In just her second year with the program, USC Head Coach Alison Swain has led her top doubles team of Angela Kulikov and Rianna Valdes to the top of the Oracle/ITA Division I Women’s Doubles Rankings and a No. 1 overall seed at the 2019 NCAA Women’s Doubles Championships.
Oracle/ITA Division I Women’s Rankings
Top 90 National Doubles
Administered by the ITA
May 1, 2019
| Rank | Player 1 | Player 2 | School | Avg | Prev Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Angela Kulikov | Rianna Valdes | USC | 55.43 | 2 |
| 2 | Jessie Aney | Alexa Graham | North Carolina | 53.06 | 5 |
| 3 | Mia Horvit | Ingrid Gamarra Martins | South Carolina | 50 | 7 |
| 4 | Lauryn John-Baptiste | Ilze Hattingh | Arizona State | 49.87 | 1 |
| 5 | Gabby Andrews | Ayan Broomfield | UCLA | 49.17 | 4 |
| 6 | Janet Koch | Nina Khmelnitckaia | Kansas | 46.97 | 3 |
| 7 | Alana Smith | Anna Rogers | NC State | 46.33 | 8 |
| 8 | Ashley Lahey | Evgeniya Levashova | Pepperdine | 46.21 | 6 |
| 9 | Kaitlin Staines | Sadie Hammond | Tennessee | 45.16 | 9 |
| 10 | Fernanda Navarro | Marie Leduc | Clemson | 38.85 | 10 |
| 11 | Elysia Bolton | Jada Hart | UCLA | 37.33 | 12 |
| 12 | Cameron Morra | Makenna Jones | North Carolina | 36.58 | 13 |
| 13 | Daevenia Achong | Daniella Roldan | Miami (FL) | 32.27 | 16 |
| 14 | Martina Okalova | Vera Ploner | Tulsa | 32.21 | 11 |
| 15 | Sophie Whittle | Graciela Rosas | Gonzaga | 29.93 | 23 |
| 16 | Akvilė Paražinskaitė | Justina Mikulskytė | Kentucky | 29.66 | 15 |
| 17 | Sofia Munera | Meghan Kelley | Virginia | 28.82 | 18 |
| 18 | Kaitlyn McCarthy | Ellyse Hamlin | Duke | 28.07 | 19 |
| 19 | Kimberly Yee | Caroline Lampl | Stanford | 27.96 | 14 |
| 20 | Hana Mraz | Julia Rosenqvist | California | 27.68 | 17 |
| 21 | Emmanuelle Salas | Ana Oparenovic | Florida State | 26.93 | 26 |
| 22 | Hikaru Sato | Tiffany Mylonas | Washington State | 26.3 | 41 |
| 23 | Nika Zupancic | Stacey Fung | Washington | 25.89 | 29 |
| 24 | Meible Chi | Kaitlyn McCarthy | Duke | 25.44 | 21 |
| 25 | McCartney Kessler | Victoria Emma | Florida | 25.16 | 35 |
| 26 | Valeriya Zeleva | Ksenia Kuznetsova | UCF | 24.81 | 24 |
| 27 | Jessica Golovin | Eden Richardson | LSU | 24.51 | 20 |
| 28 | Katarina Jokic | Lourdes Carle | Georgia | 24.5 | 30 |
| 29 | Emily Arbuthnott | Michaela Gordon | Stanford | 24.19 | 22 |
| 30 | Fatima Bizhukova | Marta Bellucco | Wichita State | 22.54 | 27 |
| 31 | Sofia Blanco | Catherine Gulihur | Oklahoma State | 21.3 | 25 |
| 32 | Hind Abdelouahid | Mariia Kozyreva | St. Mary’s (CA) | 20.79 | 28 |
| 33 | Jayci Goldsmith | Tatiana Makarova | Texas A&M | 20.19 | 33 |
| 34 | Emma Davis | Chandler Carter | Wake Forest | 19.17 | 36 |
| 35 | Annabelle Andrinopoulos | Monica Malinen | Colorado | 18.98 | 31 |
| 36 | Lauren Alter | Tatum Rice | Arkansas | 18.37 | 54 |
| 37 | Kate Fahey | Brienne Minor | Michigan | 17.7 | 32 |
| 38 | Emily Smith | Emma Kurtz | Vanderbilt | 17.61 | 57 |
| 39 | Rachel Rohrabacher | Megan Davies | South Carolina | 17.45 | 39 |
| 40 | Shiori Fukuda | Isabelle Boulais | Ohio State | 16.95 | 38 |
| 41 | Anastasia Iamachkine | Jessica Failla | Pepperdine | 16.77 | 34 |
| 42 | Aleksa Cveticanin | Ellie Douglas | TCU | 16.12 | 37 |
| 43 | Cameron Corse | Zoe Spence | Notre Dame | 14.47 | 45 |
| 44 | Lauren Proctor | Megan Kauffman | Winthrop | 14.2 | 44 |
