No. 7 Virginia Closes Out Regular Season at Home this Weekend

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. –  The No. 7 Virginia men’s tennis team (19-4, 10-0 ACC) closes out the regular season by hosting Clemson (10-12, 1-9 ACC) on Friday, April 14 at 5 p.m. and Georgia Tech (12-12, 3-7 ACC) on Sunday, April 16 at 12 p.m.

MATCH INFORMATION

• The match is scheduled to be played outdoors at the Virginia Tennis Facility at the Boar’s Head Resort. Please monitor the team’s social media accounts for potential weather-related venue changes
• Live streaming and live scoring will be available through links posted on VirginiaSports.com
• Admission is free

WEEKEND PROMOTIONS

• The ten-year anniversary of the program’s first NCAA team championship will be celebrated at the Clemson match on Friday. Members of the 2013 team being honored on the court between doubles and singles
• The Georgia Tech match on Sunday will be the Cavaliers’ senior day. Fifth-year student-athletes Ryan Goetz and William Woodall will be honored in a pre-match ceremony at 11:50 a.m.

NOTING THE CAVALIERS

• The Cavaliers moved up one place in this week’s ITA team rankings to No. 7
• The Cavaliers swept the ACC weekly awards with Chris Rodesch being named the Player of the Week and Iñaki Montes and William Woodall being named the ACC Doubles Team of the Week
• Rodesch picked up his second victory of the year against a top-five player on Friday, taking down No. 5 Melios Efstanthiou of Wake Forest 6-2, 6-3. He followed on Sunday with a straight-set victory against Luca Staeheli of NC State to improve to 11-1 on the No. 1 court this spring
• Rodesch moved up to No. 10 in the ITA Singles rankings
• Montes has won his last six completed singles matches and is No. 23 in the ITA Singles rankings
• Jeffrey von der Schulenburg is on a seven-match win streak in singles and is 9-1 in his last 10. He is 22-6 overall and 17-3 in dual matches
• Ryan Goetz is 12-2 on the No. 4 court and picked up his 20^th singles victory of the season last weekend
• Montes is 9-0 in doubles in conference play; Goetz is 8-0
• The Cavaliers are 10-0 in the ACC and are trying for their 16^th ACC regular-season title and their 12^th undefeated conference season

NOTING THE OPPONENTS

• Clemson is ranked No. 62 in this week’s ITA team rankings
• The Tigers do not have any ranked singles or doubles players
• Clemson leads the all-time series 42-31, but Virginia has won the last 19 meetings dating back to 2004
• Georgia Tech is ranked No. 65 in this week’s ITA team rankings and is in ninth place in the ACC rankings
• Andres Martin is No. 9 in the ITA singles rankings with a 25-5 record
• Virginia leads the all-time series 41-12 and has won the last 22 meetings dating back to 2003

ON THE HORIZON

• The 2023 ACC Men’s Tennis Championship takes place April 19-23 at the Cary Tennis Center in Cary, N.C.
• Virginia has secured a double-bye in the tournament and will begin play on Friday, April 21
• The full tournament bracket will be released Sunday afternoon