TEMPE, Ariz. – The race to the ITA Cup is on, as the ITA Regional Small College Championships began in the final week of September. More than two dozen regional tournaments have already been played at the Division III, NAIA, and junior college level, rounding the ITA Cup field into further focus.
Formerly known as the Small College Nationals, the rich history of the ITA Cup dates back to 1986. In 2025, more than 8,000 players participated in 60 regional tournaments to gain entry into the ITA Cup field.
The opening weekends of the regional tournaments saw standout performances and individual breakthroughs across the country.
Division III star Caitlin Bui of Washington University in St. Louis helped the school win both the singles and doubles championships at the same regional for the first time in 10 years. Bui, who led the Bears to the 2025 NCAA Division III Team Championship title, beat Kenyon’s Lora Szabo (6-0, 6-1) to claim the singles title and partnered with Eleanor Archer to win the doubles crown.
In NAIA play, the Xavier University of Louisiana’s men and women swept the Gulf Region with victories from Christian Sanchez (men’s singles), Edilson Rosa/Fatih Sisic (men’s doubles), Maja Brnic (women’s singles) and Maja Brnic/Asadah Ma’at (women’s doubles), ensuring Xavier is well represented at the mid-October ITA Cup in Rome, Georgia.
In the NJCAA’s Southeast Region, the women’s doubles tandem of Coastal Alabama delivered the school’s most successful tournament in program history. The unseeded pairing of sophomores Isabella Canedo/Xaviera Melgar couldn’t be contained en route to the ‘A’ flight doubles title. In the title match, the Coyote duo toppled No. 1 seed Rachel Blais/Yu Lin of Oxford College in a hard-fought three sets (6-7, 6-1, 6-2). Now Rome-bound, the Canedo/Melgar will represent the Coyotes for the national championship next month.
Division III Tufts enjoyed another successful showing at an ITA Regional site, as senior Garv Bahl clinched the school’s second singles title in the last three seasons. Bahl beat No. 8 Noah Lewis (Middlebury) in straight sets, 7-5, 6-0, to win the finals. In 2024, Tufts’ Vuk Vuksanovic was the New England Regional singles champion. In doubles play, the Jumbos’ Nico Tremblay/Stavros Mastrogamvrakis upended top-seeded Andreas Sillaste/Lukas Frangenberg (Amherst) in the championship, marking the second time in the past three seasons that Tufts has won both the singles and doubles title at regionals.
Continue reading below for a complete list of men’s and women’s singles and doubles champions across the opening weeks of the ITA Regional Small College Championships.
Division III Men
New England Region – Middlebury College
Singles Champion – Garv Bahl (Tufts)
Doubles Champion – Nico Tremblay/Stavros Mastrogamvrakis (Tufts)
Northeast Region – Skidmore College
Singles Champion – Kevin Titus Suresh (Saint Francis)
Doubles Champion – Bryan Hui/Boren Zheng (New York University)
Northwest Region – Whitman College
Singles Champion – Niklas Nordahl Jensen (Whitman College)
Doubles Champion – Noah Sutin/Kaden Sigurdsson (Lewis & Clark College)
Division III Women
Southeast Region – University of Mary Washington
Singles Champion – Sahana Madala (John Hopkins)
Doubles Champion – Maya Diyasheva/Ahona Chowdhury (Carnegie Mellon)
South Region – Sewanee
Singles Champion – Holyn Karp (Emory)
Doubles Champion – Holyn Karp/Visnja Gusavac (Emory)
Central Region – Kalamazoo College
Singles Champion – Caitilyn Bui (Washington University, Saint Louis)
Doubles Champion – Caitilyn Bui/Eleanor Archer (Washington University, Saint Louis)
