University Update: Doubles Players on the Rise in the NCAA

Canadian girls enjoying doubles within the NCAA have been making their mark over the past month. Within the most-recent rankings that got here out on Mar. 18, 5 now sit within the High 20 together with an all-Canadian pair within the High 10. 

Right here is the month-to-month college tennis replace. 

Cadence Brace and Kayla Cross have firmly established themselves as the highest pair for Louisiana State College, higher often known as LSU. Because the calendar flipped to 2025, they’re 9-1 as a group (with 5 incomplete matches).  

On account of their scorching begin to the season, Brace and Cross, who’re each freshmen at LSU, at present sit at No. 7 within the NCAA girls’s doubles rankings. 

Within the execs, Cross at present leads the Highway to the NBO, placing her within the pole place to attain a main-draw wildcard for the 2025 Nationwide Financial institution Open in Montreal. 

A number of Canadians made large leaps within the girls’s doubles rankings over the past month. 

Jessica Alsola has been on fireplace, profitable seven of her final eight doubles matches and is at present on a six-match profitable streak for the College of California, Berkeley. Consequently, she jumped from No. 47 to No. 12 within the rankings. 

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Teah Chavez additionally made an enormous leap within the doubles rankings over the past month. The Ohio State Buckeye began the month outdoors the High 30 and now sits at No. 15 along with her companion Luciana Perry. The pair are 10-1 collectively since first teaming up in January. Chavez can be undefeated in accomplished singles matches in 2025, an ideal 10-0 (with 4 matches that weren’t accomplished).  

One different Canadian options prominently within the girls’s doubles rankings however didn’t see her rating rise over the past month… as a result of she actually can not climb increased. That’s Melodie Collard of the College of Virginia who, alongside Elaine Chervinsky, is at present the No. 1 doubles participant within the NCAA Division I rankings.  

Collard has had a difficult begin to the yr. In February, she switched companions a few occasions and it didn’t pan out, as she went 1-2 with Karolina Kozkova and Isabelle Lacy. Her 20-match profitable streak with Chervinsky was additionally snapped final week by none aside from her countrywoman Alsola and her companion Mao Mushika. 

Nonetheless, Collard has held on to the highest spot within the rankings. She and Chervinsky have been the No. 1-ranked pair since Feb. 5.  

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

CANADA – Rouge et Or Pulling Away 

A month in the past, the Université Laval Rouge et Or and the Université de Montréal Carabins girls’s groups have been tight on the high of the Quebec College League standings. Now, the Rouge et Or sit comfortably out entrance. 

The 2 colleges met for the primary time this season on Mar. 8 and the Rouge et Or handily gained 5-2 to create some separation within the standings. They then elevated their lead with a 6-1 win over the Carabins every week later. Consequently, Université Laval now sits six factors clear on the high of the desk, having gained all 10 of their matchups with different colleges this season. 

Université de Montréal is tied for second with McGill. 

On the lads’s aspect, the Rouge et Or additionally sit in first place though with only a four-point lead. They’re 11-1 general though their one defeat got here by the hands of the group closest to them within the standings, the Patriotes of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. Nevertheless, the Patriotes are nonetheless 4 factors again general.  

The Quebec championships are going down this weekend.