Nefve Named First Team All-ACC

GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Atlantic Coast Conference office released its All-Conference men’s tennis teams Thursday afternoon. Senior Axel Nefve earned First Team All-ACC honors for his efforts this season. Nefve is the lone member of the Fighting Irish squad to earn All-Conference honors this year. This is Nefve’s first All-ACC award.

The top player on the Irish roster earned a 12-7 overall record, and was 4-3 in ACC action this season. Nefve was a qualifier for the NCAA Singles Championship in Champagne, Illinois where he earned a first-round win over Eduardo Graziani of Penn before falling to the top overall seed and eventual National Champion Ben Shelton of Florida.

During the regular season, Nefve was named the ACC Singles Co-Player of the Week March 8^th after earning wins over 12^th-ranked Andres Martin of Georgia Tech and Clemson’s Ryuhei Azuma at the top singles flight. That week he also paired with Matthew Che as the doubles tandem earned wins over Martin and Dong Chen from GT and the 22^nd ranked team of Azuma and Teodor Guisca of Clemson.

Nefve and Che paired to earn Doubles Team of the Week honors early in the year. The pair earned win over the Middle Tennessee State’s 44^th-ranked tandem of Stijn Slump and Pavel Motl, helping end the nation’s longest home winning streak in Murfreesboro.

ACC Men’s Tennis

Player of the Year: Inaki Montes, Virginia

Freshman of the Year: Luca Staeheli, NC State

Coach of the Year: Andres Pedroso, Virginia

First-Team All-ACC

Loris Pourroy**, Florida State
Andres Martin**, Georgia Tech
Etienne Donnet, Louisville
Dan Martin, Miami
Brian Cernoch***, North Carolina
Axel Nefve, Notre Dame
Inaki Montes**, Virginia
Chris Rodesch, Virginia
Eduardo Nava**, Wake Forest

Second-Team All-ACC

Garrett Johns, Duke
Marcus McDaniel**, Georgia Tech
Benjamin Sigouin****, North Carolina
Robin Catry, NC State
Rafa Izquierdo Luque, NC State
Ryan Goetz, Virginia
Jeffrey von der Schulenburg**, Virginia
Ryan Fishback, Virginia Tech
Melios Efstathiou, Wake Forest

Third-Team All-ACC

Andrew Zhang**, Duke
Andreja Petrovic, Florida State
Keshav Chopra, Georgia Tech
Mac Kiger, North Carolina
Luca Staeheli, NC State
Gianni Ross, Virginia
Jurabek Karimov, Wake Forest
Filippo Moroni, Wake Forest
Jakob Schnaitter, Wake Forest