perez, and Miami junior Sinead Lohan.

Kentucky's Mami Adachi and Aldila Sutjiadi were No. 1 in the doubles rankings with Florida's Brooke Austin and Kourtney Keegan coming in at No. 2.

The only player that I'm aware of that went pro in the offseason that otherwise would have been ranked was Stanford's Carol Zhao - she would have been No. 16.

The rankings were revised a few hours after they were released due to a few errors that I noticed. Originally Stanford's Taylor Davidson and Caroline Doyle were ranked incorrectly - Davidson was showing 29 instead of 22 while Doyle was showing 48 instead of 52.

I noticed that Kentucky's Justina Mikulskyte, Indiana's Paula Gutierrez, and LSU's Kennan Johnson were all ranked at the end of last season but none of them were ranked now. I reached out to the ITA's Ranking Coordinator, Chris Eriksson, and he told those player's names were not submitted by their respective coaches for the preseason rankings.

I thought Despoina (Debbie) Vogasari would also be ranked, since she was ranked No. 99 last season, but she is no longer listed on Houston's roster - she was showing as a junior last season so I'm not sure what the story is there.

There were five players that finished last season ranked with one team but enter this season ranked with another - Mayar Sherif Ahmed (Fresno State to Pepperdine), Donika Bashota (Washington State to TCU), Wendy Zhang (Miami to Rice), Ekaterina Stepanova (Wisconsin to William & Mary), and Viktoriya Dzyuba (Pacific) to Lipscomb)


There were several schools that had multiple players ranked but the only Non-Power 5 schools to make the list were Pepperdine (WCC), Rice (CUSA), and William & Mary (CAA).

Schools with multiple ranked singles players (includes newcomers):
6 - Ohio State, Stanford
5 - Florida, Pepperdine, Texas Tech
4 - California, Duke, Oklahoma State, Ole Miss, Texas A&M, USC
3 - Clemson, Georgia, Georgia Tech, LSU, Miami FL, Mississippi State, North Carolina, Notre Dame, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia Tech
2 - Alabama, Auburn, Boston College, Michigan, Northwestern, Rice, Syracuse, TCU, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, William & Mary

Below are your top 125 plus the 10 newcomers along with their respective Universal Tennis Ratings as of 9/14/16.

