Georgia Women, Texas Men Retain No. 1 Rankings; Kennedy Claims First ATP Top 200 Win at Tallahassee Challenger; Seven US Women Advance to Main Draw at W35 Zephyrhills; Alvarez, Antonius Advance at M15 Orlando

Two more sets of rankings are due before the NCAA tournament, but the regular season is over for three of the four Power 4 conferences, so ranking movement for those SEC, ACC and B12 teams will be based on this weekend’s conference tournaments. The Georgia women, who are the No. 4 seed in the SEC tournament, stay at No. 1 in this week’s ITA Division I team rankings, while the Texas men, who are the No. 1 seed in the SEC tournament, retained their No. 1 national ranking.

The ACC men’s conference tournament bracket is here; the ACC women’s conference tournament bracket is here; the Big 12 men’s tournament bracket is here; the Big 12 women’s tournament bracket is here. The ACC tournaments are in Cary NC and the B12 tournaments are at the USTA campus in Lake Nona. The SEC women are in Norman and the SEC men play at College Station. The Big 10 has another weekend of regular season play coming up this weekend.

Division I Rankings Top 16, April 14, 2026

(last week’s ranking in parentheses)

Click on the heading for the complete lists.

Men:

1. Texas (1)

2. Ohio State (2)

3. TCU (4)

4. Virginia (3)

5. LSU (5)

6. Mississippi State (6)

7. Wake Forest (7)

8. Oklahoma (9)

9. Arizona (10)

10. Texas A&M (8)

11. Baylor (11)

12. Georgia (13)

13. South Carolina (12)

14. UCF (15)

15. Illinois (14)

16. San Diego (16)

1. Dylan Dietrich, Virginia

2. Trevor Svajda, SMU

3. Sebastian Gorzny, Texas

4. Jay Friend, Arizona

5. Michael Zheng, Columbia

6. Max Dahlin, Michigan

7. Benito Sanchez Martinez, Mississippi State

8. Devin Badenhorst, Baylor

9. Petar Jovanovic, Mississippi State

10. Theo Papamalamis, Texas A&M

1. Cosme Rolland de Ravel and Duncan Chan, TCU

2. DK Suresh and Andrew Delgado, Wake Forest

3. Brandon Carpico and Nikita Filin, Ohio State

4. Bruno Nhavene and Luis Alvarez, Oklahoma

5. Theo Papamalamis and Togan Tokac, Texas A&M

Women:

1. Georgia {1)

2. Texas A&M (2)

3. Auburn (4)

4. Oklahoma (7)

5. Ohio State (3)

6. North Carolina (5)

7. Virginia (8)

8. Texas (6)

9. Pepperdine (9)

10. Southern Cal (10)

11. Arizona State (11)

12. Florida (17)

13. NC State (14)

14. Vanderbilt (13)

15. LSU (12)

16. Tennessee (19)

1. Lucciana Perez, Texas A&M

2. Reese Brantmeier, North Carolina

3. Carmen Herea, Texas

4. Luciana Perry, Ohio State

5. Teah Chavez, Ohio State

6. Anastasia Abbagnato, Texas

7. Evialina Laskevich, Oklahoma

8. Aysegul Mert, Georgia

9. Bridget Stammel, Vanderbilt

10. Katrina Scott, Tennessee

1. Roisin Gilheany and Gloriana Nahum, Oklahoma

2. Ava Esposito and DJ Bennett, Auburn

3. Deniz Dilek and Aysegul Mert, Georgia

4. Gabriella Broadfoot and Victoria Osuigwe, NC State

5. Reese Brantmeier and Alanis Hamilton, North Carolina

The four USTA Pro Circuit events this week are similar to last week’s, with all four in Florida: 2 15s, 1 35 and an ATP Challenger. Unlike last week, when the Boca Raton tournaments were at different levels, this week’s joint events in Lake Nona are both 15s, with a W35 in Zephyrhills and the Challenger 75 in Tallahassee.

