Devin Badenhorst

So this is a sound start for a guy changing scenes.

On the flip side, just to talk through the upsets really quickly, Devin Badenhorst, number one seed, top 10 player, of course, in the country, knocked out three sets by sophomore and certified Ninja Turtle Mariano DeDura of Texas State.

Of course, you were number two seed, I mentioned it, Nasrudinov.

Knocked out by Scheissel in the quarters in three sets.

And that's kind of what we saw at All-Americans when we were like, oh my gosh, Toby Kodat, welcome to college tennis.

You just took out top seed Devin Badenhorst.

And it's like, well, then he loses next round.

So, like, it's red alarm right now for Badenhorst, a player who qualified for NCAAs last season.

But you still have a lot of names here in the Texas Regional.

One that we'll be watching closely, Devin Badenhorst, who was your number one seed at All-Americans, failed to qualify.

He is here.

You also have the Bor Arnach appearance, so the transfer from Arizona State to Texas A&M.

Now, we've mentioned a few of them.

Of course, number one, Devin Badenhorst b- becomes the number one seed after we don't have Dietrick, we don't have Inchauspe.

He goes 0 and 4 in sets in this event.

He loses to Toby Khodat, which you initially thought, "Oh, maybe this is the Toby Khodat crowning" It ends up not being as he ends up losing to Sam Landau, and then Badenhorst loses to Paul Babirigeza of South Carolina.

I said, here's the four guys I think we could see in the semifinals based off who were main draw entrants.

And the four guys that I took, and this is before we knew seeds or anything, right? I took Badenhorst, Keegan Rice, Paul and Chauspie, and Bryce Nakashima.

And Chauspie didn't end up playing.

He had to withdraw.

So that only left me with three guys even in the field.

Badenhorst goes out round one, Nakashima round two, maybe I might've been around.

I think it was the second round.

So, but none, you know, the seeds were just decimated in this tournament.

And as much as we were all speculating upon the future of college athletics more broadly, certainly the changes in the transfer portal, the arrival of players with professional ties, those weren't new things to this offseason.

They certainly felt amplified this year with guys like Kusahara, Kodat, who obviously beats Devin Badenhorst, the top seed at the All-Americans today, and others coming to the collegiate realm here for 2027.

I mean, again, like I want to give you a chance to talk through all your notes, talk through all of those guys and gals.

But before we do, I want to do a big picture thing, because as I was getting ready for this college tennis season, Chris Haley, or this is again, we're back in prime season form.

They have to basically, you know, get out of kickoff weekend and make it to indoors and give him the, an opportunity to, to be able to play against the

big names.

Sorry, we didn't say your name, Devin Badenhorst either, because even though he lost today, there's a reason he's the number one seed.

And Baylor, by the way, could be better this season, even than they were last year.

The top of this men's draw, fairly light, given that now we are missing the top four preseason players in Dietrich in Chow's Bay, Duncan Chan of TCU, and Max DeLinn of Michigan.

So with that, Devin Badenhorst of Baylor is your number one overall seed.

In his quarter is...

So he doesn't even have a top eight seed in his quarter.

In the next section, you have Gabia Paskowskis of Florida taking on Mimi Hsu of Duke, number three overall newcomer, played in the Wimbledon main draw this year and last, the beneficiary of a wildcard there from the UK.

Now, what's her WTA ranking? I feel like it's not as high.

the new WTA logo is ugly so she's currently ranked 335 in the WTA rankings her highest okay I was wrong her highest WTA rankings been 230 in the world so yeah she is intending to be quite good so this is a blockbuster section and by the way we are not done because the seed in this section is Anastasia Grechkina of Pepperdine the number 10 seed and actually it's very interesting this reminds me of the ITA indoors so the men's seating that we just walked through was by numbers so devin badenhorst number one seed had number 16 seed victor markov in his section number two seed keegan rice had number 15 seed alex rozeki the women's seeds do not go like that so you have number one seed carmen herrea she could face any 9 through 16 seed in her round of 16 and she does get anastasia grechkina the 10 seed so In terms of draw, not a good draw for Carmen Araya, if she even gets to Gretchkina.

And if Gretchkina even gets there, she faces Julia Hsu of Kentucky in the first round.