Rank	Player	School	Class	UTR
1	Hayley Carter	North Carolina	Sr	12.13
2	Luisa Stefani	Pepperdine	Soph	12.13
3	Francesca Di Lorenzo	Ohio State	Soph	12.51
4	Ellen Perez	Georgia	Jr	11.97
5	Sinead Lohan	Miami (FL)	Jr	11.78
6	Brooke Austin	Florida	Jr	11.96
7	Maegan Manasse	California	Sr	11.70
8	Jasmine Lee	Mississippi State	Sr	11.78
9	Belinda Woolcock	Florida	Sr	11.53
10	Katarina Adamovic	Oklahoma State	Sr	11.40
11	Brienne Minor	Michigan	Soph	11.47
12	Sydney Campbell	Vanderbilt	Sr	11.65
13	Andie Dikosavljevic	Auburn	Jr	11.02
14	Kennedy Shaffer	Georgia	Jr	11.68
15	Saska Gavrilovska	Texas A&M	Sr	11.15
16	Joana Vale Costa	LSU	Sr	11.29
17	Arianne Hartono	Ole Miss	Jr	11.11
18	Erin Routliffe	Alabama	Soph	11.53
19	Astra Sharma	Vanderbilt	Jr	11.60
20	Johnnise Renaud	Georgia Tech	Jr	11.57
21	Caroline Brinson	Georgia	Sr	11.23
22	Taylor Davidson	Stanford	Sr	11.21
23	Aldila Sutjiadi	Kentucky	Sr	10.98
24	Paige Hourigan	Georgia Tech	Jr	11.55
25	Alizee Michaud	Auburn	Jr	11.09
26	Vladica Babic	Oklahoma State	Jr	11.16
27	Kourtney Keegan	Florida	Sr	11.51
28	Katherine Ip	Rice	Sr	11.07
29	Martina Frantova	North Carolina State	Sr	10.73
30	Maddie Lipp	Northwestern	Jr	10.77
31	Jessie Aney	North Carolina	Soph	11.43
32	Yolimar Ogando	Miami (FL)	Jr	11.49
33	Andie Daniell	Alabama	Sr	10.81
34	Kaitlyn McCarthy	Duke	Soph	11.00
35	Sadie Hammond	Tennessee	Soph	10.71
36	Bea Machado Santos	Missouri	Sr	10.83
37	Lauren Marker	Arizona	Sr	11.28
38	Jessica Golovin	LSU	Soph	10.43
39	Viktoriya Lushkova	Oklahoma State	Sr	11.66
40	Chalena Scholl	Duke	Sr	11.17
41	Kate Fahey	Michigan	Soph	11.36
42	Francesca Fusinato	Virginia Tech	Sr	10.70
43	Anna Danilina	Florida	Jr	11.57
44	Anna Shkudun	Syracuse	Grad	10.47
45	Rutuja Bhosale	Texas A&M	Sr	10.70
46	Ayan Broomfield	Clemson	Soph	10.76
47	Kimmy Guerin	Wake Forest	Sr	11.06
48	Mayar Sherif Ahmed	Pepperdine	Jr	10.84
49	Anastasia Rychagova	Kansas	Soph	11.25
50	Caroline Dailey	South Carolina	Sr	10.28
51	Natalie Suk	Ole Miss	Jr	10.80
52	Caroline Doyle	Stanford	Sr	11.00
53	Asiya Dair	Boston College	Jr	10.78
54	Blair Shankle	Baylor	Sr	11.45
55	Ingrid Gamarra Martins	South Carolina	Soph	10.81
56	Gabriela Talaba	Texas Tech	Sr	11.55
57	Donika Bashota	TCU	Jr	11.08
58	Wendy Zhang	Rice	Jr	11.29
59	Gabriela Knutson	Syracuse	Soph	11.14
60	Ana Oparenovic	Arkansas	Soph	10.73
61	Erin Larner	Northwestern	Jr	10.76
62	Denise Starr	California	Sr	11.47
63	Monica Robinson	Notre Dame	Sr	10.61
64	Ksenia Laskutova	Tulsa	Jr	10.79
65	Sarah Dvorak	Texas Tech	Sr	11.00
66	Yulia Shupenia	DePaul	Sr	10.67
67	Sandy Niehaus	Ohio State	Sr	10.44
68	Anna Sanford	Ohio State	Jr	11.17
