Eleven D-I Super Regionals on Tap for Friday; ITA Addresses Program Cuts, International Player Issue; Jauffret Reaches Quarterfinals at W35 Boca Raton; Wolf, Goode Advance at M15 Vero Beach; Quarterfinals Set at ITF J200 College Grove

The matches that will decide who travels to Athens next week for the quarterfinals of the Division I NCAA Team Championships begin tomorrow, with 11 of the 16 Super Regionals set for Friday. Five men’s matches and six women’s matches are on the schedule for Friday, beginning with the 3 p.m. Eastern time women’s match between the Texas A&M and Southern California and ending with two 7 p.m. men’s matches in Texas. Below are the matchups, in date/time order.

Women’s Super Regionals Friday May 8:

Southern California[13] v Texas A&M[4]

Friday May 8th, 3 p.m. College Station TX

Georgia[1] v UCLA

Friday, May 8th, 4 p.m. Athens GA

Texas[9] v NC State[8]

Friday May 8th, 5 p.m. Raleigh NC

North Carolina[5] v Michigan[12]

Friday May 8th, 5 p.m. Chapel Hill NC

Pepperdine[11] v Oklahoma[6]

Friday May 8th, 6 p.m. Norman OK

Auburn[2] v Duke[15]

Friday May 8th, 6 p.m. Auburn AL

Men’s Super Regionals Friday May 8:

Ohio State[3] v Illinois[14]

Friday May 8th, 4:30 p.m. Columbus OH

Wake Forest[1] v UCF[16]

Friday May 8th, 5 p.m. Winston-Salem NC

South Carolina[13] v Virginia[4]

Friday, May 8th, 5 p.m. Charlottesville VA

Pepperdine v Baylor[10]

Friday May 8th, 7 p.m. Waco TX

San Diego[15] v Texas[2]

Friday May 8th, 7 p.m. Austin TX

Women’s Super Regionals Saturday May 9:

Ohio State[3] v Vanderbilt[14]

Saturday May 9th, 1 p.m. Columbus OH

Virginia[7] v LSU[10]

Saturday May 9th, 1 p.m. Charlottesville VA

Men’s Super Regionals Saturday May 9:

Mississippi State[5] v Georgia[12]

Saturday May 9th, 1 p.m. Starkville MS

Stanford v TCU[6]

Saturday May 9th, 2 p.m. Fort Worth TX

Oklahoma[9] v Arizona[8]

Saturday May 9th, 4 p.m. Tucson AZ

Links to live scoring and live streams can be found at the ITA’s Super Regional pages, with the men’s page here and the women’s page here.

Cracked Racquets will again be providing multiple streams on their YouTube Channel.

The men’s draw is here; the women’s draw is here.

The ITA released a statement today on the recent issues that have been raised by the cutting of the programs at Arkansas. Chief Executive Officer Dave Mullins begins by addressing the new challenges for Olympic sports that the House settlement has produced, cites the study done to determine why programs are cut and discusses the benefits for the entire community, not just the varsity teams, that a tennis program provides.

The growth in tennis participation since the pandemic has increased demand for courts, but too often the university’s courts are not open to the public. The ITA and the USTA do not want to see college programs cut and Mullins suggests that with advance notice, those two entities can help develop a plan to ease the financial burden.

The international player discussion, which has been in the news since former General Manager of USTA Player Development Patrick McEnroe wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, is addressed in two parts, with the ITA obviously reluctant to restrict international participation, but supportive of age limits that put American juniors on more equal footing with the often much older international players.

The full statement can be viewed here.

At the USTA Pro Circuit W35 in Boca Raton Florida, University of Florida signee Capucine Jaufrett has advanced to the quarterfinals. The 18-year-old wild card from Delaware defeated No. 8 seed Ranah Stoiber of Great Britain 7-5, 6-1 to reach her first quarterfinal at the W35 level. She will face 17-year-old Luna Cinalli of Argentina, who defeated No. 3 seed Antonia Vergara Rivera of Chile 6-3, 6-0. Jauffret and Cinalli met in the first round of the J500 in Mexico in November of 2024, with Cinalli winning 3-6, 6-1, 6-1.

Seventeen-year-old Hannah Klugman of Great Britain, currently No. 2 in the ITF junior rankings, advanced to the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-1 win over No. 6 seed Sofia Shapatava of Georgia; qualifier Carson Tanguilig(North Carolina) defeated wild card Annika Penickova 7-6(3), 6-1 to reach her first quarterfinal at a W35. Tanguilig won her first title last month at the W15 in Bonita Springs. Dasha Ivanova is the third American to reach the quarterfinals; she defeated Carla Markus of Argentina 6-7(2), 6-4, 6-0.

Eighteen-year-old Gavin Goode reached his second M15 quarterfinal today in Vero Beach, beating wild card Hunter Heck(Illinois) 6-4, 6-2. Goode, currently 29 in the ITF junior rankings, will face unseeded Liam Krall(SMU) Friday. Krall defeated No. 6 seed Roberto Cid Subervi(USF) 7-6(5), 6-4. Sixteen-year-old wild card Jordan Lee lost to to wild card JJ Wolf(Ohio State) 6-4, 6-2 today. For more on Wolf’s comeback from a serious shoulder injury, see this article from World Tennis Magazine. Wolf faces the only non-American in the quarterfinals, qualifier Joaquim Almeida(VCU, Liberty) of Brazil.

Top seed Alex Rybakov(TCU), No. 4 seed Quinn Vandecasteele(Oregon), No. 5 seed Tristan McCormick(Notre Dame, Georgia) and No. 8 seed Ryan Colby(USC, Georgia) are the other quarterfinalists.

At the W100 in Indian Harbour Beach, No. 2 seed Elvina Kalieva is the only American to reach the quarterfinals. The 22-year-old defeated Anna Rogers(NC State) 6-3, 7-5 in the second round today and will face No. 5 seed Jazmin Ortenzi of Argentina, who beat Ayana Akli(Maryland, South Carolina) 5-7, 6-4, 6-0.

Sixteen-year-old wild card Kristina Liutova advanced to the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Barbora Palicova of Czechia in the featured evening match.

The singles quarterfinals are set at the ITF J200 in College Grove Tennessee with six US girls and seven US boys advancing. Only three seeds remain in the boys draw: No. 3 Izyan Ahmad, No. 6 Jerrid Gaines Jr. and No. 8 Erik Schinnerer.

Four seeds remain in the girls draw: No. 3 Emery Combs and No. 5 Kennedy Drenser-Hagmann, who play each other, and No. 7 Armira Kockinis and No. 4 Carlota Moreno, who also face off Friday. I don’t know if they will double up and play the singles semifinals tomorrow too; after no play on Wednesday due to rain, they are a round behind for the customary Saturday finish.

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