20 CAVALIER CORNER
BY GREG WATERS
W
ITH BRIAN BOLAND
at the helm, the Univer-
sity of Virginia's men's
tennis team captured 11
ACC Tournament cham-
pionships, 13 ACC regular-season titles and
three of the last four NCAA crowns.
In addition, UVA won 140 straight matches
against ACC foes — the longest streak of this
nature in league history in any sport.
The person tasked with filling those
rather large tennis shoes is Andres Pedroso,
who on May 24 was appointed director of
tennis, which gives him oversight of both
teams, plus the head men's coach.
The obvious question is: What can Pe-
droso do for an encore?
"If I had a dollar for every time anybody
asked me that, I'd be a rich man," Pedroso
said with a chuckle. "This program always
has been about developing world-class
people, teaching character and developing
great people who are going to be great team-
mates and now [parents]. This has been
more about developing human beings than
tennis players.
Pedroso served as Virginia's associate head coach from 2010-14, when the Cavaliers won four ACC titles, the program's first NCAA championship (2013)
and two ITA National Team Indoor crowns.
PHOTO BY MATT RILEY/COURTESY UVA
