Internal · asset previews · September 2026

Scratch.

New assets for the briefs before they go into any page: three charts built from real league data, and the first two action clips. Nothing here is final — tell me what to change.

Brief upgrades plan · items 2 and 4

■ Chart A

Where INTENNSE sits on the calendar.

The argument in one picture: INTENNSE is a season, and the other team events are weekends. Eight playing weeks, in the middle of the summer, ending before the US Open swing peaks.

JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC INTENNSE — 8 weeks · 58 days INTENNSE · 8 weeks · 58 days Australian Open Australian Open Roland Garros Roland Garros Wimbledon Wimbledon US Open US Open Washington Washington Canada Canada Cincinnati Cincinnati Winston-Salem Winston-Salem United Cup · 10 days United Cup · 10 days Laver Cup · 3 days Laver Cup · 3 days Davis Cup Finals · 6 days Davis Cup Finals · 6 days World Team Tennis · 6 nights World Team Tennis · 6 nights INTENNSE Grand Slams US summer swing Team events
INTENNSE Grand Slams Team events
2026 season. INTENNSE: 5 June – 1 August, 58 days, one dark week for Wimbledon. Sources: data.intennse.com/2026/calendar.tsv; published tournament calendars.
The numbers behind it
EventDates 2026Days
INTENNSE season5 Jun – 1 Aug58
World Team Tennis1 – 15 Dec15 · 6 match nights
United Cup2 – 11 Jan10
Davis Cup Finals24 – 29 Nov6
Laver Cup25 – 27 Sep3

Open: 2027 dates aren’t published yet — the chart shows 2026. Send me the 2027 window and I’ll redraw it.

■ Chart B

Career high, and where they are now.

The top three men and three women from each 2026 roster — the shape every team carries in 2027 — sorted by career high. The yellow dot is the career high; the open dot is where they stand today. Names in yellow are the players who came straight out of college. The blue diamond on each row is something else entirely: where that player finished in the league’s own MVP race, on its own scale along the bottom.

