jcgatennismom
Hall of Fame
The top US players according to UTR are Riffice, Shelton, Dostanic, and Kingsley (UTRs as of a week ago). Unfortunately, two of those-Kingsley and Riffice play each other today at 10am.
Do top international finishers get WCs into any other events? It would seem fair that the QF/SFs or above would at least receive WCs into Challengers somewhere. Some of those may already receive Challenger WCs depending on if their college hosts Challengers. There are 4-8 WCs from those schools into their host Futures but there may only be 1-2 for their host Challengers. Could 1 of those WCs from each uni that hosts events be reserved for NCAA top finishers? I assume most of the players who will reach QFs of NCAAs may already be around 1000 ATP so Future WCs may not be much of a motivation though some ATP ranked players may have to start in Future Qualis-get directly into MD would help some.
I think the US Open WC should be reserved for US winner but there needs to be some carrot for the top internationals. US does not host any pro circuits in May until May 30 so there is no conflict between Futures and NCAAs here but I wonder if players are tempted to go home and skip NCAAs if there are Futures in their home countries/region in May. One year Wake Forest hosted 2 Futures the weeks following NCAAs, and those events attracted a lot of college players-should host sites make a habit of hosting Futures right after NCAA singles? There are ongoing UTR PTT events in US in May-easier to win $ at those than Futures with the round robin format. There are also PTT in other countries. What does motivate international ITA players to stay in US to play NCAAs? Pride in team and self? To be able to say they are #1 or #2? Does it help with fall 23 rankings and/or entry in AAs 23? I wonder especially for those players whose teams were not in team NCAAs
Do top international finishers get WCs into any other events? It would seem fair that the QF/SFs or above would at least receive WCs into Challengers somewhere. Some of those may already receive Challenger WCs depending on if their college hosts Challengers. There are 4-8 WCs from those schools into their host Futures but there may only be 1-2 for their host Challengers. Could 1 of those WCs from each uni that hosts events be reserved for NCAA top finishers? I assume most of the players who will reach QFs of NCAAs may already be around 1000 ATP so Future WCs may not be much of a motivation though some ATP ranked players may have to start in Future Qualis-get directly into MD would help some.
I think the US Open WC should be reserved for US winner but there needs to be some carrot for the top internationals. US does not host any pro circuits in May until May 30 so there is no conflict between Futures and NCAAs here but I wonder if players are tempted to go home and skip NCAAs if there are Futures in their home countries/region in May. One year Wake Forest hosted 2 Futures the weeks following NCAAs, and those events attracted a lot of college players-should host sites make a habit of hosting Futures right after NCAA singles? There are ongoing UTR PTT events in US in May-easier to win $ at those than Futures with the round robin format. There are also PTT in other countries. What does motivate international ITA players to stay in US to play NCAAs? Pride in team and self? To be able to say they are #1 or #2? Does it help with fall 23 rankings and/or entry in AAs 23? I wonder especially for those players whose teams were not in team NCAAs