69	Paige Cline	South Carolina	Soph	10.81
70	Ekaterina Stepanova	William & Mary	Jr	10.37
71	Maeva Razakasoa	Long Beach State	Sr	10.99
72	Lily Miyazaki	Oklahoma	Jr	11.27
73	Alexandria Stiteler	South Alabama	Soph	10.66
74	Gabriela Porubin	Wichita State	Jr	10.92
75	Anastasia Rentouli	Mississippi State	Soph	11.06
76	Emma Davis	Wake Forest	Soph	11.12
77	Rasheeda McAdoo	Georgia Tech	Sr	11.24
78	Allison Miller	Notre Dame	Jr	10.70
79	Gabriella De Santis	Ohio State	Sr	10.33
80	Olivia Sneed	Ohio State	Jr	10.79
81	Tea Jandric	Ole Miss	Soph	10.65
82	Neda Koprcina	Texas	Sr	10.93
83	Rianna Valdes	USC	Soph	10.78
84	Madison Harrison	Mississippi State	Jr	10.80
85	Louise Kwong	Illinois	Sr	10.28
86	Olivia Hauger	California	Soph	11.11
87	Kassidy Jump	Arizona State	Sr	10.66
88	Madison Westby	USC	Jr	10.49
89	Josie Kuhlman	Florida	Jr	11.52
90	Karla Popovic	California	Jr	11.31
91	Rachel Pierson	Texas A&M	Sr	11.03
92	Caroline Lampl	Stanford	Soph	11.07
93	Gabby Smith	USC	Jr	11.14
94	Elena Cerezo-Codina	Virginia Tech	Jr	10.93
95	Viktoriya Dzyuba	Lipscomb	Soph	11.09
96	Caroline Daxhelet	Virginia Tech	Jr	10.87
97	Jessica Failla	USC	Soph	11.09
98	Laura Gulbe	Pepperdine	Jr	11.23
99	Miho Kowase	Ohio State	Sr	11.12
100	Marina Hruba	Hawaii	Soph	11.27
101	Vivienne Kulicke	UTEP	Jr	10.43
102	Tina Bokhua	Texas A&M	Jr	10.63
103T	Melissa Lord	Stanford	Soph	10.95
103T	Carol Yang	UNLV	Sr	10.56
105	Stacey Fung	Washington	Soph	10.95
106	Felicity Maltby	Texas Tech	Soph	11.31
107	Abigail Owens	LSU	Sr	10.95
108	Alexandra Valenstein	Texas Tech	Soph	10.76
109	Lexi Borr	Boston College	Sr	10.49
110	Nuria Ormeno Ruiz	Colorado	Sr	10.40
111	Ellyse Hamlin	Duke	Soph	10.63
112	Brooke Broda	Notre Dame	Jr	10.53
113	Dani Wagland	Texas	Jr	10.39
114	Seda Arantekin	TCU	Sr	10.50
115	Lauren Proctor	Winthrop	Soph	10.60
116	Alyza Benotto	Brown	Jr	10.38
117T	Ana Madcur	Miami (FL)	Soph	10.69
117T	Marie Faure	William & Mary	Sr	10.04
119	Fernanda Navarro	Clemson	Soph	10.44
120	Julia O'Loughlin	Denver	Jr	10.42
121	Audrey Ann Blakely	Pittsburgh	Sr	10.15
122	Sabrina Federici	Texas Tech	Jr	10.82
123	Dzina Milovanovic	Pepperdine	Soph	10.85
124	Allie Sanford	Ole Miss	Soph	10.04
125	Andrea LeBlanc	New Mexico	Sr	10.08
National Newcomers/Freshmen
1	Sara Daavettila	North Carolina	Fr	12.11
2	Ena Shibahara	UCLA	Fr	12.12
3	Aliona Bolsova	Oklahoma State	Fr	11.88
4	Bianca Turati	Texas	Fr	11.77
5	Ashley Lahey	Pepperdine	Fr	11.87
6	Meible Chi	Duke	Fr	11.74
7	Emily Arbuthnott	Stanford	Fr	11.53
8	Rosie Johanson	Virginia	Fr	11.60
9	Emma Higuchi	Stanford	Fr	11.56
10T	Madison Battaglia	Yale	Fr	11.31
10T	Marie Leduc	Clemson	Fr	11.40

