A year after both national championship-winning schools had Canadian content, the players from the Great White North were shut out in 2025. It was a near thing, though, with both defending champions coming close to running it back.
Here is the monthly university tennis update.
Duncan Chan came close to getting his hands on a second-straight national championship with TCU. His school reached the final for the second year in a row but were unable to repeat as champions, falling to top-ranked Wake Forest 4-2. Chan himself played three singles matches and five doubles matches during the finals run, going 1-2 in singles and 2-3 in doubles.
The same happened on the women’s side, with Mia Kupres and defending-champions Texas A&M falling in the final to Georgia 4-0.
Kupres played both singles and doubles in the final, but neither match was completed. She won all four of her completed singles matches at the national team championships and won three out of four in doubles with Mary Stoiana.
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Georgia also beat Scarlett Nicholson’s Georgia Tech on their way to the national title.
Wake Forest defeated Junghee You’s Columbia in the quarter-finals and the University of Kentucky, featuring Eric Crivei and Jaden Weekes, in the second round.
Season-End Rankings
Cadence Brace of LSU finished as the highest-ranked Canadian singles player, male or female, at No. 8 in the women’s rankings. She finished the year on a seven-match winning streak, including picking up a point in LSU’s quarter-final loss to the University of North Carolina.
Four Canadian women finished the year in the Top 10 of the doubles rankings, led by Melodie Collard of the University of Virginia, who wrapped up the year at No. 3. Collard and partner Elaine Chervinsky had held the top spot uninterrupted from Feb. 5 until May 1.
Right behind her was Jessica Alsola of Berkeley, who finished the year at No. 4 with Mao Mushika. The pair won 14 of their last 15 matches. The all-Canadian LSU tandem of Brace and Kayla Cross finished at No. 6.
Mia Kupres’ Texas A&M (No. 2), Teah Chavez’s University of Ohio (No. 6), and Collard’s Virginia (No. 7) all finished in the Top 10 of the team rankings. LSU was the next team out at No. 11.
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Three teams featuring Canadian men finished the season in the Top 10: Duncan Chan’s TCU at No. 2, Keegan Rice’s Virginia at No. 5, and Junghee You’s Columbia at No. 8.
In terms of individual rankings, Rice held the highest ranking by a Canadian man at No. 22 in doubles, while Jaden Weekes of Kentucky was the top Canadian male singles player at No. 88.
The new NCAA tennis season will start in September.
Click here to view all the Canadian rankings in the NCAA.
Feature Photo : TCU
