2019 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships explained

The 2019 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships were men's and women's tennis tournaments played concurrently from May 3 to May 25, 2019, at campus sites and at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Florida.^[1] The events marked the 74th edition of the NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championship^[2] and the 38th edition of the NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championship.^[3]

The University of Texas won its first men's tennis national title with a 4–1 victory in the final over Wake Forest, the defending champion. Stanford University captured its record 20th women's tennis championship, shutting out top seed Georgia.

Paul Jubb of South Carolina and Estela Pérez-Somarriba of Miami (Florida) were crowned men's and women's singles champions. UCLA won both the men's and women's doubles titles - Maxime Cressy and Keegan Smith in the men's, and Gabby Andrews and Ayan Broomfield in the women's. It was the first time since 1988 that a school swept the NCAA doubles championships.^[4]

Men's Team Championship

National seeds

1. Ohio State (quarterfinals)
2. Texas (National Champions)
3. Florida (semifinals)
4. Wake Forest (finalists)5. Virginia (quarterfinals)
6. Baylor (quarterfinals)
7. Mississippi State (third round)
8. USC (third round) 9. North Carolina (semifinals)
10. TCU (quarterfinals)
11. UCLA (third round)
12. Stanford (third round)
13. Texas A&M (second round)
14. Tennessee (third round)
15. Illinois (second round)
16. Columbia (third round)

Bracket

Women's Team Championship

National seeds

1. Georgia (finalists)
2. North Carolina (semifinals)
3. Stanford (National Champions)
4. South Carolina (quarterfinals)5. Duke (semifinals)
6. Pepperdine (quarterfinals)
7. UCLA (quarterfinals)
8. Vanderbilt (quarterfinals) 9. Texas (second round)
10. Washington (third round)
11. Florida State (second round)
12. NC State (third round)
13. USC (third round)
14. Kansas (third round)
15. Oklahoma State (third round)
16. Michigan (third round)

Bracket

Men's Singles Championship

Entering the championship, Nuno Borges of Mississippi State had not lost a single match throughout the spring season, with a perfect 25–0 record at the No. 1 singles position.^[5] The senior advanced to the final without dropping a set.

South Carolina's Paul Jubb, seeded fourth, upset top-seeded Borges in the championship, 6–3, 7–6. Borges had defeated Jubb twice in the regular season.^[6] Jubb became the first national collegiate tennis champion representing South Carolina, and the first British man to win the NCAA men's singles championship.^[7]

National seeds

1. Nuno Borges, Mississippi State
2. J. J. Wolf, Ohio State
3. Alex Rybakov, TCU
4. Paul Jubb, South Carolina (National Champion)
5. Brandon Holt, USC
6. Christian Sigsgaard, Texas
7. Aleksandar Kovacevic, Illinois
8. Oliver Crawford, Florida

Players ranked 9th–16th, listed by last name

• Alberto Barroso-Campos, South Florida
• William Blumberg, North Carolina
• Maxime Cressy, UCLA
• Yuya Ito, Texas
• Nicolas Moreno de Alboran, UC Santa Barbara
• Johannes Schretter, Baylor

Notes

Draw

Section 4

Women's Singles Championship

The women's singles tournament got off to an auspicious start with the third, fourth, and fifth seeds all losing in the first round. The quarterfinals featured six unseeded players, two of which - Duke's Kelly Chen and North Carolina's Cameron Morra (only a freshman at the time) - reached the semifinals. Three of the four semifinalists represented ACC schools.

Estela Pérez-Somarriba of Miami, the nation's top-ranked player entering the tournament, dropped only two sets (including the first set in the championship) en route to winning the title. She became the second Miami woman to be crowned national champion, after Audra Cohen in 2007.^[8] Finalist Katarina Jokic was the fifth woman from Georgia to reach the NCAA final and first since 2010.^[9]

Seeds

1. Estela Perez-Somarriba, Miami (FL) (National Champion)
2. Katarina Jokic, Georgia
3. Kate Fahey, Michigan
4. Ingrid Gamarra Martins, South Carolina
5. Makenna Jones, North Carolina
6. Fernanda Contreras, Vanderbilt
7. Alexa Graham, North Carolina
8. Sophie Whittle, Gonzaga

Players ranked 9th–16th, listed by last name

• Paige Cline, South Carolina
• Marta Gonzalez, Georgia
• Gabriela Knutson, Syracuse
• Maria Mateas, Duke
• Eden Richardson, LSU
• Anna Rogers, NC State
• Christina Rosca, Vanderbilt
• Anastasia Rychagova, Kansas

