The NCAA Men's Tennis Championships are annual tournaments held in the spring to crown team, singles, and doubles champions in American college

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. The first intercollegiate championship was held in 1883, 23 years before the founding of the

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, with

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's Joseph Clark taking the singles title. The same year Clark partnered to Howard Taylor to win the doubles title. Since 1963, the

organizes separate tournaments for Division I and II. A tournament for Division III was added in 1973. The NCAA discontinued the Division II singles and doubles championships in 1995. From 1946 to 1976, players' individual performances were awarded points which were tallied to determine the NCAA "team" champion. In 1977, the NCAA began a dual-match single-elimination team tournament with 16 schools to determine the team championship. Subsequently, expanded to include byes for 12 teams in the first round, the team tournament adopted its current 64-team single-elimination format in 1999. The

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won the most recent Division I national team championship in 2021, defeating

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, 4-1, in the final. Florida's

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captured the singles championship, and

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's Adam Walton and Pat Harper won the doubles championship.

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won the Division II national championship.

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won the Division III national team championship; Leo Vithoontien of Carleton College captured both the singles and doubles titles, the latter with Xander Zuczek.

Team champions

Individual champions

:''The NCAA was founded in 1906. The first tennis championship sponsored by the NCAA was in 1946.'' :''Individual championships were not held in 1917–18.''

Singles

† ''First championship sponsored by NCAA''

Doubles

† ''First championship sponsored by NCAA''

Records

The following is a list of

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(NCAA) Division I college tennis individual statistics and records through the

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.http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/tennis_champs_records/2012-13/2012d1mt.pdf

Individual national championships – Singles

Individual national championships – Doubles

Individual records

* Note: ''No doubles team has won more than two titles; however, the following players have won three doubles titles with two or more different partners: Wallace P. Knapp, Yale (1884-85-86); Malcolm Chace, Brown (1893) and Yale (1894–95);

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, Harvard (1896-97-98);

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, Harvard (1914-15-16); and

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, Southern California (1961-62-63)'' * Most individual titles, career: 6 ** Malcolm Chace,

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/ Harvard *** Singles (1893, 1894, and 1895), Doubles (1893, 1894, and 1895) * Most singles titles, career: 3 ** Malcolm Chace,

/ Harvard (1893, 1894, and 1895) ** Francisco Segura,

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(1943, 1944, and 1945)

References

External links

NCAAsports.com
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