Recapping Our 2025 Middlebury Invitational

Our Middlebury Invitational was a great way to begin our year! We had beautiful weather all weekend and loved hosting a fall tournament for the first time at our new facility! Across the five total flights (3 singles draws and 2 doubles draws), we captured three titles. Additionally indicating our impressive depth was that all ten of our competitors in this event posted a win! A solid showing all around, and certainly still a lot to learn and grow from in the moments we did not execute as well as we are capable. We maintain and recognize that it is not how we start the year that means the most, but now we have increased clarity and determination to dial in our collective games to keep rising as we enjoy each step through the season!

B Flight Doubles Champs!

A Flight Doubles Champs

C Flight Singles Champ

Fun Fact: We have been giving out the same trophies for more than 2 decades!

Singles Highlight Video

Middlebury Invitational 2025 Summary

• Sophomore Sidney Huet and Freshman Nathan Hernandez brought wonderful competitive intensity and fire while capturing the B Flight Doubles crown! Their electric energy brought the whole team energy up. Sidney also had a nice run in B singles draw winning a match and losing only to the eventual champion in a super-tiebreaker.

• Senior Julian Wu and Junior Noah Lewis both played seven matches across two days, winning the A Flight Doubles Draw together and making each making a run to the semifinals of the A Flight Singles Draw. Their final doubles match was a thing of beauty to watch!

• Freshman Andy Yim won four consecutive singles matches to win the C Flight Singles crown and additionally posted a win with doubles partner Hugh Hentschel in A Flight Doubles.

• Freshman Justin Zhou and Senior Nathan Jackson won the B Flight Doubles Consolation bracket, with Justin winning a singles match in the C flight and Nathan making a run to the semifinals of the B flight.

• Sophomore Reif Larsen and Freshman Anand Sahasrabudhe won a round in A Flight Doubles, and Reif also captured a solid win in A Flight Singles before losing to the eventual flight champion.

Hugh serving it up!

Nate roasting a forehand!

Staying connected always key!

Reif making a move at net!

Upcoming Fall Schedule

Go Midd!

Our 2025-2026 Journey Begins!

For us coaches, the beginning of the new school year is always one of the most exciting moments for our team. It is a chance to build on the depth and ingrained culture that has sustained Middlebury Men’s Tennis, but also a new opportunity to evolve and make our own imprint on the program and to define this year’s team identity. Over the summer, our team was incredibly productive both on and off the tennis courts. They completed internships and competed in tournaments both domestically and abroad too! Below are a few action snapshots from our summers.

Noah Lewis competed all summer and qualified for the ITA National Summer Championships!

Reif competing in front of a crowd in Portland!

This Fall, we will have two juniors who are studying abroad. Thehan is currently in Australia and Nikky is in Denmark! We miss them already, but it is fun staying connected with them to follow their adventures, keep them connected with our team, and of course to hear when they find club and tournament tennis they can play against international competition is awesome too!

Sidney with alumnus Neel at the US Open!

Thehan's family visited him while studying in Australia!

2025-26 Team Roster

• Seniors: Hugh Hentschel, Nathan Jackson, Julian Wu

• Seniors: Nikky Kondamuri, Noah Lewis, Thehan Wijemanne

• Sophomores: Sidney Huet and Reif Larsen 

• Freshmen: Nathan Hernandez, Anand Sahasrabudhe, Andy Yim, and Justin Zhou

• Coaching Staff: Andrew Thomson and Upcoming Announcement

Introducing our freshmen class!

The Panther roster for the 2025-2026 season is comprised of a balanced 6 upperclassmen and 6 underclassmen, with four incoming freshmen! Coach Andrew Thomson enters his 9th season back at Middlebury as a coach and we will have a new assistant coach who will be announced in the upcoming days. Special shout out to Tristan Kaye who has taken a new role at Brown University, thanks so much for all you did for the program and we will now be rooting for Brown too! The excitement we feel at the start of the season is hard to quantify, and we cannot wait to translate that energy into our training and efforts to pursue exploring our potential and looking to create another year with deep postseason runs! Let’s gooooo!

2025 Fall Schedule

Fun Fact

Our Panther men have continued to crush it in the classroom, with 100% of our roster earning ITA Academic All-American status last year (3rd year in a row)! That’s the way!

Go Midd!

The Middlebury Men’s Tennis Coaching Staff