INTRODUCTION

In January of 2023, the NCAA Division I Competition Oversight Committee approved a two-year pilot program to hold the NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Individual Championships in the fall of 2024 and 2025.  The ITA office, along with the NCAA Singles & Doubles Pathway Task Force (consisting of ITA member coaches), has worked diligently over the past several years to create a clearly defined and accessible pathway for student-athletes to earn entry into the fall 2024 and fall 2025 NCAA Individual Championships.

The major components of that pathway, including defining the qualifying events, establishing the dates and locations for those events and declaring the number of qualifiers from each event, have now been finalized and are listed below.

ITA NCAA Fall Singles & Doubles Championships Task Force

Amanda Augustus (Cal), Mark Booras (Tulane), Cory Brooks (ITA), Gran Chen (SMU), Brad Dancer (Illinois), Simon Earnshaw (NC State), Cristina Moros (USF), Dave Mullins (ITA), Billy Pate (Princeton), Claire Pollard (Northwestern), Elizabeth Schmidt (Rice), Peter Wright (Cal), Chris Young (Oklahoma St)

Event Overview: 

Singles draw sizes:
- PQ: 160, Q: 64, MD: 64

Doubles draw sizes:
- PQ: 32, Q: 32, MD: 32

Singles main draw play will include a feed-in consolation bracket through the Round of 16. 

In total, ten singles players will qualify for the NCAA Singles Championship (8 main draw quarterfinalists & 2 feed-in consolation finalists). Four doubles teams will qualify for the NCAA Doubles Championship (4 main draw semifinalists). 

Event Details: 

Singles draw sizes:
- Q: 64, MD: 64

Doubles draw size:
- MD: 64

Minimum Participants per School
- 2 singles players & 1 doubles team per school
- Minimum of 1 singles player and 1 doubles team guaranteed entry in the main draw

The two singles finalists from each region (26) will qualify for the NCAA Singles Championship.
The doubles champion from each region (13) will qualify for the NCAA Doubles Championship. 

Event Details: 

Each NCAA AQ-eligible, Division I conference will designate one singles player and one doubles team from each gender to participate in the event. Conference representatives must be submitted to the ITA office by Monday, October 27, 2025, at noon ET.

Players can be designated through the use of a conference tournament to be completed by October 26, 2025 at 11:59 pm or through an alternate selection process determined by the conference office and its members.

Draw sizes:
- Singles: 32
- Doubles: 32

From this, four players will qualify for the NCAA Singles Championship (semifinalists).
Meanwhile, three doubles teams will qualify for the NCAA Doubles Championship (champion, finalist, third place).  

Event Details: 

Draw sizes:
- Singles: 32
- Doubles: 16

West Section (Mountain, Southwest & Northwest Regions)
Central Section (Texas, Central & Midwest Regions)
South Section (Southeast, South & Ohio Valley Regions)
East Section (Carolina, Atlantic, Northeast & New England Regions)

Only players and doubles teams who have yet to earn entry into the NCAA Championships and have met a finish requirement (specified in the Sectional Information manual) at the ITA All-American or ITA Regional Championships will be eligible for participation.  

Doubles players who have qualified for the NCAA Doubles Championships via the ITA All-American Championships or the ITA Regional Championships must forefit any previously earned doubles qualification in order to play doubles with a different partner at the ITA Sectional Championships.

The ITA Sectional Championships will conclude following the quarterfinals and the quarterfinal playoff for singles, and following the semifinals and third-place playoff for doubles. 

Six singles players from each section (24) will qualify for the NCAA Singles Championship (semifinalists, two quarterfinal playoff winners). Three doubles teams from each section (12) will qualify for the NCAA Doubles Championship (champion, finalist, third place). 

OTHER NOTES

• Players who qualify for the NCAA Championships via the ITA All-Americans are eligible to participate at the ITA Regional Championships in all events (singles and doubles).

• Players who qualify for the NCAA Championships via the ITA All-Americans or the ITA Regional Championships are eligible to participate only in the events they have not yet qualified for at the ITA Sectionals or Conference Masters.

  • If a player has qualified in singles but not doubles, they may only compete in doubles. 

  • Players who have qualified in doubles but not singles are still eligible to participate in singles.

  • (New 2025 Fall Policy) Doubles players who have already qualified for the NCAA Doubles Championships via the ITA All-American Championships or the ITA Regional Championships must forfeit any previously earned doubles qualification in order to play doubles at the ITA Sectional Championships with a different partner.

Changes to the 2025 Fall Pilot (approved by the ITA DI Operating Committee, the NCAA DI Tennis Committee & the NCAA DI Sports Oversight Committee):

• Doubles players who have already qualified for the NCAA Doubles Championships via the ITA All-American Championships or the ITA Regional Championships must forfeit any previously earned doubles qualification in order to play doubles at the ITA Sectional Championships with a different partner.

• ITA Sectional Championships will conclude following the quarterfinals and the quarterfinal playoff for singles, and following the semifinals and third-place playoff for doubles. 

NCAA Policy: Should a singles player or doubles team who has already qualified to the NCAA Championships via the ITA All-American pathway also advance to one of the qualifying spots for their specific ITA Regional, the 3rd/4th place singles match winner or the doubles team runner-up would move into the respective qualifying spot. Each region will advance two singles players and one doubles team into the NCAA Championships.

NCAA Policy: After the regionals complete, should a singles player or doubles team withdraw from the NCAA Championships that qualified via the ITA Regional pathway, the NCAA committee will fill the spot from the alternate list, which has no prioritization for any qualifying pathway event.

Any future changes to the information contained within this Hub will be reflected here and communicated to coaches in a timely manner.