NCAA Replace: Season Wraps Up with Particular person Championships

The NCAA season has ended following the conclusion of the person championships on the finish of Might. 

Ten Canadians had been competing throughout the 4 competitions: males’s singles, girls’s singles, males’s doubles, and ladies’s doubles. Solely a kind of ten was competing in each singles and doubles.  

Annabelle Xu, who attends the College of Virginia, had the deepest run of any Canadian within the singles, reaching the third spherical. 

Xu upset Sofia Cabezas within the first spherical in straight units and adopted it up with one other straight-set win over Victoria Allen. Her run got here to an finish within the final sixteen by the hands of prime seed Mary Stoiana of nationwide girls’s workforce champions Texas A&M, additionally the doubles companion Canadian Mia Kupres. 

Kupres herself misplaced within the second spherical to sixth seed Connie Ma of Stanford in straight units. 

Bianca Jolie Fernandez of UCLA was the third Canadian competing within the girls’s singles and misplaced within the first spherical. 

On the boys’s aspect, each Taha Baadi of Kentucky and Justin Boulais of Ohio State gained their opening matches in straight units however had been eradicated in spherical two. Baadi misplaced to No. 5 seed Micah Brasell of Texas, whereas Boulais fell by the hands of Nishesh Basavareddy of Stanford. 

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Alvin Tudorica, the third Canadian man competing in singles, misplaced in spherical one. 

Canadians had a bit extra success within the doubles, with Cleeve Harper and Kupres each making it to the late rounds. 

Harper, who gained the nationwide doubles title in 2022 and reached the ultimate in 2023 for Texas, had the most effective run on the NCAA championships of any Canadian, reaching the semifinals of the boys’s doubles with Eliot Spizzirri. 

Their run started by surviving a match tiebreak 10-8 however they didn’t drop one other set till the ultimate 4, the place they had been crushed by Antoine Cornut-Chauvinc and Joshua Dous Karpenschif of Florida State. 

Kupres was the highest-seeded Canadian lady on the NCAA championships, coming in at No. 4 with Stoiana for Texas A&M. 

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They needed to battle in every of their first two matches, coming by means of in match tiebreaks. Within the quarter-finals, they had been upset by Sofia Cabezas and Elza Tomase of Tennessee 6-3, 6-2.  

Cabezas and Tomase had been a thorn within the aspect of the Canadians within the occasion. Kupres was their second sufferer, because the Tennessee pair had taken out Melodie Collard and her companion Elaine Chervinsky of Virginia within the first spherical. 

Ariana Arseneault was competing within the doubles for Auburn with DJ Bennett. They misplaced within the second spherical to the top-seeded pair from Pepperdine, Savannah Broadus and Janice Tjen. 

Lastly, Joshua Lapadat was the highest-seeded Canadian in any draw on the NCAA championships, as he and companion JJ Mercer had been seeded third for Kentucky. Nevertheless, they had been upset within the first spherical in two tiebreaks by Petar Jovanovic and Benito Sanchez Martinez, Mississippi State. 

Ultimate Rankings 

After her sensational efficiency within the nationwide workforce championships, Carson Branstine snuck as much as end the 2023-24 season as the highest Canadian lady within the singles rankings, slipping previous Mia Kupres to complete at No. 41, two spots forward of her Texas A&M teammate. 

Kupres did end as the highest Canadian within the doubles. Her No. 3 rating was the very best by a Canadian throughout all 4 disciplines. 

Taha Baadi pulled away within the last months after battling with Justin Boulais to be the highest Canadian man, ending at No. 23 within the singles rankings. Boulais ended his season at No. 32. 

Joshua Lapadat was the highest Canadian man in doubles, ending at No. 5. 

Ariana Arseneault (11), Cleeve Harper (13), and Melodie Collard (14) had been the opposite Canadians who completed the 12 months ranked contained in the Prime 20 of their respective disciplines, all in doubles. 

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