2018-19 Men's Tennis Roster
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Braun, Niclas
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Niclas Braun
- Height:
- 5-10
- Weight:
- null
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Berlin, Germany
- High School/Previous School:
- Leonardo da Vinci Schule
Bio
Career
Singles Record: 85-40 // 58-24 dual // 31-10 SEC
Doubles Record: 93-48 // 60-29 dual // 22-13 SEC
Highest National Singles Ranking: 64th (2/6/19)
Highest National Doubles Ranking: 3rd (3/5/19)
Awards/Honors
ITA Doubles All-American (2019)
NCAA Doubles Semifinalist (2019)
SEC All-Tournament Team (2019)
ITA Southern Regional Singles Champion (2018)
ITA Southern Regional Doubles Champion (2018)
ITA All-American Championships Doubles Consolation Champion (2018)
ITA Scholar-Athlete (2018)
NCAA Doubles Championship Round of 16 (2017)
All-SEC Second Team, 3x (2017, 2018, 2019)
SEC Freshman of the Week, 2x (2016)
ITA Southern Regional Doubles Finalist, 2x (2016, 2017)
Senior (2018-19)
Singles Record: 22-10 // 13-5 dual // 8-3 SEC
Doubles Record: 33-8 // 18-2 dual // 6-1 SEC
Highest National Singles Ranking: 64th (2/6/19)
Highest National Doubles Ranking: 3rd (3/5/19)
Awards/Honors
ITA Doubles All-American (2019)
NCAA Doubles Semifinalist (2019)
All-SEC Second Team (2019)
SEC All-Tournament Team (2019)
ITA Southern Regional Singles Champion (2018)
ITA Southern Regional Doubles Champion (2018)
ITA All-American Championships Doubles Consolation Champion (2018)
FALL:
- Won both the singles and doubles titles at the 2018 ITA Southern Regional Championships
- Claimed the consolation doubles crown of the 2018 ITA All-American Championships with a three-set victory over teammates and top-ranked Nuno Borges and Strahinja Rakic.
- Reached the second round of the 2018 Oracle ITA National Fall Championships.
- Earned his highest career singles ranking on Nov. 14, coming in at No. 67.
SPRING:
- Ranks first all-time in career dual match doubles wins (60), second in career doubles wins (93), wins by a doubles pair (50 w/ Giovanni Oradini) and career wins (178), third in career dual match wins (118) and sixth in dual singles wins (58)
- Also holds top-10 winning spots in career winning % (10th-66.9%), doubles winning % (7th, 66.0%), dual match winning % (69.0%), dual match doubles winning % (67.4%) and career doubles pairing winning % (82.0% w/ Giovanni Oradini)
- Posted 33 wins in doubles as a senior, 32 with Oradini, which ranks third in program history for most doubles wins in a season. Those 32 wins with Oradini are tied for most in program history
- Clinched a team-high seven matches for the Bulldogs, including five in a row from March 2 to March 22.
- Sealed MSU’s 4-2 win against Tulane (2/9) in Lubbock, Texas, taking a 6-7(3), 6-4, 6-2 win against Dane Esses.
- Won four matches in a row from March 11 to March 22.
- Clinched four doubles points with Giovanni Oradini
- Claimed four straight victories to open the dual match slate, including two doubles clinchers.
- Ousted Carlos Hassey and Jonas Ziverts to clinch MSU’s doubles point against Arizona during ITA Kick-Off Weekend (2/27).
- Sealed MSU’s doubles point against Texas Tech (2/8), downing Jackson Cobb and Tommy Mylnikov.
- Took a 6-3 victory against Florida’s Johannes Ingildsen and Alfredo Perez (3/10) to clinch doubles against the Gators.
- Teamed up with Florian Broska to down Jose Alonso and Alex Reco of Arkansas on March 30.
- Earned an at-large bid into the NCAA Doubles Championship with Oradini, earning All-American honors with a run to the semifinals
- During that run, Braun and Oradini earned a 6-4, 6-3 triumph over top-ranked Jimmy Bendeck and Sven Lah of Baylor (5/23) in the quarterfinals
Junior (2017-18)
Singles Record: 20-9 // 15-5 dual // 7-2 SEC
Doubles Record: 26-9 // 19-5 dual // 10-0 SEC
Highest Singles Ranking: 118th (11/15/17)
Highest Doubles Ranking: 7th (9/12/17)
Awards/Honors
All-SEC Second Team (2018)
ITA Southern Regional Doubles Finalist (2017)
FALL:
- For the second straight year, teamed up with Trevor Foshey to reach the finals of the ITA Southern Regional Championships in doubles
- Went 7-4 in doubles play, going 6-3 in tandem with Trevor Foshey and 1-1 alongside Giovanni Oradini.
- Earned the first national singles ranking of his career on Nov. 15.
SPRING:
- Combined for a 19-5 dual match doubles record, splitting time paired with Trevor Foshey (2-3) and Giovanni Oradini (17-2).
- Clinched nine doubles points for the Bulldogs—two with Foshey and seven with Oradini
- Clinched two wins for the Maroon and White in singles.
- Teamed up with Oradini to take down Florida’s 12th-ranked duo of McClain Kessler and Duarte Vale on March 9.
- Clinched the victory for the Bulldogs on March 9 vs. No. 9 Florida, taking a 6-4, 2-6, 6-1 win against 68th-ranked Duarte Vale—the highest-ranked opponent he has defeated in his career.
