Wednesday, January 21
Austin, Texas
6:30 p.m. (ET)
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No. 1 Demon Deacons Set For Massive Road Test at No. 2 Texas
1/20/2026 12:31:00 PM | Men's Tennis
This will be a rematch of the thrilling 2025 ITA National Team Indoor Championship semifinal in Dallas.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – In one of the most highly-anticipated matches of the 2026 regular season slate, the No. 1-ranked Wake Forest men's tennis team will travel to Austin to take on No. 2-ranked Texas Wednesday evening inside the Weller Tennis Center.
First serve against the Longhorns is slated for 6:30 p.m. eastern time. A live stream of the match will be provided on Texas' website, while live results can be found here.
Last season, Wake Forest went 7-0 against top-five opposition including four wins against teams ranked in the top three. Additionally, the Demon Deacons finished the historic 2025 campaign with a record-breaking 25 total ranked victories.
The Longhorns come into the match with a 2-1 record after dropping its first match of the season to No. 5 Virginia at home on Sunday. Last season, they finished with a 29-5 record and reached the semifinals of both the indoor and outdoor championships.
Of note, Wake Forest will look to beat Texas in Austin for the second time in program history, with the first coming in 2017 (W, 4-0). Overall, the Longhorns hold an 11-4 advantage in the series dating back to the first meeting in 1988. The Demon Deacons, however, have won four of the last seven since 2017.
The last meeting against Texas came in the ITA National Team Indoor Championship semifinals last season in Dallas, where the Demon Deacons earned a 4-3 win before going on to claim its second team indoor title against TCU. The match was level at 3-3 before Ioannis Xilas earned a clutch three-set victory over Jonah Braswell on court four to advance.
With a win on Wednesday, head coach Tony Bresky will hit the 400-career wins milestone. He currently sits on 373 wins with Wake Forest following a 26-win season at Cornell in 2010.
The Demon Deacons will take a 16-match away winning streak into the match following a perfect 2025 campaign (10-0) in true road tests. Since 2013, Wake Forest has recorded the second-most overall wins in the country (358).
Last Time Out
Highlighted by the collegiate debut of freshman Aryan Shah, the No. 1-ranked Wake Forest men's tennis team secured its first road win of 2026 as it took down Tennessee, 4-1, Sunday inside the Goodfriend Tennis Center.
The Demon Deacons (3-0, 0-0 ACC) continued its dominance in doubles, as it took the opening point with wins on courts one and two.
In his highly-anticipated collegiate debut, Shah teamed up with junior Luca Pow as the two cruised to a 6-1 victory over Garcia/Skierkier on court two.
Making his season debut, DK Suresh picked up where he left off a year ago and clinched the doubles point alongside Charlie Robertson with a 6-4 win on court one against Siekanowicz/Cazacu. The dynamic duo moved to 11-1 as a pair after earning All-American honors together in 2025.
Wake Forest then carried that momentum into singles, where it closed out the match with wins on courts three, four and six.
Freshman Mees Rottgering secured his first singles win at the collegiate level following a dominant second-set. He took down Ethan Muza on court four, 6-3, 6-0 and gave Wake Forest a 2-0 lead and the momentum.
Opening 2026 with three wins in three matches, sophomore Joaquin Guilleme improved to 12-0 in match play throughout his young career as he extended Wake Forest's advantage with a 6-4, 6-1 victory over Boruch Skierkier on court six. Additionally, he is the first Demon Deacon to reach three singles wins this campaign.
As he did in doubles, Pow controlled his singles match as he claimed a 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 victory over Jose Garcia on court three. Overall, Pow is now 80-16 in singles and 74-18 in doubles as a Demon Deacon over the last three years. Additionally, he has now won seven-consecutive dual matches and 28 of his last 29.
Wake Forest has now earned back-to-back wins over Tennessee for the first time since it had a stretch of four-consecutive wins in the series from 2015-2017. Additionally, this marked the third-ever win in Knoxville for the Demon Deacons and first since 2017.
