Xavier University Athletics
Diego Nava Selected to the NCAA Singles Championships
05.03.22 | Men's Tennis
Graduate student will compete in Champaign, Ill., starting May 23
INDIANAPOLIS — Xavier men's tennis graduate student Diego Nava earned a spot in the 2022 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Singles Championships, becoming the first Musketeer to earn a spot as one of the 64 singles players that earned a spot in the singles tournament, held in Champaign, Illinois.
Nava, a grad transfer originally from Woodland Hills, Calif., went 13-3 in dual action this season, playing entirely in No. 1 singles. Nava was ranked as high as No. 52 in the ITA singles rankings during the season and earned BIG EAST Player of the Week honors three times during the 2022 dual campaign.
The singles and doubles competition will be conducted May 23-28 at the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex after the conclusion of the team championship, which runs from May 19-22. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will serve as host.
Nava was the automatic qualifier for the BIG EAST Conference, awarded to any conference with one or more eligible singles players ranked in the ITA Top 125 for eligible/entered singles players. For conferences with more than one singles player within the ITA Top 125 eligible/entered singles players, the subcommittee applies the NCAA selection criteria to determine which student-athlete is the automatic qualifier from those conferences. All singles players must have a minimum of 13 started singles matches, with six matches in the spring, in order to be selected as an automatic qualifier or an at-large selection.
All matches shall be the best-of-three sets. No-ad scoring and a 7-point tiebreaker (first to seven points, must win by two points) at six-games-all will be used for all matches. In doubles, a 10-point match tiebreaker will be played in lieu of a third set.
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THE FIELD |
| CONFERENCE | ATHLETE | SCHOOL |
|---|---|---|
| American Athletic | Kody Pearson | Tulsa |
| Atlantic Coast | Chris Rodesch | Virginia |
| Atlantic 10 | Charles Bertimon | VCU |
| ASUN Conference | Dominik Barton | North Florida |
| Big 12 | Adrian Boitan | Baylor |
| Big East | Diego Nava | Xavier |
| Big Ten | Cannon Kingsley | Ohio State |
| Big West | Andre Ilagan | Hawaii |
| Conference USA | Francois Le Tallec | Old Dominion |
| Ivy League | Alex Kotzen | Columbia |
| Mountain West | Christopher Bulus | UNLV |
| Pac-12 | Stefan Dostanic |
Southern California |
| SEC | Ben Shelton | Florida |
| Summit League | James Davis | Denver |
| West Coast | August Holmgren | San Diego |
At-large selections (49), listed alphabetically by last name:
| ATHLETE | SCHOOL |
|---|---|
| Juan Carlos Aguilar | TCU |
| Alafia Ayeni | Cornell |
| Pierre-Yves Bailly | Texas |
| Mason Beiler | Oklahoma |
| Micah Braswell | Texas |
| Florian Broska |
Mississippi State |
| Murphy Cassone | Arizona State |
| Brian Cernoch | North Carolina |
| Clement Chidekh | Washington |
| Daniel De Jonge | Pepperdine |
| Gabriel Diallo | Kentucky |
| Liam Draxl | Kentucky |
| Arthur Fery | Stanford |
| Luc Fomba | TCU |
| Steven Forman | Northwestern |
| Edoardo Graziani | Pennsylvania |
| George Harwell | Vanderbilt |
| Philip Henning | Georgia |
| Ronnie Hohmann | LSU |
| Alexander Hoogmartens | UCLA |
| Garrett Johns | Duke |
| Peter Makk |
Southern California |
| Andres Martin | Georgia Tech |
| Johannus Monday | Tennessee |
| Inaki Montes de la Torre | Virginia |
| Filippo Moroni | Wake Forest |
| Axel Nefve | Notre Dame |
| Tadeas Paroulek | Baylor |
| Filip Planinsek | Alabama |
| Loris Pourroy | Florida State |
| Alexandre Reco | Arkansas |
| Sam Riffice | Florida |
| Daniel Rodrigues | South Carolina |
| Noah Schachter | Texas A&M |
| Henry von der Schulenburg | Harvard |
| Jeffrey von der Schulenburg | Virginia |
| Ryan Seggerman | Princeton |
| Nikola Slavic | Ole Miss |
| Matias Soto | Baylor |
| Hamish Stewart | Georgia |
| Gustaf Strom | Arizona |
| Tyler Stice | Auburn |
| Olivier Stuart | Illinois |
| Ondrej Styler | Michigan |
| JJ Tracy | Ohio State |
| James Trotter | Ohio State |
| Matej Vocel | Ohio State |
| Adam Walton | Tennessee |
| Jonas Eriksson Ziverts | Arizona |
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