Main draw · top 100 Challenger · 101–350 ITF Futures · 351–900 Beyond · 900+ Men Kevin King — now #1601 Kevin King — career high #162 Kevin King — MVP race 9 of 19 here (season score 25.92) Kevin King Roberto Cid — now #1340 Roberto Cid — career high #211 Roberto Cid — MVP race 1 of 19 here (season score 53.17) Roberto Cid Karue Sell — now #1755 Karue Sell — career high #258 Karue Sell — MVP race 5 of 19 here (season score 38.67) Karue Sell Elmar Ejupovic — now #915 Elmar Ejupovic — career high #273 Elmar Ejupovic — MVP race 3 of 19 here (season score 42.08) Elmar Ejupovic Benjamin Lock — now #943 Benjamin Lock — career high #309 Benjamin Lock — MVP race 16 of 19 here (season score 5.58) Benjamin Lock Juan Carlos Aguilar — now #1393 Juan Carlos Aguilar — career high #409 Juan Carlos Aguilar — MVP race 6 of 19 here (season score 36.31) Juan Carlos Aguilar Felix Corwin — now #862 Felix Corwin — career high #478 Felix Corwin — MVP race 18 of 19 here (season score 3.67) Felix Corwin Ewen Lumsden — now #1472 Ewen Lumsden — career high #585 Ewen Lumsden Blu Baker — now #1190 Blu Baker — career high #608 Blu Baker — MVP race 13 of 19 here (season score 21.54) Blu Baker Noah Schachter — now #1094 Noah Schachter — career high #654 Noah Schachter — MVP race 10 of 19 here (season score 24.33) Noah Schachter Jesse Flores — now #873 Jesse Flores — career high #759 Jesse Flores — MVP race 8 of 19 here (season score 27.14) Jesse Flores Finn Murgett — now #796 Finn Murgett — career high #796 Finn Murgett — MVP race 7 of 19 here (season score 30.75) Finn Murgett Tyler Stice — now #1658 Tyler Stice — career high #826 Tyler Stice — MVP race 14 of 19 here (season score 17.39) Tyler Stice William Bushamuka — now #1863 William Bushamuka — career high #904 William Bushamuka — MVP race 12 of 19 here (season score 23.03) William Bushamuka Alex Kuperstein — now #1038 Alex Kuperstein — career high #925 Alex Kuperstein — MVP race 15 of 19 here (season score 14.42) Alex Kuperstein Jamie Connel — now #1254 Jamie Connel — career high #1124 Jamie Connel — MVP race 4 of 19 here (season score 40.58) ■ Jamie Connel Raul Garcia — now #1679 Raul Garcia — career high #1248 Raul Garcia — MVP race 2 of 19 here (season score 46.25) Raul Garcia Oren Vasser — now #2288 Oren Vasser — career high #1360 Oren Vasser — MVP race 17 of 19 here (season score 4.83) Oren Vasser Youcef Rihane — now #1689 Youcef Rihane — career high #1461 Youcef Rihane — MVP race 11 of 19 here (season score 23.17) Youcef Rihane Rafael Marques da Silva — now #1605 Rafael Marques da Silva — career high #1600 Rafael Marques da Silva Isaac Nortey — now #2203 Isaac Nortey — career high #1696 Isaac Nortey — MVP race 19 of 19 here (season score 0.06) Isaac Nortey 50 100 250 500 1000 2000 ◆ MVP race among these 19 — season score, best 6 rounds (1 = best) 1 5 10 15 19 Main draw · top 100 Challenger · 101–350 ITF Futures · 351–900 Beyond · 900+ Women Usue Arconada — now #847 Usue Arconada — career high #130 Usue Arconada — MVP race 1 of 16 here (season score 53.08) Usue Arconada Seone Mendez — now #1014 Seone Mendez — career high #198 Seone Mendez — MVP race 3 of 16 here (season score 33.75) Seone Mendez Victoria Rodriguez — now #586 Victoria Rodriguez — career high #216 Victoria Rodriguez — MVP race 4 of 16 here (season score 29.0) Victoria Rodriguez Sophie Chang — now #1476 Sophie Chang — career high #217 Sophie Chang — MVP race 5 of 16 here (season score 28.88) Sophie Chang Adriana Reami — now #932 Adriana Reami — career high #359 Adriana Reami — MVP race 11 of 16 here (season score 14.42) Adriana Reami Dalayna Hewitt — now #579 Dalayna Hewitt — career high #383 Dalayna Hewitt — MVP race 6 of 16 here (season score 28.25) Dalayna Hewitt Ema Burgic — now #676 Ema Burgic — career high #466 Ema Burgic — MVP race 10 of 16 here (season score 15.08) Ema Burgic Naomi Cheong — now #1184 Naomi Cheong — career high #485 Naomi Cheong — MVP race 8 of 16 here (season score 25.5) ■ Naomi Cheong Carson Tanguilig — now #580 Carson Tanguilig — career high #580 Carson Tanguilig — MVP race 2 of 16 here (season score 49.83) ■ Carson Tanguilig Raphaelle Lacasse — now #773 Raphaelle Lacasse — career high #646 Raphaelle Lacasse — MVP race 12 of 16 here (season score 6.17) Raphaelle Lacasse Jessica Hinojosa — now #653 Jessica Hinojosa — career high #653 Jessica Hinojosa — MVP race 7 of 16 here (season score 27.33) Jessica Hinojosa Rhiann Newborn — now #1474 Rhiann Newborn — career high #688 Rhiann Newborn — MVP race 13 of 16 here (season score 2.92) Rhiann Newborn Sabastiani Leon — now #913 Sabastiani Leon — career high #699 Sabastiani Leon Solymar Colling — now #992 Solymar Colling — career high #714 Solymar Colling Jamilah Snells — now #792 Jamilah Snells — career high #792 Jamilah Snells — MVP race 14 of 16 here (season score 2.83) ■ Jamilah Snells Brandy Walker — now #1248 Brandy Walker — career high #864 Brandy Walker — MVP race 15 of 16 here (season score 2.42) Brandy Walker Kianah Motosono — now #1332 Kianah Motosono — career high #1103 Kianah Motosono — MVP race 16 of 16 here (season score 0.75) Kianah Motosono Tatiana Sasnouskaya — now #1559 Tatiana Sasnouskaya — career high #1273 Tatiana Sasnouskaya — MVP race 9 of 16 here (season score 21.33) Tatiana Sasnouskaya 50 100 250 500 1000 2000 ◆ MVP race among these 16 — season score, best 6 rounds (1 = best) 1 5 10 15 16
Career high September 2026 MVP race ↗ (second scale) Name in yellow = straight from college
Rounds 1–3 of the 2026 draft: 60 players, of whom 39 have both a career high and a current ranking. Fourth-round picks are excluded — 2027 rosters are three women and three men. Tier cut-offs: main draw top 100, Challenger 101–350, ITF Futures 351–900 (the ITF renamed the Futures circuit the World Tennis Tour in 2019). Sources: draft.intennse.com, stats.intennse.com MVP race, Tennis Abstract, retrieved 20 September 2026.
What the blue diamonds show, and the caveats

