It's on again!

We are so excited for the beginning of a new season and a new year at Harvard Men's Tennis. What a long, strange trip its been! Currently, Harvard Square is buzzing and the Fall is off to a great start in this "new" normal. Students are attending classes in person, practicing hard on the courts and in the gym, as well as eating in the dinning halls. We pray that we can continue like this for the rest of the season. As coaches, this sure beats Zoom tennis! Check out our Fall schedule here.

Crimson "Chowdah" Fest 9/24-26

Our big Fall event, "Chowdah" Fest, is this weekend, Friday, September 24th – Sunday, September 26th during the Laver Cup in Boston. If you are local or coming to visit the pro tennis, please stop by the Beren Tennis Center. This year's "Chowdah" Fest features some of the top teams in the country, including the defending National Champions Florida Gators, as well as powerhouses like Michigan, Cal-Berkeley and Arizona State in a flighted singles and doubles event.

Here are the tentative match times for the weekend for HMT:

Friday, 9/24 at 2:30pm
Saturday, 9/25 at 2:30pm
Sunday, 9/26 at 1pm

Congratulations are in order!

Congrats to Brian Shi '22 and Steven Sun '23 for being named the newest captains of Harvard Men's Tennis. You can read all about them in this press release.

Congrats to Sanam Singh for being named the Associate Head Coach of Harvard Men's Tennis. "I am thrilled to recognize Sanam's outstanding contributions by elevating his title to Associate Head Coach. Sanam is a rising star in the coaching ranks and he has already made a major impact on our program and our community.

Coach Rueb the Tour Guide?

Did you know that Coach Rueb has been giving tours to the Harvard Athletics staff for many years to help new hires learn more about campus and student life as well as the history of Harvard? Recently, he gave a tour of the athletic facility for first-years as part of the GPA program to connect coaches to more of the student body.

The tour includes many fun filled facts and trivia. For example, do you know why we are called the "Crimson?" The story goes back to a young graduate student, Charles Eliot (later President of the University), who passed out Crimson scarves to identify Harvard rowers during a regatta in 1858 (note: this was before uniforms!). Not everyone got the memo right away. Fifteen years later in 1873, when the Harvard Newspaper was founded, it was originally called “The Magenta”! It all came to a head in 1875 when, by student vote, the students chose Crimson over Magenta by a wide margin. The very next issue, the newspaper became “The Crimson.” Only in 1910, by a vote of the Harvard Corporation did it become official, the year after President Elliot retired.

Applying Sports to Business

Harvard Men's Tennis hosted several Zoom webinars this past year including "Applying Sports to Business" with the world famous Dr. Jim Loehr and figure skating star and Olympic silver medalist, Paul Wylie '90, along with Lorenzo Beltrame P'17, the Director of Mental Performance for the Italian Tennis Federation and consultant to many of the Harvard teams including HMT. It was a terrific discussion. In case you missed it here is a link to the recording.