ITHACA, N.Y. — David Volfson has been tabbed second on the Oracle/ITA Division I Men's National Newcomer/Freshmen Rankings, which were released Tuesday by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association.
 
As of Monday, Volfson has a career-best ATP ranking of 939 — spearheaded by a trip to the quarterfinals of a Futures event in Latvia in early August. Hailing from Thornhill, Ontario, he is already among the top 20 in college tennis in terms of professional ranking, and his ATP ranking is ninth-best among all Canadian nationals. Volfson has won a total of 14 main draw singles matches and six main draw doubles matches at the Futures level. He battled closely with Ti Chen, the 215th-ranked player in the world, before eventually falling in three sets.
 
Volfson is joining a Big Red squad which ranked 48th in the country and was essentially one win shy of securing the program's first-ever at-large berth to the NCAA tournament after a 12-8 campaign. Cornell will compete in its first collegiate tournament of the 2015-16 season this weekend with a trip to the Ivy Plus Tournament, hosted by Princeton.
 
As the governing body of college tennis, the ITA administers the Oracle/ITA Collegiate Tennis Rankings that are designed to track the top men's and women's teams, along with singles and doubles players in NCAA Divisions I, II, III, NAIA, Junior Colleges and California Junior Colleges. The full rankings can be found here.