ABILENE – Junior
Hans Hach of the Abilene Christian men's tennis team received a No. 2 national ranking from the Intercollegiate Tennis Association in its annual preseason poll. Hach is coming off a fall season in which he won a third straight regional title and finished as the runner-up at the ITA/USTA National Small College Championships.
Overall, Hach went 19-3 in singles with two of his losses coming against NCAA Division I opponents from TCU and Gonzaga. His final loss was to top-ranked Georgi Rumenov of Armstrong Atlantic. In between, the native of Culiacan, Mexico went 5-0 to win his second straight singles title at New Mexico State and 6-0 at regionals, where he rallied from a set down to beat Nicolai Ferrigno of Cameron in the finals, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2.
Hach also is ranked third in doubles with partner Borja Cortés, a combination that won two championships this past fall en route to a 15-2 record. Hach and Cortés won doubles titles at regionals and New Mexico State, finished third at nationals and second at the Midland Racquet Club Invitational.
Hach won his third doubles title of the fall at Boise State with sophomore
Guilherme Gesser, beating teams from Montana and Montana State, Oregon and Idaho.
Cortés, a sophomore, went 7-5 in singles play during his second semester at ACU and will begin the spring ranked 42nd, while senior
Alfredo Desiati starts with a No. 45 ranking. Desiati reached the quarterfinals of regionals and the Boise State Classic in finishing the fall with an 8-4 record.
ACU is the highest ranked Lone Star Conference team in the ITA poll followed by 19th-ranked Cameron at and 24th-ranked Midwestern State.
