DIII and Independent Colleges

Collegiate Events Information

Fees:  Division III Singles: $45.00 Doubles: $55.00 per team.

Fees:  Independent Colleges Singles: $45.00 Doubles: $45.00 per team.

Fees must be paid at time of entry. Please request a receipt for fees (if needed) at time of entry.

Accommodations: If you need hotel or motel accommodations, please see our Visitor Information page.

Coaches’ wrist bands: In lieu of coaches’ passes, Collegiate coaches with proper identification and whose player’s names appear on the roster will be issued wrist bands. Only one assistant college coach may be registered and his/her name must appear on the entry form. Coaches’ spouses, family and friends of players or coaches will be required to purchase spectator tickets to gain entrance to Libbey Park, the Ojai Valley Athletic Club / Weil Tennis Academy, and the Ojai Valley Inn courts during the hours of play. Players and coaches will be required to present identification to gain entrance at these sites. No tickets or IDs are required at other sites. Wrist bands will be issued at all Ventura and Oxnard sites on Thursday.

Tentative rosters for Collegiate events are usually available on the USTA Serve Tennis tournament home page (under the Draws and Results tab on the top menu) the Sunday before the first day of play.

Draws for these events will be posted on the USTA Serve Tennis tournament home page as soon as they are available, usually by Tuesday night before the first day of play.

Collegiate Events Menu

Men’s Independent College Championships

Division III Men’s West Regional College Championships

Division III Women’s West Regional College Championships

Men’s Independent College Championships

Men’s Singles Men’s Doubles

Open to men tennis players from all four-year collegiate institutions not members of the PAC-12 Conference.

For more information about this event, please contact Tournament Director Terry Lynch at collegeentry@aol.com.

Each college or university may enter three singles players and two doubles teams.

Players may play in both of these events, but not in any other event.

Doubles matches will be 2 out of 3 sets with a tie breaker in lieu of a third set.

In addition to winner and runner-up awards, the William A. Fairburn, Jr. Challenge Team Trophy, the Joseph O. Bixler Doubles Trophy, and the John H. Morrison, Jr. Singles Trophy will be awarded.

Headquarters for this event will be Pierpont Racquet Club.  Matches begin on Friday and will be played at the Pierpont Racquet Club.  Matches will be played in Ojai on Saturday and Sunday. Maps to all sites used by The Ojai can be found on the Court Locations page.

Fees: Singles: $45.00 Doubles: $45.00 per team.

Fax: (805) 648-2160

For further information or questions, please contact: Terry Lynch at collegeentry@aol.com or by phone at: (805) 648-3876 or (805) 320-5394.

Division III Men’s West Regional College Championships

Men’s Singles Men’s Doubles

Dear Coaches –

The 120th Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament will once again be held from April 22-24, 2022 in the lovely town of Ojai and surrounding areas. The Men’s Division III event will be a part of this tournament and will start on Friday April 22 at the Pierpont Racquet Club in Ventura. Matches on Saturday and Sunday will be held in Ojai, with the singles final and doubles final being played at historic Libbey Park.

The Men’s Division III singles event will consist of a maximum of 32 players, while the Men’s Division III doubles event will consist of a maximum of 16 doubles teams. The singles winner will receive the Ted Ducey Singles Trophy, while the doubles winners will be presented the Jim Verdieck Doubles Trophy.

Entries will close on Sunday April 10, 2022. All entries will be done by e-mail. Draws, seeds and order of play will be made by the committee on Tuesday, April 19, 2022.

If you wish to enter players, please e-mail Jason Cohen of Caltech at jmcohen@caltech.edu by Monday April 4th listing all players you would like to be considered for entry. You must submit your players/teams in order of strength. The Committee will make their selections by Wednesday, April 6th, in order to allow coaches to make travel plans. The draw will be done on Tuesday April 19. Once you have been informed of how many players have been selected, you will need to submit entry fees. The entry fees for the 2022 Ojai are $45 per singles entry and $55 per doubles team.

Any players that are not accepted will have the opportunity to participate in the Men’s Independent College draw. Please contact Terry Lynch directly at (805) 648-3876 or collegeentry@aol.com to submit your players for the Independent College events. Draws are limited to 32 players.

All matches in singles will be the best of three tiebreak sets. All matches in doubles (with the exception of the finals) will be an 8 game pro-set, tiebreak at 8 games all. The doubles final will play the best of three tiebreak sets.

For further tournament information, you may look at the tournament’s official website, www.theojai.net. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact members of the Committee.

2022 Ojai Men’s Division III Committee

Mike Gennette (Cal Lutheran) gennette@callutheran.edu (805) 231-6450

Geoff Roche (Redlands) Geoff_Roche@redlands.edu (909) 327-8611

Mike Napoli (UC Santa Cruz) mpnapoli@ucsc.edu

Division III Women’s West Regional College Championships

Women’s Singles Women’s Doubles

Headquarters for this event will be The Pierpont Racquet Club (PRC). Matches will be played at the Pierpont Racquet Club(PRC) and Ventura College(VC) on Thursday and Friday. Matches will be played in Ojai on Saturday and Sunday. Maps to all sites used by The Ojai can be found on the Court Locations page.

If you wish to enter players, please e-mail Mandy Gamble at gamblegrrl@gmail.com  (626) 319-2787 by Monday April 4, 2022 listing all players you would like to be considered for entry. You must submit your players/teams in order of strength. The Committee will make their selections by Wednesday, April 6th, in order to allow coaches to make travel plans.  The draw will be done on Friday April 15th. Once you have been informed of how many players have been selected, you will need to submit entry fees. The entry fees for the 2022 Ojai are $45 per singles entry and $55 per doubles team.

For further information or questions, please contact: Terry Lynch at collegeentry@aol.com or by phone at: (805) 648-3876 or (805) 320-5394.