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Current season, competition or edition: 2023 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships | |
Sport | College tennis |
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Founded | 1883 |
No. of teams | 64 teams |
Country | United States |
Most recent champion(s) | Team: Virginia Singles: Ethan Quinn, Georgia Doubles: Andrew Lutschaunig / James Trotter, Ohio State |
Official website | NCAA.com |
The NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championship is an annual men's college tennis national collegiate championship sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for teams in Division I. The tournament crowns a team, individual, and doubles champion . The first intercollegiate championship was held in 1883, 23 years before the founding of the NCAA, with Harvard's Joseph Clark taking the singles title.[1] The same year Clark partnered to Howard Taylor to win the doubles title. The first NCAA-sponsored tournament was held in 1946.
In 1963, the NCAA began to organize separate tournaments for Division I and Division II. A tournament for Division III was also added in 1973. However, after 1995, the NCAA no longer holds a Division II tournament. The national championship rounds are contested annually in May. In recent years, the NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championship has been held at the same location as the men's tournament.