By Tennis Now | @Tennis_Now | Thursday, Could 30, 2024
NCAA champions have secured spots within the 2024 US Open.
NCAA Division I girls’s singles champion Alexa Noel and males’s doubles champions Robert Money and JJ Tracy will obtain main-draw wild playing cards into these respective occasions on the 2024 US Open.
Moreover, Michael Zheng, who reached the boys’s singles closing, will obtain a wild card into qualifying.
The 2024 US Open can be held over three weeks from August 19 via September 8.
Noel (21; Summit, N.J.) defeated Georgia’s Anastasiia Lopata, 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, within the girls’s singles closing to develop into the third College of Miami participant to win the NCAA girls’s singles title.
The redshirt junior was the event’s No. 8 seed and knocked off the No 1-ranked participant within the semifinals. She’ll be returning to the US Open for the primary time since 2019 when she obtained a wild card into the ladies’s doubles principal draw because the USTA Billie Jean King Ladies’ 18s doubles champion and competed within the US Open Junior Championships.
Money (23; New Albany, Ohio) and Tracy (21; Hilton Head, S.C.) defeated Florida State’s Antoine Cornut-Chauvinc and Joshua Dous-Karpenschif within the males’s doubles closing, successful the decisive match tiebreak to present Ohio State its second consecutive males’s doubles nationwide title.
Money and Tracy have been one of many top-ranked doubles groups within the nation all through the season, and helped lead the Buckeyes to a 34-2 file and an look within the semifinals of the NCAA workforce championships.
Zheng (20; Montville, N.J.) fell within the males’s singles closing towards Alabama’s Filip Planinsek in three units. The Columbia sophomore final competed on the US Open in 2022 as a junior.
“The pathway from school to skilled tennis is as sturdy as ever, and these wild playing cards replicate the USTA’s continued dedication to supporting our top-performing American collegians on the NCAA Division I degree,” stated USTA Participant Improvement GM Martin Blackman.
At the moment there are six American former NCAA singles champions ranked within the ATP and WTA High 100: Danielle Collins (Virginia; 2014, 2016), Marcos Giron (UCLA; 2014), Mackenzie McDonald (UCLA; 2016), Emma Navarro (Virginia, 2021), Ben Shelton (Florida; 2022), and Peyton Stearns (Texas; 2022).
Photograph credit score: Miami Athletics
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