Men's Tennis Hosts Dayton on Friday

Friday, March 12

Cincinnati, Ohio

1 PM

Xavier University

Dayton

03.11.21 | Men's Tennis

Musketeers host Flyers at 1 PM on Xavier's Campus

By: Hayley Schletker, Xavier Athletic Communications

CINCINNATI – Xavier men's tennis returns to action this weekend hosting the Dayton Flyers on Friday, March 12 at 1:00 p.m. at the Jim and Mary Brockhoff Tennis Facility on Xavier's campus.

Following the match with the Flyers, Xavier is next in action when the Musketeers travel to Cleveland next weekend for a pair of matches with CSU on March 20 and 21.

EASTERN ILLINOIS

The Flyers are 6-5, winning six of their last seven matches, picking up wins over EIU, Bellarmine, Cedarville, Saint Francis, Marquette and Youngstown State.
The Flyers were 8-8 in 2020 when the season was called off, including a 2-2 mark in A10 play.
Xavier is 12-3 against the Flyers since 2006. The last match-up occurred in 2019, a 4-0 loss for the Musketeers in Dayton.

LAST TIME OUT

Xavier split two matches last weekend, taking a 7-0 sweep over Eastern Illinois then falling 7-0 to Ball State, both at Eastern Hills Indoor.
Against EIU, Xavier took the doubles point after picking up 6-4 wins across the board,with Cambell Nakayama pairing up for the win in the No. 1 spot, moving to 4-1 on the season as a pair. Srdan Pejic and Shashank Reddy winning in the No. 2 spot, their third doubles win of the season, and Matthew Graft and Jan Vrba making it a sweep of the doubles matches in the No. 3 spot.
Xavier also swept the six singles spots to take the 7-0 win. Brett Winters took the win in the No. 1 spot, 6-3, 6-4, for his third singles win of 2021, all coming in the No. 1 spot. Srdan Pejic picked up his second singles win of the season with a 6-4, 6-0 result in the No. 2 spot.
Matthew Graft moved to 4-1 on the season with a 7-6 (4), 6-4 win in the No. 3 spot. Cambell Nakayama picked up the 6-4, 6-3 win in the No. 4 spot. Shashank Reddy picked up the win in the No. 5 spot, 6-2, 6-4. Aaron Thompson picked up the win in the No. 6 spot, 6-2, 7-5.
Against the Cardinals, Ball State picked up the doubles point, taking a 6-3 win in the No. 2 spot over Srdan Pejic and Shashank Reddy, the first loss of the season for the pair. BSU then secured the point with a 7-5 win on the No. 1 court over Brett Winters and Cambell Nakayama. Jan Vrba and Matthew Graft were in a 6-6 draw on court three when the point was decided.
BSU picked up a second point on the No. 5 singles court, taking a 6-3, 6-3 decision against Aaron Thompson. The Cardinals made it 3-0 with a 6-4, 6-4 win on the No. 2 court over Srdan Pejic, and secured the win with a fourth point on the No. 3 court, a 7-6 (5), 6-3 win over Matthew Graft.
Ball State closed out the match with three set wins on the final three courts, taking the No. 1 spot 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 against Brett Winters, the No. 6 spot, 2-6, 7-6 (5), 11-9 against Shashank Reddy, and the No. 4 court, 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 against Cambell Nakayama.

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.