Fordham, Rhode Island, Richmond Receive Final Under Armour Weekly Tennis Awards

4/22/2025 2:30:00 PM

WASHINGTON – The Atlantic 10 Conference recognized Richmond junior Davis Wiley as its Under Armour Men’s Tennis Player of the Week, while Fordham freshman Jeremy Victoria earned Rookie of the Week. Richmond graduate student Claire Le Du collected Women’s Tennis Player of the Week and Rhode Island freshman Katharina Spieth secured Rookie of the Week. The awards, which were announced on Tuesday, are for competitions played from April 14 to April 20. 

Wiley extended his win streak to three straight matches in singles this week for the Spiders. On Friday’s match versus Saint Joseph’s Justus Agbo, he commanded a 6-2, 6-1 win at No. 1 singles. In Richmond’s match against Davidson, the Arlington, V.A. native took a 6-3, 6-1 victory versus Uddayvir Singh at No. 1 singles. In doubles play, Wiley teamed with Cole Brashear at the top spot in both matches. Against Saint Joseph’s, the duo trailed 4-5 before the match went unfinished, while Saturday's contest against Davidson was locked at 6-6 when play was halted. 

Victoria went 2-0 in singles play, which included winning the clinching point in a 4-3 Fordham win over Saint Joseph’s. He opened the week with a straight set win over Sacred Heart’s Percy Meehan, 6-1, 6-3, at No. 6 singles. Vicotria then closed out a come from behind win over SJU’s Eli Gan-Dy, 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (3). Victoria, a Bronx, N.Y. native, faced a 5-2 deficit in the third set, but rallied back to win.  

Le Du secured key wins in singles and doubles action for Richmond. On Friday against Saint Joseph’s, Le Du and her teammate Lainey O’Neil cruised to a 6-1 win at No. 3 doubles. In singles, Le Du faced SJU’s Victoria Tracey on court three, but the match went unfinished with Le Du leading, 6-1, 5-7, 1-0. The Maisons, France native clinched another doubles win with O’Neil against GW’s Karen Verduzco and Alejandra Ramirez, 6-4. Le Du then captured a 6-3, 6-3 victory on court four.  

Spieth won her No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles match in Rhode Island’s meet against Massachusetts. She defeated UMass’ Mariana Campino 7-5, 6-4. She also teamed with Nikki Fernando for a 7-6 (3) win over Campino and Bella Jonglertrakul.  

2025 TENNIS WEEKLY AWARDS

DATE 

MEN'S PLAYER 

WOMEN'S PLAYER 

MEN'S ROOKIE 

WOMEN'S ROOKIE 

Jan. 28 

Mikkel Zinder, UD 

Neena Katausakas, UD 

Gregorio Higalgo, DAV 

Sofia Barbulescu, UR 

Feb. 4 

Mikkel Zinder, UD 

Ella Faessler, UM 

Davide Procacci, DAV 

Katharina Spieth, URI 

Feb. 11 

Mikkel Zinder, UD 

Julianne Nguyen, FOR 

Sturle Skigeslstrand, UD 

Madison Hill, SLU 

Feb. 26 

Dhillon Virdee-Oakley, FOR 

Kavya Patel, DAV 

Sam Rathmanner, UR 

Katharina Spieth, URI 

March 4 

Mikkel Zinder, UD 

Nevena Kolarevic, FOR 

Sturle Skigelstrand, UD 

Sofia Barbulescu, UR 

March 11 

Dylan Atkinson, UR 

Isabella Venter, SBU 

Sam Rathmanner, UR 

Sofia Jane Thorne, VCU 

March 18 

Ernesto Ruy SJU 

Santiago Valle, SJU 

Victoria Tracey, SJU 

Addison Melfi, SJU 

March 25 

Kyle McNally, UD 

Filip Horak, FOR 

Nevena Kolarevic, FOR 

Anastasia Pettersson, URI 

April 1 

Davis WileyUR 

Santiago Valle SJU 

Lara Bakhaya UR 

Haley Klein UD 

April 8 

Kyle McNally, UD 

Matthew Dubas, SJU 

Andrea Campodonico, UR 

Katharina Spieth, URI 

April 15 

Santiago Valle, SJU 

Gregorio Hidalgo, DAV 

Lara Bakhaya, UR 

Sofia Jane Thorne, VCU 

April 22 

Davis Wiley, UR 

Jeremy Victoria, FOR 

Claire Le Du, UR 

Katharina Spieth, URI