As schools ponder cutting sports, tennis proves vulnerable

No sport is feeling the crunch more than tennis as colleges across the country ponder cutting sports while addressing budget concerns. East Carolina, Green Bay, Northern Colorado, Southern Utah, Winthrop and Wright State also dropped both men’s and women’s tennis programs over the last three months. Arkansas-Pine Bluff suspended men’s and women’s tennis for the 2020-21 school year. Appalachian State cut men’s tennis. Akron eliminated women’s tennis. Connecticut won’t have a men’s tennis team after 2020-21. Men’s and women’s tennis are the only sports dropped by more than four Division I schools since the start of the pandemic.