Yep, Emma’s Navarro’s father is not quite as wealthy as Jessica Pegulas’, but both families are well into the billions. I believe Emma’s younger sister is playing tennis for UVA next year. Maybe the Navarro family could throw a $100 million or so into the UVA NIL hat?
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She’s already on the team.
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This site has Elo rankings for tennis, which are better gauges of current form than the official tour rankings (which are 1-year snapshots and don’t factor in opponent strength), and Collins is up to #6 (Navarro at #11).
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We were there Friday and Saturday - my son’s “go Hoos!” after her interview was rewarded with a signed tennis ball. Kasatkina didn’t stand a chance!!
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This is awesome
https://x.com/uvawomenstennis/status/1777361863837159934?s=46&t=vkjgQUekzGC7z44tIfnIRQ
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ACCN. Men’s tennis close to win the ACC title (tied up at 3 a piece with FSU, Rodesch up 5-3 in the third )
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This really is an even match up between these two LOL
7-6, 6-7, now tied at 5-5 for the acc title
Damn Rodesch really collapses there. Of course in team tennis it’s never one players fault with 6 matches and the doubles point. Moreso just cant imagine the pressure he feels
Damn: First ACC title for FSU. UVA had it’s chance with 3 match winning point attempts and went 0-3.
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Holy shit FSU players are balling. I forgot how rare it is for non UVA teams to win the ACC in tennis.
It’s strange, Im actually kinda happy for FSU.
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That was pretty brutal, had 4 championship points. JVS had a similar collapse in his second set
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That’s a pretty hard choke job from us.
Hope the NCAAT goes better.
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Is women’s today too?
Yep, 2:00 vs UNC on the same courts, might take a bit longer since the men’s match just ended
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Both teams into the quarters. I enjoyed the article for the women’s team just bringing up that UNC got upset out of the blue:
MATCH NOTES
- Virginia is the No. 5 seed in the tournament but is ranked No. 6 in the ITA rankings
- Virginia posted a 15-0 record at home this season and has won 22 consecutive home matches since last season, going 28-1 at home over the last two seasons
- Virginia’s 25 victories this year is a program record
- Vanderbilt is No. 31 in the ITA team rankings. They were the No. 2 seed in the Columbus Regional, upsetting No. 14 Ohio State, and were unseeded in the tournament
- Texas A&M, the 13 seed, defeated 4-seed North Carolina 4-1 on Friday in Chapel Hill. It was the first home loss for the Tar Heels in six years
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bracket broke nicely for the women, they get TAMU in the quarters and then would play winner of 16 seed Tennessee vs. 8 seed UCLA (tennessee upset #1 seeded Ok State in the round of 16).
meanwhile the men’s bracket is 100% chalk with the top 8 seeds all in the quarters (same as men’s lax)
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Brutal news here, hard to see a pathway to winning it all without Rodesch. Will be interesting to see how they shuffle the lineup
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For singles, I assume it’s everyone up one and then Graziani into the 6th spot.
Doubles:
- Hopper/Montes
- Dietrich/Kiefer (bump up from 3)
- ???
Graziani and JvD haven’t played a match together, but they’ve individually played the most doubles matches out of everyone left. But I would be really reluctant to shuffle up all of the pairings, even if you could get to a lineup that had pairings with experience with each other, like:
- Hopper-Graziani
- Dietrich-Montes
- Kiefer-JvD
But seems like that would be weakening two solid courts for not a lot of gain.
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I’m not sure I’ve ever seen such a thing at this level. Cant imagine what the illness is
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