- Downed Alabama’s 46th-ranked tandem of Thibault Cancel and Alexey Nesterov on March 16.
- In doubles, Braun and Oradini mounted a 12-match win streak from Feb. 9 to April 13.
- Embarked on a seven-match singles win streak from Feb. 23 to April 7.
- Dominated Ole Miss’s Babic/Kraljevic, 6-1, en route to helping clinch the doubles point for State on April 8
- Dominated SEC competition in doubles, going a perfect 10-0 alongside Oradini
- Won 19 dual matches in doubles competition, tying him for third all-time for dual match doubles wins in a single season.
Sophomore (2016-17)
Singles: 16-11 // 14-9 Dual Match // 8-3 SEC
Doubles: 20-14 // 12-10 Dual Match // 4-4 SEC
Highest Doubles Ranking: 8th (5/4/17)
Awards/Honors
ITA Southern Regional Doubles Finalists (2016)
All-SEC Second Team (2017)
NCAA Doubles Championship At-Large Selection (2017)
FALL:
- Finished runner-up at the ITA Southern Regionals with partner Trevor Foshey
- Defeated the 26th and 6th ranked doubles teams over the fall with Foshey
- Won a team-best seven matches with doubles partner Foshey in the fall campaign
- Knocked off one ranked singles player during the fall, after defeating Utah's 103rd ranked David Micevski
- Niclas Braun earned his first ITA National Ranking of his career after claiming the 59th spot in the first doubles ranking of 2017
- With partner Trevor Foshey, ranked as the sixth-best tandem in the Southern Regional before the 2017 season
- In singles action, earned a 16-11 record overall while going 14-9 in dual matches
- Compiled an 8-3 singles record in SEC play, which ranked second on the team
- Braun was a team-best 7-1 overall at the No. 5 spot in singles play
- Braun earned the most wins at the No. 4 spot in singles after posting six at the position
- Clinched two of MSU's wins during the spring over Iowa and Tulane
- Went on a 10-match winning streak in singles play from Feb.19-March 26
- Earned one ranked singles win during the spring, coming against Kentucky's No. 75 Nils Ellefsen (March 18)
- The straight-set win against Ellefsen put the Bulldogs up 2-0 over the Wildcats in Lexington
- In doubles action, Braun and partner Trevor Foshey led the team with a 20-14 record overall
- The duo of Braun and Foshey earned 12 wins in dual-match action as the pair clinched a team-best seven doubles points for the Maroon & White
- The tandem also earned 11 wins over ranked doubles teams with nine of those coming in the spring
- On April 18, the pair of Braun and Foshey broke into the ITA Doubles Top 10 for the first time of their career after building an impressive 16-9 record at the time
- The biggest win of the season for the duo of Braun and Foshey came at the SEC Finals against Georgia's second-ranked pair of No. 2 Loeb/Zielinski (April 30)
- The win over the UGA pair clinched the doubles point and put MSU up 1-0 over UGA in the SEC title match
- The pair of Braun and Foshey climbed to as high as No. 8 overall on May 5 following the win over UGA's No. 2 ranked pair
- The pair was awarded a NCAA Doubles Championship at-large selection, to become MSU's first doubles participant since 2014
- After winning in the first round over Princeton's Day/Gamble, Braun and Foshey became the first MSU doubles team since Jordan Angus and Malte Stropp (2014) to advance to the NCAA Doubles Championship Round of 16
- The No. 13 final ITA doubles ranking for Braun and Foshey was the highest for any Bulldog pair since Marco Baron and Charles Sievigny finished tied for 10th in 2000
- At MSU, only five doubles teams have finished with a higher final ranking than the pair of Braun and Foshey
- Braun and Foshey spent 10 releases in the ITA Doubles Rankings
- The duo of Braun and Foshey capped their sophomore campaign as the top ranked team in the final ITA Southern Region standings
Freshman (2015-16)
Singles: 27-10 // 16-4 Dual Match // 8-2 SEC
Doubles: 14-17 // 11-11 Dual Match // 2-7 SEC
Awards/Honors
SEC Freshman of the Week, 2xs (2016)
FALL:
- Earned nine singles wins in fall action his freshman season
- Advanced to the finals of consolation brackets twice (USTA/ITA Southern Regional & SEC Fall Classic)
- Finished the fall winning six out of his last eight matches for the Bulldogs
- On Feb. 2, earned MSU’s first SEC Freshman of the Week award in 2016
- Picked up his second SEC Freshman of the Week honor on March 16
- Had the best record in Tournament play on the team, going 11-5
- Went 27-10 in singles matches which led the Bulldogs
- Had a 9-8 dual record in doubles with Borges, the most of any State pairing
- Clinched four matches in singles play
- Got his first career ranked win against 71st Chase Perez-Blanco of Florida
- Went 16-4 in dual matches, a team best winning percentage
- 8-2 mark against SEC opponents
- 9-1 record at home
Pre-Mississippi State
- Earned a top 150 player in Germany’s Men’s Rankings
- Recorded a 1320 ATP Ranking overseas
- Collected four singles wins in main draw play of the ITF Pro Circuit
- Reached the round of 16 at the Slovakia F3 Futures in Piestany
Personal
- Native of Berlin, Germany
- Born Aug. 22,1996
- Majoring in Business Administration
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