Piper Charney

your singles finalists were chalk.

Your top two seeds actually do make it to the singles final, and that is Piper Charney of Michigan and Ekaterina Ivanova of Wisconsin.

Now, Adam, Ivanova was, I think, one of the rare players who had actually already secured her NCAA singles qualifying berth, compete in a regional, and not just compete, but she played the whole thing.

She's jones in for college tennis like her ranking is going to be very high when we get those ita rankings and so how they handle this because even though that has already qualified then they go to the third fourth place semi-final winner and so in that case you had Olivia Trainor of Michigan, who took out Matatali 6263.

And so both of the qualifiers out of this Midwest singles region are from Michigan and Michigan sweeps because they also take the doubles champions with Charney and Miller, knocking off Ohio State duo of Spencer and Bennett.

Adam, We had questions about Piper Charney as she started the season.

We saw her in that first term before all Americans, all Americans didn't look that good, but she was dominant throughout this event.

What'd you like from what you saw from Piper Charney?

You had Julia Fleigner's rise to be, like, a serious top five player in the country, and that was legitimate.

And you had her make her run at, at NCAAs in the fall, and then carry this team in her senior season, backed up by what felt like a yin and a yang a little bit with Piper Charney and, and her, like, her ferocity.

And then Lily Jones and Julia, like, as an outsider, like, just seemed very close, and, like, hugging each other between points, between one and three.

And you had some new faces as well, but connected to the past of Michigan with the Miller connection.

She is entered there, so hopefully we see her, but you know, we have Teah Chavez, Audry Spencer.

You know, Piper Charney's looking still for her qualification spot.

Of Michigan, yeah.

We have-- Of Michigan, exactly.

We have Wisconsin has-- We already have a qualifier.

Katarina Ivanova has also entered there sh- again, so if she ends up making the final, that third/fourth place playoff will happen and one of those players will get the spot.

Um, and then we also have Lucy Urbanova of Wisconsin as well, and I think that, you know, Chavez and Spencer- Definitely very much good enough to make that final, but also Piper Charney, Reese Miller also.

So it's gonna be some really good rivalry match-ups, I think, down the stretch here for this Midwest regional, and I think those are gonna be really spicy.

She had a, a good run.

She beat number three seed Piper Charney there, um, and she was actually upset over Csillag-Nagy of Ohio State before having to retire, so what could have been for her.

Um, so that's another player that I thought stood out.

Yeah, no, I, I think we nailed it again.

Yeah.

I will say, I don't know what it was, but there was a, a freshman award that we debated her freshman year.

It might've been between her and Piper Charney.

Hmm.

God, this is a really fun section.

All right, your next section here is headlined by number three, Piper Charney of Michigan, who opens up again, Susana Kubaca of Baylor.

And then the seed in this section is Rosemary Nykamp, who transferred from Oklahoma State to Texas.

She is the 16th seed.

Ugh, these sections are just really imbalanced.

Like, really imbalanced.

So, Piper Charney did not look good in the opening tournament that she played.

What did night camp do this summer? Night camp looked terrible towards the end of, honestly, all of last season at Oklahoma State.

[laughs] Tough, tough matchup, right? Um, so she loses that one but, you know, ends up winning the back draw of the top flight.

Like, beats Piper Charney in the final there in, of the, of the consolation in straight sets.

So she, she looked good as ever, and I mean, if, if we wanna look at, you know, preview to AAs, like, spoiler alert, Kieran looks great as she started the qualifying today.

So, you know, and she actually has one of my really hot, exciting [laughs] matches for tomorrow, but we'll get to that.

But um, yeah, you kind of...

I would have to loop in Hurrea as the favorite and until I can really see everybody else who's there, you know, maybe Luciana Perry, uh, lump her in there as well.

Tea Chavez, um, Piper Charney, uh, but Pi- Charney hasn't looked in the gr- best form.

I don't know.