Rank on tour did not decide rank in the league. The rows are sorted by career-high ranking, so if tour level carried over, the blue diamonds would fall in a neat diagonal. They don’t. Raul Garcia, whose career high is #1248, finished second in the MVP race among the men here; Carson Tanguilig, career high #580, finished second among the women. Several of the strongest tour résumés finished mid-table.

The second scale is the league’s published MVP race, whose season score is the average of each player’s best six completed rounds out of eight — so a big night in a single Arc can’t carry anyone. Players are ranked only against the others on this chart; four of the 39 didn’t complete enough rounds to appear in the race, and so carry no diamond.

This chart covers the 60 players taken in rounds 1–3 — three men and three women per team, which is the roster shape from 2027 onward. Of those, 39 have both a career high and a current ranking; the rest have never held a professional ranking at all. Across the full 80-player roster, 24 have never been ranked — checked against a full index of 79,580 ranked players, so that is a finding rather than a gap in the data.

Career highs run from #88 (Aliona Bolsova) to #1906, with a median of #671. One player has been inside the top 100; thirteen have been inside the top 300.

Five of these sixty came straight from a college program at 23 or younger — Carson Tanguilig (North Carolina), Naomi Cheong (USC), Jamilah Snells (Louisville), Jamie Connel (Florida State) and Ellie Schulson (Furman). Their names are in yellow. Six more were drafted in round four, including Kate Sharabura, the Georgia Tech All-American who played for Team Tampa in 2025.

Only 8 players have a true 2026 season high on the public record, so the open dot is each player’s current ranking in September 2026. A real season-high for everyone needs week-by-week ranking history — or our own draft board.

Open: the draft board carries proSglBest and utrBest for all 160 drafted players. One export turns every estimate on this page into the league’s own numbers.

■ Chart C

UTR: our players against the tour’s.

The same argument in the rating system that covers everyone, professional or not. Our players sit at ITF level and just below Challenger — the band the tour cannot absorb.

