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US Open National Playoff Recap

by | Jun 27, 2016 | Blog

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All 15 sectionals of the US Open National Playoff have been completed so now those winners will meet in another tournament to determine who gets wild cards into the 2016 US Open. The tournament will take place in New Haven, Connecticut during the WTA’s Connecticut Open from August 19-27. Each draw will have 16 entries so that means at least one sectional runner-up will make it in.

The Men’s and Women’s Singles Championships will take place August 19-22 with the winners earning wild cards into the US Open Qualifying Tournament.

Below are the 15 men’s sectional winners sorted by Universal Tennis Rating (UTR). Jesse Witten, Martin Joyce, and Henry Craig were the three repeat winners though Witten won a different section last year. Witten won last year’s tournament but fell in the opening round of qualies 7-6, 6-1 to former Tennessee Vol JP Smith.

Section Men’s Singles School Country UTR
Missouri Valley Eric Quigley Kentucky United States 14.93
Middle States Jose Statham – New Zealand 14.86
Hawaii-Pacific Jesse Witten Kentucky United States 14.71
Northern Nicolas Meister UCLA United States 14.59
Intermountain Patrick Kawka BYU United States 14.51*
Mid-Atlantic Hunter Koontz Virginia Tech United States 14.28
Eastern Shawn Hadavi Columbia United States 14.09
Midwest Martin Joyce Ohio State United States 14.06
New England Cameron Silverman Elon United States 13.99
Southern California Henry Craig Denver United States 13.81
Northern California Logan Staggs UCLA United States 13.70
Southwest Tyler Hochwalt Florida United States 13.56
Florida Terrance Whitehurst Florida State United States 13.48
Texas Eric Rutledge Rice United States 13.44
Southern Philip Major – Bahamas 13.17

Below are the 15 women’s sectional winners also sorted by UTR. Jacqueline Cako, Sara Daavettila, Ashley Weinhold, Julia Elbaba, Sophie Chang, and Nika Kukharchuk were repeat winners. Jennifer Elie won last year’s tournament but lost 6-3, 6-0 to Shuai Zhang in the opening round of qualies.

Section Women’s Singles School Country UTR
Missouri Valley Sanaz Marand North Carolina United States 11.95
Southwest Jacqueline Cako Arizona State United States 11.94
Midwest Sara Daavettila North Carolina Commit United States 11.84
Intermountain Ena Shibahara UCLA Commit United States 11.78
Florida Ashley Weinhold – United States 11.77
Eastern Julia Elbaba Virginia United States 11.62
Middle States Sophie Chang – United States 11.58
Southern California Brynn Boren USC United States 11.42
Northern California Sara Choy High School United States 11.23
New England Margaryta Bilokin High School United States 11.16
Northern Kelsey Laurente Oklahoma State United States 11.14
Texas Fernanda Contreras Vanderbilt Mexico 11.12
Mid-Atlantic Nika Kukharchuk Ole Miss Russia 11.11
Southern Elyse Lavender LSU Commit United States 10.56
Hawaii-Pacific Eva Raszkiewicz Syracuse United States 9.75

The Men’s and Women’s Doubles Championships will take place August 21-24 with the winners earning wild cards into the main draw of the 2016 US Open. Julio Peralta and Matt Seeberger won the men’s draw last year and then lost in the first round to Santiago Giraldo and Rameez Junaid 4-6, 6-4, 6-4. Maya Jansen and Erin Routliffe won the women’s draw last year and then lost 6-2, 6-1 to Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears in the first round.

