James Newton

SINGLES SUPERLATIVES

Awards & Honors
2025 ITA Scholar Athlete
2025 Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll
2023-24 First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll

Singles Record: 18-11
Highest Singles Ranking: ---
Doubles Record: 17-24
Highest Doubles Ranking: ---

Singles Record: 7-4
Doubles Record: 8-13

SPRING SEASON

Wrapped up his second season at Tennessee with seven singles victories and eight doubles wins.
Logged two doubles victories alongside Garcia, taking down Alabama's Jones/Foster, 6-4, and Auburn's Heng/Kennedy, 6-2.
Secured a pair of singles wins over Tennessee State's Alex Adamec, 6-1, 6-0, and Christopher Bogelin, 6-2, 6-2.
Posted a doubles win alongside Jan Kobierski at the No. 3 spot versus Graziani/S. Bharadwaj of Penn, 7-5.
Went 2-0 in both singles and doubles play against Tennessee Tech and Belmont to open up his sophomore spring campaign.

FALL SEASON

Earned a 3-3 record in singles and 1-2 mark in doubles during the fall slate.
Opened the year with two wins in his first two matches at the Louisville Classic, taking down Louisville's Piet Steveker and Enrique Pena.

Singles Record: 11-7
Doubles Record: 9-11

SPRING SEASON

Opened his first NCAA Championships with two doubles victories alongside Apltauer at the No. 3 court against ETSU's Pedro Cressoni and Alberto Garcia, 6-3, and Pau Fanla and Juan Zabala of Memphis, 7-5.
Posted a 6-2 victory over Florida's Kevin Edengren and Jeremy Jin alongside Apltauer on court three in the SEC Tournament quarterfinals.
Earned the first SEC singles win of his career, defeating Roberto Ferrer Guimaraes of Mississippi State, 6-1, 6-3.
Went 2-0 in both singles and doubles play in two victories against The Citadel.
Made his Tennessee debut vs. Tennessee Tech, defeating Murilo Burkhardt and Darek Kuczynski, 6-4, alongside Li at the No. 3 spot, and notching an impressive 6-0, 6-1 win over Kuczkynski at No. 6 singles.

FALL SEASON

Advanced to the Round of 64 at ITA Regionals, recording an overall singles record of 3-1.
Notched two singles victories at the Big 12/SEC Challenge, defeating Martin Breysach (Baylor) 4-6, 7-6(1), 6-1, and Takeyasu Sekiguchi (Texas Tech) 6-2, 6-0.
Earned a 2-1 singles record in his collegiate debut at the Wake Forest Invitational.

Born on December 30, 2004, in Perth, Australia.
Newton Signing Release
By joining the Vols, extends Tennessee's streak of having an Australian on its roster to 37 straight years, dating to the 1987-88 season.
Is a two-time doubles finalist, reached a doubles semifinal at the Junior ITF level and logged a finals appearance at the U14 singles grass court nationals.
Owns a top-10 UTR (11.54) among U18 competitors in Australia.
An attendee at Christ Church Grammar School and captain of the Tennis First Team in Australia, helped lead the team to the U18 Western Australia championship and was later selected for the All-Australian U18 team.