2025 NCAA Tennis Individual Championships culminate with historic achievements
After nearly a week of intense competition and historic achievements, the 2025 NCAA Tennis Individual Championships came to a thrilling close, crowning national champions in both singles and doubles.
This year’s competition was the second of a two-year pilot program from the NCAA which moved the NCAA Individual Championships from the spring to the fall, and the draws showcased fierce competition, especially in Sunday’s championship singles matches.
In an all-American men’s singles final, Columbia University senior Michael Zheng cemented his legacy as one of the all-time greatest collegiate men's tennis players, defeating SMU's Trevor Svajda, 6-4, 1-6, 6-3, to win his second consecutive national championship. Zheng’s victory made him the first men’s tennis player to win consecutive titles since USC’s Steve Johnson in 2011 and 2012. He also became only the ninth player in NCAA history to win back-to-back titles.
Adding to the historic accolades, Sunday’s win marked 19 career NCAA individual tournament wins for Zheng, making him the winningest men’s player in NCAA Singles Championship history.
“It's definitely an amazing accomplishment, it’s definitely something I wouldn't have thought about in my freshman year,” Zheng told USTA.com, discussing his historic win. “Obviously it’s not something you see every day, so it just feels amazing to make history for myself and for Columbia as well.”
Michael Zheng of Columbia University poses with his championship trophy after winning the 2025 NCAA Division I Men’s Tennis Championship Singles Final at the USTA National Campus. Photo by Eric Espada/USTA.
In women’s singles, UNC senior Reese Brantmeier prevailed in a hard-fought battle against Cal’s Berta Passola Folch, claiming the singles title in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3. She became only the second Tar Heel to win the tournament and added to an already impressive record.
“That's unbelievable,” Brantmeier told USTA.com after winning her title. “That's why I came to Carolina, is to get the opportunity to do that. It hasn't really hit me yet, but it's just so surreal and that's been the goal for my whole career.”
In 2023, she helped UNC nab its first-ever NCAA championship, and then finished runner-up in that year’s NCAA Doubles Championship. North Carolina won the ACC Championship in 2024 and 2025, with Brantmeier honored as the ACC Player of the Year and named an All-American in both singles and doubles.
Victoria Osuigwe and Gabriella Broadfoot of North Carolina State University and Celia-Belle Mohr and Sophia Webster of Vanderbilt University pose with their trophies after the 2025 NCAA Women’s Tennis Championship Doubles Final. Photo by Eric Espada/USTA.
Men’s and women’s doubles
In men’s doubles, Virginia’s Måns Dahlberg and Dylan Dietrich defeated Ohio State’s team of Nikita Filin and Brandon Carpico, 7-6(3), 6-2, in the championship match. The victory marked the fourth NCAA Doubles title in Virginia men’s tennis program history—and the first since 2013.
Meanwhile, NC State’s Gabriella Broadfoot and Victoria Osuigwe knocked out the Vanderbilt team of Célia-Belle Mohr and Sophia Webster, 7-5, 6-4, to become NCAA doubles champions.
Broadfoot and Osuigwe plowed through the tournament, dropping just two sets on their run to the championship match. The All-American duo are the first Wolfpack tandem to reach the NCAA doubles final since Jaeda Daniel and Nell Miller in 2022.
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