Top 125 + Freshmen/Newcomers Sorted by UTR

ITA Rank	Player	School	Class	UTR	UTR Rank
3	Francesca Di Lorenzo	Ohio State	Soph	12.51	1
1	Hayley Carter	North Carolina	Sr	12.13	2
2	Luisa Stefani	Pepperdine	Soph	12.13	3
2 (F)	Ena Shibahara	UCLA	Fr	12.12	4
1 (F)	Sara Daavettila	North Carolina	Fr	12.11	5
4	Ellen Perez	Georgia	Jr	11.97	6
6	Brooke Austin	Florida	Jr	11.96	7
3 (F)	Aliona Bolsova	Oklahoma State	Fr	11.88	8
5 (F)	Ashley Lahey	Pepperdine	Fr	11.87	9
5	Sinead Lohan	Miami (FL)	Jr	11.78	10
8	Jasmine Lee	Mississippi State	Sr	11.78	11
4 (F)	Bianca Turati	Texas	Fr	11.77	12
6 (F)	Meible Chi	Duke	Fr	11.74	13
7	Maegan Manasse	California	Sr	11.70	14
14	Kennedy Shaffer	Georgia	Jr	11.68	15
39	Viktoriya Lushkova	Oklahoma State	Sr	11.66	16
12	Sydney Campbell	Vanderbilt	Sr	11.65	17
19	Astra Sharma	Vanderbilt	Jr	11.60	18
8 (F)	Rosie Johanson	Virginia	Fr	11.60	19
20	Johnnise Renaud	Georgia Tech	Jr	11.57	20
43	Anna Danilina	Florida	Jr	11.57	21
9 (F)	Emma Higuchi	Stanford	Fr	11.56	22
24	Paige Hourigan	Georgia Tech	Jr	11.55	23
56	Gabriela Talaba	Texas Tech	Sr	11.55	24
9	Belinda Woolcock	Florida	Sr	11.53	25
18	Erin Routliffe	Alabama	Soph	11.53	26
7 (F)	Emily Arbuthnott	Stanford	Fr	11.53	27
89	Josie Kuhlman	Florida	Jr	11.52	28
27	Kourtney Keegan	Florida	Sr	11.51	29
32	Yolimar Ogando	Miami (FL)	Jr	11.49	30
11	Brienne Minor	Michigan	Soph	11.47	31
62	Denise Starr	California	Sr	11.47	32
54	Blair Shankle	Baylor	Sr	11.45	33
31	Jessie Aney	North Carolina	Soph	11.43	34
10	Katarina Adamovic	Oklahoma State	Sr	11.40	35
10 (F)	Marie Leduc	Clemson	Fr	11.40	36
41	Kate Fahey	Michigan	Soph	11.36	37
90	Karla Popovic	California	Jr	11.31	38
106	Felicity Maltby	Texas Tech	Soph	11.31	39
10 (F)	Madison Battaglia	Yale	Fr	11.31	40
16	Joana Vale Costa	LSU	Sr	11.29	41
58	Wendy Zhang	Rice	Jr	11.29	42
37	Lauren Marker	Arizona	Sr	11.28	43
72	Lily Miyazaki	Oklahoma	Jr	11.27	44
100	Marina Hruba	Hawaii	Soph	11.27	45
49	Anastasia Rychagova	Kansas	Soph	11.25	46
77	Rasheeda McAdoo	Georgia Tech	Sr	11.24	47
21	Caroline Brinson	Georgia	Sr	11.23	48
98	Laura Gulbe	Pepperdine	Jr	11.23	49
22	Taylor Davidson	Stanford	Sr	11.21	50
40	Chalena Scholl	Duke	Sr	11.17	51
68	Anna Sanford	Ohio State	Jr	11.17	52
26	Vladica Babic	Oklahoma State	Jr	11.16	53
15	Saska Gavrilovska	Texas A&M	Sr	11.15	54
59	Gabriela Knutson	Syracuse	Soph	11.14	55
93	Gabby Smith	USC	Jr	11.14	56
76	Emma Davis	Wake Forest	Soph	11.12	57
99	Miho Kowase	Ohio State	Sr	11.12	58
17	Arianne Hartono	Ole Miss	Jr	11.11	59
86	Olivia Hauger	California	Soph	11.11	60
25	Alizee Michaud	Auburn	Jr	11.09	61
95	Viktoriya Dzyuba	Lipscomb	Soph	11.09	62
97	Jessica Failla	USC	Soph	11.09	63
57	Donika Bashota	TCU	Jr	11.08	64
28	Katherine Ip	Rice	Sr	11.07	65
92	Caroline Lampl	Stanford	Soph	11.07	66
47	Kimmy Guerin	Wake Forest	Sr	11.06	67
75	Anastasia Rentouli	Mississippi State	Soph	11.06	68
91	Rachel Pierson	Texas A&M	Sr	11.03	69
