Men's Tennis Travels to Toledo on Sunday

Sunday, February 28

Toledo, Ohio

2 PM

Xavier University

Toledo

02.27.21 | Men's Tennis

By: Hayley Schletker, Xavier Athletic Communications

CINCINNATI – Xavier men's tennis returns to action this weekend, traveling to Toledo to face the Rockets on Sunday, February 28. The match is set to begin at 2:00 p.m.

The Musketeers will be back in action with a pair of matches next weekend, against Eastern Illinois and Ball State.

TOLEDO

The Rockets are 2-2 on the season after opening play with two straight wins, over Saint Francis and Northwestern Ohio. Toledo fell to Youngstown State on Feb. 19, and Cleveland State on Friday. The Rockets play Tiffin on Saturday.
Toledo was 10-7 when the 2020 dual season was canceled. The Rockets won eight of their last nine matches before the season was called off.
Xavier is 4-1 against Toledo since the 2008-09 season. The last match-up was in 2014-15, a 4-3 win for the Musketeers.

LAST TIME OUT

Xavier fell, 5-2, at Youngstown State last weekend.
Xavier took the doubles points with wins in the No. 1 spot for Brett Winters and Cambell Nakayama, 6-4, and a 6-3 win in the No. 3 spot for Aaron Thompson and Matthew Graft.
Brett Winters picked up the second point for the Musketeers, with a 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (5) win in the No. 1 spot.
Youngstown State took the other five singles spots, taking a 6-1, 7-6 (3) win over Srdan Pejic in the No. 2 spot, and a 6-3, 6-3 win over Matthew Graft in the No. 3 spot.
YSU also picked up wins in the No. 4 spot over Cambell Nakayama (6-2, 2-6, 6-2), in the No. 5 spot over Shashank Reddy (6-1, 6-2), and the No. 6 spot over Aaron Thompson (6-0, 6-0).

THE TEAM: RETURNERS

Xavier returns eight from the 2020 season, with all getting action in dual play.
Brett Winters collected a team-leading 11 singles wins as well as eight doubles wins overall before the season was canceled in mid-March due to COVID-19. He had a 7-8 record in dual play, playing in the No. 1 spot. Winters went 5-8 in doubles play during the dual season, playing in the No. 1 spot...Partnered with Srdan Pejic, had a record of 3-6 and had a record of 2-2 with Matthew Graft.
Srdan Pejic had a team-leading 11 singles and 11 doubles wins overall before dual season was canceled in mid March due to COVID-19. Pejic went 6-8 in doubles during duals, primarily playing in the No. 1 spot with Brett Winters, where the pair went 3-6.
Matthew Graft collected six singles wins and seven doubles wins overall in 2020. He went 3-6 in singles during tournament play in the fall and picked up three singles wins in dual action, all in the No. 3 spot. Graft was 6-6 in doubles action in duals, going 4-4 playing No. 2 and No. 3 with Shashank Reddy and 2-2 in the No. 1 spot with Brett Winters.
Shashank Reddy collected six singles wins and nine doubles wins overall in 2020. He had a 4-8 record in singles during duals, playing primarily in the No. 4 spot where he had a 3-5 record. Reddy went 9-9 overall in doubles, including a 7-6 mark in dual play. He went 4-4 partnered with Matthew Graft, playing the No. 2 spot (1-2) and No. 3 spot (3-2) and also partnered with Srdan Pejic to go 3-2, playing No. 2s (0-2) and No. 3s (3-0).
Jan Vrba collected seven singles wins and six doubles wins in 2020. He had a 7-7 overall record in singles, including a 6-3 mark in tournament play in the fall. He went 1-4 in singles during dual play, playing primarily in the No. 4 spot (0-3) but also in the No. 3 spot (1-0) and the No. 5 spot (0-1). Vrba went 6-11 in doubles play, with a 2-8 record in dual matches. Partnered with Michael Lee, the pair went 1-7 in the No. 2 spot and 1-1 in the No. 3 spot.
Aaron Thompson collected eight singles wins and two doubles wins overall in 2020. He went 5-8 in singles during dual action, playing primarily in the No. 5 spot (2-7) but also playing No. 4 (2-1) and No. 6 (1-0). Thompson went 2-4 overall in doubles, with a 2-3 mark in the fall.
Dominic Macaluso picked up six singles wins and two doubles wins overall in 2020. He had a 4-2 record in singles play during the fall tournament season and went 2-2 in the No. 6 singles spot during duals. Macaluso went 1-0 in doubles during the spring, playing in the No. 3 spot with Jake Zipoli.
Jake Zipoli collected six singles wins and three doubles wins overall in 2020. He had a 4-2 singles record in tournament play during Fall 2019 and went 2-0 in dual singles. Zipoli also finished 3-3 overall record in doubles, going 2-3 in tournament play, partnered with Macaluso as well as Shashank Reddy.

THE TEAM: NEWCOMERS

Xavier added a pair of freshmen to the roster, Caden Kammerer and Pascal Mosberger.
Kammerer, from Longmont, Colorado, was a four-star recruit, as rated by TennisRecruiting.net, and was ranked as high as 111 in the site's rankings. During his prep career, Kammerer earned a Universal Tennis Rating of 11.6.
Mosberger, from Zurich, Switzerland, ranked as high as 105 in the Swiss Men's National Rankings and 2,256 in the ITF Men's World Rankings with a highest Universal Tennis Rating of 11.95 so far in his career.
Xavier also added two transfers, Arnaud Restifo and Cambell Nakayama.
Restifo joined Xavier as a grad transfer after spending three seasons at San Diego State, collecting 34 singles wins during his time there. He started his Aztec career with an All-Mountain West Conference Singles season, going 14-23 overall. As a junior he posted a in 14-16 mark in singles and an 11-9 mark in doubles play. He finished last season's abbreviated season at 6-6 in singles play.
Nakayama transferred from Cal Poly, where he spent two seasons. He finished the shortened dual season at 3-2 in singles, playing primarily in the No. 5 and 6 spots in 2020. In 2019, he finished the spring season with a 1-4 record in singles dual matches all from the No. 6 position.