Kim Advances to Round of 32 at NCAA Championships
11/18/2025 6:59:00 PM | Men's Tennis
Doubles championship starts Wednesday
2025 NCAA Singles and Doubles Championship     Â
Dates:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov. 18-23
Times:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â All Day
Venue:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â USTA National Campus, Orlando, Florida
Website:           Tournament Central | NCAA Men's Tennis Home | ITA Home
Live Video:Â Â Â Â ESPN+/Cracked Racquets
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Draws:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Singles/Doubles
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Aidan Kim won his opening round singles match at the 2025 NCAA Championships to advance to the Round of 32 Wednesday in Orlando.Â
Preston Stearns and Jack Anthrop both dropped opening round matches Tuesday.Â
Six Buckeyes traveled to Florida to compete in the 2025 NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships.
Kim, Anthrop and Stearns opened the singles tournament Tuesday while junior Bryce Nakashima (with Kim), sophomore Nikita Filin and redshirt sophomore Brandon Carpico will compete in the doubles championship starting Wednesday.Â
This is the second year of a two-year program of holding the singles and doubles championships at the end of the fall season. There were qualifying events in which players could earn their spot in the fall championship.
Kim earned his way into the NCAA Tournament by advancing to the finals of the season-opening ITA All-American Championships (Sept. 20-28/Tulsa). Stearns was the co-champion of the ITA Midwest Regional Championships (Oct. 16-20/Chicago) while Anthrop claimed his spot with an appearance in the semifinals at the ITA Central Sectional (Nov. 6-8/Ann Arbor, Michigan).
In doubles, the team of Kim and Nakashima qualified by winning the title at the Midwest Regional while Filin and Carpico earned their spot as finalists at the Central Sectional Championships.Â
Ohio State Singles Schedule/Results
Round of 64 (Nov. 18)
Petar Jovanovic (MSST) def. Preston Stearns (OSU), 7-5, 6-3
No. 3 Aidan Kim (OSU) def. Antonio Prat (MIAMI), 7-6(7), 6-4
Filip Gustafsson (ARIZ) def. Jack Anthrop (OSU), 6-3, 6-0
Round of 32
No. 3 Aidan Kim (OSU) vs. William Jansen, Georgia, TBA
Doubles Schedule (Nov. 19)
Aidan Kim/Bryce Nakashima (OSU) vs. Mans Dahlberg/Dylan Dietrich (UVA), TBA
Nikita Filin/Brandon Carpico (OSU) vs. Luis Felipe Miguel/Erik Schiessl (FSU), TBA
- Kim entered the 2025 NCAA Singles Tournament as the No. 3 seed. Anthrop was among the players seeded 9-16.
- In doubles, Kim and Nakashima are among the teams seeded 5-8.
- Anthrop entered the NCAA championships fresh from a singles title at the ITF $25K last week in Columbus
- Filin and Carpico also were victorious in doubles at the ITF $25K.
- Last time in the NCAAs: Anthrop made the quarterfinals of the 2024 Spring NCAA Championship while Kim advanced to the Round of 16 in the Fall of 2024. Nakashima, with William Jansen made the quarters of the 2024 Fall championships in doubles.
- Kim/Nakashima and Filin/Carpico are looking to continue the recent run of Buckeye doubles success in the NCAA Tournament. A Buckeye doubles team has won two of the last three NCAA Championship. James Trotter and Andrew Lutschaunig won in 2023, and JJ Tracy and Robert Cash won in 2024.
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