2022-23 Men's Tennis Roster

max v marquette
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max vs. uic
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Bengtsson vs. Michigan BTT
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Max Bengtsson during Northwestern Men’s Tennis Media Day at Combe Tennis Center on November 10, 2022 in Evanston, IL

Max Bengtsson

  • Weight:
    null
  • Class:
    Sophomore
  • Hometown:
    Winnetka, Illinois
  • High School:
    New Trier
  • Major:
    Applied Mathematics
AWARDS:
  • Big Ten Sportsmanship Award winner (2025)
  • 3x Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2023, 2024, 2025)
  • 3x Academic All-Big Ten (2023, 2024, 2025)
  • CSC Academic All-District (2025)
  • 4x ITA Scholar-Athlete (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)


2024-25: Appeared in 27 matches...went 12-9 (6 unfinished) in singles and 5-9 (2 unfinished) in doubles...made first career appearances at No. 3 singles against Chicago State (2/23) and No. 4 singles against Saint Joseph's (1/17)...picked up two singles wins and a doubles win in his first fall action at the Fighting Irish Mini Duals (11/1-3)... went 3-1 in singles play and picked up a doubles victory at the Big Ten Individual Championships (11/7-10)... went 2-1 in opening weekend singles action (1/17-20)... picked up another pair of singles wins in a doubleheader against Illinois State and IU Indy (2/15)... went a perfect 3-0 in singles play against Memphis, No. 50 Notre Dame and Chicago State (2/21-23)... extended his singles winning streak to six with a victory over Marquette (3/1)... picked up his first Big Ten doubles victory alongside partner Vincent Yang, helping the 'Cats to an upset of No. 51 Indiana (3/14)... added a singles victory later in the weekend to boost Northwestern to victory over No. 60 Purdue (3/16)... contributed singles and doubles victories against No. 26 USC (3/21)... won both his singles and doubles match against Youngstown State (3/29)... contributed a singles win in Northwestern's victory over Penn State (4/11).

2023-24: Appeared in nine matches… first saw action versus Chicago State (3/31)... went 4-4 (one unfinished) in singles match-ups, starting the season with back-to-back victories… notched a singles win versus No. 59 Santa Clara in the NIT first round (5/5)... made one doubles appearance at Illinois (4/14) with Chad Miller.

2022-23: Went 1-1 in singles… made his collegiate dual match debut against No. 42 Memphis (2/24)... picked up his first victory in straight sets against Chicago State (3/26).

2021-22: Saw his sole action at No. 6 singles against UIC, where he was leading before the match went unfinished (3/13).

HIGH SCHOOL: Blue Chip recruit ranked as high as No. 3 in the United States on tennisrecruiting.net... 2021 State Singles Champion and member of 2021 high school state championship team... winner of Midwest Open.


SINGLES

Season Overall W-L Dual Match

Tourn.

Conference 1 2 3 4 5 6
2021-22 5-5 -- 5-5 -- -- -- -- -- -- --
2022-23 8-5 1-1 7-4 -- -- -- -- -- -- 1-1
2023-24 4-4 4-4 -- 2-3 -- -- -- -- 3-4 1-0
2024-25 17-12 12-9 5-3 3-5 -- -- 1-0 8-7 3-2 --
Career 34-26 17-14 17-12 5-8 -- -- 1-0 8-7 6-6 2-1
DOUBLES
Season Overall W-L Dual Match

Fall

Conference 1 2 3
2021-22 0-6 -- 0-6 -- -- -- --
2022-23 3-6 -- 3-6 -- -- -- --
2023-24 0-1 0-1 -- 0-1 -- -- 0-1
2024-25 7-13 5-9 2-4 2-8 -- -- 5-9
Career 10-26 5-10 5-16 2-9 -- -- 5-10
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