The USC Trojans topped the Oracle ITA DI Men Preseason Team, Singles, and Doubles Rankings. The one common factor? Daniel Cukierman.
Cukierman and partner Riley Smith start out the 2021 season as the No. 1 doubles team in the nation. The top five is filled out by Michigan’s Fenty/Siimar, Oklahoma State’s Vocel/Kellovsky, Ohio State’s Cash/McNally, and North Carolina’s Kiger/Soendergaard.
Just outside of the top five sits UNC’s duo of Blumberg and Cernoch and Ole Miss’s Sandkaulen and Reynolds. Both tandems were ranked outside the top 10 in the last published rankings of the 2020 dual match season.
TCU and Ohio State tie for the most pairs on the preseason ranking list — both place three tandems a piece. In addition to No. 4 Cash/McNally, the Buckeyes have Trotter/Boulais and Seelig/Kingsley. The Horned Frogs place Gray/Fearnley at No. 15 with Jong/Paroulek and Kruger/Fomba following.
The Oracle ITA Division I Men’s Preseason Singles Rankings and Oracle ITA Division I Men’s Newcomers were also released Wednesday.
Oracle/ITA Division I Men’s Rankings
Top 60 Preseason National Doubles
Administered by the ITA
January 13, 2021
| Rank | Player | Player | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riley Smith | Daniel Cukierman | University of Southern California |
| 2 | Andrew Fenty | Mattias Siimar | University of Michigan |
| 3 | Matej Vocel | Dominik Kellovsky | Oklahoma State University |
| 4 | Robert Cash | John McNally | Ohio State University |
| 5 | Mac Kiger | Simon Soendergaard | North Carolina |
| 6 | William Blumberg | Brian Cernoch | North Carolina |
| 7 | Tim Sandkaulen | Finn Reynolds | University of Mississippi |
| 8 | Trent Bryde | Tyler Zink | University of Georgia |
| 9 | Yannai Barkai | Tadas Babelis | NC State |
| 10 | Sven Lah | Constantin Frantzen | Baylor University |
| 11 | Axel Geller | Neel Rajesh | Stanford University |
| 12 | Gabriel Decamps | Juan Pablo Grassi Mazzuchi | UCF |
| 13 | Govind Nanda | Keegan Smith | UCLA |
| 14 | Tim Ruehl | Andrea Bolla | Arizona State University |
| 15 | Alastair Gray | Jacob Fearnley | TCU |
| 16 | Alex Brown | Aleksandar Kovacevic | University of Illinois |
| 17 | Will Davies | Oliver Okonkwo | University of Iowa |
| 18 | Henri Squire | Eduardo Nava | Wake Forest University |
| 19 | Tristan McCormick | Axel Nefve | University of Notre Dame |
| 20 | Blake Croyder | Philip Henning | University of Georgia |
| 21 | Rithvik Bollipalli | Jacob Wojcik | University of South Florida |
| 22 | Franco Aubone | Benjamin Hannestad | University of Miami (Florida) |
| 23 | Alexis Galarneau | Robert Turzak | NC State |
| 24 | Sander Jong | Tadeas Paroulek | TCU |
| 25 | Luca Maldoner | Nicola Vidal | Old Dominion University |
| 26 | Gui Osorio | Nico Borter | University Of San Diego |
| 27 | Bruno Caula | Daniel Groom | UNC Wilmington |
| 28 | Florian Broska | Nicolas Ocana | Mississippi State University |
| 29 | Connor Di Marco | Kody Pearson | University of Tulsa |
| 30 | Andrei Duarte | Roberts Grinvalds | Georgia State University |
| 31 | Marcus McDaniel | Pablo Schelcher | Georgia Tech |
| 32 | Marius Frosa | Murkel Dellien | Wichita State University |
| 33 | Matias Soto | Nick Stachowiak | Baylor University |
| 34 | Adrian Oetzbach | Daniel De Jonge | Pepperdine |
| 35 | Carl Söderlund | Matthew Lord | University of Virginia |
| 36 | Paul Barretto | Can Kaya | California |
| 37 | James Trotter | Justin Boulais | Ohio State University |
| 38 | Chase Ferguson | Pierre Luquet | University of South Florida |
| 39 | Henry Lieberman | Ben Wayand | Charlotte |
| 40 | Christos Antonopoulos | Christian Lakoseljac | Penn State University |
| 41 | Keshav Chopra | Andres Martin | Georgia Tech |
| 42 | James Davis | Matt Summers | University of Denver |
| 43T | Siem Woldeab | Payton Holden | University of Texas |
| 44T | Daniel Rodrigues | Connor Thomson | University of South Carolina |
| 45 | Sam Riffice | Duarte Vale | University of Florida |
| 46 | Luca Keist | Michael Heller | Duke University |
| 47 | Alberto Colas | Gregor Ramskogler | Mississippi State University |
| 48 | Juan Carlos Aguilar | Bjorn Thomson | Texas A&M University |
| 49 | Jack Lin | Alex Kotzen | Columbia University |
| 50 | Mor Bulis | Stefan Dostanic | University of Southern California |
| 51 | Kyle Seelig | Cannon Kingsley | Ohio State University |
| 52 | Loic Cloes | Clement Marzol | University of South Alabama |
| 53 | Bertus Kruger | Luc Fomba | TCU |
| 54 | Joshua Charlton | Ryoma Matsushita | University of Oregon |
| 55 | Sean Sculley | Garrett Johns | Duke University |
| 56 | Dominik Barton | Matthew Carroll | University of North Florida |
| 57 | Simen Bratholm | Nick Brookes | Northwestern University |
| 58 | Corrado Summaria | Tim Zeitvogel | Pepperdine |
| 59 | Raphael Lambling | Phillip Jordan | University of South Carolina |
| 60 | Ronnie Hohmann | Rafael Wagner | LSU |
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