As many of you have probably noticed over the past few years, college tennis has been on the rise! More and more young tennis players, both boys and girls, choose to go down the college route in order to prepare their professional careers. While there are several reasons for this recent development, there are some very obvious reasons for the increase in the number of professionals choosing this path. The level of competition, the coaching, the facilities, and everything that comes with the overall college experience, have proven to be tough to beat. This has lead to the fact that you find more and more former college tennis players among the top 100 of the ATP and WTA rankings. In this year’s Championships at Wimbledon, a new record was actually broken with a total of 35 former college players making it into the main draws, 26 on the men’s and 9 on the women’s side. On top of that, dozens more are participating in the doubles and mixed doubles tournaments, so it is definitely tough to deny that the college tennis route is working! Anyways, here is a full list of those who made it into the tournament at Wimbledon this year:
Men’s Players:
- Ben Shelton (ATP #10, University of Florida)
- Francisco Cerundolo (ATP #16, University of South Carolina)
- Brandon Nakashima (ATP #29, University of Virginia)
- Nuno Borges (ATP #37, Mississippi State)
- Gabriel Diallo (ATP #41, University of Kentucky)
- Marcos Giron (ATP #48, UCLA)
- Jacob Fearnley (ATP #51, Texas Christian University)
- Cameron Norrie (ATP #61, Texas Christian University)
- Learner Tien (ATP #67, University of Southern California)
- Arthur Rinderknech (ATP #70, Texas A&M University)
- Aleksander Kovacevic (ATP #77, University of Illinois)
- Aleksander Vukic (ATP #80, University of Illinois)
- Ricky Hijikata (ATP #88, University of North Carolina)
- Adam Walton (ATP #86, University of Tennessee)
- Mackenzie McDonald (ATP #90, UCLA)
- Ethan Quinn (ATP #95, University of Georgia)
- Nishesh Basavareddy (ATP #99, Stanford)
- Brandon Holt (ATP #101, University of Southern California)
- Christopher Eubanks (ATP #131, Georgia Tech)
- Chris Rodesch (ATP #163, University of Virginia)
- August Holmgren (ATP #195, University of San Diego)
- Johannus Monday (ATP #236, University of Tennessee)
- Oliver Crawford (ATP #252, University of Florida)
- Jack Pinnington (ATP #282, Texas Christian University)
- Arthur Fery (ATP #465, Stanford)
- Oliver Tarvet (ATP #719, University of San Diego)
Women’s Players:
- Emma Navarro (WTA #10, University of Virginia)
- Diana Shnaider (WTA #12, North Carolina State University)
- McCartney Kessler (WTA #32, University of Florida)
- Peyton Stearns (WTA #35, University of Texas)
- Lulu Sun (WTA #46, University of Texas)
- Danielle Collins (WTA #52, University of Virginia)
- Yuliia Starodubtseva (WTA #67, Old Dominion University)
- Mayar Sherif (WTA #86, Fresno State & Pepperdine)
- Carson Branstine (WTA #197, Texas A&M University)