The ITA Division I Men’s Preseason Doubles Rankings have been released and defending NCAA champions Adam Walton and Pat Harper are on top. The duo finished last season on a 12-match win streak and the won 17 out of the last 18 sets they played. Their NCAA title was only the fourth overall individual national title in Tennessee program history.
Following closely behind at No. 2 are Eliot Spizzirri and Siem Woldeab of Texas. The Longhorn team finished the season ranked No. 7 in the country which was good enough to earn them ITA Doubles All-American honors. Together the two finished with a 17-11 doubles record. Recently, Spizzirri competed in the 2021 US Open Doubles main draw alongside Tyler Zink. The pair narrowly dropped the match to the three-seed.
Coming in at No. 3 are Bogdan Pavel and Trey Hilderbrand of UCF. The duo had a stellar 2021 season. They finished with a 10-2 record and were named ITA Doubles All-Americans — only the 6th and 7th All-Americans in program history.
The final two spots in the top five go to Daniel Rodrigues/Connor Thomson and David Stevenson/Oscar Cutting. The South Carolina team will start the Fall ranked No. 4. They posted a program-record 15 wins at the top of the lineup and finished ranked No. 11 — the highest final doubles ranking since the 1989 season. Stevenson and Cutting finished 10-7 on the year and No. 13 in the nation. They qualified for the NCAA Doubles Championship, but fell in the first round.
The ITA Division I Men’s Preseason Singles Rankings and ITA Division I Men’s Newcomers were also released Tuesday.
ITA Division I Men’s Rankings
Top 60 Preseason National Doubles
Administered by the ITA
September 7, 2021
| Rank | Player 1 | Player 2 | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adam Walton | Pat Harper | University of Tennessee |
| 2 | Eliot Spizzirri | Siem Woldeab | University of Texas |
| 3 | Bogdan Pavel | Trey Hilderbrand | UCF |
| 4 | Daniel Rodrigues | Connor Thomson | University of South Carolina |
| 5 | David Stevenson | Oscar Cutting | Memphis |
| 6 | Florian Broska | Gregor Ramskogler | Mississippi State |
| 7 | Tad Maclean | Finn Murgett | Auburn University |
| 8 | Marcus McDaniel | Andres Martin | Georgia Tech |
| 9 | Garrett Johns | Sean Sculley | Duke University |
| 10 | Jordan Chrysostom | Ryan Fishback | Virginia Tech |
| 11 | Benjamin Hannestad | Franco Aubone | University of Miami |
| 12 | Joshua Charlton | Quinn Vandecasteele | University of Oregon |
| 13 | Alex Martinez | Nathan Han | University of Oklahoma |
| 14 | Kody Pearson | Connor Di Marco | University of Tulsa |
| 15 | Teodor Giusca | Yizhou Liu | Clemson University |
| 16 | Siphosothando Montsi | Kweisi Kenyatte | University of Illinois |
| 17 | Bradley Frye | Stefan Dostanic | University of Southern California |
| 18 | Luca Maldoner | Nicola Vidal | Old Dominion |
| 19 | George Harwell | Max Freeman | Vanderbilt University |
| 20 | Matt Summers | James Davis | University of Denver |
| 21 | Stijn Slump | Pavel Motl | Middle Tennessee |
| 22 | Randy Wilson | Pedro Maciel | Florida Gulf Coast University |
| 23 | Trent Bryde | Blake Croyder | University of Georgia |
| 24 | Luc Fomba | Tim Ruehl | TCU |
| 25 | Hamish Stewart | Tristan McCormick | University of Georgia |
| 26 | Sam Riffice | Ben Shelton | Florida |
| 27 | Sven Lah | Finn Bass | Baylor |
| 28 | Sid Banthia | Matt Thomson | Wake Forest |
| 29 | Brian Cernoch | Ben Sigouin | North Carolina |
| 30 | Kyle Frankel | Camilo Ponce | Elon |
| 31 | Ronnie Hohmann | Vlad Lobak | LSU |
| 32 | Juan Carlos Aguilar | Sander Jong | TCU |
| 33 | Johannus Monday | Martim Prata | University of Tennessee |
| 34 | Franco Capalbo | Geronimo Espin Busleiman | University of Utah |
| 35 | Rayane Stable | Inigo Torre Martin | VCU |
| 36 | Finn Reynolds | Nikola Slavic | Ole Miss |
| 37 | Gabriel Diallo | Francois Musitelli | University of Kentucky |
| 38 | Huntley Allen | Julian Steinhausen | SMU |
| 39 | Chris Rodesch | Ryan Goetz | University of Virginia |
| 40 | Matej Vocel | Robert Cash | Ohio State |
| 41 | Cleeve Harper | Chih Chi Huang | University of Texas |
| 42 | Bar Botzer | William Woodall | University of Virginia |
| 43 | Andrei Duarte | Roberts Grinvalds | Georgia State University |
| 44 | Axel Nefve | Aditya Vashistha | University of Notre Dame |
| 45 | Andrew Fenty | Ondrej Styler | University of Michigan |
| 46 | Eduardo Nava | Ben Draper | Wake Forest |
| 47 | August Holmgren | Will Davies | University of San Diego |
| 48 | Emile Hudd | Shunsuke Mitsui | Tennessee |
| 49 | Yannai Barkai | Braden Shick | NC State |
| 50 | Will Grant | Blaise Bicknell | Florida |
| 51 | Siim Troost | Michael Ross | Vanderbilt University |
| 52 | Drew Baird | Patrick Zahraj | UCLA |
| 53 | Emmanuel Coste | Riccardo Roberto | UC Irvine |
| 54 | Jim Hendrikx | Eladio Fabregas | Samford University |
| 55 | Ivailo Keremedchiev | Jesper Klov-Nilsson | University of Oregon |
| 56 | Simen Bratholm | Brian Berdusco | Northwestern |
| 57 | Mattias Siimar | Abedallah Shelbayh | Florida |
| 58 | German Samofalov | Patrick Kaukovalta | University of Alabama |
| 59 | Alex Rotsaert | Arthur Fery | Stanford University |
| 60 | Pierce Rollins | Noah Schachter | Texas A&M |
