INDIANAPOLIS– On Tuesday, the NCAA announced its 2024 singles and doubles championship competitors, which was highlighted by two student-athletes from Arizona State. For singles, Murphy Cassone earned an at-large selection, while Bor Artnak was named an alternate. Cassone and Jacob Bullard qualified as a pair, picking up the Pac-12’s automatic qualifications.
Cassone posted a single-season singles record of 13-6, including an upset of then-#4 Ozan Baris, and was 11-1 alongside Bullard as a doubles duo this season. The pair was ranked #79 in the most recent ITA polls on April 23.
The field is composed of 64 singles players and 32 doubles teams that will compete in the 2024 NCAA Division I Men’s Tennis Championships.
The singles and doubles competition will be conducted May 20-25 at the Greenwood Tennis Center in Stillwater, Oklahoma, after the conclusion of the team championship, which runs from May 16-19. Oklahoma State University serves as host.
All matches shall be the best-of-three sets. No-ad scoring and a seven-point tiebreaker (first to seven points, must win by two points) at six-games-all will be used for all matches. In doubles, a 10-point match tiebreaker will be played in lieu of a third set.
Automatic qualification into the Division I singles championship is awarded to any conference with one or more eligible singles players ranked in the ITA Top 125 for eligible/entered singles players. For conferences with more than one singles player within the ITA Top 125 eligible/entered singles players, the subcommittee applies the NCAA selection criteria to determine which student-athlete is the automatic qualifier from those conferences. All singles players must have a minimum of 13 started singles matches, with six matches in the spring, in order to be selected as an automatic qualifier or an at-large selection.
Automatic qualification into the Division I doubles championship is awarded to any conference with one or more eligible doubles teams ranked in the ITA Top 60 for eligible/entered doubles teams. For conferences with more than one doubles team within the ITA Top 60 eligible/entered doubles teams, the subcommittee applies the NCAA selection criteria to determine which doubles team is the automatic qualifier from those conferences. All doubles teams must have started a minimum of 10 doubles matches, with a…
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