DK's Last Dance
A proven winner and one of the most decorated players in college tennis, DK Suresh Ekambaram returns to Winston-Salem for his senior campaign. The standout is coming off a 2025 campaign in which he was named ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year, earned ITA All-America honors in both singles and doubles, and collected First Team All-ACC recognition across the board. Suresh reached the semifinals of the NCAA Singles Championships in the fall and carried that form into dual play, serving as the team's No. 2 during both the ITA National Indoor and NCAA championship runs. He finished second on the team with 20 spring singles wins, with 11 coming against ranked opponents, and closed the season ranked No. 6 nationally after spending the entire year inside the top 10.
Suresh has also established himself as one of the nation's premier doubles players. He led Wake Forest with a 28–5 doubles record last season while teaming with seven different partners, ending the year nationally ranked in five pairings and climbing as high as No. 8 with Charlie Robertson. During his sophomore year, he and Holden Koons rose to No. 1 in the country, finished 25–5, and went 14–4 against ranked teams en route to First Team All-ACC honors.
Mr. Inevitable
Few players in the country have been more consistent over the last two seasons than Luca Pow, who enters his junior season as one of Wake Forest's most reliable match-winners. Pow followed up a superb freshman campaign with an even bigger step forward in 2025, earning ITA Doubles All-America honors, ACC All-Academic recognition and Third Team All-ACC accolades in doubles. He led the Demon Deacons with 31 singles victories in the spring, becoming the first Wake Forest player since Petros Chrysochos in 2018 to eclipse 30 wins, and pushed his career dual-match total to an astonishing 57–5 through two seasons. Along the way, Pow pieced together a 21-match winning streak and delivered five straight singles victories during the NCAA Tournament. In the fall, he made a run to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Singles Championships to earn Singles All-American status for the first time in his career.
Pow has been equally impactful in doubles. Teaming primarily with senior Luciano Tacchi last year, the pair finished 18–4 in the spring, went 2–0 at the ITA National Team Indoor Championship and secured a signature win over Florida State's third-ranked tandem of Bulte/Rihane. The duo also captured the ITA Carolina Regional title, continuing momentum that began in Pow's freshman season, when he and Tacchi went 20–6 together and won nine of their final 10 matches.
As a freshman, Pow burst onto the scene with a 25–2 singles record while primarily playing at No. 5, including a 19-match win streak to close the year and a perfect 14–0 mark at that position. He picked up his first ranked win early against Florida's Janmagnus Johnson and even climbed into the ITA singles rankings at No. 78. With two seasons of elite consistency already behind him, Pow returns as a proven point-getter who gives Wake Forest exceptional depth and confidence in both singles and doubles.
Of note, he recently surpassed 150 combined wins for the Demon Deacons with 79 singles wins and 73 doubles wins (fall and spring). He is already off to a 2-0 start in singles and 3-0 in doubles in 2026.
Reloaded
While the Demon Deacons return half of their top six from a year ago as well as top young talents in redshirt-freshman Andrew Delgado and sophomore Joaquin Guilleme, head coach Tony Bresky brought in three highly-touted freshman and a top transfer to help bolster the squad for another deep NCAA tournament run.
Newcomers
Preseason Number One
The Demon Deacons were tabbed as the best team in the nation in the preseason ITA poll after spending most of last season in the top spot, and is one of eight ACC teams ranked inside the top 25 to open the year. Individually, Wake Forest has two singles players and three doubles pairs ranked.
Singles
Doubles
The Bresky Era
Since arriving at Wake Forest, head coach Tony Bresky has enjoyed a highly-decorated career, winning ITA National Coach of the Year in 2018 and 2025, along with garnering ACC Coach of the Year honors in 2013, 2016 and 2025.
Bresky led Wake Forest to its first-ever national title in 2018, after accumulating a 33-2 mark and most recently led one of the most dominant seasons in collegiate tennis history as the Deacs won 40 matches en route to capturing the ACC regular season title, ITA Indoor Title and NCAA Championship.
