Jayhawks finish No. 8 in final Tennis Channel/USTA poll of season

ORLANDO, Fla. – Kansas tennis is ranked No. 8 in the nation in the final Tennis Channel/USTA College Tennis Top 25 poll of the 2018-19 season released Monday by the organizations.

Kansas’ ranking comes at the conclusion of an extremely successful 2018-19 season, one in which the program won its first-ever Big 12 Championship Tournament title with three wins on successive days. The conference title came with an automatic bid to the NCAA Women’s Tennis Championships. Seeded No. 14 overall, the Jayhawks were chosen to host the first and second rounds of the tournament for the first time since 1997. Two wins over ranked teams Denver and Florida advanced the Jayhawks to their first NCAA Sweet 16 since 1998. There they fell to the reigning National Champion Stanford Cardinal, 4-3, to end their exceptional season.

Three Jayhawks are still in action, though, at the NCAA Individual Championships in Orlando, Florida. Seniors Anastasia Rychagova(singles) and Janet Koch and Nina Khmelnitckaia (doubles) have reached the Sweet 16 of their respective draws.

The Tennis Channel/USTA College Tennis Top 25 poll is compiled throughout each season and voted on weekly by a group of 14 professionals in the sport from across the nation. The process gives this particular poll more of a human element than others utilized in the sport of tennis which are purely computerized.

Per the USTA, each team’s point total is the sum of its ranking points from the USTA’s panel of 14 voters.

Women’s Poll
Rank (Last Week) – Points
1. (3) Stanford – 300
2. (2) Georgia – 287
3. (1) North Carolina – 276
4. (5) Duke – 265
5. (4) South Carolina – 248
6. (6) Pepperdine – 234
7. (9) Vanderbilt – 224
8. (8) Kansas – 208
9. (12) UCLA – 195
10. (10) Oklahoma State – 191
11. (11) Michigan – 183
12. (7) Texas – 182
13. (14) UCF – 155
14. (15) Washington – 135
T15. (17) NC State – 117
T15. (18) Texas A&M – 117
17. (13) Florida State – 116
18. (16) Miami (Fla.) – 104
19. (19) USC– 98
20. (20) Tennessee – 60
21. (21) Florida – 46
22. (23) California –42
23. (24) Virginia – 41
24. (22) Ohio State – 22
25. (25) Wake Forest – 21
Receiving Votes: Princeton 5, Kentucky 3, LSU 2
Dropped Out: None

In order to read the full release from The Tennis Channel/USTA College Tennis Top 25 poll, please visit: https://kuathne.ws/2VQUaXw