Odysseas Papaioannou has been named the ECC Men's Tennis Player of the Week, while Ludovico Truffelli takes home ECC Rookie of the Week honors on Monday, following the Spartans back-to-back victories to close the 2021-22 regular season last week.
Papaioannou went 4-0 last week with a pair of doubles victories and two singles triumphs. The senior from Thessaloniki, Greece is now 10th all-time in career combined wins for STAC, with 46.
Truffelli went 3-0 last week with a pair of doubles victories and a singles triumph. The freshman from Bologna, Italy now holds a new program record for doubles wins in a season with 19.
St. Thomas Aquinas heads to the ECC Men's Tennis Tournament, which will be held on April 29-30 at Queens College. The Spartans will enter the semifinal round as the #2 seed and will battle #3 seeded University of the District of Columbia for a chance to advance to the tournament final, facing the winner of #1 Queens College and #4 Daemen University.