Individually, Bresky has coached two ACC Players of the Year (Noah Rubin and Melios Efstathiou), along with 40 All-ACC selections and 12 ITA Singles All-Americans.
During his tenure at Wake Forest, Bresky has amassed 373 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 27 All-ACC Academic Team honorees and an ACC Men's Tennis Scholar Athlete of the Year.
Next Up
After Wednesday's match, the Deacs will return home for ITA Kickoff Weekend (Jan. 23-24) as it welcomes Virginia Tech, Vanderbilt and North Carolina to the ITC for a spot in the ITA National Team Indoor Championships.
On Friday, Vanderbilt and North Carolina will battle at 1 p.m. before the Demon Deacons take the court against the Hokies at 5 p.m. The winners of both matches will play at 5 p.m. Saturday for a spot in the indoor championships.
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First serve against the Longhorns is slated for 6:30 p.m. eastern time. A live stream of the match will be provided on Texas' website, while live results can be found here.
Last season, Wake Forest went 7-0 against top-five opposition including four wins against teams ranked in the top three. Additionally, the Demon Deacons finished the historic 2025 campaign with a record-breaking 25 total ranked victories.
The Longhorns come into the match with a 2-1 record after dropping its first match of the season to No. 5 Virginia at home on Sunday. Last season, they finished with a 29-5 record and reached the semifinals of both the indoor and outdoor championships.
Of note, Wake Forest will look to beat Texas in Austin for the second time in program history, with the first coming in 2017 (W, 4-0). Overall, the Longhorns hold an 11-4 advantage in the series dating back to the first meeting in 1988. The Demon Deacons, however, have won four of the last seven since 2017.
The last meeting against Texas came in the ITA National Team Indoor Championship semifinals last season in Dallas, where the Demon Deacons earned a 4-3 win before going on to claim its second team indoor title against TCU. The match was level at 3-3 before Ioannis Xilas earned a clutch three-set victory over Jonah Braswell on court four to advance.
With a win on Wednesday, head coach Tony Bresky will hit the 400-career wins milestone. He currently sits on 373 wins with Wake Forest following a 26-win season at Cornell in 2010.
The Demon Deacons will take a 16-match away winning streak into the match following a perfect 2025 campaign (10-0) in true road tests. Since 2013, Wake Forest has recorded the second-most overall wins in the country (358).
Last Time Out
Highlighted by the collegiate debut of freshman Aryan Shah, the No. 1-ranked Wake Forest men's tennis team secured its first road win of 2026 as it took down Tennessee, 4-1, Sunday inside the Goodfriend Tennis Center.
The Demon Deacons (3-0, 0-0 ACC) continued its dominance in doubles, as it took the opening point with wins on courts one and two.
In his highly-anticipated collegiate debut, Shah teamed up with junior Luca Pow as the two cruised to a 6-1 victory over Garcia/Skierkier on court two.
Making his season debut, DK Suresh picked up where he left off a year ago and clinched the doubles point alongside Charlie Robertson with a 6-4 win on court one against Siekanowicz/Cazacu. The dynamic duo moved to 11-1 as a pair after earning All-American honors together in 2025.
Wake Forest then carried that momentum into singles, where it closed out the match with wins on courts three, four and six.
Freshman Mees Rottgering secured his first singles win at the collegiate level following a dominant second-set. He took down Ethan Muza on court four, 6-3, 6-0 and gave Wake Forest a 2-0 lead and the momentum.
Opening 2026 with three wins in three matches, sophomore Joaquin Guilleme improved to 12-0 in match play throughout his young career as he extended Wake Forest's advantage with a 6-4, 6-1 victory over Boruch Skierkier on court six. Additionally, he is the first Demon Deacon to reach three singles wins this campaign.
As he did in doubles, Pow controlled his singles match as he claimed a 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 victory over Jose Garcia on court three. Overall, Pow is now 80-16 in singles and 74-18 in doubles as a Demon Deacon over the last three years. Additionally, he has now won seven-consecutive dual matches and 28 of his last 29.