| 45 | Kimberly Yee | Niluka Madurawe | Stanford | 14.13 | 43 |
| 46 | Magda Adaloglou | Tamara Racine | Mississippi State | 14.08 | 71 |
| 47 | Ellyse Hamlin | Kelly Chen | Duke | 13.76 | 46 |
| 48 | Sophia Graver | Taylor Russo | Auburn | 13.67 | 42 |
| 49 | Madison Tattini | Brianna Chisholm | Utah | 13.59 | 49 |
| 50 | Chloe Gullickson | Amber ODell | Virginia | 13.41 | 60 |
| 51 | Jackie Urbinati | Kylie Wilcox | Boston College | 13.32 | 56 |
| 52 | Rita Pinto | Natalie Novotna | Virginia Tech | 13.14 | 47 |
| 53 | Alexa Bortles | Sabina Machalova | Ole Miss | 13.09 | 59 |
| 54 | Anna Bright | Jasie Dunk | California | 12.52 | 40 |
| 55 | Gabriela Knutson | Miranda Ramirez | Syracuse | 11.96 | 67 |
| 56 | Rifanty Kahfiani | Paiton Wagner | Oregon | 11.89 | NR |
| 57 | Melissa Lord | Niluka Madurawe | Stanford | 11.56 | 51 |
| 58 | Maria Kononova | Tamuna Kutubidze | North Texas | 11.2 | 52 |
| 59 | Abi Altick | Alaina Miller | UCLA | 11.17 | 48 |
| 60 | Martina Zerulo | Tatum Rice | Arkansas | 11 | 55 |
| 61 | Linda Huang | Michaela Haet | Rice | 10.52 | 58 |
| 62 | Katerina Stloukalova | Hana Mraz | California | 10.44 | 63 |
| 63 | Emily Smith | Fernanda Contreras | Vanderbilt | 10.24 | 50 |
| 64 | Sonia Smagina | Anastasia Rychagova | Kansas | 9.84 | 85 |
| 65 | Silvia Ambrosio | Amina Mukhametshina | Purdue | 9.83 | 53 |
| 66 | Madison Appel | Jelly Bozovic | Indiana | 9.32 | 69 |
| 67 | Ivana Corley | Jasmine Asghar | Oklahoma | 8.97 | 66 |
| 68 | Anna Turati | Bianca Turati | Texas | 8.75 | 70 |
| 69 | Jessie Gong | Samantha Martinelli | Yale | 8.71 | 75 |
| 70 | Emma Wilson | Sophia Thomas | Arizona | 8.65 | 76 |
| 71 | Marta Kowalska | Marija Curnic | Pennsylvania | 8.55 | 64 |
| 72 | Tj Fumagalli | Kristin Kerrigan | Air Force | 8.36 | 73 |
| 73 | Samantha Alicea | Sammi Hampton | Arizona State | 8.18 | 72 |
| 74 | Fernanda Contreras | Summer Dvorak | Vanderbilt | 8.12 | 65 |
| 75 | Elena Muller | Ivone Alvaro | Tulane | 7.99 | 68 |
| 76 | Holly Hutchinson | Brooke Pilkington | Old Dominion | 7.96 | 61 |
| 77 | Anna Turati | Katie Poluta | Texas | 7.85 | 83 |
| 78 | Mackenzy Middlebrooks | Ellie Wright | Missouri | 7.76 | 87 |
| 79 | Eliza Omirou | Mary Caroline Meredith | Wake Forest | 7.66 | NR |
| 80 | Aiwen Zhu | En-Pei Huang | UNLV | 7.66 | 74 |
| 81 | Sofya Golubovskaya | Sofya Treshcheva | Syracuse | 7.54 | NR |
| 82 | Abi Altick | Taylor Johnson | UCLA | 7.54 | NR |
| 83 | Maria-Paula Torres | Solymar Colling | San Diego | 7.44 | 77 |
| 84 | Katarina Kozarov | Julia Adams | Furman | 7.23 | 78 |
| 85 | Komola Umarova | Basak Akbas | Florida International | 7.21 | 80 |
| 86 | Ashley Lahey | Daria Kuczer | Pepperdine | 7.08 | NR |
| 87 | Lisa Marie Rioux | Sofia Blanco | Oklahoma State | 7.03 | 79 |
| 88 | Olivia Hauger | Katerina Stloukalova | California | 7 | 88 |
| 89 | Isabelle Boulais | Danielle Wolf | Ohio State | 6.95 | 84 |
| 90 | Vivian Glozman | Sofia Munera | Virginia | 6.77 | NR |
We told you not to blink!! 👀 @AngelaKulikov and Rianna Valdes have continued to rise throughout the season, and now they are officially the No. 1 ranked doubles pair in the nation!!! #PlayBold pic.twitter.com/UVl0VPijOV
— USC Women’s Tennis (@USCWomensTennis) May 2, 2019
Related: Oracle/ITA Division I Women’s Singles Rankings — May 1, 2019
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