Men’s Singles Draw | Women’s Singles Draw | Men’s Doubles Draw | Women’s Doubles Draw
Orlando, FL – Marked by many historic firsts, the 2025 NCAA Tennis Individual Championships have come and gone at the USTA National Campus as the newest NCAA National Champions have now been crowned across both singles and doubles play.
As the second year of the two year pilot program from the NCAA in which the NCAA Individual Championships are held in the fall rather than in the spring after the NCAA Team Championships, the draws were as loaded as ever with talent as in Sunday’s championship singles matches we saw players with career high ATP Singles Rankings of No. 180 and No. 385 face off, while for the women, eventual champion Reese Brantmeier has held a career high WTA Singles Ranking of No. 236 and is currently ranked in the Top 450 in the world.
In what was an All-American singles final on the men’s side, defending NCAA Singles Champion Michael Zheng of Columbia took on SMU’s Trevor Svajda who each had impressed throughout the tournament to this point. Marking the first meeting between the two players across all competition, the fans packed into the USTA National Campus to see this battle between two of the top rising talents in college tennis.
After trading some early breaks to start the match, it was Zheng who pulled ahead late winning 6-4 in the first set to put the pressure on Svajda to respond. Respond he did as just as quick as Zheng went ahead Svajda was right back in the match winning the second set 6-1 to force a third set which would decide the match.
With the crowd behind them at every point, the defending champion was the one who eventually put the match away winning 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 over Svajda to become the first man since Steve Johnson in 2011 and 2012 to repeat as the NCAA Men’s Tennis Singles Champion. Making even more history on Sunday, Zheng became the winningest men’s player in NCAA Singles Championship history, earning his 19th NCAA Individual Championship singles victory, breaking the tie with Virginia great Somdev Devvarman.
Two courts over, in the women’s singles final, it was Brantmeier of North Carolina facing off against Berta Passola Folch of Cal for the national title. For Brantmeier, she was looking to become the second North Carolina player to win the singles title, while for Passola Folch she would be the first Cal player to win since 2011 and the fourth all-time in tournament history.
Just a day after both players played in extended three set semifinal matches, neither looked sluggish to start the final with both players coming out swinging to start the match. After a close first few games, Brantmeier was the one who was able to get a break and consolidate the break by holding her serve first which led to a 6-3 first set advantage. Following a very similar storyline in the second set, it was Brantmeier yet again closing out with a 6-3 second set scoreline to be crowned national champion.
This singles championship marked the second NCAA title Brantmeier has won over her collegiate career in Chapel Hill as she was also a part of the 2023 NCAA Team Championship which was the first in North Carolina history as well.
In doubles, we saw the Virginia pairing of Mans Dahlberg and Dylan Dietrich win Virginia’s first NCAA Men’s Doubles Title since 2013 while for the women, Gabriella Broadfoot and Victoria Osuigwe took home NC State’s second NCAA Women’s Doubles Title in the past five years.
For Dahlberg and Dietrich, they took down two seeded team on their way to the title including a win over the No. 1 seeded pairing of Petar Jovanovic and Benito Sanchez Martinez of Mississippi State. In the final against Ohio State’s Brandon Carpico and Nikita Filin, Dahlberg and Dietrich won the first set in tiebreak fashion before carry their momentum to a 7-6 (3), 6-2 victory to claim the title.
Meanwhile for Broadfoot and Osuigwe, the junior and freshman duo earned wins over three seeded teams, including the No. 3 and No. 4 seeded teams en route to the title. For Broadfoot, this continues her dominant career on the doubles court as she was an ITA All-American Doubles Champion last fall with Maddy Zampardo.
Next up on the college tennis calendar will be the team dual match season beginning in January. With the ITA Kickoff Weekend set for late January and the ITA National Team Indoor Championships set for February, fans will have plenty of action to enjoy throughout the spring semester before the eight men’s and women’s quarterfinalists will converge in Athens, Georgia for the 2026 NCAA Team Championships.