$ 20,000 in prize money handed out on the ITA National Summer Championships 2025 powered by WTN

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Memphis, TN – After four days of intense competition between athletes of many of the most prestigious lectures, tennis programs from all over the country, the singles and double champions have now been crowned on the ITA National Summer Championships from 2025 driven by WTN.

Strengthening a prize pool of $ 20,000 In addition to the ITA all-American Championship Wild Cards (only for Active Division I athletes) and USTA Pro Circuit Wild Cards (only for American finalists), the ITA National Summer Championships have again proved to be a waxed option for collegial athletes.

With four champion competitions that took place on Tuesday, both the men’s and ladies singles finals were the first to hit the courts in Memphis as Lucas Brown [1] (Texas) faced Moritz Kudernatsch [3] (Memphis) in the men’s final while Saray Yli-Piipari [3] (Tennessee) corresponded to Sophia Holod [5] (Notre Dame) in the women’s final.

Between Brown (7.23 WTN) and Kudernatsch (7.32 WTN), it was a struggle to play styles, because Brown trusted on his fitness and consistent foundations to the big serving Kudernatsch 6-2, 6-4 in today’s final. As an emerging junior for the Longhorns, Brown has continued to improve the season-after season in Austin and will set up nicely this season to do this again, earning an ITA all-American Main Draw Wild Card that is now a qualification event for the NCAA individual championships in the autumn.

In the meantime, in the match between Yli-Piipari (14.68 WTN) and Holod (16.76 WTN) the Lady was full that victor came and the incoming first-year student for the Irish 6-2, 5-7, 10-4 to claim the title. In addition to a trip to Cary for the ITA All-American Championships, Yli-Piipari also took $ 3,000 in prize money home to win the Singles-Draw.

In Doubles, Luc Koenig and Luis Jose Nakamine’s Baylor duo stood opposite Cody Benton (NC State) and Martin Vergara (Etsu) on the spot in a fight between the two best placed teams. The Lady Vols were re-displayed in the ladies’ finals when Yli-Piipari worked with teammate Vanesa Suarez to accept the northwestern duo of Erica Jessel and Maia Loureiro.

In the final of the men’s subbels, Koenig and Nakamine fought back from a large shortage in the third set Tien-Punts Tiebreak to get the upper hand of Benton and Vergara, with 6-3, 3-6, 10-6 in the final. The duo marks the second consecutive double team from Baylor to win the title of the men’s dubbels on the ITA National Summer Championships and now has a main pulling spot that is awaiting the ITA All-American Championships in Tulsa.

To end the day, our singles champion was back on the field with partner and teammate Suarez to record the Wildcat duo van Jessel and Loureiro. Yli-Piipari and Suarez jumped from the beginning of the northwestern duo in the last winning 6-1, 6-1 to take the title home. This marks the second consecutive year in which a player wiped both the singles and the double title on the ITA National Summer Championships, while Yli-Piipari joins Eleana Yu (Duke) who completed this alongside partner Emma Jackson last year.

The ITA National Summer Championships powered by WTN mark the conclusion of the ITA Summer Series that brings more than 50 tournaments to university campuses throughout the country via the ITA Summer Masters Series and the ITA Summer Points Race Series. Through these events, thousands of colleagues and high-ranking junior players were able to compete in very competitive competition during the summer months.