The Virginia Cavaliers men's tennis team represents the

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Division I men's

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as part of the

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. The team is coached by Andres Pedroso. Since 2021, the Cavaliers have played at the Virginia Tennis Facility at the Boar's Head Resort in

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. During the indoor portion of their season, they play on the Boyd Tinsley Courts at the nearby Boar's Head Sports Club. Virginia has won five recent NCAA Championships, their first in 2013 followed by three consecutive national titles in 2015–2017 and then again in 2022.

History

The program first experienced a major renaissance when the program built new facilities and hired former coach Brian Boland as head coach in 2002. In his third season, he led the team to their first

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regular season and tournament titles. The Cavaliers reached their first finals of the

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in 2011, falling to the

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by a score of 4-3. The program's first NCAA title came two years later, with the Cavaliers defeating

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in the finals. The team has won the

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four times, in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2022. Their 2013 title was the first men's tennis title won by an

team. Additionally, the team has also won the

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National Team Indoor Championship six times. The Cavaliers have won the ACC regular season title 13 times, all consecutively from 2004 to 2016. They were also the ACC Tournament champions in 11 of those years. From April 2006 to February 2016, the Virginia Cavaliers men's tennis team beat 140 consecutive ACC opponents. This winning streak is a record across all ACC sports. On May 24, 2017, Andres Pedroso was named director of tennis and head coach of the team, replacing Boland who had accepted the Head of Men's Tennis position at

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Player Development. On May 22, 2022, the Cavaliers swept

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to win their 5th National Championship.

Notable former players

Collin Altamirano Collin Altamirano (born December 7, 1995) is an American professional tennis player. Altamirano won the 2013 USTA Boys 18 National Championship as an unseeded player, the first ever to do so, defeating Jared Donaldson 6–1, 6–2, 6–4 in t ...

JC Aragone Juan Cruz "JC" Aragone (born June 28, 1995) is an American tennis player. He attended the University of Virginia and was a member of three NCAA Men's Tennis Championship winning teams. Aragone made his first Association of Tennis Professionals, ...

Somdev Devvarman Somdev Kishore Devvarman (born 13 February 1985) is a former professional Indian tennis player. He hit the headlines for being the only collegiate player to have made three consecutive finals at the NCAA, winning back-to-back finals i ...

Treat Huey Treat Conrad Huey (; born August 28, 1985) is a Filipino-American tennis player who represents the Philippines in international competitions. He turned professional in 2008 and he started representing the Philippines in the Davis Cup and the ...

Dominic Inglot Dominic Inglot ( ; born 6 March 1986) is a British former professional tennis player and a Davis Cup champion. A doubles specialist; he made the final of twenty seven ATP World Tour events, winning fourteen, including the Citi Open and Swiss In ...

Jarmere Jenkins Jarmere Jenkins (born November 25, 1990) is a retired American professional tennis player who became the hitting partner for Serena Williams. He was the 2013 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) National Player of the Year and male ACC Athlet ...

Thai-Son Kwiatkowski Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (born February 13, 1995) is a Vietnamese American tennis player. He played collegiately for the Virginia Cavaliers. On May 29, 2017, Kwiatkowski won the NCAA Men's Singles Championship. This victory earned him a wildcard in ...

Brandon Nakashima Brandon Nakashima (born August 3, 2001) is an American professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 43 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved on 17 October 2022. On the same day, he ...

Alexander Ritschard Alexander Ritschard (born March 24, 1994) is a Swiss–American tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 163 achieved on 12 September 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 388 achieved on 4 ...

Ryan Shane Ryan John Shane (born April 15, 1994) is an American professional tennis player. He played college tennis at the University of Virginia. On May 25, 2015, Shane won the NCAA Men's Singles Championship. This victory also earned him a wild card int ...

Sanam Singh Sanam Krishan Singh (born 11 January 1988), is a former Indian tennis player. Singh won the doubles gold medal and the bronze in the team event at the 2010 Asian Games. He added another Asian Games medal to his tally by winning the Silver meda ...

Carl Söderlund Carl Söderlund (born 3 June 1997) is a Swedish tennis player. Söderlund reached a career high ATP singles ranking of 387 achieved on 8 May 2017. In the ATP doubles ranking he reached a career high of 1303 achieved on 10 October 2016. Söder ...

Brian Vahaly Brian Vahaly (born July 19, 1979) is an American former professional tennis player and a graduate of University of Virginia. He reached the quarterfinals of the 2003 Indian Wells Masters (defeating world no. 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero en route) an ...

Honors

Individual NCAA Champions

Singles

, 2007 & 2008 *

, 2015 *

, 2017

Doubles

and

Michael Shabaz Michael Shabaz (born August 20, 1987) is an Assyrian-American tennis player who won the 2005 Wimbledon boys' doubles championship with Jesse Levine. He is an NCAA tennis player for the University of Virginia Cavaliers. College career Shabaz tea ...

, 2009 *

Drew Courtney Andrew Courtney (born February 3, 1990) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Biography Born in Clifton, Virginia, Courtney played high school tennis at Robinson Secondary. In 2008 he started his collegiate tennis car ...

and Michael Shabaz, 2010 *

and

Mac Styslinger Mac Styslinger (born September 6, 1993) is an American former professional tennis player. Styslinger grew up in the Birmingham suburb of Mountain Brook and trained at the IMG Bollettieri Academy in Florida. He is the son of tennis player Mark S ...

, 2013

All-Americans

(1999, 2000, 2001) *Huntley Montgomery (2001) *Doug Stewart (2004, 2005) *

(2006, 2007, 2008) *Nick Meythaler (2006) *Rylan Rizza (2006) *

(2007, 2008) *

(2008, 2009) *

(2009, 2010, 2011) *

(2009, 2010) *

(2010, 2011, 2012) *Alex Domijan (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) *

(2012, 2013) *Mitchell Frank (2012, 2014, 2015) *

(2013) *

(2015, 2016) *Luca Corinteli (2015, 2016) *

(2015, 2016, 2017) *

(2019, 2021) * Inaki Montes de la Torre (2022) *

Chris Rodesch Chris Rodesch (born 18 July 2001) is a Luxembourgish tennis player. Rodesch has a career high ATP singles ranking of 683 achieved on 08 August 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 790 achieved on 15 August 2022. Rodesch repre ...

(2022)

ITA National Coach of the Year

* Brian Boland, 2008 & 2016 *

Andres Pedroso Andres Pedroso (born February 21, 1979) is a former American tennis player. Pedroso has a career high ATP singles ranking of 271 achieved on April 21, 2003. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 255 achieved on August 16, 2004. Ped ...

, 2022 ''Information about honors and former players cited from th
2017 team fact book
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References

External links

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