WACO, Texas — Georgia’s Dasha Vidmanova and Columbia’s Michael Zheng gained NCAA singles tennis titles on Sunday.
Vidmanova, a 21-year-old senior from the Czech Republic, beat DJ Bennett of Auburn 6-3, 6-3 for the Bulldogs’ first ladies’s singles championship since 2010 and the fourth singles champion in program historical past.
Vidmanova is the one Bulldog in program historical past to win each the NCAA singles and doubles titles after profitable the doubles with Aysegul Mert final season.
It was the second consecutive season Georgia had a ladies’s tennis participant attain the title match after Anastasiia Lopata misplaced to Alexa Noel of Miami final yr.
Bennett is the primary participant in Auburn’s program historical past to succeed in the finals within the occasion, besting Fani Chifchieva’s semifinalist end in 2008 that was the earlier finest end for a Tiger.
Zheng, a 20-year-old junior from Montville, New Jersey, beat Ozan Baris of Michigan State 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 to change into the primary Ivy League participant to gather an NCAA males’s singles crown since 1922.
The ultimate between Zheng and Baris was the primary males’s NCAA tennis singles ultimate between two Individuals since 2017.
Zheng, the primary males’s Ivy Leaguer to win the title since Yale’s Lucien Williams over a century in the past, is the primary participant to succeed in back-to-back finals on the boys’s facet since Steve Johnson of USC in 2011 and 2012.
TCU’s Pedro Vives Marcos and Lui Maxted earned the boys’s doubles championship whereas Virginia’s Elaine Chervinsky and Melodie Collard gained the ladies’s doubles title.
Vives Marcos and Maxted beat Gavin Younger and Benjamin Kittay of Michigan 6-3. 6-7 (8-6), 1-0 (10-2). The ten-point tiebreaker to find out the nationwide champions featured 5 service breaks, together with 4 by the Horned Frogs, who scored the ultimate six factors to seal their title.
Younger and Kittay grew to become the primary doubles runners-up in Michigan males’s tennis historical past.
Chervinsky and Collard beat UCLA’s Olivia Middle and Kate Fakih — each freshmen — 4-6, 6-3, 1-0 (10-5) within the ultimate to win the primary NCAA doubles title in program historical past. The Cavaliers’ duo gained every of their 5 matches on the championships in a third-set 10-point tremendous tiebreaker.