11-01-2022, 01:25 PM
Seeds and draws are out!
Singles Seeds:
1. Fiona Crawley (UNC)
2. Connie Ma
3. Abigail Forbes (UNC, a grad transfer from UCLA--she wanted to stay at UCLA to get her MBA, but couldn't get in there, so she transferred)
4. Madison Sieg (USC)
5-8. Carol Lee (GT)
5-8. Lea Ma (UGA)
5-8. Mary Stoiana (Texas A&M)
5-8. Carson Tanguilig (UNC)
Sieg, apparently, has had a heck of a fall season. She won the Milwaukee Tennis Classic with a couple of good wins over players ranked in the 80s, but she's seeded 4th here on the strength of her performance in the Fall Ranked Spotlight, where she knocked off preseason #3 Daria Frayman of Princeton and #28 Tanguilig before falling to Crawley in the final.
Stanford players could have entered both of those tournaments, but they didn't. They never do. Lele has always pursued a pretty light fall schedule, and more often than not, it works out just fine in the spring. But sometimes it's frustrating that our players don't get more high-quality matches throughout the year.
And here are our players' first round matches tomorrow and some quick analysis:
Wednesday, Nov. 2
9:00am: [2] Ma vs. #5 Chloe Beck (Duke)
11:30am: #14 Yepifanova vs. Taylor Melville (Denver)
11:30am: #105 Blake vs. [4] Madison Sieg (USC)
Draws: https://colleges.wearecollegetennis.com/...EC3639B671
First Round Analysis:
Absolutely the best match of the first round, rankings-wise, pits #7 Connie Ma against #5 Chloe Beck. If chalk holds, the winner gets #35 Julia Adams of UVA, a grad transfer from Furman.
An easy enough start for Yepifanova, as she gets DU's Melville, one of the few players in the field who were unranked in the preseason, and who is here as a finalist from the weakest ITA region (Mountain). But looming in the second round is a potential matchup with top-seeded Fiona Crawley of UNC. Not that Yepifanova can't win that, of course--she is ranked 7 spots ahead of Crawley in the preseason rankings--but it'll be a heckuva challenge. Given how well Yepifanova has played so far, though, I'm optimistic.
Blake draws 4th-seeded and USC frosh Sieg, so I'm excited to see how she does there. Sieg could play fairly high in USC's lineup this year, though preseason #1 Eryn Cayetano, #65 Snow Han, and #85 Naomi Cheong will be tough to dislodge. In any event, you could see a Blake-Sieg matchup in the regular season, and just because Sieg has had some success so far this fall doesn't mean Blake can't (or shouldn't) take her out. The winner plays the winner of #56 Elaine Chervinsky (UVA) and #98 Kimmi Hance (UCLA).
Here's how to watch: https://www.wearecollegetennis.com/2022/...rmation-2/
Singles Seeds:
1. Fiona Crawley (UNC)
2. Connie Ma
3. Abigail Forbes (UNC, a grad transfer from UCLA--she wanted to stay at UCLA to get her MBA, but couldn't get in there, so she transferred)
4. Madison Sieg (USC)
5-8. Carol Lee (GT)
5-8. Lea Ma (UGA)
5-8. Mary Stoiana (Texas A&M)
5-8. Carson Tanguilig (UNC)
Sieg, apparently, has had a heck of a fall season. She won the Milwaukee Tennis Classic with a couple of good wins over players ranked in the 80s, but she's seeded 4th here on the strength of her performance in the Fall Ranked Spotlight, where she knocked off preseason #3 Daria Frayman of Princeton and #28 Tanguilig before falling to Crawley in the final.
Stanford players could have entered both of those tournaments, but they didn't. They never do. Lele has always pursued a pretty light fall schedule, and more often than not, it works out just fine in the spring. But sometimes it's frustrating that our players don't get more high-quality matches throughout the year.
And here are our players' first round matches tomorrow and some quick analysis:
Wednesday, Nov. 2
9:00am: [2] Ma vs. #5 Chloe Beck (Duke)
11:30am: #14 Yepifanova vs. Taylor Melville (Denver)
11:30am: #105 Blake vs. [4] Madison Sieg (USC)
Draws: https://colleges.wearecollegetennis.com/...EC3639B671
First Round Analysis:
Absolutely the best match of the first round, rankings-wise, pits #7 Connie Ma against #5 Chloe Beck. If chalk holds, the winner gets #35 Julia Adams of UVA, a grad transfer from Furman.
An easy enough start for Yepifanova, as she gets DU's Melville, one of the few players in the field who were unranked in the preseason, and who is here as a finalist from the weakest ITA region (Mountain). But looming in the second round is a potential matchup with top-seeded Fiona Crawley of UNC. Not that Yepifanova can't win that, of course--she is ranked 7 spots ahead of Crawley in the preseason rankings--but it'll be a heckuva challenge. Given how well Yepifanova has played so far, though, I'm optimistic.
Blake draws 4th-seeded and USC frosh Sieg, so I'm excited to see how she does there. Sieg could play fairly high in USC's lineup this year, though preseason #1 Eryn Cayetano, #65 Snow Han, and #85 Naomi Cheong will be tough to dislodge. In any event, you could see a Blake-Sieg matchup in the regular season, and just because Sieg has had some success so far this fall doesn't mean Blake can't (or shouldn't) take her out. The winner plays the winner of #56 Elaine Chervinsky (UVA) and #98 Kimmi Hance (UCLA).
Here's how to watch: https://www.wearecollegetennis.com/2022/...rmation-2/