13	Andie Dikosavljevic	Auburn	Jr	11.02	70
34	Kaitlyn McCarthy	Duke	Soph	11.00	71
52	Caroline Doyle	Stanford	Sr	11.00	72
65	Sarah Dvorak	Texas Tech	Sr	11.00	73
71	Maeva Razakasoa	Long Beach State	Sr	10.99	74
23	Aldila Sutjiadi	Kentucky	Sr	10.98	75
103	Melissa Lord	Stanford	Soph	10.95	76
105	Stacey Fung	Washington	Soph	10.95	77
107	Abigail Owens	LSU	Sr	10.95	78
82	Neda Koprcina	Texas	Sr	10.93	79
94	Elena Cerezo-Codina	Virginia Tech	Jr	10.93	80
74	Gabriela Porubin	Wichita State	Jr	10.92	81
96	Caroline Daxhelet	Virginia Tech	Jr	10.87	82
123	Dzina Milovanovic	Pepperdine	Soph	10.85	83
48	Mayar Sherif Ahmed	Pepperdine	Jr	10.84	84
36	Bea Machado Santos	Missouri	Sr	10.83	85
122	Sabrina Federici	Texas Tech	Jr	10.82	86
33	Andie Daniell	Alabama	Sr	10.81	87
55	Ingrid Gamarra Martins	South Carolina	Soph	10.81	88
69	Paige Cline	South Carolina	Soph	10.81	89
51	Natalie Suk	Ole Miss	Jr	10.80	90
84	Madison Harrison	Mississippi State	Jr	10.80	91
64	Ksenia Laskutova	Tulsa	Jr	10.79	92
80	Olivia Sneed	Ohio State	Jr	10.79	93
53	Asiya Dair	Boston College	Jr	10.78	94
83	Rianna Valdes	USC	Soph	10.78	95
30	Maddie Lipp	Northwestern	Jr	10.77	96
46	Ayan Broomfield	Clemson	Soph	10.76	97
61	Erin Larner	Northwestern	Jr	10.76	98
108	Alexandra Valenstein	Texas Tech	Soph	10.76	99
29	Martina Frantova	North Carolina State	Sr	10.73	100
60	Ana Oparenovic	Arkansas	Soph	10.73	101
35	Sadie Hammond	Tennessee	Soph	10.71	102
42	Francesca Fusinato	Virginia Tech	Sr	10.70	103
45	Rutuja Bhosale	Texas A&M	Sr	10.70	104
78	Allison Miller	Notre Dame	Jr	10.70	105
117	Ana Madcur	Miami (FL)	Soph	10.69	106
66	Yulia Shupenia	DePaul	Sr	10.67	107
73	Alexandria Stiteler	South Alabama	Soph	10.66	108
87	Kassidy Jump	Arizona State	Sr	10.66	109
81	Tea Jandric	Ole Miss	Soph	10.65	110
102	Tina Bokhua	Texas A&M	Jr	10.63	111
111	Ellyse Hamlin	Duke	Soph	10.63	112
63	Monica Robinson	Notre Dame	Sr	10.61	113
115	Lauren Proctor	Winthrop	Soph	10.60	114
103	Carol Yang	UNLV	Sr	10.56	115
112	Brooke Broda	Notre Dame	Jr	10.53	116
114	Seda Arantekin	TCU	Sr	10.50	117
88	Madison Westby	USC	Jr	10.49	118
109	Lexi Borr	Boston College	Sr	10.49	119
44	Anna Shkudun	Syracuse	Grad	10.47	120
67	Sandy Niehaus	Ohio State	Sr	10.44	121
119	Fernanda Navarro	Clemson	Soph	10.44	122
38	Jessica Golovin	LSU	Soph	10.43	123
101	Vivienne Kulicke	UTEP	Jr	10.43	124
120	Julia O'Loughlin	Denver	Jr	10.42	125
110	Nuria Ormeno Ruiz	Colorado	Sr	10.40	126
113	Dani Wagland	Texas	Jr	10.39	127
116	Alyza Benotto	Brown	Jr	10.38	128
70	Ekaterina Stepanova	William & Mary	Jr	10.37	129
79	Gabriella De Santis	Ohio State	Sr	10.33	130
50	Caroline Dailey	South Carolina	Sr	10.28	131
85	Louise Kwong	Illinois	Sr	10.28	132
121	Audrey Ann Blakely	Pittsburgh	Sr	10.15	133
125	Andrea LeBlanc	New Mexico	Sr	10.08	134
117	Marie Faure	William & Mary	Sr	10.04	135
124	Allie Sanford	Ole Miss	Soph	10.04	136

