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USTA Rankings Released Plus My Full Breakdown of the March 7th Men’s Singles & Doubles Rankings

by | Mar 8, 2017 | Blog

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The latest USTA Top 25 is out with both the men’s and women’s top 5 staying the same. Texas A&M was the only team on the men’s side to move more than three spots with the Aggies rising seven spots to No. 16 after defeating both Florida and South Carolina on the road. USC and Baylor made the biggest leaps on the women’s side with USC rising eight spots to No. 15 after defeating Michigan while Baylor rose four spots to No. 14 after defeating UCLA and Old Dominion. Michigan fell four spots to No. 13 after losing to USC while four teams fell three spots. Mississippi State was the only team to drop out of the top 25 after losing to Auburn though no one new entered since there was a tie last week for 25th. 

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USTA Poll Information: there are eight college tennis “experts” on the voting panel, including yours truly, and each of us ranked 25 teams from numbers 1 to 25, with the first-place team receiving 25 points and the last-place team receiving one. When voting we were to consider strength of schedule, Top 25 wins/losses, road wins/losses and personnel adjustments for each program while also basing our vote on performance, not reputation or preseason speculation. For control, the highest and lowest outlying ranking for each team on the ballot was removed. Therefore, the maximum number of points a team can receive is 150. First-place votes were not tallied. 

My ballot can be viewed at this link

 

USTA MEN’S TOP 25     USTA WOMEN’S TOP 25  
Rank School Votes Chg Rank School Votes Chg
1 Virginia 150 0 1 Florida 150 0
2 Ohio State 144 0 2 North Carolina 144 0
3 Wake Forest 137 0 3 Ohio State 138 0
4 North Carolina 132 0 4 Stanford 132 0
5 Cal 125 0 5 Oklahoma State 124 0
6 Texas 116 1 6 Auburn 118 1
7 Oklahoma 115 -1 7 Cal 115 -1
8 Oklahoma State 106 2 8 Texas Tech 102 3
9 UCLA 105 -1 9 Georgia Tech 101 1
10 USC 100 1 10 Vanderbilt 93 3
T11 Baylor 88 1 11 Georgia 90 -3
T11 Florida 88 -2 12 Pepperdine 86 0
13 Georgia 80 1 13 Michigan 81 -4
14 Kentucky 65 0 14 Baylor 68 4
15 Michigan 64 -2 15 USC 62 8
16 Texas A&M 63 7 16 Arizona State 58 -2
17 Mississippi State 54 -1 17 UCLA 56 -1
18 Illinois 41 -1 18 Duke 52 -3
T19 Georgia Tech 31 1 19 Ole Miss 40 -2
T19 Northwestern 31 -1 20 Texas 33 2
21 Columbia 29 0 21 South Carolina 27 -1
22 Vanderbilt 24 -3 22 Texas A&M 25 -3
23 Tulane 18 -1 23 Kentucky 16 2
24 Notre Dame 14 0 24 Tennessee 12 -3
25 South Carolina 8 0 25 TCU 8 -1
Others Receiving Votes: Duke (1), TCU (1)
Others Receiving Votes: LSU (7), Mississipp State (6), Rice (6), Notre Dame (4), Miami FL (2).             Dropped Out: Mississippi State (25)

 

Last week Ohio State’s Mikael Torpegaard shared the No. 1 ranking in the Oracle/ITA singles rankings with Wake Forest’s Petros Chrysochos but this week Torpegaard is in sole possession of the top spot with Chrysochos dropping down to No. 2. Ohio State’s Hugo Di Feo and Mississippi State’s Nuno Borges remain at No. 3 and No. 4 while Wake Forest’s Skander Mansouri jumped up three spots to No. 5.

Cal’s Filip Bergevi and Florian Lakat took over the top spot in men’s doubles rankings with last week’s No. 1 Christian Seraphim and Skander Mansouri dropping one spot to No. 2. Oklahoma State’s Arjun Kadhe and Julian Cash moved up one spot to No. 3, Florida’s Johannes Ingildsen and Alfredo Perez moved up five spots to No. 4, and North Florida’s Jack Findel-Hawkins and Lasse Muscheites fell two spots to No. 5.

