I've heard that the top in a division one is as good as the top in a division three...is this true?

Question

I've heard that the top in a division one is as good as the top in a division three...is this true?

Answer 1

In addition to the comments above, if you are talking about college, there is another factor.

Division 3 schools are used as 'breeding grounds' for Division I players.  When players from outside the country come to the United States to play college tennis, they must spend a year getting residency.  Some go to a smaller school to learn the language.  

For example, in playing my first year at a junior college, I played a kid that played number 2 on France's junior davis cup squad.  He would have easily taken a Division I player 3 sets, but he only attended the junior college because his English was terrible and he needed time to learn the language.

Thus, a Division 3 player could be someone that belongs in division 1, but just isn't attending yet.

Answer 2

Not true.

Divison or Section 1 is for the best players out.

Do not get me wrong, division 3 is extremly good. You should be proud if your there.

But whoever had said that maybe didn't say his words right or lied.

Because they wouldn't make a Division 3 and division 1 and just classify them as a division 1.

If you are division 3 it is great, Division 2 is even better then you have division 1 which emans your close to being an expert.

Hope I helped.

Phil.

Answer 3

it just depends on the competition really,

it probably shouldn't be, i mean that why we have different divisions but some times things dont work out as there suppose to, so like i said it depends on the comp

Answer 4

I assume you are talking about colleges.  

It's an interesting theory, but I'd have to say it's not quite true.  The top players in the best D1 schools would probably easily beat most top players from the best D3 school.   But it won't always be the case.

Generally, if you go to a D1 school to play a sport, you get some sort of scholarship, and you're there more for the tennis than the education.  In a D3 school, you can't get any scholarship money.  So, you'll choose a school based on what you want to major in, then decide to play tennis there.  

There are some instances where somebody just really wants to go to a specific school (because it's one of the top for a certain major), and it'll be a D3 school.  That same player might be offered money to play at a D1 school but decline.  They are just focusing more on their education than tennis, which is fine.

I'm at one of the top schools in our conference (not a big conference though).  We're D3.  I can compete with the players on our team.  But i couldn't dream of beating any player on, say, the Ohio State men's tennis team (one of the best D1's in the country).  Like I said, we are a small conference, so I don't claim that I'm playing the top D3 players in the country.

So, yes and no.  There will be some players in D3 schools that could hang with the top players in D1.  But if you are serious enough about tennis to be able to get on one of the top D1 schools in the country, chances are you'll do that.  Those people actually have a shot at making a career of tennis.

Where does D2 fit?  Well, it's kinda strange.  You can get money to play at a D2 school.  Because of this, I'd say that D2 is probably less likely to have players that can compete with the best of D1.  Cause if they could, they would just go to a D1 school to begin with.

Answer 5

This can be true sometimes, however most of the time it is not. Occasionally there are very talented tennis players who choose to play D-3 instead of D-1, even if they had the option of playing D-1.  so the TOP tennis player in D3 may be as good as the TOP tennis player in D-1. But the majority of the time, the strongest player is in a D-1 player, and overall skill in D-1 is substantially higher than in D-3.