Men’s Tennis Fall Season Preview
9/11/2025
The Brown men’s tennis team will open the fall 2025 season this weekend at the Dartmouth Invitational. Head coach Mike Fried ‘91 will embark on his first season on College Hill for the 2025-26 season.
Welcome Home
Mike Fried ‘91 was named the 14th head coach in program history on June 26. Fried returns to Brown after 13 seasons as head coach of the men’s and women’s tennis programs at Wesleyan.
Fried led the Wesleyan men's and women's tennis programs to unprecedented success. This included the university's first women's NCAA Championship in 2019 and national runner-up finishes for the women's program in 2021 and 2024. In 2025, the Wesleyan women's team advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight.
Fried departed Wesleyan as the winningest coach in women's tennis history with 179 wins and the second-most wins in Wesleyan men's tennis history with 109. Fried led the women's team to four 20-win seasons, the only 20-win seasons in program history.
In 2019, he became one of only two coaches to be named the ITA Coach of the Year for both the men's (2017) and women's (2019) teams.
Fried delivered nine recruiting classes that ranked in the top 10 nationally over the past 10 years, including the nation's second-best men's tennis class (2018) and the top recruiting class in the country for women (2019). He coached 71 All-NESCAC performers and 48 All-Americans during his 13-year tenure at Wesleyan.
During his playing career on College Hill, Fried was a four-year starter, a two-time captain, and a No. 1 singles and doubles player.
The Fall Schedule
Brown will begin its 2025 fall slate with the Dartmouth Invitational. Then, the Bears will head to the Harvard Invitational in Cambridge, Mass.
The ITA New England Regionals will be hosted by Yale in New Haven, Conn. (Oct. 8-14), the Bears made history at the 2024 ITA New England Regionals as they sent three doubles pairings to the quarterfinals and one to the semifinals.
Following the ITA New England Regionals, Brown will head to Philadelphia, Pa. for the IVy League Singles and Doubles Tournament (Oct. 24-27).
Brown will travel to North Carolina for the ITA Sectional Championships (Nov. 6-9) and the ITA Masters (Nov. 6-9). The Bears’ fall schedule will conclude at the NCAA Individual Championships (Nov. 18-23) in Orlando, Fla.
Click here for the full 2025 fall schedule.
Returning Core
Brown will return six members from the 2024-25 squad that made history. Noah Hernandez and Lukas Phimvongsa return after being named Honorable Mention All-Ivy Doubles in 2025. The doubles pairing was also named the No. 10 Doubles pairing in the New England Region by the ITA. The pairing finished the season with a 13-10 overall mark and a team-best 8-6 record against opponents’ No. 1 doubles pairings.
James Lian returns for his junior season after recording a team-high 20 singles victories in 2025, Zander Bravo earned nine singles victories last season.
Alex Koong returns after being named Academic All-Ivy last season and Toby Luo embarks on his second season as a Bear after going 8-6 in singles action as a freshman.
New Faces
Brown will welcome four freshmen for the 2025-26 season in Theo Murphy, Cole Orberg, Elliot Wasserman, and Robert Yang.
2025 Recap
In 2025, Brown won 18 matches, the most since 2009. They also won 16 home matches, which tied the program record set back in 2006. Brown won a match against a ranked opponent since 2015 when they defeated No. 70 NJIT (Mar. 9).
The Bears wrapped up the 2025 season ranked No. 6 in the New England Region by the ITA. It was the first time they were regionally ranked since 2019 when the Bears checked in at No. 7 in the region.
