EVANSTON, Ill. – Northwestern Men’s Tennis (0-0) opens its season by welcoming three teams into Combe Tennis Center over the weekend. The ‘Cats take on Vanderbilt (2-0) on Saturday afternoon at 12 p.m. CT, then kick off a Sunday doubleheader against Louisville (2-0) at 12 p.m. CT. Northwestern concludes the weekend that evening against Youngstown State (0-0) at 7 p.m. CT.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Head Coach Arvid Swan<\/a>‘s squad boasts six new players on the 2025-26 roster: first-years Cooper Han<\/a>, Dylan Fayerman<\/a> and Jacob Golden<\/a> and transfers Dylan Charlap<\/a>, Cyrus Mahjoob<\/a> and Ethan Schiffman<\/a>. Earlier this month, Mahjoob was named a Big Ten Player to Watch after opening the season in the ITA All-American Championship and reaching the round of 16 in the ITA Midwest Regional. All six players saw action during fall tournament season to open their Northwestern careers.<\/p>\n Going into Saturday’s matchup, Vanderbilt is on a two-match win streak after defeating Tennessee State, 6-0, and Tennessee Tech, 7-0. The ‘Cats are looking to earn their sixth victory against the Commodores as Vanderbilt holds a 9-5 all-time lead over Northwestern. Pablo Martinez Gomez leads this year’s Commodores, coming in at No. 62 in the ITA’s latest singles rankings after a 5-1 start to his season.\u00a0<\/p>\n Before trekking to Evanston, Louisville will face off\u00a0against Cornell on Friday evening, hoping to extend their season-opening win streak after sweeping a doubleheader against Eastern Kentucky on Wednesday. Cardinals doubles duo Matei Cristian Onofrei and Andre Steinbach are ones to watch, ranking No. 21 in November’s ITA doubles rankings with their 6-2 fall record. Now, the pair has a 9-3 record. The Cardinals last ten matchups against the ‘Cats have been split evenly, 5-5.<\/p>\n Finally, Northwestern closes out the weekend with its match against Youngstown State. The ‘Cats have a short history with the Penguins. In their first matchup last spring, Northwestern took home a sweeping 4-0 victory.<\/p>\n Looking forward, Northwestern will face two more opponents in a doubleheader next weekend. The ‘Cats will host IU Indy at 10 a.m. CT on Saturday, January 24, before welcoming in Cleveland State at 5:30 p.m. CT that evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EVANSTON, Ill. – Northwestern Men’s Tennis (0-0) opens its season by welcoming three teams into Combe Tennis Center…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-414395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}