Sep 30, 2026 · 53 min · 11 segments
Luciana Perry (Ohio State) became the first woman since 2011 to win the All-American singles title and reach the doubles final. She met her match in the doubles final, though, against Zampardo/Maltby…
Adam DruckerGuestwant to start with the show.
The way we'll do the show is we'll just talk about some like big picture, non court stuff, just like with the tournament.
We'll then talk about your champions, your finalists, and then really You know, this event holds two purposes.
Of course, you are competing for one of the most prestigious individual titles in college tennis, but it is now also a qualifier for NCAAs.
And so certainly that is a subplot storyline here that you are tracking throughout the events.
We'll talk about all of your qualifiers on the singles and singles.
double side and then of course we'll have to wrap up with a few teams a few players maybe who didn't qualify but impressed us and just sort of general takeaways and then we will look ahead to what's next after we have our first list of qualifiers and there's some exciting stuff on the horizon and so adam you bring up retirements and that's because once they really implemented this ncaa qualification where if you make the quarterfinals of this event or if you make the consolation final, you earn your NCAA bid.
Over the past few years, we have seen withdrawals and retirements creep in, either because people don't want to play the backdraw or they actually qualify for NCAAs and pull out.
Last year, I don't know if I'll remember everyone, but on the men's side, DK Suresh pulled out.
You had Reese Brandtmeier pulling out once they reached the quarterfinals.
You know, when the year Oliver Tarvit won, it felt like, I don't know if he played a match in the semis and finals.
And so it has been plagued.
on the whole and we'll include some men's stuff here on the whole we'll talk about the man the other episode like it wasn't that bad other than the glaring two duke retirements adam talk me through it
yeah we had two duke retirements in the quarterfinals and i think it's more interesting in the fact that know i can understand one part of them i i you know did division one tennis hq has this wonderful website and i did read some of the experts in the interviews that he did to understand i was like arena baloo's playing a third set tie break makes sense you know third set tie break having to play another match on the same day like i there's a there's an understanding for that but one of the other player winning all her matches in straight sets and being like i'm so cooked I can't play two matches in one day.
The freshman, the freshman is showing all of you up and being like, I'll go play tennis and I'll have Chick-fil-A as my recovery meal.
yes.
Okay.
And shout out to Daniel Suzanne of division one tennis, because it was so cool to have on the ground reporting at all Americans.
I mean, really.
written content for college tennis is fully owned and operated by Colette Lewis of Zoo Tennis.
Like, she is the only one that is doing it.
And now to have Division One Tennis and you have Daniel, you have Amanda as well, who I saw did like a takeaways article.
want to start with the show.
The way we'll do the show is we'll just talk about some like big picture, non court stuff, just like with the tournament.
We'll then talk about your champions, your finalists, and then really You know, this event holds two purposes.
Of course, you are competing for one of the most prestigious individual titles in college tennis, but it is now also a qualifier for NCAAs.
And so certainly that is a subplot storyline here that you are tracking throughout the events.
We'll talk about all of your qualifiers on the singles and singles.
double side and then of course we'll have to wrap up with a few teams a few players maybe who didn't qualify but impressed us and just sort of general takeaways and then we will look ahead to what's next after we have our first list of qualifiers and there's some exciting stuff on the horizon and so adam you bring up retirements and that's because once they really implemented this ncaa qualification where if you make the quarterfinals of this event or if you make the consolation final, you earn your NCAA bid.
Over the past few years, we have seen withdrawals and retirements creep in, either because people don't want to play the backdraw or they actually qualify for NCAAs and pull out.
Last year, I don't know if I'll remember everyone, but on the men's side, DK Suresh pulled out.
You had Reese Brandtmeier pulling out once they reached the quarterfinals.
You know, when the year Oliver Tarvit won, it felt like, I don't know if he played a match in the semis and finals.
And so it has been plagued.
on the whole and we'll include some men's stuff here on the whole we'll talk about the man the other episode like it wasn't that bad other than the glaring two duke retirements adam talk me through it
yeah we had two duke retirements in the quarterfinals and i think it's more interesting in the fact that know i can understand one part of them i i you know did division one tennis hq has this wonderful website and i did read some of the experts in the interviews that he did to understand i was like arena baloo's playing a third set tie break makes sense you know third set tie break having to play another match on the same day like i there's a there's an understanding for that but one of the other player winning all her matches in straight sets and being like i'm so cooked I can't play two matches in one day.
The freshman, the freshman is showing all of you up and being like, I'll go play tennis and I'll have Chick-fil-A as my recovery meal.
yes.
Okay.
And shout out to Daniel Suzanne of division one tennis, because it was so cool to have on the ground reporting at all Americans.
I mean, really.
written content for college tennis is fully owned and operated by Colette Lewis of Zoo Tennis.
Like, she is the only one that is doing it.
And now to have Division One Tennis and you have Daniel, you have Amanda as well, who I saw did like a takeaways article.
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