Midwest Region – Gustavus Adolphus College
Singles Champion – Karina Elevstrom (Gustavus Adolphus College)
Doubles Champion – Karina Elevstrom/Rory Wahlstrand (Gustavus Adolphus College)
Southwest Region – Trinity University
Singles Champion – Rosabella Andrade (Trinity)
Doubles Champion – Rosabella Andrade/Eva Kovachev (Trinity)
Northwest Region – Linfield/Pacific
Singles Champion – Sonya Drayton (Lewis & Clark)
Doubles Champion – Emerson Bonner/Renata Rosell Puga (Whitman)
NAIA Men
South Region – Georgia Gwinnett College
Singles Champion – Kanan Gasimov (Georgia Gwinnett)
Doubles Champion – Serafin Zund/Mario Monclus Martin (Tennessee Wesleyan)
Gulf Region – Dillard
Singles Champion – Christian Sanchez (Xavier LA)
Doubles Champion – Edilson Rosa/Fatih Sisic (Xavier LA)
Southeast Region – UT Southern
Singles Champion – Facundo Grasso (Lindsey Wilson College)
Doubles Champion – Facundo Grasso/Tadeo David Ramirez (Lindsey Wilson College)
Midwest Region – Indiana Wesleyan
Singles Champion – Mete Koseoglu (Huntington)
Doubles Champion – Benjamin Rahine/ Mahefa Anthony Rakotomalala (Grace College)
Florida Region – Keiser
Singles Champion – David Mas-Masia Lopez (Keiser)
Doubles Champion – Gonzalo Fernández/Pedro De la Riva (Southeastern)
Central-West Region – Kansas Wesleyan
Singles Champion – Thomas Guadagni (William Woods)
Doubles Champion – Marcos Menendez/Mathys Arnold (Morningside)
Central-East Region – Holy Cross College
Singles Champion – Ching Wah Wai (Holy Cross College)
Doubles Champion – Samuel Sanchez/Ruslan Anurev (Missouri Baptist)
NAIA Women
South Region – Georgia Gwinnett
Singles Champion – Suryanshi Suryanshi (Georgia Gwinnett)
Doubles Champion – Suryanshi Suryanshi/Marylove Edwards (Georgia Gwinnett)
Gulf Region – Dillard
Singles Champion – Maja Brnic (Xavier)
Doubles Champion – Maja Brnic/Asadah Ma’at ((Xavier)
Southeast Region – UT Southern
Singles Champion – Maria Ange Ortega Mateu (Lindsey Wilson College)
Doubles Champion – Blanca Trillo Pita da Veiga/Javiera Verdugo (Lindsey Wilson College)
Midwest Region – Indiana Wesleyan
Singles Champion – Michelle Irigoyen (Marion)
Doubles Champion – Ainara Martinez Grande/Jimena Rivera Flores (Marion)
Florida Region – Keiser
Singles Champion – Lena Couto (Keiser)
Doubles Champion – Emily Kim/Ceylin Ipek (Keiser)
Central-West Region – Kansas Wesleyan
Singles Champion – Seohyeon Jang (Concordia-Nebraska)
Doubles Champion – Paulina Hudson/Zeynep Sila Ege (Texas Wesleyan)
Central-East Region – Holy Cross College
Singles Champion – Nicole Martinez (Holy Cross College)
Doubles Champion – Paola Lameda Morin/Olesya Krot (Bethel)
NJCAA & 3C2A Men
Central Region – Pratt Community College
Singles Champion – Koshiro Nakamae (Pratt)
Doubles Champion – Edward Westfall/Oleksandr Ponomar (Pratt)
Southeast Region – Bevill State
Singles Champion – Galo Gutierrez Matuk (Eastern Florida State)
Doubles Champion – Skye Thomson/Oliver Neely (Oxford College of Emory)
Southern Region – Copiah-Lincoln CC
Singles Champion – Juan Pereyra (Jones College)
Doubles Champion – Juan Pereyra/Felipe Morales Beltran (Jones College)
NJCAA & 3C2A Women
Central Region – Pratt Community College
Singles Champion – Neiro Tanaka (Cowley College)
Doubles Champion – Lisa Takamura/Nathanielle Ann Wan Xuan Lee (Cowley College)
Florida Region – Hillsborough College
Singles Champion – Emily Lederer (Hillsborough)
Doubles Champion – Emily Lederer/Paola Cordero (Hillsborough)
Southeast Region – Wallace State
Singles Champion – Martina Aviles (South Carolina-Sumter)
Doubles Champion – Xaviera Melgar/Isabella Canedo (Coastal Alabama)
