Mihir Kumar

Height:
6-1
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Carmel, Ind.
High School:
Carmel

2015-16: .833 (20-4) winning percentage in doubles ranks second all-time at Northwestern for a single season ... Finishes the year ranked fourth in program history with 20 doubles wins ... Finished with an 8-1 record in Big Ten play ... Reached 50 career singles wins with a Senior Day victory over Michigan State (4/17) ... Won his 50th career doubles match with a win at Cornell (2/7) ... Partnered with Alp Horoz at No. 3 doubles ... One of two Northwestern student-athletes to earn a Big Ten Postgraduate Scholarship.

2014-15: Finished 10-9 in singles and 14-15 in doubles ... Anchored the No. 3 position in doubles with Alp Horoz ... Won nine doubles matches in a row at No. 3 with partner Alp Horoz 2/1-3/14 ... Achieved three straight singles wins at No. 4 3/8-14 ... Went 1-3 in singles in the fall.

2013-14: Posted season records of 21-11 in singles and 15-15 in doubles ... Often played at No. 3 or 4 in singles and No. 1 in doubles ... Ranked No. 39 in doubles with Raleigh Smith starting 5/1 ... Won three consecutive singles matches 4/18 to 4/25 ... Ranked No. 28 in doubles with Smith from 4/22 to 5/1 ... Defeated 20th-ranked Minnesota duo of Jack Hamburg and Mathieu Froment 8-5 with Smith (4/20) ... Ranked No. 33 in doubles with Smith from 4/15 to 4/22 ... Claimed three consecutive doubles victories with Smith over the 4/4-6 weekend ... Ranked No. 23 in doubles with Smith 4/8 to 4/15, No. 30 from 3/25 to 4/8, No. 35 from 3/11 to 25, and season-high No. 21 from 2/25 to 3/11 ... Won three straight singles matches over 2/21-23 weekend ... Defeated Harvard's No. 96 Sebastian Beltrame 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 (2/21) ... Beat Harvard's No. 14 doubles team Casey MacMaster and Denis Nguyen 8-6 with Smith (2/21) ... Downed Notre Dame's 17th-ranked duo Greg Andrews and Alex Lawson with Smith 6-5 (2/11) ... Clinched victory over No. 24 Tulsa in defeating Alejandro Espejo 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 (1/25) ... Went 4-0 in first four singles matches of dual match play (1/17-25) ... Posted 4-2 record in the fall ... Academic All-Big Ten.

2012-13: Finished 15-11 overall and 13-8 in dual-match play in singles ... Earned a 12-8 record in doubles with partner Alex Pasareanu ... Often competed at No. 4 slot in singles lineup and No. 2 or 3 in doubles ... Achieved three consecutive singles wins over the 3/9-10 weekend ... Posted four straight doubles victories with Pasareanu between 1/13 and 1/25 ... Went 2-3 in fall season.

High School: Played No. 1 singles for the Indiana High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) state champions in 2010 and 2011 ... Greyhounds posted a combined record of 39-0 in those two seasons ... All-State selection ... Ranked individually in the top 30 in the United States ... Finished in the top 16 at the USTA Nationals in August 2012 ... Received the prestigious Wes Richards Sportsmanship Award for Feed-ins at the United States National Championships in Kalamazoo, Mich.

Personal: Born Mihir Kumar ... Son of Anil and Manjusha Kumar ... Major is economics.

Kumar's Stats

SINGLES STATS

Season	Overall W-L	Dual Match	Fall	Conference	1	2	3	4	5	6
2012-13	15-11	13-8	2-3	6-5	---	---	1-0	8-7	2-0	2-1
2013-14	21-11	17-9	4-2	6-5	---	3-0	6-3	8-6	---	---
2014-15	10-9	9-6	1-3	1-2	---	---	1-0	8-6	---	---
2015-16	4-2	3-0	1-2	1-0	---	---	---	---	---	3-0
Career	50-33	42-23	8-10	14-12	---	3-0	8-3	24-19	2-0	5-1

DOUBLES STATS

Season	Overall W-L	Dual Match	Fall	Conference	1	2	3
2012-13	16-15	14-13	2-2	4-5	0-1	6-9	8-3
2013-14	15-15	13-14	2-1	4-7	12-12	1-2	---
2014-15	14-15	13-13	1-2	4-5	0-4	---	13-9
2015-16	21-7	20-4	1-2	8-1	---	3-0	17-4
Career	66-52	60-44	6-7	20-18	12-17	10-11	38-16