Notes

Draw

Section 4

Men's Doubles Championship

Seeds

1. Jimmy Bendeck / Sven Lah, Baylor
2. Maxime Cressy / Keegan Smith, UCLA (National Champions)
3. Nuno Borges / Strahinja Rakic, Mississippi State
4. Oli Nolan / Henry Patten, UNC Asheville

Players ranked 5th–8th, listed by institution

• Timo Stodder / Preston Touliatos, Tennessee
• Harrison Scott / Christian Sigsgaard, Texas
• Juan Aguilar / Barnaby Smith, Texas A&M

Draw

Bottom half

Women's Doubles Championship

Seeds

1. Angela Kulikov / Rianna Valdes, USC
2. Jessie Aney / Alexa Graham, North Carolina
3. Gabby Andrews / Ayan Broomfield, UCLA (National Champions)
4. Ingrid Gamarra Martins / Mia Horvit, South Carolina

Players ranked 5th–8th, listed by institution

• Nina Khmelnitckaia / Janet Koch, Kansas
• Anna Rogers / Alana Smith, NC State
• Makenna Jones / Cameron Morra, North Carolina

Draw

Bottom half

Notes and References

1. Web site: NCAA Championships At the National Campus. ustanationalcampus.com. May 4, 2021.
2. Web site: List of NCAA Men's Tennis Champions. May 4, 2021. Ncaa.com.
3. Web site: List of NCAA Women's Tennis Champions. May 4, 2021. Ncaa.com.
4. Web site: Knight. Bobby. May 26, 2019. NCAA Singles & Doubles Finals Recap: Jubb & Perez-Somarriba Win Singles Titles; UCLA Sweeps Doubles Titles. live. January 15, 2022. College Tennis Today. en-US. https://web.archive.org/web/20200803153635/https://www.collegetennistoday.com/2019/05/26/ncaa-singles-doubles-finals-recap-jubb-perez-somarriba-win-singles-titles-ucla-sweeps-doubles-titles/ . 2020-08-03 .
5. Web site: August 21, 2019. 2019 ITA Division I National Player of the Year Nuno Borges to be Honored This Weekend in New York. live. January 15, 2022. ITA. en-US. https://web.archive.org/web/20210426193650/https://www.wearecollegetennis.com/2019/08/21/2019-ita-division-i-national-player-of-the-year-nuno-borges-to-be-honored-this-weekend-in-new-york/ . 2021-04-26 .
6. Web site: Sanford. Jordaan. June 27, 2019. Five things to know about NCAA champion Paul Jubb. live. January 15, 2022. Tennis.com. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20220115204653/https://www.tennis.com/baseline/articles/five-things-to-know-about-ncaa-champion-paul-jubb . 2022-01-15 .
7. Web site: May 14, 2020. Rather than dwell on tragedy, diamond in the rough Paul Jubb persisted. live. January 15, 2022. Tennis.com. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20220115204902/https://www.tennis.com/news/articles/rather-than-dwell-on-tragedy-diamond-in-the-rough-paul-jubb-persisted . 2022-01-15 .
8. Web site: Knight. Bobby. May 26, 2019. NCAA Singles & Doubles Finals Recap: Jubb & Perez-Somarriba Win Singles Titles; UCLA Sweeps Doubles Titles. live. January 15, 2022. College Tennis Today. en-US. https://web.archive.org/web/20200803153635/https://www.collegetennistoday.com/2019/05/26/ncaa-singles-doubles-finals-recap-jubb-perez-somarriba-win-singles-titles-ucla-sweeps-doubles-titles/ . 2020-08-03 .
9. Web site: Knight. Bobby. May 25, 2019. NCAA Singles & Doubles Semifinals Recap: Borges and Jubb in Men's Singles Final; Perez-Somarriba and Jokic in Women's Singles Final; UCLA Will Have a Chance to Sweep Doubles. live. January 15, 2022. College Tennis Today. en-US. https://web.archive.org/web/20200811045558/https://www.collegetennistoday.com/2019/05/25/ncaa-singles-doubles-semifinals-recap-borges-and-jubb-in-mens-singles-final-perez-somarriba-and-jokic-in-womens-singles-final-ucla-will-have-a-chance-to-sweep-doubles/ . 2020-08-11 .