Tennis now | @Tennis_Now | Thursday, May 30, 2024
The NCAA champion has secured a spot in the 2024 US Open.
NCAA Division I Women’s Singles Champion Alexa Noel And won the men’s doubles title. Robert Cash and JJ Tracy You will receive a main draw wildcard for that event at the 2024 US Open.
additionally, Michael Jeong, Players who advance to the men’s singles final will receive a wild card and advance to the finals.
The 2024 US Open will be held for three weeks from August 19 to September 8.
Noel (21; Summit, NJ) beat Georgia. Anastasia LopataShe won the women’s singles final with a score of 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, becoming the third University of Miami player to win the NCAA women’s singles title.
The redshirt junior was the No. 8 seed in the tournament and knocked off the No. 1 player in the semifinals. She will be returning to the U.S. Open for the first time since 2019, when she was the USTA Billie Jean King Girls’ 18s doubles champion, receiving a wildcard in the women’s doubles main draw and qualifying for the U.S. Open Junior Championship.
Cathy (23, New Albany, Ohio) and Tracy (21, Hilton Head, South Carolina) defeated Florida State’s Antoine Cornut-Chauvinc and Joshua Dous of Florida State in the men’s doubles final. -Karpenschif) in a deciding tiebreaker to give Ohio State its second consecutive men’s doubles title. Double the number of national titles.
Cash and Tracy were one of the nation’s best doubles teams all season, helping lead the Buckeyes to a 34-2 record and an appearance in the NCAA Team Championship semifinals.
Jeong (20, Montville, New Jersey) lost in three sets against Alabama’s Philipp Planinsek in the men’s singles final. The Columbia sophomore last competed in the 2022 U.S. Open as a junior.
“The path from college to professional tennis is stronger than ever, and these Wild Cards reflect the USTA’s ongoing commitment to supporting the best American collegiate players at the NCAA Division I level,” said Martin Blackman, GM of Player Development at the USTA. He said.
There are currently six former NCAA singles champions from the United States in the ATP and WTA Top 100: Danielle Collins (Virginia, 2014, 2016), Marcos Giron (UCLA, 2014), Mackenzie McDonald (UCLA, 2016) and Emma Navarro (Virginia, 2021). ), Ben Shelton (Florida, 2022), Payton Stearns (Texas, 2022).
Photo courtesy of Miami Athletics.