Doubles Rankings

RANK	PLAYER 1	PLAYER 2	SCHOOL
1	Mami Adachi	Aldila Sutjiadi	Kentucky
2	Brooke Austin	Kourtney Keegan	Florida
3	Maegan Manasse	Denise Starr	California
4	Mira Ruder-Hook	Brienne Minor	Michigan
5	Miho Kowase	Anna Sanford	Ohio State
6	Luisa Stefani	Jean Runglerkriangkrai	Pepperdine
7	Paige Cline	Hadley Berg	South Carolina
T8	Palina Dubavets	Stefani Stojic	UC Santa Barbara
T8	Maddie Lipp	Alex Chatt	Northwestern
10	Kristina Mathis	Taylor Ng	Dartmouth
11	Caroline Doyle	Melissa Lord	Stanford
12	Gabriela Knutson	Valeria Salazar	Syracuse
13	Nour Abbes	Miki Kobayashi	Washington
T14	Rachel Pierson	Eva Paalma	Texas A&M
T14	Hayley Carter	Jessie Aney	North Carolina
16	Madison Harrison	Kristina Vozniak	Mississippi State
17	Sydney Campbell	Emily Smith	Vanderbilt
18	Seda Arantekin	Caroline Wegner	TCU
T19	Mayar Sherif Ahmed	Christine Maddox	Pepperdine
T19	Belinda Woolcock	Josie Kuhlman	Florida
21	Taylor Davidson	Emily Arbuthnott	Stanford
22	Kimmy Guerin	Anna Ulyashchenko	Wake Forest
23	Margo Pletcher	Brianna Turley	Utah
24	Martina Frantova	Tayla Stenta	North Carolina State
25	Louise Kwong	Ines Vias	Illinois
26	Ellen Perez	Elena Christofi	Georgia
27	Alizee Michaud	Taylor Russo	Auburn
28	Wendy Zhang	Lindsey Hodge	Rice
29	Nicole Robinson	Andjela Djokovic	Purdue
30	Mariana Gould	Marta Gonzalez	Georgia
31	Alexis Valenzuela	Camille De Leon	Cal State Fullerton
32	Katarina Adamovic	Vladica Babic	Oklahoma State
33	Zoe Katz	Gabby Smith	USC
34	Erin Routliffe	Andie Daniell	Alabama
35	Paige Hourigan	Rasheeda McAdoo	Georgia Tech
36	Viktoriya Lushkova	Carla Tur Mari	Oklahoma State
37	Spencer Liang	Anna Danilina	Florida
38	Rosie Johanson	Meghan Kelley	Virginia
39	Ellyse Hamlin	Meible Chi	Duke
40	Rachana Bhat	Andrea LeBlanc	New Mexico
41	Julia O'Loughlin	Maureen Slattery	Denver
42	Alex Valenstein	Gabriela Talaba	Texas Tech
43	Blaga Delic	Sheila Morales-Hidalgo	Nevada
44	Blair Shankle	Theresa Van Zyl	Baylor
45	Zoe Douglas	Anastasia Reimchen	Iowa
46	Arianne Hartono	Tereza Janatova	Ole Miss
47	Sybille Gauvain	Marie Klocker	San Jose State
48	Brooke Broda	Monica Robinson	Notre Dame
49	Shannon Hudson	Ana Oparenovic	Arkansas
50	Bianca Moldovan	Claudia Wiktorin	North Carolina State
51	Hayley Thompson	Maren Helgo	Long Beach State
52	Astra Sharma	Fernanda Contreras	Vanderbilt
53	Laura Eales	Natalia Munoz	Long Beach State
54	Katherine Ip	Priya Niezgoda	Rice
55	Kaitlyn McCarthy	Chalena Scholl	Duke
56	Nina Khmelnitckaia	Janet Koch	Kansas
57	Gabriella Castanada	Julia Mikulski	Florida State
58	Andie Dikosavljevic	Alannah Griffin	Auburn
59	Mickey Hsu	Kristen Poei	Cal State Northridge
60	Sabrina Federici	Lynn Kiro	Texas Tech