The 2026 SCIAC Men’s Tennis Tournament will begin on Wednesday, Apr. 29 at 6:30 p.m. with the semifinals between #2 Pomona-Pitzer Colleges and #3 University of Redlands just before #1 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges host #4 Caltech at 7 p.m.
Tournament Central
The national No. 2 Stags extended the conference’s longest active championship streak to 20 consecutive seasons with another unbeaten regular season title run. Reigning singles national champion
Advik Mareedu just set a new CMS program
career wins mark (129) and tops the regional doubles rankings alongside
Caleb Settles. Valencia High School teammate
Warren Pham sits third in the region while rookies
Henry Wilson and
Sibi Raja join
Josh Kim among the West’s top 15 singles players.
The region’s second-ranked singles player,
Drew Goldman, helped lift No. 23 Pomona-Pitzer Colleges to second place in the conference after a hard-fought
4-3 decision over No. 32 Redlands on Mar. 14 and
sweep of No. 51 Caltech on Apr. 18. First-year
Tanner Ige has played throughout the lineup but ranks 17
th in the region for singles while Goldman and
Jay Mallampati sit third.
The Bulldogs have come on strong late in the season after facing a daunting Spring Break schedule, closing the regular season 6-1 with just a loss to CMS in the middle of that stretch. A decisive
6-1 victory over Caltech secured the #3 seed and chance to avenge that mid-March defeat to the Sagehens. That run of success has coincided with a 6-2 late-season record for
Vitomir Petcov at #1 singles, with the sophomore’s only SCIAC loss coming to Mareedu while knocking off the regionally ranked top players from Caltech, Chapman and Occidental College.
William Pullin and
Gustavo Marcanth also feature in the region’s top 20 singles players while Petcov has teamed with
MJ Abarca to rank fourth in doubles.
Caltech bounced back from consecutive defeats to each of the other three tournament teams to fend off Oxy in a winner-take-all battle on
Apr. 25.
Constantin Cedillo-Vayson de Pradenne has ranked among the region’s top 10 in singles all season while
Andrew Zabelo has made a late push up to #1 singles, where the senior took five games from Goldman before knocking off Oxy’s top singles player ranked just behind Cedillo.
Eric He has joined Zabelo as a strong doubles team that has won seven of its last nine matches including handing Mareedu and Settles their first DIII defeat since Feb. 21.
The final match will be played on Friday, May 1 on the campus of the highest remaining seed.
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