Wake Forest has now earned back-to-back wins over Tennessee for the first time since it had a stretch of four-consecutive wins in the series from 2015-2017. Additionally, this marked the third-ever win in Knoxville for the Demon Deacons and first since 2017.
DK's Last Dance
A proven winner and one of the most decorated players in college tennis, DK Suresh Ekambaram returns to Winston-Salem for his senior campaign. The standout is coming off a 2025 campaign in which he was named ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year, earned ITA All-America honors in both singles and doubles, and collected First Team All-ACC recognition across the board. Suresh reached the semifinals of the NCAA Singles Championships in the fall and carried that form into dual play, serving as the team's No. 2 during both the ITA National Indoor and NCAA championship runs. He finished second on the team with 20 spring singles wins, with 11 coming against ranked opponents, and closed the season ranked No. 6 nationally after spending the entire year inside the top 10.
Suresh has also established himself as one of the nation's premier doubles players. He led Wake Forest with a 28–5 doubles record last season while teaming with seven different partners, ending the year nationally ranked in five pairings and climbing as high as No. 8 with Charlie Robertson. During his sophomore year, he and Holden Koons rose to No. 1 in the country, finished 25–5, and went 14–4 against ranked teams en route to First Team All-ACC honors.
Mr. Inevitable
Few players in the country have been more consistent over the last two seasons than Luca Pow, who enters his junior season as one of Wake Forest's most reliable match-winners. Pow followed up a superb freshman campaign with an even bigger step forward in 2025, earning ITA Doubles All-America honors, ACC All-Academic recognition and Third Team All-ACC accolades in doubles. He led the Demon Deacons with 31 singles victories in the spring, becoming the first Wake Forest player since Petros Chrysochos in 2018 to eclipse 30 wins, and pushed his career dual-match total to an astonishing 57–5 through two seasons. Along the way, Pow pieced together a 21-match winning streak and delivered five straight singles victories during the NCAA Tournament. In the fall, he made a run to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Singles Championships to earn Singles All-American status for the first time in his career.
Pow has been equally impactful in doubles. Teaming primarily with senior Luciano Tacchi last year, the pair finished 18–4 in the spring, went 2–0 at the ITA National Team Indoor Championship and secured a signature win over Florida State's third-ranked tandem of Bulte/Rihane. The duo also captured the ITA Carolina Regional title, continuing momentum that began in Pow's freshman season, when he and Tacchi went 20–6 together and won nine of their final 10 matches.
As a freshman, Pow burst onto the scene with a 25–2 singles record while primarily playing at No. 5, including a 19-match win streak to close the year and a perfect 14–0 mark at that position. He picked up his first ranked win early against Florida's Janmagnus Johnson and even climbed into the ITA singles rankings at No. 78. With two seasons of elite consistency already behind him, Pow returns as a proven point-getter who gives Wake Forest exceptional depth and confidence in both singles and doubles.
Of note, he recently surpassed 150 combined wins for the Demon Deacons with 79 singles wins and 73 doubles wins (fall and spring). He is already off to a 2-0 start in singles and 3-0 in doubles in 2026.
Reloaded
While the Demon Deacons return half of their top six from a year ago as well as top young talents in redshirt-freshman Andrew Delgado and sophomore Joaquin Guilleme, head coach Tony Bresky brought in three highly-touted freshman and a top transfer to help bolster the squad for another deep NCAA tournament run.
Newcomers
- Aryan Shah | Freshman | Bhuj, India
- Shah arrived in Winston-Salem with significant professional and international experience, having emerged over the last two years as a dynamic all-court player known for his reliable serve, composure and baseline consistency. He holds the highest ATP singles ranking on the team at 398.
- On the professional circuit, Shah has captured two ITF Futures singles titles, the 2024 M15 Kingston championship and the 2025 M15 Ahmedabad crown, while also winning a 2024 M15 Kingston doubles title. His progress earned him the opportunity to represent India as a reserve player during the nation's 2024 Davis Cup tie against Sweden.
