Friday, March 7
Blacksburg, VA
2 p.m.
Wake Forest University
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Virginia Tech
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No. 1 Demon Deacons Set for Pair of Road Conference Matches
3/6/2025 9:20:00 AM | Men's Tennis
Wake Forest will take on Virginia Tech on Friday before a top-5 clash with Virginia on Sunday.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Looking to continue its unblemished start to the 2025 campaign, the No. 1-ranked Wake Forest men's tennis team will head north for a pair of ACC matches against Virginia Tech and No. 5 Virginia this Friday and Sunday, respectively.
First serve against the Hokies is slated for 2 p.m., while Sunday's clash in Charlottesville will begin at 1 p.m.
Match Schedule
How To Follow
Friday's match can be viewed on Track Tennis, while the live results can be found here. The match against the Cavaliers will be streamed on Virginia's website with live results here.
Hot Start
The Demon Deacons are in the midst of their best start in program history, with 19-consecutive wins to open the season surpassing the previous record of 14 set by the 2018 National Championship team. Wake Forest is also a combined 69-23 in singles and 39-7 in doubles so far this season, taking all 19 doubles points.
Wake Forest Singles Records
Ranked Hokies
Doubles
Ranked Cavaliers
Singles
Doubles
Last Time Out
The No. 1-ranked Wake Forest men's tennis team continued its winning ways in a home doubleheader on Sunday. The Demon Deacons first defeated No. 22 California (7-2, 0-2 ACC) in a 4-1 victory before taking down North Carolina Wesleyan (0-2, 0-0 USA South), 7-0, to finish the evening.
Sunday featured Wake Forest's first-ever matchup with California. The team's win over No. 6 Stanford on Friday secured a regular-season sweep over the league's West Coast newcomers.
The Deacs also moved to 4-0 all-time versus North Carolina Wesleyan, holding their first meeting since April 17, 2022.
Graduate student Ioannis Xilas has piled in a team-leading 10 singles wins through the spring. Junior DK Suresh Ekambaram moved to 8-3 on the season and is still undefeated when competing in first singles, now standing at 4-0. Xilas, Suresh Ekambaram and sophomore Luca Pow all earned ranked victories in singles during the California matchup.
Wake Forest remains perfect in winning the doubles point this year, now having done so in each of its 19 appearances. The team is also a combined 70-22 in singles and 39-7 in doubles so far this spring.
The Deacs are 13-0 at home this season and 31-1 dating back to the start of the 2024 spring campaign.
ITA Rankings
The Demon Deacons were tabbed as the best team in the nation in the latest ITA poll, one of seven ACC teams in the top 25. Individually, Wake Forest has three singles players and five doubles pairs ranked.
Singles
Doubles
The Bresky Era
Since arriving at Wake Forest, head coach Tony Bresky has enjoyed a decorated career, winning ITA National Coach of the Year in 2018, along with garnering ACC Coach of the Year honors in 2013 and 2016. Additionally, Bresky has been tabbed ITA Regional Coach of the Year on five occasions (2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2024). Of note, Bresky led Wake Forest to its first-ever national title in 2018, after accumulating a 33-2 mark. Most recently, he led Wake Forest to its second ITA National Team Indoor Championship.
Individually, Bresky has coached two ACC Players of the Year (Noah Rubin and Melios Efstathiou), along with 35 All-ACC selections and 10 ITA Singles All-Americans.
During his tenure at Wake Forest, Bresky has amassed 348 wins. Of note, early in 2023 with a victory over No. 6 Tennessee, Bresky became the winningest coach in program history, surpassing the legendary Jim Leighton.
Wake Forest's Team Success Under Bresky
Bresky's teams have also excelled in the classroom during his stint in Winston-Salem, as he's coached 22 All-ACC Academic Team honorees and an ACC Men's Tennis Scholar Athlete of the Year.
Up Next
After this weekend, the Demon Deacons will return home for three matches against Miami, Florida State and NC A&T.
Wake Forest will take on the Hurricanes on Friday, March 14 before a doubleheader on Sunday against the Seminoles and Aggies.
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First serve against the Hokies is slated for 2 p.m., while Sunday's clash in Charlottesville will begin at 1 p.m.
Match Schedule
- Friday, March 7
- 2 p.m. - No. 1 Wake Forest at No. 57 Virginia Tech
- Sunday, March 9
- 1 p.m. - No. 1 Wake Forest at No. 5 Virginia
How To Follow
Friday's match can be viewed on Track Tennis, while the live results can be found here. The match against the Cavaliers will be streamed on Virginia's website with live results here.
Hot Start
The Demon Deacons are in the midst of their best start in program history, with 19-consecutive wins to open the season surpassing the previous record of 14 set by the 2018 National Championship team. Wake Forest is also a combined 69-23 in singles and 39-7 in doubles so far this season, taking all 19 doubles points.
