{"id":269363,"date":"2026-04-28T05:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/269363\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T05:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:40:13","slug":"mens-tennis-to-host-ncaa-first-and-second-rounds-texas-am-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/269363\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Tennis to Host NCAA First and Second Rounds &#8211; Texas A&#038;M Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS \u2013 The Texas A&amp;M men&#8217;s tennis team will host the first and second rounds of the NCAA Championships at the Mitchell Tennis Center Friday and Saturday (May 1-2), the NCAA announced Monday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe 11-seeded Aggies welcome Wagner for their first-round matchup, as well as Penn and Stanford. Texas A&amp;M begins tournament action at 1 p.m. Friday, May 1 at the Mitchell Tennis Center, while the Quakers and Cardinal play at 10 a.m. The first-round winners continue play at 4 p.m. on Saturday. The Aggies have made the NCAA Tournament every year since 1994.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;We have an experienced team that is excited to be home these first two rounds in the tournament,&#8221; head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/coaches\/steve-denton\/2075\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"2075\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Denton<\/a> said. &#8220;We just had the SEC Tournament here two weeks ago, so we are already in tournament mode, and I expect that we&#8217;re going to play well this week.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Aggies posted a 19-9 record through the SEC Tournament, and tied for third in the SEC, going 10-4 across conference action. The Maroon &amp; White made a semifinal run in the conference tournament, defeating Vanderbilt and Oklahoma before falling to Texas.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFour players earned SEC recognitions, including <a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/theo-papamalamis\/15106\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15106\" target=\"_blank\">Theo Papamalamis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/kholo-montsi\/15293\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15293\" target=\"_blank\">Kholo Montsi<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/togan-tokac\/15113\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15113\" target=\"_blank\">Togan Tokac<\/a> who were all named to the First Team All-SEC team. <a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/markus-molder\/15433\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15433\" target=\"_blank\">Markus Molder<\/a> earned a spot on the All-Freshman Team. Papamalamis and Tokac make up the No. 2 doubles duo in the country, logging a 10-7 dual record with eight ranked wins. Papamalamis is also the No. 11 ranked singles player in the ITA rankings, earning a 14-8 dual record at the top line. Montsi has also earned a SEC Player of the Week nod along with being named to the SEC All-Tournament Team. Molder posted a 12-5 record, going a team-best 9-2 across conference action.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nGeneral admission tickets to the first and second-round matches can be purchased in advance at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/12thmanfoundation.evenue.net\/list\/TN\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/12thmanfoundation.evenue.net\/list\/TN<\/a>\u00a0or during business hours by calling the ticket office at 1-888-99-AGGIE or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/news\/2026\/4\/27\/tel:9798452311\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">979-845-2311<\/a>. General admission also will be available for purchase on match days at the Mitchell Tennis Center beginning one hour before the first match of the day. The first 100 Texas A&amp;M students will be granted free admission with a valid student ID each day.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFOLLOW THE AGGIES<br \/>\nVisit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">12thman.com<\/a>\u00a0for more information on Texas A&amp;M men&#8217;s tennis. Fans can keep up to date with the A&amp;M men&#8217;s tennis team on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aggiemten\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aggiemten\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\/Threads<\/a>\u00a0and X by following\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AggieMTEN\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@AggieMTEN<\/a>.<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS \u2013 The Texas A&amp;M men&#8217;s tennis team will host the first and second rounds of the NCAA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-269363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}