It’s time for the main event in Tulsa with all 64 competitors known after the conclusion of the qualifying rounds. The main draw is out and there are going to be some juicy opening round matches. I thought I would take a look at the composition of the men’s field and show you where the 64 players came from and how they made the field.
40 players made the main draw based off the ITA’s preseason ranking with the last acceptance being USC’s Logan Smith who was ranked No. 48.
#54 Max Tchoutakian (Baylor) – Texas Region
#55 Shawn Hadavi (Columbia) – Northeast Region
#69 J.C. Aragone (Virginia) – Atlantic Region
#116 Diogo Rocha (Denver – Mountain Region
#120 Kyle Mautner (Penn) – Northeast Region
#124 Jakob Amilon (UNLV) – Mountain Region
There were two wild cards awarded with Tulsa’s Majed Kilani getting the host wild card and Indiana’s Antonio Cembellin getting one for winning the ITA Summer Championship.
There were 11 players, listed below, who were ranked high enough in the preseason rankings and/or final regional rankings to gain direct acceptance but for one reason or another (injury/play pro events, etc) they chose not to participate.
#2 Cameron Norrie (TCU)
#3 Aleks Vukic (Illinois)
#19 Collin Altamirano (Virginia)
#23 George Goldhoff (Texas)
#24 Andrew Harris (Oklahoma)
#32 Sam Shropshire (Northwestern)
#34 Mazen Osama (Alabama)
#41 Paul Oosterbaan (Georgia)
#53 Alexander Ritschard (Virginia) – Regional
#90 Shane Monroe (BYU) – Regional
#101 David Volfson (Cornell) – Regional
Top 8 Seeds (assuming ITA ranking used)
1. Mikael Torpegaard (Ohio State)
2. Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (Virginia)
3. Christopher Eubanks (Georgia Tech)
4. Tom Fawcett (Stanford)
5. Skander Mansouri (Wake Forest)
6. Petros Chrysochos (Wake Forest)
7. Arthur Rinderknech (Texas A&M)
8. Ronnie Schneider (North Carolina)
Top 8 UTRs
1. Mikael Torpegaard (Ohio State 15.22)
2. Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (Virginia 15.09)
3. Yuya Ito (Texas 14.70)
4. Petros Chrysochos (Wake Forest 14.59)
5. Nuno Borges (Mississippi State 14.53)
6. Tom Fawcett (Stanford 14.48)
7. Ryotaro Matsumura (Kentucky 14.46)
8. Arthur Rinderknech (Texas A&M 14.43)
UTR Strength of Main Draw vs. Qualie vs. Pre-Qualie
High – 15.22 (Torpegaard) vs. 14.71 (Ito) vs. 14.20 (DiGiulio)
Low – 13.08 (Tverijonas) vs. 12.67 (Schipanski) vs. 8.39 (Ward)
Avg – 14.05 vs. 13.58 vs. 12.61
Schools with Multiple Players
4 – California
3 – Columbia, Ohio State, USC, Wake Forest
2 – Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi State, Northwestern, Oklahoma State, Texas, Tulsa, UCLA, Virginia
Breakdown by Class
26 – Senior
23 – Junior
11 – Sophomore
4 – Freshmen
Breakdown by Conference
15 – SEC
12 – Pac-12
11 – ACC
8 – Big Ten
6 – Big 12
4 – Ivy
3 – American
2 – Atlantic 10
1 – Mountain West, Southern, Summit
To view the men’s table below in a separate window click here – there is one tab that has the draw in order and another that has the draw sorted by UTR.
Men’s Doubles Draw
Men’s First Round – Times In This Link – LIVE SCORING
Aron Hiltzik (Illinois 14.01) vs. Luis Valero (Tennessee 13.40)
[9-16] Gustav Hansson (Ole Miss 14.20) vs. Shawn Hadavi (Columbia 13.74)
[Q] Lukas Finzelberg (Oklahoma State 13.91) vs. Nick Crystal (USC 14.26)
[8] Petros Chrysochos (Wake Forest 14.59) vs. Mate Cutura (Mississippi State 13.55)
Gage Brymer (UCLA 14.22) vs. Diogo Rocha (Denver 13.64)
[9-16] Andre Goransson (California 14.24) vs. Jose Salazar (Arkansas 14.12)
[PQ] Peter Bertran (South Florida 13.83) vs. [Q] Jacob Dunbar (Richmond 13.26)
[3] Christopher Eubanks (Georgia Tech 14.27) vs. Jordan Daigle (LSU 13.57)
[Q] Victor Pham (Columbia 13.59) vs. [Q] Billy Griffith (California 14.08)
[9-16] William Bushamuka (Kentucky 14.06) vs. [WC] Majed Kilani (Tulsa 13.54)
[WC] Antonio Cembellin (Indiana 13.58) vs. [Q] Christian Seraphim (Wake Forest 14.06)
[7] Arthur Rinderknech (Texas A&M 14.43) vs. Strong Kirchheimer (Northwestern 14.28)
Daniel Valent (Vanderbilt 14.06) vs. Alfredo Perez (Florida 14.43)
[9-16] Nicolas Alvarez (Duke 14.09) vs. Logan Smith (USC 13.52)
[Q] Yuya Ito (Texas 14.70) vs. Alexandru Ghilea (Oklahoma 14.25)
Hugo Di Feo (Ohio State 13.95) vs. Jakob Amilon (UNLV 13.46)
[9-16] Wayne Montgomery (Georgia 14.10) vs. Or Ram Harel (Tulsa 14.11)
[Q] Thomas Laurent (Oregon 13.97) vs. Piotr Lomacki (Miami FL 14.10)
[5] Skander Mansouri (Wake Forest 14.26) vs. Nuno Borges (Mississippi State 14.53)
Gergely Madarasz (Purdue 14.05) vs. [Q] Brandon Holt (USC 14.22)
[9-16] Michael Redlicki (Arkansas 14.36) vs. Nick Horton (North Carolina State 13.62)
[Q] Filip Bergevi (California 14.43) vs. [PQ] Alex Keyser (Columbia 13.71)
[4] Tom Fawcett (Stanford 14.48) vs. Julian Cash (Oklahoma State 14.02)
Ryotaro Matsumura (Kentucky 14.46) vs. [Q] Herkko Pollanen (Ohio State 13.94)
[9-16] Konrad Zieba (Northwestern 14.33) vs. [PQ] Christian Sigsgaard (Texas 14.13)
Gabriel Friedrich (South Carolina 13.83) vs. Max Tchoutakian (Baylor 13.87)
[8] Ronnie Schneider (North Carolina 13.83) vs. Elliott Orkin (Florida 14.15)
[Q] Mitch Stewart (Washington 14.01) vs. David Biosca (East Tennessee St 14.29)
[9-16] Florian Lakat (California 14.17) vs. [Q] Josh Hagar (Notre Dame 13.82)
Martin Redlicki (UCLA 14.22) vs. [Q] Julius Tverijonas (George Washington 13.08)
[2] Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (Virginia 15.09) vs. Kyle Mautner (Penn 13.60)
Don’t forget you can watch the FloTennis stream on FOUR courts if you are a subscriber ($19.99 mo or $149.99 yr) – There will be live scoring available at this link.
This is the what the FloTennis feed looked like for the Grass Court event in Newport.
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