Just one more match remains tonight to complete the first round in Tallahassee. Seventeen-year-old Jack Kennedy continued his winning streak, earning his best win on the Pro Circuit with a 3-6, 6-4, 4-0, ret. victory over No. 7 seed and ATP No. 194 Lukas Neumayer of Austria. Kennedy, who won the M15 in Boca Raton last week, received entry via the ITF/ATP Accelerator Program. He will play Oliver Crawford(Florida) of Great Britain in the second round.

Kalamazoo 18s champion Darwin Blanch advanced to the second round with a 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 win over Daniel Galan of Colombia. He will play No. 4 seed Daniil Glinka of Estonia, who defeated Sarasota Challenger finalist Stefan Dostanic(USC, Wake Forest) 6-2, 7-6(3) today.

Liam Draxl(Kentucky) of Canada is the top seed in Tallahassee; wild card Michael Mmoh defeated No. 2 seed Federico Agustin Gomez(Louisville) of Argentina 6-2, 6-1 and will face fellow wild card Cannon Kingsley(Ohio State) in the second round. Kingsley beat Dmitry Popko of Kazakhstan 6-3, 3-6, 7-5. The third wild card went Kaylun Bigun(UCLA), who lost to Draxl 3-6, 6-2, 6-1 yesterday.

Seven of the eight qualifiers for the W35 in Zephyrhills are American: Melije Clarke[10], Bella Payne[5], Jamilah Snells(Louisville)[8], Thea Frodin[6], Kylie Collins(Texas, LSU, Oklahoma State)[3], Amelia Honer (UC-Santa Barbara)[2] and

Dasha Ivanova[1]. The only international qualifier is 18-year-old Daria Egorova[4] of Russia.

Maria Carle(Georgia) of Argentina is the top seed, with Fiona Crawley(UNC) the No. 2 seed. Crawley defeated Victoria Hu(Princeton) 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 in a first round match today.

Wild cards were given to 15-year-old Hannah Ayrault, Akasha Urhobo, the No. 3 seed, 18-year-old Alyssa James of Jamaica, and 17-year-old Kennedy Drenser-Hagmann. Drenser-Hagmann lost in the first round today to No. 5 seed Angela Fita Boluda of Spain 6-1, 6-4. The other wild cards will play their first round matches Wednesday.

At the W15 in Orlando, just three of the qualifiers are American: 18-year-old Capucine Jauffret, Ellie Coleman(Duke) and Jaedan Brown(Michigan).

Wild cards were awarded to Olivia De Los Reyes, Emery Combs, Allison Wang and Orange Bowl 16s champion Priscilla Sirichantho. De Los Reyes and Sirichantho played their first round matches today, with No. 6 seed Justina Maria Gonzalez Daniele of Argentina beating De Los Reyes 6-3, 6-2 and 14-year-old ITF Junior Reserved entrant Sofia Bielinska of Ukraine defeating Sirichantho 2-6, 6-0, 6-1.

Lani Chang and Sarah Ye are the other junior reserved entrants.

Twenty-three-year-old Kailey Evans(Texas Tech, San Diego) defeated top seed Gergana Topalova of Bulgaria 6-3, 7-6(6) in the first round today.

At the M15 in Orlando, just two Americans reached the main draw via qualifying: 18-year-old Nick Stoot and Barry senior Adam Lynch.

Wild cards were given to Vihaan Reddy, Jerrid Gaines Jr., Ryan Cozad and Ronit Karki. Junior reserved spots went to Yannik Alvarez of Puerto Rico, Michael Antonius and Benjamin Willwerth.

Alvarez, who lost to Kennedy in the semifinals last week in Boca Raton, beat Gaines 6-2, 6-3 and Antonius, the No. 8 seed, beat Cozad 7-5, 7-6(2) in first round matches today. Karki lost to Dragos Cazacu(Tennessee) of Romania 6-2, 6-4.

Corentin Denolly of France is the top seed, with 19-year-old Reda Bennani of Morocco the No. 2 seed.

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