Highlights After Concluding Our 2026 Fall Season

What a fall season it was and it absolutely flew by! As a coach, it feels impossibly difficult to stop the training with this group after an incredibly productive fall both in our tournaments and practices. Shout out to our players who competed with heart, we are thrilled to share some highlights from the Skidmore Open along with Noah Lewis’ run at the ITA Cup. As we reach the developmental season, we pass the reins to our players as they will continue to identify critical areas of their tennis games to keep sharpening and building as we set our sights on the Spring 2027 dual match season!

Special thank you goes to Anand's grandparents who delivered a special gift
(painted wooden cutout of each player based on an action photo of that player).

Skidmore Open

This event consisted of 8 nationally ranked teams from around the country and was a blast to compete in. The biggest highlight came from our doubles results where we only dropped one match to a non-Middlebury opponent! In the B Flight Doubles, both of our competing teams made a run to play each other in finals where Nikky Kondamuri and Andy Yim claimed a 7-6(4) victory over Arjun Reiland and Hayden Williams! Moreover, Thehan Wijemanne and Noah Lewis claimed the A Flight Doubles final with a 7-5 win over a Denison pair that had qualified for the ITA Cup in their respective regional. The final title earned by the Panthers was in C Flight Singles, where Anand Sahasrabudhe played some beautifully determined tennis from start to finish winning four straight matches capped off by a 6-4, 6-4 opponent from Bowdoin! We had many more solid matches and wins across the tournament and you can find links here for a full recap and brackets of the tournament.

Andy and Nikky earned the B Flight doubles title!

Anand earned the C Flight Singles crown!

Nikky celebrating with the fans!

ITA Cup

Noah Lewis competed with grit and heart in Rome, GA at the ITA cup. Although Noah lost in the first round to the eventual champion, he pushed himself and represented our Panther Squad admirably. He went 1-2 across three singles matches, and happily finished the tournament earning a hard fought three set win over an opponent who had defeated him the week before in Saratoga Springs, NY! Noah’s tenacity and fighting spirit is a great example to our group. The full recap can be found here. 

Noah Lewis lining up a BH in Rome, GA!

Developmental Season

As we enter this phase, it’s fun to share and provide a shout out to our three seniors who have done an amazing job leading our group so far this year (Noah Lewis, Nikky Kondamuri, and Thehan Wijemanne). The coaches have begun to collaboratively identify the key projects and goals with each player so that we can continue our intentional approach to getting better day by day. The coaches will desperately miss being on court with the boys, but take comfort in providing them more autonomy to take on their own development to keep attacking and progressing!  

Nathan Hernandez lining it up to serve!

Panther Challenge: THANK YOU!

We had an amazing turnout and received incredible support for men’s tennis through our Panther Challenge and want to take another opportunity to express our sincere gratitude as a team! These donations are critical to our program and allow us to do what we do!

Arjun representing some determination/focus!

Fun Update: We will plan to get a freshmen spotlight blog post in our next outreach!

Go Midd!

The Middlebury Men’s Tennis Coaching Staff

Excellent Results at ITA New England Regional and Upcoming Panther Challenge Fundraiser

What a fall season it has already been and we are only halfway through! The Panthers are on the rise, working hard, and have achieved some excellent results to this point. It will be key to stay hungry and humble, but always worth celebrating our many successes along the way. We have one more fall tournament for the whole team, and then one more fall event for Noah Lewis who, spoiler alert, qualified for the ITA Cup in Rome, GA to represent our squad at nationals!

The squad helping celebrate Noah's run to the finals!

Upcoming Panther Challenge Fundraiser

Please mark your calendar for our upcoming October 13th to 16th Panther Challenge fundraiser. This four-day fundraising effort directly supports our student-athletes and provides the resources needed to keep our program competing at the highest level. Our aim is to achieve an ambitious goal of $35,000 in total fundraising, and most years we receive the majority of our fundraising during this Panther Challenge. Here’s a quick breakdown of how your contributions will make an immense impact:

• $16k for Southern California spring break experience (flights, meals, hotel, etc.) 

• $5k for PlaySight livestreaming and video capture

• $5k for string and labor 

• $5k for analytics tools

• $4k for Guest strength coach

Henry and Justin looking locked in!

We cannot wait to launch our fundraiser on October 13th! Feel free to reach out directly to us coaches if you have any questions at all!

Two coaches in action with Nikky!

2026 ITA New Regional Results

In our second fall tournament of the year that we again hosted right here in Middlebury, we built on some great successes at the Midd Invite and came through very well through many challenges and high-level opponents. Across the 23 teams that competed in the event, we absolutely established ourselves as a force! Here are some of the highlights:   

B Flight Singles

Nikky Kondamuri putting in work!

We demonstrated a fierce amount of depth in the B flight draw, with 4 out of 5 Panthers earning a spot in the in Round of 16 (the only exit coming due to injury), and 3 of our Panthers moving on to the Quarterfinals, and Nikky making the deepest run to the semifinals! Justin Zhou had a notable win over Williams, Andy Yim over Tufts, Henry Groves over Wesleyan, Anand Sahasrabudhe over Babson, and Nikky Kondamuri over Amherst! Many more solid wins throughout, too many to list off.

Justin ready to attack at the net!

A Flight Singles

Lewi mashing an OH!

In the A singles draw, Thehan won his first-round match before coming up short in a super-tiebreaker in the second round. Freshman Hayden Williams earned a very impressive straight set win over a strong Tufts opponent, before falling in a hard-fought second round match. Freshman Arjun Reiland had a nice run of his own earning straight set victories over strong opponents from Wesleyan an Williams before losing to the eventual tournament champion. And last but not least, Noah Lewis won five straight matches booking himself a trip to the finals and a trip to Rome, GA to compete at the national ITA Cup event in Rome, GA! Noah fought back from 2 match points down in the Round of 32, and earned multiple impressive victories over Tufts, Bowdoin, and MIT during the event! We cannot wait for Noah to represent our group on the national stage in a couple of weeks.

A Flight Doubles

Arjun and Hayden in their flow!

Our team also competed well in the doubles event and even though we fell short from some of our goals, we still had a couple of nice runs and very competitive matchups worth celebrating! The freshmen duo of Hayden Williams and Arjun Reiland earned their spot in the Round of 16 before falling in a tiebreaker to eventual semifinalists from Bates. The senior/sophomore pair of Nikky Kondamuri and Andy Yim battled with ferocious enthusiasm on their way to the quarterfinals before falling in an epicly close 10-8 tiebreaker to the eventual tournament champions.

Full Results

Here are the links for the full list of results and full recap of the ITA Regional.

Upcoming Fall Schedule

Lewi fired up for more!

Our next tournament is the Skidmore Open in Saratoga Springs, NY on Oct 10 and 11. Then we will conclude our Fall with Noah Lewis competing in the ITA Cup in Rome, GA beginning on Thursday, Oct 16th!

Go Midd!

The Middlebury Men’s Tennis Coaching Staff