Kentucky men’s tennis elite season came to an end in a hard-fought, 4-2 quarterfinal loss to reigning national champion Virginia on Friday, but the ‘Cats are establishing themselves as a force to be reckoned with in college tennis, and that’s not easy to do.
Case in point, year-round warm-weather schools have dominated college tennis. These programs have won 56 of the past 63 team titles. Throw in Virginia, which is a tennis power of its own, and only Illinois (2003) and Wake Forest 2018) are the lone exceptions. Plus Winston Salem, NC is pretty warm in my book.