NCAA Update: Kupres the Leader Amongst Canadians

Because the NCAA season heats up, Mia Kupres continues to excel on the head of the Canadian pack. She options on an unique listing of Canadians to carry a rating in a number of disciplines. 

In the meantime, a pair of Canadian males maintain are duking it out to see who’s one of the best Canuck within the collegiate singles ranks. 

Let’s meet up with the most recent information from Canadians competing within the NCAA.      

Girls 

At No. 5 within the NCAA ladies’s doubles rankings, Mia Kupres of Texas A&M remains to be the highest-ranked Canadian in any self-discipline within the American collegiate system. She can be considered one of three Canadians to carry each a singles and doubles rating. 

Repeatedly enjoying within the No. 1 doubles spot with Mary Stoiana, Kupres has gone 4-2 over the past month, with considered one of her losses coming in a tiebreak (within the NCAA, doubles is generally only one set). 

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Kupres has had the same run in singles, going 4-2 over the past 4 weeks along with her two losses each coming within the deciding set.  The sophomore can be the highest Candian within the ladies’s singles rankings at No. 36. 

Ariana Arseneault is the one different Canadian girl to look on each the singles and doubles rankings. She joins Kupres within the doubles Prime 10, coming in at No. 9 for Auburn. 

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Alongside DJ Bennet, Arseneault is on a seven-match profitable streak within the doubles (with one deserted match within the center). Her final loss was in a tiebreak on Feb. 24. General she is 9-1 in doubles over her final ten matches. 

Arseneault has been enjoying properly in singles as properly, the place she is ranked No. 74. She has gained 5 of her final seven matches, together with a victory within the No. 1 place towards Missouri on Mar. 9.  

The College of Virginia is the one faculty within the ladies’s Prime 10 to function Canadians. Virginia is ranked No. 6, with Mélodie Collard and Annabelle Xu on their roster.  

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Three faculties simply outdoors of the Prime 10, No. 11 Berkeley (Jessica Alsola), No. 12 Ohio State (Teah Chavez and Alessia Cau), and Kupres’ Thirteenth-ranked Texas A&M all have Canadians on the workforce.  

Males 

Justin Boulais and Taha Baadi have been buying and selling the highest Canadian singles spot over the past month. 

Within the newest rankings, Boulais of Ohio State presently sits on prime at No. 25, the very best singles rating of any Canadian male or feminine. Baadi is simply behind at No. 36. 

Boulais overtook Baadi within the final month, going 4-3 whereas bouncing between the No. 1 and No. 2 positions for Ohio State. He has a 2-1 document enjoying within the prime spot. 

Baadi has had the same run to his fellow Canadian, going 4-3 over the past month (with two deserted matches) however has confronted a harder highway by recurrently enjoying within the No. 1 slot for the College of Kentucky. He has performed within the prime spot in eight straight matches and 12 of his final 13 relationship again to January. 

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In addition to being the highest Canadian in singles, Boulais is the lone Canadian man to look in each the singles and doubles rankings. He has gained 4 of his final 5 doubles matches with two totally different companions. He gained all 4 of his matches within the No. 2 place however misplaced the one time he performed within the prime spot. 

Coming in at No. 8 within the doubles rankings, Cleeve Harper stays the highest Canadian. Nonetheless, he has dropped lately on the Texas depth chart. Having spent the primary two months of the season enjoying within the No. 1 doubles spot with Eliot Spizzirri, he was moved to the No. 3 slot with Micah Braswell in early March after he and Spizzirri misplaced three straight. 

Harper and Braswell have excelled as a pair, dropping simply seven complete video games of their 4 matches collectively, all victories. 

As soon as once more, Canadian presence was prevalent within the workforce rankings, with 4 of the Prime 5 groups that includes Canadians, led by Boulais’ No. 1-ranked Ohio State.  

TCU, which options Duncan Chan, is available in at No. 3. Harper’s Texas has been climbing the rankings all season and now sits at No. 4, whereas the Canadian-heavy Kentucky workforce is at No. 5. 

Click on right here to view all of the Canadian rankings within the NCAA.