The No. 3 Virginia Cavaliers’ men’s tennis team picked up its 12th ACC championship on Sunday in a thrilling 4-3 upset of the nation’s top-ranked Wake Forest Demon Deacons.
The contest featured a rematch of the 2015 and 2016 ACC Championship teams. In 2015, the Hoos defeated the Deacons, 4-2. Last year, Wake Forest avenged the loss with a 4-3 thriller that ended Virginia’s nine-year streak of claiming the title. But in the 2017 rubber match, it was the Hoos — coming in as the underdog — who came away victorious.
Virginia took the early lead, sweeping the doubles point with wins by Thai-Son Kwiatkowski and Alexander Ritschard over Wake Forest’s Alan Gadjiev and Borna Gojo on Court 2, 6-3, and Collin Altamirano and J.