Men’s Tennis: No. 7 UVA moves on to Round of 16 with 4-0 blanking of Princeton

The Virginia men’s tennis team blanked Princeton, 4-0, on Sunday to advance to the Round of 16 of the 2025 NCAA Men’s Tennis Championship at the Virginia Tennis Facility at the Boar’s Head Resort.

The Cavaliers (22-7) won the doubles point to start the match and added singles victories on courts one, three, and five to secure the win over the Tigers (22-9).

With the win, Virginia advances to the NCAA Round of 16 for the 19th time in the last 20 championships. The Cavaliers will host the 10-seed Arizona (26-4) on Saturday at the Virginia Tennis Facility at 1 p.m. Admission is free.

Freshmen Roy Horovitz and Rafael Jódar opened the match with a 6-3 win on doubles court three. The top two doubles courts ended within just seconds of each other. On the top doubles court, junior Mans Dahlberg and sophomore Dylan Dietrich clinched the doubles point for the Cavaliers with a 6-4 win over No. 49 Paul Inchauspe and Filippos Astreinidis. Princeton won the remaining match right after on doubles court two.

The Cavaliers won all six first sets in singles to keep their advantage over the Tigers. Freshman Jangjun Kim put UVA up 2-0 with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Milan Markovits on court five.

On court three, freshman Keegan Rice trailed 5-2 in the second set but rallied to even the set at 5. Rice proceeded to break serve and served out the match in the following game, coming away with a 6-2, 7-5 win over Landon Ardila to extend the UVA lead to 3-0.

Jódar took a quick first set against No. 39 Paul Inchauspe on the top court but fell behind an early break in the second. He later served for the match up 5-4 before Inchauspe rallied to break back and force a tiebreak. In the tiebreaker, Jódar and Inchauspe were tied at 3, but Jódar took the last four points of the match to win 6-1, 7-6 (3) to clinch the victory for the Cavaliers.

ADDITIONAL NOTES

• Virginia is the No. 7 seed in the tournament and the No. 4 ranked team in the ITA Team Rankings
• The Cavaliers won their second meeting in the last three seasons against Princeton
• Virginia advances to its sixth straight NCAA Round of 16
• The Tigers are ranked No. 36 in the ITA Team Rankings
• Jangjun Kim improves to 16-5 on the season in singles
• Rafael Jódar improves to 18-2 this year in singles and 14-1 on the top court
• Roy Horovitz and Jódar stayed perfect on the season as a doubles team, improving to 4-0
• This will be the first ever meeting between Virginia and Arizona. The Wildcats won the Big 12 Championship title in their first year in the league
• Arizona is ranked No. 10 in the ITA Team Rankings

FROM HEAD COACH ANDRES PEDROSO

“I thought today’s performance was better than yesterday. I didn’t think yesterday that we really played together as much, and we didn’t have the energy and the positivity that we needed to be at our best, and so I challenged the guys to come out today and be more ready, more positive, and just showing more positive emotion throughout the match. And I saw it, especially on my side. I didn’t get to see the matches on the other side, but I saw it in doubles, and so that’s huge when the whole team’s doing that.”

VIRGINIA 4, PRINCETON 0

Singles
1. #4 Rafael Jódar (VA) def. #39 Paul Inchauspe (PRIN) 6-1, 7-6 (7-3)
2. #32 Dylan Dietrich (VA) vs. #75 Fnu Nidunjianzan (PRIN) 6-4, 0-6, 3-4, unfinished
3. Keegan Rice (VA) def. Landon Ardila (PRIN) 6-2, 7-5
4. James Hopper (VA) vs. Ellis Short (PRIN) 7-6 (9-7), 1-1, unfinished
5. Jangjun Kim (VA) def. Milan Markovits (PRIN) 6-4, 6-2
6. Mans Dahlberg (VA) vs. Aleksandar Mitric (PRIN) 6-1, 5-7, unfinished

Doubles
1. #31 Mans Dahlberg/Dylan Dietrich (VA) def. #49 Paul Inchauspe/Filippos Astreinidis (PRIN) 6-4
2. Ellis Short/Fnu Nidunjianzan (PRIN) def. #23 James Hopper/Keegan Rice (VA) 6-3
3. Roy Horovitz/Rafael Jódar (VA) def. Meecah Bigun/Aleksandar Mitric (PRIN) 6-3
Order of finish: Doubles (3,1,2); Singles (5,3,1)