11-06-2019, 09:23 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-06-2019, 10:37 AM by ColoradoTree.)
Well, the draws are out, and that klaxon you hear is me sounding the alarm over UCLA. The top three seeds in this tournament are Bruins. The top three! And that's on top of having three doubles teams in this field as well. Goodness gracious. The tennis world apparently believes that Bolton took quite a jump, because she was #16 in the preseason rankings, because her fall so far (just 3-1, all at ITA All-Americans in early October) certainly doesn't warrant the jump to the #1 seed. Here are the seeds in singles, and then the match schedules for Stanford players in singles and doubles:
Singles Seeds
1. Elysia Bolton (So., UCLA, preseason #16)
2. Abigail Forbes (Fr., UCLA, #4 newcomer)
3. Jada Hart (Sr., UCLA, #9)
4. Alexa Graham (Sr., UNC, #4)
5. Estela Perez-Somarriba (Sr., Miami, #2)
6. Anna Turati (Sr., Texas, #17)
7. Shiori Fukuda (Sr., Ohio State, #79)
8. Sara Daavettila (Sr., UNC, #7)
9. McCartney Kessler (Jr., Florida, #23)
10. Georgia Drummy (So., Vanderbilt, #35)
11. Kelly Chen (Jr., Duke, #5)
12. Cameron Morra (So., UNC, #12)
13. Adriana Reami (Sr., N.C. State, #84)
14. Michaela Gordon (Jr., Stanford, #6)
15. Mia Horvit (Sr., South Carolina, #49)
16. Bunyawi Thamchaiwat (So., Oklahoma State, #67)
I am interested to see how well the seeds hold--there is always politics involved in setting tournament draws, but I don't see the rationale for having all three Bruins at the top, or moving Fukuda to the 7 seed based on her fall (which was pretty good, but she lost to the three best players she faced, and didn't beat anyone ranked better than #39), or having Reami as the #13 seed (8-4 fall record, just one impressive win)....
Match Schedule
9:30am: #60 Shin vs. Justine Leong (Claremont McKenna)
2:30pm: [14] Gordon vs. #71 Chiara Tomasetti (Northern Arizona)
6:30pm: Arbuthnott/Blake vs. #3 Jones/Morra (UNC, somehow unseeded)
One feature of this tournament is that while it's mostly populated with top DI players, there is one player each from DII, DIII, NAIA, and JUCO. Justine Leong is a freshman at Claremont McKenna, and earned her spot here by winning the DIII ITA Cup a couple of weeks ago. So, one would expect her to be outmatched by Shin, but one never knows. For her part, Gordon gets a crafty player in Tomasetti, who has had her way with the Mountain Regional for a few years now. She's a dangerous player who doesn't get many chances against top players in that region and her conference, and if she's on, she can absolutely beat Michaela.
If Gordon beats Tomasetti, she'll likely get a rematch against Cal's Haley Giavara, who plays Kentucky's Lesedi Jacobs. If she wins that, she'd be in line to play UNC's Alexa Graham, seeded and ranked #4. Last year, Gordon played Graham at ITA All-Americans, and lost 0-6, 6-3, 6-3. Of course, Graham mostly played #2 for UNC last year behind Makenna Jones, and Gordon beat Jones in three sets in the NCAA semis and then beat Jones again (this time handily, 6-2, 6-1) in the first round of NCAA singles play.
If Shin wins, she'll get a chance to beat 3-seeded Jada Hart of UCLA, who would easily be the highest-ranked win of Shin's collegiate career.
You can see live scoring here: http://scores.tennisticker.de/usa/ita/sb...urnid=4483
And live streaming is supposed to be available here: https://livestream.com/tempuztennis/events/8883800
Courts are wet, so everything is pushed back at least a couple of hours. No women's matches have started yet, and the first ones were scheduled for 8am, so the time those get started should give us a better sense of when the later ones will start. But for now, probably safe to assume Shin won't play until 11:30am, Gordon won't play until 4:30, and Arbuthnott/Blake will play under the lights at 8:30.
Singles Seeds
1. Elysia Bolton (So., UCLA, preseason #16)
2. Abigail Forbes (Fr., UCLA, #4 newcomer)
3. Jada Hart (Sr., UCLA, #9)
4. Alexa Graham (Sr., UNC, #4)
5. Estela Perez-Somarriba (Sr., Miami, #2)
6. Anna Turati (Sr., Texas, #17)
7. Shiori Fukuda (Sr., Ohio State, #79)
8. Sara Daavettila (Sr., UNC, #7)
9. McCartney Kessler (Jr., Florida, #23)
10. Georgia Drummy (So., Vanderbilt, #35)
11. Kelly Chen (Jr., Duke, #5)
12. Cameron Morra (So., UNC, #12)
13. Adriana Reami (Sr., N.C. State, #84)
14. Michaela Gordon (Jr., Stanford, #6)
15. Mia Horvit (Sr., South Carolina, #49)
16. Bunyawi Thamchaiwat (So., Oklahoma State, #67)
I am interested to see how well the seeds hold--there is always politics involved in setting tournament draws, but I don't see the rationale for having all three Bruins at the top, or moving Fukuda to the 7 seed based on her fall (which was pretty good, but she lost to the three best players she faced, and didn't beat anyone ranked better than #39), or having Reami as the #13 seed (8-4 fall record, just one impressive win)....
Match Schedule
9:30am: #60 Shin vs. Justine Leong (Claremont McKenna)
2:30pm: [14] Gordon vs. #71 Chiara Tomasetti (Northern Arizona)
6:30pm: Arbuthnott/Blake vs. #3 Jones/Morra (UNC, somehow unseeded)
One feature of this tournament is that while it's mostly populated with top DI players, there is one player each from DII, DIII, NAIA, and JUCO. Justine Leong is a freshman at Claremont McKenna, and earned her spot here by winning the DIII ITA Cup a couple of weeks ago. So, one would expect her to be outmatched by Shin, but one never knows. For her part, Gordon gets a crafty player in Tomasetti, who has had her way with the Mountain Regional for a few years now. She's a dangerous player who doesn't get many chances against top players in that region and her conference, and if she's on, she can absolutely beat Michaela.
If Gordon beats Tomasetti, she'll likely get a rematch against Cal's Haley Giavara, who plays Kentucky's Lesedi Jacobs. If she wins that, she'd be in line to play UNC's Alexa Graham, seeded and ranked #4. Last year, Gordon played Graham at ITA All-Americans, and lost 0-6, 6-3, 6-3. Of course, Graham mostly played #2 for UNC last year behind Makenna Jones, and Gordon beat Jones in three sets in the NCAA semis and then beat Jones again (this time handily, 6-2, 6-1) in the first round of NCAA singles play.
If Shin wins, she'll get a chance to beat 3-seeded Jada Hart of UCLA, who would easily be the highest-ranked win of Shin's collegiate career.
You can see live scoring here: http://scores.tennisticker.de/usa/ita/sb...urnid=4483
And live streaming is supposed to be available here: https://livestream.com/tempuztennis/events/8883800
Courts are wet, so everything is pushed back at least a couple of hours. No women's matches have started yet, and the first ones were scheduled for 8am, so the time those get started should give us a better sense of when the later ones will start. But for now, probably safe to assume Shin won't play until 11:30am, Gordon won't play until 4:30, and Arbuthnott/Blake will play under the lights at 8:30.