Iñaki Montes de la Torre

• 2022 ACC Player of the Year
• 2022 ITA Singles All-American
• 2022 First Team All-ACC; 2021 Second Team All-ACC

2021-22 – NCAA CHAMPIONS

• ACC Player of the Year
• ITA Singles All-American
• All-ACC First Team, his second All-ACC honor, but his first time being named to the first team
• Named to the NCAA All-Tournament Team at No. 2 Singles and No. 2 Doubles
• Finished the year with a career-best No. 12 singles ranking
• Defeated 2021 NCAA Singles Champion Sam Riffice 7-5, 6-4 in the NCAA Quarterfinal match against Florida (5/19)
• Earned his first career win against a top-10 opponent with a 7-6 (3), 6-3 victory against No. 10 Johannus Monday of Tennessee in the NCAA Championship Semifinals (5/21)
• Defeated Monday for the second time in four days in the Second Round of the NCAA Singles Championship, advancing to the Round of 16 with a 6-2, 6-1 win
• Defeated No. 1 Daniel Rodrigues of South Carolina 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 in the NCAA Singles Round of 16. Rodrigues was the 2-seed in the tournament but was No. 1 in the ITA rankings (5/25)
• Fell in the  NCAA Singles quarterfinals in a rematch against Riffice
• Earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Singles Championship, his first time playing in the individual championships
• 22-5 in singles and 26-8 in doubles
• Named the ACC Men’s Tennis Player of the Week (1/25) after picking up a straight-set victory against No. 17 Henry von der Schulenburg of Harvard, the then highest-ranked victory of his career. It was his second ACC POW honor of his career and fourth overall weekly conference award
• Named the ACC Doubles Team of the week, partnering with Ryan Goetz, after topping a pair of ranked doubles teams, No. 19 Luca Staeheli and Catry of NC State and No. 74 Eduardo Nava and Matthew Thomson of Wake Forest (3/19)
• Won the clinching point in the ACC Championship final for the second-straight year, topping Benjamin Sigouin 7-3 in a tiebreaker to decide the third set (4/24)
• Moved up to a then career-best No. 29 in the ITA Singles rankings (3/23). Ranked No. 45 in the ITA preseason singles rankings
• Finished the year ranked No. 61 in doubles with Ryan Goetz
• Runner-up in singles at the ITA Atlantic Regional. Also doubles runner-up with Ryan Goetz
• Advanced through qualifying to earn a spot in the main draw of the ITF World Tennis Tour 15k in Fayetteville, advancing to the Round of 16 before being eliminated by teammate Jeffrey von der Schulenburg (9/27)
• ACC Academic Honor Roll

Summer 2021

• Won the doubles title at the World Tennis Tour 25K in Bakio, Spain his first ITF World Tennis Tour title, partnering with fellow Spaniard Antonio Prat to defeat the top-seeded duo in the championship match (6/28)
• Made his first career appearance in a Futures final, finishing as the runner-up in singles, falling in three sets at the World Tennis Tour 15K in Xativa, Spain. He also advanced to the semifinals in doubles (8/1)
• Won three matches in qualifying to earn a spot in the singles main draw of the World Tennis Tour 15K in Denia, Spain. Was edged 7-5, 7-6 (5), in his first-round match while facing the tournament’s No. 5 seed (7/27)

2020-21

• All-ACC Second Team
• All-ACC Academic Team
• ITA Indoors All-Tournament Team at No. 3 Doubles
• Ranked No. 98 in singles in the first update of individual rankings by the ITA (3/23), rising to a season-best No. 42 in the second (3/30). Finished the year ranked No. 67
• No. 3 in the Atlantic Region final singles rankings
• Finished conference play with a perfect 9-0 singles record
• Went 3-0 in singles in the NCAA Championship
• Finished the season winning 14 of his last 15 completed singles matches, posting an 18-4 overall record
• Had a streak of 11-straight doubles wins (with Jeffrey von der Schulenburg) in completed matches from Feb. 13- Apr. 18
• Went 16-5 in doubles, including a 9-1 mark in conference play
• Named the ACC Co-Singles Player of the Week after a dominant 6-1, 6-2 victory against Virginia Tech’s Hugo Maia (4/6)
• ACC Doubles Team of the Week with Jeffrey von der Schulenburg after winning road matches at No. 3 against No. 16 NC State and No. 13 Wake Forest, extending their win streak to five-straight matches (3/2)
• Was also named the ACC Doubles Team of the Week after a dominant 6-2 win in doubles in the Virginia Tech match (4/6)
• Clinched the Cavaliers’ victory in both the ACC semifinals and finals. He secured UVA’s 4-3 win against UNC in the finals by wrapping up a 6-2, 6-4 win against Simon Soendergaard on court four
• VaSID All-State Second Team in singles and doubles
• ITA Scholar-Athlete
• ACC Academic Honor Roll

Background

• 2019 Spanish Junior National Champion
• Ranked No. 60 in the Spanish Men’s National Rankings
• Ranked as high as No. 85 in the junior rankings
• 28-4 mark in singles in juniors matches in 2019
• Three international junior singles titles, hoisting the trophy at the Sanchez-Casal Junior Cup, the XXV International Junior de Leiria in Portugal and the ITF Junior Tennis Club de Kelibia in Tunisia, as well as two other semifinal finishes; and two doubles titles

Personal

• Economics major
• Recipient of the E. Massie Valentine Men’s Tennis Scholarship and the John H. Mulholland Men’s Tennis Scholarship

VIRGINIA CAREER STATS