Rafael Wagner Season 2023-24
SENIOR SEASON (2019-20)
Finished senior season 7-4 in dual play singles matches … Missed Fall season due to injury … Compiled an 11-1 record in doubles … Finished 9-1 with partner Ronald Hohmann … Reached No. 59 in the ITA doubles rankings … Finished 2-0 with partner Joey Thomas … defeated No. 45 Will Grant and Johannes Ingildsen 6-4 with Thomas … Returning for another year due to COVID-19 redshirt rules.
JUNIOR SEASON (2018-19)
In Fall season, compiled a 6-1 singles record … Went 4-3 in doubles play with partner, Joey Thomas … Advanced to the ITA Southern Regional singles quarterfinals … Defeated #21 Horneffer/Broom of Dartmouth during Day 1 of the Ivy Plus Invitational … In Spring, compiled 11-12 in singles play … Went 13-10 in doubles with partner Joey Thomas … In singles, spent time in ITA ranks with a high of 114 … With partner Joey Thomas, defeated No. 1 Constant de la Basse/Gabriel Nemeth from Penn State 6-1 … Spent 17 weeks in ITA doubles rankings with a high of 30 … Won against No. 47 Tim Sandkaulen/Filip Kraljevic from Ole Miss 6-3.
SOPHOMORE SEASON (2017-18)
Compiled a 19-12 singles record … Recorded a 10-11 doubles record with partner Agie Moreno … Clinched matches against Arkansas-Pine Bluff, UL-Lafayette and Nicholls State … Won singles matches in SEC play against Ole Miss, Alabama, Tennessee and Auburn … Defeated #86 Matteo De Vincentis of Auburn.
FRESHMAN SEASON (2016-17)
Played on the back three courts as a freshman and was third on the team in individual singles victories with 16 … Took home wins in two SEC matches—a 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 victory against Auburn’s Dante Saleh and a 6-2, 7-6(5) win against Tennessee’s Luca Wiedenmann … Swept three consecutive opponents prior to the opening of the dual season as he defeated Ole Miss’ Grey Hamilton, Hawaii’s Ruben Blattner and Duke’s Robert Levine … Earned four doubles victories with partner Eric Samuelsson.
PRIOR TO LSU
Reached the quarterfinals in both singles and doubles in a Grade 2 ITF junior competition in Chile in 2016 … Took home a Grade 4 ITF singles championship and reached the doubles finals of a Grade 4 ITF junior event in 2015.
PERSONAL
Son of Ralph and Clarissa Wagner from Brazil … Has two siblings, Pedrio and Raissa … Majoring in engineering.