NCAA Division I Individual Tennis Championships Start Tuesday on the USTA National Campus

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Lake Nona, Florida – The 2025 NCAA Division I Individual Tennis Championships have arrived because the nation’s finest singles gamers and doubles groups will converge on the USTA National Campus in Lake Nona, Florida for per week stuffed with should see school tennis matchups.

Marking the second and last yr of a NCAA pilot program through which the NCAA Individual Championships are held within the fall relatively than after the workforce championship within the spring, this yr’s championship will happen from November 18-23 with each the singles and doubles nationwide championships being performed on Sunday, November twenty third.

As one of the crucial storied championships in school tennis, previous singles champions embody Ben Shelton (Florida, 2022), Emma Navarro (Virginia, 2021), Mackenzie McDonald (UCLA, 2016), Danielle Collins (Virginia, 2014 & 2016), Steve Johnson (USC, 2011 & 2012), Jill Craybas (Florida, 1996), and Bob Bryan (Stanford, 1998) to call a number of.

Coming into the 2025 NCAA Division I Individual Championships there are quite a few names and storylines followers are maintaining a tally of as anticipation for this championship in addition to the spring twin match season continues to develop. Below are only a few notable storylines as we get able to kick off play in Lake Nona on Tuesday:

Can Michael Zheng Repeat because the Men’s Singles Champion

As one of the crucial prolific names inside school tennis, Michael Zheng has been one of many prime gamers within the nation all through his first three years at Columbia. Making historical past final fall, Zheng turned the primary Ivy League participant to say the NCAA Singles Championship since 1992 and continued to dominate all through the spring season as properly, ending because the No. 2 ranked participant within the nation. This summer time Zheng has displayed an analogous dominance on the ATP Challenger Tour the place he gained three straight Challenger Titles and held a 15 match profitable streak throughout this stretch. Climbing as much as a profession finest rating of No. 180 within the ATP Singles Rankings in late October, Zheng stunned many by returning to Columbia for his senior season competing within the Ivy League Fall Conference Championship and the ITA Conference Masters Championship to qualify for the NCAA Singles Championship. Now seeking to defend his title, Zheng is ready to face Hugo Car (USF) within the first spherical on Tuesday.

Will Savannah Dada-Mascoll Continue to be the Story of the Fall Season

In her senior season at Appalachian State, Savannah Dada-Mascoll has been the breakout star of the autumn season, going 10-1 throughout all competitors and incomes the No. 4 seed within the NCAA Women’s Singles Championship. From Yorkshire, England, Dada-Mascoll has been one of the crucial dominant gamers within the Sun Belt Conference over the previous three years and this fall has proven to be one of the crucial dominant gamers in all of school tennis. Having wins over 5 gamers within the NCAA Singles discipline already this fall, Dada-Mascoll started her senior season with a win over the ITA Preseason No. 1 ranked singles participant in DJ Bennett (Auburn) en path to being a comfort draw finalist on the ITA All-American Championships. As the lone participant to hit NCAA qualification benchmarks at two separate fall occasions on both the boys’s or girls’s sides of play, Dada-Mascoll backed up her run on the All-American Championships by being a finalist on the ITA Carolina Regional Championships. Dada-Mascoll is only one of eight gamers within the girls’s singles discipline from outdoors the Power Four Conferences and is the best seeded participant out of the eight.

Will the ITA All-American Singles Champions Continue Their Success In Orlando

Entering as the highest seeded gamers in each the boys’s and girls’s singles draw, Valerie Glozman (Stanford) and Jay Friend (Arizona) each have excessive hopes for his or her time in Orlando as they give the impression of being to construct on success discovered earlier this fall. In what many will argue is a detailed second in status to the NCAA Singles Championships, the ITA All-American Championships is an efficient precursor to the autumn to come back with a overwhelming majority of each the boys’s and girls’s fields being comprised of the identical athletes competing for an NCAA title this week. Both coming into as seeded gamers, however not the highest seeds, Glozman and Friend every reached new heights of their collegiate careers on the All-American Championships which finally propelled them to being the highest seeds in Orlando. Now with the goal on each of their backs, every will look to maintain their type this fall on the highest of ranges with Friend seeking to grow to be the primary NCAA Singles Champion in Arizona historical past, whereas Glozman seems to grow to be the primary NCAA Singles Champion from Stanford since Nicole Gibbs went back-to-back within the 2012 and 2013 seasons.

The Sister Act: Three Pairs of Sisters Set To Compete within the NCAA Women’s Singles Draw

In one of many extra uncommon developments as the autumn progressed, three separate pairs of sisters are set to compete within the NCAA Women’s Singles Draw, every representing completely different faculties. All having one sister being a seeded participant as properly, the trio of sisters consists of Piper Charney (Michigan) and Emma Charney (USC), Gabia Paskauskas (Florida) and Kristina Paskauskas (Alabama), in addition to Annabelle Xu (Virginia) and Naomi Xu (California). In the draw, each the Charney sisters and the Paskauskas sisters can be on reverse sides of the draw that means a doable matchup wouldn’t be within the playing cards till the ultimate. However, for the Xu sisters, they’ve the potential to fulfill within the quarterfinals if each win their first three matches. Throughout all of their collegiate careers, not one of the sisters have confronted one another in both fall or spring competitors.

Which Teams Will Look Most Ready for the Spring Season After the Fall

As a testing floor for the spring season to come back, the NCAA Individual Championships at all times present followers a preview of which groups may be in retailer to take a leap in the course of the spring twin match season. On the boys’s aspect of play, Ohio State leads all applications with 4 gamers within the Men’s Singles draw. Coming off a season through which they went 28-4 and reached the NCAA Round of Sixteen, Ty Tucker and his crew look locked and loaded to be one of many prime applications in school tennis as soon as once more this yr. Just behind Ohio State, with three entries every, had been North Carolina, Arizona, Mississippi State, Virginia, and Wake Forest. On the ladies’s aspect, California, NC State, North Carolina, and USC have every positioned 4 gamers within the Women’s Singles draw. Showing the depth within the ACC, all of those applications have been close to or on the prime of school tennis in recent times and look poised to stay there this season. Just behind these faculties had been Georgia, Ohio State, and Vanderbilt who every had three gamers qualify to compete.

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