The last ITA regional champions were crowned today, with only a few at-large bids remaining to fill the singles draws of 32 at the National Indoor next month in Charlottesville, Va. I'm told the complete fields will be announced on Friday, when, by my calculations, five men and four women who have otherwise not qualified will be extended invitations (there is one more man because the defending champion, Somdev Devvarman, is not eligble to return). It actually may be six men, since Texas A & M's Conor Pollock qualified two different ways.
Here are the regional results and the explanation of other qualifiers:
Regional Women's results:
MIDWEST: Samantha Murray of Northwestern over Kelcy Tefft of Notre Dame
EAST: Ragini Acharya of William & Mary over Bianca Aboubakare of Brown
SOUTH: Chelsey Gullickson of Georgia over Marritt Boonstra of Florida
WEST: Maria Sanchez of USC over Alison Ramos of USC
SOUTHEAST: Josipa Bek of Clemson over Laura Gioia of Furman
SOUTHWEST: Nina Munch-Soegaard of TCU over Taylor Ormond of Baylor
CENTRAL: Wiveca Swarting of Nebraska over Anouk Tigu of Arkansas
NORTHWEST: Melanie Gloria of Fresno State over Bojana Bobusic of California
Delia Sescioreanu of Auburn-Montgomery (Small College Champion)
Aurelija Miseviciute of Arkansas (defending Indoor champion)
One wild card to host UVA
All-American qualifiers:
Kelcy McKenna Arizona St
Fani Chifchieva Auburn
Maria Coussou Cal
Maria Mosolova Northwestern
Laura Vallverdu Miami
Amanda McDowell Georgia Tech
Ani Mijacika Clemson
Georgia Rose Northwestern
Amanda Fink USC (consolation winner)
Regional Men's results:
CENTRAL: Arnau Brugues of Tulsa over Matt Hogan of Arkansas
NORTHEAST: Chris Clayton of Harvard over Bogdan Borta of Columbia
MIDWEST: Bryan Koniecko of Ohio State over Justin Kronauge of Ohio State
MIDEAST: Dom Inglot of Virginia over Cory Parr of Wake Forest
SOUTHEAST: Nate Schnugg of Georgia over Bruno Agnostinelli of Kentucky
MOUNTAIN: Clancy Shields of Boise State over Martin Zimmerman of Denver
SOUTH CENTRAL: Connor Pollock of Texas A&M over Bruno Rosa of Rice
WEST-SOUTH*: Bassam Beidas of over Omar Altmann of
WEST-NORTH*: Alex Clayton of Stanford over Bradley Klahn of Stanford
*Only winner advances from these regionals
Fabio Silva of Fresno Pacific (Small College Champion)
One wild card to host UVA
All-American qualifiers:
Michael Venus LSU
Oleksandr Nedovyesov Okla St
Robert Farah USC
Enrique Olivares East Tennessee St
Conor Pollock Texas A&M
Blake Strode Arkansas
Michael Shabaz Virginia
Steven Moneke Ohio St
Guillermo Gomez Georgia Tech (consolation winner)
There are many new faces. By my count, only nine men and nine women who competed in singles last year have qualified this year. I'll link to the ITA list of all competitors, including doubles, once it is available.
For those of you not familiar with the terminology, a golden set refers to a set in which the victor wins every point. According to Wikipedia, it has happened only once in professional tennis when Bill Scanlon did it back in 1983.
As amazing a feat as that is, Conor Pollock and Austin Krajicek exceeded even that, playing a golden match in the first round of the South Central Regional doubles. Although a college doubles match at the regional level is only one eight-game set, it is hard to imagine winning 32 points in a row. But that's what Pollock and Krajicek did against Prairie View A&M's Jose Garcia and Kudakwashe Nyatoti last week. Pollock and Krajicek went on to win the regional title, beating three different Texas Longhorn teams en route.
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