After putting out the college pro rankings over the last two days its time to get caught up on some news that took place over the last few days. We’ll start with in Knoxville where former Tennessee All-American Alison Ojeda was named as Tennessee’s new women’s head coach. Ojeda, who played at Tennessee from 1998 to 2002, replaces Mike Patrick who stepped down last week after 30 years on the job due to health reasons. Ojeda came back to Rocky Top in June as an assistant coach after spending the last six seasons at Baylor.
The Charlottesville Daily Progress reported that Virginia will be building a new 12-court outdoor facility at the Boar’s Head Sports Club. The new facility which will also have a tennis building/clubhouse will cost between $10 million and $12 million with the funds being raised privately. Virginia has played outdoor matches on-campus at the 13-court Sheridan Snyder Tennis Center since 1997 but the uneven layout of five, five, and three courts hasn’t been the most ideal for spectators. The Boar’s Head Sports Club, which is located a few miles off-campus, currently has 12 indoor and 14 outdoor courts and in February will be hosting the ITA Men’s National Team Indoor Championships for the second consecutive year.
In other facility news Ole Miss will be starting construction on a new 6-court indoor center beside the track and field complex. In the past Ole Miss has been able to use the three indoor courts at the Gillom Sports Center but due to major renovations of the whole complex those courts will be unavailable this year.
Peter Nagy (Texas A&M Corpus Christi ’15) won a qualifying wild card into the ATP 250 in Delray Beach after winning a wild card tournament. Nagy only dropped two sets during the tournament – one to former top 100 ITF junior Augusto Laranja in the semifinals (1-6, 6-3, 10-7) and one to Ty Trombetta (6-7, 6-4, 6-4) in the finals. Full results are available at this link and the Delray Beach Open’s website also had a recap as well.
While most of the country will be partaking in turkey and gravy on Thursday there will be four second round singles matches taking place at the $75K Columbus (OH) Challenger. Ohio State commit John McNally will take on the third seed Henri Laaksonen, Peter Kobelt (Ohio State ’14) will meet the fifth seed Mitchell Krueger, Cameron Norrie (TCU Jr) faces lucky loser Luke Bambridge, and Tennys Sandgren (Tennessee ’11*) faces Eric Quigley (Kentucky ’12). McNally won his first-career main draw Challenger match on Tuesday when he picked up 8 ATP points in a straight set win over Ohio State senior Herkko Pollanen.
The ITA recently released the Division II and JUCO team, singles, and doubles rankings along with the NAIA singles and doubles. Below are the top five from each category.
| DII Men’s Team | DII Men’s Singles | DII Men’s Doubles |
| 1. Hawaii Pacific (1) | 1. Oliver Frank (Azusa Pacific) | 1. Peyrot/Dumont (West Florida) |
| 2. Saint Leo (2) | 2. Ahmed Triki (Barry) | 2. Engel/Frank (Azusa Pacific) |
| 3. Armstrong State (3) | 3. Leo Blay (Valdosta State) | 3. Gnilozubov/DaLio (Western New Mexico) |
| 4. Lander (4) | 4. Alberto Casas (Armstrong State) | 4. Agoston/Agoston (Southwest Baptist) |
| 5. Valdosta State (5) | 5. Ramon Toyos (Midwestern State) | 5. Casas/Porteset (Armstrong State) |
| DII Women’s Team | DII Women’s Singles | DII Women’s Doubles |
| 1. Armstrong State (1) | 1. Madeline Hill (Washburn) | 1. Bogolii/Willig (Lynn) |
| 2. BYU-Hawaii (2) | 2. Dallas Zhang (BYU-Hawaii) | 2. Lutzier/Stomlega (Armstrong State) |
| 3. Lynn (4) | 3. Hanna Volikova (Indianapolis) | 3. Andrejszki/Mindiyarova (Lewis) |
| 4. Saint Leo (3) | 4. Karen Lui (BYU-Hawaii) | 4. Worden/Efimenko (Northeastern State) |
| 5. Hawaii Pacific (5) | 5. Saioa Gomez de Segura (Mercyhurst) | 5. Lennthorp/Lennthorp (Academy of Art) |
| JUCO Men’s Team | JUCO Men’s Singles | JUCO Men’s Doubles |
| 1. Tyler Junior College (3) | 1. Jorge Martinez (Tyler JC) | 1. Anez/Nice (Seward) |
| 2. ASA Miami (1) | 2. Ferran Calvo (Tyler JC) | 2. Calvo/Martinez (Tyler JC) |
| 3. Seminole State College (2) | 3. Yohan Nguyen (ABAC) | 3. Gomez/Mendoza (ASA Miami) |
| 4. ABAC (4) | 4. Ismael Mzai (Seminole State) | 4. Michenka/Damon (Cowley) |
| 5. Seward (6) | 5. Carlos Anez (Seward) | 5. Pardo/Feehan (Tyler JC) |
| JUCO Women’s Team | JUCO Women’s Singles | JUCO Women’s Doubles |
| 1. Tyler Junior College (2) | 1. Maria Medina (State Coll FL) | 1. Medina/Sergheeva (State Coll FL) |
| 2. State College of Florida (5) | 2. Luisa Varon (Eastern Fl St Coll) | 2. Bermudez/Rodrigues (Seward) |
| 3. ASA Miami (1) | 3. Sarah Frendo (Cowley) | 3. Asghar/Garibal (Tyler JC) |
| 4. Cowley (7) | 4. Jasmine Asghar (Tyler JC) | 4. Karcher/Varon (Eastern Fl St Coll) |
| 5. Seward (8) | 5. Celia Morel (ABAC) | 5. Yehouenou/Morel (ABAC) |
| NAIA Men’s Singles | NAIA Men’s Doubles |
| 1. Kevin Konfederak (Georgia Gwinnett) | 1. Cox/Konfederak (Georgia Gwinnett) |
| 2. Jordan Cox (Georgia Gwinnett) | 2. Aguilar/Castro (Campbellsville) |
| 3. Karan Salwan (Xavier, LA) | 3. Porcic/Tellez (Lindsey Wilson) |
| 4. Thomas Setodji (Xavier, LA) | 4. Perasso/Weich (Cardinal Stritch) |
| 5. Denis Porcic (Lindsey Wilson) | 5. Lapeidra/Moore (Arizona Christian) |
| NAIA Women’s Singles | NAIA Women’s Doubles |
| 1. Camille Gbaguidi (SCAD Savannah) | 1. Chiara Di Salvo/Alyona Vasilyeva (Georgia Gwinnett) |
| 2. Valeria Podda (Georgia Gwinnett) | 2. Klara Dohnalova/Valeria Podda (Georgia Gwinnett) |
| 3. Chiara Di Salvo (Georgia Gwinnett) | 3. Paige Murdock/Camille Gbaguidi (SCAD Savannah) |
| 4. Isabel Dale (University of Cumberlands) | 4. Alex Shchipakina/Maria Cid (Lindsay Wilson) |
| 5. Amanda Schneider (UNOH) | 5. Priscila Nunez/Dana Huck (Olivet Nazarene) |
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Ojeda played at Tennessee from 98-02….not 08-12 like your article says. Just a heads up in case you want to correct it. Thanks
Yep wrong decade – thanks for the correction