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No. 1 Men’s Tennis preview: NCAA Championship Match
05.16.2026 | Men's Tennis
The Longhorns play in their second NCAA Final in three years and fourth all-time when they face Virginia on Sunday.
No. 1 Men's Tennis preview: NCAA Championship Match
2 seed No. 1 Texas vs. 4 seed No. 5 Virginia
Team Records: Texas (29-6, 12-2 SEC), Virginia (27-4, 12-1 ACC)
When: Sunday, May 17, 2026, 2 p.m. ET/1 p.m. CT
Where: Magill Tennis Complex, Athens, Ga.
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Tournament Central
Updated Statistics
Notes
-What's at stake
Texas will seeking its second NCAA National Championship in program history after previously winning in 2019.
-Virginia Series: Virginia leads, 14-3
Texas and Virginia have met 17 times in their history, all in the last 20 years, with the Cavaliers winning 14 of those, including a 4-1 decision in Austin this year on January 18 the Texas Tennis Center. Virginia had been on a 10-match winning streak dating back to 2008 until the Longhorns snapped it with a 4-1 win in the ITA Indoors quarterfinals last year in Dallas on Feb. 15. Two seasons ago in Austin, the Cavaliers emerged from a 4-3 contest that went down to the third set of the final singles match. The previous meeting came in 2023 in the NCAA semifinals in Orlando, which was a 4-1 win for UVA. Prior to that, it had been since 2017 when the teams faced off in the NCAA quarterfinals in Athens, Ga., which was also a 4-1 win for Virginia. Those had been the only NCAA tournament matches, and before that, the teams alternated home and away matches from 2004-13, along with an additional matchup in the ITA Indoors in Chicago in 2007. That's the same year as the last win for the Longhorns in the series, which was a 4-3 victory in Austin. Texas also won in Charlottesville in 2006 by the same score.
All-Time Series
2026: 1-4 L, Austin, Texas
2025: 4-1 W, Dallas, Texas (ITA Indoors Quarterfinals)
2025: 3-4 L, Charlottesville, Va.
2024: 3-4 L, Austin, Texas
2023: 1-4 L, Orlando, Fla. (NCAA Semifinals)
2017: 1-4 L, Athens, Ga. (NCAA Quarterfinals)
2013: 2-5 L, Austin, Texas
2012: 0-7 L, Charlottesville, Va.
2011: 2-5 L, Austin, Texas
2010: 4-9 L, Charlottesville, Va.
2009: 3-4 L, Austin, Texas
2008: 2-5 L, Charlottesville, Va.
2007: 4-3 W, Austin, Texas
2007: 0-4 L, Chicago, Ill. (ITA National Indoors)
2006: 4-3 W, Charlottesville, Va.
2005: 3-4 L, Austin, Texas
2004: 2-5 L, Charlottesville, Va.
Last Three Box Scores
#5 Virginia 4, #2 Texas 1
Sunday, January 18, 2026
Austin, Texas • Texas Tennis Center
Singles – Order of Finish (3,2,1,4)
1. Dylan Dietrich (VA) def. Sebastian Gorzny (TEX) 2-6, 6-3, 6-3
2. Abel Forger (TEX) def. Andres Santamarta Roig (VA) 6-3, 6-0
3. Jangjun Kim (VA) def. Sebastian Eriksson (TEX) 6-1, 6-3
4. Mans Dahlberg (VA) def. Lucas Marionneau (TEX) 6-3, 7-6 (5)
5. Jonah Braswell (TEX) vs. Stiles Brockett (VA) 6-2, 6-7 (5), unf.
6. Mariano Dedura-Palomero (TEX) vs. Douglas Yaffa (VA) 4-6, 6-4, 3-1, unf.
Doubles – Order of Finish (3,2,1)
1. Mans Dahlberg/Jangjun Kim (VA) def. Kalin Ivanovski/Abel Forger (TEX) 6-4
2. Dylan Dietrich/Stiles Brockett (VA) def. Sebastian Gorzny/Lucas Marionneau (TEX) 6-3
3. Lucas Brown/Jonah Braswell (TEX) def. Andres Santamarta Roig/Douglas Yaffa (VA) 6-1
#3 Texas 4, #5 Virginia 1
Sunday, February 15, 2025
Dallas, Texas • Styslinger/Altec Tennis Complex (ITA Indoors Quarterfinals)
Singles – Order of Finish (6,5,3,4)
1. #44 Rafael Jodar (VA) vs. #11 Timo Legout (TEX) 6-4, 4-6, 6-6 (1-3), unf.
