The Vanderbilt University men’s tennis team was invited to play in the first ever NIT Universal Tennis National Invitational Tennis Championship. The tournament will take place May 18-20 in Atlanta, Georgia. All matches will be featured on Amazon Prime Video, at no additional cost to Amazon Prime members.
The tournament will feature eight men’s and eight women’s programs. The teams, selected by the NIT tournament committee, will have the option to cap off their season with a national championship. The Commodores look to continue postseason play after falling heartbreakingly to Texas A&M in the second round of the SEC tournament last month.
Since then, however, the Dores have bounced back with Nathan Cox being named to the SEC All-Freshman team and Jeremie Casabon and Siim Troost being invited to the NCAA Doubles Championship. Announcements about other tournament participants are ongoing.
Information on Vanderbilt’s draw in the tournament will be announced next week.
About the Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University is a university in Nashville, Tennessee. It was founded in 1873 by Cornelius Vanderbilt with a donation of one million dollars.
It hosts around 13,000 students. Vanderbilt spent $738 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 31st in the nation. In 2013, Vanderbilt University was ranked ninth in the country in funding from the National Institutes of Health.
Vanderbilt is ranked the 116th best university in the world in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and 33rd in the United States by the Academic Ranking of World Universities. The Academic Ranking of World Universities ranks Vanderbilt as the 62nd-best university in the world.
Additionally the ARWU Field rankings in 2015 placed Vanderbilt as 18th best in the world for Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy, and 21st in Social Sciences. Vanderbilt is a founding and charter member of the Southeastern Conference and for a half-century has been the conference’s only private school.
The university fields six men’s and ten women’s intercollegiate teams and has won five NCAA championships. Photo credits: Vanderbilt University website
