SAN ANTONIO – The UTSA men's tennis team will open its 2021 season on Saturday at 11 a.m. at the UTSA Tennis Center, hosting Rice.
The Roadrunners enter the second season under coach Sergey Avdeyev, who took over UTSA in 2020 after helping build Old Dominion into a league power as their assistant coach.
UTSA went 5-6 last year before the season was cancelled, earning wins over Louisiana-Lafayette, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Laredo CC and Loyola Marymount.
UTSA returns several standouts from last year, including senior Kai Breitbach (Kaarst, Germany), Joao Ceolin (Palotina, Brazil), junior Javier Gonzalez (San Fernando, Chile), freshman Kaito Nishihara (Austin, Texas), Juri Reckow (Hamburg, Germany), Javier Rodriguez (Trujillo, Peru) and Sebastian Rodriguez (Trujillo, Peru).