How good is a university team tennis player?

Question

how good are the university team tennis players? what ITF ranking would they have?

Answer 1

Well, that's a very interesting question and here's the best way to answer it. The higher level players are as good as the top 200.

John Isner (Took a set from Federer)

Jesse Levine (Almost took a set from Nadal)

Somdev Devvarman (47 match win streak)

Amer Delic

Benjamin Becker

Bob and Mike Brian

Ryan Sweeting

Then there's the regular college players that never make it out of the top 1000. For the most part a player like Bernard Tomic or Ryan Harrison are so much better, but some can be Grand Slam good one day (Macenroe)

Answer 2

I played on number 3 singles and number 1 doubles on my high school tennis team and I now play at college.

I do not play for varsity and I am not very good, but many Universities will let you on the team if you are a girl of any talent level. This is because the number of girls playing sports for a school has to be the same as the number of boys.  

It takes like 80 guys to make a college football team, and since there is no girl equivalent, all of the other girl sports have to make up for this gap.

At the end of the day, as it always does, it comes down to numbers.  The guy tennis teams have to be tiny and the girls teams have to be huge. If you did not win most of your games in high school as a guy, you wont make it on the college team.  And if you are a girl it may not matter if you did not win one game in High School.

If you are looking at what it would take to make varsity, look at your H.S. record. I'd say you would have had to win at least 60-70 percent of your games at the number 1 or 2 spot, but you can always try out for the team- Good luck!