American Collegiate Invitational

American Collegiate Invitational
venue	New York City New York
First run	2014
Last event	2017
Tournament type	Free place tournament
Game surface	Hard court
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The American Collegiate Invitational was an invitation tournament in US college tennis that took place from 2014 to 2017 during the second week of the US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City .

mode

A women's and a men's competition were held, each of which consisted of eight players. No doubles competitions were played. Only US citizens were considered for invitation. In addition to active college players, players who had finished their college careers in the summer of the same year were also allowed to participate. In both competitions, the following eight players received an invitation:

• The top two players in the world rankings
• The top five players in the college rankings
• A wildcard selected by the USTA

If one of the top five players in the college rankings was already qualified via their world rankings, the sixth best player moved up.

The winners in the women and men were given the prospect of wild cards for the main fields of the upcoming US Open. The actual award was tied to the condition that the player in question had reached a certain position in the world rankings. Otherwise the wildcard was only valid for the qualifying tournament. In 2014, the limits for this were 250th place for men and 150th place for women. From 2015, the limits for women and men were uniformly 120th place.

Winners list

Men's

year	winner	Final opponent	Result
2014	Marcos Giron	Peter Kobelt	6: 1, 6: 3
2015	Mackenzie McDonald	Gonzales Austin	6: 2, 7: 5
2016	Thai-Son Kwiatkowski	Austin Smith	6: 2, 6: 2
2017	Tom Fawcett	Michael Redlicki	7: 6 4 , 6: 7 6 , 6: 4

Ladies

year	winner	Final opponent	Result
2014	Jamie Loeb	Julia Elbaba	7: 5, 6: 1
2015	Robin Anderson	Chanelle Van Nguyen	6: 4, 6: 4
2016	Danielle Collins	Ronit Yurovsky	6: 2, 6: 4
2017	Francesca Di Lorenzo	Ingrid Neel	4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 4

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jovica Ilic: USTA announces bad news for collegiate players. Tennis World USA, August 3, 2018, accessed January 11, 2019 . 
2. ^ ^{A b} Sally Milano: NCAA champions headline field for American Collegiate Invitational. (No longer available online.) In: usopen.org. United States Tennis Association, August 16, 2017, archived from the original on August 19, 2017 ; accessed on August 19, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ American Collegiate Invitational. In: usta.com. United States Tennis Association, accessed November 16, 2014 .