USTA Tennis on Campus

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USTA Tennis on Campus
Sport Team tennis
Founded2000 [1]
Owner(s) United States Tennis Association
No. of teams370
Most recent
champion(s)		 California (2024)
Most titles Texas A&M, California (5)
Official website tennisoncampus.com

Tennis on Campus (TOC) is the national collegiate club tennis league operated by the United States Tennis Association (USTA). The league is played on hard courts in World TeamTennis format. 370 colleges throughout the 15 USTA geographical sections nationwide compete in the league. [2]

Contents

The league's regular season takes place in the fall and spring along with four major tournaments, culminating with the National Championship. [3]

Competition format

The regular season games are played in tournaments which are hosted by individual universities at their campus tennis facilities or a local tennis center. The matches are played in mixed gender World TeamTennis format which features four separate brackets in tournaments; copper, bronze, silver, and gold in a pool play system. [2] Gold is the leading bracket, which is the overall champion of each tournament. [4]

During a game, five matches are played, with a minimum of four players on a team, on hard courts. [3] [5]

TOC players typically have an NTRP rating of 3.5 to 5.0 and played varsity high school tennis.

Major tournaments

Outside the regular season, there are four major tournaments directly hosted by the USTA held seasonally. All four tournaments (Spring and Fall Invitationals, Sectional Championships, and the National Championship) feature free merchandise for the players, and professional photographers. [6] The champions and runners-up of the Sectional and Invitational tournaments earn automatic bids to the National Championship, depending on the size of the section. [7]

The four major tournaments are hosted at major or professional tennis centers at rotating venues nationwide. [8]

Sectional Championships

The 15 USTA sections host a championship tournament where their respective sectional teams compete to win the trophy. The winners and runners-up get a bid to the National Championship. [9]

Fall and Spring Invitationals

The Fall and Spring Invitationals are national invitational tournaments to which 64 schools from random sections are invited based on their seasonal record, with the winner of the tournament receiving an automatic bid to the National Championship. The tournaments were typically hosted in Surprise, Arizona and Cary, North Carolina, but the most recent ones were in Austin, Texas and Folsom, California. [10] [11] [12] [13] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic several 2020-2022 tournaments were cancelled.

Results by year: [10] [11] [12] [13]

YearSpring championFall champion
2024 Sacramento State
2023 UCF USC
2022No event Wisconsin
2019 Georgia Cornell
2018 Texas Georgia
2017 Northern Arizona Ohio State
2016 UC San Diego Florida
2015 Michigan Georgia
2014 UCLA Florida
2013 USC Florida
2012 Arizona Duke
2011 UC San Diego Michigan
2010 UC San Diego Alabama

National Championship

The USTA Tennis on Campus National Championship is the pinnacle major tournament hosted in April. [3] [14] A pool of 64 schools throughout the nation which were the champions or runners-up of their Sectional Championship or the Fall/Spring Invitational earn automatic bids to Nationals. [7] After the National Championship game is an awards ceremony. [15]

The tournament lasts three days. Some years, the matches are livestreamed on YouTube with live commentary by the USTA. [16] [17]

Results by year

Below are the results of all the National Championships. [3]

YearChampionRunner-upScoreLocationRef.
2024 California USC 25-17 Rome, Georgia
2023 Virginia Cal Poly 22-20 Surprise, Arizona
2022 UCLA California 28-22 Orlando, Florida
2019 UCLA California 23-22 Surprise, Arizona [18]
2018 Ohio State North Carolina 27-13 Orlando, Florida [17]
2017 Michigan UC Irvine 24-20 [19]
2016 Auburn North Carolina 23-22 Cary, North Carolina [20]
2015 California Minnesota 27-17 [21]
2014 California Florida 27-13 Surprise, Arizona [22]
2013 Georgia Florida 26-24 [23]
2012 California Virginia 25-23 Cary, North Carolina [24]
2011 UCLA Florida 30-19 [25]
2010 California Florida 30-14 Surprise, Arizona [26]
2009 Duke Wisconsin 26-21 [27]
2008 Texas California 22-16 Cary, North Carolina [28]
YearChampion
2007 Texas A&M
2006 Texas A&M
2005 Texas A&M
2004 Texas A&M
2003 Florida
2002 Texas A&M
2001 North Carolina
2000 North Carolina

Results by school

SchoolTitlesYears wonYears runner-up
Texas A&M 52002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007—
California 52010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 20242008, 2019, 2022
UCLA 32011, 2019, 2022—
North Carolina 22000, 20012016, 2018
Auburn 12016—
Duke 12009—
Florida 120032010, 2011, 2013, 2014
Georgia 12013—
Michigan 12017—
Ohio State 12018—
Texas 12008—
Virginia 120232012

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  2. 1 2 "AboutUs". www.tennisoncampus.com. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "USTA Tennis On Campus National Championship". www.tennisoncampus.com. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
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  5. ↑ "USTA WTT TOC Rules" (PDF).
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  11. 1 2 "USTA Tennis On Campus Spring Invitational". www.tennisoncampus.com. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
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  13. 1 2 "USTA / 2024 TOC Spring Invitational". playtennis.usta.com. Retrieved 2024-04-10.
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  15. ↑ "USTA Tennis On Campus National Championship". www.tennisoncampus.com. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  16. ↑ "Watch". www.ustanationalcampus.com. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
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