Big Ten Sending 20 Players to the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships
Individual championships begin Nov. 18 in Orlando, Fla.
ROSEMONT, Ill. – The Big Ten Conference has qualified 20 student-athletes for the 2025 NCAA Division I Men’s Singles and Doubles Tennis Championships, to be held Nov. 18-23 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla. The University of Central Florida and the USTA will serve as co-hosts. The NCAA Individual Championships are in the second year of a two-year pilot program that moved the event to the fall season. The team championship continues to be held in the spring.
Brackets for the 64-player singles and 32-team doubles tournaments will be revealed on Saturday, Nov. 15.
In singles, the Big Ten will have 11 players represented from seven schools. Five players are seeded, including four in the top eight: No. 3 seed Aidan Kim of Ohio State, No. 4 seed Matthew Forbes of Michigan State, No. 6 seed Kenta Miyoshi of Illinois and No. 8 seed Ozan Baris of Michigan State. Baris, who is making his fourth NCAA appearance, was runner-up at last year’s event.
The doubles competition will feature seven Big Ten tandems from five schools. Five players from the singles competition are pulling double duty and will compete in doubles: Indiana’s Sam Landau, Michigan’s Max Dahlin, Ohio State’s Aidan Kim and UCLA teammates Spencer Johnson and Rudy Quan. Three doubles entries are seeded with Michigan’s Max Dahlin and Bjorn Swenson rating the highest at No. 4.
Five additional Big Ten players are listed as alternates for the championships.
The Big Ten has reached the NCAA doubles final four-straight years, winning twice. Ohio State’s Robert Cash and senior JJ Tracy won in the spring of 2024 and recently advanced to the semifinals of the 2025 US Open. Blaz Rola from Ohio State was the last Big Ten player to win the singles title, accomplishing the feat in 2013. Mackenzie McDonald of UCLA captured the singles crown in 2016.
Listed below are the NCAA qualifiers:
|
Seed/Player |
School |
Event |
2025-26 |
ITA |
Qualifying |
NCAA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
#6 Kenta Miyoshi |
Illinois |
Singles |
8-2 |
#6 |
ITA All-American |
2024: R16 |
|
Sam Landau |
Indiana |
Singles |
6-1 |
#71 |
ITA Ohio Valley Regional |
— |
|
Max Dahlin |
Michigan |
Singles |
6-0 |
#111 |
ITA Midwest Regional |
— |
|
#8 Ozan Baris |
Michigan State |
Singles |
7-2 |
#7 |
ITA All-American |
2024 (F): 2nd Place |
|
#4 Matthew Forbes |
Michigan State |
Singles |
5-1 |
#66 |
ITA All-American |
— |
|
#9-16 Jack Anthrop |
Ohio State |
Singles |
12-3 |
#67 |
ITA Central Sectional |
2024 (S): QF |
|
#3 Aidan Kim |
Ohio State |
Singles |
5-1 |
#4 |
ITA All-American |
2024 (F): R16 |
|
Preston Stearns |
Ohio State |
Singles |
8-2 |
ITA Midwest Regional |
— |
|
|
Spencer Johnson |
UCLA |
Singles |
6-2 |
#19 |
ITA Southwest Regional |
2024 (F): QF |
|
Rudy Quan |
UCLA |
Singles |
5-0 |
ITA Southwest Regional |
— |
|
|
Soham Purohit |
Washington |
Singles |
10-1 |
ITA Northwest Regional |
— |
|
|
Sam Landau/ |
Indiana |
Doubles |
6-3 |
ITA South Sectional |
Yunis 2024 (F): R16 |
|
|
#4 Max Dahlin/ |
Michigan |
Doubles |
3-0 |
#49 |
ITA Central Sectional |
— |
|
#5-8 Aidan Kim/ |
Ohio State |
Doubles |
6-1 |
#15 |
ITA Midwest Regional |
Nakashima 2024 (F): QF |
|
Nikita Filin/ |
Ohio State |
Doubles |
11-2 |
ITA Central Sectional |
— |
|
|
#5-8 Aleksa Krivokapic/ |
Purdue |
Doubles |
6-0 |
ITA Ohio Valley Regional |
— |
|
|
Spencer Johnson/ |
UCLA |
Doubles |
6-1 |
#8 |
ITA Southwest Regional |
— |
|
Rudy Quan/ |
UCLA |
Doubles |
5-1 |
ITA West Sectional |
Tripathi 2024 (F): QF |
Singles Alternate:
2. Emon van Loben Sels, UCLA
Doubles Alternates:
1. Alexander Bernard/Alex Okonkwo, Ohio State
5. Taym Alazmeh/Danial Rakhmatullayev, Michigan State