Wake Forest Singles Records
| Player | Overall | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Capalbo | 4-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 1-0 | 2-0 |
| Chang | 2-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 1-0 |
| Dostanic | 6-2 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| Guilleme | 5-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-0 | 1-0 | 1-0 |
| Parichkov | 2-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 1-0 |
| Pow | 13-2 | 1-0 | 1-0 | 2-0 | 2-0 | 2-2 | 5-0 |
| Robertson | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 1-5 | 2-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| Shalmi | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| Suresh | 8-3 | 4-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| Tacchi | 8-6 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 1-2 | 1-1 | 4-2 | 1-1 |
| Thursfield | 4-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 1-0 | 2-0 | 0-0 |
| Vyas | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-0 |
| Xilas | 11-3 | 3-0 | 3-1 | 2-1 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| Total | 69-23 | 15-2 | 10-5 | 7-8 | 13-2 | 11-4 | 13-2 |
Doubles
| Matt Harper/Alberto Orso | 75 |
Singles
| Rafael Jodar | 18 |
| Dylan Dietrich | 22 |
| James Hopper/Keegan Rice | 22 |
| Mans Dahlberg/Dylan Dietrich | 67 |
The No. 1-ranked Wake Forest men's tennis team continued its winning ways in a home doubleheader on Sunday. The Demon Deacons first defeated No. 22 California (7-2, 0-2 ACC) in a 4-1 victory before taking down North Carolina Wesleyan (0-2, 0-0 USA South), 7-0, to finish the evening.
Sunday featured Wake Forest's first-ever matchup with California. The team's win over No. 6 Stanford on Friday secured a regular-season sweep over the league's West Coast newcomers.
The Deacs also moved to 4-0 all-time versus North Carolina Wesleyan, holding their first meeting since April 17, 2022.
Graduate student Ioannis Xilas has piled in a team-leading 10 singles wins through the spring. Junior DK Suresh Ekambaram moved to 8-3 on the season and is still undefeated when competing in first singles, now standing at 4-0. Xilas, Suresh Ekambaram and sophomore Luca Pow all earned ranked victories in singles during the California matchup.
Wake Forest remains perfect in winning the doubles point this year, now having done so in each of its 19 appearances. The team is also a combined 70-22 in singles and 39-7 in doubles so far this spring.
The Deacs are 13-0 at home this season and 31-1 dating back to the start of the 2024 spring campaign.
ITA Rankings
The Demon Deacons were tabbed as the best team in the nation in the latest ITA poll, one of seven ACC teams in the top 25. Individually, Wake Forest has three singles players and five doubles pairs ranked.
Singles
| DK Suresh Ekambaram | 5 |
| Stefan Dostanic | 11 |
| Ioannis Xilas | 65 |
| DK Suresh Ekambaram/Stefan Dostanic | 5 |
| Luciano Tacchi/Luca Pow | 6 |
| DK Suresh Ekambaram/Andrew Delgado | 16 |
| DK Suresh Ekambaram/Ioannis Xilas | 43 |
| DK Suresh Ekambaram/Charlie Robertson | 50 |
Since arriving at Wake Forest, head coach Tony Bresky has enjoyed a decorated career, winning ITA National Coach of the Year in 2018, along with garnering ACC Coach of the Year honors in 2013 and 2016. Additionally, Bresky has been tabbed ITA Regional Coach of the Year on five occasions (2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2024). Of note, Bresky led Wake Forest to its first-ever national title in 2018, after accumulating a 33-2 mark. Most recently, he led Wake Forest to its second ITA National Team Indoor Championship.
Individually, Bresky has coached two ACC Players of the Year (Noah Rubin and Melios Efstathiou), along with 35 All-ACC selections and 10 ITA Singles All-Americans.
During his tenure at Wake Forest, Bresky has amassed 348 wins. Of note, early in 2023 with a victory over No. 6 Tennessee, Bresky became the winningest coach in program history, surpassing the legendary Jim Leighton.
Wake Forest's Team Success Under Bresky
- NCAA Championship: 2018
- ACC Tournament: 2016, 2018, 2019
- ACC Regular Season: 2017, 2018, 2019
- ITA National Team Indoor Championship: 2018, 2025
Bresky's teams have also excelled in the classroom during his stint in Winston-Salem, as he's coached 22 All-ACC Academic Team honorees and an ACC Men's Tennis Scholar Athlete of the Year.
Up Next
After this weekend, the Demon Deacons will return home for three matches against Miami, Florida State and NC A&T.
Wake Forest will take on the Hurricanes on Friday, March 14 before a doubleheader on Sunday against the Seminoles and Aggies.
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