Men n=28 top-three picks ITF World Tennis Tour (men) — UTR 13.38–14.33 ITF Futures · 351–900 13.38–14.33 ATP Challenger — UTR 14.28–15.59 Challenger · 101–350 14.28–15.59 ATP main-tour main draw — UTR 15.41–16.07 Main draw · top 100 15.41–16.07 Median 13.20 Juan Bianchi — UTR 12.4 Brandon Perez — UTR 12.4 William Bushamuka — UTR 12.5 Isaac Nortey — UTR 12.5 Raul Garcia — UTR 12.6 William Nolan — UTR 12.7 Samuel Nicholson — UTR 12.8 Matthew Terry — UTR 12.8 Oren Vasser — UTR 12.8 Jesse Flores — UTR 12.9 Noah Schachter — UTR 12.9 Rafael Marques Da Silva — UTR 13.0 Tyler Stice — UTR 13.0 Ewen Lumsden — UTR 13.1 Juan Carlos Aguilar — UTR 13.3 Jamie Connel — UTR 13.3 · straight from college Joao Vitor Goncalves Ceolin — UTR 13.3 Alex Kuperstein — UTR 13.3 Finn Murgett — UTR 13.3 Blu Baker — UTR 13.4 Felix Corwin — UTR 13.4 Alafia Ayeni — UTR 13.5 Kevin King — UTR 13.5 Benjamin Lock — UTR 13.5 Elmar Ejupovic — UTR 13.6 Youcef Rihane — UTR 13.6 Roberto Cid — UTR 13.9 Karue Sell — UTR 13.9 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Women n=30 top-three picks ITF World Tennis Tour (women) — UTR 10.52–11.67 ITF Futures · 351–900 10.52–11.67 WTA 125 / Challenger — UTR 11.22–12.08 WTA 125 · 101–350 11.22–12.08 WTA main-tour main draw — UTR 12.18–12.92 Main draw · top 100 12.18–12.92 Median 10.60 Kianah Motosono — UTR 9.4 Samantha Alicea — UTR 9.6 Ellie Schulson — UTR 9.6 · straight from college Sabastiani Leon — UTR 9.7 Brandy Walker — UTR 9.7 Rhiann Newborn — UTR 10.0 Seone Mendez — UTR 10.1 Jamilah Snells — UTR 10.1 · straight from college Annabelle Thomas — UTR 10.1 Solymar Colling — UTR 10.2 Jessica Hinojosa — UTR 10.2 Naomi Cheong — UTR 10.3 · straight from college Alexandra Mueller — UTR 10.3 Malkia Ngounoue — UTR 10.3 Carly Briggs — UTR 10.6 Sophie Chang — UTR 10.6 Raphaelle Lacasse — UTR 10.6 Maria Fernanda Navarro Oliva — UTR 10.6 Adriana Reami — UTR 10.6 Sofia Johnson — UTR 10.7 Tatiana Sasnouskaya — UTR 10.7 Carson Tanguilig — UTR 10.7 · straight from college Frances Altick — UTR 10.8 Sydni Ratliff — UTR 10.8 Victoria Rodriguez — UTR 10.8 Ema Burgic — UTR 10.9 Dalayna Hewitt — UTR 11.0 Sofia Cabezas — UTR 11.2 Usue Arconada — UTR 11.4 Aliona Bolsova Zadoinov — UTR 11.4 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 UTR rating → men and women on separate scales
INTENNSE player Straight from collegeTop three picks per team Tour band (10th–90th percentile)
Bands derived from 286 players who publish both a UTR rating and an ATP/WTA ranking, taken at the 10th–90th percentile of each tier. INTENNSE ratings: the top three men and three women per 2026 roster — 28 men and 30 women carry a rating on the league’s own draft board. Source: draft.intennse.com players board, retrieved 20 September 2026.
How the bands were built

Rather than cite someone’s rule of thumb, the bands come from UTR’s own data: 286 players who carry both a published rating and their tour ranking on the same record, grouped by ranking tier and cut at the 10th and 90th percentiles. The curve is cleanly monotonic from ITF to Challenger to main draw, which is itself a check that it is real.

The ITF band is the Futures circuit — renamed the World Tennis Tour in 2019, but the same M15/M25 and W15/W35 events. The league’s draft board also carries each player’s World Tennis Number, so a WTN version of this chart is possible; UTR is used here because the tour bands are derived from real UTR-and-ranking pairs, and because UTR is the number college and agency audiences read fluently.

Men’s and women’s UTR are not comparable — the scales sit about three points apart — so the chart is split by gender and never mixes them.

These are the league’s own numbers, limited to the top three picks of each gender per team. Medians for that group: 13.20 for the men and 10.60 for the women, against career-best medians of 13.60 and 11.20. Including fourth-round picks pulls both figures down — 12.85 and 10.25 — which is why the chart shows the roster shape the league actually carries from 2027.

Open: the two college bands are still off this chart — a real “top college” band needs in-season college UTRs, not our players’ post-college ratings. The draft board also carries WTN and doubles ratings if either is worth a chart.

■ Clips

Two points that flipped the score.

One from the net, one from the low camera. Each is about twenty seconds, and each one changed the scoreboard — with the Match Center a click away.

Low angle, the final Bolt

The last play of the Bolt from the low camera: a two-pointer that takes the Sting from 86–87 to 88–87. 22 seconds.

Match Center ↗

Mixed doubles, last seconds

Dalayna Hewitt’s two-pointer in the closing seconds against Rise, 15 July — 156 to 158, level. 18 seconds.

Match Center ↗

Down to the wire; Sudden Death

Two Arcs that finished a point apart. Each clip picks up in the closing minutes, with the full Arc a click away.

Sudden death, level at 142

The final three minutes of Freeze v Rise, 20 June. The clock runs out with the teams tied, and the next point decides it: 143–142.

Match Center ↗

One point, one minute left

The final minute of Outriders v Inferno, 25 June. It finishes 150–149, with the winner’s cheque on court.

Match Center ↗

Open: the two hosted clips both point at the 15 July Match Center — the low-angle Bolt needs its own Arc id. Tell me which sections of the briefs each clip should live in, and send any further footage (a singles point, and a net-level angle).