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Karl Gregor

Karl Gregor





Now in his 13th year as head coach of the Jumbos, Coach Gregor has brought Tufts Men’s Tennis to the top on the Div 3 Ranks. Now a perennial top 5 team and National Contender, Tufts has reached the NCAA Final Four or better four times over the last five seasons. In 2022 the Jumbos reached their first ever NCAA Final-Four. And in 2023 they took it one step further reaching the programs first NCAA Final. In the season since the final they have made NCAA Final Four Runs in 2025 and 2026 both years losing to the eventual Champion.

In Conference play over the past two seasons Tufts has dominated the NESCAC going a perfect 38-2 between 2023-2026 as well as winning the Jumbos first NESCAC Championship in over 30 years in 2026.

In addition to the Jumbos great team success Gregor has also led 6 separate players to a top-5 or better NCAA individual ranking. No other coach in Division 3 men’s tennis has coached this many players to a top 5 NCAA ranking in the past decade.

- Boris Sorkin (21’) won 2 ITA National Singles Titles, achieved an NCAA #1 national singles ranking and was NCAA Singles Runner up in 2021.

- Isaac Gorelik (22’) led the Jumbos to their first ever NCAA Final Four and reached the Semifinals of the NCAA Singles tournament.

- Rishabh Sharda (23’) led the Jumbos to their first ever NCAA Final in 2023 and in the same year winning the NCAA Singles Championship

- Vuk Vuksanovic (25’) won the ITA New England Singles Championship in 2025. Was ITA Doubles National Runner up in 2023. Made the NCAA singles Semi-Finals as well as NCAA Doubles Runner up in 2025.

- Javier Gonzalez (26’) Reached the NCAA Singles Semifinals as well as Doubles Final in 2025

- Alex Ganchev / Sacha Maes (26’) Achieved #1 ITA Doubles ranking in 2025. ITA National Doubles Champions 2024. Currently competing on the ITF/ATP professional tour.

The student-athletes brought to Tufts by Coach Gregor and his staff also excel academically and for sportsmanship. In 2021, both Sorkin and Gorelik earned Academic All-America® honors selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Gorelik won the Elite 90 Award for the 2021 NCAA Division III Men's Tennis Championship, presented to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative grade-point average participating at the finals site for each of the NCAA's championships. Sorkin was the recipient of the prestigious Arthur Ashe Award for the Northeast Region from the ITA in 2020, for exhibiting outstanding sportsmanship and leadership, as well as for his scholastic, extracurricular and tennis achievements that embodied the legacy of tennis icon and humanitarian Arthur Ashe Jr.

Gregor was promoted to interim head coach of Tufts University Men's Tennis in 2014-15, then was named head coach of the Jumbos in August 2015. He had been an assistant coach at Tufts since 2011 and received the ITA Northeast Assistant Coach of the Year Award in 2013. Gregor was named ITA Division 3 Coach of the Year in 2023 as well.

A 1997 graduate of the Air Force Academy, Gregor was captain of the men’s tennis team and played #1 singles at Air Force. After graduation, he served in the Air Force for four years. Gregor also played one year on the ITF/ATP Tennis Circuit in 2002.

Gregor earned his master’s degree in finance at Bentley College in 2002. Prior to coming to Tufts we worked as a consultant and project manager in the Aerospace / Defense industry. His collegiate tennis coaching experience included stints at the Air Force Academy, Boston University and Harvard.