page_title: Tennessee Volunteers
section_title: Men's program
hierarchical_section_title: Tennessee Volunteers / Overview of the Volunteers athletic programs / Tennis / Men's program
caption_attribution_description: English: Tennessee Tennis team at Goodfriend Tennis Center
context_page_description: The Tennessee Volunteers and Lady Volunteers are the 20 male and female varsity intercollegiate athletics programs that represent the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. The Volunteers compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association as a member of the Southeastern Conference. In December 2017, former Tennessee football coach Phillip Fulmer was introduced as Tennessee's new athletic director.
  Men's and women's teams with the exception of women's basketball are called the Volunteers The Tennessee women's basketball team is called the Lady Volunteers. These names come from the nickname of Tennessee, The Volunteer State.
context_section_description: The Tennessee Volunteers men's tennis team has won 9 Southeastern Conference Championships. Sam Winterbotham was named the 10th coach in Tennessee tennis history on October 24, 2006. He and his assistant Chris Woodruff joined forces when Tennessee was ranked No. 48 nationally, but the Vols quickly vaulted up the charts over a four-year span. Tennessee ended 2010 at No. 2 and has finished in the top 10 3 years in a row. Winterbotham managed to bring Tennessee back among the nation's elite tennis programs.
  The 2010 season was nothing short of historic for Winterbotham and the Vols. Tennessee returned to the finals of the NCAA Championships for the first time in nine years. The Vols ended the season ranked No. 2 nationally with a 31–2 record, good for the second-most wins in program history. The Vols finished 11–0 in Southeastern Conference play to claim their eighth SEC regular season title and went on to become the first team to capture the SEC Tournament Title courtesy of three 4–0 shutouts.
  Three players—John-Patrick Smith, Rhyne Williams and Davey Sandgren—earned All-America honors. For the first time in Tennessee history, five Vols were named All-SEC. Five players also finished the year in the national ITA rankings.
  In terms of sheer number of victories, from 2008 to 2010 the team wrapped up their most successful three-year period in program history with a 77–13 record. The Vols had 31 victories in 2010 and won 23 matches in both 2008 and 2009.
caption: The Tennessee Vols tennis team finishing a match at Barksdale Stadium
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