Summer Dawgs: Summer Tournaments Keep 2025-26 Men’s Tennis Roster Busy
August 26, 2025 | Men's Tennis
STARKVILLE – Members of the 2025-26 Mississippi State men's tennis roster concluded a busy, but impressive, summer tour.
As a team, the group combined to earn 168 ATP points. ATP points determine a player's world ranking, which dictates tournament entry, seeding, and the ability to play in more prestigious events, such as Grand Slams and Masters 1000s. Points are awarded for advancing in ATP tournaments, with higher-category events like Grand Slams offering more points. A player's ranking is based on their best results from the past 52 weeks, with points dropping off after a year and being replaced by new points from subsequent tournaments. All rankings below are as of Aug. 25, 2025.
Petar Jovanovic | Senior | Podgorica, Montenegro | ATP Ranking: Singles – 1500 / Doubles – 1824
Jovanovic competed in two tournaments over the summer. He started the summer by representing Montenegro in the Davis Cup, where he won all of his singles matches in victories over Moldova, Malta and North Macedonia, as well as his singles match in a defeat to Latvia. Jovanovic capped off his summer at the M15 Kuršumlijska Banja in Kuršumlijska Banja, Serbia, where he picked up a win in his first-round match.
Benito Sanchez Martinez | Senior | Potsdam, Germany | ATP Ranking: Singles – 839 / Doubles – 408
Sanchez Martinez stayed busy this summer, competing in four tournaments over three months. He opened with the Heilbronn Challenger 100, followed by the M25 Marburg, where he defeated a top-500 ATP opponent and a top-200 ITF opponent in the qualifying rounds. He then played in the Braunschweig Challenger 125 before closing out the summer with an impressive run at the Augsburg Challenger 50. There, he picked up 58 ATP points and four consecutive wins on his way to the quarterfinals, including victories over the No. 176 and No. 380 ATP-ranked players. He carried that momentum into doubles, claiming the Augsburg Challenger 50 doubles title.
Mario Martinez Serrano | Senior | Zaragoza, Spain | ATP Ranking: Singles – 1026 / Doubles – 2290
Martinez Serrano tested himself in six tournaments over the summer. He reached the quarterfinals at both the M25 Martos and M15 Xàtiva events, defeating a top-500 ATP opponent en route to the semifinals in Xàtiva. Over the summer, he faced some familiar competition, including current teammate Bryan Hernandez Cortes at the M25 Martos and Bulldog alum Carles Hernandez at the M15 Xàtiva.
Michal Novansky | Senior | Trnava, Slovakia | ATP Ranking: Singles – 1299 / Doubles – NR
Novansky competed in six tournaments this summer, winning 13 matches while playing in five different countries. His best performance came at the M15 Poprad in Poprad, Slovakia, where he advanced to the semifinals with five consecutive wins. He also picked up four wins at the M15 Grodzisk Mazowiecki in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland.
Marshall Landry | Junior | Pinehurst, N.C. | ATP Ranking: Singles – NR / Doubles – NR
Landry stayed in the States and competed in three UTR Pro Summer Slam tournaments. Landry picked up his first win of the summer in his first tournament in Winston-Salem, N.C. He then went on to pick up three consecutive wins in Atlanta, Ga., and two consecutive in Knoxville, Tenn. He finished with six wins on the summer.
Roberto Ferrer Guimaraes | Junior | Lakeland, Tenn. | ATP Ranking: Singles – 1613 / Doubles – NR
Ferrer Guimaraes competed in three tournaments this summer. He started the summer competing at the M25 Bakio in Bakio, Spain. Less than a week later, Ferrer Guimaraes was competing in the M15 Getxo in Getxo, Spain. He rounded out the summer with the M25 Southaven, stateside in Southaven, Miss.
Niccolo Baroni | Sophomore | Viareggio, Italy | ATP Ranking: Singles – 1074 / Doubles – 1835
Niccolo Baroni featured in four tournaments across two countries this summer. He opened his summer campaign with back-to-back tournaments in Italy. Baroni totaled three wins across the M25 Cattolica and M15 Bergamo. Baroni then competed in Monastir, Tunisia, twice. Baroni picked up first-round wins in both tournaments.
Bryan Hernandez Cortes | Sophomore | Mallorca, Spain | ATP Ranking: Singles – 2134 / Doubles – 2077
Hernandez Cortes played in three tournaments this summer in his home country, Spain. He took on the M25 Martos to start the summer, picking up three consecutive wins. Hernandez Cortes picked up a victory over Bulldog alum Carles Hernandez before falling to teammate Mario Martinez Serrano in the next round. He tacked on another win at the M25 Denia before competing in the M25+H Tauste to round out his summer competition.
Raphael Vaksmann | Freshman | Paris, France | ATP Ranking: Singles – 1461 / Doubles – NR
Raphael Vaksmann took on five M25 tournaments this summer, all in France. He played his first tournament in Angers and picked up his first win at the M25 Grasse. Vaksmann picked up another victory at the M25 Villeneuve-Loubet before finishing the summer with the M25 Montauban and M25+H Ajaccio.
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