WACO, Texas – Georgia's Dasha Vidmanova and Columbia's Michael Zheng won NCAA singles tennis titles on Sunday.
Vidmanova, a 21-year-old from the Czech Republic, defeated Auburn's DJ Bennett 6-3, 6-3 for the Bulldogs' first women's singles championship since 2010 and the fourth singles champion in program history.
Vidmanova is the only Bulldog in program history to win the NCAA singles and doubles titles after winning the doubles with Aysegul Mert last season.
It was the second consecutive season that Georgia had a tennis player reach the title match after Anastasiia Lopata lost to Miami's Alexa Noel last year.
Bennett is the first player in Auburn program history to reach the finals of the event, surpassing Fani Chifchieva's semifinalist finish in 2008, which was the previous best finish for a Tiger.
Zheng, a 20-year-old from Montville, New Jersey, beat Michigan State's Ozan Baris 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 to become the first Ivy League player to capture an NCAA men's singles crown since 1922.
The final between Zheng and Baris was the first NCAA men's singles tennis final between two Americans since 2017.
Zheng, the first men's Ivy League player to win the title since Yale's Lucien Williams more than a century ago, is the first player to reach consecutive finals on the men's side since USC's Steve Johnson in 2011 and 2012.
TCU's Pedro Vives Marcos and Lui Maxted won the men's doubles championship, while Virginia's Elaine Chervinsky and Melodie Collard won the women's doubles title.
Vives Marcos and Maxted defeated Michigan's Gavin Young and Benjamin Kittay 6-3. 6-7 (8-6), 1-0 (10-2). The 10-point tiebreaker to determine the national champions featured five breaks of serve, including four by the Horned Frogs, who scored the final six points to seal their title.
Young and Kittay became the first doubles runners-up in Michigan men's tennis history.
Chervinsky and Collard beat UCLA's Olivia Center and Kate Fakih, both freshmen, 4-6, 6-3, 1-0 (10-5) in the final to win the first NCAA doubles title in the history of the program. The Cavaliers duo won each of their five matches in the championship in a 10-point super tiebreaker in the third set.
