Tennis: Dietrich named ACC Men’s Player of the Year; four UVA women honored on all-conference teams

Courtesy UVA Media Relations

Virginia men’s tennis junior Dylan Dietrich has been named the ACC Men’s Tennis Player of the Year in honors announced Thursday by the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Additionally, Dietrich and sophomore Keegan Rice were named to the All-ACC First Team for singles with freshman Andres Santamarta Roig earning third-team honors.

Dietrich appeared twice in the doubles awards, earning first-team honors with senior Måns Dahlberg and third-team honors with sophomore Stiles Brockett.

Dietrich currently sits atop the ITA singles rankings following a regular season campaign that saw him earn a 9-0 mark in conference singles matches, as well as a 19-1 record in the greater dual match season. He went 5-3 in ACC doubles play and was a three-time ACC Player of the Week.

Dietrich is the seventh player in program history to earn Player of the Year honors, joining Brian Vahaly (2000, 2001), Somdev Devvarman (2008), Jarmere Jenkins (2012), Alex Domijan (2014), Carl Soderlund (2019, 2021) and Inaki Montes (2022).

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Rice earned his first All-ACC singles honor. He led the Cavaliers in conference singles victories with a 10-0 record, going 16-2 overall this season.

Santamarta Roig also earned his first All-ACC singles honor. Like Dietrich and Rice, he was undefeated in conference singles play, posting an 8-0 mark. A January addition, Santamarta Roig went 14-4 this season with three ranked wins.

As a doubles team, Dietrich and Dahlberg went 12-0 in the fall en route to being crowned the NCAA Doubles Champions. The pair picked up one dual match victory together to improve their record to 13-0 and are currently ranked No. 12 in the ITA doubles rankings.

Dietrich and Brockett were 9-4 this season playing on doubles courts one and two with four ranked wins.

All-ACC honors are determined by a vote of the league’s head coaches.

2025-26 ACC MEN’S TENNIS ANNUAL AWARDS

Player of the Year: Dylan Dietrich, Virginia
Freshman of the Year: Mees Rottgering, Wake Forest
Coach of the Year: Tony Bresky, Wake Forest

ALL-ACC SINGLES

First Team
Viktor Markov, Clemson
Cooper Williams, Duke
Sebastian Dominko, Notre Dame
Trevor Svajda, SMU
Dylan Dietrich, Virginia
Keegan Rice, Virginia

Second Team
Fryderyk Lechno-Wasiutynski, California
Pedro Rodenas, Duke
Martin Borisiouk, NC State
Alex Razeghi, Stanford
Luca Pow, Wake Forest
Mees Rottgering, Wake Forest

Third Team
Christophe Clement, Georgia Tech
Antonio Prat, Miami
Nacho Serra Sanchez, Miami
Chris Xu, North Carolina
Perry Gregg, Notre Dame
Andres Santamarta Roig, Virginia
DK Suresh Ekambaram, Wake Forest

ALL-ACC DOUBLES

First Team
Cooper Williams & Pedro Rodenas, Duke
Dylan Dietrich & Mans Dahlberg, Virginia
DK Suresh Ekambaram & Andrew Delgado, Wake Forest

Second Team
Viktor Markov & Noa Vukadin, Clemson
Martin Borisiouk & Jules Leroux, NC State
Alex Chang & Alex Razeghi, Stanford

Third Team
Sebastian Dominko & Perry Gregg, Notre Dame
Dylan Dietrich & Stiles Brockett, Virginia
Mees Rottgering & Kacper Szymkowiak, Wake Forest

On the women’s side, two Virginia singles players and two doubles pairings earned All-ACC recognition. Senior Annabelle Xu and junior Vivian Yang were named to the All-ACC Second Team for singles. Yang and fifth-year Melodie Collard were named to the All-ACC First Team for doubles and Xu and sophomore Martina Genis Salas earned third-team honors.

This is Xu’s third All-ACC singles honor, as she was named to the first team in 2024 and the third team in 2025. She finished the spring with a 10-6 record, including a 5-2 mark in ACC play, with seven ranked wins playing primarily on court two. Xu was named ACC Player of the Week for the second time in her career on March 31.

Yang, a transfer from Peppperdine, earns her first All-ACC singles honor. She posted a 6-4 mark in conference play with a 9-11 overall record this season and was named ACC Player of the Week on March 16. While at Pepperdine, she was named to the All-WCC Singles First Team in 2025.

Yang and Collard led the Cavaliers with an 18-7 record on the top doubles court this spring, including an 8-3 mark in ACC play. The pair was named ACC Doubles Team of the Week on April 14 and sat as high as No. 3 in the ITA doubles rankings. This is Collard’s third consecutive season being named to the All-ACC First Team for doubles.

Xu and Genis Salas, the No. 26 tandem in the ITA doubles rankings, went 16-5 on doubles court two with an 8-3 conference record. This is both of their first conference doubles recognition.

2025-26 ACC WOMEN’S TENNIS ANNUAL AWARDS

Player of the Year: Reese Brantmeier, North Carolina
Freshman of the Year: Amelie Van Impe, SMU
Coach of the Year: Simon Earnshaw, NC State

ALL-ACC SINGLES

First Team
Berta Passola Folch, California
Irina Balus, Duke
Mia Slama, NC State
Reese Brantmeier, North Carolina
Amelie Van Impe, SMU
Monika Ekstrand, Stanford

Second Team
Raquel Gonzalez, Miami
Anna Zyryanova, NC State
Oby Kajuru, North Carolina
Tatum Evans, North Carolina
Annabelle Xu, Virginia
Vivian Yang, Virginia

Third Team
Johanne Svendsen, California
Rinon Okuwaki, Clemson
Aspen Schuman, Duke
Alejandra Cruz, Georgia Tech
Gabriella Broadfoot, NC State
Bianca Molnar, Notre Dame
Alyssa Ahn, Stanford

ALL-ACC DOUBLES

First Team
Reese Brantmeier & Alanis Hamilton, North Carolina
Victoria Osuigwe & Gabriella Broadfoot, NC State
Melodie Collard & Vivian Yang, Virginia

Second Team
Shavit Kimchi & Irina Balus, Duke
Oby Kajuru & Susanna Maltby, North Carolina
Amelie Van Impe & Caroline McGinley, SMU

Third Team
Bianca Molnar & Bojana Pozder, Notre Dame
Annabelle Xu & Martina Genis Salas, Virginia
Arina Gamretkaia & Özlem Uslu, Virginia Tech

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