The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Men’s Tennis rated No. 2 in final ITA team rankings
05.20.2026 | Men's Tennis
The Longhorns are the only team in the nation to have finished in the top four of the final rankings seven of the last eight years. While senior Sebastian Gorzny finished No. 2 in the singles rankings, giving Texas four-straight years in the top-two.
Austin – Texas Men's Tennis was rated No. 2 in the final Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) rankings of the 2026 season released Wednesday. That makes the Longhorns the only team in the nation to have finished in the top four of the final rankings in seven of the last eight years.
Texas earned a No. 3 ranking in 2025, No. 2 in 2024, No. 3 in 2023, finished No. 12 in an injury-plagued 2022 season, was No. 3 in 2021, No. 4 in 2020, and No. 1 in 2019 after winning the National Championship.
The Longhorns finished the 2026 season as the NCAA National Runner-Up for the second time in three years and made their fourth-straight Final Four appearance (tied for most nationally). It was also their sixth Final Four in the last seven years, which is the most in the nation by two in that span.
Earlier in the year, the team won the program's first ITA Indoors National Championship and won the SEC regular season and tournament champions for the second-straight year in their first two years in the league. It was also the fourth-straight year Texas has won its conference regular season championship and third-straight tournament title, going back to its last two year in the Big 12.
Texas closed with a 29-7 record with the 29 victories matching the 2025 and 2019 teams for the most in a season dating back to 1975 when teams began playing shorter schedules.
Individually, senior Sebastian Gorzny finished No. 2 in the singles rankings, making it four-straight years the Longhorns have had a player finish in the top-two, with the previous three being No. 1 in Eliot Spizzirri (2023-24) and Timo Legout (2025). Micah Braswell also finished No. 3 behind in 2024 and had reached No. 1 during the season prior to Spizzirri finishing in that spot.
In all, five Longhorns finished the season in the singles rankings, including freshman Kalin Ivanovski at No. 31, sophomore Sebastian Eriksson at No. 38, sophomore Oliver Ojakaar at No. 80, and freshman Abel Forger at No. 118.
Texas also had all three of its primary doubles pairs ranked with Gorzny and freshman Lucas Marionneau at No. 21, Eriksson and Ojakaar at No. 50, and Ivanovski and Forger at No. 69.
