Led by a decorated senior class, the Emory University women's tennis team turned in a 14-7 record during the 2025-26 campaign and advanced to the regional finals of the NCAA tournament.
Five different players earned Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-America status on the year, led by the senior class of Emily Kantrovitz, Izzy Antanavicius and Iris Berman.
Kantrovitz and Antanavicius headlined the team with All-America acclaim in both singles and doubles with Antanavicius leading the team in both singles and doubles victories with 24 in both disciplines while Kantrovitz racked up 17 singles wins and 19 on the doubles circuit.
In the fall, the stellar Emory duo advanced to the championship match of the ITA South regional singles draw where Antanavicius ended Kantrovitz's two-year reign. Kantrovitz still added ITA regional hardware however as she teamed with Berman to capture the doubles crown, defeating Antanavicius and Erika Olson in the all-Emory final. Two weeks later at the ITA Cup, Kantrovitz & Berman advanced to the semifinals of the doubles draw while Antanavicius made it to the quarterfinal round in singles.
As the season flipped to the spring, the Eagles began with four consecutive wins ahead of the ITA Indoor National Championships, picking up wins over Division II foes Young Harris, Tennessee Wesleyan and regional rival Sewanee. At the Indoor Nationals in Nashville, the Eagles faltered in the opening round in a down-to-wire match against No. 5 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps before responding with another shutout over the Tigers. The tournament concluded with another marathon battle as the Eagles fell to No. 6 Wesleyan in the fifth-place match.
After going 1-2 on its spring break trip against SCAD and national powers WashU and Wesleyan, the Eagles closed the regular season with a flurry – posting a 5-1 record with notable triumphs over No. 15 Washington & Lee, No. 10 Bowdoin and No. 6 Johns Hopkins to enter the UAA Championships with a mark of 11-5.
Looking to return to the conference championship match, Emory toppled No. 15 Case Western Reserve in the first round before another meeting with No. 2 WashU in the semifinals where the Bears prevailed. The Eagles finished the tournament on a strong note, blanking No. 6 Carnegie Mellon in the third place match and avenging the team's loss to the Tartans from three weeks prior.
Following a regular season slate where the Eagles went 13-6, Emory was chosen as a regional host for the NCAA postseason. The Eagles opened the tournament with 4-0 clinic over NC Wesleyan to advance to face W&L for the second straight year. Emory led the match at 3-1 but a stunning comeback from the Generals upended the Eagles to snap Emory's string of 17 consecutive quarterfinal appearances.
Following the team's run in the NCAA Championships, the Eagles turned their attention to the Individual Championships to conclude the year. Antanavicius and Kantrovitz represented the Blue & Gold in the singles bracket with Antanavicius reaching the Round of 16 where she would fall to the eventual national champion from Babson. In doubles, Antananvicius teamed with Yanire Marte for a run to the national quarterfinals where they fell to WashU's pairing of Eleanor Archer/Cristina Bui.
In addition to the on-court accolades, the Eagles were highly successful with academic honors throughout the season. Nine members of the team were chosen as ITA Scholar-Athletes while the senior trio of Kantrovitz, Antanavicius and Berman were selected as First Team Academic All-Americans by the College Sports Communicators organization. Furthermore, Kantrovitz became the eighth student-athlete in Emory University history, as well as the first for women's tennis, to be selected as the Academic All-America Team Member of the Year for their respective sport and Antanavicius was the sixth-ever player in program history to be a recipient of the NCAA postgraduate scholarship and the first since Head Coach Bridget Disher in 2018.
The Eagles earned the following awards during the 2025-26 season.Â