The 2025 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships were the men's tennis tournaments played from November 19–24, 2024 and May 2 to May 18, 2025, at campus sites and Waco, Texas at the Hurd Tennis Center hosted by Baylor University. It was the 79th edition of the NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championship. As part of a two-year pilot program, the men's singles and doubles championships were conducted in the fall of 2024, while the team championships were played in the spring of 2025.
Men's team championship There were 64 teams selected for the men's team championship, 28 of which were automatic qualifiers from each Division 1 conference. The remaining 36 teams were selected at-large. Teams played two rounds of single-elimination matches in groups of four on May 2-3 or 3-4 at campus sites; the winners of those regionals advanced to a super-regional round on May 9 or 10, also held at campus sites. The remaining eight teams advanced to the championship rounds in Waco, Texas on May 16-18.
Automatic qualifiers The following 28 teams were automatic qualifiers, representing their conferences: Conference Team American Rice Atlantic 10 VCU ACC Stanford ASUN North Alabama Big East St. John's Big Sky Montana Big South Gardner–Webb Big Ten UCLA Big 12 Arizona Big West UC Irvine CAA UNC Wilmington CUSA Middle Tennessee Horizon Belmont Ivy Columbia MAAC Quinnipiac MAC Buffalo MEAC South Carolina State Mountain West New Mexico Northeast Binghamton Patriot Bucknell SEC Texas Southern Samford Southland New Orleans SWAC Alabama State Summit Denver Sun Belt Old Dominion West Coast San Diego WAC Abilene Christian
National seeds Sixteen teams were selected as national seeds and were guaranteed to host for the first two rounds if they submitted a bid and met criteria.
1. Wake Forest (National Champions) 2. TCU (runner-up) 3. Texas (semifinals) 4. Stanford (semifinals) 5. Ohio State (super regionals) 6. San Diego (second round) 7. Virginia (quarterfinals) 8. Columbia (quarterfinals) 9. NC State (super regionals) 10. Arizona (super regionals) 11. California (second round) 12. Mississippi State (quarterfinals) 13. South Carolina (super regionals) 14. Tennessee (super regionals) 15. UCF (super regionals) 16. Texas A&M (super regionals)
Bracket Bold indicates winner. Host institutions for the first two rounds and Super Regionals are marked with an asterisk (*).
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Men's singles championship 64 singles players qualified for the men's singles championship via competition in approved ITA qualifying pathway events. The tournament was played in the Fall of 2024 from November 19 to 24 in Waco, Texas.
Columbia junior Michael Zheng won the men's singles title against Michigan State junior Ozan Baris 6–2, 4–6, 6–2.
National seeds The following sixteen players were seeded for this tournament:
Sebastian Gorzny (Texas) Michael Zheng (Columbia) (National Champion) Colton Smith (Arizona) Carl Emil Overbeck (California) Jay Friend (Arizona) Lui Maxted (TCU) Oliver Tarvet (San Diego) Aidan Kim (Ohio State)
Players ranked 9th–16th, listed by last name Jonah Braswell (Texas) Corey Craig (Florida State) Timo Legout (Texas) Shunsuke Mitsui (Tennessee) Thomas Paulsell (Georgia) Braden Shick (NC State) Dhakshineswar Suresh (Wake Forest) Pedro Vives (TCU)
Draw Bracket:
Finals
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Men's doubles championship 32 doubles teams qualified for the men's doubles championship, via competition in approved ITA qualifying pathway events. The tournament was played at the same time as the singles championship in the Fall of 2024 from November 19 to 24 in Waco, Texas.
Pedro Vives and Lui Maxted of TCU beat Gavin Young and Benjamin Kittay of Michigan, to win the men's double title.
National seeds The following eight teams were seeded for this tournament:
Oliver Tarvet / Stian Klaassen (San Diego) Marko Miladinovic / Oskar Brostrom Poulsen (Baylor) Petar Jovanovic / Benito Sanchez Martinez (Mississippi State) Luciano Tacchi / Luca Pow (Wake Forest)
Players ranked 5th–8th, listed by institution Zsombor Velcz / Devin Badenhorst (Baylor) Cooper Williams / Theo Winegar (Duke) Youcef Rihane / Alex Bulte (Florida State) Pedro Vives / Lui Maxted (TCU) (National Champions)
Draw Bracket: Finals
Top half
Bottom half
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