NORTH ATTLEBORO, Mass. - The Adelphi women's tennis team capped an undefeated 2025-2026 Northeast 10 regular season this week, sealing their fate as the NE10's outright regular season champion and No. 1 seead in the postseason NE10 Championship. Tournament play begins with the first round on April 24th and concludes with the semis and finals on April 27th and 28th, hosted at the USTA National Tennis Center.
Adelphi has been a dominant force in the NE10 recently, appearing in three of the last four conference championship finals. The Panthers were dominant this year, rising as high as No. 20 in the national rankings and winning ever conference match with at least five wins (7-0, 6-1, 5-2). AU is also the winningest NE10 program currently playing in the league, having won four titles previous.
This year includes the added wrinkle of a spring championship. It's the first time the NE10 has played the women's tennis championship in the spring since the 2021 COVID season.
1. Adelphi (12-0)
2. Assumption (9-3) *
3. Southern New Hampshire (9-3) *
4. Franklin Pierce (6-6)
5. Saint Anselm (3-9)
* Assumption and SNHU went 1-1 during the regular season. When comparing results vs. the teams occupying the highest position in the standings, both teams lost to Adelphi twice and beat all other teams twice each. When match score wins were compared, Assumption earned the #2 seed as they had nine match wins in the two matches vs. SNHU and SNHU had five.
Friday, April 24th
First Round
Match #1: #5 Saint Anselm at #4 Franklin Pierce
Outdoor match time: 2:00 PM (1:00 PM warmup start time).
Indoor back up at Monadnock Indoor Tennis Club (Peterborough, NH): 5:00 PM start/4:00 PM warmup start.
Monday, April 27th
Semifinals: (To be played at the US Tennis Center (Flushing, NY)
Match #2: Match #1 winner vs. #1 Adelphi (10 AM warmup start; 11 AM match start)
Match #3: #2 Assumption vs. #3 Southern New Hampshire (Teams in the second semifinal will have a one-hour warmup following the completion of the first semi-final).
If matches are moved indoors to Point Set, the first semifinal match will start at 11:30am (11am warmup start); the second match will start approximately 30 minutes following completion of the first match (teams in the second semifinal will also have a 30-minute warmup).
Tuesday, April 28th
Championship (to be played at the US Tennis Center (Flushing, NY)
Match # 4: Match #3 winner vs Match #4 winner (11am warmup start; 12pm match start)
If the match is moved indoors to Point Set, the finals match will start at 1:00pm (12pm warmup start).
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