Men’s Doubles
Joel Kielbowicz (UNLV ’05) & Matt Seeberger (UC Santa Cruz ’07)
James Cerretani (Brown ’04) & Max Schnur (Columbia ’15)
Patrick Kawka (BYU ’13) & Trevor Johnson (TCU Rising Jr)
Philip Bester & Peter Polansky
Vaidik Munshaw (St. John’s ’16) & Gustavo Loza (St. John’s ’08)
Ryan Brown (’16 LMU Commit) & Joseph Rotheram (’16 UCSB Commit)
Joel Rubio Moreno (UTSA ’15) & Benjamin Collier (HS Class of ’17)
Tyler Barr (MIT Rising Soph) & Austin Barr (’17 Williams Commit)
Junior Ore (Texas A&M ’14) & Hunter Reese (Tennessee ’15) 
Rong Ma (BYU-Hawaii ’11) & Wei Yu Su (BYU-Hawaii ’99)
Costin Paval (Oklahoma ’13) & Andrei Daescu (Oklahoma ’10) 
Hunter Johnson (SMU Rising Sr) & Yates Johnson (SMU Rising Sr)
Andrew Goodwin (Alabama ’15) & Vikram Hundal (Charlotte ’16)
Brian Battistone & Dann Battistone
Nicolas Meister (UCLA ’12) & Eric Quigley (Kentucky ’12)
Women’s Doubles
Priscilla Annoual (Grand Canyon ’15) & Savannah Slaysman (’16 Arizona State Commit)
Gabriela Porubin (Wichita St Rising Jr) & Julia Schiller (WSU ’16)
Katarina Facey (UC Irvine ’15) & Alexandra Facey (UCI ’15)
Ashley Weinhold & Caitlin Whoriskey (Tennessee ’10)
Dasha Kourkina (HS Class of ’19) & Michelle Sorokko (HS Class of ’19)
Jacqueline Cako (Arizona St ’13) & Danielle Lao (USC ’13)
Veronica Corning (Northwestern ’14) & Meghan Kelley (Virginia Rising Soph)
Tracy Kuhle (W Michigan Sr) & Danielle Wolf (Indiana Rising Soph) 
Anastasia Revzina (Florida ’10) & Alexis Merrill (HS Class of ’18)
Sara Tsukamoto (HS Class of ’18) & Diane Wong (HS Class of ’16)
Nika Kukharchuk (Ole Miss ’08) & Alexandra Perper (Mississippi State ’14) 
Kseniya Bardabush (North Texas ’15) & Aleksandra Malyarchikova (SMU ’13)
Aryn Greene (Alabama Rising Jr) & Ansley Speaks (Furman Rising Sr)
Jada Hart (’16 UCLA Commit) & Ena Shibahara (’16 UCLA Commit)
Alexis Nelson (’16 Cal Commit) & Anna Sanford (Ohio State Rising Jr)

The Mixed Doubles Championship will take place August 24-27 with the winners earning wild cards into the main draw of the 2016 US Open. There were only 14 winners because the Intermountain sectional didn’t have enough participants to field a draw so at least two runner-ups will make the field. Andrei Daescu and Anda Perianu won the 2015 tournament but fell in the first round to Max Mirnyi and Anastasia Rodionova 6-2, 6-4.

Mixed Doubles
Jacqueline Cako (ASU ’13) & Joel Kielbowicz (UNLV ’05)
Eric Quigley (KY ’12) & Keri Wong (Clemson ’12)
Hunter Reese (Tennessee ’15) & Caitlin Whoriskey (TN ’10)
Alona Bondarenko & Mykola Dyachok
Jordan Gobatie (N. Arizona ’15) & Katsiaryna Zheltova (Sac St ’10)
Ellyse Hamlin (Duke Rising Soph) & Hleb Maslau (UNF ’11)
Caroline Hammond Varga (Virginia ’07) & Christopher Varga (Ball State ’03)
Lauren Bellinger (Cincinnati Rising Sr) & Eric West (Oklahoma State ’12)
Ikaika Jobe (Boise State ’05) & Katreina Corpuz (HS Class of ’18)
Andrei Daescu (Oklahoma ’10) & Anda Perianu (Oklahoma ’04) 
Zach Nichols (TCU ’11) & Millie Nichols (TCU ’14) 
Alexandra Anghelescu (Georgia Tech ’13) & Danie van den Heever (Georgia Southern ’05)
Kaitlyn Christian (USC ’14) & Rudolf Siwy (Fresno St ’09)

Evan King (Michigan ’13) & Emina Bektas (Michigan ’15)