03-31-2025, 10:26 AM
It's been a few weeks, so here's a quick update:
* Stanford is ranked #28 with an 11-4 record. Two of those losses were to #8 Auburn and #7 Tennessee at National Indoors, and the other two were to #17 Cal and #5 UVA
* We have as good a top two as anyone, with Glozman ranked #6 and Ma ranked #17, but our only other ranked singles player is #79 Xu. (For reference, Eleana Yu is ranked #41 right now.)
* Unsurprisingly, Glozman and Ma have led the way in singles, going 12-3 and 12-0 in dual matches, respectively.
* Caroline Driscoll has been terrific for us, going 10-2 in duals.
* The previously- and again-injured Katherine Hui went 2-2 in duals at #3 before seemingly being done for the season again. We'll see.
* The rest of our singles lineup has been middling, with Xu going 9-6, Okpara at 7-6, Sun at 3-1, and Shaffer at 2-6.
* In doubles, Glozman/Ma has been very good at #1, going 12-4, but it falls off after that, with Driscoll/Xu going 7-3 at #2 and what appears to be the settled third pair of Okpara/Shaffer going 3-2.
All in all, we're a top-heavy team that has nowhere near the depth we usually do. With a healthy Yepifanova and Hui pushing Xu and Driscoll to 5 and 6, we've potentially got something, but right now, this is not a team that has the goods to go on a postseason run. Xu is playing way too high in the lineup and it shows. Shaffer has been pressed into service far more than a walk-on ever should, and she's leapfrogged Emma Sun as well.
Eleana Yu would be playing #3 on this team if last year's roster management had gone better. We still wouldn't have the depth to be a top team with Hui and Yepifanova out, but we'd be much more formidable. (I continue to assert, without any real knowledge, that if Yu had reliably played #6 last season over Xu, she would've stuck around, but then again, she could've looked up the lineup and realized she'd probably be stuck at #6 again with Glozman swapping in for Blake and everyone else coming back. I assume she didn't know then that Blokhina was likely to leave for the pros.)
* Stanford is ranked #28 with an 11-4 record. Two of those losses were to #8 Auburn and #7 Tennessee at National Indoors, and the other two were to #17 Cal and #5 UVA
* We have as good a top two as anyone, with Glozman ranked #6 and Ma ranked #17, but our only other ranked singles player is #79 Xu. (For reference, Eleana Yu is ranked #41 right now.)
* Unsurprisingly, Glozman and Ma have led the way in singles, going 12-3 and 12-0 in dual matches, respectively.
* Caroline Driscoll has been terrific for us, going 10-2 in duals.
* The previously- and again-injured Katherine Hui went 2-2 in duals at #3 before seemingly being done for the season again. We'll see.
* The rest of our singles lineup has been middling, with Xu going 9-6, Okpara at 7-6, Sun at 3-1, and Shaffer at 2-6.
* In doubles, Glozman/Ma has been very good at #1, going 12-4, but it falls off after that, with Driscoll/Xu going 7-3 at #2 and what appears to be the settled third pair of Okpara/Shaffer going 3-2.
All in all, we're a top-heavy team that has nowhere near the depth we usually do. With a healthy Yepifanova and Hui pushing Xu and Driscoll to 5 and 6, we've potentially got something, but right now, this is not a team that has the goods to go on a postseason run. Xu is playing way too high in the lineup and it shows. Shaffer has been pressed into service far more than a walk-on ever should, and she's leapfrogged Emma Sun as well.
Eleana Yu would be playing #3 on this team if last year's roster management had gone better. We still wouldn't have the depth to be a top team with Hui and Yepifanova out, but we'd be much more formidable. (I continue to assert, without any real knowledge, that if Yu had reliably played #6 last season over Xu, she would've stuck around, but then again, she could've looked up the lineup and realized she'd probably be stuck at #6 again with Glozman swapping in for Blake and everyone else coming back. I assume she didn't know then that Blokhina was likely to leave for the pros.)