2. #26 Dylan Dietrich (VA) vs. #10 Sebastian Gorzny (TEX) 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-6 (5-2), unf.
3. #121 Pierre-Yves Bailly (TEX) def. James Hopper (VA) 4-6, 6-1, 6-3
4. #21 Jonah Braswell (TEX) def. #103 Keegan Rice (VA) 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5)
5. Oliver Ojakaar (TEX) def. Mans Dahlberg (VA) 6-2, 3-6, 6-1
6. Sebastian Eriksson (TEX) def. Jangjun Kim (VA) 6-4, 6-1
Doubles – Order of Finish (2,1)
1. #65 Keegan Rice/James Hopper (VA) def. #5 Lucas Brown/Timo Legout (TEX) 6-3
2. #75 Mans Dahlberg/Dylan Dietrich (VA) def. Pierre-Yves Bailly/Sebastian Gorzny (TEX) 6-3
3. Jangjun Kim/Rafael Jodar (VA) vs. Jonah Braswell/Oliver Ojakaar (TEX) 4-3, unf.
#5 Virginia 4, #1 Texas 3
Sunday, February 2, 2025
Charlottesville, Va. • Boar's Head Sports Club
Singles – Order of Finish (5,4,3,2,1,6)
1. Rafael Jodar (VA) def. #3 Timo Legout (TEX) 3-6, 7-6 (7), 6-3
2. #57 Dylan Dietrich (VA) def. #2 Sebastian Gorzny (TEX) 2-6, 6-4, 7-5
3. Pierre-Yves Bailly (TEX) def. James Hopper (VA) 6-2, 6-4
4. #20 Jonah Braswell (TEX) def. #86 Mans Dahlberg (VA) 6-0, 6-4
5. Jangjun Kim (VA) def. Sebastian Eriksson (TEX) 6-3, 6-3
6. Stiles Brockett (VA) def. #116 Lucas Brown (TEX) 4-6, 7-5, 6-3
Doubles – Order of Finish (2,1)
1. #7 Timo Legout/Lucas Brown (TEX) def. #92 Dylan Dietrich/Mans Dahlberg (VA) 7-5
2. Sebastian Gorzny/Pierre-Yves Bailly (TEX) def. James Hopper/Ty Switzer (VA) 6-2
3. Jangjun Kim/Rafael Jodar (VA) vs. Sebastian Eriksson/Jonah Braswell (TEX) 5-5, unf.
-ITA Team Rankings
Texas was tabbed No. 2 in the preseason poll released January 7 by the ITA and ended up cycling back to that position on March 3, moved to No. 3 on March 10 and back to No. 2 on March 31 before moving up to No. 1 on April 7 where it remains through the rankings just released on April 30. In between, the Longhorns were No. 4 on January 21, No. 5 on January 28, No. 7 on February 4, No. 3 on February 19, and back to No. 4 on February 24. It's the 122nd-straight rankings week in the top 15 dating back to April 2018.
-ITA Individual National Rankings
Texas had seven listings in the most recent ITA individual rankings that were released April 30 with five in singles and two doubles pairs.