 

I have a full breakdown of the singles and doubles rankings down below with a table that sorts them by school, conference, class, and Universal Tennis Rating. I also list who made the biggest gains week over week and who made the biggest declines. This content is available for my premium subscribers so if you haven’t signed up yet might as well do it now!

 

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Biggest Risers (Were Ranked Last Time)
Korey Lovett (Central Florida) – up 49 spots from No. 93 to No. 44
William Blumberg (North Carolina) – up 47 spots from No. 107 to No. 61
Lukas Finzelberg (Oklahoma State) – up 40 spots from No. 102 to No. 62
Piotr Baranski (Southern Illinois) – up 33 spots from No. 121 to No. 88
Cameron Klinger (Vanderbilt) – up 32 spots from No. 61 to No. 29
David Biosca (East Tennessee State) – up 32 spots from No. 101 to No. 69
 
Biggest Risers (Were NOT Ranked Last Time)
Jordan Daigle (LSU) – NR to No. 47
Tyler Lu (Yale) – NR to No. 65
Haru Inoue (Wichita State) – NR to No. 71
Borna Gojo (Wake Forest) – NR to No. 76
Alex Rybakov (TCU) – NR to No. 84
 
Biggest Droppers (Were Ranked Last Time
Robert Kelly (North Carolina) – fell 56 spots from No. 67 to No. 123
Carl Soderlund (Virginia) – fell 46 spots from No. 71 to No. 117
Filip Bergevi (Cal) – fell 46 spots from No. 63 to No. 109
Alexis Galarneau (NC State) – fell 44 spots from No. 72 to No. 116
Alberto Barroso-Campos (South Florida) – fell 39 spots from No. 83 to No. 122

 

Men’s Singles Top 125 by class
43 – Juniors 
41 – Seniors 
26 – Sophomores 
15 – Freshmen 
 
Top UTRs:
15.26 – Mikael Torpegaard (Ohio State)
15.07 – Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (Virginia)
15.05 – Cameron Norrie (TCU)
14.89 – Arthur Rinderknech (Texas A&M)
14.87 – Petros Chrysochos (Wake Forest)
 
UTR Range:
High – 15.26 – (Torpegaard)
Low – 13.28 – (Grigorescu)
Average – 14.18
 
Teams with the multiple ranked players in the top 125 were:
4 – Cal, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas, Virginia, Wake Forest 
3 – Baylor, Columbia, East Tennessee State, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Stanford, Tulane
2 – Alabama, Arkansas, Cal Poly, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Illinois, LSU, Michigan, NC State, North Florida, Northwestern, SMU, South Florida, Texas A&M, UCLA, USC, Virginia Tech
 
Conferences with multiple ranked players:
23 – SEC
23 – ACC
20 – Big 12
12 – Big Ten
13 – Pac 12
10 – American
4 – Ivy League, Southern
3 – Big West, Missouri Valley
2 – Atlantic Sun, Conference USA, Sun Belt West Coast
 

 

Men’s Singles Rankings (click to view in separate window)

  

  

 
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Schools with multiple ranked teams
4 – Oklahoma
3 – Georgia, Oklahoma State, Virginia
2 – Cal, Columbia, Florida State, Michigan, North Florida, Northwestern, Ohio State, TCU, Tennessee, Texas Tech, USC
 
Biggest Risers (Were Ranked Last Time)
Carl Soderlund/Luca Corinteli (Virginia) – up 30 spots from No. 46 to No. 16
Hunter Johnson/Yates Johnson (SMU) – up 24 spots from No. 42 to No. 18
Hugo Di Feo/Martin Joyce (Ohio State) – up 24 spots from No. 56 to No. 32
 
Biggest Risers (Were NOT Ranked Last Time)
Luis Valero/Jack Schipanski (Tennessee) – NR to No. 21
Sam Shropshire/Konrad Zieba (Northwestern) – NR to No. 25
Arjun Kadhe/Lucas Gerch (Oklahoma State) – NR to No. 31
 
Biggest Droppers (Were Ranked Last Time)
Lucas Gerch/Jurence Mendoza (Oklahoma State) – fell 40 spots from No. 31 to No. 71
Beck Pennington/Enzo Wallart (Kentucky) – fell 37 spots from No. 33 to No. 70
Parker Wynn/Sean Donohue (Louisville) – fell 28 spots from No. 37 to No. 65
 
 
Men’s Doubles Rankings (click to view in separate window)
 
 
 

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