Simão Telo Alves

  • Award
    Player of the Week
  • Week Of
    1/19/2022
  • Sport
    Men's Tennis
  • School
    Hawai'i
  • Year
    Junior
  • Position
  • Hometown
    Lisboa, Portugal
  • High School
    Salesianos de Lisboa

  • Opening the season at the Hawai‘i Invitational tournament, junior Simao Telo Alves won all three of his singles matches plus one doubles match to claim the season’s first Big West Player of the Week award.  

  • In his season opener, Alves swept BYU's Dominik Jalovljevic, 6-3, 6-2. On the second day of action, he held off BYU's Brigham Andrus in two sets that ended in a tiebreaker, 6-2, 7-6 (3). The native of Lisboa Portugal, finished the event after outlasting BYU's Matheus Ferreira Leite in a three-set marathon which ended in a third set, super-tiebreaker, 7-6 (6), 4-6, 10-8.  

  • In doubles, Alves also picked up a win with partner Karl Collins as the duo defeated California's Lucas Magnaudet and Michael Wright, 8-4. 

  • This is the first career weekly award for Alves.