NCAA Year-in-Review: Canadians Deliver at the Highest Levels in 2024

The NCAA is a bit totally different from different tennis circuits. Whereas the professionals, masters, wheelchair, and junior excursions are all wrapping up for the 12 months, the American collegiate system is in additional of a mid-season break because it follows the tutorial 12 months somewhat than the calendar 12 months. 

Nonetheless, as the ultimate weeks of 2024 tick away, it’s a good time to look again on the final twelve months of outcomes from Canadians enjoying within the NCAA tennis system. 

Let’s meet up with the most recent information from Canadians competing within the NCAA.        

The head of the success on the NCAA stage is the Division I nationwide championships and Canadians made their mark in 2024. 

In Might on the nationwide group championships, each successful groups featured Canadian gamers. 

Texas A&M relied closely on their two Canadians, Mia Kupres and Carson Branstine to say the ladies’s nationwide title. Kupres was the top-ranked Canadian for a lot of the primary half of the 12 months and commonly performed within the No. 1 doubles spot for the Aggies, whereas Branstine rejoined the group late within the season however was a pressure to be reckoned with, going 5-1 in singles down the stretch. 

Their college gained the ladies’s occasion, defeating Georgia 4-1 within the last. Branstine scored the opening level of the ultimate for Texas A&M within the doubles. 

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On the boys’s aspect, by the point the ultimate rolled round it was assured {that a} Canadian would raise the trophy. It was Duncan Chan and TCU claiming the nationwide title, defeating Cleeve Harper’s College of Texas. Chan and Harper truly confronted off within the No. 3 doubles match within the last, however the match was deserted. 

CLICK HERE to learn the total recap of the NCAA nationwide group championships.   

On the finish of the 2023-24 season, six Canadians have been named Division I All-People. 

Annabelle Xu, Virginia (singles and doubles) 

Mélodie Collard, Virginia (doubles) 

Cleeve Harper, Texas (doubles) 

Jared Horwood, Arkansas (doubles) 

Mia Kupres, Texas A&M (doubles) 

Joshua Lapadat, Kentucky (doubles) 

Canada didn’t have a lot success on the summer time particular person championships, with Harper’s semifinal run in doubles being the perfect exhibiting, however one Canadian ended the 12 months in fashion. 

Mélodie Collard of the College of Virginia obtained off to an outstanding begin to the brand new educational 12 months within the fall, going 17-1 in doubles from September by means of November. That run included a doubles titles on the Atlantic Regional Championships adopted by a nationwide title on the DI Nationwide Championships in November alongside Elaine Chervinsky. 

CLICK HERE to succeed in the total recap of the autumn DI Particular person Tennis Championships. 

12 months-Finish Rankings 

On account of her victory on the NCAA DI championships, Collard holds the very best rating of any Canadian in any self-discipline within the last batch of 2024 rankings that have been launched at the start of December. Collard will head into the brand new 12 months because the No. 2 girls’s doubles participant within the nation and is on a 13-match successful streak. 

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Ladies’s doubles is Canada’s strongest self-discipline, with seven girls holding rankings together with three within the Prime 30. Jessica Alsola of the College of California is available in at No. 24 and Collard’s fellow Virginia Cavalier Annabelle Xu is No. 27. 

The College of Washington’s all-Canadian pair of Reece Carter and Alexia Jacobs are available at No. 37. In a humorous coincidence, two Canadians from totally different colleges, Anna-Raphaelle Serghi of Harvard and Diana Craciun of Alabama State, are tied at No. 117. 

Xu is the highest Canadian in singles, feminine or male, at No. 32. Collard and Carter are the one two Canadian girls to seem in each the singles and doubles rankings. Collard is No. 59 in singles whereas Carter is No. 121. 

On the boys’s aspect, freshman Jaden Weekes, who’s following within the footsteps of many fellow Canadians together with Gabriel Diallo and Liam Draxl to play on the College of Kentucky, is the highest Canadian in singles at No 39. He and Duncan Chan (No. 74) of TCU are the one Canadian males within the singles rankings, with Chan being the lone Canadian man to carry each a singles and doubles rating. He’s No. 50 in doubles. 

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Whereas group rankings haven’t been launched for the reason that finish of August, Chan’s TCU will go into the brand new 12 months because the No. 1 group within the males’s rankings. 

Christophe Clément has the very best rating by a Canadian man, coming in at No. 19 within the doubles. 

Click on right here to view all of the Canadian rankings within the NCAA.    

For extra detailed info on Canadian NCAA tennis leads to 2024, try the month-to-month updates (Brackets point out main occasions lined that month):