The NCAA Men's Tennis Championships are annual tournaments held in the spring to crown team, singles, and doubles champions in American college

tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...

. The first intercollegiate championship was held in 1883, 23 years before the founding of the

National Collegiate Athletic Association The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates College athletics in the United States, student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, and Simon Fraser University, 1 in Canada. ...

(NCAA), with

Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher lear ...

's Joseph Clark taking the singles title. The same year Clark partnered to Howard Taylor to win the doubles title. Since 1963, the NCAA organizes separate tournaments for Division I and II. A tournament for Division III was added in 1973. The NCAA discontinued the Division II singles and doubles championships in 1995. From 1946 to 1976, players' individual performances were awarded points which were tallied to determine the NCAA "team" champion. In 1977, the NCAA began a dual-match single-elimination team tournament with 16 schools to determine the team championship. Subsequently, expanded to include byes for 12 teams in the first round, the team tournament adopted its current 64-team single-elimination format in 1999.

Texas Christian University Texas Christian University (TCU) is a private university, private research university in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. It was established in 1873 by brothers Addison Clark, Addison and Randolph Clark as the AddRan Male & Female College. It i ...

won the most recent Division I national team championship in 2024, defeating the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public university, public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 stud ...

in the final.

Alabama Alabama ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South, Deep Southern regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gu ...

's Filip Planinsek captured the singles championship, and

Ohio State The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. A member of the University System of Ohio, it was founded in 1870. It is one of the largest universities by enrollme ...

's JJ Tracy and Robert Cash won the doubles championship.

Valdosta State University Valdosta State University (VSU or Valdosta State) is a public university in Valdosta, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1906, it launched in 1913 as an all-girls college. VSU is one of the four comprehensive universities in the University System ...

won the Division II national championship. The

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...

won the Division III national team championship. The 2024–25 school year is the first of a two-year trial in which the Division I men's and women's championships will operate in a split-season format, with singles and doubles championships held in the fall and team championships in the spring.

Team champions

Individual champions

:''The NCAA was founded in 1906. The first tennis championship sponsored by the NCAA was in 1946.'' :''Individual championships were not held in 1917–18.''

Singles

† ''First championship sponsored by NCAA''

Doubles

† ''First championship sponsored by NCAA''

Records

The following is a list of

NCAA Division I NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest division of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, which accepts players globally. D-I schools include the major collegiate athlet ...

college tennis individual statistics and records through the 2024 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships.

Individual national championships – Singles

Individual national championships – Doubles

Individual records

* Note: ''No doubles team has won more than two titles; however, the following players have won three doubles titles with two or more different partners: Wallace P. Knapp, Yale (1884-85-86); Malcolm Chace, Brown (1893) and Yale (1894–95); Leo Ware, Harvard (1896-97-98); Richard Harte, Harvard (1914-15-16); and

Rafael Osuna Rafael Osuna Herrera (15 September 1938 – 4 June 1969), nicknamed "El Pelón" (The Bald), was a former world No. 1 tennis player, and an Olympian. He was born in Mexico City, and is best remembered for his singles victory at the U.S. Open C ...

, Southern California (1961-62-63)'' * Most individual titles, career: 6 ** Malcolm Chace,

Brown Brown is a color. It can be considered a composite color, but it is mainly a darker shade of orange. In the CMYK color model used in printing and painting, brown is usually made by combining the colors Orange (colour), orange and black. In the ...

Yale Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges ch ...

*** Singles (1893, 1894, and 1895), Doubles (1893, 1894, and 1895) * Most singles titles, career: 3 ** Malcolm Chace,

(1893, 1894, and 1895) ** Francisco Segura, Miami (FL) (1943, 1944, and 1945)

References

External links

NCAAsports.com
{{National Collegiate Athletic Association Tennis Men Tennis tournaments in the United States College tennis in the United States College men's tennis in the United States