Although the Kenyon College tennis team’s season has ended, senior Michael Greenberg has qualified to participate in the upcoming NCAA Division III Singles Championship and, along with Charles Brody.
The national stage is a familiar one for Greenberg, who raced through the 32-player singles bracket in 2008 and won the national title. Last season he battled health issues and was eliminated from tournament play in the first round.
Greenberg, a former standout at East Chapel Hill High School, is a three-time North Coast Athletic Conference Player of the Year. He’ll graduate as Kenyon’s all-time leader in winning percentage and has the possibility of setting the college standard for career wins. Going into nationals, Greenberg (80-14 in his three varsity seasons at Kenyon) needs one more to tie William VandenBerg’s 81 career wins.
He plays on the Kenyon team with two other Chapel Hillians: fellow ECH grad Adam Sendor, now a junior at Kenyon, and freshman Jared Goldstein, who played last year at Durham Academy.
Greenberg is 23-7 this year and ranked as the No. 2 player in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s Central Region.
In the doubles department, Greenberg will also be making his third-straight tournament appearance. In 2008 he teamed with current junior Jeremy Polster and was eliminated from the first round. Last season, he teamed with VandenBerg and advanced to the second round before being ousted.
This season, Greenberg’s doubles partner is Brody, who is the owner of Kenyon’s record for all-time career doubles victories (79). Brody set the record in the Lords’ NCAA tournament match with Trinity University on May 16.
Together, Greenberg and Brody are 12-2 this season and have not been defeated in their last eight matches. They are ranked as the No. 2 doubles team in the ITA’s Central Region and they are one of just 16 doubles teams selected for the national tournament.
The first round of both tournaments begins Friday, May 28 and will be held at Oberlin College in Ohio.
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