PRINCETON, N.J. -  On Thursday, the Ivy League announced the 2026 Men’s Tennis All-Ivy Teams and Major Award winners following the conclusion of the 2025-26 regular season.
 
Columbia’s Michael Zheng — the back-to-back NCAA singles champion— earned the League’s Player of the Year honor after finishing 10-5 overall in the spring. The senior was 4-2 in the Ivy League as the Lions’ No.1 singles player. Zheng was also a member of the No. 1 doubles duo with Nicolas Kotzen, finishing 4-2 overall with a 3-1 record in conference play. Zheng becomes just the second men’s tennis student-athlete in Ivy League history to win three Player of the Year awards (Princeton’s Matija Pecotic).
 
The Rookie of the Year award was given to Nathan Blokhin of Harvard by a unanimous decision. Blokhin was the No. 3 singles player for the Crimson and finished 24-7 overall (16-3 in the spring) with a perfect 5-0 Ivy record.
 
After capturing a share of the regular season title, Cornell’s coaching staff, led by head coach Silviu Tanasoiu, earned Coaching Staff of the Year. The Big Red finished the regular season 18-3 with a 6-1 conference mark, earning the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Championships with the head-to-head win over Columbia in the regular season finale. The title is the third in Cornell's program history — and the first since 2017 — and the second under Tanasoiu.
 
The All-Ivy Singles First Team featured an honoree from six different League institutions. Zheng was one of five unanimous selections along with Cornell’s Rodrigo Fernandes, Harvard’s Rohan Murali, Princeton’s Paul Inchauspe and Vignesh Gogineni of Yale. Columbia’s Nicolas Kotzen and Penn’s Manfredi Graziani rounded out the team.
 
Graziani and teammate Aaron Sandler of Penn were the lone unanimous selections to the All-Ivy Doubles First Team. They were joined by Columbia’s duo of Zheng and Kotzen as well as Gogineni and Edward Liao of Yale.

Additionally, one student-athlete from each institution was recognized for their commitment in the classroom and on the court as members of the 2025-26 Ivy League Men's Tennis Academic All-Ivy team. Brown’s Noah Hernandez, Columbia's Sachin Palta, Cornell’s Aman Sharma, Dartmouth's Miles Groom, Harvard’s Rohan Murali, Penn's Aaron Sandler, Princeton’s Sebastian Sec and Yale's Eric Li were each named to the team.
 
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Michael Zheng, Columbia
 
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Nathan Blokhin, Harvard*
 
COACHING STAFF OF THE YEAR
Cornell
 
FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY SINGLES^
Michael Zheng, Columbia*
Rodrigo Fernandes, Cornell*
Rohan Murali, Harvard*
Paul Inchauspe, Princeton*
Vignesh Gogineni, Yale*
Nicolas Kotzen, Columbia
Manfredi Graziani, Penn
 
FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY DOUBLES
Manfredi Graziani/Aaron Sandler, Penn*
Michael Zheng/Nicolas Kotzen, Columbia
Vignesh Gogineni/Edward Liao, Yale
 
SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY SINGLES^
Rethin Pranav, Cornell
Eric Verdes, Cornell
Miles Groom, Dartmouth
Nathan Blokhin, Harvard
Shaurya Bharadwaj, Penn
Top Nidunjianzan, Princeton
Edward Liao, Yale
 
SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY DOUBLES
Rethin Pranav/Rushil Kohsla, Cornell
Miles Groom/Henry Ren, Dartmouth
Paul Inchauspe/Top Nidunjianzan, Princeton
 
HONORABLE MENTION
Abhishek Thorat, Columbia
Peter Privara, Harvard
Sebastian Sec, Princeton
Sachin Palta/Andrew Ena, Columbia
Felipe Pinzon/Petar Teodorovic, Cornell
Rohan Murali/Kolos Kincses, Harvard
 
* Unanimous selection
^ Team expanded due to ties in voting