The Intercollegiate Tennis Association announced the 2017 Oracle ITA Collegiate Tennis Division I Preseason Rankings on Tuesday, September 12, 2017.
On the men's side, the SEC has more than double of the next conference in both singles and doubles. In singles a total of nine players are listed in the Top 25: Nuno Borges, Mississippi State (2); Arthur Rinderknech, Texas A&M (4); Alfredo Perez, Florida (7); William Bushamuka, Kentucky (9); Gustav Hansson, Ole Miss (14); Timo Stodder, Tennessee (17); Cameron Klinger, Vanderbilt (20); Wayne Montgomery, Georgia (21); Daniel Valent, Vanderbilt (25). In doubles, the conference has five of the Tope 10 duos: Robert Loeb/Jan Zielinski, Georgia (2); Alfredo Perez/Johannes Ingildsen, Florida (5); Niclas Braun/Trevor Foshey, Mississippi State (7); Yancy Dennis/Harrison O'Keffe, South Carolina (8); Arthur Rinderknech/AJ Catanzariti, Texas A&M (9).