Texas
Singles
No. 3 Sebastian Gorzny
No. 35 Sebastian Eriksson
No. 41 Kalin Ivanovski
No. 89 Oliver Ojakaar
No. 102 Abel Forger
Doubles
No. 21 Sebastian Gorzny/Lucas Marionneau
No. 46 Sebastian Eriksson/Oliver Ojakaar
Virginia
Singles
No. 1 Dylan Dietrich
No. 21 Keegan Rice
No. 58 Andres Santamarta Roig
No. 114 Jangjun Kim
Doubles
No. 12 Mans Dahlberg/Dylan Dietrich
No. 17 Dylan Dietrich/Stiles Brockett
No. 60 Mans Dahlberg/Jangjun Kim
-Back to the 'ship
Texas advanced to the NCAA National Championship Match with a dramatic 4-3 win over 6 seed No. 2 TCU on Saturday. It marks the second time in the last three years in the final and the fourth time in program history (2008, 2019, 2024). After TCU secured doubles with wins at Nos. 1 and 2 that surrounded a Texas win at No. 3, the Longhorns evened the overall match with a victory by Oliver Ojakaar at No. 4. The Horned Frogs regained the lead with a win at No. 6, but the Longhorns again answered with a victory by Sebastian Eriksson at No. 3. The back and forth continued as TCU won in three sets at No. 5, but Texas responded with a third-set tiebreaker win by Kalin Ivanovski at No. 2. That left it to No. 1 where Sebastian Gorzny fended off five match points late in the second set to force a third where he clinched and sent Texas to the National Championship Match.
-Four-straight Final Fours
With its quarterfinals win over No. 11 Baylor, Texas has reached the NCAA Final Four for the fourth-straight year. The Longhorns are the only team in the nation to advance to the Final Four in six of the last seven years or even make it to five in that span. The next closest are Wake Forest and TCU with four. Baylor claimed the doubles point in an extended set of matches that the Bears emerged from with a 6-3 win at No. 1 and a 7-5 win at No. 3. Texas was sitting on a match point in a tiebreaker at No. 2, 6-6 (8-7), when play stopped. However, the Longhorns followed with singles victories Kalin Ivanovski at No. 2, Sebastian Eriksson at No. 3, Oliver Ojakaar at No. 4, and Lucas Marionneau at No. 6 with the clinch.
-Four-straight Elite Eights
No. 1 Texas Men's Tennis advanced to the NCAA Tournament Elite Eight with a 4-1 win over 15 seed No. 17 San Diego on May 8 at the Texas Tennis Center. It marks the fourth-straight year the Longhorns have reached at least the quarterfinals and the sixth time in the last seven. Texas produced one of its best doubles points of the year with decisive wins at Nos. 1 and 2 and then followed with singles victories by Oliver Ojakaar at No. 4, and Lucas Marionneau at No. 6. San Diego picked up its lone point at No. 1, but the clinch for the Longhorns came from Sebastian Eriksson at No. 3. Eriksson had missed the previous two matches in the tournament with an injury but returned to also be a factor in doubles.
-Sweet again for the 12th-straight year
Texas advanced to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 with a pair of 4-0 sweeps over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on May 1 at the Weller Indoor Tennis Center. and No. 32 SMU on May 2 at the Texas Tennis Center. It marks the 12th-straight year the Longhorns have reached at least the round of 16. Against SMU, Texas secured the doubles point with wins at Nos. 1 and 2, and followed with singles victories by Lucas Marionneau at No. 6, Abel Forger at No. 4, and Kalin Ivanovski at No. 2. Meanwhile against TAMCC, Texas took the doubles point with wins at Nos. 3 and 2 and followed with singles victories by Marionneau at No. 5, Mariano Dedura-Palomero at No. 6, and Sebastian Gorzny at No. 1 for the clinch.
-Texas earns No. 2 overall seed in the 2026 NCAA Championships
UT earned the No. 2 overall seed in the 2026 NCAA Championship field. It marks the fourth-straight year Texas has been a top-three seed, after having been the No. 3 seed last year, No. 2 seed in 2024, and No. 1 seed in 2023. It is also the sixth time in the last seven years the Longhorns have been in the top four after being No. 4 in 2021 and No. 2 in 2019. The tournament was not held in 2020 due to the pandemic. The Longhorns earned their 34th consecutive bid to the NCAA Championships and their 43rd overall selection since the NCAA bracketed tournament was introduced in 1977. They have compiled an 86-41 (.677) all-time record in the tournament. Texas hosted the opening rounds of the NCAA Championships for a ninth-straight year and for the 11th time in the last 12 years in which the tournament has been held. Along with winning the 2019 National Championship, the Longhorns were the national runners-up in 2008 and 2024, and additionally have made it to the semifinals in 1993, 2006, 2009, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026. They have reached at least the round of 16 in each of the last 12 years with seven quarterfinals appearances, adding in 2014, 2017 in that span.
