Biography
2012-13 Season (Junior): Earned Southland Conference All-Academic Second Team honors (5/23) ... Won Southland Conference Championship at No. 3 doubles with Thomas-Orestis Panoulas with a 3-1 record (.750) in Southland Conference play … Earned All-Southland Conference Second Team Doubles honors (4/25) … Overall, went 8-9 at No. 6 singles and 10- 6 with Panoulas at No. 3 doubles in dual play … Defeated Lamar’s Trey Crysel and Carl-Philip Lindqvist 8-5 (4/12) … Beat Oral Roberts’ Braxton Bates and Gabriel Kanelopoulos 8-2 followed by Nathaniel Avery 6-2, 6-3 (4/1) ... Defeated No. 36 ranked TCU's Will Stein 6-3, 6-7(2-7) (11-9) (3/30) ... Beat New Orleans’ David Malmgren and Guillermo Aylon 8-3 (3/25) ... Went 2-0 against Prairie View A&M, winning 8-3 over Rasaki Gbadamosi and Trenton Johnson and 6-2, 6-0 over Jonathon Dingle (3/23) … Swept matches against Incarnate Word, 8-4 over Luke Trautmann and Tucker Brown and 6-0, 6-0 over Trautmann (3/23) … Defeated Gardner-Webb’s Joao Poli and Jonathan Walker 8-6 (3/15) … Beat Schreiner's Marco Hinojosa 6-2, 6-0 (3/2) … Went 2-0 against St. Mary’s, knocking off Andrej Klipa and Mateo Martinez 8-2 before beating Brien Galon 2-6, 7-5, 10-8 (3/1) … Defeated the University of the Southwest's Dennis Sladkovskyi and Max Sladkovskyi 8-1 (3/1) ... Earned Southland Conference Player of the Week honors (2/5) … Swept matches against UTSA, 8-5 over Tyler Brown and Hugo Guanais and 6-1, 6-1 over Matt Mussenden (2/3) … Picked up first dual wins of the year against No. 7 Laredo Community College, 8-3 over Julio Cepeda and Eman Esfandi and 6-4, 6-0 over Esfandi (2/1) … Tied 6-6 in doubles at No. 29 Texas Tech with Gabriel Wanderley and Francisco Dambon when point was clinched (1/16).
2011-12 Season (Sophomore): Started the season with three-straight victories ... Defeated Trenton Johnson of Prairie View A&M (6-2,7-5) in the fourth position ... Defeated Bethany College's Jack Schoeman in three sets (6-1, 3-6, 6-3) ... Defeated Jake Williams in straight sets (6-4, 6-2) ... In the sixth position, defeated Sidharth Sivakumar in straight sets (6-4, 6-4) ... defeated Jamarcus Payton in straight sets (6-0, 6-0) ... Added six more victories in doubles action ... Partnered with Rolf Niederstrasser, defeated Trenton Johnson and David Aldaz 8-4 for first doubles victory of the season ... Partnered with Ricardo Hopker, defeated Shane Higgins and Michale Van Bogaert 8-6 ... Partnered with Shane Kryal, defeated Bruno Snyder and Mikko Rajamaki 8-6 ... Finished singles play with a 5-7 record and doubles with a 6-9 record.
2010-11 Season (Freshman): Defeated Beau Blackshear of No. 6 Texas A&M 6-4, 5-7, 13-11 ... Also found victory against St. Mary’s Nico Moreno (6-2, 6-1) to have a 2-2 singles record ... Played doubles with Ricardo Hopker ... Beat Texas A&M’s Daniel Brown and Beau Blackshear 8-3 ... First doubles victory of the season against Diego Snyder and Carlos Valdenebro of Lamar 9-7 for a 2-5 record.
Prep Career: Top 20 player in Brazil and a Top 40 player in South America ... Finalist in Brazilian U16 Championships.
Off the Court: Son of Ozami and Marcus Alves … Has two sisters, Priscila and Juliana ... Attended high school at Colegio Ateneu … Born July 26, 1991 ... Majoring in Marketing with a minor in Communication ... Upon graduation, has ambitions of playing professional tennis and entering into the sports management industry.
