Our 2026 Expedition Begins Soon!

As our spring season nears day by day, we can feel the extra enthusiasm and excitement we are channeling into our preparation and training. Our first dual match of the spring begins with a road match versus RPI on Feb 28th! Each year we always graduate amazing talent and leaders, but a beautiful part of college sports is that this turnover creates openings and opportunities for our other Panthers to step up and expand their own contributions! In this blog post we spotlight our freshmen class, share our Spring 2026 schedule, and share our latest facilities upgrades!

Captain Nate!

Getting Locked In!

This development season, our veteran captains have done an amazing job organizing our training and it is a pleasure seeing our group take ownership over their development, emphasizing both off-court training and also taking advantage of external opportunities to compete both domestically and abroad too! We also are thrilled to be welcoming back two of our juniors, Thehan Wijemanne and Nikky Kondamuri who studied abroad in Australia and Denmark respectively.

Facility Upgrades

We are thrilled to share some awesome upgrades to our facilities. One is a finishing touch on our new 12-court outdoor facility where our scoreboard is now up and running! Let's go!!!

Installing our new scorebaord!

Putting in the final piece of the puzzle!

Another upgrade was that all 4 of our on campus indoor courts in Nelson Arena were resurfaced!

The colors of the new surface really pop!

Freshmen Spotlights 

Anand Sahasrabudhe:

• Hometown: Scotch Plains, NJ
• Siblings: Older sister (Nikita)
• Favorite Food: Sushi
• Favorite Hobby Outside of Tennis: Attempting to DJ
• Pets: Dog (Coco)
• Favorite Pro Tennis Player: Carlos Alcaraz
• Best Part About Being in Vermont: The scenery
• Favorite Thing About Middlebury College So Far: How close the team is.

Andy Yim:

• Hometown: New York, NY
• Siblings: 2 Sisters (one older, one younger)
• Favorite Food: NY Pizza
• Favorite Hobby Outside of Tennis: Fishing
• Pets: 2 cats (Cody and Mochi)
• Favorite Pro Tennis Player: Roger Federer
• Best Part About Being in Vermont: Spending time outdoors
• Favorite Thing About Middlebury College So Far: Hanging out with new friends and training with teammates. Super excited for the spring season.

Nathan Hernandez:

• Hometown: Hinsdale, IL
• Siblings: 3 brothers, 2 older, 1 younger (Noah, Aida, Eli) 
• Favorite Food: Deep dish pizza
• Favorite Hobby Outside of Tennis: Basketball
• Pets: Dog (Bruno)
• Favorite Pro Tennis Player: Tommy Paul or Jack Draper
• Best Part About Being in Vermont: The views and skiing
• Favorite Thing About Middlebury College So Far: Family I made here with my team 

Justin Zhou:

• Hometown: Beijing, China
• Siblings: None
• Favorite Food: Beijing Duck and Hotpot 
• Favorite Hobby Outside of Tennis: Watching soccer, love watching Messi
• Pets: 1 Dog (Hamburger)
• Favorite Pro Tennis Player: Roger Federer, Danil Medvedev, and Jannick Sinner
• Best Part About Being in Vermont: The views and snow, excited to try skiiing.
• Favorite Thing About Middlebury College So Far: The team shows a lot of care toward me through different means, heart-warming and makes me feel like home.

2026 Spring Schedule 

Check out our finalized 2026 Spring Schedule below. As always, we loaded up a challenging schedule to really test ourselves and provide as many opportunities as possible to grow and build our resilience and strength during the phases of the season. We will play some of the toughest competition in DIII, and of course have a fully packed schedule for our spring break week in SoCal too. See our schedule graphic below, and please be sure check our schedule/results page here to have the latest updates on our spring schedule.

Alumni Match Weekend and Senior Celebration (April 25th and 26th)

Alumni match weekend will take place April 25-26, when we host Colby on Saturday and Bowdoin on Sunday. We will plan to host a get together with both our seniors, team members, families, and alumni this weekend! We will plan to have an alumni hit the morning of April 25th! 

Please mark your calendars and we will send more details as it gets closer. Thanks for reading along and stay tuned for more updates! Go Midd!

- The Middlebury Men’s Tennis Coaching Staff