Kim Advances to Round of 32 at NCAA Championships

2025 NCAA Singles and Doubles Championship       

Dates:                 Nov. 18-23

Times:                  All Day

Venue:               USTA National Campus, Orlando, Florida

Website:            Tournament Central | NCAA Men’s Tennis Home | ITA Home

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Draws:                Singles/Doubles

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Aidan Kim received his opening spherical singles match on the 2025 NCAA Championships to advance to the Round of 32 Wednesday in Orlando. 

Preston Stearns and Jack Anthrop each dropped opening spherical matches Tuesday. 

Six Buckeyes traveled to Florida to compete within the 2025 NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships.

Kim, Anthrop and Stearns opened the singles match Tuesday whereas junior Bryce Nakashima (with Kim), sophomore Nikita Filin and redshirt sophomore Brandon Carpico will compete within the doubles championship beginning Wednesday. 

This is the second yr of a two-year program of holding the singles and doubles championships on the finish of the autumn season. There had been qualifying occasions wherein gamers may earn their spot within the fall championship.

Kim earned his means into the NCAA Tournament by advancing to the finals of the season-opening ITA All-American Championships (Sept. 20-28/Tulsa). Stearns was the co-champion of the ITA Midwest Regional Championships (Oct. 16-20/Chicago) whereas Anthrop claimed his spot with an look within the semifinals on the ITA Central Sectional (Nov. 6-8/Ann Arbor, Michigan).

In doubles, the group of Kim and Nakashima certified by successful the title on the Midwest Regional whereas Filin and Carpico earned their spot as finalists on the Central Sectional Championships. 

Ohio State Singles Schedule/Results

Round of 64 (Nov. 18)

Petar Jovanovic (MSST) def. Preston Stearns (OSU), 7-5, 6-3

No. 3 Aidan Kim (OSU) def. Antonio Prat (MIAMI), 7-6(7), 6-4

Filip Gustafsson (ARIZ) def. Jack Anthrop (OSU), 6-3, 6-0

Round of 32

No. 3 Aidan Kim (OSU) vs. William Jansen, Georgia, TBA

Doubles Schedule (Nov. 19)

Aidan Kim/Bryce Nakashima (OSU) vs. Mans Dahlberg/Dylan Dietrich (UVA), TBA

Nikita Filin/Brandon Carpico (OSU) vs. Luis Felipe Miguel/Erik Schiessl (FSU), TBA

• Kim entered the 2025 NCAA Singles Tournament because the No. 3 seed. Anthrop was among the many gamers seeded 9-16.
• In doubles, Kim and Nakashima are among the many groups seeded 5-8.
• Anthrop entered the NCAA championships recent from a singles title on the ITF $25K final week in Columbus
• Filin and Carpico additionally had been victorious in doubles on the ITF $25K.
• Last time within the NCAAs: Anthrop made the quarterfinals of the 2024 Spring NCAA Championship whereas Kim superior to the Round of 16 within the Fall of 2024. Nakashima, with William Jansen made the quarters of the 2024 Fall championships in doubles.
• Kim/Nakashima and Filin/Carpico wish to proceed the latest run of Buckeye doubles success within the NCAA Tournament. A Buckeye doubles group has received two of the final three NCAA Championship. James Trotter and Andrew Lutschaunig received in 2023, and JJ Tracy and Robert Cash received in 2024.

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