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Women’s Individual Preseason Rankings With UTRs

by | Sep 14, 2016 | Blog

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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