- Mees Rottgering | Freshman | Wanssum, Netherlands
- Rottgering first gained national attention in 2023 when, at just 16 years old, he reached the semifinals of the Dutch Senior National Championships, going toe-to-toe with top professional Gijs Brouwer.
- He followed that performance with a historic 2024 campaign on the international stage. In February 2024, Rottgering advanced to the semifinals of the Australian Open Boys' Singles and reached a Futures final in Sharm El Sheikh, becoming the only 16-year-old ranked inside the ATP Top 1000 that season. That run also made him the youngest Dutch man ever to appear in an ITF World Tennis Tour singles final.
- Rottgering continued his ascent at Wimbledon, where he defeated top seed and French Open junior champion Kaylan Bigun in the quarterfinals before advancing to the championship match. He finished runner-up to Nicolai Budkov Kjær after a remarkable two-week run on the grass courts of London.
- Capping off his junior career, Rottgering claimed the prestigious 2024 ITF Junior Finals title in October, defeating Spain's Rafael Jódar (Virginia) in straight sets.
- Rottgering officially made his ATP Tour debut in February 2025 at the ABN AMRO Open in Rotterdam, receiving a main-draw wildcard in front of his home crowd. The appearance marked the next step in a promising career trajectory that now continues in collegiate tennis with the Demon Deacons.
- Kacper Szymkowiak | Sophomore (Prev. MTSU) | Wroclaw, Poland
- As a freshman at Middle Tennessee State, he won his first 11 singles matches, setting a program record for best start to a singles career. He went on to be named CUSA Freshmen of the Year and CUSA All-Conference First Team Singles.
- He started the season playing on court five before playing six matches at the top spot and finished 12-2 in singles and 6-9 in doubles.
- Played on the Polish and Tunisian circuits and reached as high as #134 globally in the ITF junior rankings.
- Dominick Mosejczuk | Freshman | Queens, N.Y.
- Mosejczuk comes in as a five star recruit in the class of 2025.
- He ranked as the #3 recruit in the class and #1 in New York
- Has a high ITF Juniors ranking of #22 with seven titles to his name.
Preseason Number One
The Demon Deacons were tabbed as the best team in the nation in the preseason ITA poll after spending most of last season in the top spot, and is one of eight ACC teams ranked inside the top 25 to open the year. Individually, Wake Forest has two singles players and three doubles pairs ranked.
Singles
| DK Suresh Ekambaram | #12 |
| Luca Pow | #15 |
| Kacper Szymkowiak | #64 |
| Andrew Delgado | #96 |
Doubles
| Suresh/Delgado | #4 |
The Bresky Era
Since arriving at Wake Forest, head coach Tony Bresky has enjoyed a highly-decorated career, winning ITA National Coach of the Year in 2018 and 2025, along with garnering ACC Coach of the Year honors in 2013, 2016 and 2025.
Bresky led Wake Forest to its first-ever national title in 2018, after accumulating a 33-2 mark and most recently led one of the most dominant seasons in collegiate tennis history as the Deacs won 40 matches en route to capturing the ACC regular season title, ITA Indoor Title and NCAA Championship.
Individually, Bresky has coached two ACC Players of the Year (Noah Rubin and Melios Efstathiou), along with 40 All-ACC selections and 12 ITA Singles All-Americans.
During his tenure at Wake Forest, Bresky has amassed 373 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, 2025
- ACC Tournament: 2016, 2018, 2019
- ACC Regular Season: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2025
- 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 27 All-ACC Academic Team honorees and an ACC Men's Tennis Scholar Athlete of the Year.
Next Up
After Wednesday's match, the Deacs will return home for ITA Kickoff Weekend (Jan. 23-24) as it welcomes Virginia Tech, Vanderbilt and North Carolina to the ITC for a spot in the ITA National Team Indoor Championships.
On Friday, Vanderbilt and North Carolina will battle at 1 p.m. before the Demon Deacons take the court against the Hokies at 5 p.m. The winners of both matches will play at 5 p.m. Saturday for a spot in the indoor championships.
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