Ahead of the start of the Fall season, the ITA Division I Women’s Preseason Singles Rankings were released on Tuesday. Defending NCAA singles champion Emma Navarro nabbed the top spot. The Virginia sophomore spent the summer playing on the USTA Collegiate Team and most recently competed in the 2021 US Open. She fell in her opening round match to Christina McHale (WTA 119).
Navarro is joined in the top five by fellow sophomore Janice Tjen. No. 3 Tjen transferred over the summer to play at Pepperdine. Her standout freshman campaign at Oregon saw her reach the semifinals of the NCAA tournament and become only the third woman in program history to be named an ITA Singles All-American.
The rest of the top five is made up of upperclassmen. UCLA’s Abigail Forbes leads the pack at No. 2. Forbes reached the quarterfinals of the NCAA Singles tournament and finished ranked No. 4 on the season. Florida grad student McCartney Kessler checks in at No. 4 in the preseason rankings. Kessler led the Gators at the top of the lineup last season and finished with a 14-2 dual match record. She was named an ITA Singles All-American for the first time in her career. Duke senior Georgia Drummy rounds out the top five. Drummy finished last season with a 18-3 dual match record and a 9-2 record against ranked opponents.
The ITA Division I Women’s Preseason Doubles Rankings and ITA Division I Women’s Newcomers were also released Tuesday.
ITA Division I Women’s Rankings
Top 125 Preseason National Singles
Administered by the ITA
September 7, 2021
Rank | Player | Team |
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1 | Emma Navarro | Virginia |
2 | Abigail Forbes | UCLA |
3 | Janice Tjen | Pepperdine |
4 | McCartney Kessler | Florida |
5 | Georgia Drummy | Duke |
6 | Peyton Stearns | University of Texas |
7 | Irina Cantos | Ohio State |
8 | Natasha Subhash | Virginia |
9 | Bunyawi Thamchaiwat | San Diego State |
10 | Tatiana Makarova | Texas A&M University |
11 | Viktoryia Kanapatskaya | Syracuse |
12 | Alexa Noel | Iowa |
13 | Victoria Flores | Pepperdine |
14 | Vanessa Wong | University of Washington |
15 | Meg Kowalski | Georgia |
16 | Isabella Pfennig | Miami |
17 | Haley Giavara | California |
18 | Salma Ewing | University of Southern California |
19 | Lea Ma | Georgia |
20 | Valeriya Zeleva | UCF |
21 | Carolyn Campana | Wake Forest University |
22 | Emma Antonaki | Mississippi State |
23 | Alana Smith | NC State University |
24 | Michaela Gordon | Stanford |
25 | Kelly Chen | Duke |
26 | Indianna Spink | Arkansas |
27 | Sabina Machalova | Ole Miss |
28 | Chloe Beck | Duke |
29 | Ayana Akli | University of South Carolina |
30 | Solymar Colling | University of San Diego |
31 | Kari Miller | University of Michigan |
32 | Cameron Morra | North Carolina |
33 | Selin Ovunc | Auburn University |
34 | Bronte Murgett | University of Missouri |
35 | Fiona Crawley | North Carolina |
36 | Yuliia Starodubtseva | Old Dominion |
37 | Melany Krywoj | Baylor University |
38 | Thasaporn Naklo | Iowa State University |
39 | Carmen Corley | University of Oklahoma |
40 | Alana Wolfberg | Oklahoma State |
41 | Carly Briggs | Florida |
42 | Dana Guzman | University of Oklahoma |
43 | Taylor Bridges | LSU |
44 | Taisiya Pachkaleva | Pepperdine |
45 | Carolyn Ansari | Auburn University |
46 | Charlotte Chavatipon | University of Texas |
47 | Michaela Bayerlova | Washington State University |
48 | Abigail Rencheli | NC State University |
49 | Sophie Abrams | NC State University |
50 | Megan Davies | University of South Carolina |
51 | Shakhnoza Khatamova | UCSB |
52 | Anna Campana | Wake Forest University |
53 | Lisa Zaar | Pepperdine |
54 | Alisa Soloveva | TCU |
55 | Rebeka Mertena | Tennessee |
56 | Eryn Cayetano | University of Southern California |
57 | Mariia Kozyreva | Saint Mary’s College of California |
58 | Isabella Harvison | Baylor University |
59 | Shiori Fukuda | Pepperdine |
60 | Ivana Corley | University of Oklahoma |
61 | Sedona Gallagher | Arizona State University |
62 | Anna Brylin | Wake Forest University |
63 | Margarita Skriabina | Texas Tech |
64 | Marlee Zein | Florida |
65 | Ava Hrastar | Georgia Tech |
66 | Morgan Coppoc | Georgia |
67 | Kylie Collins | University of Texas |
68 | Malkia Ngounoue | Kansas |
69 | Tiphanie Fiquet | Ole Miss |
70 | Federica Trevisan | Rice University |
71 | Lesedi Jacobs | Florida State |
72 | Eleni Louka | Clemson University |
73 | Sara Nayar | NC State University |
74 | Laia Conde Monfort | University of Tulsa |
75 | Mercedes Aristegui | TCU |
76 | Marina Alcaide | Old Dominion |
77 | Tatsiana Sasnouskaya | Old Dominion |
78 | Anika Yarlagadda | North Carolina |
79 | Paola Exposito Diaz Delgado | Virginia Commonwealth University |
80 | Evgeniya Levashova | UCF |
81 | Naomi Cheong | University of Southern California |
82 | Elizabeth Scotty | North Carolina |
83 | Jenna Thompson | Clemson University |
84 | Emma Shelton | Florida |
85 | Gina Dittmann | Northern Arizona University |
86 | Ruxi Schech | Charlotte |
87 | Angelica Blake | Stanford |
88 | Reilly Tran | North Carolina |
89 | Jackie Nylander | Southern Methodist University |
90 | Clarissa Hand | Northwestern University |
91 | Miska Kadleckova | Iowa State University |
92 | Carol Lee | Georgia Tech |
93 | Ayumi Miyamoto | Oklahoma State |
94 | Gia Cohen | Georgia Tech |
95 | Layne Sleeth | Oklahoma |
96 | Safiya Carrington | LSU |
97 | Mila Saric | William & Mary |
98 | Rachel Hanford | Minnesota |
99 | Elizaveta Volodko | Santa Barbara |
100 | Ahmeir Kyle | Xavier |
101 | Maria Shusharina | Northwestern University |
102 | Brianna Shvets | Princeton |
103 | Jayci Goldsmith | Texas A&M University |
104 | Julia Adams | Furman |
105 | Isabelle Boulais | Ohio State |
106 | Julia Rosenqvist | California |
107 | Jordyn McBride | San Diego |
108 | Katya Townsend | Texas A&M University |
109 | Catherine Broerman | Gonzaga |
110 | Alicia Herrero Linana | Baylor University |
111 | Jaeda Daniel | NC State |
112 | Hadley Doyle | SMU |
113 | Xinyu Cai | Wisconsin |
114 | Karine Marion Job | Kansas State |
115 | Andrea Di Palma | Louisville |
116 | Yu Chen | Auburn University |
117 | Elizabeth Goldsmith | San Diego |
118 | Danielle Willson | USC |
119 | Valentina Ivanov | California |
120 | Esther Lovato | Liberty University |
121 | Iuliia Bryzgalova | Penn |
122 | Jaedan Brown | Michigan |
123 | Giulia Morlet | Arizona State University |
124 | Sarah-Maude Fortin | Washington |
125 | Petra Hule | Florida State |