Four Cavaliers Invited to NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Four members of the Virginia men’s tennis team have earned invitations to compete in the NCAA Individuals Championships at Oklahoma State University’s Greenwood Tennis Center May 20-25 in Stillwater, Okla.
Senior Chris Rodesch will be the No. 4 seed in the singles championship. Senior Iñaki Montes and freshman Dylan Dietrich also earned at-large bids into the singles draw.
Montes and grad student James Hopper will be a 5-8 seed in the doubles championship.
Senior Jeffrey von der Schulenburg is the first alternate for singles with a chance to move into the championship based on withdrawals.
The NCAA Division I Men’s Tennis Subcommittee selected the 64 singles players and 32 doubles teams that will compete in the 2024 NCAA Division I Men’s Tennis Championships.
This is the third invitation to the NCAA Singles Championship for Montes and Rodesch. Rodesch was a semifinalist in last year’s championship when he was a 9-16 seed. This is the second invitation to compete in the doubles championship for Montes. Hopper will be making his NCAA Division I debut after winning the NCAA Division III Doubles Championship in both 2022 and 2023 at Case Western Reserve.
Match-ups and the complete singles and doubles brackets will be announced the day before the start of the tournament.
All matches shall be the best of three sets. No-ad scoring and a seven-point tiebreaker (first to seven points, must win by two points) at six-games-all will be used for all matches. In doubles, a 10-point match tiebreaker will be played in lieu of a third set.
Automatic qualification into the Division I singles championship is awarded to any conference with one or more eligible singles players ranked in the ITA Top 125 for eligible/entered singles players. For conferences with more than one singles player within the ITA Top 125 eligible/entered singles players, the subcommittee applies the NCAA selection criteria to determine which student-athlete is the automatic qualifier from those conferences. All singles players must have a minimum of 13 started singles matches, with six matches in the spring, in order to be selected as an automatic qualifier or an at-large selection.
Automatic qualification into the Division I doubles championship is awarded to any conference with one or more eligible doubles teams ranked in the ITA Top 60 for eligible/entered doubles teams. For conferences with more than one doubles team within the ITA Top 60 eligible/entered doubles teams, the subcommittee applies the NCAA selection criteria to determine which doubles team is the automatic qualifier from those conferences. All doubles teams must have started a minimum of 10 doubles matches, with a minimum of four matches in the spring, in order to be selected as an automatic qualifier or an at-large selection.